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Self High Five
Member
8 years ago it was fashionable to be woke. Today it's fashionable to be anti woke. The boomerang effect may come in full circle by the time this game comes out.
It's getting to the point of complaining just for the sake of complaining about wokeness. If we just have a great game with a woman lead that's bald, all the complaining may just be a loud minority by the time the game comes out.
Some of the comments here are just flat out weird. Photoshopping the character with long hair, showing other female characters with curvy hips. When playing infamous did anyone stop to think if Cole's ass was nice enough?
Imtjnotu
Member
As a Lesbian playstation fan yes
Kotaro
Member
I don't care if this character is a saint, the fact is that
Some pictures of this actress (not this one) actually might go either way, honestly. I just don't want to play as a character like that. My time is my most valuable asset and I will not spend it on something like that.
95% of people would say this is a female.
that is true, they could still turn this around and redesign the main character. Same actress could be used, just give her an 80s style retro afro, some makeup and a few other tweaks and it would be much better.Its not too late to save the game by changing the face of the character.
Aces High
Gold Member
Judging success is complex.
The game will make a lot of money because it's a Naughty Dog game. There's no doubt about it.
But what is Naughty Dog's mission?
I mean real mission, not some marketing/pr bullshit.
Naughty Dog is a key differentiator. Their mission is to draw people into the PlayStation eco system.
I don't see that with Intergalactic.
About the "critical success": both you and I, everyone in this forum in fact, knows that critical acclaim is worth shit in the year 2024. And it will be worth even less when Intergalactic gets released.
Mister Wolf
Member
Why would we if we aren't homosexual?
Strategize
Member
I think GTA 6 might be the real start of the boomerang. More and more these anti-woke guys have been coming for anything and everything even over the smallest shit. Witcher 4, huge fanbase, so the anti-woke backlash to Ciri has been getting a big counter backlash on twitter of people just being sick of them whining and being outrage tourists. If they come for GTA6, it's gonna be that x100, some of them already tried after the trailer and got laughed out of the room.
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Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
Not talking about the game but entirely on looks bruh she’s ugly af or we have totally different standards.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Quit pretending to be matty plays
cebri.one
Member
What world view. It’s a trailer with a bald woman. You people are incredibly thin skinned.
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
I would never pretend to be a ginger.
Nickolaidas
Member
Even A.I. cannot defend this shit.
Even A.I. cannot defend this shit.
AI can usually tell based on face shape, but has a hard time with Jordan.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Not true. Critical acclaim does still matter. It matters less than it did in 2004, but it does still matter.
The one thing we do know is Sony and ND wants to make money with this game. And they probably maybe wanting this game to be successful enough to make it into a movie or TV show at some point.
So if they sell 10 million units in the first year at an average price of $65.......that'll be $520 million in revenue. I'm assuming this game will cost at least $300 million to make. And probably have a $50 million advertisement budget. That's a great 1st year financial success.
Jsisto
Member
It's not even necessarily the look of the character for me. It's the personality as presented in the trailer. Snarky, too cool for school person that doesn't seem to have a care in the world that for some reason is in a situation where they will probably have to save the world/galaxy. Its such a played out trope and it was never a good one in the first place.
Kacho
Gold Member
Couldn't agree more. It is way too prevalent in entertainment these days. I assume creatives think it makes their characters endearing.
digital_ghost
Member
Your being nitpicktocious
jk.
Seriously though it wasn't a serious post . Even if it was i don't care if there if there was advertisement in a game . it doesn't effect the quality of the game . Or the enjoyment .
People have been enjoying cable and satellite TV for decades with a ton of advertisements . Doesn't effect the quality of the shows.
if it did, no one would pay for cable .
if it was pop up ads that interrupted gameplay that would be different .
Jsisto
Member
I legitimately don't think people would be making such a big deal out of it she was just some kind of hardened female space marine/bounty hunter type of character. But no...we get edgy, rebellious punk snarkily drinking a....fountain drink in a spaceship. Ok.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Lady boy and alien like comes to mind.
