Rise of the ronin looks good but is too far away for me to care. I prefer announcements within a smaller window. but this time next year I will be hype. Nintendo stacked me until may anyway so this works out.
@AstraeaV That happens in games with male protags too. Pretty sure almost everyone Jin killed in GOT was male. The majority of war has been and is waged by guys. So law of averages means most of the combatants a woman warrior will face are men. And it’s not like we have seen the whole game and every character in it. Some dudes just don’t like to see women fighting let alone having a power fantasy, especially when that power fantasy doesn’t cater to a male sexual fantasy. If Frey were in a bikini or for the really damaged, pale skinned and in a bikini, those same guys would no longer have an issue. Same as the Tomb Raider reboot outrage.
Nice! Reminds me of sands of time prince or Miles Morales. I love light hearted mildly incredulous monologues. I’m extra hyped for this. If the gameplay is as good as it looks I am ready to go! Just gotta find a PS5…
Yep. Lore is important to world building. I hate games that neglect that or make it easy to bypass. I don't want to get locked in a cutscene or have a novel to read, but I do want to organically learn about the world I'm in. Otherwise you are mostly just killing pixels and that gets real boring, real fast. Give me a reason to care about the pixels and their plight.
It’s a shame they are locking features by gens but I will pick this up in a few years once I have one of the newer systems. Love seeing more focus on women’s sports in gaming. Would be the only mode I play.
Who cares? Folks freaking out over a fictional character created by Japanese people. Wesker could have been purple in the games and he would have been written/acted the same way. There is nothing inherently white/caucasian american about him or how he is treated or acts other than the pixels.
This isn’t a character that being a certain skin color had anything to do with his background or motivations. He had no advantage or disadvantage placed on him due to his skin color. Nobody did research to figure out how to make wesker as faithful to white/anglo/caucasian culture as possible (as with GoTsushima), they just wrote a bad guy and slapped blonde hair and some sunglasses on him and gave him an anglo name. (Japanese people consider their skin color to be white as well...look at their art.)
アルバート・ウェスカー (wesker’s name as written in biohazard) was merely the Japanese diversity pick. The non Japanese characters look like that because that is exotic/fresh/different to Japanese people, but his character behavior and creation is influenced by those that made him... Japanese people. All of em, Clare, Leon...all of them are Japanese people with exotic sprites/character models. If their Japanese creators acted the way some of y’all did then the whole RE cast would have looked Japanese and kept it moving. It’s ok for the creators to put in other races but if a TV show does the same thing that is where the line is drawn?
I mean if you are going to die on the “I hate seeing anything that isn’t white” hill, at least pick actual white people/characters and not white appearing characters. For instance you couldn’t realistically do a Alexander Hamilton movie with a Chinese woman as the lead. As being male and white cemented his place in a society governed by white men and motivated how he was treated by others and how he treated them. Or if you want a fictional character Tarzan (which means white skin in the ape language) was purposely made a white man and the white savior trope would fall to absolute pieces if it starred a Black person (even though it makes sense by law of averages).
There are times where racialwashing is worthy of outrage because it diminishes( or outright erases) the real racial tensions/conflict that influence that character, how they are treated and the society they live in (for instance all the strawmen getting thrown about making Dr. King white) due to their skin color or it erases/appropriates the culture that is tied to a ethnic group. Usually this is done to make the members of the group that uphold that conflict feel better. The only way that could possibly work is if you flip everyone (and exchange the power dynamic) which those strawmen tossers don’t want either.
However this is a videogame with no racial motivations other than some Japanese people thought it sounded cool. Do y’all think Mario is a real example of an Italian/Italian-American too? Did anyone care when the RE movies went in a different direction with Alice?
There are over 7 billion of us, we come in different shades...hair and eye colors too.
By all means die on that hill if you want to (you do you) but I wouldn’t pick this one if I were you...this hill is Japanese.
Tldr: it’s a Japanese created character voiced by Joji Nakata... who cares that Lance Reddick is playing a version of him?! At this point I wish they’d cast a Japanese guy so it would go full circle.
As a Ps4 gamer I am glad that many of the launch titles are cross gen. By the time devs get the hang of the Ps5 I will be ready to jump in... I think. At this point the selling point of the Ps5 for me is that it plays Ps4 games and I didn’t buy a pro. However so far I see nothing that is making me want to drop the cash for a new system. I hope I am surprised later on though.
