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Naughty Dog Announces Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

Kacho

Gold Member
The time has passed that we can ignore this shit. All we have to do is spread the simple truth across the Internet and we will win every single time.

For those mad at us for not liking the game, you can spread your truth too, that was always allowed.
Nailed it. People are trying to shut down discussion for two reasons:

1. It’s politically inconvenient to them
2. They don’t want to see their favorite games suffer

Time to accept that the pushback against wokeness in games has reached critical mass. There’s no escaping it no matter where you go.
 

Aenima

Member
Yea, I like most if not all of the games listed. Hell, you probably won't anyone else in this site that loves horizon zero dawn as much as me. My "issue" isnt necessarily the games are bad, but it's a trend for better or for worse. When things feel forced or needing to be in the game, it's doesn't feel as authentic or creative. I would have the same complaint if every single game had a dude bro male protagonist.
The problem is western devs seem to strugle finding a balance. Most games used to be just the generic dude bro, then it started a push to make more female characters, then another push came from tourists femenists to not make the female characters cater to the male gaze, and now instead of having a balanced mix between male, female sexy, and normal female, masculine female, etc, all we getting is masculine female characters, that play like a male character but the devs are forced to make it a female instead cuz the only way they know how to proitrait a strong women is by making her look like a strong dude.

Most devs from Asia still seem to know how to balance things, and we be getting alot of games with cool looking dudes and good looking female characters.

The modern audience can keep woking, cuz i will keep sending my money to the east.
 

Mister Wolf

Member
Just so I can keep track:

2014: We're ok with some misogyny
2024: We're ok with some misogyny, sexism, racism, AND *checks notes* pedophilia

A lot can happen in 10 years :messenger_grimmacing_

Sexism is reality. We are not the same. Which is why all the Ukranian men had to stay. Chivalry is sexism. A man being expected to pay for first dates is sexism. The concept of "ladies first" is sexist. Sexism is only complained about when not beneficial. Only stupid men do not realize this.
 
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nial

Gold Member
All Sony games this Gen have only "female" protagonists.
Hyperbolic much? Death Stranding 2, God of War Ragnarok, Lost Soul Aside, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, The Last of Us Part I, Horizon VR, Wolverine, Spider-Man 2 and Miles Morales versus Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Yotei, Intergalactic, Returnal, Stellar Blade and I guess R&C as well.
 
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Ridicululzz

Member
YOU’RE the hypothetical dad. I made that abundantly clear. Don’t act like you would be chill in that scenario.
It's legal and they're both consenting adults in the situation. I'm really not seeing the issue here. So some dads would get mad at the choice their adult daughter made? That's what's making you angry? What if the mom is okay with it, would that make it better for you? lmao
 
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OccamsLightsaber

Regularly boosts GAF member count to cry about 'right wing gaf' - Voter #3923781
You don't even know what pedophilia is based on your post.

You probably also call people Nazis when they disagree with you.



Or lower (15).

I'm sorry, do you pedophiles like to call it these days? I'm not up to date on your woke verbiage. Is it "looks like a minor but isn't minor attracted"?
 

proandrad

Member
I don't understand the people who go Naughty Dog! Auto buy! I won't even auto-buy From Soft games, and I love their games. No company is immune to putting out a shit game.
There is a reason you never discuss religion and politics at a family gathering.
 

Topher

Identifies as young
The time has passed that we can ignore this shit. All we have to do is spread the simple truth across the Internet and we will win every single time.

For those mad at us for not liking the game, you can spread your truth too, that was always allowed.

Truth? What truth? And don't you mean not liking this trailer rather than the game that we haven't seen, much less played?
 

Doom85

Member
They have no problem conscripting and recruiting 18 year old men for war, trialing an 18 year old as adult, letting an 18 year old vote on the fate of the country but apparently an 18 year is supposed to be a child when it comes to choosing a sex partner. Selective empowerment wanting to be allowed to throw away all agency and play the victim when beneficial.

READ PETE’S POST, FOR FUCKS SAKE! He said “just came of age”. Like one was counting down the days or some shit. It sounded fucking creepy.

Geezus, reading comprehension issues up in this fucking place.

Season 2 Nbc GIF by The Office


“Selective empowerment”. Hey, smart guy, not all rights are obtained when you become 18. Like alcohol consumption. Or being eligible for President. And so forth. So spare me the limp dick of a whataboutism you just threw at me and actually learn American law if you’re going to try to act like the smartest guy in the room when in reality you don’t magically become eligible for everything when you turn 18.

Also, actually read all the posts in a conversation to gain full context, if you can spare your precious time.

Also, way to assume. An older woman doing the same shit to a boy who just turned 18 would be equally creepy in my book. So this had nothing to do with “empowerment”, so fucking fail on your part.
 
