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New games suck... or is it just me?
By Dodik 2025-03-29 05:42:32
Goku's full name is Son Goku, which reads the same as Sun Wukong (Monkey King).
Goku is named after the Monkey King of chinese mythology.
By RadialArcana 2025-03-29 06:01:15
Pretty much every western developer has become hated over the past 5-6 years, are incapable of making good games anymore and have alienated their fanbases. All we make is memberberry porn, everything else is sanitized slop.
GTA 6 is going to sell tens of millions of copies, based of nothing but people loving GTA5. It's going to be guaranteed crap, and we all know it will be crap because Rockstar is the same as every other western studio. It has filled itself with DEI hires, is fully captured by woke ideology and share holder pandering is rampant. It will be full of insufferable woke nonsense, it will have 1/4 the content of GTA5, there will be no freedom to do anything and the writing will be millennial cringe.
GTA6 will do more to empower the asian game industry long term than anything they do themselves, when your most powerful warrior fails and your competition is making bangers for cheaper you're just converting more and more of the mass game audience over to non western made games.
Western made games used to be cool, now they are cringe and lame.
The west simply can't make good AAA games anymore, we have no creativity because everyone is afraid. All we can make is CoD, fifa, madden 12, 20, 30 or remakes and remasters of games when we used to be good at this.
The most valuable asset we still have is brands, brands from when we used to make good games (and this should tell you all you need to know how far the western video game industry has fallen). China have few brands, so they have to make their games be good now. Since they hire the best people, and have no woke investors to pander to they just simply do what everyone knows works. The west cannot do what they know works, so they keep farming losses.
I can't think of one western game I'm hyped for, GTA6 is the only one you can pretend will be good and it's going to suck and be a massive disappointment.
Actually I can think of one, but only one. The new Doom game, which again is a 20 year old brand.
By Afania 2025-03-29 06:41:10
I can't think of one western game I'm hyped for
That's your problem then....
I still have many western new titles that I look forward to, admittedly most if not all of those titles are more AA/indie game than AAA.
I am not really a fan of AAA style games anyways, mainline FF is pretty much the only AAA games that I'd be interested. So it's your problem if you find AAA games represents all of gaming industry. Most of AA or indie game has way more interesting themes, gameplay and creativity than AAA.
If you only ever play AAA games, then you'd miss a lot of interesting experience in video games.
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By Asura.Saevel 2025-03-29 08:33:36
Almost every Chinese game that has made it to market is a straight rip off of another game/series. Even Genshin Impact, their most successful game, clearly rips off BOTW. In English lit. they will tell you there are only 5 plots. I really doubt game developers can come up with a new one.
I think people confuse "interesting plot" with "likable characters doing typical plot". Like you said there really are only a couple of stories types in the world, everything else is just permutations and twists on those stories. It's the characters we fall in love with, the chemistry and interaction between them is what drives us to care about the story in the first place.
That is why western (and some eastern) companies injecting woke nonsense into the characters has such a negative effect. The characters have to be both likable and relatable for players to invest into it.
By RadialArcana 2025-03-29 11:34:20
If carpenters were treated the same way as game developers, they would be hammering in nails with marmalade and cutting wood with singing. We have all these well established tropes in story telling, that work and are loved by men and women yet because gender ideologues find them offensive game developers and all writers are pressured to not use them.
We are utterly destroying our own industries because some potato people can't accept reality of male and female psychology.
Mario saving princess peach from bowser works.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-03-29 13:30:23
Just a reminder that Zelda saved Link this summer. It wasnt a far fetched storyline, it made use of her powers bestowed by the Triforce of Wisdom.
The “chuds” dont give a *** about “woke” elements (boss woman saves man) if it makes sense.
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By K123 2025-03-29 13:44:18
Does anyone like Drakengard games? I really like 1+2 when I played them a long time ago. Couldn't force myself to play through 1 again, super repetitive spamming.
Granted Nier is an off-shoot from Drakengard 2 I could play either that or Drakengard 3 now since I've never played either. What should I play first?
By Nariont 2025-03-29 14:18:08
Nier links more with D1 than 2 iirc, in either case Nier is a much, much more enjoyable experience imo
By K123 2025-03-29 15:17:57
You've played both though?
By Nariont 2025-03-29 15:51:08
Been a long time but yea, played Nier back on the PS3 release so the later remaster/remake may have added stuff in lore wise.
By K123 2025-03-29 16:03:46
I already had Drakengard 3 downloaded so going to try this first, will definitely play Nier after. Thanks.
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By RadialArcana 2025-03-29 16:19:35
It's funny if you change a few things in *** creed shadows, the people defending this would lose their minds.
The location: Africa
The protagonist: A white guy.
Job: kill everyone there with a big sword and smash up all things.
By Viciouss 2025-03-29 16:25:36
Yeah that's just another lie from RA. Didn't the series already go to Africa? No one batted an eye. Don't project your ignorance onto others.
By RadialArcana 2025-03-29 16:27:14
Yeah they never stop complaining about RE6.
By Viciouss 2025-03-29 17:28:14
I can't think of one western game I'm hyped for
That's your problem then....
