Found it online, watched it. So what? We're streaming ridiculously gory (and stupid) fatalities of MK11 that's degrading to all forms of life in 4K gory-glory and people get offended by something that looked and felt like my 12-year old self giggling and fingerpointing with my friends at Cammy's buttock-prone outfit in Street Fighter.
Granted. This does nothing for all the "women's rights" movements here in the west. But it's fun. Nothing more, in my book at least. It seems like almost all cultures must censor themselves in a global discourse to puritanian, old fashioned christian standards just to not offend anyone.
I personally also find plenty of offense in the global political discourse and the treatment of women and "wrong thinkers" in certain regions of the world and I can't do anything about it. So what. People's opinions, traditions and values differ. You can either see this as a threat or for what it is, in context, and in this case, it was a "more childish than anything" somewhat stiff and stupid PR thing from Japan.
The times of corporate greed comes to an end. In an ironic plot twist capitalism and it's mechanics, used for what felt like eons to extract the last bit of cash from the consumers now is an adequate weapon to strike back. Vote with your wallet, which has much more weight than whatever you could do at a ballot box, and let them feel that we are the customers, we are in charge, we don't want to get insulted anymore with ridiculous pricing, unfinished games, stupid PR BLAH BLAH and politics. You want our patronage? EARN IT. Also: #supportindies. This will all come crumbling down and I'll be there, slowly clapping.
Characters look like puppets and the violence becomes more comicy in every Iteration. Awful and horribly stupid songchoice. Again. I liked the mystery surrounded style of MK 2011 more. Not impressed.
@get2sammyb yeah but it's all homegrown trouble by force-injecting (see what I did there?) PC culture, diversity and GREEDY money making schemes in the franchise. Running one of the two biggest sci fi franchises with all it's nostalgia bonuses into the wall... is a feat in itself.
Unfortunately I couldn't care less. There's something about the extremely gritty and dark tone that puts me off. I enjoyed the first one immensly and was really feeling the Tension as well as the Bonding between the 2 main protagonists. But this time. I don't know. I'd rather have a new bloodborne, where the despair and grittyness is more than welcome.
@HungryWolf Underaged girls don't sport a breast-jiggler-slider All the rest is just fantasy and the censor's minds are often dirtier than those of your common otakus.
Don't crap your pants. Our youth is a lost, sexualized cause anyways. When people trade sexual acts like handshakes already before the age of 16 what harm can a few cartoon boobs do?
Funny how this review reads, feels and scores much differently from the ign one. Go read it, it's really interesting. Not saying this to discredit ANY of the two reviews, it's just two different viewpoints. If you're on the edge, you should generally read a more diverse set of reviews anyways.
Well firstly I never expected D4. Blizzard takes forever to make their games. As for the future of Diablo, I'd also love some kind of gritty MMO-style game.
In my book the main problem of Diablo (and WoW in some instances) is, that after a certain level of power that you gained with your character, it's all just mindlessly running through dungeons blowing stuff up.
I miss the times where strategy was needed.
But to guess WHERE the travel goes with Diablo, it's not hard to judge really. Look at Heroes of the Storm, look at Overwatch and how Blizzard crafted games that kinda advertise each other and how they monetize things with lootboxes and cosmetics. They tried something similar with Diablo 3 in the beginning, with the dreaded auction house.
Rest assured, they will try again and I fear that Diablo 4 will focus solely around a way to sell us cosmetics, just like Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm. Also Hearthstone with Card-Packs. THIS is the future and I admit, I love playing all those games and as long as it is all optional, heck why not dump 120 bucks into a game I keep playing instead buying 3 other ones.
As a Society, we fail more often. Politics, god or the law can't be the solution, neither of which will prevent stuff like this happening.
Therefore I hope that maybe in the future, we realize, that WE are in charge. It starts how we treat each other and ends with the world we build for ourselves.
Hm MTs are not going away anytime soon. As long as they are pure cosmetic and don't affect another person's gameplay and the items can be obtained within the game itself, I'm totally fine with them.
