dead space remake not pulling *any* punches pic.twitter.com/cTCRtPyaxs

— Russ Frushtick (@RussFrushtick) January 27, 2023

Drama

Let me guess. corporations bad, but two months of the year corporations not so bad ?

nobody thinks the thing youre saying this guy thinks

the entire point of the meme ur replying with is that corporations are shitty and toothlessly appeal to social movements if they think it'll make them more money. it was prob made by a leftist

They only do it because leftwing people eat that shit up. Rightwing people find it repulsive so it's not us throwing our money at them over a little virtue signaling.

youre thinking of liberals lmfao. liberals are right wing, actual leftists despise that shit more than you

was on the fence about this game but seeing all people in the quotes pressed about this small easily forgettable graffiti is very funny. i have to cop it now

“I was going to buy it already but let me claim otherwise to stick it to the chuds”

You anti-capitalists would literally clap at anything.

This is what it looks like when over-educated people who have lived in a mid-upper class bubble their whole lives try to write graffiti. They've never seen graffiti before so they do weird things like use full words like "organization" and write full thoughts.

All the best games are not just political, but explicitly and unashamedly leftist. https://t.co/aUv9bM1ljM

— VƎX Werewolf #OpenDnD (@vexwerewolf) January 20, 2023

All the best games are not just political, but explicitly and unashamedly leftist.

• Disco Elysium

• The Metal Gear franchise

• Most of Borderlands

• Hitman World of Assassination trilogy

• Doom (2016)

• Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas (Bethesda ones less so)

EVE Online is an ACCIDENTALLY leftist game. It presents a society functioning entirely on right-wing free market capitalism. It's fricking miserable to play. It's a hellscape. Everything sucks. And that happened organically, as an inevitable outcome of its premise. You could argue, if you were a fricking idiot, that Bioshock isn't "really" leftist because the plot simply DECIDED that Andrew Ryan's libertarian utopia failed. EVE Online just said "okay have at it" and within five years major power players had literally recreated OPEC.

Most games, even if they're right-wing, are pretty low-key about it. They'll be vaguely nationalistic military fetishism like Call of Duty.

The right-wing mindset is a very poor fit for any kind of dev work, and most non-right-wing devs don't want to put that shit in their game. The main reason for this, of course, is that right-wingers are basically incapable of making art.

Brief Reading on who Vex is

TL;DR: Former #G*mergater turned furry lolcow. The to pipeline stays undefeated. She gets dunked on by leftoids, rightoids, and coomers

Post about what you're playing, looking forward to, whatever.

Just had the realization.

Graphically far ahead, very short, interesting world but not mapped out well enough, all games of next gen retain its quality but have actual gameplay.

The Callisto Protocol was the Order 1886 of this generation.

By the time the ps6 is out all of its games will look like Callisto protocol in quality.

A solid 8-9 out of 10.

You want pure horror? Sorry this isn't it.

You want action horror? Frick yeah come on in partner.

Story - Excellent

Voices - Excellent

Characters - Excellent

Gameplay - medium-high quality. The skinning and dismemberment system is kino but the weapons genuinely feel OP. Like I cannot picture how the necromorphs are a real threat to anybody with weapons like these.

Monsters - They get cooler as you keep playing

Graphics - Good enough that some moments in gameplay could be easily mistaken for cutscenes.

Favorite things about game - When the asteroids hit the space station in places and suddenly the vacuum of space is in the room with you. Looks cool as shit.

New plot twists not in the original.

The statis effect is so OP when used on humans.

Also the kinetic thing seems to practically move things that weigh hundreds of pounds if not tons.

The setting actually feels futuristic. The lack of robots feels out of place taking into account there are robots around even today in the world.

Also cool how the entire story is how everything that can go wrong is going wrong.

It's like hey let's park the ship oh no parking failed ship crashed. Okay let's look for people to speak with. Oh no necromorph attack. Okay maybe the medical guys can help us. Oye vey that man is insane and created an unkillable necromorph. Okay maybe look for other survivors. Oh no they are all cultists. Okay distress beacon gonna get help. Hey military ship oh no they got a nuke to blow us up. Okay maybe my gf can help oh no she is imaginary.

The real threat of dead space isn't the necromorphs it is the marker itself.

You can kill the necromorph with future tech, but you still cannot cure widespread insanity.

Dead space feels like if humanity had found the markers even one or two centuries later, they could have easily dunked on the necromorphs and the markers. Like seriously, the plasma cutter works smooth like butter.

Anyways what are your thoughts on the dead space remake and the dead space universe?

