Ghost of Yotei thread

[mercerxiv]

Well, you all probably know what it is.
Openly antifa lead actress.
SuckerPunch, a known leftist cesspit.
Pro-gun control side quest, pushing that kind of messaging.
All the bad guys in the game are guys, the only female character among the bad guys actually turns out to be good and takes protagonist's side, and they all end up living on a happy farm together with the main character and her niece or something, I suppose with a strict "no men allowed" policy. I don't know how hard it's implied "as a happy ****** family", but c'mon, it's definitely coded like that.

How again did Ghost of Tsushima even happen? I guess it did have an ugly **** as a sidekick though....

[Oyster Sauce]

How again did Ghost of Tsushima even happen?

It was exactly as gay and ******** as GoY is how

[rusty_shackleford]

Tsushima just did a better job at hiding the pozz

[Vaako]

The woke **** aside, these games have way to few enemy variety and **** tier loot system, an ugly modern UI and the usual Ubisoft "exploration" .

[methoxetamine]

I loved Ghost of Tsushima, even if it had some pozz in it it wasn't nearly as bad as this piece of ****. I almost never play open world games and never play Ubishit so the complaints about it being just Ubislop checklist simulator was irrelevant to me. I also don't have completionist autism so I didn't feel overwhelmed with collecting ****, I just did the side quests and story and collected what I happened to run past. That said, I won't even pirate Yotei when it comes to pc and hope Sucker Punch burns to to the ground.

[rusty_shackleford]

even if it had some pozz

frog boiling

[Breathe]

It's the exact same game, but worse. There can't be any good devs left at SP.

Doesn't matter how many times it happens, it's still satisfying watching all these companies commit seppuku.

[MrTwinkls]

GoT is a boring Ubisoft game. Dropped it after a few hours. This one is probably the same with minor changes. I will never understand the appeal of console gaming and its games.

[logincrash]

How again did Ghost of Tsushima even happen?

It was exactly as gay and ******** as GoY is how

Wow, "GoY" is just perfect.

[gerey]

It's the exact same game, but worse. There can't be any good devs left at SP.

It's basically a standalone expansion, only that it took the ******* at Sucker Punch about the same time to make it as the original game, and they're asking you to pay premium for it.

I remember a time when devs could churn out expansions in less than a year, they had the equal amount of content, or more, as the original, and cost half the price.

[RangerBoo]

Wow... Who knew that having a divisive, unhinged, violent, man hating, LGBTQ+, Anitfa supporter as your lead actress would hurt sales numbers. Getting flashbacks to the live action Snow White remake. Hopefully this will end Erika Ishii's career. I would take Debra Wilson 100 times over then play a game that features Ishii.

[GhostShiroyama]

I swear I'm never playing any ******* woke ****, no matter how amazing the game is. Ubisoft at least has the courtesy to not shove the woke **** down our throats by giving us a gender option. If the series started with a female protagonist i.e. Zero Horizon Dawn then that's fine, but stick to your ******* roots.

[logincrash]

Ubisoft at least has the courtesy to not shove the woke **** down our throats by giving us a gender option.

lol
lmao even

[gerey]

I swear I'm never playing any ******* woke ****, no matter how amazing the game is. Ubisoft at least has the courtesy to not shove the woke **** down our throats by giving us a gender option. If the series started with a female protagonist i.e. Zero Horizon Dawn then that's fine, but stick to your ******* roots.

The issue isn't that the protagonist is female, since there's plenty of such characters in Japanese media (the titular Lady Snowblood as a particularly popular example), but that, for one, everyone could see they designed the character to spite audiences, and two, that the game wasn't a direct sequel to the first game, despite the ending explicitly making it clear a sequel was in the works.

If the character wasn't voiced and modeled after a leftist freak, and the writing wasn't "**** revenge story, but revenge bad", and did something interesting with the premise (and gameplay), it would have been received much more warmly.

Instead of trying to give the female character a separate style and identity, she's just Jin with a vagina, none of the charm, and without any of the moral quandaries he faces, having to pick between the honor his station demands, and the practical brutality necessary to win against the Mongols.

[Reichspepe]

I would take Debra Wilson 100 times over

[Roguey]

Tsushima was just as gay and feminist, the only difference between the two is that in this one you play as an ugly woman whereas in the previous one the ugly women were your companions.

[rusty_shackleford]

Tsushima was just as gay and feminist, the only difference between the two is that in this one you play as an ugly woman whereas in the previous one the ugly women were your companions.

tsushima wasn't as in your face about it in the marketing

[Nico]

I swear I'm never playing any ******* woke ****, no matter how amazing the game is. Ubisoft at least has the courtesy to not shove the woke **** down our throats by giving us a gender option. If the series started with a female protagonist i.e. Zero Horizon Dawn then that's fine, but stick to your ******* roots.

