near
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You assume she is female. She could be it. They/them. It’s safe to assume non-binary at this point if we are assuming anything. The non-binary: Heretic Prophet. Thanks for understanding.
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VideoGameEnjoyer
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Bro must’ve been talking about HermesHuh? Maybe it is the jacket
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Stooky
Banned
first thing she picks up is a gun
proandrad
Member
Only shocking part was that is was temp, they going soft over there.
Mister Wolf
Member
The movie didn't even convey badass. The tone and her situation was dire. The bald head indicated "damn she going through an ordeal.". Nothing like Furiosa or GI Jane.
Great guy.Interesting the volume of this thread is beating the purple dumpster fire. Speaking of which...
SegaSnatcher
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Topher
Identifies as young
Great guy.
What an asshole
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
In one of those old battlefield games, one of the missions was a real life event. But EA used their creative freedom to change it to a mother and daughter tag team who ramboed through the level killing nazis or something. Cmon guys. Let’s not make a WWII event too crazy devs.Nah, Selene gets her ass kicked constantly in that game. Everything she does is believable, as opposed to making people think a woman in a post apocalyptic setting would be built like Christian McCaffery, or that people in the same setting would take orders from a frumpy middle aged woman.
Straight from their blog post:You assume she is female. She could be it. They/them. It’s safe to assume non-binary at this point if we are assuming anything. The non-binary: Heretic Prophet. Thanks for understanding.
Intergalactic stars our newest protagonist, Jordan A. Mun, a dangerous bounty hunter who ends up stranded on Sempiria – a distant planet whose communication with the outside universe went dark hundreds of years ago. In fact, anyone who’s flown to it hoping to unravel its mysterious past was never heard from again. Jordan will have to use all her skills and wits if she hopes to be the first person in over 600 years to leave its orbit.
Barakov
Member
Sheesh. LA brainrot on steroids.Great guy.
Kings Field
Member
Great guy.
Definitely a stable and sane person
BlitzerRadic
Member
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
No one batted an eye when Abby was first revealed.
People flipped as soon as the story was leaked and that's when people had a problem with her design.
This "trend" of female protagonists isn't anything new.
In the mid-90s to early 2000s, there was a strong push for female leads in action films/TV shows. You had Kill Bill, AeonFlux, Xena, Charles Angels, Long Kiss Goodnight, G.I. Jane, Resident Evil, Alias, and more. People often overlook the themes of these shows and movies because the characters are attractive. Some displayed feminist ideology and traits. I also wouldn't believe Lucy Liu being cast wouldn't fly today and people would call it woke.
I don't see how they "hate men" by making a female protagonist.
This reminds me of the time people called MK10 and MK11 characters ugly because they showed less skin in comparison to MK9.
You think he character is ugly? That's your opinion. I have no problem with it. It's just hard to take most of the complaints.
near
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taizuke
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At first i felt almost indifferent about it. Ready to write it off until we got something more substantial. But, after watching the trailer a couple more times, i have to say it's growing on me. It's not as good as other ND trailers, but the music makes up for it.
Now, despite the critical reception of both the main character Jordan and ND as a whole, i'd be lying if i said that i'm not a little bit excited for the possibilities of their new game. So, i'm looking forward to hearing more about it. Too bad we'll probably have to wait till June to potentially see some gameplay.
Now, despite the critical reception of both the main character Jordan and ND as a whole, i'd be lying if i said that i'm not a little bit excited for the possibilities of their new game. So, i'm looking forward to hearing more about it. Too bad we'll probably have to wait till June to potentially see some gameplay.
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Wait, developers who believe in the left side of the culture war are shocked people don't want DEI games or anything that smells like it? I mean, read the room: Americans spoke about about this greatly. The moment investors see it affecting their bottom line and they see developers purposely pumping out games to spite what the majority clearly wants, I'm sure they'll be a shocked when they're fired.
FunkMiller
Member
Agreed. They don't hate men. But they do consciously want to push back against the male gaze, and the dominance of the male audience in the gaming industry. Which they are perfectly entitled to do. But the audience is also perfectly entitled to dislike this, and not buy the product.
Boss Man
Member
No one batted an eye when Abby was first revealed.
People flipped as soon as the story was leaked and that's when people had a problem with her design.
This "trend" of female protagonists isn't anything new.
