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Post by bonesnapdeez on Apr 4, 2024 18:43:03 GMT -5
Physical copy releasing in a few weeks. Let's gooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EDIT: Next from Atari is another "Sprint" game... Yeah, remember Super Sprint on NES???
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 4, 2024 20:22:46 GMT -5
Hyung-tae Kim making the rounds.
IGN France had to issue a public apology for the hit piece they put out on him. Now that he's hanging with Kojima, this will probably really shut some obnoxious journos up.
So embarrassing (as in I live in the West with these morons):
I hope he quickly hears that 99% of gamers don't care and these "journalists" crying about stuff don't speak for us all.
This Vinyl cover goes so hard!
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Post by Ex on Apr 4, 2024 20:45:43 GMT -5
PS4 / if I ever decide to use it All I can say is PS4 is an amazing console with an incredible library.
I hope he quickly hears that 99% of gamers don't care and these "journalists" crying about stuff don't speak for us all. The sales of this game will speak the truth loud and clear.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 4, 2024 20:58:30 GMT -5
Yeah. I for one don't bother leasing my money for pre-orders on most things or track that, but in this case it looks like it's charting in the top 3 spot around the globe right now. Things are looking promising. Wonder what big single player South Korean game could be next? They have one of the coolest and most refined Souls clones out there in Lies of P, now an awesome and more unique looking take on character action + Souls which is always a genre that honestly isn't brimming with options. So they're filling a big void for me there. To be selfish they could just be giving me more games like this and I'd be fine. lol, but I'm thinking something in the vein of a AAA ARPG could be neat. Korea's take on FF7R. I do think it's funny toei has a PS4 just collecting dust... Maaaaaan!
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Post by toei on Apr 4, 2024 21:16:12 GMT -5
Xeogred The IGN France apology was more like a fuck you. They reluctantly fake-apologized about one phrase (the claim that the protagonist looks like the creators of Stellar Blade "have never seen a real woman", because as we all know, beautiful women don't exist), but hundred-ed down on the idea that attractive female characters are wrong, goddamit. This one editor wrote this insane nonsense about women dying because they can't live up to the standards of this video game character, basically claiming that women would kill themselves over that, or even be beaten and killed by men for it. Then he (because this hysterical, deeply delusional feminist is a man) goes on to say that he and IGN France just "laugh" and "roll their eyes" at people who need this sort of design... Which obviously, if he really believed that women will literally die over it, would be wildly inappropriate. I don't "roll my eyes" at murderers. I know I don't really need to break it down since everyone here understands this, but the whole framing of every single idea in that rant kills me. It's not that anyone "needs" beautiful women in games, but you do need to have a protagonist. Most of the time, they're going to be human, or human-like, because we're humans. Half of humans are women. If the protagonist is a woman, why wouldn't you make her beautiful, unless there's a specific reason related to the setting or story for her not be? In the abstract, beauty is better than ugliness. The reason a beautiful person isn't necessarily better than an ugly person in real life is because people are made up of many other characteristics that are just as or more important. But a character design is just visual. Therefore, characters should probably look good or cool or badass unless there's a story reason for it not to be the case. People like these IGN France guys are honestly just as crazy as the worst incels, just in the opposite direction, and they probably lead similar lives. Terminally online, caught in a bubble of Internet nutcases just like them who never question themselves, until the craziest, more exaggerated version of their ideology becomes normal to them. They could have just as easily ended up on the opposite side, ironically. Anyway. I second the sentiment that hopefully Japanese and South Korean developers find out that most of Western society doesn't really think like that and that these are fake scandals. If they get all their info from corporate assholes and irrelevant legacy media (I'm not convinced IGN France is all that big in France - certainly there are random video game youtubers and streamers whose content is much more popular), they're going to get the wrong idea. EDIT - I'm still in my PSX era dude, can't be bothered.
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Post by Ex on Apr 4, 2024 21:32:19 GMT -5
toei the more you try to apply logic to illogical minds, the more futile and irritating it becomes. The sane among us know what's up with the woke mind virus. Including SHIFT UP. They 100% know the score with "western journalists". I'm still in my PSX era dude, can't be bothered. It's like always driving your Toyota Supra Turbo, while you've got a McLaren 570S gathering dust in the garage that simply needs tires. Different experiences with different enjoyment, could alternate between driving both. 🤷♂️ But you do you.
