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8 hours ago, Hecatom said:

The 2nd game clearly had downgrades

 

Why is it always that same picture? Have you played or watched even a YT short of the actual game to see her face looks way better in motion? Hell, even in that comparison pic, she's scrunching her face up at something in the second half.

3 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

 

My main is Kitana, but I might go back to my MK9 days where I was wrecking shop with 'Mac. It's early, but it looks like they did a WAY better job with him than I was anticipating.

What games have DEI affected that would have been SO AMAZING if it wasn't a factor though? Most trash games wouldn't have NOT been saved had they ducked diversity. Hell, there are plenty of games that are trash with no diversity.

I'm not well read on DEI in general, but this overall feels like yet another thing those annoying anti-woke fucks are beating into the ground for relevance.

All I know is that that Grummz guy (Mark Kern) is sad. Bear in mind, I don't know him, but... looking at his feed, it's next to nothing but screaming woke and DEI at shit all damn day while the game he's supposed to be making might never come out. If you're the only dev on that game, you need to stay your ass in the studio and stop crying about all this other shit on twitter.

18 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

 

I'm randomly curious: did the Stellar Blade devs do anything besides make a hot main character to get embroiled in this loser-ass culture war? I've seen next to nothing about this game but that stuff, until the gameplay demos in the past week.

5 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

I don't play guilty gear at all, but: how are even the joke designs cool? That team is on some blue celestial cocaine or something, because I haven't seen them miss yet with a design.

12 hours ago, Lantis said:

Hey guys how effective are the home pregnancy tests?

 

Because my wife just took 3 of them and all of them came back positive

 

So.....yay? Guess I get to be part of the dad's club now 😅

Congrats.

Just the other day I saw someone call her Gabrielle Coonion, and another person on the same note call her Gabrielle Confederacy. They were both jumping off someone else calling her an evil Gabrielle Union. Twitter can be amazing.

But back on topic, that Gothix chick is on that type of shit. So, I'd disregard anything she says.

I've seen that woman (Gothix) and she's one of those Coondice Owens types. Wouldn't believe anything she has to say.

EDIT: Maybe "wouldn't believe" isn't wholly right. I'd believe they fired her. But I'd also believe she deserved it.

2 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

You act as if the woman at the head of this isn't already on record saying that she doesn't hire whites and that we don't have labor and discrimination laws on the books that were put in place to protect people like her in the first place.

What, specifically, did the woman at the head of BGG say? People are talking like she said she doesn't hire white people, when that was another woman at another studio (the ones doing Rise of Hydra). The only ones I see saying the head of BGG explicitly doesn't hire white ever are anti-woke channels, going off a tweet where Black Girl Gamers told black women content D&D creators to hit them up for some brand thing. I'm just seeing this stuff though, so it's possible I missed something.

That whole BGG thing would be puzzling to me if it wasn't plain what these people are up to. They want it to not exist, for... reasons.

Otherwise, why do you even give a fuck how many white people an organization named BLACK GIRL GAMERS are hiring?

It's so annoying to constantly see these fucking chuds of all types talk that "bootstrap" and "get your own X" shit, but the minute someone does that, they're crying about not being included somehow.

18 hours ago, misterBee said:

Sigh.

 

Banhammer coming down again.

 

🤦

It would be hilarious if the Zat "alts" that pop up here and there weren't Zat at all, but just Zat-level stupid. Zat doppelgangers paying for his sins. But the likely truth that it really is him is much more sad.

Yeah they did a hell of a lot better in the sequel. I didn't care much about it in the first, because the story was still good enough to pull me in, but it was noticeable.

14 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

In an industry where publishers are complaining about ballooning development costs. Anything that brings additional cost matters. B-List actors cost far more money to use than no name models. So to fork over that extra cash only to spend more money to make that likeness look nothing like the person. Is the epitome of stupidity. The entire point of face scanning a "famous" person over a run of the mill model is garner more attention to your game and gain more sales. The bet is the additional cost will be more than covered by the boost in sales. Now if the person looks fuck all like their actual likeness. How does that make a lick of sense? It doesn't. It defeats the purpose of stunt casting in the first place.

