underthegun

I've commented this before and will comment again — could the Push Square team consider not capitalizing every word in headlines please? It may just be me but its take me far longer than it should to work out the titles of games unknown to me due to the (IMO) terrible headline formatting. It also does not look pleasing to the eye and mind on the main page. Thank!!

Hi Sammy, just to let you know, your fanboy is showing.

@IntimidatedDoggo Same. I read it thinking there was nothing overly outlandish or obviously fake. It seems as plausible as any other Sci-fi story ND may have conjured up.

@IntimidatedDoggo but but but... The article says the posted synopsis is barely worth talking about, as it's clearly fake??? Not sure what to believe now...

Push Square perpetuating woke and anti-woke hysteria again. Move along, nothing to see here.

@mrbone Agreed. There seems to be a lot more articles on the site lately where the truth has been warped and opinion takes over in an inflammatory manner. Maybe this increases engagement for the site, fair play, but puts me off visiting as often.

@ChimpMasta thanks for the sanity check. I had been following the comments and completely agree. Most seemed to poke fun at when the remaster would be out and the usual light-hearted bald jokes. Where these swathes of alleged nasty, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic remarks that some of the more hysterical commenters here are mentioning, I've no idea. Maybe the dark corners of the web where they belong.

@nessisonett anti-woke means sexism, homophobia and xenophobia? Really?

This trailer felt very… underwhelming. Over four years without a peep about a new game and over ten years since a new IP and this is how ND re-appear on the industry stage? Very poor showing for me.

Top-notch presentation and soundtrack aside, the characters, the dialogue, the setup fell so flat for me. This trailer made it all seem very 'Mass Effect / Guardians of the Galaxy / Concord'-esque. Been there, done that. Not a patch on previous reveals of theirs.

Hopefully the next trailer will be all about the gameplay and… well, anything more exciting really.

On a separate note, could the Push Square team consider not capitalizing every word in headlines please? It may just be me but it takes me far longer than it should to work out the titles of games unknown to me due to the headline formatting. It is also not pleasing to the eye and mind on the main page. Thanks.

On a separate note, could the Push Square team consider not capitalizing every word in headlines please? It may just be me but its take me far longer than it should to work out the titles of games unknown to me due to the headline formatting. It also does not look pleasing to the eye and mind on the main page. Thanks.

What a game Disco Elysium is. Story, characters, music, atmosphere, so nostalgic about it all. Don't think there will ever be another one like it. Hopefully the original developers get the opportunity to create what they want to again.

I really hope the UI and HUD is much easier to digest. The menus, small text, constant prompts, tutorials and popups in the first game pretty much ruined it for me and I turned it off after the first boss. I loved the atmosphere and gameplay as well.

I feel this article really wasn't necessary and this is just propagating nonsense that people don't like women characters but I'll bite.

I think what is frustrating is prioritising the mere inclusion of a particular gender or race over good writing. I want a well-written, developed and believable character to follow through a story. I don't want characters that exist merely because of their gender or race, and have nothing else to add to the story beyond that. There are so many high-quality TV shows with believable characters from all walks of life nowadays but there are also a lot of poorly written shows using inclusion as window dressing only.

I've noticed a trend nowadays too with female leads in TV shows, where the character is just plain aggressive and mean to everyone with very little likeable traits. This is not being a 'strong' woman, this is just being a d***.

As others have said, there have been great female leads over film and TV for decades, with some great female characters in games in recent years. For example, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connors, Clarice Starling, a great number of female MCs in 24, Claudette from The Shield to name a mere few. In games, Ellie from TLOU, the female leads in Uncharted, Selene from Returnal.

I can't speak for everyone but I think when some people call something 'woke', they may actually mean it's just the plain, bad, lazy writing that they don't like and it's not the particular gender or race they dislike. Maybe they are like me and just want their characters, regardless of gender or race, to have, well, character.

Who the hell wants to play as Manny?

Underwhelming. Do not fancy all the twerking and social media shenanigans. Surrounded by enough of that in real life. The graphics engine looks amazing.

Edited to appease the heavy handed mods...

This mission was far from the best as the headline states. From a gameplay and story perspective, IMO, it was poor. Same goes for most of the Vision Academy missions. Other than The Flame and the Howard mission, I think the majority of side missions in this game were pretty poor. Sprinkling forced OTT positivity (Hailey becoming BFFs with the graffiti artist / vandal), representation and Change the World guff in amongst missions just made them woefully cringey. This messaging could have been interwoven more effectively rather than the missions exisiting purely to communicate a social message with minimal effort put into gameplay and story.