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11 hours ago, RSG3 said:

Fucking what Friday

 

I remember watching a clip of someone grilling him about dating and women and based how he took it you could tell he was either a virgin, that he liked the dick or some combo of both.

3 minutes ago, Minako said:

He's dragging around and beating a prone woman in the middle of a CCTV-infested hotel hallway. That isn't a fight, that's a bitch thinking he can push buttons well because he stays in training mode.

Agreed. And that kick he delivered, holy shit. That looks like something I saw some rioter do to someone else and he's doing that shit to his wife

57 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

They're all lazy slacktivists arguing on Twitter like that will ever accomplish anything. They argue on Twitter and act like they did something. 

I honestly didn't find that guy's article to be all that unreasonable considering it's an IGN article.

The one thing I didn't know was that the Katana Zero protagonist is Asian (I don't think we ever find that out for sure or not) considering that game is set somewhere in the Middle East.

1 minute ago, RSG3 said:

My mistake then. 

 

Lol what? 

That's basically the line "journalists" or other people use to try to act like you're the crazy one for noticing stuff like race swaps or other idpol stuff that gets jammed into places in hamfisted ways.

3 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

A lot of those people spending $500 plus just dipped out on Xbox completely and went PC. However that started happening before Gamepass as a consequence of MS dropping Xbox games Day and Date on PC. Those that didn't leave are just gaming at discount now thanks to Gamepass. If MS actually follows through with dropping CoD on Gamepass their financials will be blood bath of lost sales. Gamepass has missed its subscriber targets for 3 years running their hardwares are dropping like a rock. How long until Xbox just becomes a 3rd party publisher?

 

 

I makes sense why people would dip to PC from Xbox if they can play all the same games without having to buy a new console.  I really think Microsoft is trying to cut consoles out of the picture. Maybe they will end up being a 3rd party publisher sometime, but I think they're up to something.

4 hours ago, RSG3 said:

I didn't say none of them where agenda driven. I said you guys have been trained to see Agenda everywhere even places it isn't, like this Asassins Creed. Even had Mario saying "they should just make a Japanese person the main character" dude didn't look into it st all, just bought the "agenda" at face value. A Japanese person is one of the main characters, she's even in front of Yasuke in the poster. 

 

Some of you have been well trained. 

Except I never said that. Did you take your meds? You're on some dab00g shit here. And for someone who claims not to care, you sure make an awful lot of posts when this stuff comes up.

3 hours ago, Hecatom said:

You can bury your head in the sand if you want and be mad that others are "obssesed" as you say for adressing the problem, ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.

You have been saying this kind of stuff since like 2012  when that cunt Anita Sarkessian came along, and shit just has gotten worse 🤣

"It's not happening, but if it IS happening, here's why it's GOOD that it's happening"

2 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

A what now?

 

"You don't have enough intelligence"

 

 

 

Christ. All the things they could be working on or fixing and this is what they do. Congress needs to be nuked.

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

No, it actually doesn't. The $180 also includes online play. So that's 60 dollar they were getting anyway. For the cost of two full priced games and an annual XBL Gold subscription, MS is giving people day and date access to all of their big budgret releases. That's on top of forking over massive checks to third parties for their game titles. $120 + $60 for XBL is a what casual user would spend in a year. So, they are at best breaking even with their casual user while cutting themselves at knees for any user that that buys more two games year or 3 games a year for users that didn't have XBL Gold. No matter their success level, the one thing the Xbox brand got correct was software sales. Xbox consoles always, pre-Gamepass, had a high attach rate. 

 

TLDR; They traded all the additional money from XB users that bought more than 2 games a year for nothing. $180 = 2 games+XBL Gold. Actually games are $70 now, so it isn't even that.

I'd bet the majority of those people spending $500 aren't going to stop spending that, but now you've got a bunch of people who might buy a couple games a year from whatever company forking over $10/month to microsoft. I don't see how that's a negative for them. If anything it cuts them in a second time on a bunch of games they'd have already made their pittance on and it softens up the market for not having to buy a console to play these games.

58 minutes ago, axeman61 said:

People have not been "trained". These same racist losers have always existed, even before twitter. It's just that social media is emboldening them, linking them up with like-minded people, and giving them new words/excuses to use instead of just flat out saying they don't like black people.

