Remij

1 hour ago, Mr. Impossible said:

But they aren't tho. 

I dunno about that. I don't mind if there's some ugly women in games.. but they're definitely catering to a vocal minority of people who get offended and making them less attractive on purpose in SOME games. 

Like I say.. I don't really care.. I don't want every woman to be a super model.. but what does kind of annoy me is that these particular groups of people can never seem to accept it when a game wants to cater to people who want beautiful women in their games.  Like.. there's room for both.  This shouldn't be an issue when a game and the studio behind it wants to make a sexy game full of sexy women... just like there shouldn't be an issue when a studio wants to be more inclusive to other viewpoints.  It's honestly an issue on both sides.  Just let the developers do what they want.

On a related note.. I was looking around on twitter and this same group of idiots who are crying over this "Sweet Baby Inc" consulting firm being used in many new games.. tried calling out the makers of "Tales of Kenzera: ZAU", a new metroidvania style game set in African culture, who apparently also used SBI to assist with their game.. and it just shows how fake their reasoning for hating them is. They say it's because they're influencing the studios to change their designs because of an agenda being pushed.. which I can understand... but this is a brand new IP, made by a brand new team that was created specifically to create the type of diversity that we REALLY need in this industry... which is teams creating new characters, new IPs, with new ideas, just like this team did.  That should be celebrated.

It's just a shame that the discourse which always gets the most visibility are these people complaining about every little thing being forced.. one way or the other.

1 minute ago, Twinblade said:

So I was just looking at the gaf thread on that graffiti and loads of other people had no idea what hard r was referring to. I guess none of them go outside either 

They also plan on increasing dividends paid to shareholders

https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e240425.html

God damn, Capcom stay killing it    Dragon's Dogma 2 being nice and successful.    I wonder if SquareEnix will be announcing favorable Rebirth performance and increased dividends for their shareholders soon  

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/ps5-and-xbox-largely-unpopular-with-gen-z-in-japan-survey-shows/

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A 2023 survey on the gaming habits of Japanese youths has recently garnered attention on social media, as it indicates that a majority of Gen Z do not own or use a PS5 or Xbox. 

The report, published by SHIBUYA109 Entertainment, compiles data obtained through web surveys and interviews conducted with about 700 Gen Z individuals aged 15 to 24 years old. According to the data, 80% of Gen Z individuals in Japan play video games, 44.9% of whom play every day and spend an average of 100 minutes a day gaming. 

As for their gaming devices of choice, the top five answers reveal a significant preference for handhelds and the PC. Devices/consoles rank in as follows: 

 

Mobile 94.7% 
Nintendo Switch 38.5% 
PC 33.2% 
Tablet (26.5%) 
DS (12.2%) 

 

(The answers do not add up to 100% as the question allowed multiple choices). 

 

Based on this, it would seem that the Xbox and PS5 are less represented among young Japanese gamers than the discontinued DS. Even among those who identified as “hardcore gamers” (as opposed to social and casual gamers), the top three gaming devices remained smartphones, the Nintendo Switch and PC. 

Users on social media have pointed out that a big contributor to these statistics may be how financially challenging it is to buy a PS5 and full-priced games for an adolescent. Indeed, the very same survey cited above also states that Gen Z gamers spend an average of 10,446 yen on games yearly, which is under 70 dollars – the amount a single full-price console game can cost. According to Gen Z commenters, free-to-play games, FPS titles and affordable small-scale games popularized by streamers enjoy far more popularity than AAA titles. 

 

Just a sign of the changing times.  I remember reading a report from last year that said PC was more popular in Japan than Playstation but didn't believe it at the time.  But PC has been growing rapidly in Japan since all the Japanese developers started supporting the platform.  These younger kids mostly only care about mobile and portable hardware.  The only reason why consoles are alive there at all is because the Switch can be used as one.  

3 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 

Nah there's just too many long fucking games nowdays. Its the same reason why I didn't finish BG3 last year. I don't have the patience or attention span anymore to be able to dedicate so much time to a single game especially when there's others releasing on the horizon.

This is insincere coming from a person who plays damn near every game that's released..  

You have the time Twinblade.  If these games were as good as you said they were, you'd have finished them up promptly.  You're literally wasting your time playing games the way you are. 

New games aren't going anywhere... they'll be there when you finish the last one you started.

7 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 

Its a 7 quality game so the reviews were accurate, but I wouldn't say its shit.

Dude... if you're not willing to finish it... it's trash.

39 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

40 hours into Rise of The Ronin and with no end in sight I think I might drop it when Stellar Blade releases. The game is many ways AC: Japan which would be an incredible compliment a decade ago. But nowadays it just feels dated and bloated and the setting isn't enough to carry it all the way through.

Yes, it's shit like we told you.