@Exlee300p You are reaching pretty far there. I am not saying anything about male gamers at all (neither is the article). I am saying “yay more female gamers”. Gaming doesn’t have a finite capacity. Celebrating females doesn’t tear down males. It is a logical fallacy to assert that focus on one thing means a concentrated effort to diminish something else. It means that you are focused on the subject of the conversation. It is possible to have a conversation without it being about everyone (the fake neutral stance is usually used to silence others by psudo shaming). Conversations are not a sports team where you have winners or losers. It is a conversation. Debates are another matter of course.
As for what a feeling should be, no one can dictate to another how they should feel because you don’t have their perspective and going around being neutral/indifferent/apathetic may be cool for you but I will feel how I feel, regardless. Now you have the right to avoid or be wary of a person for how they feel if you find it harmful of course, but that doesn’t change the way the other person feels. You do you.
My joy and positivity however remains unchanged.
Your argument was wholly unconvincing and illogical, so I will continue on with my life. Good luck in yours.
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Re: Gotham Knights Cinematic Launch Trailer Airs Out the Bat-Family's Inner Demons
Hopefully this will be good as currently it’s my only chance at a Batgirl game.
Re: Sony Will Continue to Make PS4 Games Moving Forwards
Works for me. Gives me another way to get cheaper games.
Re: BioWare Shares Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Codex Entries, Anticipation Builds
Not hyped but still hoping EAware will make something interesting.
Re: Prepare to Play Through PS5's Gotham Knights a Fair Few Times
I just wanted a batgirl game so only playing through once works for me.
Re: Onimusha Finally Returns... As a Netflix Anime
I’m hoping it will be good. I love the onimusha series.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Player Numbers Have Exploded Since the Edgerunners Update
@RobN thank you for explaining!
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Player Numbers Have Exploded Since the Edgerunners Update
What is a transmog system?
Re: Embracer CEO Doesn't Expect a Great Return on Investment from Saints Row
@themightyant that part is PS saying they liked the game but other reviewers didn’t.
Re: Embracer CEO Doesn't Expect a Great Return on Investment from Saints Row
You can’t please everyone. Every reboot forms fanbase splinters. Better to stay the course than reboot the reboot.
Re: Gawk at Over Two Hours of Street Fighter 6 PS5 Gameplay
Looks good but I will wait a bit since I didn’t have time to play V. Kimberly is likely gonna be my new main until the roster fills out.
Re: The PS5, PS4 Release Schedule in 2023 Is Officially, Utterly Ridiculous
While a lot of these I will pick up elsewhere, I see a few exclusives that I am looking forward to. Forspoken is at the top of the list.
Re: SEGA Is Dropping the 'Yakuza' Name from Now On
Doesn’t bother me as I always personally refer to it as RgG and only use Yakuza to talk to others.
Re: Round Up: What Was Announced During Sony's State of Play Livestream for September 2022?
Rise of the ronin looks good but is too far away for me to care. I prefer announcements within a smaller window. but this time next year I will be hype. Nintendo stacked me until may anyway so this works out.
Re: Feudal Japan Yakuza Spinoff Like a Dragon: Ishin! Is Finally Coming West in February 2023
Aww, I'll buy it to support RGG but I would have preferred a new entry since I've already beaten this.
Re: Steelrising (PS5) - French Souls-Like Is Almost Great
Spiders tends to iron out the bugs so I can wait a year.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Saints Row Claims the Throne, Sells Best on PS5
I just wish woke would go back to its original meaning and not a random bucket.
Re: PS5 Game Forspoken's Script Is Attracting Some Pretty Good Memes
@AstraeaV That happens in games with male protags too. Pretty sure almost everyone Jin killed in GOT was male. The majority of war has been and is waged by guys. So law of averages means most of the combatants a woman warrior will face are men. And it’s not like we have seen the whole game and every character in it. Some dudes just don’t like to see women fighting let alone having a power fantasy, especially when that power fantasy doesn’t cater to a male sexual fantasy. If Frey were in a bikini or for the really damaged, pale skinned and in a bikini, those same guys would no longer have an issue. Same as the Tomb Raider reboot outrage.
Re: PS5 Stock: Where to Buy PlayStation 5 and When in August 2022
Welp just got my amazon invite so that’s done.
Re: PS5 Game Forspoken's Script Is Attracting Some Pretty Good Memes
Nice! Reminds me of sands of time prince or Miles Morales. I love light hearted mildly incredulous monologues. I’m extra hyped for this. If the gameplay is as good as it looks I am ready to go! Just gotta find a PS5…
Edit: just bought a PS5. It’s go time.