 

We see these assholes hollering, but most people are saying "OK; a black samurai" and getting on with their day.

They have been. I know you haven't been asleep the last 8-10 years and seen all the shenanigans media companies have pulled with race swaps, inserting x group into a storyline or situation just for cool points, and outright demonization of white males because they can get away with it. You really think there's not going to be pushback against that kind of thing on a long enough timeline, especially when the marketing campaigns for a lot of this stuff has been along the lines of "this isn't made for you white men"?  I don't really even think they're necessarily putting this guy in the game for any other reason than because he could be an interesting character, but the pushback is all related what has come before it.

There are a lot of really successful games with black protagonists in them and if it were true that everyone is as racist as you think, then those games wouldn't have been anywhere near as popular as they are, especially since a majority of gamers in the US are white males. This "we could have nice things if it weren't for all these racists" is a cope.

17 hours ago, Hecatom said:

Wut?
Tom Cruise was lambasted by media and people due being another white dude inserted on an historical setting where it was unlikely to have a character like him, and that it was a clear attempt to try to win an oscar.
Everyone was counting for it to be a flop due the negative press that had before release that it was a surprise when it landed being the 6th high grossing film of the year.

The same happened to Keanu Reeves for 47 ronin, which is fun, cuz he is half japanese playing a half japanese/half human hybrid on the film.

 

My take is that the "issue" here is not that they are using Yasuke, in any other time no one would have batted an eye, just look at how popular Afro Samurai was, is that on this day and age, people are already very polarized to this kind of stuff.

Now any kind of race swap, gender swap or in this case, the usage of a non native race on a time period where they would very likely be 1 in a million or lower is meet with much more scrutiny and derision.

Is the type of backfire that forced inclusivity leads to.

Even earnest attempts to tell stories that happen to have representation are meant with cynicism. 

I think if we didn't live in a time or hyper politicization where media companies are pushing pseudo progressive BS at every turn, most people would be like, "Oh cool, a black samurai in the new AC game" and move it along. But people have been trained to see this stuff as indoctrination, virtue signaling, etc even when it's not, so that's how it's being perceived. The horrible backdrop the game is being made/released in is more to blame than anything.

On 5/15/2024 at 6:40 PM, Darc_Requiem said:

If that's the case, they need to shutter Gamepass altogether. Well honeslty, they need to do that anyway. Gamepass was a stupid idea from business standpoint that was never going to bring the revenue to cover the cost of game development. They trained their audience to not by games. The hard core gamer that was spending $500 plus dollars a year on games was only giving them a $180. For free to play or online focused games, Gamepass would be a win. They'd get their money back and probably then some on the microtransactions. For single player focused games like Hi-Fi Rush and Hellblade, you'd be cutting them off at the knees.

 

How somone looked the Gamepass business plan and signed off on it is beyond me. A "Netflix" for games ignores a huge factor. Netflix is the about the fourth revenue stream for licensed properties. (Theatrical, VOD, blu-ray/digital, then streaming). Gamepass isn't a bonus revenue stream, it's supplanting the primary one. That's just not feasible. WB tried it would HBO MAX and it was a ruiness decision financially that they are still trying to recover from. Moreover, the people that made those decisions aren't at WB anymore. A Gamepass like service may be able to work if it was for games that have been out for like 18 months or more. There is a reason Activision, at least when they had the authority to, told MS to kick rocks when it came to putting Call of Duty on Gamepass. How are these so called talented business men making these clearly dumb decisions?

It makes more sense to get $180 from a lot more people than $500 from just a few. There are millennials and Gen Z people who have never bought a physical game in their lives and are so used to streaming everything that I bet if Sony or Nintendo did something like GamePass, people would eat it up. Microsoft has become an also-ran in the game marketplace so people aren't exactly clamoring to play their stuff anyway.

5 hours ago, Jion_Wansu said:

 

Not this guy right?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_-l3CG41LE

No this was actually a local guy

6 hours ago, Hecatom said:

Reminds me of a comedian, Ibrahim Salem, one of the 1st jokes he made on the 1st standdup I saw from him is about  low are his prospects to get a USA Visa for being both Colombian and Muslim, lol.