NEXT  

1 minute ago, Twinblade said:

 

At least I play games instead of spending all my time pretending on SW that games like Starfield are good  

You fucks spent all your time pretending it was completely terrible.... because if you didn't do that... then there'd be no reason for anyone to "pretend it was good"  

1 minute ago, Quad Damage said:

 

EXCEPT NO

 

 

stellar blade despite being a mid-budget korean game is being held to the standard of AAA games like SEKIRO. its being held to a HIGHER standard and got HIGHER score

Pure delusion 

Just now, Goukosan said:

So it's like I said, Remij will twist shit to make it seem as if Stella Blade and Starfield had the same hype... Just to argue. 

 

Shows how hurt is STILL is almost a year later that the starfield flopped terribly and came no where close to expectations.

Not hurt at all.

It's ok Gouko.. you can admit Starfield is a solid game.  

2 minutes ago, Quad Damage said:

remij when the new bethesda rpg game of the forever with unlimited budget/resources has the same metacritic as the no-name mid-budget korean game

 

 

 

 

LMFAO he says this, right after he just admitted in another thread he's more willing to play ghetto 7 non-indie games because indie games have lower standards....  That means that Stellar Blades standards are lower than Starfield's was... FARRRRR lower in fact... which means the fact that it's scoring worse shows how bad it must be to him     This "mid budget korean game" sure must have had lower standards than Starfield  

4 minutes ago, lynux3 said:

Starfield absolutely is a flop relative to massive amount of hype it received. It just ended up being a disappointing immersion breaking loading screen simulator.  

There's 3 people you guys consider lemmings on this site.  I barely talked about Starfield. There was no massive hype here.

Poor babies... 83 Starfield is HORRIBLE MASSIVE POS FLOP... 82 Stellar Blade is a solid banger.... no, it doesn't work like that.  You guys just inadvertently admitted Starfield is a solid banger   

1 minute ago, Goukosan said:

 

Starfield was a 7, that's not a solid banger.   Being hyped as the game of the generation and scoring a 7 is a huge flop.  Sorry that hurts you. 

Starfield is an 85/83 meta.  That's absolutely a solid banger by the metrics you guys use. 

It's certainly not the piece of shit you idiots made 300 threads about claiming it was

Nobody is going to be making 300 threads about this game and the scores it got... so trust me.. we know who's hurt more :hest:

16 minutes ago, Goukosan said:

 

Starfield scored a 7 and was hyped as the game of the generation and came no where close to that. 

 

Stella blade was hyped as a solid banger and is meeting expectations. 

 

Or are you now going to try to twist shit and claim that Stella blade and starfield had the same hype?  Just to argue about something Lol

So Starfield wasn't GOTG.... just a solid banger... that's.... not what you guys said when it got its scores...  

Again, I know it hurts you to admit... but it's ok, you can just say it.  

Just now, Goukosan said:

 

Who said it's amazing?  I said it's a solid banger 

Ah, so what you're saying is Starfield is a solid banger too.  See, that wasn't so hard.  You didn't need one of your own to finally admit that. 

6 minutes ago, Goukosan said:

 

Starfield scored a 7

Yea but Starfield has a higher Meta

Damn... crazy how Starfield is pure trash, but this game is amazing!

Better than I thought.  

2 minutes ago, Hot Sauce said:

 

lmao what the fuck

lmao yea I don't get it either.

It reminds me of that time that Linus from LTT thought that "the hard r" was referring to "retard" and was talking on his podcast about casually using it in the past and his co-host was shocked like "WTF, you're admitting to just causally saying the hard r in the past on air" lmfao... Then he clarified with him what it meant and was like.. yea I pretty sure it's public knowledge that it means "the n-word" and he didn't realize it  

Here it is LOL

2 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 
I had to google it. Literally the first time i‘ve heard of that being some kind of racist slur.

Really?

So what would "hard R" typically be used for?

5 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 
I don’t get it. What am I looking at here? 

The graffiti says "Hard R" 

You should know what that refers to.

5 minutes ago, JonDnD said:

virgin , racist cows LMAO

 

Holy shit.. that's kinda crazy  

I saw a post on ERA of some guy blaming white americans for this  

The game was made in Korea ffs  

Just now, lynux3 said:

Oh for sure because the Xbox versions will never get patched again after the last patch on March 14th, 2024.  

Just because they've patched the game and added content doesn't mean they go and change the XDK version for that particular game.  It's not worth them to update the engine on the Xbox version of the game when what's there is already perfectly fine.

LMAO at thinking a couple of extra trees in the distance and some slightly better shadows for the PS5 version over the Series X is worth fucking around with it.

1 minute ago, Tears of the Cows said:

I played this game in like 2016 lol it was an open beta for years. 

Yeah me too lol

14 minutes ago, Playstation Tablet said:

Sea of thieves already runs better on PS5 than teh 12tflop monster. So it is embarrassing so does hi Fi Rush.

It's also a 6 year old game on Xbox.. and Unreal Engine improvements and XDKs have happened in that timeframe... meaning that it's not surprising that improvements can and have been made for a new version of the game which aren't there on the existing versions.

It's not the end of the world.

3 minutes ago, Playstation Tablet said:

It will be laughable when everything runs better on a PS5 Pro.

No it wont.  It's a more powerful machine... that's what should be expected