For real. All this hype for Platinum Games, but if people bought their stuff Bayonetta 2 probably wouldn't have needed funding from Nintendo.
This.the Platinum hype is real. it's just their audience that gets hype is small as fuck.
the Platinum hype is real. it's just their audience that gets hype is small as fuck.
Bayonetta 1 + 2...damn. Might have to like rent a Wii U or something.
Bayonetta 1 + 2...damn. Might have to like rent a Wii U or something.
For real. All this hype for Platinum Games, but if people bought their stuff Bayonetta 2 probably wouldn't have needed funding from Nintendo.
This doesn't make any sense. It stands to reason that the people hyping their games are the ones playing them. What, do they have to sell a certain amount of copies before people can say they like their output?
This.
Gamora's in a movie ya'll.
Gamora's in a movie ya'll.
And she looks terrible.
still would, but I'm saying.
Platinum hype or not, Scalebound being a CG trailer was dumb. Whole appeal of Platinum is their gameplay, and you're gonna show something non-playable and too vague to give any idea of what the gameplay is like?
You're saying you bang terrible looking women. Got it.
i hope we get a dick rider reveal in this movie
For real. All this hype for Platinum Games, but if people bought their stuff Bayonetta 2 probably wouldn't have needed funding from Nintendo.
Phylia or go home
A dev actually came out a while back and pointed this out. How he saw a bunch of people talking up a game, or his game, pre-release.. and then none of them actually show up to purchase the game. And then it happens with another game.. gamers talk hype, pump it up, but don't back their words with money.
My one concern with the villain is that there are very few playable gay protagonists and that this game may have the unintended consequence of generating more hatred toward any prominent gay characters in gaming. Many gamers are unfortunately immature and anti-gay: if not openly homophobic in a horrible way, then at least in a "no gays or 'gay agenda' in my games" sort of way. A despicable villain who just happens to be gay? I can see that giving a segment of players more glee and motivation to put a bullet in his head. As the Watch Dogs thing demonstrated, there really are immature people out there who get a kick out of killing minorities and reveling in a twisted reverse-Django scenario.
I'm not saying the villain is definitely gay. I'm saying that a possibly gay villain who is a despicable person, in an industry with very few admirable gay heroes and supporting characters to provide balance*, may not be the smartest choice in helping the immature gaming community warm up to the idea of gay people being a normal, common occurrence in video games. Fighting a unnoticeably straight male villain character is a non-issue compared to asking gamers to beat up and kill a gay man (assuming that's the case in FC4).
*I wouldn't even be posting in this thread if an abundance of normal gay people in video game plots were the norm in video games today.
Yeah, and the trivialization of those fears is also concerning.
It's not necessarily about how one particular gay character in one game is played as a stereotype, but how that plays into the aggregate.
I would caution this thread to avoid the strawman of the PC police -- nothing in the OP would lead one to believe that he was offended. Instead, he was raising concerns about the portrayal of gay men in videogames, and how Far Cry 4 could play into that. That's a valid concern, and it's not wise to shrug off the fears that minorities have of their portrayal in media with a "get over it."
Personally, I'm sick of the effeminate, gay-coded villain in male-skewing media in contrast to the study hero. It was old in Skyfall and Tron 2, and it'd be old if that's how it played out here.
Well said. I feel like a lot of the posters in this thread are 10 steps behind the conversation the rest of us are having. No guys, no one is fucking say that the guy "wears pink so he's gay and he's a bad guy and that's not a nice thing to do!"
They're by far my favorite developers, but I do wonder if some people are being sincere with the whole "Platinum is the best OMG!" thing.
Take Hip Hop for example. You see a lot of people talking about they hate the radio and want that "real" shit back, but how many of those people support the underground/less popular artists that they like?
It's just kinda hard to fathom why their stuff haven't been more popular when all of their products so far have just been spiritual successors to Capcom franchises that they helped create.
I mean it's just entertainment at the end of the day so it's not really a big deal, but this is just how I see it.
