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[FoxMcChief]

Fuck off. Anime is garbage. I liked it when I was a teenager.

 

[Bojji]

Druckmann must hate women the way he portrays a lot of them. It's like he wants his audience to realize how obnoxious they can be.

Hidden misogynist pretending to be the feminist?

 

[Signalis]

Yeah and I loved it. It's a shame about the budget the game was give, it could've done with a little more to fully voice it, since they use a lot of text and audio loops in certain scenarios. But I felt like they still managed to use the budget well, and it's charming for what it is. It's the type of game we just don't get anymore since the PS2 era. A weird Japanese sci-fi horror with a really cool tone and aesthetics inspired by 90s Hong Kong films. Brilliant music and a main character design ripped out of Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express. I would recommend this game to everyone!

Definitely a great game. And some of Akira Yamaoka's best music as well. It's extremely dark and gritty. If they had a larger budget I think it would have been something out of this world. But with what they had I think they did a fantastic job. It's very unique and I loving every second of it. Just have the true final boss to fight then I'm done. I suspect it will eventually become a cult classic and only appreciated years from now. Wonder what Bokeh has in store for us next.

As for Chungking Express. I have the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray and I feel ashamed that I never got around to watching it. But I think this coming weekend I will remedy that problem and watch it. Glad to see there are some people of GAF that appreciate Siltterhead for what it is and not hate on it for what it isn't

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Oh please god no. Summer Game Fest should've been named Summer Anime Fest - what a fucking weeb party

 

[rm082e]

Not to sound harsh but it does sound like no matter what Sony does they will not sell a lot of PS5s in that school :/.

That's not harsh. You're right.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Anime... Le bad! Enjoy your female characters looking like Bella Ramsey then, heteros.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I'm not sure about this.
To me, it's leaning too much on anime tropes that really ruined Japanese gaming starting from the 6th gen. Final Fantasy basically died with FFX for me. Those character designs, coupled with the characteristic anime dialogue, made it impossible to take the game seriously.
And tell me how much Kingdom Hearts fared when it kept doubling and tripling down on anime dialogue and narrative conventions after the first game, which was more of a cartoon story for a younger audience and actually did pretty well in that setting.

Over-the-top designs. Repetitive dialogue that goes on forever only to go nowhere. Big brothers and big sisters everywhere. 1000-years-old loli dragons. Stories overly reliant on foreshadowing and mystery, where it's clear that everyone knows something big except for our scrawny party. It's been done to death, and then some more. Do younger people now really like this? I mean, I had my manga phase as a teenager, but now I find it very hard to tolerate the tropes that make up for 90% of every shonen anime and game.

 

[SHAKEZ]

They are probably talking about the japanese market here. Good luck trying to win against Nintendo there I guess.

 

[MayauMiao]

They are probably talking about the japanese market here. Good luck trying to win against Nintendo there I guess.

Especially when Japanese gamers and dev are aware of Sony's infamous censorship.

 

[SamuraiEdge]

Very picky when it comes to modern year anime but I always loved the early 2000 era to a lot of greats, but I am happy to hear the younger generation are liking this and is becoming more popular over the years to help allow more Asian region games to become more successful/find a bigger audience. Most of my favorite games are from Japan.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

I've never heard or seen anyone lending out a console after the early 2000s, and I am living in Europe.

It was often a thing in my friend group. Late teens/early twenties money would often be spent on bars/pubs/alcohol every weekend. If someone had a ps3 they wouldn't bother with a 360 and borrow one for a weekend or whatever.

 

[GymWolf]

We're trying! but technology isn't quite there yet.

Such a casual

Spoiler

 

[Spukc]

Anime is for losers

Furries = Weebs

 

[mayham2199]

The deal with Kadokawa hasn't really shown much of anything.

Of course not. It happened at the end of last year. Did you expect them to pump out anime\games in that amount of time? This stuff takes time. Going over the IPs, see which one to develop a game for, finding a team for said game, etc. It's not like Sony just has studios on stand by waiting to make a game.

 

[mayham2199]

They're trying to figure out how to rope in the younger audience. This isn't for the older generations. I'm 45 - I don't care about this.

What's been interesting for me as a parent is talking to my son about his peers. He's 13 and will be in 7th grade next year. He has his own PS5, TV and gaming PC (hand-down parts from my previous build) in his room. I buy games on sale and pay for a PS+ sub for him. He goes to a public school with a few hundred kids in his grade. Out of everyone he talks to, only one kid has a PS4 and that kid has almost not games for it. None of his classmates have a PS5. One day last year he asked me "Dad, are we rich?" We're not, but he asked because his friends tell him he's a rich kid for having a current gen console and a PC. Most of his friends are resigned to playing Roblox on an old iPad.

