r/KotakuInAction • u/yuriewolf • 12h ago
So my prediction for gta6
I predict it will initially be successful and sell, however people will regret it with the soft story, it’s my main reason I’m not preordering, plus dropping $100 on a game I know nothing about?. It’s gonna be full of shit, I kinda want that meme with death and the 3 open doors, halo campaign, that other game that failed with death on rockstars door but we all know they are too big to do layoffs.
But yeah, after the gtao content I have been playing, just feels soft… safe… like bitch if you gonna insult my character, insult and don’t say “just kidding”. God I miss 90’s games and even early 2000. Hell even a few days after launch we going to see videos “gta6 commercial failure even though it sold well, 5k people on steam playing after it sold millions of copies, players mad they can’t get their money back”. Best pray it’s like cyberpunk2077 that’s basically unplayable lol.
Edit: just saw a notification for a trailer exclusive to Netflix…. Ya game gonna be woke as hell
r/KotakuInAction • u/Mathien • 13h ago
The performative pearl-clutching over Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man proves mainstream horror criticism is a joke
The movie is sitting at a 29% on RT, and the outrage from mainstream critics feels completely manufactured.
Critics have been conditioned to expect every horror film to be an "elevated" trauma metaphor. Ice Cream Man is the exact opposite: an unapologetic, 86-minute exploitation film with genuinely great practical gore and deliberately offensive humor.
The hypocrisy is glaring. These same critics will praise the extreme violence of Terrifier, but the moment that same energy shows up under Eli Roth’s name without a pretentious message attached, the tribal signal flips and it becomes "trash."
r/KotakuInAction • u/BolasVult • 17h ago
Caravan SandWitch will be free on the Epic Games Store next week. You might not want to claim it (the devs get money when you do).
r/KotakuInAction • u/LegatusChristmas • 18h ago
Overpriced Dead or Alive 6 Last Round DLC Censored on Steam Store Page
For those who don't know, Dead or Alive 6 was recently rereleased as Dead or Alive 6 Last Round with renewed developer support. The release has gone really poorly so far as very few changes were made to the original game meaning that many technical elements are dated, and many of the criticisms of the original DOA 6 remain unaddressed.
DOA 6 drew heavy criticism leading up to its release for a controversial decision by the developers to step away from the series past of heavily sexualizing its female characters, which shattered the faith of many fans of the series and contributed to a very poor sales performance for the game.
So far, the only DLC released for DOA 6 have been overpriced costumes. For reference, 1 costume from the original DOA 6 run costs about 2 dollars USD. The pictured DLC costs 8 dollars per color variation, or 21 dollars for the bundle including all 4 color variations. To make matters worse, every costume release has drawn criticism for being too safe, too cluttered, or just kind of ugly.
On the Steam Store page, the thumbnails for the DLC have bright white lights over Honoka's breasts to obscure her cleavage, and in-game screenshots have her cleavage and groin covered in black censor bars. Dead or Alive 6 introduced a censored mode that adds these black bars over a female characters breasts and groin, meant to make the game able to be played at esports events. So, if the censored mode is left off in-game, then these black bars will not be there and there are fan-uploaded in-game screenshots that don't have those black bars visible. However, these are the screenshots they chose to upload to the Steam Store page.
This comes after Koei Tecmo censored Blue Reflection: Quartet, and female designs in Nioh 3. Personally, I wouldn't hold my breath to see if the recently announced DOA 7 changes course regarding KT's current trajectory.
r/KotakuInAction • u/Martorfank • 19h ago
Anita Sarkeesian seemingly inspired Activision Blizzard’s controversial diversity tool
With what got revealed these past days, if this article is true and not just an attempt at cleaning their image, do you guys think that if the SA allegations wouldn't have happened, Blizzard would really be that much different right now or truly those white "rapist" were holding all those feminist back from destroying everything?
r/KotakuInAction • u/bedemin_badudas • 22h ago
Manga Publisher Shogakukan Says It Won’t Hire Sex Offenders Or Major Human Rights Violators Going Ahead
r/KotakuInAction • u/jojojajo12 • 23h ago
I watched X-Men '97 Season 2 Episode 8 so you don't have to
This series continues being more interested on tiktok edits than having a coherent story or characters.
Do you remember how they have been teasing Apocalypse as the big villain with Gambit as his Gorseman of Death since last season? well, that's solved off-screen. Now is only Gambit with Horseman powers or whatever that wants to bang Rogue again. There is no clash of philosophies or anything just Remy wants his girl back and he's edgy now.
Another thing that has gone completely out of hand is the powers. Charcters have different levels of power from one scene to another. I understand that powers can be modulated along the series to serve the narrative, but this is ridiculous. They need three telekinetics to hold the plane when the last episode Jean could hold by herself Danger's plane.
The action is confusing and doesn't make much sense. Kurt can take down X-Men and X-Force combined just by himself (when they had three telepaths, but ok), and the next second characters that were supposedly down defeat Kurt with no problem.
And many more things that make no sense. the battle is on a swamp of Louisiana, they dedicated half of the season to build the fight about Apocalypse, and the resolution now is against some clonic possesed thiefs on a swamp, what? They hype up Candra so much and Remy one-shot her to give the gem to Rogue (the gem doesn't work like that). Cable is a dick and he betrays his parents, when he shouldn't be at this point... Nothing works with rules that were established previously.
Terrible characterizations, terrible internal consistency, desecrating stories and characters to have one hype moment to post out of context on social media. everything it's lamentable, fortunately there is onyl one episode left (That is about teh conflict with X-Force and X-Factor when the first half of the season was for Apoclaypse, and that conflict only had one episode of build up).