and of course they had the character supports trans rights circlejerk 2 days ago https://old.reddit.com/r/darkestdungeon/comments/1co0dry/ancestor_says_trans_rights

Our voice actor's name, once so well-regarded, is now barely whispered aloud by decent folk.

Truly the worst thing the Ancestor has ever done

/r/196 poster

Statisically, not every person who does great work will have great morals.

I'll still say his work is exceptional, and so long as he doesn't bring his politics into the game, I'm more or less whatever about it. Only if it affects the game will I change my stance - kind of like a death of the author situation

The game funds him. If you keep giving money to RH then you're financially supporting a transphobe.

You can feel how you want about stuff you've already paid for.

I guess he was actually an butthole irl. Hope he gets better.

Makes me wonder how Red Hook never noticed he was like this. Like he's a good voice that fits the game but surely they understood this could cause disdain from the community? Sure his political opinions are technically seperate from the game... but June is the voice of their world.

At a certain point I have to wonder if Red Hook itself shares his views to a degree and just kept it in the DL.

Its his opinion, he is allowed to share it.

He is a man on the older side, he has worldview and as long as he is not hurting nobody then let it have it.

Im not gonna let it sour my experience of the game.

It's a dangerous worldview that can cause real harm, but outside of that, I'm with you wholeheartedly.

>It's a dangerous worldview

replacing my steam's game description page with just this image pic.twitter.com/V8TC8xUeS5

— the mosquito (@bonerman_inc) May 11, 2024

Here is the game for those interested.

CONTEXT

PC G*mer Link: President of Xbox asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing

@ 4:00 is the question

>Then Bond is asked about Tango Gameworks, and fires back an answer that seems both off-the-cuff and completely deflective.

>"One of the things I really love about the games industry is it's a creative artform, and it means that the situation—and what success [means] for each game and studio is also really unique," Bond begins. "There's no 'one-size fits all' to it for us. And so we look at each studio, each game team, and we look at a whole variety of factors when we're faced with making decisions and trade-offs like that."

>Bond adds: "But it all comes back to our long-term commitment to the games we create, the devices we build, the services—and ensuring that we're setting ourselves up to be able to deliver on those promises." That's it, next question. No elaboration.

It's painful watching the video. It's 17 minutes of spitting out buzzwords fed to her by her team. There's nothing of substance or iota of care about gaming. She's clueless about the industry she makes executive decisions on, the livelihoods of thousands and the passions of millions. I had no idea of her background and the caricatures are true - she really is a Harvard MBA.

Edit: I watched the video again. If you pay attention really closely, she's just whispering under her breath the words “shareholder value” for 17 minutes.

I wonder does she talk in this way in all parts of life, because conversation with her would be impossible.

Imagine being her husband and asking her "How was your day, honey?" and then just getting bombarded with buzzwords and corp-speak that says absolutely nothing, let alone answer the question.

Bonnie Ross vibes (who?? )

its this everyone of these guys from Xbox are MBA drones on $500k or more none of them are g*mers, none of them have ever picked up a controller, all of them have a placeholder Xbox g*mer account with token acheivements etc. yusuf mehdi, mr. tv tv tv tv - they're all the same.... slick slimy advertising buttholes and this is why xbox is always going to be #3 i think at least nintendo and to some extent, playstation has some dedicated folks at the reins... ie. mark cerny seems to be a great h/w person and theres people like Kaz Yamauchi.... truly... savants and yet if you look at other MS alumni like Panos Panay, I'm not sure its better if you throw it to them... was it different with peter moore j. allard behind the wheel? well yeah. the current staff going back to mattrick makes me not want to spend money on xbox

She's the president? lol. Xbox is fricked

McKinsey word salad

some good fighting among redditeurs

They really have no idea what they're doing

If only they had experts like the ones in reddit, theyd be successful.

If only they had more white knights like you to guard them

I'm not claiming to be an expert, but when a studio releases Hi-Fi Rush, it receives insane reviews, great sales, and GOTY nominations/awards, is praised by the publisher, then is immediately shut down, then the publisher comes out and says "we need smaller games that win awards"... I mean yes like I said I'm no expert BUT COME THE FRICK ON. They clearly have no idea what they're doing. I'm no expert but I know that Nintendo doesn't just fire a bunch of people after their game sells like crazy, and that company has been making games WAY longer than Microsoft. It doesn't take an expert to see that Microsoft has no idea how to manage game publishing.

