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Surprised Sony didn’t censor it.

$10 says this game bombs fam.

I just love it when companies that have nothing to do with the development process think they know better than the actual developers of a game. /s

@Porco I don’t think you know what the word entitled means friendo.

@RogerRoger You calllinf this stuff child pornography is an insult to victims of actual child pornography. Get real dude. Not to mention in the US this is demonstrably and legally not CP, so you’re just wrong. Though I suppose if you live in the nanny states that are the UK and European countries it is.

This is just pushing me to buy these games on other systems. This really seems like the first step towards PS3 era Sony. Talk about a total joke.

So, I’m assuming you can turn off the mini map regardless of whether you’re using the app or not. If so, I’ll just be doing that. 👌

Geeze, as much as I love Battlefield, this has really turned into a trainwreck. I’ll likely be waiting for a significant price drop on this. I just hope by the time I get it it has a healthy player pool and it isn’t a barren wasteland.

Not likely, as I’ve still got my PS3 hooked up. So I can’t really think of a benefit I’d get out of it.

Lololol

I’m actually really down for this. Mimir’s stories were one of my favorite things from GoW.

Jesus Colin, you really did this to yourself. Many times protests come with consequences, and this is yours. Don’t point the finger at other people when your the one that shot himself on the foot.

They should have animated it like The Last of Us then.

I likely wouldn’t have played this, but I find people celebrating or justifying having one more game available to be quite frustrating.

Too true fam.

Sure, I think Taro is pretty great so I’d loved to see him doing more stuff.

I’m not sure excluding people who want to buy a physical copy is going to help endear yourself to companies. That’s some funky logic fam.

Aww yeaaah

I’m really glad CDPR struck such gold with the Witcher 3, and this kinda helps illustrate why. I’m not even the biggest fan of the game, but I think they have one of the best attitudes of any bigger studio right now. I think them, along with From Software, Marvelous, and Atlus are some of the best studios around right now.

@Shepherd_Tallon Right, and I certainly agree on most of your points. Though I don’t really buy into the idea that people need characters who are the same race/sex/gender as them to be able to relate to. But I don’t have a problem with devs wanting to go in that direction, as long as it’s actually a character and not some arbitrary representative of X group. That’s one of the major problems I have with this current environment in the game industry amongst journos and talking heads. I mean, one of the best characters I’ve encountered it Emil from Nier/Automata. He’s gay, but the game doesn’t throw some celebration for him or make that the defining point of his character. He’s just gay and has a crush on Nier and it totally works. Unlike the joke that is BioWare’s approach to this kinda thing.

I can see where your coming from about the game possibly having that kind of affect on younger players who may get their hands on this game. But, I mean, if playing it causes some boy to go out and grope a girl then he has bigger problems. He really needs some guidance from an authority figure in his life. And while, sure it may make girls think like, ‘Oh, this is how I should act to get attention from boys!’ But a lot of kids turn out to be sexually active at a super young age. I mean, there are 12 year olds out there already having sex. I think banning the game would have very little affect on this kind of thing. It would only be a bad thing as far as I’m concerned. People like us who are mature and understand this kind of thing is really tongue-in-cheek would be deprived of a potentially great game while kids would still be out there making stupid choices because they don’t really understand that having a kid, getting an STD, etc. will truly ruin your life. I think these kind of things have more to do with a terrible education system that seems to get worse every year it’s not fixed.

Sure fam, I know your not a regressive. I mean you’d have to be throwing around buzzwords(removing how serious accusations of sexism/racism/etc. should be) and not taking part in a really great conversation such as this. I really, really think people need to get it together. Shrinking the kinds of things that can be represented or discussed in art is something I can not stand and truly think it’s one of the worst things someone has done. Art is integral to human cultures and has gottnen us through some of the worst periods of history. I think everything should be fair game in art, unless it is infringing upon someone else’s rights. And that does not include the ‘right to not be offended. While the point is certainly up for debate, I think this kind of thing might help people who could potentially be capable of going out and actually hurting a young child. Once they actually do hurt someone, they’re trash and deserve to end up in prison. I kinda see games full of lolis as an outlet for peodophile sin the same area as porn for everyone else. As long as they’re just getting off to fictional lolis I don’t really have a problem with that. But once again, this kinda thing is totally up for debate. Not to mention that anime characters really look different enough that I’m 99% sure that most people who like lolis want nothing to do with IRL kids. For example, I’m super down with anime traps, but I couldn’t be less attracted to dudes/IRL traps. I mean, I doubt I’ll ever come across someone as cute as Astolfo IRL. So I can see people having a similar mindset in regards to lolis and kids.

