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Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Comes Out Swinging, Already EA's Biggest Single Player Game on Steam

Blaze215

The last game that released on steam from bioware is ME legendary edition And before that the original 2 dragonage games. So youre basically comparing to over decade old games and a remaster. A bit disingenuous.

Maybe compare to other big releases this year like black myth which had over 2 million players or even games like space marines 2 which had over 200,000.

When you actually compare, this launch ain't great.

Re: TV Show Review: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft - Globetrotting Animated Adventure Edges Lara's Arc Forward

Blaze215

@xDD90x Sure those are fair points. I do agree with them to an extent. I just don't believe realism and immersion are the reason these designs keep cropping up. For example Abby in tlou2 was ripped, in a post apocalyptic world where nutrients would be scarce and there is no way a woman could look like that. I believe the same ideology that designed her is why Lara is the way she is

Re: TV Show Review: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft - Globetrotting Animated Adventure Edges Lara's Arc Forward

Blaze215

@ThomasHL No I don't believe that it is this specific isolated instance that bothers people. It is the pattern of this kind of design choice that has been happening for many years now and a lot of people are tired of it. If Lara's design had been more feminine and conventionally attractive a certain other group would be complaining about objectifying women. So sometimes you need to fight fire with fire.

Re: TV Show Review: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft - Globetrotting Animated Adventure Edges Lara's Arc Forward

Blaze215

@get2sammyb if you like the direction the creators have taken that's fine. It's obvious that a lot of people like to watch attractive characters. It shouldn't be controversial it's why most actors/singers are conventionally attractive. I and many others do not find this new Lara attractive. If you do that's cool too. There's is a growing trend where creating attractive women in games/cartoons has become problematic to certain ideologies and I'm not a fan of this direction.

Re: Crickets as Suicide Squad Endures Another Muted Launch

Blaze215

@ErrantRob Toxic positivity is definitely the issue here. Awful ideas are not criticised for fear of being labeled the usual ist or phobe words. Probably 95% of the devs knew this whole thing was an awful idea but were too afraid to speak out. What kind of world are we living in

Re: Poll: Did You Pre-Order a PS5 Pro?

Blaze215

Don't think there's a need to be quick to get one really, from what I've seen it's available everywhere. Most definitely will not be getting one myself. Will wait for the ps6 pro before I buy any more hardware from Sony, even then they will need to impress me next generation or I'll skip it altogether.

Re: Poll: Did You Pre-Order a PS5 Pro?

Blaze215

@get2sammyb Sure not everyone but you would assume this site will have a definite bias to purchasing one more than somewhere else a poll was created.
Not sure anyone has changed their mind since it was announced but sure maybe the attitude has changed slightly.

Re: Ubisoft Backs Out of Tokyo Game Show at Eleventh Hour, Cancels Livestream

Blaze215

@Ilyn right I have not seen any media portraying him as a samurai prior to 2019? Could you enlighten me because I have searched for it?

Oh so you "imagine" that's why he deleted his social media, well I guess you must be right then. Please research it and you will see his claims were proven false.

Also conflating this with Nioh is also not right. The Ubisoft devs explicitly advertised this was all about historical accuracy, I don't believe Nioh ever claimed the same.

Re: Ubisoft Backs Out of Tokyo Game Show at Eleventh Hour, Cancels Livestream

Blaze215

A lot of people saying Yasuke was a real historical character. It's come to light that a lot of what is known about him was made up by a western man called Thomas Lockley, the author who created the 'Yasuke was a legendary Samurai' myth from his book in 2019. He deleted all his social media accounts after Japanese gamers and Japanese historians call out his historical fabrication.

Ok he still did exist, but my question is from all the historical samurai known to us, why did ubisoft choose him over the thousands of known Japanese samurai?

Re: Reaction: Why There Are So Many Unnecessary PS5 Remasters for Games That Don't Need Them

Blaze215

These remasters are the bare minimum effort. That's what execs love minimum effort for maximum profit. It's just not good enough I could not care less about remasters of ps4 games there's barely a difference between ps4 and ps5 as it is! And obviously the main problem being so little ps5 exclusives over half way into the consoles life cycle! No wonder there are so many people sticking with their ps4s, there's no point in upgrading.

Re: Vince Zampella Defends PS5 Pro Price, Says 'It's Actually Not That Bad'

Blaze215

@thefourfoldroot1 I disagree, it's pretty much the same as a ps5. I can do without Improvements that require cerny to zoom into the screen for me to see. It may be a moot point to someone who won't consider a PC at any level but some people may. Also all the other benefits of having a PC such as a far far superior library of games now including ps5 'exclusives'

Re: Vince Zampella Defends PS5 Pro Price, Says 'It's Actually Not That Bad'

Blaze215

@Ainu20 value may be subjective, but if most people do not see value in this than the majority have the same subjective opinion.

Yes agreed on these selling points but if you want to buy a PC that plays ps5 games pretty well AND does everything else a PC does. Forfeiting pssr and 'better' ray tracing which in mine and most other people's opinions are negligible improvements then the ps5 pro is not good value and the PC equivalent is a much better purchase

Re: Vince Zampella Defends PS5 Pro Price, Says 'It's Actually Not That Bad'

Blaze215

It's not reasonable or good value. For anyone thinking you can't get a PC for the same value there's an ign article that begs to differ https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ign.com/articles/you-can-build-a-pc-equivalent-to-the-ps5-pro-heres-how&ved=2ahUKEwjV2-O3_cuIAxWRQEEAHdOsEJ4Q0PADKAB6BAgaEAE&usg=AOvVaw2N_MPiUCt4cbOVkPWUlOBX

Also a PC does SO much more than a ps5 so the value difference is actually immense

Re: Internal Sony Fairgame$ Chatter Is Reportedly Quite Positive

Blaze215

The trailer for this game was as cringe as concords. Characters look awful and purple everywhere. I honestly do not know who the audience is they are trying to appeal to with these aesthetics. Is this what the mythical 'modern audience' likes? Maybe one day they will magically appear and we can ask them 😂