By contrast, a lot of kids his age have watched anime on Netflix. It's one of the things they can talk about and bond over. We wound up watching several series his friends recommended to him. I can see the logic in taking a Sony IP and turning it into an anime in the hopes some kids will enjoy it and want to check out the games down the road.

This is a great post and goes back to something I say all the time. It's not that kids don't care about consoles it's that they can't convince their parents to buy them. I had a bunch of trouble when I was kid and was forced into PC gaming because my dad always had a PC in the house. Now it's the same with parents getting kids phones which is something they can justify and an Ipad is cheap as hell.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Of course not. It happened at the end of last year. Did you expect them to pump out anime\games in that amount of time? This stuff takes time. Going over the IPs, see which one to develop a game for, finding a team for said game, etc. It's not like Sony just has studios on stand by waiting to make a game.

The deal wasn't limited to gaming.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

They're trying to figure out how to rope in the younger audience. This isn't for the older generations. I'm 45 - I don't care about this.

What's been interesting for me as a parent is talking to my son about his peers. He's 13 and will be in 7th grade next year. He has his own PS5, TV and gaming PC (hand-down parts from my previous build) in his room. I buy games on sale and pay for a PS+ sub for him. He goes to a public school with a few hundred kids in his grade. Out of everyone he talks to, only one kid has a PS4 and that kid has almost not games for it. None of his classmates have a PS5. One day last year he asked me "Dad, are we rich?" We're not, but he asked because his friends tell him he's a rich kid for having a current gen console and a PC. Most of his friends are resigned to playing Roblox on an old iPad.

By contrast, a lot of kids his age have watched anime on Netflix. It's one of the things they can talk about and bond over. We wound up watching several series his friends recommended to him. I can see the logic in taking a Sony IP and turning it into an anime in the hopes some kids will enjoy it and want to check out the games down the road.

That speaks to a bigger problem. Consoles are now seen as not affordable to a lot of people and consoles can only do one thing: play videogames. Meanwhile you can be a student and have a shitty computer that runs games at the worst possible settings.

I had people making comments like "rich bitch" lol, etc (im literally 36) because i have a PS5. Meanwhile when i was a kid and had a PSOne or PS2 and even as a student having a console wasn't a sign you had a lot of money. For starters, their price decreased a lot...so a lot more people could afford one. It wasn't seen as a luxury item like nowadays.

The other thing? Most kids now play games that are more than a game. They are platforms by themselves, which we didn't get when we were younger: Fortnite, Roblox, etc...and that's it. That's enough for them.

If PS6 has a portable version and they nail the price (300€ at most), i can see a lot of them flying off shelves. Imagine a PS platform that plays PS6 games and has backwards compatibility with the previous consoles. I can't imagine it not being a win for Sony.

 

[mayham2199]

The deal wasn't limited to gaming.

Sure but everything the deal included takes years to produce not 6 months.

 

[JayK47]

Trend hopping works ok if you can make games quick enough to land while it is trending.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Sure but everything the deal included takes years to produce not 6 months.

Not necessarily.

I would have expected to hear about some publication shifts at this point.

 

[MrRibeye]

 

[MiguelItUp]

If it's not Fist of the Northstar, Berserk, or a few other throwbacks, I don't care, lol. It has been pretty exhausting seeing SO much anime. I'd love to see people get more creative with their art styles rather than just leaning on that standard template, lol. I mean, there are even other anime styles that could be touched on.

 

[Wildebeest]

Sony better not buy One Piece and shit it up like corporate buyouts, motivated only by greed, always do.

 

[near]

Fuck off. Anime is garbage. I liked it when I was a teenager.

 

[Felessan]

Not necessarily.
I would have expected to hear about some publication shifts at this point.

Why?
This aquisition doesn't change anything short-term, especially in non-gaming part, all prior commitment will be in place. I doubt we will see significant impact till next several years.

It's not like Sony/Aniplex is in dire needs for IP rights - they have no problem to obtain them from any big publishing house and/or authors.

 

[nial]

Based taste.

 

[bender]

Based taste.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Bazz-Chan is my favorite

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

All these edgelords in this thread shitting on Anime.

Anime has and continues to produce some of the best entertainment of all time. Is there fan servicey and cringy shit, sure! The world of anime is as varied and diverse as any art form. But at least the Anime medium gives latitude to its creators to explore their creative visions fully. Western media is fully captured by activist lunatic wankers from the extreme end of one specific ideological leaning.... and like overwhelmingly so outside of gaming.

I'll take sexy anime waifus any days of the fucking week, over the fucking ugly meathead masculine gripper women BS that Netflix puts in their shows/movies.