In the mid-90s to early 2000s, there was a strong push for female leads in action films/TV shows. You had Kill Bill, AeonFlux, Xena, Charles Angels, Long Kiss Goodnight, G.I. Jane, Resident Evil, Alias, and more. People often overlook the themes of these shows and movies because the characters are attractive. Some displayed feminist ideology and traits. I also wouldn't believe Lucy Liu being cast wouldn't fly today and people would call it woke.
I don't see how they "hate men" by making a female protagonist.
This reminds me of the time people called MK10 and MK11 characters ugly because they showed less skin in comparison to MK9.
You think he character is ugly? That's your opinion. I have no problem with it. It's just hard to take most of the complaints.
Topher
Identifies as young
Some additional details about the game from Tassi...
www.forbes.com
Intriguing. So this is actually set in the 80s in an alternate universe
- The confirmed cast is Tati Gabrielle, Kumail Nanjiani and Halley Gross (not an eyepatched Sigourney Weaver, as some theorized). Gross is an actress but most recently co-wrote The Last of Us Part 2 with Druckmann. Gabrielle co-starred in the Uncharted movie and will play Nora in The Last of Us season 2.
- The story centers on a fictious religion and “what happens when you put your faith in different institutions.” “Heretic Prophet” was certainly a clue that religion was involved. It is an “emotional, character-driven epic journey.”
- The game took its vibe and aesthetic inspiration from the likes of Akira and Cowboy Bebop. It takes place in an alternate universe where space travel has significantly advanced by 1986.
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doing the score after famously working on Gone Girl, Challengers and The Social Network.
- The game has had 250 devs working on it for four years, in addition to other artists from outside the studio. It does not have a release date or even release year. 2026 may be a safe bet, if it doesn’t slip to 2027.
New Details On Naughty Dog’s ‘Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’ Emerge
If there was one especially controversial game at The Game Awards, it was Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet,
www.forbes.com
Intriguing. So this is actually set in the 80s in an alternate universe
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Lokaum D+
Member
change all female for males and you got the second coming of Crist on social media, this is getting ridiculous.
FunkMiller
Member
If I hear the words 'God Emperor' in relation to this, I'm smashing the place up.
FunkMiller
Member
Change her into a white dude, and you have everyone saying it's a Guardians Of The Galaxy rip off.
ComputerBlue
Member
Uncanny
She kinda looks like Cuba Gooding Jr, also Aloy has always looked like Tom Cruise to me.
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Deerock71
Member
ZehDon
Member
Oh, that deflates my already extremely deflated interest. Druckmann's take on religion in both TLOU2 and TLOU TV Show is about as subtle as a gold club to the face. Game is just straight up starting to read like a hard pass from me, frankly. I'll bow out, I've been negative enough in here for a while.Some additional details about the game from Tassi...
- The confirmed cast is Tati Gabrielle, Kumail Nanjiani and Halley Gross (not an eyepatched Sigourney Weaver, as some theorized). Gross is an actress but most recently co-wrote The Last of Us Part 2 with Druckmann. Gabrielle co-starred in the Uncharted movie and will play Nora in The Last of Us season 2.
- The story centers on a fictious religion and “what happens when you put your faith in different institutions.” “Heretic Prophet” was certainly a clue that religion was involved. It is an “emotional, character-driven epic journey.”
- The game took its vibe and aesthetic inspiration from the likes of Akira and Cowboy Bebop. It takes place in an alternate universe where space travel has significantly advanced by 1986.
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doing the score after famously working on Gone Girl, Challengers and The Social Network.
- The game has had 250 devs working on it for four years, in addition to other artists from outside the studio. It does not have a release date or even release year. 2026 may be a safe bet, if it doesn’t slip to 2027.
New Details On Naughty Dog’s ‘Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’ Emerge
If there was one especially controversial game at The Game Awards, it was Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet,
Intriguing. So this is actually set in the 80s in an alternate universe
Mister Wolf
Member
Smart lady. Was ahead of her time on being a proponent for hormone replacement therapy.
Paulistano
Member
Folks, don't forget:
If it is famous enough and has a following: it's inspiration.
If it isn't famous and doesn't have a following: it's plagiarism.
fallingdove
Member
You don’t have to go full Ree to see when someone is making ignorant statements about something without all the facts. You haven’t shared anything substantive. Your argument amounts to it looks like a movie I saw, it’s in space, and it has licensed music.