Did it have great sales tho? It's not like it was an indie game that cost nothing to make and it was only sold at $30.

It's hard to find hard numbers on it because it's digital only but according to the wiki it has had over 3,000,000 players between both sales and Game Pass and it's now releasing on Playstation and Switch. I'd say it's been a financial success.

I seriously doubt it had “great sales”. It probably had the opposite of that for Microsoft to shut them down. I seriously doubt Microsoft were like “this studio is making us truck load of money let's close them”. Great user and critic reviews isn't going to save a studio at the end of the day if no one bought the game. And this is not the first game that underpowered from them. Ghostwyre Tokyo failed financially too and that was marketed by Sony and launched on Ps5/PC.

Over 3,000,000 players across sales and Game Pass. And even if sales were low that falls on the publisher for not advertising the game correctly. When all the critics and fans say the game is a 10/10 then the developers did their job flawlessly. Microsoft should've advertised it more if sales were down.

3m players doesn't tell us much. I am making this up but let's say 90% of them have played the game for 1 hour on gamepass. Then that fails in generating gamepass engagement and low sales and you have a game that just underperforms. We don't know the revenue, costs and profit of the game. Microsoft does know that. There is no world in which the game makes them truckload of money and they shut it down. You guys yourself said it - they care all about the bottom line. Advertising the game heavily costs money. Which you then need to make up through hopefully higher sales and end up being ahead. I suspect Microsoft didn't think it's worth doing it. Some games are more niche and inevitably have lower sales. Hi fi rush is likely one of them. We have seen this time and time again with great games undeperofmring financially. Nothing new here. This was the case with HI Fi rush and their previous game - ghostwire Tokyo which was promoted by Sony.

goes on and on

>Bro she was basically fondeling investor balls the entire time. Someone gave her the wrong script and she had bing summarize it for her.

!g*mers

!g*mers @kaamrev

wins again

No one is forcing you to download them, I swear people getting this mad at mods is a relatively new thing.

Update I will no longer be checking out stellaris https://t.co/hJgHpQmD1F pic.twitter.com/P7styCjsxt

— Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin 🐀 (@VoicesByZane) May 10, 2024

It's fundamentally disrespectful to artists

that's exactly why people are pro AI

Please CA, do it

LMAO

So I heard this game was mediocre but had a cool ending so I thought I'd play it to check out that ending.

The plot is basically just stolen from The Truman Show where you play as a guy who's on a TV show and who is trying to escape to the outside being helped by a woman who is a hacker watching him through CCTV cameras.

The gimmick of the game is that you play the man's part in 2D and the woman's part in 3D.

Most of it is pretty simple puzzle solving, especially the 2D part which is often just press right and watch him run along while listening to the characters talk to each other.

And yes, the characters are just as soy as they look, and behave just as you would expect them to behave, the man a wimpy nerd and the woman assertive and in charge, usual routine. She was also very obviously Latinx which she would remind us of every few sentences by saying a bunch of (easily understandable for mayos) Spanish to herself. It's funny how speaking Spanish is a virtue signal nowadays.

None of the dialogue was particularly that funny or entertaining though, but not annoying either, just kind of forgettable.

Throughout the game I was wondering what the twist was going to be. The two characters not actually in control of their escape and the whole thing orchestrated by the TV company would be the most obvious twist, but it wouldn't be that predictable would it? lol turns out it was exactly that

So really you just have a meh platformer and a bunch of forgettable writing and voice acting. I suppose if there's anything redeeming, the art and design was pretty cool despite the creepy dot eyes that the characters have for some reason. There were a few fun ideas here and there too like one part where you're running within a Twitch-like window watching everyone in chat comment on whatever you do with the character.

Like they added that jrpg with hidjab foid but of course didn't added that certain Korean game. I kinda liked SAGA scarlet but in emerald that hidjab foid kills all the immersion

Sony promises game won't require psn account -> delist the game from countries without psn

Their diversity is their strength. 💪

Travel the world with party members Gallica, Strohl, Hulkenberg, and Heismay in Metaphor: ReFantazio, launching October 11th, 2024!