Of course, in a perfect world we pay 60 bucks for a game and get a year full of monthly content updates for free on top. Only, the world isn't perfect!
I do get "MT-boycotters" though, as I am a nestle and EA boycotter.
@kyleforrester87 My point of view as well. Also consider: he and I, we already HAVE the game. There's no difference in not playing it at all anymore VS just not purchasing microstransaction stuff. Which I wont. It's easy to ignore and I got way more than my original money's worth out of it already so. All good for me.
@get2sammyb As is my RL-girlfriend. But I dated younger. Liked it. Fun aside I just mean we got to know avril as this loud teen sensation. Obviously too old for that now while still being a treat!
While I applaud the approach and the philosophical dealings with the "cycle of violence", which has been discussed plenty of times during humanity's history (and apparently we've learned zilch) I'm not really sure that I want to PLAY this. Also I foresee a new discussion about violence in videogames and this time, I'm not sure on whose side I'd be.
Whereas it's comical to credit violent video games where you kill off cartoony characters in an over-the-top fashion with things like school shootings, I'm not so sure how "healthy" it is to expose potentially unstable persons to simulated psychological trauma that aims to create the same emotions in the player as the character in the game is experiencing.
Druckman even says it himself. "Do you know that feeling, that overwhelms you and you just want to hurt somebody?" - paraphrased.
I'm not sure if it's a sane idea to go to that "dark place" with millions of people who are gonna buy this game.
@KirbyTheVampire Well all of that ultra-left agenda is awkward. Being fair to everyone is fair, favoring women over men is just sexism the other way round. People... sigh Also: We were at a point, at least in media, at least in my perception where skincolor was a non-issue, until the liberal left made it one again, stating to do so to make it a non-issue. Well...
I really have enough of that subject. Make good movies/games/books and I don't care a rat's ass what gender or skincolour my toon is.
Otherwise you see what happens to Ghostbusters, Ocean's 8 and Star Wars. I don't like them. Not because I hate females. But because they are sub-par movies and I hate getting a political agenda shoved down my hypothalamus.
Not for me. Single Player Only Games should be engrossing adventure/action/horror/multiple choice/roleplaying games that you can play at your own pace.
Something ridiculous like this SHOULD be multiplayer. I don't need PVP but would love COOP.
Violence in media should serve a purpose. From the trailers I cannot see this purpose. If it's just there for the gross-out-factor and setting a depressing mood, I'd give it a pass (and I love Mortal Kombat since I was 10).
If Druckman is right and there is a hidden formula playing with the concept of violence and player-interaction, it can be good, but nothing I've seen from the trailers so far makes me want to play it .
I don't dig the music, nor the new characters, nor teenage Ellie. I loved the first one for the father-daughter-usagainsttheworld-dynamic between Joel and Ellie.
If there's nothing similar in this game, I'll give it a pass. Great graphics and great mechanics all nice and well, but nothing I haven't seen before.
The solution to all of this is simple and the biggest part falls to the devs and the publisher:
LONG TIME GAME SUPPORT
Take GTA for example. It takes YEARS for a new GTA game to come out and each time they break records. Meanwhile the games, especially GTA ONLINE have been supported very healthily. Or Diablo III. No Diablo IV in sight, but still Diablo III is going strong. Because there's content and features being added.
I'm fine with ONE Battlefield game every console generation, ONE GTA, ONE The Last of Us. Just when the game is done, support it long enough so we still play it.
LESS games with BETTER quality and BETTER post-launch-support: that's something I can live with, heck I'd even welcome it since becoming a grown up usually cuts DEEP into your gaming time anyways.
@SegaBlueSky I think that kind of people are the vocal minority. The trailer was diverse, had people of all colors, we saw "alternative sexuality" (for me as a hetero it is alternative) and guess what: I couldn't care less. I don't mind strong female leads, quite the contrary actually, I don't mine people of color, I just want a good film/game what have you. But that's what the big corporations like Lucas Film seem to forget nowadays. The WORLD just needs to learn the number one internet rule: don't feed the trolls. They'll go away.