Nailed it. People are trying to shut down discussion for two reasons:

1. It’s politically inconvenient to them
2. They don’t want to see their favorite games suffer

Time to accept that the pushback against wokeness in games has reached critical mass. There’s no escaping it no matter where you go.
You do realize when this game launches the pushback will just …..crumble right? This “movement” (if you can even call it that) will have no impact on the enjoyment of this game.
 

TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
READ PETE’S POST, FOR FUCKS SAKE! He said “just came of age”. Like one was counting down the days or some shit. It sounded fucking creepy.

Geezus, reading comprehension issues up in this fucking place.

Season 2 Nbc GIF by The Office


“Selective empowerment”. Hey, smart guy, not all rights are obtained when you become 18. Like alcohol consumption. Or being eligible for President. And so forth. So spare me the limp dick of a whataboutism you just threw at me and actually learn American law if you’re going to try to act like the smartest guy in the room when in reality you don’t magically become eligible for everything when you turn 18.

Also, actually read all the posts in a conversation to gain full context, if you can spare your precious time.

Also, way to assume. An older woman doing the same shit to a boy who just turned 18 would be equally creepy in my book. So this had nothing to do with “empowerment”, so fucking fail on your part.
America isn't the whole world you know.
 

Loboxxx

Member
I'm not understanding the controversy; is it because it's led by a woman, because she's a person of color, or because of listening to The Pet Shop Boys?
 

Tchu-Espresso

likes mayo on everthing and can't dance
Every thread on this game here for the next few years will be ruined by this bullshit discourse. It seems like I will have to find normal discussion about it elsewhere.
 

PeteBull

Member
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Hey man, just because they just become “legal”, doesn’t stop making what you just said creepy as SHIT.

You want to rephrase that bit? And if not, Geezus, I hope you’re like 22, 23 at the oldest.
Nope, and nope, fk dating old hags.

We(men) value youth, fertility, inexperience, it was always like that, beauty industry as a whole is trying to take back the time: make up, plastic surgeries of all kinds, all expensive cosmetics etc, its all to make women appear young and beatiful.


Straight from the link, the actual results of that meta-study :)

Once we have our desirability scores, we can use them to identify characteristics of desirable users by comparing scores against various user attributes. As shown in Fig. 2, for instance, average desirability varies with age for both men and women, although it varies more strongly for women, and the effects run in opposite directions: Older women are less desirable, while older men are more so (18, 19). For women, this pattern holds over the full range of ages on the site: The average woman’s desirability drops from the time she is 18 until she is 60. For men, desirability peaks around 50 and then declines.
 

shamoomoo

Banned
Ehh I think wokeness is too overboard on this site. If it's not a white male protagonist or a chick with a huge rack, the character is considered woke in here to a majority of people lol.

But this is a trend for Sony games, not really debatable. The horizon series, TLoU2 and now this from ND, returnal, and the new Ghost game. Even a game like concord had a heavy majority of the characters as female. Fairgame$, if I'm not mistaken too showed a female character for a majority of the reveal trailer. Not to mention in both SM2 and R&C you play as female characters too, even if they aren't the main characters. Its definitely noticable and personally I don't care too much. But it feels like at times it's being forced, as if that need to add female playable character off a checkbox before a game gets released.

I'll judge a game off it's off merit. I'm not gonna overreact like a lot in this thread and assume it's woke off the bat. It could turn out to be a kick ass character and game overall for all we know. We still know so little about intergalactic I think for anyone to make too strong and assumption. But it has been a trend for Sony overall, and I think it's fair to notice and criticize them for that, even a little bit.
No. I forgot what it was,but I think it was some kind of survey or focus group where they show the demographics of the PS5 or 4 and there was commentary about growing the female portion of the PlayStation users.


I found the thread, I'm not sure how accurate the info is.

 
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Shtof

Member
What? It was a mediocre to bad game depending who you ask with horrendous character designs so no one gave it a chance.
You are aware of what happened right?
Character designs are subjective, and gamers always agreed that fun was the most important.
Not so with Concord, cause nobody even tried it.
 
Concord devs loved it too, based on their Tweets on release date.
I wonder how they're doing now
Are people so delusional that they think this game is like Concord?

This trailer truly broke some of you, remember when these same folks were convinced TLOU 2 and its wokeness was going to impact that game? Remember when that shit never happened. Game still went on to get accolades and a tv screen adaptation. It’s like fantasy land thinking, see you day 1 in the OT asking about how to beat the first boss.
 

Yoboman

Member
Ah yes the kneejerk gaslighting response to anything someone dare criticize against this disgusting oh so tiring western dev agenda
The only thing tiring is doing this same schtick with every single game

In the past few month we've had GTA6, Witcher 4, Intergalactic, Avowed, South of Midnight, Fable, Indiana Jones, Metaphor being the subjects of this week's woke controversy

Like I get the annoyance if you want a character a certain way but it's a mild inconvenience at most. The pendulum swings only lasts until you become the one everyone is sick of hearing from

I'm not skipping the biggest games in the next few years because of ragebaiters up in their feels
 
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