Hawkingbird

I am really tempted to buy this figure
 
 

There is a video floating around showing how fast FFVIIR 2's fast travel is and it gives a glimpse at how big the map is.  Apparently there are a few people upset that the game is open world and I just can't at the moment.
 

It's easy enough to say "don't buy them" but these companies are using psychological techniques to sell them. It's actually manipulative in a way that saying "don't buy them" almost misses the point.

I both agree and disagree. Yes, it is on the fans to stop buying. But we can't discount just how much devs (on behalf of publishers) fuck with the game in order to push people toward the micros. Or they fuck with the game to help everybody who might buy them vs the rest. Most pubs can't do lootboxes anymore, but they can taint matchmaking every way to put you up against people with the new shit, make things a grind unless you buy micros, or similar devious tactics.
 
You see no better example of this than in Call of Duty nowadays. The biggest thing people complain about is Skill Based Matchmaking being cranked into overdrive. But the primary reason they cranked it is to protect the new players so that said new players might buy micros. When the community has really had enough, they'll just switch to some other tactic.
 
So, yes. People should stop buying micros. But these pubs are trying everything possible to push people toward them, so even that simple solution isn't that simple.

Eddy getting the Killmonger upsets me. His regular cut was perfectly fine. 

Eddy getting the Killmonger upsets me. His regular cut was perfectly fine. 

Guess Harada isn't racist anymore.  If I was Harada I'd have been super petty and made him the last character to ever get put in as DLC...AND I'd make him ass.

Sounds boring too. Might as well watch a streamer play your game.

Sounds like cheating lol 

AI game controllers are on the way
 
This AI controller knows your next move before you make it (pcgamesn.com)

AI game controllers are on the way
 
This AI controller knows your next move before you make it (pcgamesn.com)

So redub it. Original tracks where hardly gold. Can even take the time to give us the uncensored version. 

They knew what they were doing with Cindy’s design and I’m here for it. 

Chapter 1 of FFXV ends on a fucking bummer. My boy bands home being bombed by the rival army that Noctis’s dad was organizing a ceasefire with. Noctis’s dad being assassinated. Noctis thinking his waifu to be is dead. 
 
thank god my ride immediately started blasting the Chocobo theme. 😂

I think my point has completely sailed over your head. If you are going to make her homely. Scan a homely woman. An attractive face model is going to cost more than a homely one. On top of that you are spending extra development time and money to make the attractive model homely. The car thing....well that's just weird. I mentioned why Forza's developer would just model the car they needed. People doing things to their personal vehicles is something else altogether. We actually have a thread for that 😅

She's comic book character that's been around for decades. Of course she has. Peter has been many things. Not sure what that has to do with them face scanning a pretty woman and then making her look homely. You don't see Turn 10 digital scanning a Nissan GT-R then modifying it to look like a Sentra. They just model the Sentra.

Would. 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/909881350488021
 
 

 
 

Was curious about that Stellar Blade model and yeah they did a full body scan.

I agree with everything you said here. First thing, don't harass people. WTF is wrong with you. At the end of the day it's a video game. There are more high quality games released than you have the time to play, buy something else. I think I have a back log taller than T.Hawk at this point. You can express your displeasure without harassing voice actors/face models etc. Don't support the developer if you are unhappy. All they care about is your money anyway.
 
As for the first part of your post, for the life of me I don't get the rationale of taking a traditionally attractive characters, hiring an attractive woman to be her face model, and then intentionally making her homely. It makes no sense. You want to be progressive. Hire an average woman, scan her face, and put it in the game. Let her make some money because, lets be honest here, she's not going to have the same opportunities as beautiful model.
 
The divergence between Eastern and Western Studios is crazy. I mean Western Studios will find a 10 out of 10 women. Make her look like a 5 and get a surprised Pikachu face when people call them out on it. Eastern studios will higher attractive people and scan them into their game so they can have an attractive character. This goes for smaller devs like Shift Up (Stellar Blade) to well known developers like Kojima Productions.
 
Side note: I find out it humorous when they were calling out Stellar Blade for having an unrealistic character model. Finding out she's a based on a model and instead of taking the L. They tried to act like she looked like a 12 year old. The woman is 32.