Why is Intergalactic not like Spaceballs, or Red Dwarf, or Firefly, Cowboy Beebop, or Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, or Flash Gordon, or Explorers, or Enemy Mine, or Heavy Metal, or Blade Runner, or Silverhawk, or Robotech, or Akira, or Star Wars, or hell, any seven samurai style ensembles.
Your comparison ignores so many other properties that Guardians of the Galaxy itself not so subtlety borrowed from. Even the anime sequence at the beginning of the Intergalactic trailer indicates that this is paying homage to media from the 80s.
So again, as shallow as your comparisons have been, it seems that your “real” anchor is buried in another section of the sea floor.
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This gives me GREAT concern, why do this unless a bunch of 60's era stuff plays heavy in the plot? When, exactly, did mankind suddenly get Porsche spaceships? After WW2? Advances in the space race of the 60's/70's? Just makes me worry they will burden the plot with a ton of 60's civil rights stuff/Stonewall, etc because why else go that route? Easy enough to have a character discover a cache of 80's CDs, basically the GotG tactic. I'm not adverse to a game that tackles those themes, just not a futuristic space game.
Maybe a UFO shows up in 1947 Roswell and we crack anti-grav and thats the extent of it, but something tells me that the 80's were chosen not for the pop culture but for some other reason.
80s clothing had shoulderpads to make your shoulders look big. why don't you just look at her when she was wearing just a vest in the trailer. she doesn't have Greek Olympic God shoulders.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
You not seeing it doesn't mean its not there, it just means you either don't get the references or don't get the design, direction or any of the nods shown...
Several of us cited Blade Runner, Cowboy Bebop, Akira etc and other Sci-Fi from 80s / 90s based on many things, from the red ship, to it being about a space bounty hunter type person, to the CRT tv, retro Sony disc changer, to the computer design to the hi top shoes to the red jacket or the Ui of the ship
You not seeing it matters not (you may not know what you are even looking at lol)
Those of us that saw those references felt like some of those could have been influenced and later on
Pedro Motta
confirmed they indeed were influences for this work, but that isn't really that fucking shocking, its literally based on some alternate universe from the 80's, so how the fuck would GoTG make sense? That isn't based on the 80's and isn't as old as the works we talked about and would be weird to cite something earlier that itself is inspred by those works, to claim THAT is the work that inspired thisIt would be like fucking saying someone wearing a Yellow Jacket in that SiFi game is regarding Kill Bill lol
Someone who actually KNOWS MORE about the fucking genre then you actually states its regarding Bruce Lee's suit as that would pre-date Kill Bill
You "derrr iM nO sEeInG iY mAnZ"
it just means you fail to see it.
That isn't some wild thing, merely means you don't get what is being shown lol Which isn't shocking as most on this thread seem not to even know a fuck ton about that genre based on whats being stated.
damn that must SCREAM GoTG bro /s
show you work
The works that inspired this game predate GoTG, so you'd have to give us some examples of what exactly you are talking about....like actually prove your point...
near
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lughnasadh123
Member
Ask him, not me.
People can have whatever views that want on people, I just respectfully disagree about it not being about him. He's been the northern star of ire for a lot of people since TLOU2 which judging by things is just going to carry over into this.
edit: I know I've seen GotG get thrown around a lot since apparently goofiness in space is that, but find it so fucking weird when that's exactly the tone of their inspirational source of Cowboy Bebop. Tropes are so intertwined here that I seriously doubt people could unravel any of it to point at for complaints.
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Deerock71
Member
Put all your chips on the blonde astrophysiogynecolonoscopiscesologist, I say.
NuclearDiarrhea
Member
This kind of story has been done to death already just like the cycle of violence/revenge shit but okay, lets see how this goes.
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EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Some additional details about the game from Tassi...
- The confirmed cast is Tati Gabrielle, Kumail Nanjiani and Halley Gross (not an eyepatched Sigourney Weaver, as some theorized). Gross is an actress but most recently co-wrote The Last of Us Part 2 with Druckmann. Gabrielle co-starred in the Uncharted movie and will play Nora in The Last of Us season 2.
- The story centers on a fictious religion and “what happens when you put your faith in different institutions.” “Heretic Prophet” was certainly a clue that religion was involved. It is an “emotional, character-driven epic journey.”