We got Drax. Moondragon shouldn't be too far behind. Then we can get Phyla. Then we can have our first gay couple in the MCU, unless they move ahead with Young Avengers first.
Is anyone else concerned about Far Cry 4's villain? (LGBT issue + mild spoilers)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=834773
Sigh
OP types out a great post, more than half the replies are least common denonimator bullshit reducing his argument to irrelevant arguments not being made or that sidestep the major focus of his post. During these times, I need to remind myself of the majority kind of people posting here (very young, white, male, anti-feminist, casually racist/homophobic although unaware of it). More of them seem offended that anyone would imply that gamers are generally homophobic or unpleasant people than the possibility of gays being poorly portrayed in games.
In response to a strawman:
Phylia or go home
We got Drax. Moondragon shouldn't be too far behind. Then we can get Phyla. Then we can have our first gay couple in the MCU, unless they move ahead with Young Avengers first.
Bayonetta 2 got Online Co-op Climax Action
:O
re: Nebula - they messed up the sexy blue woman, made her a bald cyborg. They made the tall green amazonian warrior woman some scrawny little agility build space ninja. And they made the cockney raccoon space ranger a misanthropic action hero sociopath.
re: Nebula - they messed up the sexy blue woman, made her a bald cyborg. They made the tall green amazonian warrior woman some scrawny little agility build space ninja. And they made the cockney raccoon space ranger a misanthropic action hero sociopath.
akira the type of nigga who still hasn't watched Spider-Man because Sam Raimi made his web shooters organic.
Or Green Lantern because they made him white.
i see what you did there
No Man's Sky looks great.
But it is getting way too many positive impressions on GAF.
Poor game is gonna get shat on when it's out.
My little sister loves action movies so she loves comic movies. She hit me with that when they were showing the movie. I got half way into explaining the book of oa before she told me to shut the hell up.
She asked me about Thanos the other day "If he worships Death, why doesn't he kill himself?" I couldn't come up with an answer on teh spot.
Yeah I am that nigga in the family that everyone asks to explain shit in movies and shows.
My little sister loves action movies so she loves comic movies. She hit me with that when they were showing the movie. I got half way into explaining the book of oa before she told me to shut the hell up.
She asked me about Thanos the other day "If he worships Death, why doesn't he kill himself?" I couldn't come up with an answer on teh spot.
Yeah I am that nigga in the family that everyone asks to explain shit in movies and shows.
Pretty sure Rocket is from space, not Australia. Nebula is a bald cyborg in the books currently. Not sure where all the 8 foot actresses are though.
akira the type of nigga who still hasn't watched Spider-Man because Sam Raimi made his web shooters organic.
You got $300 to blow nigga?Just buy the console, y'all.
You buy a console for not just today's games, but whatever comes in the future. I don't get why we act like we need the biggest megatons ever when we already know they are going to come regardless, especially when it comes to Nintendo.
You got $300 to blow nigga?
She asked why he wants those rocks.shes versed enough to know he worships death?
Still love the story where Spiderman cockblock Thanos.He can only kill himself once. He can kill someone else a trillion times though. Either way Death is not giving him the time of day.
She was converted into a Cyborg in a story that hit the shelves in 1990. Leave the Wayback machine aloneFind me the next Xena. Hell, I'll deal with a thick 5'11 with heels. Not wiry little Zoe Saldana.
Rocket is from space but I do believe he had an accent in the earlier portrayals I saw of him.
Nebula is a blue skinned enigma with long hair.Not a Jack expy by someone who played Mass Effect and suddenly got "inspired".![]()
Fam. Bambi is sleeping at the front of my house right now.
https://twitter.com/RedSwirl/status/476436532568788992
Whenever I can cop a refurbished Wii U for $150 then I will take it.Good news everyone, don't need to take that Wii L until 2015 at the earliest.
She was converted into a Cyborg in a story that hit the shelves in 1990. Leave the Wayback machine alone