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@Uromastryx Nah, they're still crying about the game and how it's the worst thing to happen in history because of Yasuke. Crazy how one black guy in a video game has completely and utterly destroyed their minds.

I just picture them waking up and Yasuke is literally the first thing in their heads doing that Shrek smile at them, that one where he's crouched down and then looks up smiling lol.

@Makeshift Black Myth hasn't even been out for a year yet. It makes sense that there's no expansion yet.

@ThaBEN I doubt the Japanese audience care that much. Also Ubisoft can't be blamed for any of the outrage here.

All the "controversy" isn't because of legitimate concerns like it being another boring Assassin's Creed game or having what I presume will be the usual repetitive open world Ubisoft formula. It's all about Yasuke and how one black guy has single handily driven racists mad and caused them to collectively meltdown.

And they're not upset about historical accuracy because these games were never historically accurate. They're literally lame sci fi games with their apple of eden and a prior advanced civilisation that created humanity stuff. Even the origin of the Assassins is different to their real life counterparts. The whole plot is basically scientology.

All these games have fictionalised historical people. They made people who should have been Christian or Muslim into atheists including the founder of the Assassin sect who irl was a devout Muslim. They even had a female Templar warrior in the first game, yet irl there were no female Templars.

So these games were never about being historically accurate or true to historical characters. It's a bit late for these people to claim outrage about that. Where were they in 2007? Apparently consuming all this "historically accurate" slop lol.

@mountain_spider @arsmolinarc Satire right? I've only ever heard bad things about that game. I sincerely doubt it can even hold a candle to any Metro game.

And yes Nazis are bad. In Metro you regularly fight against them. In Atomic Heart...you fight robots.

@AhmadSumadi What proofs are you looking for? If we're talking about the historicity of religions then there are proofs. We know Jesus and Muhammad were both historical people for example.

The concern I have is that this game will fall down the usual hole of promoting the opinion of "religion = bad" rather than attempting to offer a nuenced, balanced and mature take.

@KeanuReaves Bloodborne wasn't about religion though. The Healing Church, despite its name, wasn't a religious organisation. Everything they were doing along with the other groups such as the college it came from, related to scientific human experimentation and attempts to contact literal extraterrestrials to force human evolution. The game simply added religious symbolism and quasi-religious rituals to all their unethical science. As you navigate the higher positions of the Healing Church, it resembles literally a scientific lab/hospital.

@16BitHero "Faith and religion - things that historically and currently cause conflict, intolerance, persecution and suffering but also resilience, hope, community and healing."

That's every ideology in general including secular and political ideologies which incidentally are the two things causing the most conflict currently in the Western world including with the whole culture war wokes and anti wokes are a part of.

@PuppetMaster Let me guess:

Xenogears: God is evil so we must kill him and get rid of religion.

Vagrant Tale: God is evil so we must kill him and get rid of religion.

FFX: God is evil so we must kill him and get rid of religion.

Honestly I imagine that's what those games are about. Literal storytelling that sounds like something a 12 year old edgy atheist on Reddit would write.

If this game is going to be the same, as I expect from Western media, portraying some corrupt theocratic society or religious cult (most likely modelled on Roman Catholicism) then it's not doing anything new, interesting or unique. It'll simply be joining a long list of media that have all told this same old story.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare That's true but I've yet to see censorship in their games.

@Northern_munkey What? Streets of Rage 4 has a hell of a lot to keep you coming back. Multiple characters, unlockable moves, boss rush, survival mode etc etc. I much prefer Streets of Rage 4 to Sifu and it offers that traditional 2d beat em up arcade experience unlike Sifu. For me, SoR4 is the best available.

Crazy how there's people out there who would defend this. Crazy how it reviewed so well too. Like I said in another post, the game is a big technical mess and the Digital Foundry video confirms that, along with confirming that it also still has the textures of a PS3 game.

Very mixed reviews though due to the terrible optimisation and performance. I just saw the Digital Foundry video from a link on Reddit and they say the same.

@Logonogo This is definitely a minority take. Also the final fight was amazing. One of my favourite boss battles in years.

The thing is, @UltimateOtaku91 and @Fiendish-Beaver the things you both said are equally applicable towards the PS5.

What reason do I have to get a PS5 when I'm literally able to play the majority of its games on PC? Rise of the Ronin next month... Stellar Blade later in summer. Playstation "exclusivity" is timed before games release on PC.

It's not like Playstation is coming out with many bangers anyways. They've spent half this generation on live service flops and VR that nobody is playing. Even the Wii U still has more exclusives than the PS5, even after having most of its library ported to the Switch.

Entry to the PC market is already cheaper than a console now simply because the games are cheaper on PC when they're on sale. With PS5 Pro being £700...what do you think the next gen of consoles is going to cost? £800? £900? If you can afford that...you can save a little more for a PC or even a gaming laptop.