Re: PS5's Forspoken Release Date Delayed Until 24th January, 2023
I'm ok with this delay. Gives me time to find a PS5. This is the first game I wanna play anyway. So hyped!
Re: Showa American Story Is a PS5, PS4 Action RPG Straight Out of the PS2 Playbook
Sounds like United States of Japan...I need to finish that book. This game sounds silly, I'll look into it.
Re: Talking Point: Do You Read All the Crap in Games?
Yep. Lore is important to world building. I hate games that neglect that or make it easy to bypass. I don't want to get locked in a cutscene or have a novel to read, but I do want to organically learn about the world I'm in. Otherwise you are mostly just killing pixels and that gets real boring, real fast. Give me a reason to care about the pixels and their plight.
Re: Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Odyssey Get Free Crossover Quests on 14th December
Dangit. I’d successfully ignored Valhalla with no issues but more Kassandra means I have to buy it now. Will wait until next BF when it is dirt cheap.
Re: Saints Row Grabs an Explosive New Gameplay Trailer
Looks like a step up from 3 but not as crazy as 4. I’m in.
Re: Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown Feels the Heat with Yakuza DLC Pack Next Week
Ok SEGA, I will stop playing Final Showdown and pick this up. (Will keep playing FS on xbox though) still my favorite fighting game.
Re: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (PS5) - Faithful Take on the Guardians Really Rocks
Good to know it’s good. Waiting on the price drop next year.
Re: PS4 Exclusive God of War Releasing on PC in January
I hope they push for PC for PS5 games… may not need to buy a PS5 afterall. More games for everyone.
Re: Episodic Mecha Action Game Gundam: Battle Operation Code Fairy Deploys on PS5, PS4 in November
Getting Sakura Taisen vibes. Sold.
Re: Poll: Do You Want Even More PS5 Marvel Games from Sony?
I would sell other people’s kidneys for a Storm game.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Will Now Offer Free PS4 to PS5 Upgrade, Sony Confirms
Cool. Ps4 version for me.
Re: Sony Will Make You Pay Extra to Upgrade Horizon Forbidden West from PS4 to PS5
Question as I don’t have a PS5 yet.
Will the ps4 disc still work in a ps5?
I’m going to wait for the GOTY edition anyway but wondering how this will all work when I do get the new system.
Re: NBA 2K22 Fleshes Out WNBA Mode, But It's Still Next-Gen Only
It’s a shame they are locking features by gens but I will pick this up in a few years once I have one of the newer systems. Love seeing more focus on women’s sports in gaming. Would be the only mode I play.
Re: Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut Bundles in New Island Expansion, Coming to PS5 and PS4
The 20 bucks on PS4 if you own the original is just the DLC right? It’s not a separate instance of the game right? I am a little confused on this.
Re: Random: PlayStation Fans Start Petition to Cancel Hideo Kojima's Rumoured Xbox Game
Wait you love this guy but you want him to lose a potential source of revenue that may allow him to continue making games? Fanatics are weird.
Re: GreedFall PS5 Version Available to Download Now
I enjoyed it for what it was: a call back to the spirit of older bioware games. I would like to see a remake after the studio is more experienced.
Re: PlayStation Celebrates Pride 2021 with Free Theme and Curated LGBTQ+ Games List
Cool! I will get the theme.
Re: Round Up: Scarlet Nexus Reviews Range from Good to Great
Looks like one to add to the library.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Isn't on PS5, PS4, And Fans Are Baffled
CHAOS is messing up everything.
Re: Chaos! Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin's Exclusive PS5 Demo Is Broken
See? Chaos needs to be stopped! CHAOS!
Re: Babylon's Fall Gets Smashed with Dislikes Upon Its Gameplay Return
I usually love anything P* touches but nope, I am good with waiting on Bayonetta 3 and hoping for an astral chain sequel.
I hope they aren’t spreading themselves too thin.
Re: Lance Reddick, Ella Balinska Star in Netflix's Resident Evil
Who cares? Folks freaking out over a fictional character created by Japanese people. Wesker could have been purple in the games and he would have been written/acted the same way. There is nothing inherently white/caucasian american about him or how he is treated or acts other than the pixels.
This isn’t a character that being a certain skin color had anything to do with his background or motivations. He had no advantage or disadvantage placed on him due to his skin color. Nobody did research to figure out how to make wesker as faithful to white/anglo/caucasian culture as possible (as with GoTsushima), they just wrote a bad guy and slapped blonde hair and some sunglasses on him and gave him an anglo name. (Japanese people consider their skin color to be white as well...look at their art.)
