First of all, huge thank you to SINNEDUE and bron99 for hosting this lovely event for yet another year and for the beautiful website. β€ And cheers to aez76, with whom I share today's door (you can jump straight to their GA here).
Secondly (as importantly, tho), I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Be happy, healthy and loved, wherever and whichever you celebrate. β€
π This is becoming quite a tradition, eh? ππ
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RATS GOT US
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Hello friend,
Thank you for your effort of preparing all these.
I have been seeing Bad Rats for along time and I know it is a joke.
Do you know how it all started?
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Essentially for a long time it was the worst game sold Steam...
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Basically as a rick roll type of giveaway. Dude would promise skyrim or a similar AAA giveaway in the forum, and link a giveaway to a crap game, the game being bad rats or fortix. That's also the origin of "thanks for skyrim" meme comments.
Basically imagine promising baldur's gate 3 in a thread and you click the link and it leads you to a 3 dollar worth mostly negative sex game giveaway with comments saying "thanks for bg3"
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fortix may have always been a low value game.. but a crap one?
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never played it, but I'll take your word for it
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Exactly this.
Perhaps like you, many SG old timers live in hope that the Fortix devs were recruited by Bethesda to work on TES VI.
That's why it's taking so long, it takes time to cram that much of a superior gaming experience into the technical and narrative limitations of a TES title.
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"Thanks for explanation"
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For context, it's important to remember that at one point the only way you could get your game onto Steam was by having someone who worked for Valve specifically look at it and approve it.
This meant that there were few really bad games on Steam. Obviously there was a range of quality, but you didn't get shovelware like you did today. The problem is that it didn't exactly scale, so we got Steam Greenlight and later the current pay-to-play system with a few guardrails to limit a game's reach until it has a certain number of sales.
Bad Rats was one of the few comparatively bad / shovelware-ish games to slip through during the era where Valve curated everything; on top of that, while it was bad, it was at least very cheap. So it became a bit of a meme to give it away. Nowadays it isn't even unusually bad; it's easy to find way worse games on Steam. But way back when it was a bit shocking to find a game like this on Steam at all.
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I didn't know these at all. Thank you
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It even got a sequel 9 years later
https://store.steampowered.com/app/393200/Bad_Rats_Show/
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WOO, THE BEST GAME ON CALENDAR!
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I just had to π
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What would be a Christmas without Bad Rats or Fortix?
Happy holidays.
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Thanks for Skyrim!
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Merry Christmas! :)
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Thanks for Skyrim!
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Thanks for Skyrim!
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Don't shoot me, but I really liked the game π€£
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No judgment here, don't worry π that's a classic for a reason XD
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Classic
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Merry Christmas!
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Thanks for Skyrim!
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Uf, thanks ππ. Happy-holidays ^^ /
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Bad Rats?!
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Why am I entering for a giveaway I hope I never win? I suppose it is a steamgifts tradition, and I have been fortunate to loose every bad rats giveaway so far....
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Oh my goodness, the GIF though! Cuuuute! Happy holidays!
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Finally, a GOTY contender.
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You're spoiling us :)
Thank you very much and happy holidays!
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Happy holidays!
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