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So I tried Pom Gets Wifi to see what all the fuss was about...

  • Sooz
  • 01/14/2016 04:22 PM

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Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
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Eh.

It's not awful, it's not very good, it's just cute, has writing that would be clever if I were a traditional fangirl type, and just really isn't worth the vitriol. It's popular and omnipresent, but it's not like offensively bad.

That's it. That's my Pom opinion.
Yeah, it's pretty much that.
Personally I think that it can be really neat and fun if you can get into Pom just a little bit, and just be a nasty lil girl. Makes for a nice shift of focus ending-wise.
If you can't manage that .. get the hate for her presence going.

It's the pattern I've seen, but it's ultimately in the middle. I find it's a neat game and is standing out in a couple of things, and I like that kind of thing. I don't care about it being well-known or often played.
It is amusing how you can step on people's toes by just mentioning the title, tho.
Red_Nova
Sir Redd of Novus: He who made Prayer of the Faithless that one time, and that was pretty dang rad! :D
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Dammit I keep meaning to play this.
I don't know. It plays more like a parody of a game, rather than an actual game for me.
Maybe I should play it again?
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
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author=Kylaila
Yeah, it's pretty much that.
Personally I think that it can be really neat and fun if you can get into Pom just a little bit, and just be a nasty lil girl for a bit. Makes for a nice shift of focus ending-wise.
If you can't manage that .. get the hate for her presence going.


I never made it to the very end; I got tired of the battle and too annoyed at Pom being a douche, so I just let the other dogs beat her and called it Good End. :V

But yeah, like it has hella flaws, but it's reasonably designed, has some nice art, and pretty well written. There are def. similarly meh games that manage to stick around on Buzzing for a while. Hell, there are WORSE games on Buzzinng a lot- I AM LOOKING AT YOU, OFF FANGAME.
I'm doing an LP since I never did play it before and figured it was about time. It's cute and for a first game it's pretty good. The pixels are nice for the most part, and though there's some bits that definitely need work, it did what it wanted to do - be a silly game about a selfish little dog who is a parody of the worst the internet and social sites have to offer.

Not my favourite game on the site but much, much better than some I've seen. Also, it was nice to hear the old RTP tunes again. And Shibe is cool. It reminded me a lot of Undertale, actually, in the way that it plays with memes and the like. Very Temmie.


@Sooz: The battle? The one where you insult Shibe at the start? There's some hilarious jokes in there, though! I burst out laughing at this one:
Ur momma teeth so yellow
I can't believe it's not butter

There were quite a few I hadn't heard before and some of the shout-outs to other games were nice to see. For a first game, it didn't deserve the hate it got.

here's the first episode of the LP I'm making if anyone wanted to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZlxhwUqFc
unity
You're magical to me.
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There are many games on the site worse than Pom. It just gets the hate for the massive popularity it has. Still #2 buzzing as we speak.
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
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author=karins_soulkeeper
I don't know. It plays more like a parody of a game, rather than an actual game for me.
Maybe I should play it again?


I don't know that I'd recommend multiple plays; it's not super great or anything, and if it's your thing, it will be OBVIOUSLY your thing from the get-go.

It's just not really bad enough to merit the seething hateboners it gets on this site.
author=Sooz
I never made it to the very end; I got tired of the battle and too annoyed at Pom being a douche, so I just let the other dogs beat her and called it Good End. :V

That's a little bummer, I quite liked the endings. But then enjoying beating the other dogs up as Pom is really the driving factor for what impact they possibly can have, so *shrug*
It's a fun good end, too.

author=Sooz
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It's just not really bad enough to merit the seething hateboners it gets on this site.

Agreed.
author=unity
There are many games on the site worse than Pom. It just gets the hate for the massive popularity it has. Still #2 buzzing as we speak.


People will start hating anything on principle if it gets popular enough.
author=SgtMettool
author=unity
There are many games on the site worse than Pom. It just gets the hate for the massive popularity it has. Still #2 buzzing as we speak.
People will start hating anything on principle if it gets popular enough.
But if people hate anything that is popular, then how did they get popular in the first place?
yeah, enough jaden for now
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
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author=SgtMettool
People will start hating anything on principle if it gets popular enough.


I honestly think it's less that it's popular, and more that it's popular while explicitly attracting an audience other than the usual suspects around here. It's not "for" us, and that makes some of us SO MAD.

Like the worst thing I think is maybe it's taking up a slot on Buzzing that could feature something else? But usually there's a low enough number of buzzing games that that isn't even a thing, so in the end I suppose it's just all for hateboners. :V
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
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Most posts are vacuous bollocks tho.
There should probably be a timer on how long something can be in Buzzing section, like a month with another month for cooldown.
Pom and Dreaming Mary have generated so much "Buzz" that we'll probably never see them disappear from the list. And sooner or later, another tumblr child will join them, and then another, and another, and it'll defeat the purpose of the Buzzing section in general.
The Buzz goes away on its own. When a gamepage gets more attention (from downloads, reviews, posts and updates) the buzz gets raised back up again. We've had a decent time without both Pom and Dreaming Mary on the front page, recently, and yes, we manually deplete them sometimes because they do get overwhelming, but it keeps building back up again.

Tell you what, I'll deplete Pom right now and you can see how long it takes for it to buzz right back on the front page. It just tends to get a lot of visits and downloads.
Ratty524
The 524 is for 524 Stone Crabs
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author=Sooz
I honestly think it's less that it's popular, and more that it's popular while explicitly attracting an audience other than the usual suspects around here. It's not "for" us, and that makes some of us SO MAD.

Like the worst thing I think is maybe it's taking up a slot on Buzzing that could feature something else? But usually there's a low enough number of buzzing games that that isn't even a thing, so in the end I suppose it's just all for hateboners. :V

It's this.

It's not so much that it's "popular" so much as it's a relatively sub-standard game that doesn't appeal to this audience AND it somehow managed to get more popularity then one of our more notable projects. It's a feeling of spite really.

But hey, if Pom was able to attract a mass amount of players through its marketing methods, then it's by no means a failure. If anything, I think it should teach us, as developers, not to keep as quiet as we typically are about our work and spread your games to various places if we want that fame. It's better than being butthurt about it.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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i love pom because it makes fun of the people that hate it with its message
*chuckle*

Now to be honest.
There is the difference between "hating" a game, and "thinking it's a bad game". And the difference between "celebrating your hate" or just "voicing your opinion and leaving it at that". I don't see any tinfoil hats placed, but regardless there are just many people who think of it as an okay or good game rather than a bad game.
That judgment has a tendency to ring true and can often be agreed on, but there are different perceptions and judgements making it "not always".

I get the idea, but it seems like a lot of energy to put into and attention on something that you simply don't like and think is bad. Staying angry and hating is usually pretty tiring. And staying that way stands out, rather than the opinion of not liking it.

There are many games like that out there, and there is no reason to rally against that whenever it comes up (if I did that for some of the cherished games I thought were bad, boy .. I'd never see the end of that task!)
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