We've been watching a lot of comedy lately , if he's English speaking I'll have to check him out!

On 5/15/2024 at 6:25 PM, Reiraku said:

Paging @cisco @weneedhim 

2 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

I saw a fobby Indian guy do a comedy set years ago and this was one of the jokes he opened with and it killed. "I just want to reassure everyone here that I am 7/11 brown NOT 9/11 brown!" 😂

13 hours ago, Chadouken said:

 "Can't Handle Your Love (Handles)"

3 hours ago, RSG3 said:

Well I think part of the disconnect is I don't think Souls-Like is a genre at all. They are action RPGs and we've played them for decades. Most of what people call "Souls-Likes" I wouldn't qualify at as one at all. Sekiro is included regularly and it's not one at all imo, just has regening Potions and "Bonfire" check points but it has nothing else but people include it anyway. I've seen Zelda called a Souls-Like, Hollow Knight gets called a Souls-Like. As Darc said people call Stellar Blade a Souls Like. None of these are remotely Souls-Likes or whatever. They just have a few good ideas Fromsoft made popular and as good ideas do, they spread. 

 

So I would say it is ill defined because most people don't even agree with your own break down of what a Souls-Like is. 

 

What mechanics is he tired of and what does he want them to replace those mechanics with? Is it really better to die and respawn to a 15 minute old auto save instead of a 5 minute away check point/way station? Is character build variety what he's tired of? Less weapons and spells? Make less open-ish world design that rewards exploration while making said exploration appropriately dangerous? 

 

Monster Hunter has a Stamina Guage and waystations you change your load out from, with really heavy and deliberate combat, is it Souls Influenced? 

I agree with a lot of what you're saying here although I think Souls-like HAS become a genre if only by the sheer brute of so many companies trying to copy that formula. But you're right that they are action RPGs (or maybe RPG action games would be a more apt description.)

11 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

Yea man that's literally why I asked "What does he mean by Souls-Like" in my very first response post. It's a combination of a ton of things and barely anyone agrees on what they are, so what does he mean when he says he wants devs to stop making Souls-Likes? 

 

Saying "Stop making genre of games" is really dumb on the face of it, its even dumber when it's an ill defined genre like this one where no really knows what it means, it's all based on personal feelings. 

 

And the Nioh point wasn't to say "this game looks like DMC" it was to say "this game looks more comparable to DMC then it does anything Fromsoft has made so how is it a Souls-Like based on the combat?"  If I where to say it actually looks like another game I would say it looks like Ninja Gaiden Black/2 which makes sense, same developer, same universe even. 

I know you've played Souls games so it's weird to me when you say things like "what does he mean by Souls like?" Action-rpg elements, weapon and stats boosted at camps/save points, upgrade currency that drops when you die and can be recovered, attack buttons mapped to shoulder buttons (🤮), stamina system, slower paced combat, hero character being relatively weak to start off with, combat that's more limited than 3d action games, etc. I didn't realize how many games use all of these elements or some combination of them until I got a PS5 and started playing more current games. It really is kind of crazy how many games come out that have aped some combination of these things. It really isn't ill defined at all, it's just that some people misuse the term.

A stamina gauge imo is a big tell that a game is Souls influenced.

Youtubers like these people are retarded and should all be placed on a watchlist.

1 hour ago, RSG3 said:

 

I strongly strongly disagree with you. Once you know what your doing you can make Dante amd Vergil movement look pretty slow (minis their teleports). 

 

Do you know it when you see it? Can something be known while being almost undefinable? Checkpoints for powering up isn't really a Souls thing, it's just a checkpoint system. Are you defining the Souls genre by checkpoints you can do shit at? 

 

"I can't define it but I know what it is when I see it" is the pathetic argument the courts used for Porn lmao. 

I agree

It isn't any one element, it's usually combinations of elements grouped together that Souls games made it popular to include in modern games. I agree that the term is probably applied to games that don't deserve it, but From has been a giant in terms of influence of design decisions for the last 10+ years so a lot of companies have co-opted design elements that are familiar if you've played those games.

I've only played the first Nioh game but even just watching that video you posted, it's a night and day difference between that and some of the combo mad videos from games like Bayo, Ninja Gaiden, DMC, and even Lords Of Shadow. Which isn't to say that Nioh combat is bad, it's just not the same thing as a 3d stylish character action game because it's influenced by From games' combat.