 

1.) How many instances are there of B-List actors being used for appearance and it not looking like them? Besides Kratos/Chris Judge (kinda)? All the instances of whine we've seen over this matter in recent months were over models you wouldn't know by name. Does anyone know Mary Jane's from Spider-Man 2's model's name off the top? How about Tanya from MK1? How about this latest game, Unknown9? On the other hand, I can clearly see that Nitara from MK1 is Megan Fox, the Death Stranding guy is Donal Logue, Sylens is Lance Reddick, and so on. People are yet again crying over shit that affects nothing.

2.) Publishers like to say the costs of game development are going up and up, and maybe that's true. But they're mostly saying that to justify microtransactions. This is a tangent, but yet another thing in the million I hate about micros. Publishers like to hold up development costs and the devs themselves as a shield, but the money from microtransactions doesn't really go back to the team or back to production. I doubt the devs get any kind of bonus when COD does a billion in sales and microtransactions, no matter how much it costs to make.

He must be in some real trouble, because they don't come after you like this for nothing. They raid two of his homes at the same time? That's crazy.

All I know is Twitter is killing me with all the memes and shit.

They're both good/fun, but they have the worst luck with releases. It's still crazy to think that the first one dropped against Zelda Wind Waker and then the second one dropped against Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok. Much as I like the second one, it didn't have a chance when it comes to awards/accolades.

Also, the hand-to-hand combat sucked from what I remember.

51 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Queue the, braindead, "Why does it matter" argument. Like if it didn't they went have went out of their way to change it. They pulled a reverse Netflix Witcher on her. 

Still: why does it matter? Even if they changed her face for some dumb reason (and not a more valid/likely one like consistent facial animation and rendering), does that mean a single thing to gameplay? You think if the game is shit, a better face is changing anything?

This isn't someone's race/weight changing drastically between games, to where it would warrant a question. They scanned a face and most likely did shit to it so they could do other shit easier without having to drag the model out for everything.

Yeah, no publisher is going to get rid of something making them that much money. They'll poison the well with micros as much as they can get away with before people start walking away (not happening anytime soon).

WB doesn't deserve every drop of blame for MK1's missteps; I'm sure some of those (like Invasions being a slog) are on the dev team. But we'll never know how much of this stuff is because of publisher mandate or not.

You know it won't. Even if it does, corporations are going to do whatever to "offset" that, to the point you'll wonder why anyone even tried.

10 hours ago, Hecatom said:

Bro, you just manifested the idiots of IGN doing this article with this post

 

 

 

And of course the fucking cowards blocked anyone from replying them on this tweet.

A retarded take the whole article, I tell you.

 

Honestly, I would argue it can't be remade because it's "eh". Wesker is the only real highlight to me. RE5 is really just a pale imitator of RE4. That feels weird to say, because how do you NOT try to imitate RE4 with its success? But 5 didn't do enough for me to make it stand out from what I remember. Maybe I need to re-play it.

If they do an RE5 Remake, maybe they'll prove me wrong. I thought they couldn't do an RE4 remake, but for a different reason (RE4 is a classic). That became one of my favorite games last year.

🤣 Jesus Christ, I'm just now catching up to Andrew Tate getting arrested because he told a streamer he was going to leave Romania forever, where he was getting prosecuted. That streamer (Adin Ross) told everyone on his stream. Both these people are so fucking stupid.

For real; if it wasn't going to go to Angela Bassett, then Stephanie was the easy second choice. Compared to her, Jamie Lee shouldn't have even been in the running.

9 minutes ago, Lantis said:

The first Spiderverse already won an Oscar. Can't have Spidey hogging all the awards LOL

IF (and I mean IF) it's better, then that shouldn't matter. ATSV was near perfect.

But at least this isn't as big a "WTF" upset as Jamie Lee Curtis winning best supporting actress last year for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

It's crazy Spider-Verse lost. I haven't seen The Boy and the Heron though, so I could be talking out of my ass.

10 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

I saw this tweet and thought it was parody...it wasn't.

I should have known better but I gave the sliver of the benefit of the doubt.  So of course I looked it up.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-x-is-considering-removing-likes-reposts-content-2024-03-06/

I go a little crazy every time this dude does something big in the news or X. I legit don't get what the long game is. Like, what are you doing telling advertisers to go fuck themselves? What are you doing removing likes and RTs on the feed? That's the 2nd-most reason people click on something.

This reeks of "we fired most of our tech team and now have to shave computing wherever we can"