Consoles don't have that excuse of being cheap anymore. Games are releasing at £60 too. What are you saving?

Nintendo is literally the only real option left with actual exclusives.

@ChrisDeku For a "GOTY" Astro Bot sold very poorly. Same sales as Dragon Age Veilguard.

Truth is, PS5 right now doesn't have many exclusives most people want and the few ones people do want...end up on PC.

Second truth, Nintendo Switch 2 will likely release with more exclusives in year 1 than PS5's entire lifespan...

Ignoring VR games and shovelware...PS5 now only has Astro Bot, Astro Playroom, Dark Farts: Bollywood Smell Edition (yes a real PS5 exclusive), Demon's Souls Remake and Finger Fitness...a mobile port...as the remaining PS5 only console exclusives.

@Porco Ninja Gaiden 4 looks fine. The only thing that looks bad about it is the edgy anime design of the new protagonist.

Besides, Team Ninja is involved so the game is in good hands. It is ultimately their franchise after all.

I've not played The Last of Us Part 2 but I loved all the memes. Abby was made out to be the literal embodiment of Gigachad lmao.

So it's a case now of the Virgin HBO Abby Vs the Chad game Abby.

Abby from the game goes to the gym, lifts weights everyday, is a great player at golf, regularly strikes bodybuilder poses and uses those poses as taunts during fights and simply doesn't care about realistic priorities during an apocalypse. She's going to get those gains one way or another!

As predicted, as Nioh 1 + 2 came to PC as well.

PS5 is really just another Xbox now since its games all come to PC too and released as the definitive version on PC.

@wiiware The controversy started because some people were upset about one of the protagonists being black. That's it.

"It's historical" doesn't cut it about Assassin's Creed. It's like Nioh but sci fi. Instead of fighting Yokai, the plot is about aliens. Meanwhile Altair would have been executed in real life, day one for being an atheist and an apostate of Islam by the Assassins as they were devout Shia Muslims. Ezio would have been burnt at the stake for being bisexual, also for being blasphemous. The Templars meanwhile were a devout Christian group, not atheists.

The series has always been historical fiction and bad.

Finally! Glad to have Ninja Gaiden back.

@Rich33 They said it performed below expectations. It hasn't done ok.

@Zeldorf Dragon's Dogma 2 sold only 1 million more copies than Veilguard, so a bad example to use. For a more successful single player Capcom game... choose any Resident Evil.

@tameshiyaku I agree with you. I've lost interest in the Yakuza series. Asides from the emphasis on heavy fanservice, decline in good stories (imo) and hyper focus on silliness, I'm just burnt out with all the reused assets from the animations to attacks.

And definitely the over the top silliness is especially something I'm not a fan of. Some people say "but Yakuza was always this silly" but they're wrong or being disingenuous. I'm half convinced some of those people haven't played the earlier titles too and have only seen "Yakuza silly moments" and think that stuff was what the earlier games only consisted of. Yeah, it had silly moments and there were a few silly optional attacks in combat based around some heat moves that were practically like superpowers but that stuff wasn't there all the time nor was every heat action unrealistic. Kiryu wasn't using Dragon Ball Z powers with literally every regular attack, flying and attacking enemies in the air like Ninja Gaiden and then summoning King Kong to fight alongside him like we're seeing here. I think the earlier titles had the perfect balance between some realism and occasional silliness. For me, that made the silly moments more memorable.

Project Century however looks great and it looks like that'll be completely different from Yakuza in that every asset for that game will be new. It also looks like it'll be more focused on being a lot more serious, realistic and gritty, so I guess people like us can still get the more grounded game we're looking for after all.

Dragon's Dogma 2 was one of the biggest disappointments of the year. That's my award for it.

Crimson Desert next year looks set to be what Dragon's Dogma 2 should have been.

@colonelkilgore And? Nintendo have bounced back before. I can't see the Switch 2 flopping in the first place not when it has years of hype behind it. Wii U never had that.

On the other hand, a PS6 I could see flopping seeing as, like with Xbox, it's becoming redundant to own a Playstation as its exclusives are also available on PC.

@NathanKang Silksong fans never shut up though. Lost Soul Aside would barely go mentioned until people remembered it existed plus it's a more ambitious project that started with only guy developing it. That kinda explains why it took so long.

Gooner weebs BTFO yet again. Their tears empower me.

@carlos82 Thing is, Borderlands 2 was badly written and had terrible humour too, @Burnish1619 mentions the 3rd game having unfunny millennial humour for Redditors and I'm sat here thinking...yeah that was Borderlands 2 as well. I guess some of the OG fans of BL2 grew up between the releases and somehow remember the second game differently even though it was the same terrible immature meme type humor with now many outdated meme jokes (i.e dick butt, arrow to the knee, poopy fart, everything that comes out of Claptrap's mouth and that awful racist character Tiny Tina talking in ebonics etc etc).