Overall score : 9/10

Reviews say it's a very good remake and the original is one of those "all time classics" i never got round to playing. Should I spend 7 bananas on this?

I’m torn. On the one hand, Rockstar has been pretty much nothing but naked cash grabs since RDR2. And they can’t lean into controversy the way they used to, because instead of soccer moms policing their politics, it’s their target market. I expect that we’re going to get a pretty sanitized product compared to previous GTAs. And I’ll be honest, the Bonnie and Clyde stuff doesn’t strike me as promising, seems very “girlboss”.

But on the other hand, it’s GTA. It would really be the first bad GTA game ever made.

I just hope it isn’t as disappointing as the new Saints Row.

FOR ASHLEY JOHNSON, the chance to be a voice actor in the post-apocalyptic video game The Last of Us Part II was both a risk and irresistible. It was her first gig as a video-game protagonist, as her character, Ellie, moved up from a supporting role. Butwasn't a paint-by-numbers sequel: It killed off a beloved character; it featured a lesbian lead on its cover; and it subverted the dynamic of the original, which followed a white man as he protected a young girl from danger. As Johnson awaited the game's release in June 2020, she knew it wouldn't be for everyone, but she was "shocked," she says, by what happened next.

A contingent of g*mers, angered by a lesbian lead character and the game's progressive politics, not only protested The Last of Us Part II, they sought to punish the people who made it. Johnson, who is for the first time opening up about the abuse she endured, says her Twitter DMs were flooded with threats of violence, including a user telling her he'd "r*pe her straight." They doctored images to make it look like she'd posted vulgar content online. And they superimposed her face and those of others who'd worked on the game onto images of characters being sexually violated or even beaten to death with a golf club.

"Some of the shit I was reading, I was like, 'I cannot believe someone sat behind their computer and put their fingers on the keyboard, and that's what they chose to write,'" Johnson says. "This hatred and anger, and being on the other end of that, for something I cared so deeply about, was hard."

Johnson's co-workers faced similar abuse. Studio president Neil Druckmann, who is Jewish, was hit with a wave of antisemitism and threats to his safety on social media. The most horrific abuse, Johnson says, was directed at Laura Bailey, her co-star and the voice of another lead character, Abby Anderson. Users were upset that Abby, a woman in a world full of human-eating monsters, has a muscular physique, and turned her character into a transphobic meme.

The Last of Us Part II saga is not surprising, sadly. For more than a decade, as women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community have fought for representation in the space, they've been met with backlash from a group of g*mers, mostly men, who prefer it remain exclusive. The conflict hit its apex with 2014's G*mergate, a mass harassment campaign against female video-game critics and developers.

Today, it's clear the abusers have failed. For all the cruelty they unleashed on its makers, they couldn't keep The Last of Us Part II down --- the game was a massive commercial success and won Game of the Year at the 2020 Game Awards, as well as honors at the Golden Joystick Awards, the British Academy Games Awards, and more. And while members of marginalized communities continue to face abuse online, it hasn't stopped them from making the gaming world --- its developers, characters, executives, and audience --- more diverse than ever.

If many men today act like video games belong to them and them alone, it's because they grew up with a video-game industry that told them exactly that. "Hit Her Game Spot," reads a 2004 headline in Electronic Gaming Monthly for a piece about how to manipulate "your girlfriend" into playing video games. The article includes six strategies and a backup: "If all fails and she refuses to touch your joypad, the least you can do is feed her some lines the next time you're geeking out with your gaming pals."

The article is typical of an era when near-naked women were the norm in video-game advertising, and Kotaku managing editor Carolyn Petit, a video-game critic for more than a decade, says that bygone messaging is still driving harassment. "Everything in the gaming space sent a message very intentionally to young straight men that games are for you," Petit says, "and they're here to fulfill your every power fantasy."

But a decade ago, the industry started to realize it was losing out by pushing away more than half of humanity. More games featured prominent female characters, and offscreen, female critics were gaining prominence as they pointed out sexism in popular games and gaming culture.

Then came G*mergate, when what began as an unfounded attack on a female video-game developer metastasized into an all-out assault on female writers and developers. After an initial explosion of attention, G*mergate left the headlines, but for women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals in gaming, the harassment never went away.

When Mattias Lehman, a Black man and former employee of Riot Games, appeared on the company's Twitch channel in 2017, viewers fixated on his race and referred to him as the "Black" version of another commentator. The first time he appeared on his own stream, a viewer immediately called him the n-word. After a few months, Lehman quit appearing on Riot's stream. By 2018, he'd left the industry entirely, and now works on climate-change advocacy. "To me," Lehman says, "the community feels like it includes a lot of people who just felt salty that they never got to be bullies and jocks in high school and wanted a community where they get to do that."

