I loved Ghost of Tsushima... why am I not excited for Ghost of Yotei??

corgiix3

corgiix3

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IDK if its just feeling burnt out on the setting, them not marketing the game well, having doubts it will be improved over part 1, and suffering from boredom of yet another she-quel. Sucker Punch deservers the hype and they never disappoint. Yet i feel meh about this game.. anyone else in the same boat?
 
Dunno about others but for me, unless it a sequel to a game I really loved, I'm not going to be as hyped with it as with the first game mainly because I already know how it'll play and what to expect. Plus, they haven't really shown a lot of this game, no? No actual gameplay sequences, unless I'm mistaken.
 
I kind of regret playing Assassin's Creed Shadows... That game was so boring and I think I'm done with realistic historical settings for now... maybe I try next year again with Yotei.
 
Besides the obvious, because repeating the same formula even from a previous good game might be tiring, unless it has lot of novelties. I enjoyed AC Origins but got bored with AC Odyssey, for example.
 
Like mentioned above, they havent really shown much yet, but I think they have a dedicated State of Play due either this month or next (it said at the end of the teaser during the last show)

I am kinda in the same boat as you, but even if it looked like an amazing sequel, I'm a PC gamer so I'd still have to wait about a year to play it. Same as GTA VI, I genuinely don't have any excitement built up for it, yet anyway.
 
Because there have been a dozen of these types of games in the last few years. Just like the 'Souls-like' genre is wearing a bit thin, so is the Eastern historical hack and slash adventure type genre.
 
Because marketing campaigns don't start until the game is almost out. I'm sure once they start promoting it more people will be more excited.

Ghost 1 was at multiple E shows, had countless trailers etc...this one had like... trailers? 2?

Marketing cycles now completely changed.
 
Because if it is like every sony sequel this gen, it is gonna be better in many aspects but fundamentally inferior to the previous game, hopefully they can break the curse.

Also i guess some people don't care about female samurai unless they are hot, and let's be honest, first game was a 7\10 at best.
 
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It looks like the main structure of the narrative is hunting down 5 or so warlords that you can take down in any order. The type of structure can lead to a feeling of the game just being 5 giant side quests and makes it harder for the story to build momentum since you're kind of starting over again after taking down each boss.

It can still absolutely work if the content is good enough, but it seems an uphill fight for me to want to invest 80 hours into it.
 
I have a feeling this will only sell about half of the first game. When will they learn? I thought the first game was ok. I grabbed it on sale at some point. I will not touch this game unless people here can convince me it is way better than the first game. I would then only get it on sale on Steam.
 
Yeah, I ain't bothered about the female character.
But not excited at all, don't even think I've paid attention to the trailers either.
I've seen them but they was like a YouTube ad to me.
 
Metnut said:
It looks like the main structure of the narrative is hunting down 5 or so warlords that you can take down in any order. The type of structure can lead to a feeling of the game just being 5 giant side quests and makes it harder for the story to build momentum since you're kind of starting over again after taking down each boss.
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THIS. Rinse and repeat. Let's see how they have made it, but I dont like the premise at all.
 
diffusionx said:
cool, still not playing the game

I'll play a game with a MC I can identify more with, Donkey Kong Bananza
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You identify with a gorilla who can't speak but you can't identify with a female protagonist because why exactly?

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Because its a copy pasta DLC feeling sequel like HFW, GOW Ragnorak, and Spiderman 2. They have not bothered updating the graphics or gameplay. Everything feels samey. You already spent 50 hours playing the first game, and needed something more to invest another 50 hours.

Back in the day, the games would be 8-10 hours long leaving you wanting more. The fatigue wouldnt set in until about the third game. Now the fatigue sets in half way through the first game.

Games that take 5 years to make should do a lot more to change up the formula. Had they gone to tokyo and made an infamous style urban open world game instead of yet another wilderness setting then maybe you wouldve been more excited.

Lastly, they removed the protagonist you spent 50 hours relating to, just for woke reasons because everyone must be a woman these days. Now you gotta start all over again like its a new IP.
 