I never played these games for the story or the writing and I'm still surprised there's apparently people that do lol. I simply played them for the gameplay and multiplayer. I blanked out all the characters in both games due to how obnoxious they were lol.

@Enigk Let's be honest, most people aren't interested in Astro Bot and if it ever releases on PC, it'll be another Returnal.

Still one of the top selling games. No Astro Bot or Stellar Blade though.

Seriously, the game director was silly for complaining about the Game Awards. Financial success in this industry is more important than awards.

@nessisonett Not true since the term "woke" carries so many different meanings. Many people use it to describe virtue signalling and performative activism.

@Juanalf Wukong has a higher player review score on Steam. It also won the player's voice so that speaks to its popularity over both Stellar Blade and Astro Bot. Stellar Blade didn't even sell as much. Metacritic means nothing and hasn't for ages.

The Game Awards winners are decided by 90% of panelists who are "professional" critics so their choice of GOTY should be irrelevant anyway since it's literally a handful of people choosing.

Black Myth did win player's voice which is voted solely by the audience and it also won GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards which again was decided by the audience. Everything else is irrelevant.

Combined with its massive financial success, breaking records on Steam as the most played single player game by concurrent player count and strong positive player feedback, that's really what matters for a game. It's literally more successful than Astro Bot so it's silly that they're crying. You'd think to the industry that the literal game of the year is the best selling one.

So people shouldn't be taking these ceremonies so seriously in the first place.

This looks really good. Way grittier than what Yakuza has become.

Interesting but it's still not a new 3d Ninja Gaiden game with Ryu. Still waiting for that...

I bet the Steam forums will be filled with the usual suspects raging and not because of skepticism of CD Projekt following the overhyped and mid Cyberpunk but because the protagonist is a gasp female.

@IceClimbersMain With GTA6 or Monster Hunter Wilds in the same year? No chance.

@Stragen8 It sounds like a rouge like since the article mentions randomised environments. Personally I'm not interested in that or the lack of an actual character creator.

@nessisonett Insulting someone by implying they're gay as a negative thing is a very strong take that you’ll need to elaborate on given its use by neo Nazis. Bluesky is cringe but you’re verging on the obscene with insults like that.

@Flaming_Kaiser

You don't need work to have a life. Plenty of stay at home parents, retirees and disabled people still enjoy life, still go out, have hobbies and socialise.

@nessisonett @PegasusActual93 It's not even a multi faith issue, it's an institutional and societal issue considering it's not only faith based groups. There's far more child abuse carried out in public schools than churches. In fact just Googling "child abuse teacher" and going to the news tab shows a conviction of a teacher everyday. Currently one about a music teacher in Essex Brentwood UK whose reign of abuse was for 40 years.

And coverups are sickeningly a big thing amongst all these institutions. Remember the child grooming scandal in England in Rochdale and Rotherham, covered up by police and councils for decades?

@Neither_scene @Athrum It needs delaying on PC since that had worst problems with literal PS1 textures.

I'm not sure Capcom know how to actually optimise games. I saw people who can run games like Black Myth Wukong, Silent Hill 2 and Death Stranding have problems on PC with Wilds and Wilds looks like a last gen game compared to those three games. Actually with those low texture characters and monsters so many were posting...it looks several generations behind lol.

@EchoRange

I've watched an hour of gameplay. All the dialogue has been bad. It's ok to admit it sucks. Don't pretend that it gets better lol.

@Northern_munkey

Not going to happen. Like you said, this is Ubisoft we're talking about and the series has been historically inaccurate since the beginning.

@LN78 I can think of numerous games of this generation that are way more overrated than Alan Wake 2. In fact from last year alone, I would say Baldur's Gate 3 is way more overrated.

@ATaco Tbf Yakuza is a gritty violent crime series outside of side content. Nothing in the main story is whimsical apart from the new Yakuza games which leaned too much into that stuff for the main story. Unless you want to count the five seconds of seeing a castle come out of the ground in 2 and the tiger fight but even then, that stuff is presented seriously same with 4's ridiculous rubber bullets plot piece.

I already called it that the show wouldn't feature all the side content and I don't know why anyone expected that it would.

Either way the show doesn't sound good... another thing I called.

@Artois2 That's where Yakuza now belongs, where the sun doesn't shine lol. The series is burnt out...

@LowDefAl Never heard that. Zelda sold 3.84 million copies in one month. We only have stats on Zero Dawn for two weeks at 2.6 million copies.

Meanwhile Zelda was the 5th best selling game of 2017. Horizon didn't make it into the top 10.