- The game took its vibe and aesthetic inspiration from the likes of Akira and Cowboy Bebop. It takes place in an alternate universe where space travel has significantly advanced by 1986.
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doing the score after famously working on Gone Girl, Challengers and The Social Network.
- The game has had 250 devs working on it for four years, in addition to other artists from outside the studio. It does not have a release date or even release year. 2026 may be a safe bet, if it doesn’t slip to 2027.
New Details On Naughty Dog’s ‘Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’ Emerge
If there was one especially controversial game at The Game Awards, it was Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet,
Intriguing. So this is actually set in the 80s in an alternate universe
Thank you.
A lot of us designers, concept artist, art directors or just fans of those works caught on to this and called so many of those references, so I'm not shocked. From the big back computer monitors, to the gray tone, to the matted texture, tube screens etc, it seems many were able to catch on the references that inspired it and even the theory that maybe it was set in a alternate time based on the design we saw.
I'm not much into design as much as concept art, art direction etc, but others in that design field on discord were able to fill me in on some of those design elements from the 80's, especially with the sci-fi ship interior stuff from back then.
fart town usa
Member
bender
What time is it?
You not seeing it doesn't mean its not there, it just means you either don't get the references or don't get the design, direction or any of the nods shown...
Several of us cited Blade Runner, Cowboy Bebop, Akira etc and other Sci-Fi from 80s / 90s based on many things, from the red ship, to it being about a space bounty hunter type person, to the CRT tv, retro Sony disc changer, to the computer design to the hi top shoes to the red jacket or the Ui of the ship
You not seeing it matters not (you may not know what you are even looking at lol)
Those of us that saw those references felt like some of those could have been influenced and later on
It would be like fucking saying someone wearing a Yellow Jacket in that SiFi game is regarding Kill Bill lol
Someone who actually KNOWS MORE about the fucking genre then you actually states its regarding Bruce Lee's suit as that would pre-date Kill Bill
You "derrr iM nO sEeInG iY mAnZ"
it just means you fail to see it.
That isn't some wild thing, merely means you don't get what is being shown lol Which isn't shocking as most on this thread seem not to even know a fuck ton about that genre based on whats being stated.
damn that must SCREAM GoTG bro /s
show you work
The works that inspired this game predate GoTG, so you'd have to give us some examples of what exactly you are talking about....like actually prove your point...
I'm not seeing it.
Mister Wolf
Member
Some additional details about the game from Tassi...
- The confirmed cast is Tati Gabrielle, Kumail Nanjiani and Halley Gross (not an eyepatched Sigourney Weaver, as some theorized). Gross is an actress but most recently co-wrote The Last of Us Part 2 with Druckmann. Gabrielle co-starred in the Uncharted movie and will play Nora in The Last of Us season 2.
- The story centers on a fictious religion and “what happens when you put your faith in different institutions.” “Heretic Prophet” was certainly a clue that religion was involved. It is an “emotional, character-driven epic journey.”
- The game took its vibe and aesthetic inspiration from the likes of Akira and Cowboy Bebop. It takes place in an alternate universe where space travel has significantly advanced by 1986.
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are doing the score after famously working on Gone Girl, Challengers and The Social Network.
- The game has had 250 devs working on it for four years, in addition to other artists from outside the studio. It does not have a release date or even release year. 2026 may be a safe bet, if it doesn’t slip to 2027.
New Details On Naughty Dog’s ‘Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet’ Emerge
If there was one especially controversial game at The Game Awards, it was Naughty Dog’s Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet,
Intriguing. So this is actually set in the 80s in an alternate universe
May end up getting banned by Saudi Arabia.
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SaniOYOYOY
Member
Ill wait the Steam release with the hair mod
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
bender
What time is it?
Deerock71
Member
People shitting on this based on the supposed MC design. Not every game needs a woman with a huge ass and tits. You can have variety.
I need to see more before making any opinions about the game whether positive or negative. I will say with all of the product placement, that Sony should easily recoup any development costs.
I need to see more before making any opinions about the game whether positive or negative. I will say with all of the product placement, that Sony should easily recoup any development costs.
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StereoVsn
Gold Member
Vast majority of Western games have very much unattractive female characters with most in girl boss mode. So the variety would actually have an attractive female lead for a change.
Rawbutt Jellybean
Member
The most current year looking MC possible.