Hatred doesn't look like there's any game left if you ignore the ridiculous angsty emo approach :D

I own it, and it's not that it's bad, it's that five minutes in you have literally seen THE ENTIRE GAME! :P

I mean, at least Wolfenstein 3D had the courtesy to change the color of the walls every now and then; not this game.

Is the game really that bad?
I am sorry, but I have to ask - how do you support yourself then?

When somebody suggested those forums to me, I took a look at it, saw that they had "brofist" baked into the forum software (it's their version of upvotes, I believe, except that there's a message attached to the post saying how many times it has been (or something like that)), and immediately left. It's one thing for the community to be sexist; it's a whole nother thing for the software itself to be sexist.

My decision to stay away, I could say, was vindicated when a forum thread where the topic involved a certain transgender game developer was filled with vile transphobia. From seeing that, I can tell that the forum is *not* a welcoming place for anyone who isn't a cishet man.

Even if it's not meant seriously, it can still make people uncomfortable, and will make people (like me) steer far away from their forum. There's a reason any forum that's not toxic has rules against such behavior.

(Another problem with the forum is that all discussion about a game or series is placed in the same thread. This makes it hard to find the specific topic that one is interested in; having separate forums per game, or at least per series, makes things more manageable. This is especially important if one is only looking for topics about a specific aspect of the game, or for spoiler-sensitive people wanting to discuss the game without being spoiled while other people want to have a deep discussion of the game's plot (assuming the forum has sensible rules about spoilers).)

These forums are about a different topic. RPGCodex is about CRPGs (and I get the impression that they tend to discuss specifically WRPGs, not JRPGs (which are also CRPGs, but are different stylistically)), while rpg.net is about TRPGs (like Dungeons & Dragons, but that is, of course, not the only game of its type; these are RPGs that you play with a group of people IRL rather than on a computer).

It doesn't look anything particularly special either. I probably would have gotten into it if the devs didn't try to ride the controversy toward a gold mine.

So JA: Rage! release was a mistake? Like, oopsy we agreed to publish it without looking at game reviews or discussions on the net?

No. It was a key element of the conspiracy.

I don't quite get it. You despise such people, but essentially saying that they are right about GOG decisions being politically based?

your words, not mine

Well? So why the guy wasn't fired for that mistake? The last time someone on GOG published something without looking at it's context,... you know.

Nope, that wasn't my point. I was thinking of the most banal thing that constantly pops up on these forums. I guess I should have gone with "Anime is child porn and people who like VNs serve Satan".

The point was, if one is being an obnoxious twit, their words probably carry less weight when trying to convince GOG to carry a game.

^This. I mean folks at RPGcodex apparently don't hesitate to degrade anyone who doesn't support their views, but dtgreene, amok or telika are no different.

JA: Rage! is a different story. There is some value to having titles like Might and Magic 9, Crusaders of Might and Magic, Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods, Ultima 9 and the like to be completionist. I'm sure it was added because of that and because of that it might actually sell a bit.

That was part of the problem with Opus Magnum. They had all the other similar games and this game was of similar quality. It belonged here even if GoG judged it slightly inferior (rightly or wrongly).

But that doesn't mean every classic knock-off belongs here the same way. They have to be truly on a par, like Torchlight was to Diablo 2 or Legend of Grimrock was to Eye of the Beholder. I'm not sure most of the games people keep mentioning are on the same level.

dtgreene is polite at all times, does not insult, hound, mock, harrass or make fun of people. All of which is what happens over at rpg codex.

Only if you don't consider being called transphobe, homophobe, sexist or nazi to be insults. And politeness doesn't make you less of a bigot, if your stance on political issues is bigotry.