Pre-order your physical copy: https://t.co/Iw2ga3Ascq pic.twitter.com/XD5MsBW1FF

— Official ATLUS West (@Atlus_West) May 7, 2024

"Their diversity is their strength."

So you're saying I should cancel my pre-order, then, because the Western side of Sega is in control now?

try playing a megaten game without having a diverse team you tourist

Sure, and I have. Megaten games have largely been shit for years outside of Persona.

Thanks, you saved me $70.

"Their diversity is their strength.". I can already smell the blue haired DEI shit on the game's heavily altered English translations.

They're referring to the main cast being from different tribes...

I am aware. I am also aware of what they did with the Persona 3 Reload English localization censhorship.

Genuine question to why you think DEI is a bad thing.

There you go, yet another example . But please don't let my comment stop your group therapy session that you have you have with other people in the comments section ....

https://t.co/kvTxcdvQfU

Great I see the word “diversity”, I skip

Kiryu supports trans rights and diversity…

DEI catch phrase front and center

That's a bold strategy, let's see how that works out for you

The cast literally has a dude with horns, a girl, and a literal rabbit thing. I mean that's pretty f****** diverse lol. You know diverse just means variety, right?

The what now?

Diversity, look it up, it's a good thing.

Strength requires unity. Virtue signaling requires diversity.

Screw DEI. But aside from you guys obviously trying to stir up controversy by using the phrase "diversity is their strength," this doesn't appear to have anything to do with woke DEI nonsense.

Words like diversity being used in a vacuum shouldn't even cause controversy if people like you ever opened a book in your life

I read a ton, but I know a lot of people have the impulse to assume people they disagree with on social issues are illiterate or whatever. The point of my posts here are that the woke version of diversity is r-slurred, but this doesn't appear to be an indication of that type of DEI crap being in the game. They deliberately chose this phrase to stir up this exact controversy, though.

LIBS TAKE OVER

Do you think when the people in the Quotes and Replies saw the word "diversity" in the first sentence, a little blood vessel in their brain popped?

The synonym for Variety is not your enemies guy. You can use it for fruit, fighting styles or even hair color. Please be normal 😭

To be fair, they know what they did with this post. They didn't just use the word diversity. They chose "diversity is their strength," which is not something anyone says aside from using it as a woke mating call.

Why would you be upset at the phrase “diversity is their strength”, is that not true? The characters are all different , they each have different skillsets and different knowledge based on their backgrounds.

Most political slogans are perfectly mundane in other contexts, if not for their existing specific association with that political context

You would not be thinking this if it were an ideology you disagreed with

asking too much of incels

It's literally just a bunch of cishet white characters and y'all still found a way to get offended at the word "diversity"

Just admit you a straight up unfiltered human hater or in other words racist piece of crap

Like what more do y'all even need

Is diversity now bad ?

So close to self-awareness

I preordered an extra copy because people are angry at the word diversity LOL. I hope P6's marketing says "Gay is their bond" or something too, I can't believe people will have this sort of melt down over a word. The game is literally about a diverse group of characters bonding.

sega of america actually took over japan and forced them to include the word. Only white western twitter users can liberate the country from western influence

This, but unironically.

>use one word

Conservatives are crying

Why am I not surprised?

Yeah, look at all these whiny r*pe victims. They should've just accepted diversity is a strength and moved on.

Obsessed with BBC award

You are complaining about a word in a video game and then talking about r*pe... talk about gymnastic

People complaining about diversity like smt isn't the most diverse game out there.

it is. it's just terrible use of the language. you have to stay away from the buzz words. show, don't tell. when you tell you frick it all up. thats all it is. it's like in a movie. show me the action of it don't just say the words.

Bruh the premise is about you forming a party with other races to become King after the old king has died. And uniting all races together.

You clearly haven't paid attention to anything about this game

There has never been a black protagonist in the entire SMT franchise, spin-offs included.

Diverse doesn't mean black inherently bruh 😭 a elf, human, and dog thing is diverse

I don't think that diversity itself is the issue.

The idea is that, if they're having to go out of their way to brag about diversity, then it's likely to be of lower quality, because there tends to be a correlation there.

