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[The Fartist]

Lol the press will jizz all over the game.. is a multimillion seller by a declared male feminist/wokeist with a black bald masculinized female MC that will have a lot of woke elements in its story... is the perfect game for them to leech on and give all the 10s and Awards to spite the "chuds" plus they get all the goodies from Sony... ND launching period is like carnival for this people.

It can be "woke" and have amazing game-play both at the same time. I would be bothered by the woke part, but if the game-play makes up for it + it's a visual spectacle of a game then that's fine by me, I'm a grown-ass man, I can handle it.

 

[Bernardougf]

It will always amase me that the dev can spend 4 years deciding, drawing, mo caping and finally designing all about his MC for his 300+ million dollar game to put together the first reveal trailer there is composed of 95% MC exposition and 5% gameplay.. and we are supposed to absolutely dont give a single fuck about how the character looks...and just focus on the gameplay and how good it will be.... its trully amazing.

 

[Fabieter]

we live in a world where political messages and lgbtq agenda is everywhere and it will be even more present , not just in video game but i really mean EVERYWHERE

only a miracle can save us

We just need enough bombs. Look at how bad disney is doing when they went more and more about woke garbage.

And thank God asian devs are on the better part of the spectrum. We don't need those western weirdos.

 

[Fabieter]

It can be "woke" and have amazing game-play both at the same time. I would be bothered by the woke part, but if the game-play makes up for it + it's a visual spectacle of a game then that's fine by me, I'm a grown-ass man, I can handle it.

I also can play Asian games which also have awesome gameplay on top of no woke garbage.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

People have been dissecting the trailer...

Her sword might be audio-based. Some have theorized that you might potentially be able to load CDs into it to change…something. Hopefully different powers/abilities.

A sony walkman sword sounds pretty cool.

What if you could use your own Spotify (tm) tracks? Someone will discover Rick Astley will give you +70% crit chance.

 

[The Fartist]

I also can play Asian games which also have awesome gameplay on top of no woke garbage.

 

[Bernardougf]

It can be "woke" and have amazing game-play both at the same time. I would be bothered by the woke part, but if the game-play makes up for it + it's a visual spectacle of a game then that's fine by me, I'm a grown as man, I can handle it.

Good for you Mr.Grown Man .. too bad ND games are heavily story driven narratives... and the "wokeness" cant just be shrugged to the side since if present will be a intrinsic part of the game for the whole game .. just like tlou2.

IM also pretty sure that if we dig deep enough we would find something or some subject that would be unacceptable to you to even consider playing the game case was present in it... we all have our thresholds ... this time is not yours.. but lets not pretend they dont exist for everyone.

 

[March Climber]

What if you could use your own Spotify (tm) tracks? Someone will discover Rick Astley will give you +70% crit chance.

I think it would be a nice visual touch if somehow, the jacket changes color along with the sword. So Rick Astley gives you a blue sword and blue jacket.

 

[The Fartist]

Good for you Mr.Grown Man .. too bad ND games are heavily story driven narratives... and the "wokeness" cant just be shrugged to the side since if present will be a intrinsic part of the game for the whole game .. just like tlou2.

IM also pretty sure that if we dig deep enough we would find something or some subject that would be unacceptable to you to even consider playing the game case was present in it... we all have our thresholds ... this time is not yours.. but lets not pretend they dont exist for everyone.

Thanks, growing older isn't as bad as it's made out to be. The little things like a buzz-headed Afro-Asian MC are the least of my worries.

 

[Toons]

Good for you Mr.Grown Man .. too bad ND games are heavily story driven narratives... and the "wokeness" cant just be shrugged to the side since if present will be a intrinsic part of the game for the whole game .. just like tlou2.

IM also pretty sure that if we dig deep enough we would find something or some subject that would be unacceptable to you to even consider playing the game case was present in it... we all have our thresholds ... this time is not yours.. but lets not pretend they dont exist for everyone.

Yea but thresholds can be stupid also

Like if your "threshhold" is simply a gay character being in a game at all, I think that's juvenile and ridiculous and closes you off to a lot of good games arbitrarily

 

[GAF machine]

People have been dissecting the trailer...

Her sword might be audio-based. Some have theorized that you might potentially be able to load CDs into it to change…something. Hopefully different powers/abilities.

Yes, that does look like a representation of an audio waveform. Could be interesting.

Maybe. Her middle initial is A. The 3-digit display on her sword seems to show a stylized 440. A440 corresponds to the 440 Hz audio frequency. Musicians tune their instruments for note A above middle C at that frequency.

J.A.M's instrument of destruction was probably tuned to oscillate (like a hair clipper blade) internally at 440 Hz to generate red electricity in the electromagnetic spectrum where radio waves exist...

The electrified prongs that jut out in the shape of an audio waveform serrated blade might be like tuning fork prongs. So the sword may have the ability to slash and burn enemies to molten scrap, and/or shatter enemies to scattered pieces as if they were wine glasses at resonance with a struck tuning fork.