For many developers, external abuse is compounded by cultures of sexism inside their organizations. In 2018, Riot Games --- maker of the massively popular arena-battle game League of Legends --- paid $100 million to settle a class-action gender-discrimination lawsuit after a Kotaku exposé of a company steeped in "bro culture." Female employees reported seeing their ideas ignored and careers impeded while senior leaders allegedly passed around lists of women they wanted to sleep with.

Riot says it has instituted changes, including shuffling its all-male leadership to one that is 25 percent female. And video-game firms have made forays into proactively protecting employees against online harassment.

But developers have mostly looked to one another for support. Feminist Frequency, which produces commentary on pop culture and games, runs a text hotline for people who have faced harassment. Anita Sarkeesian, a critic who was severely harassed during G*mergate and is the hotline's executive director, says there were "very few resources to help" and "very few people who understood" what she and others experienced. "We saw that these sorts of online attacks and abuses were not a thing of the past," she says. "So, we started creating the resources we wish we had."

They're also creating the games they wish they had. Chandana Ekanayake has been in the video-game industry for a quarter-century, but five years ago, he left to co-found his own indie developer, Outerloop Games.

Outlerloop is minority-led, and the company's first game was Falcon Age, a sci-fi virtual-reality title about a young woman attempting to save a dying planet colonized by automated, mechanical invaders reminiscent of British imperials. Outerloop's next title, Thirsty Suitors, is played from the perspective of a teenage bisexual girl named Jala, who is half Sri Lankan and half Indian, with immigrant parents.

In other words, Outerloop puts out games made by people of color, featuring people of color, with an intended audience of anyone who is interested. It's everything G*mergate tried to stop but couldn't. Petit, the Kotaku gaming critic, sees reasons for hope in her peers' resilience. "We should take motivation, take encouragement from the sense that change is possible," she says. "And that queer g*mers, trans g*mers, women, and people of color --- whoever we are --- we're not going anywhere, because games belong to us, too."

it's good so far

trans lives matter

I’ve been watching quake speedruns and doom uvmax runs since like 1996 or so but this qdq edition takes the cake. So much of quake has already been mastered by nauseating bobbing/sr50 style bunnyhops that modern runs are vomiting inducing, but these kids have overcome that by making something almost demoscene worthy. What is it with eastern euros and based as frick multimedia projects?

I've been feeling nostalgic for some swashbuckling and I wanted to buy Black Flag again. Is the switch port any good? I'd like to play it portably if it runs at least as well as it did on PS3. If it's shitty though I'll just get it on Steam.

This is my favorite

Yes, you can pet the cat in #HogwartsLegacy! @CanYouPetTheDog pic.twitter.com/LIHmxam6SV

— Harry Potter Film (@HarryPotterFilm) January 25, 2023

The Harry Potter games marketing team tried to tag the youcanpetadog twitter account (which is some strange redditish bullshit) but they untagged themselves as to not associated with hatred and transphobia. Sneeding ensues for many comments.

Prototype is probably the other one that comes to mind for me tbh. I also HATED Metal Gear Solid 4 and beyond.

Former G*mergate personality Brianna Wu joined calls to boycott *Hogwarts Legacy *and claimed whether or not you participated in the boycott was a "character test."

The game developer and failed political candidate issued her own call to boycott the game, tweeting earlier this month, "My position on Hogwarts Legacy is clear. I'm boycotting it. I think if you care about trans people you should too."

Wu then added, "But, in what should not be a surprise to anyone, most g*mers don't care about trans dignity enough to sacrifice for them. By all accounts, it will sell very well."

Wu then tweeted, “This outcome shouldn’t surprise me. G*mers care even less about trans dignity than they did about the women who make games having a sexual harassment-free workplace. But it is deeply saddening to see.”

In another tweet she wrote, “If the people who buy games expected more of the industry and of themselves we would solve a lot of problems. Less sexual misconduct, less open discrimination, fewer predatory practices with microtransactions. But we expect nothing, and receive nothing in return.”

Next, Wu claimed that whether or not you joined in on the boycott it was "a character test."

"Hogwarts Legacy isn't a game. It's a character test," Wu tweeted. "And a lot of people are about fail it."

The absolutist comment drew plenty of mockery with Huff4Congress responding, "Exactly! If you don't buy *Hogwarts Legacy, *swayed by absurd concerns that Harry Potter's beloved creator has supposedly committed some societal sin by standing against the rank misogyny of modern 'transgender' insanity, you're a spineless coward without much character at all."