While the mechanics look fantastic I have to say, maybe I'm getting old, but I don't dig all that realistic violence anymore. Maybe because I too aware of what kind of place the world is. I don't know. That said. It looks awesome. I just hope they can fashion that kind of "bond" that kept you going int he first one.
I appreciate what's coming here but
a) got a plat on release and had enough of the game, even though i liked it, even when everything was broken
b) Sean Murray oozes rubbish out of his mouth hole, I don't believe a single letter he says until I've seen it for myself
Calling it now: Battle Royal Game, Storm being outer boundary, some crazy creature stalking inside it. So basicly a mashup of "HUNT Showdown" and "Fortnite".
Ive not seen it yet and I am not going to until it's included in prime, but I have to say I didnt think that the Jolie Movies were THAT bad. Cinema is - with a few exceptions - overall pretty (brain)dead anyways. Unfortunately.
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Re: Japanese Dead or Alive 6 Stream Axed After Things Got a Bit Too Sexually Suggestive
So, where's that video?
-edit-
Found it online, watched it. So what? We're streaming ridiculously gory (and stupid) fatalities of MK11 that's degrading to all forms of life in 4K gory-glory and people get offended by something that looked and felt like my 12-year old self giggling and fingerpointing with my friends at Cammy's buttock-prone outfit in Street Fighter.
Granted. This does nothing for all the "women's rights" movements here in the west. But it's fun. Nothing more, in my book at least. It seems like almost all cultures must censor themselves in a global discourse to puritanian, old fashioned christian standards just to not offend anyone.
I personally also find plenty of offense in the global political discourse and the treatment of women and "wrong thinkers" in certain regions of the world and I can't do anything about it. So what. People's opinions, traditions and values differ. You can either see this as a threat or for what it is, in context, and in this case, it was a "more childish than anything" somewhat stiff and stupid PR thing from Japan.
Re: ANTHEM Microtransaction Controversy Starts Early, BioWare Says Pricing Isn't Finalised
The times of corporate greed comes to an end. In an ironic plot twist capitalism and it's mechanics, used for what felt like eons to extract the last bit of cash from the consumers now is an adequate weapon to strike back. Vote with your wallet, which has much more weight than whatever you could do at a ballot box, and let them feel that we are the customers, we are in charge, we don't want to get insulted anymore with ridiculous pricing, unfinished games, stupid PR BLAH BLAH and politics. You want our patronage? EARN IT. Also: #supportindies. This will all come crumbling down and I'll be there, slowly clapping.
Re: First Mortal Kombat 11 Gameplay Is More Brutal and Cinematic Than Ever
Characters look like puppets and the violence becomes more comicy in every Iteration. Awful and horribly stupid songchoice. Again. I liked the mystery surrounded style of MK 2011 more. Not impressed.
Re: EA Reportedly Cancels Open World Star Wars Game
@get2sammyb yeah but it's all homegrown trouble by force-injecting (see what I did there?) PC culture, diversity and GREEDY money making schemes in the franchise. Running one of the two biggest sci fi franchises with all it's nostalgia bonuses into the wall... is a feat in itself.
Re: The Last of Us: Part II Release Date Speculation Intensifies
Unfortunately I couldn't care less. There's something about the extremely gritty and dark tone that puts me off. I enjoyed the first one immensly and was really feeling the Tension as well as the Bonding between the 2 main protagonists. But this time. I don't know. I'd rather have a new bloodborne, where the despair and grittyness is more than welcome.
Re: Round Up: Battlefield V PS4 Reviews Begin to Breach Enemy Lines
No thanks. I'm done with EA for good.
Re: Red Dead Online Beta Release Date Set for 'End of the Month'
Plenty.