@JoeBlogs Nah fam, something like this woul d be protected by arguing that it does have artistic merit and therefore protected by the first amendment fam. And yeah, PQube confirmed its coming to the states, so I think I’ll take there word on it unless someone credible says otherwise.

@Shepherd_Tallon Right, but this would be a victimless crime. You can’t really blame the art for something a nutcase does. That sounds to me like taking away the perpetrator’s agency. Another point would be that these really don’t look like real people. I mean, loli’s in some media really don’t look like actual children. I certainly think it’s fine to have these conversations about this kind of thing, but the moment someone tries to justify the banning of art in a country is a bit of a joke imo.

@Vincent294 I’m not white knighting fam. I never said Sony didn’t have the right to not sell it on their storefront. I said being able to be arrested for owning something like this in the UK, instead of the police helping actual victims is a bit of a joke and the really need to get their act together. But once again, they can’t touch you for that in the states. I had mixed up whether the ESA was a pubic company I.E. paid for the taxpayer. But as far as I know they’re really just a lobbying group. But I don’t think that diminishes my points of it being a joke it’s not going to be able to be sold in many European countries, and you can even be arrested for owning it there unlike the states where you’re protected by the first and fourth amendments. It’s really quite easy to see what a joke that is fam.

@Vincent294 Right, and you can be arrested for owning something like this in the UK. But it’d be covered by the first amendment here. Either way I’d rather in a country that doesn’t arrest me for thought crimes. Maybe actually help your citizens before white knighting for fictional characters fam.

@RPE83 Right, but the internet kinda nullifies that problem. If they didn’t release in in the states I could just import the Asian version with English subs or in the worst case scenario pirate it. I’m all for companies being free to buy/sell what they want, and who the do business with. But whenever they take a ‘moral’ stand I find it to be a bit of a joke. But my biggest problem is companies acting if they know what’s best for the customers. This is my biggest problem with Nintendo and them butchering their games. Though to be fair they’ve gotten their act together more so when the Switch dropped.

@legalstep Of course, it’d be unconstitutional to ban it here. And PQube confirmed it’d be dropping here, so you could import it if you want.

Well, good thing I don’t live in Europe. It seems y’all’s police would rather be arresting people for saying naughty things on the internet and banning harmless video games than breaking up actual grooming gangs where young girls are actually being subjected to what is tang amount to torture. Good job Europe, way to have your priorities in order.

Luckily, we’ve got the first amendment so It’ll be coming here. Luckily an import is still available for you guys.

@JoeBlogs I don’t whine about that kinda thing though? Sure, I have a problem with the puritanical stance the West takes towards sex. But that is a much larger problem problem that ‘feminists’ and video games.

I just think it’s funny people actually still say ‘right side of history,’ as it couldn’t be more obvious that just saying that means nothing and plenty of propaganda campaigns have posited the same thing.

@JoeBlogs ‘Right side of history,,’ lololol

I can’t believe people are still using that meme.

And yet ‘Life has f Black Tiger’ makes it on. What a joke, I thought this game was too hilarious.

I’m too down, I absolutely loved the first three Spyro games when I was a kid.

Jesus, waiting for Square games has gotten beyond old at this point.

Sounds like budget Persona.

Oh yay, can’t ever have enough multiplayer games!

Seriously, I’m a big fan of games like Battlefield, but I prefer my single player games. I’m getting really sick of all these western studios doing this. Thank god I can at least get my single player fix from Japanese games.