 

[mayham2199]

All these edgelords in this thread shitting on Anime.

Anime has and continues to produce some of the best entertainment of all time. Is there fan servicey and cringy shit, sure! The world of anime is as varied and diverse as any art form. But at least the Anime medium gives latitude to its creators to explore their creative visions fully. Western media is fully captured by activist lunatic wankers from the extreme end of one specific ideological leaning.... and like overwhelmingly so outside of gaming.

I'll take sexy anime waifus any days of the fucking week, over the fucking ugly meathead masculine gripper women BS that Netflix puts in their shows/movies.

Very true I love anime. When I was single though I did keep it hidden because the one time I let a female see it she automatically assumed I was into Hentai and I can't have people thinking that.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Very true I love anime. When I was single though I did keep it hidden because the one time I let a female see it she automatically assumed I was into Hentai and I can't have people thinking that.

I say let the bitch know you're into hentai. The fact that she knows about hentai is an indication she probably secretly enjoys it herself.

Sitting down to watch some good hentai with your significant other, before getting worked up enough to do the dirty yourselves is an experience every young man must have once.

And you never know, you might get lucky and find out she's secretly into cosplaying hentai characters while she does the dirty with you...Hnnnnnggg!!

 

[Hudo]

I interpret this to mean that Sony's first-party will make an "AAA" Cromartie High School game.

 

[Fbh]

Yes Sony, make a AAA RPG with this aesthetic!!!!!



It's 100% going to be lame Genshin Impact style stuff.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

If only they had a Japanese studio internally. But who could have foreseen such a need?

They have two: Polyphony and Team Asobi.

And actually, Polyphony made Omega Boost way back in the day for PS1. Awesome game, very anime-inspired.

They're talking about turning their franchises into anime, not about making anime games like WuWa or Genshin.

I wondered at first how an Astro Bot anime would even work, but then I remember the crossover potential with other SIE IP.

Preferably (hopefully) their legacy stuff. I don't think we need a 12-episode season of Astro Bot listening to an Aloy monologue while battling robot dinosaurs (I do like Aloy, tho).

Even if it the quote's about anime adaptations of games tho, I do think SIE need more "anime-like" or just Japanese-influenced 1P titles in general though. It'd help with having more AA titles in the pipeline for starters.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

They have two: Polyphony and Team Asobi.

And actually, Polyphony made Omega Boost way back in the day for PS1. Awesome game, very anime-inspired.

Yeah, but all Polyphony does now is GaaS Gran Turismo that's less fun than the franchise was like 20 years ago, and Asobi is making babby's first Mario clone. I recognize the creativity, but there's not much in the way of solid platforming fundamentals there.

Omega Boost was sick, though.

 

[mayham2199]

I say let the bitch know you're into hentai. The fact that she knows about hentai is an indication she probably secretly enjoys it herself.

Sitting down to watch some good hentai with your significant other, before getting worked up enough to do the dirty yourselves is an experience every young man must have once.

And you never know, you might get lucky and find out she's secretly into cosplaying hentai characters while she does the dirty with you...Hnnnnnggg!!

You know I didn't even think about it like that but your right. She was a stripper at one point and did do cosplay (Japanese school girls outfit) for me once during fathers day. She was awesome but I could tell she belonged to the streets.

 

[A.Romero]

Uncle From Another World RPG when?
Come on Sony/Kadokawa.

Can't be that one as the uncle is a Sega fan.

 

[nial]

Shut your mouth or I'll let Topher in.

 

[bender]

Shut your mouth or I'll let Topher in.

Wouldn't your mouth get lonely then?

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Yeah, but all Polyphony does now is GaaS Gran Turismo that's less fun than the franchise was like 20 years ago, and Asobi is making babby's first Mario clone. I recognize the creativity, but there's not much in the way of solid platforming fundamentals there.

Omega Boost was sick, though.

Well Astro Bot is probably the first Astro in that style most people aware of the IP have played, and I'm sure Team Asobi wanted a certain level of approachability. They can add challenge in the bonus stages tho, which have been consistently coming.

And GT7, it might be revolutionary like the original (that would be hard to do these days) or a massive jump like going from GT2 to GT3 (and I'd argue, from GT3 to GT4 in ways), but it's a return-to-form after GT Sport and GT5. I'd say GT6 helped in that but a lot of people don't seem to remember it as much because it got lost in the PS4 launch shuffle, and weirdly never got a PS4 remaster port.

But you're spot on with Omega Boost tho. Love that game, wish it got a sequel. It kinda got a spiritual successor in the Zone of the Enders games tho so there is that.