Re: Sony Censorship Row Returns as Mature Rated Switch Title Is E for Everyone on PS4
@HungryWolf Underaged girls don't sport a breast-jiggler-slider All the rest is just fantasy and the censor's minds are often dirtier than those of your common otakus.
Re: Sony Censorship Row Returns as Mature Rated Switch Title Is E for Everyone on PS4
Don't crap your pants. Our youth is a lost, sexualized cause anyways. When people trade sexual acts like handshakes already before the age of 16 what harm can a few cartoon boobs do?
Re: Yes, 2B Can Lose Her Clothes in SoulCalibur VI, Just Like She Can in NieR: Automata
Mmmh. I love butts. That is all.
Re: Review: Call of Cthulhu (PS4)
Funny how this review reads, feels and scores much differently from the ign one. Go read it, it's really interesting. Not saying this to discredit ANY of the two reviews, it's just two different viewpoints. If you're on the edge, you should generally read a more diverse set of reviews anyways.
PS: I love Lovecraft.
Re: Guide: Red Dead Redemption 2 FAQ - Everything You Need to Know
Anyone else underhyped as I am?
Re: Blizzard Tempers Expectations for Big Diablo News at BlizzCon 2018
Well firstly I never expected D4. Blizzard takes forever to make their games. As for the future of Diablo, I'd also love some kind of gritty MMO-style game.
In my book the main problem of Diablo (and WoW in some instances) is, that after a certain level of power that you gained with your character, it's all just mindlessly running through dungeons blowing stuff up.
I miss the times where strategy was needed.
But to guess WHERE the travel goes with Diablo, it's not hard to judge really. Look at Heroes of the Storm, look at Overwatch and how Blizzard crafted games that kinda advertise each other and how they monetize things with lootboxes and cosmetics. They tried something similar with Diablo 3 in the beginning, with the dreaded auction house.
Rest assured, they will try again and I fear that Diablo 4 will focus solely around a way to sell us cosmetics, just like Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm. Also Hearthstone with Card-Packs. THIS is the future and I admit, I love playing all those games and as long as it is all optional, heck why not dump 120 bucks into a game I keep playing instead buying 3 other ones.
Re: Battlefield V Open Beta Available to Download Now on PS4
No, no no no, Nono... nooo.
Re: Hellpoint Brings Sci-Fi Souls to PS4 in 2019
LOL nice wordplay there. SEO-optimized Trailer?
Re: Battlefield V Delayed to November for Gameplay 'Adjustments'
Ahahahaha.
Ahahahahaha.
Not sold.
Re: Mass Shooting Reported at Madden NFL 19 Tournament in Florida
As a Society, we fail more often. Politics, god or the law can't be the solution, neither of which will prevent stuff like this happening.
Therefore I hope that maybe in the future, we realize, that WE are in charge. It starts how we treat each other and ends with the world we build for ourselves.
Events like this, make me sad.
Re: Gamescom 2018: Battlefield V Introduces the Company
Done with the franchise really. Was stoked to hear it's in WW2 again. A vamped up 1942 is what I wanted, this is what I'm getting. Nah!
Re: Gran Turismo Sport Patch 1.23 Adds Cars, a Track, Microtransactions
Hm MTs are not going away anytime soon. As long as they are pure cosmetic and don't affect another person's gameplay and the items can be obtained within the game itself, I'm totally fine with them.
Of course, in a perfect world we pay 60 bucks for a game and get a year full of monthly content updates for free on top. Only, the world isn't perfect!
I do get "MT-boycotters" though, as I am a nestle and EA boycotter.
Re: Gran Turismo Sport Patch 1.23 Adds Cars, a Track, Microtransactions
@Hengist As I replied to kyleforrester, why not just ignore the MTs? You already bought the game anyways.
Re: Gran Turismo Sport Patch 1.23 Adds Cars, a Track, Microtransactions
@kyleforrester87 My point of view as well. Also consider: he and I, we already HAVE the game. There's no difference in not playing it at all anymore VS just not purchasing microstransaction stuff. Which I wont. It's easy to ignore and I got way more than my original money's worth out of it already so. All good for me.