The manga is pretty good, but the anime is straight trash. So I’m a bit confused as to why it’s getting a game. Though hopefully it ends up good.

While I'm not a fan of loot boxes, and really don't think I've ever spent money on them outside of F2P iOS games, I'm also really not a fan of getting the government further involved in the gaming industry.

While Dark Souls and Bloodborne aren’t strictly single player games, I think that’s what a lot of single player games will look like in the future.

@AzlanWake13 To be fair a lot of Japanese companies push technology as well. I mean Square has consistently been a company pushing game technology to its limits. I think western companies in general have just forgotten that while there will always been a place for blockbuster games with huge budgets, they aren’t required for games to sell well. Some of my favorite games from this year( Etrian Odyssey V, Mary Skelter, Persona 5, and Project Diva Future Tone) likely don’t have the largest of budgets after all.

What?

I've been playing a ton of Mary Skelter lately and it has reminded me why I love my Vita so much. I'd very much love for Sony to drop a Vita 2 and I'd likely pick it up within the first 6 months of release.

Not to mention I've still got Persona 3&5 DAN coming and I'll be picking both those up day one. I've also got a pretty massive backlog of Vita games, so I don't see myself putting it away anytime soon.

If only they had them at the beginning. Lag was one of the biggest problems I had with it. It's a great game, and I'd love to see it recover like siege. Though the economy of the game and the upgrades was a total joke a kinda broke it.

@Nygiantz17 I simply have never a person who literally see someone as nothing but an object that belongs to them. To be frank, the attractiveness of people has been drilled into us by evolution, and it simply won't be going away anytime soon. Judging whether I want to get serious with a girl on how fit she is is totally normal. After all, there's more likely to be a problem down the road if she doesn't take care of herself. And I honestly feel that objectification is people looking for a problem that doesn't exist.

Of course I know about sex slavery and sexual assualt, but quite frankly I think you're being a bit disingenuous in your argument. Sex slavery is an awful practice, so is regular slaves. It's not as if we've crushed out the problem an men are just taking it easy buying women at the market. If a slave breaks their arm or gets sick they simply off him right there then buy another one. Both of these are terrible practices and we should crush it wherever we find it. I can see where your coming from with it, but trying to push the extremes onto everyone else isn't really gonna fly.

As far as sexual assault on college campuses, I honestly find it a bit funny you'd try to use this to bolster your position. Its pretty widely known that those numbers are massively inflated. Sexual assault isn't some huge problem we need to devote all our time to. Quite frankly I think the entitled attitude students have today is a much bigger problem, look at Evergreen for an example of this. Obviously we should convict people if sufficient evidence proves that they assaulted or raped someone. People arguing that the solution to this problem is to take the accusar at face value and go on a guilty until proven innocent are beyond entitled and wouldn't last a day in a country with laws like that. The fact is rape is a hard crime to prove, especially if the victim waits to talk to the police. That sucks, and my heart goes out to anyone who would have to experience something that awful. My grandmother was raped by 5 guys, so I know how devastating it can be for the victims and their loved ones. But inflating numbers and creating media circuses around accusations doesn't help anyone. In fact I'd argue it hurts victims more than it helps. After it came out that the Jackie chick from the rolling stone article came out as a liar it makes it more likely for people to deny or downplay a true victims feelings. Women in the developed world today are some of the safest people to have ever lived. Its also not hard to see why people in the media/faculty would be pretty cool with fudging the numbers. The media gets big numbers from people thinking some plague is taking over colleges today and it creates new jobs for faculty members.

And no, I don't think it extends much farther the rapists and molesters. Certainly people who kidnap and sell people on the black market are a larger target and far more deserving of a bullet to the face, but I don't see some huge systemic problem. It comes down to individuals. Someone has trauma as a child or is simply nuts and goes to try and make people hurt as much as them. A guy has a fetish for children and thus goes out trying to get is fix. And once again, someone kidnapping a selling people. You really can't do much about these things until they actually violate someone else's rights or breaks the law. Once that occurs I'm all for throwing the full weight of the law at them and putting them away for the rest of their lives. But these are things we're never going to get rid of these things unless we put eyes on out brains and ascend to a higher plane, ala Bloodborne. I'm down to attempt to crush these out of existance, but throwing money and attention to places where it does nothing doesn't help people. Women on college campuses are safer than those off campus. 1.2 times less likely to be raped/assualted than the general population as of a 2014 study by Bureau of Justice Statistics. Of course that's more about wealth and the kinds of people who have access to higher education than college itself, but I still think it proves my point.