アルバート・ウェスカー (wesker’s name as written in biohazard) was merely the Japanese diversity pick. The non Japanese characters look like that because that is exotic/fresh/different to Japanese people, but his character behavior and creation is influenced by those that made him... Japanese people. All of em, Clare, Leon...all of them are Japanese people with exotic sprites/character models. If their Japanese creators acted the way some of y’all did then the whole RE cast would have looked Japanese and kept it moving. It’s ok for the creators to put in other races but if a TV show does the same thing that is where the line is drawn?
I mean if you are going to die on the “I hate seeing anything that isn’t white” hill, at least pick actual white people/characters and not white appearing characters. For instance you couldn’t realistically do a Alexander Hamilton movie with a Chinese woman as the lead. As being male and white cemented his place in a society governed by white men and motivated how he was treated by others and how he treated them. Or if you want a fictional character Tarzan (which means white skin in the ape language) was purposely made a white man and the white savior trope would fall to absolute pieces if it starred a Black person (even though it makes sense by law of averages).
There are times where racialwashing is worthy of outrage because it diminishes( or outright erases) the real racial tensions/conflict that influence that character, how they are treated and the society they live in (for instance all the strawmen getting thrown about making Dr. King white) due to their skin color or it erases/appropriates the culture that is tied to a ethnic group. Usually this is done to make the members of the group that uphold that conflict feel better. The only way that could possibly work is if you flip everyone (and exchange the power dynamic) which those strawmen tossers don’t want either.
However this is a videogame with no racial motivations other than some Japanese people thought it sounded cool. Do y’all think Mario is a real example of an Italian/Italian-American too? Did anyone care when the RE movies went in a different direction with Alice?
There are over 7 billion of us, we come in different shades...hair and eye colors too.
By all means die on that hill if you want to (you do you) but I wouldn’t pick this one if I were you...this hill is Japanese.
Tldr: it’s a Japanese created character voiced by Joji Nakata... who cares that Lance Reddick is playing a version of him?! At this point I wish they’d cast a Japanese guy so it would go full circle.
Re: Lance Reddick, Ella Balinska Star in Netflix's Resident Evil
Hmm I will give it a go. Need something new to watch anyway.
Re: Jim Ryan on Cyberpunk 2077: Sony Didn't Want to 'Sell a Game That Might Result in a Bad Experience'
They just didn’t want to issue refunds.
Re: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Is a Fantasy Borderlands Spin-Off Coming Next Year
Ooh Wanda Sykes! Might get it on sale.
Re: PlayStation Studios Boss Suggests God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7 Are Also Coming to PS4
Nice! Great for the Ps4 campers like myself, if true.
Re: Talking Point: Did Sony Lie About PS5?
As a Ps4 gamer I am glad that many of the launch titles are cross gen. By the time devs get the hang of the Ps5 I will be ready to jump in... I think. At this point the selling point of the Ps5 for me is that it plays Ps4 games and I didn’t buy a pro. However so far I see nothing that is making me want to drop the cash for a new system. I hope I am surprised later on though.
Re: Almost Half of PlayStation Gamers Are Women
@Kidfried Thank you, but I was reminded of why I don’t comment here often.
Re: Horizon Forbidden West Comparison Shows Improvements Over Zero Dawn
Makes me wonder if a remaster of the first game is inbound. Like with spiderman.
Re: Almost Half of PlayStation Gamers Are Women
@Exlee300p You are reaching pretty far there. I am not saying anything about male gamers at all (neither is the article). I am saying “yay more female gamers”. Gaming doesn’t have a finite capacity. Celebrating females doesn’t tear down males. It is a logical fallacy to assert that focus on one thing means a concentrated effort to diminish something else. It means that you are focused on the subject of the conversation. It is possible to have a conversation without it being about everyone (the fake neutral stance is usually used to silence others by psudo shaming). Conversations are not a sports team where you have winners or losers. It is a conversation. Debates are another matter of course.
As for what a feeling should be, no one can dictate to another how they should feel because you don’t have their perspective and going around being neutral/indifferent/apathetic may be cool for you but I will feel how I feel, regardless. Now you have the right to avoid or be wary of a person for how they feel if you find it harmful of course, but that doesn’t change the way the other person feels. You do you.
My joy and positivity however remains unchanged.
Your argument was wholly unconvincing and illogical, so I will continue on with my life. Good luck in yours.
Have a nice day.
Re: Almost Half of PlayStation Gamers Are Women
@Exlee300p Why should I not celebrate that more women and girls are gaming and that it is being seen by companies that make games?