Re: No Man's Sky NEXT Update Is Available to Download Now on PS4
Got the Platinum way back then, sold it afterwards. Now picked it up again for 14 bucks to see what all the fuzz is About.
Re: Feature: Push Square's Ultimate PlayStation Character Has Been Decided
Nice but predictable. Next time do a "whats your fav ANTIHERO on Playstation"?
Re: Hear the Call of Cthulhu from 30th October on PS4
My master Cthulhu is calling.
Re: Review: The Crew 2 (PS4)
@Nightcrawler71 That's good, that's whats gaming for. I just miss the days where you had a finished product at launch!
Re: Review: Burnout Paradise Remastered (PS4)
@get2sammyb As is my RL-girlfriend. But I dated younger. Liked it.
Fun aside I just mean we got to know avril as this loud teen sensation. Obviously too old for that now while still being a treat!
Re: The Last of Us: Part II Is About Hate, Naughty Dog Reiterates
While I applaud the approach and the philosophical dealings with the "cycle of violence", which has been discussed plenty of times during humanity's history (and apparently we've learned zilch) I'm not really sure that I want to PLAY this. Also I foresee a new discussion about violence in videogames and this time, I'm not sure on whose side I'd be.
Whereas it's comical to credit violent video games where you kill off cartoony characters in an over-the-top fashion with things like school shootings, I'm not so sure how "healthy" it is to expose potentially unstable persons to simulated psychological trauma that aims to create the same emotions in the player as the character in the game is experiencing.
Druckman even says it himself. "Do you know that feeling, that overwhelms you and you just want to hurt somebody?" - paraphrased.
I'm not sure if it's a sane idea to go to that "dark place" with millions of people who are gonna buy this game.
Just my thoughts.
Re: Sony: We Need to Cater to All People, Regardless of Age, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity, or Belief
@KirbyTheVampire Well all of that ultra-left agenda is awkward. Being fair to everyone is fair, favoring women over men is just sexism the other way round. People... sigh Also: We were at a point, at least in media, at least in my perception where skincolor was a non-issue, until the liberal left made it one again, stating to do so to make it a non-issue. Well...
Re: E3 2018: The Last of Us: Part II Lives Up to the Hype
@Bliquid Exactly.
Re: Review: The Crew 2 (PS4)
@Rudy_Manchego I agree, but then drop the price 50% and charge for updates until the game is a "complete 69 bucks release".
Re: Review: The Crew 2 (PS4)
No.
Re: Sony: We Need to Cater to All People, Regardless of Age, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity, or Belief
I really have enough of that subject.
Make good movies/games/books and I don't care a rat's ass what gender or skincolour my toon is.
Otherwise you see what happens to Ghostbusters, Ocean's 8 and Star Wars. I don't like them. Not because I hate females. But because they are sub-par movies and I hate getting a political agenda shoved down my hypothalamus.
Re: E3 2018: The Last of Us: Part II Lives Up to the Hype
@Tasuki Ah! Thanks for clarifying. I love my language colorful it seems!
Re: E3 2018: The Last of Us: Part II Lives Up to the Hype
@Tasuki huh? Did you edit my comment because I cant seem to find what offended you!
Re: E3 2018: RAGE 2 Won't Have Multiplayer Modes
Not for me.
Single Player Only Games should be engrossing adventure/action/horror/multiple choice/roleplaying games that you can play at your own pace.
Something ridiculous like this SHOULD be multiplayer.
I don't need PVP but would love COOP.
I'll pass.
Re: Druckmann: We Consider The Last of Us to Be Engaging, Not Necessarily Fun
Violence in media should serve a purpose. From the trailers I cannot see this purpose. If it's just there for the gross-out-factor and setting a depressing mood, I'd give it a pass (and I love Mortal Kombat since I was 10).
If Druckman is right and there is a hidden formula playing with the concept of violence and player-interaction, it can be good, but nothing I've seen from the trailers so far makes me want to play it .