Once again, I'm down with raising awareness about these kinds of issues, but putting money where it doesn't help and infringing on the artistic vision of game developers helps no one and embitters people to the people fighting for these things. I mean just look at things like GamerGate and the lasting impact of people pushing back against people who lie and try to take control away from game developers all because they have an opinion. Its a joke, and internet feminism has done absolutely nothing but make the rest of feminism look like a joke as well. These internet feminists are quick to whine about something like Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 but are absolutely silent, and in some cases defending, the brutal treatment of women in the middle east and more and more in Europe. I mean jesus, acid attacks have doubled in London alone over the past year and internet feminists are still screeching about how Islam is a feminist religion. Its a joke, and I hope you can see why people see it as a joke and how they've hurt true victims in the process.

I enjoy talking to you though man, I hope we're all good. Its just a fun little talk about the world and I just don't get to go off like this regularly. :3

Edit: Jesus Christ dude, I din't think it was that long -_-

@JoeBlogs You're right, I shouldn't have put that argument on you and acted like it was your opinion. That was wrong of me and I apologize.

I couldn't disagree more on the subject of objectification though. I'm not sure I know anyone who sees an attractive man/woman on tv and thinks of them as akin to a coffee table or blow up doll. That's part of the whole attraction, especially if they seem to have a personality that clicks with yours. I think the only kind of people who look at others like that are rapists/molesters/awful people. And they're going to do what they're going to do and we can't do anything about it until they infringe on someone else's rights unless we want to become an authoritarian society. Not to mention building out lives around a few nuts is letting them win and the normies get literally nothing out of it.

I've had all these arguments thrown at me by internet feminists and if anything they're destroying the credibility where feminism would help people, ala the middle east.

@JoeBlogs Objectification isn't a thing though. Once again, she's not real so trying to defend her feelings is beyond a joke. Finding someone attractive isn't thinking of someone as an object, and anyone who tries to make that argument is kidding themselves. I find the minority of people who whine about this to be quite funny though, so please, do continue. After all, I heard games like Andromeda have done great this year. Company's clutching their pearls about people's feelings really seems to be a sound business strategy.

@JAMes-BroWWWn I feel ya man. I was crushed to not see it at E3. To be honest I can really see Sony announcing it at PSX though. I mean, if they held TLoU2 for it then I can easily see them holding BB2 for it as well. Not to mention a game like BB is more suited for that audience as well, seeing as its mostly people who are fans of Sony's games. But if they don't show it there I'll lost all hope for it releasing any time soon and will likely collapse onto the floor in a pool of my own tears.

If they knew it was going to be delayed they should have used the E3 pre-show to show off Bloodborne 2.

@get2sammyb I agree. I just can't describe how crushed I was not to see Bloodborne 2 or anything from From. I was sure they'd have it, and that was literally the only thing I really cared about. I suppose here's hoping it'll get announced later in the week or at PSX.

I'm beyond disappointed no From Soft games were there.

Bloodborne 2 and I'm happy.

This is something I vastly prefer about Bethesda's conferences than the others. They announce games on months away from the drop for the most part and while I can get hyped seeing something like Death Stranding for the first time, I'd prefer it not to likely be half a decade off when it gets announced.

I didn't watch it, but just going off the announcements I'm pretty happy. I'm stoked for Evil Within 2, and I'll likely be playing Wolfenstein 2 as well.

I'll take Persona 5, Bloodborne, and Nioh over a Witcher 3 patch any day of the week.

This was really all that got announced? Jesus, now I understand why peeps thought it was dull.