Even A.I. cannot defend this shit.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
God forbid she has an edge and personality
The Fartist
Gold Member
Fuck, dude, 75 pages of this shit? "Cuckman" living rent free in many, many minds, you all have been cucked.
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realcool
Member
"You're just saying Sonic is ugly because you don't want to fuck him! He is NOT ugly!"Its not too late to save the game by changing the face of the character.
Kotaro
Member
They still have to pay distributors: Amazon, Gamestop, Walmart, Best Buys, etc, I don’t know how much distributors cut is, but I bet you its around 20-25%
The Fartist
Gold Member
Chris Chan has entered the chat...
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
TLOU2 also was meme'd to death. It went on to sell over 15 million copies in 3 years.
DirtyBast8rd
Member
Hey shit, and female protagonist looking like a woman. What year is this from?You will never see this in a Niel Cuckman game:
Jokes aside, to the purple idiots defending their Cuckman overlord, this is how you write a female character. The strength of a woman is, wait for it, being a woman. There are enough dudes. Nature, balance, weird I know.
realcool
Member
God has left the chat.
Kacho
Gold Member
TLOU2 wasn’t meme’s for 2+ years before launch. This is a completely different beast.
Jsisto
Member
What did I just watch?
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Our (the anti woke) only hope is for it to sell noticeably less than Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us. It'll be more expensive to make than both of those. If it sells 80% of what those did, maybe it makes them reconsider moving forward.
Probably being 360 degree scanned. I’ve done it too.
realcool
Member
I think so. #TeamReal
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
That's only for 50% of their games. The other half is sold directly from the PlayStation store.
Plus I think that retail distributors cut is 20%. So yeah, if they can manage to sell 10 million units in year one at an average price of $65....that'll be $100 million in profit (after including marketing and paying retail distributors).
ConkerTheSquirrel.
Member
This game looks good... right until you see the protagonist design and you're just like, "oh, here we go!"
The implication of that kind of character design, and what it'll bring in terms of writing, is not a good sign.
Ship design looks slick, though.
The implication of that kind of character design, and what it'll bring in terms of writing, is not a good sign.
Ship design looks slick, though.
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James Sawyer Ford
Member
It was memed months before release with the leaks (some of which were fake, trying to claim Abby was trans)
The outrage grifting crowd on YT like asmongold are no better than the woke mob they strive to counter. Everything has to be some binary stance, we can’t just discuss the game on its merits because this nonsense on both sides crowds out nuanced discussion
I'm not furry, but sometimes it almost gets to a point, I'd rather make out with a hedgehog. Totally sounds like a furry, but it's like when people joke around about which you have to do - pick one or the other. Sonic or a super ugly, fat, bald chick. My furdar almost tells me to choose Sonic. lol
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
It would be even more considering the game will be $70 plus special editions.
Aces High
Gold Member
Crayon
Member
The brands don't strike me as product placement, as in for the sake of sneaking in an ad. They are very conspicuous, and in the case of the Porsche, incongruous. It's more like the way brands are used in death stranding. Well, maybe not exactly that. Maybe more like blade runner.
The Fartist
Gold Member
I'm not a big fan of the brands being present in the game, but looking at it from a Blade Runner perspective, it's a much easier pill for me to swallow. Seeing Atari, TDK, Coca-Cola etc. was cool in Blade Runner, it really grounded the Cyberpunk aesthetic, I hope they can achieve the same in Intergalactic.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
- Uncharted 4 sold 16 million units after 3 years.
- TLOU sold 8 million copies after 1 year.
-TLOU sold 17 million copies after 5 years.
So if Intergalactic sells 15 million in 3 years, it's an obvious huge success to you financially right?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Great point!
Aces High
Gold Member
Again:
Naughty Dog's mission is to draw people into the PlayStation eco system.
With TLOU2 they did the exact opposite: they damaged the brand. They became a meme.
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