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So I actually like Rick and Morty and so was interested in what a Rick and Morty video game would be like.

You play as a guy with a talking gun called Kenny who's basically just the Morty character in a gun. Then you get a few more guns and they talk too but they're all kind of one dimensional without any character depth nor backstory.

The humour is funny sometimes but a lot of it is too improv, like those Rick and Morty episodes where they watch TV, but half the game dialogue is like that which makes it seem rather low effort.

The atmosphere is nice tho. Scifi writers still haven't got over the success of BSG back in the day and so most scifi is still hardcore gritty realism stuff which was nice at the time but is getting a bit boring now. It's good to have a colourful comedy scifi universe sometimes too.

It was entertaining enough to get to the end without getting bored anyway. Not bad overall.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/forspoken

Seems like it’s getting enough hate so price will be dropped soon

Wow, 68 on Metacritic, this is a must buy.

Let's take a look at the subreddit.

I feel like someone is genuinely paying people to persuade fans of the game not to buy it

Let people have fun lmao.

No one paid me to realize the demo was horrible

Why are you wasting your time on a sub that you don’t care for or won’t buy the game?

I hope the same people complaining about no POC in FF 16, supports the hell out of Forspoken.

If I see anyone play Terwarts Legacy and not my this, I'm blocking them on Steam.

Mine arrived early, and the 5 hours or so I've played have been an absolute blast. Can't wait to sink my teeth into it on Friday. Hope you enjoy it as much as I am 😀

This reads like a real human wrote this post.

Don't worry though, the reviews will correct the record!

Opencritic - 70/100 so far

Gamespot Review for instance is bs (5/10)

even after reviews your still huffing the copium

Why is it copium if I just like something?

This is the best comeback he had for why he likes a game he hasn't played yet.

I don't know how much weight you put on these reviews but this is almost as bad as it gets for a AAA game. Considering this is the most expensive game I've ever seen it's definitely a no buy from me.

You need to watch those reviews to see that they're total BS.

I didn't think people still circled wagons like this after the 1850s.

About GameStops author: Jordan rolled credits on Forspoken after 12 hours

12 hours??? Most of the players here didn't beat Tanta Silas within 15 hours (first major boss).

Imagine being worse than a games journalist at playing games.

Ok, well surely Resetera is respecting Bipoc protagonists.

Forspoken | Is that a Motherfuckin' |OT| ?

Um, that's AAVE appropriation. Yikes!

Don't worry, they're getting people who dislike the game for the wrong reasons, though!

/!\ User Banned (3 Days): Accusations of Media Bias

as expected, reviews are pretty average...7/10...some reviews are more positive but since Square Enix limited the sites that got review codes I'm not sure that the early reviews will be indicative of the scores overall...I'm sure once all the reviewers get their codes that the scores will drop even lower

They also have a review thread

Not going in depth, but I saw a ban that was funny.

/!\ User Banned (Duration Pending): Dismissing concerns of racial bias, previous history of dismissiveness in sensitive threads

Thank you for saving the sensitive threads, mods.

And don't forget:

Thank you, Black Girl Gamers.

Post your top 2 (or, if you really have to, 3) best games of last year. The only rule is they have to have been released in 2022 (there are actually no rules, I'm not a janny I can't delete your comments). You should also post the worst or most disappointing games of last year, the most overhyped meh games and stuff you didn't play but suspect it might be good.

Oh man that studio is getting shut down for sure after this.

The main character looks like a bitter BIPOC who doesn't want to be in the game.

The dragon riding section is cookie cutter shit.

She unironically says gaslamping in the game.

The characters look soulless.

And this is just the bits I checked before I came here to post.

This is what you get when you force the Japanese to put BIPOCs in their games. Lmao.

Somebody quickly make a Japanese racism baitpost about this.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/10ih9sv/forspoken_final_boss_gameplay_leaked/

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This gonna be the Velma of video games - /u/magikdyspozytor

1. They made the foids ugly

2. I cannot afford the money or the time or the gear to run dead space remake.

This is the princess you are going against the forces of madness and horror itself to rescue.

The moment I found out about this I realized it does not matter how many improvements they make to the game it won't be enjoyable because they have turned their game into a feminist fantasy where a guy risks his life, sanity, and his very soul over and over again to save...that.

I am sorry foidbros you are delusional I would never risk my life for that unless I knew her and was strongly in love with her since childhood.

Good luck to you all who think you deserve to be a princess finding your prince charming at the age of 40.

Delusional meter score - 10/10

Japanese video game industry will win.

deliberate