You can choose male or female protagonist in Far Cry 6. It's still turbo woke as ****.

[Stack of Turtles]

Wow... Who knew that having a divisive, unhinged, violent, man hating, LGBTQ+, Anitfa supporter as your lead actress would hurt sales numbers. Getting flashbacks to the live action Snow White remake. Hopefully this will end Erika Ishii's career. I would take Debra Wilson 100 times over then play a game that features Ishii.

Blink twice if The Mask is holding you hostage.

[Oyster Sauce]

I swear I'm never playing any ******* woke ****, no matter how amazing the game is. Ubisoft at least has the courtesy to not shove the woke **** down our throats by giving us a gender option. If the series started with a female protagonist i.e. Zero Horizon Dawn then that's fine, but stick to your ******* roots.

The issue isn't that the protagonist is female

It is

[rusty_shackleford]

I swear I'm never playing any ******* woke ****, no matter how amazing the game is. Ubisoft at least has the courtesy to not shove the woke **** down our throats by giving us a gender option. If the series started with a female protagonist i.e. Zero Horizon Dawn then that's fine, but stick to your ******* roots.

The issue isn't that the protagonist is female

It is

a large segment of them would have slopped this game up if the protagonist looked like the one from stellar blade with zero other changes

[gerey]

It is

Maybe?

It really depends how the character is written, and what setting she inhabits.

The Japanese are certainly no strangers to (fictional) female warriors in historical settings.

a large segment of them would have slopped this game up if the protagonist looked like the one from stellar blade with zero other changes

Well, that's marketing 101.

Sucker Punch knows this, and yet they deliberately went with the goblina.

[Oyster Sauce]

It is

Maybe?

It really depends how the character is written, and what setting she inhabits.

The setting is real life

[gerey]

The setting is real life

All joking aside, I believe the important element here is the intent of the creator(s).

Was the character they created made in good faith, to tell a story they genuinely wanted to tell, and to give the audience a good time?

Naturally, the answer to all these questions is a resounding no. This is just another Sony sucker punch (heh), they get audiences engaged with a game that isn't so bad, only to then **** on them with the sequel.

[Oyster Sauce]

This is just another Sony sucker punch (heh), they get audiences engaged with a game that isn't so bad

Did you play it?

[gerey]

Did you play it?

Ghost of Tsushima?

Yes, I did. It was fun enough for open-world slop, and had some nice storytelling beats (the old female servant that mistakes the protagonist for his father near death was touching), and the art direction was great. There's a good reason the island of Tsushima acknowledged the game.

The story itself, while derivative, did the source material justice, barring the occasional girlboss and the **** ****.

But as Kalarion is wont to say, being a chud in the current year +n is an exercise in figuring out just how much woke you're willing to tolerate.

[rusty_shackleford]

barring the occasional girlboss and the **** ****.

it's 80% girlboss
there's an entire samurai clan of girlbosses
they're basically the only samurais left

[ThulsaDoomer]

It is

The problem is we let women write women and generally take over a mans job. Women, when written by competent men, made for rather compelling stories with little in the way of feminist rhetoric. That changed dramatically when game developers embraced DEI and ********, same with film.

I have no problems with female characters as a concept, the dilemma is they fundamentally have to react and develop very differently despite facing similar problems, which is how humans behave. No matter how fantastical a setting is, I want people to act like people, and so far current game writers have failed to capture what women are, because they are almost always written as stand in men. Now, this doesn't mean I want every **** protagonist to be a woman as I know some people will assume I am advocating for it. Even when they are side characters now it's unbearable. I suppose if the solution needs to be to purge all women from games because we simply cannot find intelligent men to write these things, then so be it, but it is tragic to know we are capable of more than this trash.

[rusty_shackleford]

Foid characters are bad for the same reason being a simp is bad.
It directly opens the door of the hobby to foids.
"no it doesn't"
All it takes is a mid foid cosplaying to get most people to accept whatever she says, you weren't there

[gerey]

Foid characters are bad for the same reason being a simp is bad.

So, you want stories without any female characters, at all?

Unless you're only talking about protagonists?

It directly opens the door of the hobby to foids.

This applies to every kind of parasite, and will continue to be a problem so long as people keep pretending tolerance is a virtue and don't gatekeep.

But good luck gatekeeping women out when a lot of the audience is made of thirsty simps desperate for any shred of female attention.

The only real hope is to make playing games be an ick to girls again.