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Naughty Dog Announces Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

RagnarokIV

Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
EDIT: Thought you were the other guy. That's the problem though, I kept it about the game and this guy comes in here spewing racist misogynistic bullshit. Don't pretend like you don't know.

What was racist or misogynistic about it?

He said
Nothing smells like the 80s than bald female blasian, no?
blasian is a thing.

And to be fair, he's correct. With 80s and women you don't think of shaved head asian they/them

You think Linda Hamilton, Michelle Pfeiffer etc.
 
Druckmann is really one of the best writers in the industry. The level of writing in particularly the last of us series really catapulted the medium into the next level. I'm happy he's also leading the top developer in the industry! :)
He only wrote Part 2 by himself. 🙂 All of his worst ideas for 1 were denied (look them up, they're laughably bad) and it was co-written and controlled by the self evidently superior Bruce Stanley.
 
If Naughty Dog is to be believed, all black/minority women are unattractive. Some how, they keep giving us all these unattractive minority characters as if they're trying to also say something about the attractiveness of minorities in general and they're not the only devs that do this either. Completely off-putting and very suspect.
 
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Zacfoldor

Member
And, honestly, that's kinda fine - art is about personal expression and if you want to represent the experiences of a specific minority, all power to you, that's 1000% your right and I'll defend it to the grave. What I won't defend is getting fucked off at the majority and pretending they're all goosestepping neo-fascists because it didn't appeal to them.

"This isn't for you!"
"Sure fine, k, I'll pass then."
"Why is nobody buying this?"
"You said it wasn't for me."
"Hmmm... smells like a rare incel victory."
Yeah, it's really unfortunately for Sony, but they picked the protag and now they will have to eat the loss, again.

It's sad because we only get so many AAA games and to throw one away like this, from ND nonetheless, very disappointing.
 

Bernardougf

Member
I don't think its his 100% fault. ND is pretty much another woke studio from California. There's a ton of LGBT+ and trans people there like Emilia Schatz who are strongly putting their ideology into their games... Their mentality is "let's make a game we want to play" lol
I agree but he seems to be the type of guy who controls every aspect of his games.. he most surely has final say on all and probably a lot of ideas comes first from him
 

iorek21

Member
Probably going to be a masterful game in every technical aspect, but the character design feels dated like it belongs to 2016-2020.

Well, since dev cycles are so long, it’s not surprising that it is aiming for the edgy girl boss + “humorous” tone like Concord and Veilguard did.

Since this is probably releasing in 26, it will feel even more dated.

Hopefully gameplay will make up for it.
 

BbMajor7th

Member
Yeah, it's really unfortunately for Sony, but they picked the protag and now they will have to eat the loss, again.

It's sad because we only get so many AAA games and to throw one away like this, from ND nonetheless, very disappointing.
Maybe it'll be biblical and we'll all be eating crow a few years down the line - it's ND, they're very good at what they do - but first impressions do count and this trailer has set a tone for the discourse that's likely to stick around.
 

PeteBull

Member
Druckmann is really one of the best writers in the industry. The level of writing in particularly the last of us series really catapulted the medium into the next level. I'm happy he's also leading the top developer in the industry! :)
He wrote Abby to be strong and resilent like a cyborg in tlou part2, that is not good writing, u can argue huge amount of performance enhancing drugs gave her increased strenght and endurance but where are side-effects aka masculine voice, and why does abby's skull suddenly gets stronger from steel?
That is not good writing, thats pushing woke agenda of strong independed women, aka lies

See how she is taking a hit to her temple, with a steel? and is fine after? Brock Lesnar wouldnt be fine but tiny female with small fragile skull somehow is fine, coz she took some roids? Normally it would take slap with open hand to knock her out cold ;)
 
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That and also there is a lot of people that want Naughty Dog to fail. Nowadays internet Allows people to be complete assholes. And its better to contain that kind of feedback because it’s not wholesome feedback, they want to fuck them up with death threats and weird ass comments that go well beyond criticizing the character desing. There are mentally ill people that has meltdowns about this kind of shit.
As an ex athlete I can assure you people have been acting like this forever
 

Salz01

Member
Just think, after this game they have another girl boss duo that looked like they climbed out of a dumpster in the pipeline. TLOU3
 

Trilobit

Member
What was racist or misogynistic about it?

He said

blasian is a thing.

And to be fair, he's correct. With 80s and women you don't think of shaved head asian they/them

You think Linda Hamilton, Michelle Pfeiffer etc.

To me she looks like a typical Thai person, not mixed race. She reminds me a lot of a Thai guy I used to know except he wasn't obnoxious of course. Is blasian mixed race or a darker Asian?
 