Culture war freaks pooping their pants over the use of the word "diversity" in any context is so funny

Right wingers when they open a JRPG strategy guide and it starts talking about party diversity

You will never guess why people are mad about this post… 😂

It's crazy because the premise of “their diversity is their strength” is at the very core of every rpg. Healer, attack mage, tank, warrior etc etc the things that make the cast diverse are literally why you use them. Zero critical thought and just “woke buzzword!”

Is this blud serious by these standards the Nazi army was diverse

How are people getting mad at the word “diversity”😭

Repost this to scare a conservative

Look at all the snowflakes triggered by the big D

Diversity is in fact not a strength. Countries like Norway and Japan have significantly lower crime rates than America precisely due to the lack of diversity.

People pooping themselves over the word "diversity" is hilarious. I hope you enjoy only eating one food, drinking one beverage, watching one show, playing one game, etc. Because having a multitude of those things would be...

Diversity. Crowd gasps

>

Neighbor literally is the millennial about to be balding phenotype

Also where are those triggered chuds in those replies? Is this like one person out of 10 or some scenario they made up in their head?

Wow I saw like 4 people 😱

Yeah yeah you love diversity so much you want the human race to be the same amorphous blob of culture less race less gender less humans.

Annoying losers spawned on this post

Totally sane people in the replies

This comment thread is why Persona "fans" are fricking losers and why they deserve everything that happens as western marxists slowly suck the soul out of these games. I can't wait for top people to start leaving Atlus in the future. Frick Atlus JP.

You know, As much as we could apply Hanlon's razor to this, I've seen enough games burn down over 11th hour frickery to justify keeping my eyebrow raises. Naw. I'll watch from the sidelines.

The phrasing is inherently political and only used by the left. Even if it means nothing for the actual game, the person behind the account knows what they're doing. It's just another attempt at normalizing their mantras.

(https://x.com/GayOPersona_NY/status/1788384383046385756)

🍇 and 🦐 that atlus intern….

Gotta hand it to their marketing team, they sure know how to pander to their new horribly toxic audience

Chuds have a point this time, "diversity is our strength" is a phrase exclusively used by lib politicians, and libds are playing clueless

!g*mers

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1cnymzy/suicide_squad_cost_warner_bros_200_million_in/ !g*mers

AND YET WB IS FRICKING DOUBLING DOWN ON THE LIVESERVICEFORTNITESLOP

ZASLAV-SAMA, I KNEEL

@RWBY

!oldstrags

>I'm going to sound like a deranged 2asia4u poster for just a moment but I fricking hate western lib media for normalizing hons in pop culture and media/games Why can't they normalize pretty women like Poison instead smh

!transphobes

Reminds me of the recent Pokémon Go autism which made the UwU catgirl waifu avatars turn into overweight balding spergs which made le dysphoria hit hard

>Force company that doesn't want to do game as service to do a game as service, games fails fire them

BREAKING: Microsoft is closing Redfall developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, and Alpha Dog Studios. Story to come here: https://t.co/Bz415HE1hX pic.twitter.com/3jWrb9MySL

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 7, 2024

Basically confirms the rumor last year that HFR sold poorly. Shame 'cause it was my personal GOTY 2023

"This is Furukawa, president of Nintendo," Furukawa wrote. "We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015.

"We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation."

Console players will call it whining

PC players call it winning

It's why they have the better perks. Deeper discounts, free games without subscriptions. No payments for online multiplayer. More games. More features. Fewer restrictions

You were lied to and mislead. And I… pic.twitter.com/FkwRh2TzRX

— THE RED DRAGON (@TWTHEREDDRAGON) May 6, 2024

anyone played it yet and would you recommend if so? the first one was so much fun but i know early access games can be a shitshow

New Major Order just dropped!!

PLEASE HELLDIVERS, REVERSE THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS, THIS GAME HAS HUGE POTENTIAL TO BE GOTY 2024

As of right now, It's the best-selling game in 2024 🔥#Helldivers2 pic.twitter.com/qTRHIDkRas

— Helldivers 2 Media (@Helldiversmedia) May 6, 2024

Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update. The May 6 update, which would have required Steam and PlayStation Network account linking for new players and for current players beginning May 30, will not be moving forward.

We’re still…

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) May 6, 2024