Ghost of Yōtei
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Hatorade
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Szlia
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The game is made by the same team and the parameters you can change in such a game to not make it more of the same are limited. You change the place, you change the time and you change the protagonist. It also should be reminded that japanese devs were very surprised and in a way jealous of the way the main character was written in the first game. Having a middle-aged, unremarkable man as protagonist is just not a thing that can be done in Japan. We can be confident this same team will also avoid stereotypes in this sequel. But now, if you want to be all pissy because of who they hired as the english VA no sensible person will ever hear in the game (who would use english voices for a game set in Japan?), feel free.
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Ritley
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Gavinmad
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Tasty The Treat
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It truly feels like Sony is trying to speedrun the demise of the Playstation brand and fanbase. It's like they spent all these years building it up just to hand it over to a bunch of activists and have them ruin any goodwill fans gave them.
- Successful new IP starring male protagonist
- Western Commiefornian studio under Soyny
- Sequel with unnecessarily long, suspicious time skip
- Featuring new female protagonist
- Pretends that there were female ronin running amok wrecking adult male warriors
- Hires a liberal American whackjob with more pronouns than brain cells as the voice actor
- Sweet Baby Infection
Yeah, under normal circumstances, like circa 2005, I wouldn't see a reason to bat an eye, but the pattern has been established enough that the red flags just aren't worth giving anyone the benefit of the doubt these days.
Like Lanx said earlier, they had plenty of choices for voice actors and could have ideally gotten an actual Japanese woman instead of some parasite.
We've regressed this far because too many people refused to gatekeep and shame people for their shit taste.
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rhinohelix
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Eh, this will initially sell OK to Sony Ponys but this otherwise not be the huge hit the first one was. I mean, the game is the game but if the story sucks in a single player game, Girlboss/DEI/Woke garbage, people aren't going to pay to lectured to any longer.
All signs point to another Activist takeover of a successful IP.
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Sinistkir13
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So true.
I remember getting a 360 and how as Microsoft's own hubris started to take hold as the releases stagnated and they pivoted towards casuals with those lame Mii-from-temu things and the Kinect.
Then with the comeback is Sony and a bunch of powerhouse releases while finally making due on their promises with things like the Killzone 2 trailer. And while I never owned a PS1 or PS2, I at least know just how much of a legacy Sony already had, only to continually shove everything from the PS3 era and before into a box that they'd rather set fire to than ever try to emulate (literally and figuratively).
In retrospect, the success of their third person walky-talky games like from Naughty Dog led them in the wrong direction to where they stopped really caring about making games first, and that has only gotten worse as studios like Naughty Dog were taken over by activists who would rather be making gay romantic dramas in Pedowood if given the opportunity (see: Neil Cuckman).
Right when this generation began, I honestly thought I'd wait to see if there was any reason to buy a PS5 knowing full well that it would really just be a Bloodborne/Demon's Souls machine, but between everything they do and plucky PC emulation persistence, they can choke on all of the rainbow dildos if they're seriously going to repeat the same mistake as other companies by appealing to some >.01% of terminally online zippertit twitter twats.
No question on the Sony fanatic base because they do need a reason to justify their remaster box and/or Pro remaster box.
As for Sony, they're also losing favor with the PC market due to their retarded PSN requirement, but they're too arrogant to understand that PC players effectively treat their soft exclusivity window on Playstation not only as a premium open beta version that also serves as an indicator as to whether the game is worth a damn in the first place.
Everyone already knew that the first Ghost of Tsushima was a solid game well before the official PC release, but now they get to blow their load on another patent-pending woke double down sequel. If it truly is infected, then they'll have to show their hand - hell, wokescolds are such belligerent faggots that they'll openly show their cards all on their own - which is funny in its own right because it will yet again disprove Sony's asinine strategy of releasing games on PC thinking anyone would buy their soy box for a markedly worse sequel.
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Palum
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Sounds like they're thinking they are losing market share because they aren't cutting off enough tits and dicks for the modern audience, rather than they haven't delivered value to the core consumer in the era of economic downturn.
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Utnayan
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And they most definitely didn’t learn anything from concord either.
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Zindan
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I'd say it's the Western segments of Sony that are pushing the DEI while the Japan segment is asleep at the wheel.
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We know all the fans who made the last game profitable liked "X" thing. So we decided to replace "X" thing with some faggot queer dogshit in an effort to sabotage our company because we employ full blown fucking commie retards. We should all be lined up in the street and given a couple of "Brad McQuaid Parkinglots" to the back of the head.
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Sinistkir13
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The land whale saying this:
As if these people even play video games, "an entertainment," when they probably think jerking it to tumblr slash fics is "gaming."
Fucking idiots ha ha! Wow, they really are lost in their own sauce.
The immediate push back telling people not to buy their game (instead of maybe trying to persuade people it isn't woke shit) was enough of a red flag all on its own never minding the rest, but they really are hellbent on cratering their reputation and business for some rainbow marxists who don't buy anything.
They probably saw the positive customer reception to Stellar Blade and didn't understand why people gravitated towards that particular female protagonist.
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Szlia
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What is X in your scenario? Because if it was feudal Japan, it's still here. If it was an original time and place in feudal Japan, it's still here. If it was sword fighting and open'ish world, for all we know, it's still here. If it was technological mastery and good art direction, it's very likely to still be here. If it was good writing and an engaging story, it also very likely to still be here since it's made by the same people. So what is X? The main character was a man and now it's a woman? It was historically accurate/believable and now it no longer is? Except 1) who cares? 2) it most likely still is about as accurate as the first game (as in: accurate enough to anchor the story).
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Seananigans
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Oh yeah? Lots of female ronin roaming around feudal Japan?
Your link to Onna-Mushi is non-sensical, training martially so as to defend one's home is not the same as what a ronin is.
Sinistkir13
brah I was so hype for Tsushima 2. The first game had its flaws but captured so many elements of what I wanted to experience in a game. I just wanted more from the same character, but with better gameplay elements....My heart sank when I saw the trailer for the new game. Why are they so hellbent on erasing strong male characters in story oriented games?
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