 

[Moochi]

The difference is that Crash is aesthetically pleasing and visually interesting as a character. He has our brains recognize as cute, in the way a puppy is cute, but his design is also playing off a shared visual language of a long line of video game mascots like Sonic and Mario. With a single glance, you know what he's about, what he does, what kind of game he'll be in. He looks cute, light-hearted, family appropriate, fun, and active.

We have a shared visual language from our culture for females too. The Intergalactic protag looks counter-culture, bitchy, pissed off. These are all negatives to me. I don't want to hang out with her. She doesn't look friendly, or cool. She's not pretty in a way that makes my brain light up. She has androgenous features. In real life, I am more likely to want to be friends with attractive people--even if I'm never going to sleep with them. The Intergalactic girl just looks like someone who cut me off in traffic and doesn't take care of herself.

It's arguing in bad faith to boil down the reception of this character to a lack of sex appeal. She looks the way she does because what is depicted in the trail is what someone at Naughty Dog thinks are "cool" traits --the rejection of classic gender roles, a flippant attitude towards authority, unearned confidence bordering narcissism.

She's signaling all the woke tropes we've learned to distrust in games. Time after time, we've seen that when woke signals appear in media, the final product is tainted by a culture that doesn't value hard work, merit, or objectivism. The craft of producing a great game takes a back seat to the ideological messaging. The devs go easy on themselves because being critical is against the nature of the culture. They can't even develop the critical skillset necessary to create something great because all they know is subjectivity and acceptance.

 

[The Fartist]

People have been dissecting the trailer...

Her sword might be audio-based. Some have theorized that you might potentially be able to load CDs into it to change…something. Hopefully different powers/abilities.

A sony walkman sword sounds pretty cool.

I immediately thought of audio waves when I 1st saw the sword. I hope there's something to the Walkman theory, that would be cool as fuck.

 

[Bernardougf]

Yea but thresholds can be stupid also

Like if your "threshhold" is simply a gay character being in a game at all, I think that's juvenile and ridiculous and closes you off to a lot of good games arbitrarily

Oh I agree... they can be considered stupid ... but as long as they are consistent is not anyones problem to judge... i dont have a problem with someone saying they will not play a game for X reason... there are a lot of games to be played.. the problem is the flip flop when the game you supposed to like is affected by the thing you are technically avoiding.

 

[larrybrady]

This probably already been mentioned..the reason for butching up the character…New theories on why she’s bald and with no-makeup on is because the 5 aces turned on her,and attacked her,and they think they killed her…. So she shaved her head and has no makeup on to disguise her look as much as possible(and is probably taking other measures to) to go after them…


Edit,,,completely missed the already multiple page thread devoted to this subject…my fault

 

[The Fartist]

This probably already been mentioned..the reason for butching up the character…New theories on why she’s bald and with no-makeup on is because the 5 aces turned on her,and attacked her,and they think they killed her…. So she shaved her head and has no makeup on to disguise her look as much as possible(and is probably taking other measures to) to go after them…

Don't de-rail the thread, dude. We're trying to hit 100+ pages of the same tired arguments.

 

[vpance]

 

[MISTER INVEIGLER]

Which scenario do you think is more likely?

If we go based on recent evidence of controversial released games. I'd say It's much more likely to underperform.

 

[mansoor1980]

what the hell is a gillette? ........ this is how you shave

 

[saintjules]

 

[asdasdasdbb]

I'd say It's much more likely to underperform.

I think that's going to be the default for single player only games going forward.

 

[Pantz]

Little bits of hair are going to get in her tank top and make her itchy later

 

[Senua]

Damn the replies

 

[semiconscious]

meanwhile, on 'that planet':

 

[Tomi]

Lol so much dust is in the air about this game that it will sell like hotcakes once we gonna have release date
People it's Naughty Dog, they dont make bad games..

 

[aclar00]

Im just on page 46...posted some, skimmed some, read some, but man...this place seems like the Resetera of anti-woke, a cesspool of people yapping and complaining, just on the opposite side of the fence...good god i thought more on gaf were more middle leaning. This though...idk, just different side of the same damn coin.

Did i get that right about the general thoughts on Resetera? Ive never been there and just going off what i recall from posts over the years.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Kinda amazing to see this game has generated 90 pages worth of chatter. Most likely 90% of it consisting of faux outrage over a bald headed female lead.

 

[GloveSlap]

For a game like this i want to play as a cool character, as i'm sure many others do. Can you look cool without being attractive? Yes. Is it easier to look cool the more attractive you are? Yes, and it's even more true for women. It might not be fair, but it is what it is.

I'd argue a very narrow slice of people that would play this game actually find this character cool. Many will probably put up with it if the rest of the game is in order, but it's a bad design if the majority of your customers deal with something rather than genuinely like it.

 

[Senua]

Im just on page 46...posted some, skimmed some, read some, but man...this place seems like the Resetera of anti-woke, a cesspool of people yapping and complaining, just on the opposite side of the fence...good god i thought more on gaf were more middle leaning. This though...idk, just different side of the same damn coin.