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Post by toei on Apr 4, 2024 21:49:17 GMT -5
My TV is also quite old at this time and a little damaged, and I never use it anymore. It's not even properly set up. Plus I'm used to earplugs & headphones for literally everything because I can't stand to hear outside sounds when watching or playing something after having lived in a half-basement with crazy upstairs neighbors and renovations for years. The neighbors where I live now are okay, but yeah... it's basically just that I can't justify bothering with all that when I never seem to be able to play all the older games that are already on my mind. Also, with each new generation, there are much fewer games that interest me (although they're usually longer). I've almost exhausted the 8-bit and 16-bit generations. I've been really into the PSX for the last few years and almost all the games I'm playing for it are minor gems or better, while also being around 10 hours, 15 at most. It's a great fit for me right now.
For PS4, all I'm really interested is the whole Dark Souls branch (including Sekiroh etc. and even Nioh), Yakuza, and Dragon Quest XI. I think that's basically it? Plus some remasters of PS3 games, which I'm hoping to be able to play on my computer. If I can't, then I might just have to bother setting up the PS4. With the PS1 and PS2, there are games I've meant to play for years and years. I'd rather finally get to Persona 2, Onimusha and Silent Hill 3 this year (lol). And I won't lie, I'm scared of taking on some enormous monster like Elden Ring or DQXI because my gaming habits are so inconsistent these days. This will be like that for a while as I'm dealing with and working on stuff.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 4, 2024 22:15:43 GMT -5
(I'm not convinced IGN France is all that big in France - certainly there are random video game youtubers and streamers whose content is much more popular), they're going to get the wrong idea. EDIT - I'm still in my PSX era dude, can't be bothered. Hah, I was half wondering if you knew more about the IGN France story yourself (fully fluent in French right?). Yeah I didn't know until tonight that they outright tried to even delete some words from the original message. But yeah from a glance it's pretty evident this isn't getting under this guys skin whatsoever, he's coming off even more based than Yoko Taro lol. I hate the theories going around that Yoko Taro "sold out" since Nier Automata was such a success and now he's just kind of done making cool weird videogames. But I doubt that, I'd be much quicker to believe it's just Square being dumb and not giving him another team and money for more big projects. I know he's done some phone stuff since then, which... pretty sure one or two of them already closed down like live service games do.
Anyways highlighted a key part here. This situation really backfired in their face and I think it's just like Hollywood and other "mainstream" old guard media that's completely dying, even in the entertainment space. Nobody really takes IGN or any of these publications seriously anymore, or has for years. I saw some more goofy drama around Kotaku yet again recently, I bet they're closing their doors finally soon and nobody will care. YouTubers, streamers, and more somewhat normal people have replaced all this stuff. For better and worse, I'm sure the cycle repeats with some of these grossly rich online personalities being corrupt weirdos and all, like Hollywood/famous people of the old. But yeah... just feels like karma's a bitch with places like IGN, Kotaku, etc being utterly irrelevant now. Just like how G4's comeback a year or two ago was a total fart in the wind that failed instantly. A lot of people in mainstream gaming media do truly hate "gamers" and we have the receipts. Meanwhile, these morons fail to realize that real gamers are nerds who have been on the internet for 20 some years now and know how these things work. So these fakes are definitely getting exposed now haha. Good riddance.
Annnnnnnnd yeah, can't blame you there. Some good games on that ol' PSX.
Also toei if you haven't invested in some noise cancelling headphones like I did this year... totally worth it man. Why didn't I do this years ago! I do feel like some of my sanity has restored in apartment life since I got these. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CCZ26B5V/
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Post by Ex on Apr 4, 2024 22:31:37 GMT -5
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Post by toei on Apr 4, 2024 22:35:17 GMT -5
I still think there's a place for written media because it's faster when you just want to read a specific news item, or even a longer piece, interview, etc., and it's easier to organize, unless you provide timestamps everything in the video. I kind of hate how youtubers / streamers will stretch topics forever sometimes just to get more content out of it. But it's not going to be all those weird sites no one cares about anymore. EDIT - Ex Bookmarked those links just in case.
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