GoT got super boring and repetitive by the end. So unless something is really different…. Also, I actually prefer female leads in most games, I just prefer different and interesting characters to self-insert or boring guys, but the vibes on this one are giving me the "yikes."
 
Because theres no such thing as a woman samurai. They never existed. It's just a gamer trap to push "the message."
 
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corgiix3 said:
IDK if its just feeling burnt out on the setting, them not marketing the game well, having doubts it will be improved over part 1, and suffering from boredom of yet another she-quel. Sucker Punch deservers the hype and they never disappoint. Yet i feel meh about this game.. anyone else in the same boat?
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Well the big three sequels of Sony this gen (sm2, Ragnarok, Fw) failed short of their original games.. so thats one good motivation to be underwhelmed... for me was the change of the protagonist, Im just tired of the girl boss trope, specially western made fugly ones.
 
The issue was, GoT got super boring and while an ok story there is considerable bloat through the mid section of the game. I still need to do the DLC but ive never heard people mention it, so its probably not worth the time.....

Yotei seems to have little hype, but it is months away and will surely ramp up.

As long as there isnt the ubisoft bloat and more / improved side content then I think it will be a fun romp.
 
I think it's likely because it involves a completely new character. Jin not being present at all likely dampens a lot of people's expectations. Maybe the new character is somehow linked to someone from the previous game, it's certainly possible. But as a result I think the first impressions are muddied.

I loved the first and will likely check this out at some point, but I'm in no rush. Unless the gameplay looks insanely awesome.
 
Branded said:
If this game released pre-2016 it wouldn't have featured a woman as the main protag.
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So any game with a female protagonist is woke then? Is the witcher 4 woke? What about any of the tomb raider games? Where's the line drawn exactly cause i don't understand how people look at this game and think it's woke.
 
Sebastian1295 said:
Female warriors existed back then folks. Don't understand why people think that this game is woke just because you play as a female.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onna-musha
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Yeah, aside from practically every established video game/movie/comic franchise getting updated for Modern Audiences and crammed with insufferable 0-charisma girlboss characters over the last 10 years, I can't see any reason why people might be wary of another Strong Woman PlayStation game.
 
Sony is becoming Ubisoft 2.0. Large open world games with never ending icons on your map. Just add a little different cost of paint, rinse and repeat. It's exhausting

Every single game would be 100x better as a narrative first, linear experience. Fight me
 
I am looking forward to it, as long as the politics is limited to the actress herself.

If it is more of the first game, then sign me up!
 
Sebastian1295 said:
So any game with a female protagonist is woke then? Is the witcher 4 woke? What about any of the tomb raider games? Where's the line drawn exactly cause i don't understand how people look at this game and think it's woke.
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I'm saying it's a sign of the times to portray women in media in a certain way. They are all girlbosses with little to no weaknesses and it's all so tiring...
 
DonkeyPunchJr said:
Yeah, aside from practically every established video game/movie/comic franchise getting updated for Modern Audiences and crammed with insufferable 0-charisma girlboss characters over the last 10 years, I can't see any reason why people might be wary of another Strong Woman PlayStation game.
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Is the witcher 4 woke now that geralt isn't the protagonist then? Is the tomb raider series woke because laura croft can manhandle men in the game? Nothing i've seem from ghost of yotei looks woke in the least and the protagonist looks like a normal samurai looking woman.
 
JohnnyFootball said:
I am looking forward to it, as long as the politics is limited to the actress herself.

If it is more of the first game, then sign me up!
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I think far too many people are assuming the game has the voice actress' politics in it somehow. That makes zero sense to me. She isn't writing it. She's just the voice. But yeah......if they do try to shoehorn bullshit modern day politics into this game then I'll grab my pitchfork, but there is no indication at all that this is the case. If folks just don't want to play as a woman character then yeah.....obviously this game is not for them.
 
I love Ghost of Tsushima so much that I platinumed it which is something really rare for me (I only have one other trophy), I am not playing Ghost of Yotai game looks pretentious as fuck
 
Hype and interest feels similar to GoT, no one really cared about it or gave it praises until they were actually playing it.

There's a burnout starting to happen with all these Japanese setting games if there hasn't been one for awhile already.
 
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