Did i get that right about the general thoughts on Resetera? Ive never been there and just going off what i recall from posts over the years.

The difference is you won't get banned here for a differing opinion. Only if you act like a dick and start insulting others

 

[ThaMonkeyClaw]

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I personally think the game looks amazing, and they had me at Naughty Dog and outer space! I am going to take a stab and say this is coming out May 2027...CD 05 and if you flip around what she typed it the 7202 becomes 2027

 

[The Fartist]

I personally think the game looks amazing, and they had me at Naughty Dog and outer space! I am going to take a stab and say this is coming out May 2027...CD 05 and if you flip around what she typed it the 7202 becomes 2027

Fuck me if it's 2027, would've rather they didn't show it til at the earliest 12/2025

 

[Sethbacca]

Fuck me if it's 2027, would've rather they didn't show it til at the latest 12/2025

Seriously, at that point it would be a PS6 cross gen release (or close anyway).

 

[The Fartist]

Seriously, at that point it would be a PS6 cross gen release.

That's probably the plan, unfortunately.

 

[ThaMonkeyClaw]

Fuck me if it's 2027, would've rather they didn't show it til at the latest 12/2025

Hopefully I am wrong, I don't see it coming out in 2025 since GTA6 is supposed to come out next year and I doubt they want to try to compete with that, but I am guessing 2026/2027 if I had to truly guess

 

[The Fartist]

Hopefully I am wrong, I don't see it coming out in 2025 since GTA6 is supposed to come out next year and I doubt they want to try to compete with that, but I am guessing 2026/2027 if I had to truly guess

Yeah, that's why IMHO they shouldn't have shown it til 12/2025, a few months after GTAVI releases with a 2026/27 release window at the end of the trailer. Oh well...

 

[Hawking Radiation]

The difference is you won't get banned here for a differing opinion. Only if you act like a dick and start insulting others

Yep pretty much. I got banned from Ree after saying 'Michelle Obama is hot for her age'. I wish I was kidding but that really happened lol

 

[The Fartist]

Yep pretty much. I got banned from Ree after saying 'Michelle Obama is hot for her age'. I wish I was kidding but that really happened lol

He does look pretty good for his age. The fuck is wrong with those people?

 

[Senua]

Yep pretty much. I got banned from Ree after saying 'Michelle Obama is hot for her age'. I wish I was kidding but that really happened lol

Yep that's probably sexist to them, complimenting a woman on her looks is the evil male gaze after all

 

[ThaMonkeyClaw]

Yeah, that's why IMHO they shouldn't have shown it til 12/2025, a few months after GTAVI releases with a 2026/27 release window at the end of the trailer. Oh well...

My guess is Sony doesn't want to steal any thunder when GTA6 (hopefully) releases next year, which I am fine with a 2026/2027 release, gives me lots of time to play GTA6 and other games and then when I am ready to move onto something new then Intergalactic will come out!

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Yep that's probably sexist to them, complimenting a woman on her looks is the evil male gaze after all

Yep. That was the exact reason for the ban haha.

He does look pretty good for his age. The fuck is wrong with those people?

This comment is Diddy approved

 

[The Fartist]

Yep that's probably sexist to them, complimenting a woman on her looks is the evil male gaze after all

Fucking psychos, dude. Just ignoring the fact that that's exactly what happens in the animal kingdom, too, males look for the best looking mate to procreate, and females look for the strongest to pass on genes. Are animals sexist? Yes, and that's natural. I'm so off-topic now.

 

[yogaflame]

Strange stereotype by woke agenda on strong woman that they have to look butch and manly. There are allot of woman who still looks attractive even if they are strong and with muscles. For example my favorite Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow:

Or even Zoe Saldana in Columbiana.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Turns out you should use attractive people to attract people. Who knew!!! Someone tell Hollywood so all these movies will stop with all the butt ugly actors . . .wait what? They already use attractive actors? Hmm

 

[blastprocessor]

90 pages, the hunger is real.

 

[cebri.one]

Damn the replies

When you thought people's lives couldn't be sadder....

I wonder if they have alerts whenever anything new is posted so they can comment and downvote.

 

[Trilobit]

88 pages of non sense!

And I wouldn't want to have it any other way!

 

[manlisten]

I'm a sucker for space stuff. Might be time to buy a PS5.

 

[Groundking]

Or it will be high 70s scores and underperform greatly.

Nah no chance it reviews poorly, will be 90+ for certain.

User scores however...

 

[rofif]

I personally think the game looks amazing, and they had me at Naughty Dog and outer space! I am going to take a stab and say this is coming out May 2027...CD 05 and if you flip around what she typed it the 7202 becomes 2027

it's coming 2025. probably within 6 months

 

[The Fartist]

it's coming 2025. probably within 6 months

That would be a dream come true, but the lack of even a year being shown in the trailer leads me to believe 2026/27, if it does come in 2025, it would have to be within 6 months to get a decent buffer between Intergalactic and GTAVI, no chance they'll release it anywhere near GTA, and certainly not after GTA