I don't dig the music, nor the new characters, nor teenage Ellie.
I loved the first one for the father-daughter-usagainsttheworld-dynamic between Joel and Ellie.
If there's nothing similar in this game, I'll give it a pass.
Great graphics and great mechanics all nice and well, but nothing I haven't seen before.
Re: Soapbox: E3 2018 Demonstrates the Disconnect Between Gamer Demands and Development Realities
The solution to all of this is simple and the biggest part falls to the devs and the publisher:
LONG TIME GAME SUPPORT
Take GTA for example. It takes YEARS for a new GTA game to come out and each time they break records. Meanwhile the games, especially GTA ONLINE have been supported very healthily. Or Diablo III. No Diablo IV in sight, but still Diablo III is going strong. Because there's content and features being added.
I'm fine with ONE Battlefield game every console generation, ONE GTA, ONE The Last of Us. Just when the game is done, support it long enough so we still play it.
LESS games with BETTER quality and BETTER post-launch-support: that's something I can live with, heck I'd even welcome it since becoming a grown up usually cuts DEEP into your gaming time anyways.
Re: Review: Jurassic World Evolution (PS4)
Hmm weird. IGN gave the PC version a 4.8.
Re: E3 2018: Devolver Digital's Press Conference Brings Stupidity, Bloodshed, and Game Announcements
Meh.
Re: E3 2018: The Last of Us: Part II Lives Up to the Hype
@SegaBlueSky I think that kind of people are the vocal minority. The trailer was diverse, had people of all colors, we saw "alternative sexuality" (for me as a hetero it is alternative) and guess what: I couldn't care less. I don't mind strong female leads, quite the contrary actually, I don't mine people of color, I just want a good film/game what have you. But that's what the big corporations like Lucas Film seem to forget nowadays. The WORLD just needs to learn the number one internet rule: don't feed the trolls. They'll go away.
Re: E3 2018: The Last of Us: Part II Lives Up to the Hype
While the mechanics look fantastic I have to say, maybe I'm getting old, but I don't dig all that realistic violence anymore. Maybe because I too aware of what kind of place the world is. I don't know. That said. It looks awesome. I just hope they can fashion that kind of "bond" that kept you going int he first one.
Re: PUBG Corporation is Taking Epic Games to Court for Copyright Infringement
just lol
just everyone stfu and make good games
sales will come
has anyone ever been sued about TEAM DEATHMATCH oder KING OF THE HILL Gametypes?
Re: Onrush PS4 Open Beta Extended by Two Days
Really bland. Got bored quickly. BLUR this is not.
Re: No Man's Sky NEXT Update Introduces Multiplayer, Launches in July
I appreciate what's coming here but
a) got a plat on release and had enough of the game, even though i liked it, even when everything was broken
b) Sean Murray oozes rubbish out of his mouth hole, I don't believe a single letter he says until I've seen it for myself
Re: Destiny 2: Warmind's Launch Trailer Goes Big and Bombastic
After being burned by D1 plenty of times over, I still WANT to like this. But I can't.
Re: Stormdivers Is the New Game from Nex Machina Dev Housemarque
Calling it now: Battle Royal Game, Storm being outer boundary, some crazy creature stalking inside it. So basicly a mashup of "HUNT Showdown" and "Fortnite".
Re: Movie Review: Tomb Raider (2018) - Dumb But Fun
Ive not seen it yet and I am not going to until it's included in prime, but I have to say I didnt think that the Jolie Movies were THAT bad. Cinema is - with a few exceptions - overall pretty (brain)dead anyways. Unfortunately.
Re: Review: Burnout Paradise Remastered (PS4)
Avril was a hottie back in the day! Mjam!
Oh yeah love the game too!
Re: Hands On: Tera Seems Like a Solid Free-to-Play MMORPG on PS4
Monster Hunter is all i need.
Re: Celebrate International Women's Day with This Free PS4 Theme
@Futureshark And all the other 363 days too.