blazehedgehog
@blazehedgehog

Made the mistake of looking at the Switch eShop tonight and got very angry at the state of slop


blazehedgehog
@blazehedgehog

A friend lamented that there are no more normal golf games anymore, they always have to have a wacky fantasy twist and be some version of mini-golf. Since he said that I can't stop thinking about it every time I see a new golf game, and there's TONS on the eShop. I found something called "Hentai Golf" and joked it was probably the most normal golf game released in the last year

Turns out: it absolutely is

It is also only rated T for Teen for "Suggestive Themes" so I can all but guarantee you there is no nudity in the game whatsoever. At worst you might get some cutesy "teehee can you help me with my stroke? ♥😉" dialog

There are literally hundreds of "Hentai" and "Ecchi" games like this, if not thousands


thewaether
@thewaether

a couple thoughts:

  1. in the last days of the Wii, it got a ton of cheap knockoffs and bootlegs, (although these were released physically so you'd see them whenever you went to the store) which became a running joke and lowered the perceived quality of the wii as a console to the public
  2. A.I has been an absolute boon to bootleggers, huh. A.I is becoming the style most commonly associated with cheaping out

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Quality control was always about making sure the games ran, never about making sure they were any good.
The fact that this myth persists shows how well their marketing worked.

It's much cheaper to figure out a way to get your game on a digital storefront than putting it on a cartridge and onto shelves.
These things have nothing to do with "quality control" and so much more with proper curation and search tools.

The Wii U and 3DS eShops were filled with this sort of junk too. I imagine there only wasn't quite as much due to the lower potential return due to the lack of people browsing the Wii U/3DS eShops and the fact you couldn't generate AI spam last gen like you can now.