I still have many western new titles that I look forward to, admittedly most if not all of those titles are more AA/indie game than AAA.
I am not really a fan of AAA style games anyways, mainline FF is pretty much the only AAA games that I'd be interested. So it's your problem if you find AAA games represents all of gaming industry. Most of AA or indie game has way more interesting themes, gameplay and creativity than AAA.
If you only ever play AAA games, then you'd miss a lot of interesting experience in video games.
Pretty much this. So RA, who doesn't even play videogames, isn't looking forward to any western titles. Big deal.
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-03-29 17:35:11
Been a long time but yea, played Nier back on the PS3 release so the later remaster/remake may have added stuff in lore wise.
They turned they guy into a femboy.
When will sweetbaby stop!
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-03-29 17:47:30
Yeah that's just another lie from RA. Didn't the series already go to Africa? No one batted an eye. Don't project your ignorance onto others.
I mean
Ive seen a lot of articles about why RE6 cant get a remake cuz the game is a white man killing black people in Africa, and thats nor tolerable in the modern era.
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-03-29 17:52:44
you mean 5
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By RadialArcana 2025-03-29 18:17:04
Sheeva hot asf, sad they will never be able to do a remake of the game.
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-03-29 18:31:46
I remember looking at her and being like yup, I got jungle fever.
By Viciouss 2025-03-29 18:56:32
RE5 should be next on the Resident Evil Remake list. That game had a lot of updates and changes, I think the final version had Jill on the cover. I'm sure they will fix the stupid AI behavior. I bet it will be the last remake they do from the main line series, nobody wants 6.
By Afania 2025-03-30 05:12:59
Been a long time but yea, played Nier back on the PS3 release so the later remaster/remake may have added stuff in lore wise.
They turned they guy into a femboy.
When will sweetbaby stop!
This character has always been a femboy. The western world just happened to get the wrong protagonist in OG release that's all.
This is the OG Japanese box
By RadialArcana 2025-03-30 06:24:00
A femboy is a western creation, that character is just an androgynous looking straight male character. This is widespread in Japanese and korean media, the west loves to overlay its own culture on everyone else's.
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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-03-30 09:32:16
A femboy is a western creation /headdesk
Sorry. The concept of femboys, or twinks if you prefer, can be found in ancient Greece and probably long before.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2025-03-30 09:36:38
Them asians love the *** out of their femboys. Over pretty feminine "male" characters lol.
We go hard in the exact opposite direction. bulldykes. Overly masculine "female" characters.
By Dodik 2025-03-30 09:46:45
Yet to meet anyone that unironically likes a super masculine female character.
No, not that type either.
Angrogynous males are very very popular in SE Asia, Korea and Japan in particular. See every male K-pop band ever.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-03-30 10:02:36
After this topic derail, you will all remember the name of
->>slowly sucks in air
Gooooooold dussssssst
By Godfry 2025-03-30 10:19:58
Yet to meet anyone that unironically likes a super masculine female character.
It's an abomination. Also very sexist. These brain-rotten woke garbage think that the only possible way to be strong is to have men-like features. They also make their she-dudes embody the worst toxic insecure masculine traits.
I think my favorite character of all times is Lenneth from Valkyrie profile. She was so strong she defeated Loki with a Dragon Orb. She was extremely feminine and likable.
We like this:
Not this:
By K123 2025-03-30 10:31:29
Yet to meet anyone that unironically likes a super masculine female character.
No, not that type either.
Angrogynous males are very very popular in SE Asia, Korea and Japan in particular. See every male K-pop band ever. I always thought Tifa was quite tom-boyish in the original FF7. That being one of the contrasts with Aerith being super feminine. Over time Tifa has been made more and more feminine though.
By Afania 2025-03-30 10:32:40
Yet to meet anyone that unironically likes a super masculine female character.
Excuse me.... Biscuit has a word.... see page 17.
Actually, just Google muscle women porn or tomboy porn on pornhub, you'd know this kink definitely has a market. Not even woke's fault.
Just 10 sec googling pornhub I found a video titled "3 Muscle Women *** their Toy Boy" with 2.8m views. I'm not gonna link it to keep this site minor friendly though.
tl;Dr: Don't underestimate people's kinks.
So... I have been increasingly frustrated with new games over years. I feel like so much effort it placed on graphics, lighting, art style, ect and maybe 10% of that effort is placed into gameplay, controls, and story.
My latest purchase was Visions of Mana, which I was pretty excited for. Secret of Mana is in my top 5 all time, I've played Seiken Densetsu 3 translated and while I didn't think it was as good as Secret of Mana, it was still extremely enjoyable. I skipped Trials of Mana since I had already played Seiken Densetsu 3. Vision is just bad. The english voice acting was awful, the characters were bland/generic or just stupid, and I was 3hrs into the game and all I was doing to running 30seconds between CS. Felt like a slightly interactive shitty anime.
Hogwarts Legacy, Visions of Mana, Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield... I felt like all of these super hyped games were absolute duds. Final Fantasy 16 is coming to PC in a few weeks and I'm not sure if I even want to try it anymore. I've heard people say not great things about it.
I know I'm just venting a bit here, but it really sucks being excited for a new game and then the crushing disappointment when it's not fun.
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