Ristifer

Member
Why does the sword look like a fucking bar graph?

All kidding aside, I'm sure the game will be good. It is Naughty Dog, after all. So, I have no doubts about the quality of the game. But, yeah, that character is not really oozing any kind of memorability. I don't care about the look necessarily. It's more about the attitude. It's the same attitude we've seen a billion times over. Constant one-liners. Just annoying. I'd rather they were a mute.
 

PeteBull

Member
Yeah, it's really unfortunately for Sony, but they picked the protag and now they will have to eat the loss, again.

It's sad because we only get so many AAA games and to throw one away like this, from ND nonetheless, very disappointing.
Indeed, new IP, and in space, game could have been really amazing if made by the ps1/2/3 era of Naughty Dog, real shame, but what u gonna do...
They rather pander to wokeists who are known from being outraged and never buying games(we know so many examples from this year alone) than to ppl who bought their games over decades, back from the 90s to ps4 times.
 

kruis

Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
If the anime chick on the TV was the main character the discourse around this game would be completely different.

Yep. It's the main character who's a complete turn off for many people. Evilore had a couple of AI generated characters that looked far, fare better than what ND came up with. Western developers have a completely weird attitude towards attractive women, it's like they do everything they can do subvert the expectations of the buying audience.


This is not a character I want to spend any time with.
 

missiles

Member
The character design is terrible and depressing because it's so predictable and on the nose - it ticks all the boxes on the Naughty Dog character design bingo. It's exactly what you'd expect them to reveal in 2025.
 

midnightAI

Member
Indeed, new IP, and in space, game could have been really amazing if made by the ps1/2/3 era of Naughty Dog, real shame, but what u gonna do...
They rather pander to wokeists who are known from being outraged and never buying games(we know so many examples from this year alone) than to ppl who bought their games over decades, back from the 90s to ps4 times.

Oh, FFS, what is woke about this game this time? I swear, some of you, if its not exactly what you want then you just decree 'woke'
 

Lambogenie

Member
The main character here just doesn't look good for leading role, even with a bald head. What are they doing...

Even the motion capture, smooth as it is, is just some cocky stuff.

Why do they insist on lame looking characters. What is wrong with these studios, seriously.

If the game is good I will try and check it out. I think the hype realism + cocky attitude and animations put me off. If it were some anime or cartoon game then I think it's easier to accept, personally. But as it is, this character looks like an annoying activist that you see on the news that read one or two wiki pages and thinks she's owed the world for past transgressions or something.
 

PeteBull

Member
Just think, after this game they have another girl boss duo that looked like they climbed out of a dumpster in the pipeline. TLOU3
Maybe by then Druckmann is let go so ND can actually start producing good games, hopefully, surely sony not gonna want their flagship studio to produce flop after flop? With Hermen Hulst tho u never know tho, he is like sony's phil spencer, whatever he touches he makes it go to shit =/
 
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Astral Dog

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Putting aside not particularly likeable protag, there just wasn't anything interesting in this trailer. Nothing interesting happened in it, at all. Graphics is same as we have seen for years now. The only interesting thing was the music by Reznor (I assume). That is really not enough for a closer of a show like this.

Also, the name is bad. They should have just kept it Intergalactic, the subtitle is lame.
I thought the ending and the music was ok, the problem is that it had zero gameplay so we can only talk about the character designs
 

Clear

CliffyB's Cock Holster
Re-watch the trailer, in isolation its actually pretty good insofar as it gets across quite a bit of character information in a relatively concise and clear manner.
As I wrote before, the main issue is the weirdly indeterminate tone; and most significantly it being placed right at the end of a very long, very uninspired show the content of which really drew attention to how closely it conforms to a bunch of tropes that many people are wary -and weary- of.
 
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ZehDon

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Thank you for posting these gifs. Watching them loop has finally highlighted what it is that's been really bugging me about this trailer, but I couldn't put my hand on it. It's shot exactly like TLOU2, not like the 90s anime the studio thinks it's making. The camera pans, angles, cuts, and shot composition - it screams mo-cap volume work in 2024, and not the 90s anime it needs to be for its aesthetic to actually work. It's lighting and materials don't fit the styling, and the camera doesn't create the necessary images, to actually hit its reference points. It doesn't come off feeling "anime-inspired", it comes off feeling wholly surface level.

Anime is far closer to its manga inspirations than contemporary cinema, and that is clearly evident in the images it puts on screen:
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The image compositions alone are fucking god-tier compared to that film student 101 stuff I'm seeing in Intergalactic's shots. It's shots just don't have any fucking style to them, and it feels really bland if you're watched as much anime as I have.
 
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