5 hours ago, RSG3 said:

So is Dragons Dogma a Souls-Like? The character in that have always felt very heavy and deliberate with few cancels and a need to follow through most animations. No one in that series turns on a dime. 

 

On the other hand Nioh Characters can move and dance around the field with very little commitment to anything and at times make DMC style characters look slow, but that game series has clearly taken a lot of inspuration from the Souls games...

 

My point was less "what does Souls mean to you" and more "Would you just say what you mean instead of using vague genre lables that barely mean anything to the people who use them." Like just say you want more fast paced action games, or you want more rigid mission structure or just anything but "I want less of an entire genre" thats actually super fucking broad and so you haven't actually told us anything. Maybe he just means he would like more games to have an easy mode. Really dunno because "Souls-Like" can mean so many things. People call Sekiro a Souls-Like and youre pretty agile in that. 

I've never played DD but even the Nioh character didn't feel quite as agile as Dante or Bayo do and they aren't games where the fight scenes are supposed to be like a martial arts movie like in a stylish action combat game.

Souls style has influenced a ton of games at this point and it's one of those "you know it when you see it" type of things. You see a game where you have to rest at an object to allocate stat points, upgrade weapons like you do in souls, etc, you know where that's coming from.

8 hours ago, RSG3 said:

The Soulslike comment is interesting cuz what does he mean by Soulslike? It's thrown around so casualy these days, does he mean check points? Does he mean action rpgs? Does he mean adventure games?  A limited but refilling health potion system? Stat allocation? 

 

What does he mean exactly? I've seen Zelda called a Souls-Like recently. Yea figure that one out lol. 

Imo the difference is the feel of a 3d action game like DMC vs even a more robust combat game that is clearly influenced by Souls games and that kind of combat. The characters just feel real fast and like you could do damn near anything on a dime whereas games that are souls influenced, the characters feel heavier.

Speak of, I finished up the last Gauntlet in Sekiro today and all that's left is Mortal Journey which is SEVENTEEN bosses all back to back. I think I have a pretty good handle on all the main bosses, but the Inner bosses I'm not so sure and I'm not sure I want to get 15 bosses in and get rekt.

I finished up the Stellar Blade demo and the combat seemed pretty cool, although nothing ground breaking from what I played. For the people who've been playing it, does it get pretty robust as you unlock more and more moves and abilities?

10 hours ago, RSG3 said:

Why is that weird? Isn't that like PS2, 3, 4, 5?

 

Am I misunderstanding? 

 

Sekiro in 60fps is so damn good. 

I always assumed the next switch would just be an upgrade to the current. I never expected they would put out a whole new system just yet.

And yes, I can't play Sekiro on my PS4 since I got so used to playing it in 60fps on the 5. It just feels strange to play it in 30.

2 hours ago, Chadouken said:

If I can get TotK to run at 60 fps then I'm all in.  I'll finally be able to play it!

Fair point. Sekiro running 60fps on PS5 was literally a game changer for me vs the 30 it ran on PS4.

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

It is an all new console. It just plays the old Switch games.

I see. It's confusing that people are calling it Switch 2 when it's not like a PS4 Pro to the Switch's PS4, but a whole  new thing.

44 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

As someone who worked in packing specifically for UPS and FedEx your statement is 200% bullshit, just so you know. Well packed stuff breaks all the time. Good packing only goes so far and good handling is the other half of the safe shipping. 

 

Also the amount of videos online of people being pissed off the delivery guy threw their package at their door and got caught on Ring Camera also disproves the statement that no one cared or has cared. People care and have card for a really long time. 

 

And again Fuck Dana White. Dudes a douchebag. Every douchebag like him has a video camera in their pocket these days and perception is everything. 

It depends on what's being shipped obviously, but most things get to their destination in one piece despite being subjected to a lot of aforementioned throwing, dropping, and jostling. And the way the guy was tossing those packages was pretty light, it wasn't like he was whipping them into the truck. What that guy was doing should t have gotten him fired. But you're right that perception is everything; for all we know, there could have been a pile of boxes in the truck too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