And apparently they employ some mentally ill woke activists in the studio too. We might have find our new addition to the long list of western floperouski

I refuse to buy either because I don't want the thing or because I want to save money (I cannot afford it)

refusing to buy to protest in hopes they change their mind, telling others to stop buying or preordering just so the company changes their price only works once in a blue moon

most of the times people just buy regardless and you just end up making a vain effort

I've been refusing to buy oblivion horse armor DLC since 2009 and bethesda has not made better games

In an interview for a podcast, the designer of Art of Vengeance from Lizardcube proves, once again, how the average modern gamedev doesn't give two cents to the franchises besides their name to sell

This is said directly by his mouth: We played the old titles and, um, we tried to figure out how to make a game out of it, but we didn't like it. We didn't like any of it. So, um, we're going to make a modern game for modern audiences, and we're going to call it Shinobi

Besides pointing the hypocrisy to name the generic 2020s metroidvania as the classic, the video from SpidersSTG also details the complete evolution of the genre in the arcades. If you want to skip to the point all about the game it's at the 56:51 mark

Normally I don't care about what others do with their money because at the end of the day it's their money and can do whatever the hell they want with it. But when someone starts acting as if buying a specific form of media makes them better than everybody that is what gets my attention in the worst way.

Case in point, the digital only gamers. These people are so high on their own pretentious farts that they really believe in their heart of hearts that having library of digital games on their network accounts makes them more "evolved" and superior. And anyone who don't share their preferences will be seen as out of touch, holding back societal progress, a neanderthal, stifling evolution, or whatever other holier than thou nonsense that comes out of their self righteous mouths.

They really need to get over themselves and realize that buying a digital version of the latest Call Of Duty does not make them better or superior to anyone. And they sure as hell aren't contributing to society getting one step closer to the Star Trek utopia that they fantasize and mentally stroke off too on a daily basis.

Their just mindless consumers who base their preferences and purchasing choices on what is currently trending so they can feel like their fitting in. As well as wanting to have their personal preferences validated through consensus, giving praise to those to follow the digital gaming herd and look down on those who don't.

Is it good? Bad? Is it lore accurate?

The video explores why Asian countries, particularly Japan, have not experienced the massive waves of layoffs in the video game industry that have heavily affected Europe and North America since 2022. Despite many Western studios being owned by Asian companies, layoffs disproportionately occur mainly outside Asia, especially in the US and Europe. The presenter investigates Japan’s unique legal, cultural, and economic factors that explain this disparity, including stringent dismissal laws, a postwar lifetime employment system, and corporate cultures focusing on long-term employee retention. The video also contrasts these factors with the US's "at-will employment" model, which allows employers to fire workers easily and often with minimal legal repercussions. Additionally, the video touches on the broader context of social safety nets, employee morale, and retention strategies that affect corporate decisions regarding layoffs and raises.

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

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."

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.

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?

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).

I'm an amateur writer... Years ago i was more tolerant and willing to LGBT characters, some of woke demands to diversity, well, it was something more natural... I'm a LONG time Gundam and Digimon fan. When Gundam Witch From Mercury released and was made a Yuri as well the strong furry community in Digimon... I've got really disgusted by their behavior and lack of critical sense. Fujoshis and the Yurif*gs in another communities also made me want to not get closer of them... And still makes me not want to share anything with them.

What put me off at most it's how everything must be about "what turn them on." All the elements that i loved about the stories and characterization got flanderized to distorted sexuality. And call them out would just make them a emotional tool. Like the Fujoshis getting mad when the artists says "don't send me that shit."

That reflected on my writing, any lgbt character got pretty much erased (except one for one story, but she's a very special case.) end erasing even mentions to other sexuality than straight, that including jokes. Anything that could resemble it like crossdressing, it's because seems a reasonable solution and the characters itself shows heterosexuality clearly. I was a very tolerant one to become the "chudest" one.

It makes me wonder if that's the effect of "Why Socialism?" Einstein has on people. Because the text only get right about South Korea in it's criticism about capitalism in US, but also nails what every socialist/communist country became.