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Naughty Dog Announces Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

Humdinger

Gold Member
I wonder if Druckmann wanted to get the controversy up front this time. With TLOU2, he was sandbagged at the last minute because of the leaks. Maybe this time he figured, "Oh hell, let's get it over with early." So he gives gamers something to stew about for a while, and it passes well before the game comes out. Maybe. Just speculating.
 

Loboxxx

Member
You really think 'sense' is the hill you want to die on when the main character looks like she wouldn't be able to take one heartbeat from the mechanical monstrosity she's about to face at the end of the trailer?
One thing does not take away from the other. I don't question realism in a Sci-fi work as long as it has coherence in its world. I'm just saying that I understand perfectly well that this woman is not wearing makeup or that she cuts her hair, I don't see anything strange about her, because of the idea I have of her and her situation.
 

The Fartist

Gold Member
Oh my ... it was always my gamer wet dream....virtual play as a manly girlboss roaming the galaxy for that big dick action.... Hope it has imputs like GoW. Then my dad and I can really enjoy this bonding father and son gaming experience.
Charlie Day Ok GIF
 

GudOlRub

Member
Everyone raging about the main character's look, meanwhile here I am just hyped af about Trent Reznor's soundtrack.
Also, those cloth physics... that shit must have been so much hard work to properly simulate... I don't love TLOU2's story but man that game was still an experience to play purely based on how technically good it is.
Naughty Dog's games graphics have already been godlike since Uncharted 4, I hope those cloth simulations are a sign that they're going to focus on realistic and fun physics for this new generation of games.
 

Fabieter

Member
But you responded to someone who said they like muscly women by replying with:

Which I then replied stating not all women who are muscular take testosterone or steroids

I wasnt even talking about the game

Testosterone plays a significant role in muscle growth, and while women also produce testosterone, their levels are much lower than men's. This limits the extent of muscle gains women can achieve naturally. It's not as if a woman with slightly higher testosterone levels will suddenly develop exaggerated masculine traits, like the dude in the reveal trailer.

ND is done!
 

evanft

Member
I’m not asking for realism, I’m not asking for anything. You’re the one who can’t accept what you see and want something else. That’s your problem, not the game’s.

Not everything can or should cater to everyone’s tastes. That wouldn’t be art; it would be generic commercialism. The same thing happened with TLOU2. People nowadays can’t handle frustration and won’t accept things not being the way they want them to be. Thankfully, ND still stands firm in preserving its identity, aiming to tell the story they want, not just what people want to see
I think it's a combination of emotional immaturity and a complete lack of any real identity outside of the products they consume.
 

PeteBull

Member
Not sure why you keep pushing this white man thing. It's not a color thing people just like the hero to look attractive. Most people would have loved it if this was the main character.
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Hell protagonist could have been male asian, those are so rare in games even AC:S decided to put black guy as male protagonist in their game instead of proper japanese samurai.
Personally would love it if mc was male asian too like here:
 

kunonabi

Member
Naughty Dog fucked up the casting.

Fact is: Not every actor can play a main character.

Christopher Lee
Tilda Swinton
Christoph Waltz
Gary Oldman
Alan Rickman
Maghie Smith

Those are incredible actors with insane skills. But a Hollywood producer who knows his craft would never cast them as a main character.

Same goes for Tati Gabrielle.

And this is not about skill. Christoph Waltz is one of the best actors to ever walk the Earth. But the main character got to be Brad Pitt because he has a gift called charisma.

Just like Karen Fukuhara. She has charisma. Everyone likes her. She's a main character actor.

It's super obvious that Naughty Dog wanted to make a political statement with the bald girl protagonist.

That's where the saying "Go woke, go broke" comes from:

They cast Tati because she checks political boxes. But they end up alienating the audience and doing Tati's career a great disservice.

So maybe the arrogance we see in bald girl is just a mirror of Neil's true character.
Are you honestly saying Karen freaking Fukuhara or all people is leading lady material and Christopher Lee isn't a capable leading man? Jesus Christ, kids today.
 

saintjules

Gold Member


She forgot to add the hair in her fix.




You know I thought the Aloy being 'fat' thing and the FFVII Remake petition to get the voice actors from Advent Children on that was weird enough, but this is the next thing. Why spend that effort that won't change in the final version of the game anyway?

You guys are fucking weird. Holy shit.
 
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PeteBull

Member
For every1 spouting nonsense about players being insecure/scared of that baldie, we simply dont wanna play as that tiny ugly weak woman, she reminds me of that one:

I rather play as imposing masculine man so i can actually have fun while playing xD
 

Gaiff

SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Hell protagonist could have been male asian, those are so rare in games even AC:S decided to put black guy as male protagonist in their game instead of proper japanese samurai.
Personally would love it if mc was male asian too like here:
Asian male protagonists are rare in western games. They’re extremely common in Asian games.
 

DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb


You know I thought the Aloy being 'fat' thing and the FFVII Remake petition to get the voice actors from Advent Children on that was weird enough, but this is the next thing. Why spend that effort that won't change in the final version of the game anyway?

You guys are fucking weird. Holy shit.

lol. A game supposedly inspired by anime like Cowboy Bebop, about a bounty hunter flying around in her 1980s Porsche space ship and listening to Pet Shop Boys on her Sony CD jukebox… but making her attractive looking would be totally unrealistic and lore breaking.
 

Senua

Member
This whole "you don't like the character because you can't jerk off to them" narrative is disingenuous horseshit. It is entirely possible to dislike a character for reasons that have nothing to do with whether you'd want to fuck them or not.
Yup, but they already know that. It's one of the leftists go to insults with these discussions, along with virgin shaming
 

kunonabi

Member
Yes and the post you just quoted explains why.
Except it doesn't. Fukuhara hasn't been able to distinguish herself in any leading role of any worth and has already been mostly relagated to voice work. Hollywood would rather push Chan or an aging Yeoh over her.
 

near

Gold Member
Or calling everyone who downvoted the trailer on Youtube an incel or accusing them of male fragility because they can't handle playing as a powerful woman.
It's the only form of defence they end up resorting to. Calling you sexist, a racists etc. Low effort discussion because they don't want to actively engage in any form of discussion.
 

Lokaum D+

Member
lol. A game supposedly inspired by anime like Cowboy Bebop, about a bounty hunter flying around in her 1980s Porsche space ship and listening to Pet Shop Boys on her Sony CD jukebox… but making her attractive looking would be totally unrealistic and lore breaking.
not every lead woman in a video game need to be 2B or Eve, the character fits the theme and i m ok with this. NOW, we know nothing about the game story or gameplay, so i ll wait to jump into the "woke" train, atm they have my curiosity.

like i said, being a bald girl ( ugly or not ) dosnt make any game woke.
 
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DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb
not every lead woman in a video game need to be 2B or Eve, the character fits the theme and i m ok with this. NOW, we know nothing about the game story or gameplay, so i ll wait to jump into the "woke" train, atm they have my curiosity.

like i said, being a bald girl ( ugly or not ) dosnt make any game woke.
I don’t believe that her design had anything to do with realism, believability, “fitting the theme” or any of that.

Games and movies nowadays are made by people who hate traditional femininity and beauty standards, hate the “male gaze”, and have some sense of disgust for the “CHUD” audience. We’ve seen this same shit play out over and over and over again.

Hey, maybe I’m wrong and there will be nothing woke about the game, but it definitely has a woke smell to it. I’m done giving this kind of game the benefit of the doubt. We’ll see.
 

EN250

Member
Some people are a bit concerned about the character design changes for Ciri in the reveal trailer, or the lore implications, and that's fair. But given that CDPR's writing tends to be very good and not ideologically compromised, it's nowhere near enough to write off Witcher 4. Consensus agrees. Only a <10% dislike count.

Different story with Intergalactic. Whether you agree with it or not, the negative reaction isn't some fringe element. It's not just rage baiters or trolls or bots or review bombers. It's happening everywhere that you won't be censored for not being on board.
Hmmm, I didn't watch the trailer yet, just some bits, but Ciri being the MC is how it should go based on choices from TW3, where Geralt said f·ck it and told the Emperor that Ciri was gone, sometime later met Ciri and gave her a Silver Sword, so it's the good ending for the characters, "bad" ending for the reset, cause I don't remember wtf I did but the Empire was in full purge everything non-human :messenger_grinning_sweat:
 

TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Games and movies nowadays are made by people who hate traditional femininity and beauty standards, hate the “male gaze”, and have some sense of disgust for the “CHUD” audience. We’ve seen this same shit play out over and over and over again.
What's worse is they pretend that it's representative of the world we live in and it's defenders do as well.
When the closest you get to that shit is Alyssa Mercante.
 

mckmas8808

Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
It's not a flop, just a decline
And it's not random, every studio including ND do 10mill,15mill,20mill
ND hasn't done 15mill since their 10mill because it hasn't passed it yet

Didn't you just say it jumped to 61% digital.
Which only works if you put that 6mill on top of that 10mill figure.
But that's not what it is

No I didn't say it was 61% Digital. It's was 61% Physical.
 

hinch7

Member
I don’t believe that her design had anything to do with realism, believability, “fitting the theme” or any of that.

Games and movies nowadays are made by people who hate traditional femininity and beauty standards, hate the “male gaze”, and have some sense of disgust for the “CHUD” audience. We’ve seen this same shit play out over and over and over again.

Hey, maybe I’m wrong and there will be nothing woke about the game, but it definitely has a woke smell to it. I’m done giving this kind of game the benefit of the doubt. We’ll see.
Its almost as if they are clueless to what their audience actually wants. And in lue creating controversies, we have arrogant producers and executives that get away with this, for many years.

Thankfully there's a cultural shift going on and thats because money talks.
 
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