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Wait there’s a character creator?! Ok this just moved up to day 1.

Hopefully this will be good as currently it’s my only chance at a Batgirl game.

Works for me. Gives me another way to get cheaper games.

Not hyped but still hoping EAware will make something interesting.

I just wanted a batgirl game so only playing through once works for me.

I’m hoping it will be good. I love the onimusha series.

@RobN thank you for explaining!

What is a transmog system?

@themightyant that part is PS saying they liked the game but other reviewers didn’t.

You can’t please everyone. Every reboot forms fanbase splinters. Better to stay the course than reboot the reboot.

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.

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.

Doesn’t bother me as I always personally refer to it as RgG and only use Yakuza to talk to others.

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.

Aww, I'll buy it to support RGG but I would have preferred a new entry since I've already beaten this.

Spiders tends to iron out the bugs so I can wait a year.

I just wish woke would go back to its original meaning and not a random bucket.

@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.

Welp just got my amazon invite so that’s done.

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.

I'm ok with this delay. Gives me time to find a PS5. This is the first game I wanna play anyway. So hyped!

Sounds like United States of Japan...I need to finish that book. This game sounds silly, I'll look into it.

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.

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.

Looks like a step up from 3 but not as crazy as 4. I’m in.

Ok SEGA, I will stop playing Final Showdown and pick this up. (Will keep playing FS on xbox though) still my favorite fighting game.

Good to know it’s good. Waiting on the price drop next year.

I hope they push for PC for PS5 games… may not need to buy a PS5 afterall. More games for everyone.

Getting Sakura Taisen vibes. Sold.

I would sell other people’s kidneys for a Storm game.

Cool. Ps4 version for me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cool! I will get the theme.

Looks like one to add to the library.

CHAOS is messing up everything.

See? Chaos needs to be stopped! CHAOS!

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.

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.

Hmm I will give it a go. Need something new to watch anyway.

They just didn’t want to issue refunds.

Ooh Wanda Sykes! Might get it on sale.

Nice! Great for the Ps4 campers like myself, if true.

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.

@Kidfried Thank you, but I was reminded of why I don’t comment here often.

Makes me wonder if a remaster of the first game is inbound. Like with spiderman.

@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.