2023 the greatest year for video games ever..
>Multiple Studio closings/restructures
>Games being gutted due to "problematic content"
>Games as a Service / Hollowed out base games
>Rampant Censorship
>Lack of optimization
>Outsourced development further reducing quality
One of my favorite trends are people that only play popular mature titles like Destiny and COD going “wow, Gaming’s kind of bad now”.
In 2023 - arguably the greatest year for video games ever
I notice that there's this push to astroturf the legitimate complaints of consumers who are upset about their purchased product being altered, by calling them "porn addicts". It's not just ignorance on display it's actually disingenuous, especially from an "employee"
So this was the end result of basically setting up Mike Z via awkward twitch thot DM convos, and forcing him out of his own company? Seriously just out of personal hubris I'm going to repost those videos so you can see how fucked up this situation really is..
As part of a global Skullgirls content update, we have adjusted several art assets in Skullgirls Mobile, Skullgirls 2nd Encore, and the Digital Art Compendium on all platforms.
You can read the full details and rationale behind these changes here:
I don't want a historically accurate depiction of a story element that was shoehorned into an adaptation of a video game.
I wanted an animated depiction of Castlevania rondo no chi / SOTN.
Complete with the already provided story and characters.
Intellectuals, Try to keep up.
Folks expecting
#CastlevaniaNocturne
to be “historically accurate” depiction of the French Revolution becuz “there were no Black/POC in France during the French Revolution”
1. It’s sad how y’all school systems failed y’all.
2. It is a show about VAMPIRES you dumb racists!
Exactly.
It's not that people want AI translations, they want accurate translations without propaganda and "silly willy billy shilly" dumbass attempts at "creative writing".
Alternatives will always exist. it's just that they're finally catching on to that.
To the "localisers" bitching about A.I. on Twitter, after you were caught butchering translations and bragging about it, you brought all of this upon yourself.
So either do your job correctly, or get replaced. Your choice. And if you are replaced, you won't be missed.
#manga
So far were up to Boondocks, Jackson 5ive, Fat Albert, kid n play, hammer man, static shock, the proud family, the harlem globetrotters, Super stretch and microwoman, muhammad ali, street frogs from the comic strip, 90% of Ralph Bakshi's film "coonskin" the fucking magpies...
The irony is everyone wants to be viewed as attractive to someone, even "non conventionally attractive" ppl. This whole statement is half virtue signal half cope, right down to the 2016 lame ass "piss boy" commentary
Create-a-characters and paid commission art don't lie.
@MegamanRA
Basically anything resembling an attractive woman is treated like it's a whole threat to society and removed from T and up rated games. To the point of where the ESRB ratings are just looked at as guidelines rather than age classifications
One could argue that altering a product after the product has been purchased falls under what Cornell law school refers to as "bait and switch" and could be a violation of the consumer fraud and deceptive business practices act.
but, I'm sure they don't want you to know that..
@mrfeelswildride
@KainYusanagi
Sony and Sega wanted nothing to do with Bayonetta 2, but Nintendo not only okayed and funded the project, they told Platinum not to censor anything.
Calling people wuss because they don't want your shit meme filled Generic brand writing "we have McDonalds at home" version of Japanese games isn't the hot take you think it is.
It's hilarious that these cat food connoisseurs think I have to buy whatever is put in front of me.
It all started back in 2020 when Mike Z was being MeToo'd by Bunny Ayumi due to accusations of inappropriate content in her DMs
Upon inspection, however, it seems like she had initiated contact, and told him she didn't mind lewd conversation.
Since they don't want you to know about your own consumer rights and how to actually stick it to them, I guess we should just not share this information... *wink wink*
The phrasing sounds like they're really saying
"you're really bright for someone of your ethnic background. I mean you do the science, technology and everything"
@Scratch_Point_Z
We're now in the "rerun" phase of the culture war lol. this came around before back in 2017/18 and it got laughed out of the room by gamers.
A few months later, the rest of Mike Z's company had additionally made accusations of misconduct and forced him out of his company. The team restructured and renamed as "Future club" and teamed with another company still using the proprietary Z engine..
As of April 2022, Mike Z began a court case where he apparently had Slack chats and additional evidence that not only were certain ppl were having supposed private discussions about distancing from Zaimont, but may have eluded to getting Ayumi to help.
@WorldinGreyArt
This is why I say if you're in the military don't get married until you get out or find a permanent point of station. I've seen too many of these situations happen to guys I've known to have a high level of trust of these types of women.
This is all the information I have, at the moment. If there were any additional changes I'm sure someone will come in and add those details, but it's a really fucked up situation that apparently lead to a decent fighting game be drained of everything that made it fun.
Pretty much.
It's the lie being sold to us that everything we grew up with in the 70s 80s and 90s never existed, and we're just now making strides in "diversity and representation".
Problem is there's far too much evidence to contradict this.
One of the reasons I despise the "Representation" argument in media is because it requires me to disregard all my knowledge and lived exp to even entertain the notion.
I will not reject reality to fit a silly notion I never asked for.
I hope this at least helps to uncloud the situation, and actually show you where your ire should actually go. Don't harass people over this, but let them know you're not happy with the direction the game is going.
Thanks, and I'll see you next bossfight.
@SuperSashaX
All for "core values"
I'll never forget those words. The words used by a man as a moral bludgeon before he was outed as a sexual predator.
@Exceptionalboi
Exactly. Why the hell do people have to resort to "fridge cleaning" on an SSD like you're back in the Wii era to upload the latest game?
And being told that you should upgrade your rig for a game that should be optimized for even the most budget rig is just asinine.
One thing I enjoy most about twitter is no matter how coherently you explain watering down a simple story doesn't improve it, there's always someone willing to misconstrue that into "le reverse tourism" for ze clout.
Not sure why people think "I want an animated, by-the-numbers glorified let's play of Castlevania RoB" is a smart take.
Then again, most of these people are tourists looking to stir up performative outrage, so it's not like they have genuine opinions.
>"No one is saying we need characters to look like us to relate to them"
Fam, you have blackwashed Panty and Stocking on your banner. From the looks of your acct your whole thing is pallete swaps. Stop the cap.
@Majinken1987
This kind of reply is always so funny to me because no one is saying we NEED to have characters to look like us to relate to them, it's literally just a bonus on top of an already solid character.
@j_step21
Did a stream last night talking about it, and according to
@InfamousBloodia
it likely has more to do with zone being a vtuber now and having to keep his nose clean, considering how cancel happy that space can be.
@deleted52248878
@theartsieguy
Well that is the difference between fantasy and reality, isn't it?
In fantasy things always seem to work out at the last minute, in reality the best we can do is hop the people doing evil are brought to justice and if not through legal means karma gets her say in the matter
@Scratch_Point_Z
The other interesting point, dude said "my media" like it was only being marketed and developed for this person alone.
Severe entitlement is fueling that smug sense of imagined ownership.
This.
Convenience is nice, but owning something and being able to play it whenever you like instead of paying monthly for the privilege of watching that thing get rotated off platform for server space seems more fulfilling.
Time is a flat circle.
The more streaming services and subscriptions raise the cost, the more people will (hopefully) realize that owning their entertainment media is the way to go.
Subscriptions were never meant to be as expensive as the very thing it was replacing.
Male strippers would disagree and school you on the horrors of dealing with unregulated horny women. Boundaries are completely out the window at some of those women's only functions.
Statements like these just prove that a lot of y'all are sweet summer children.
@Imazihen
@Sexopleiticus
Men’s bodies aren’t generally seen as sexual objects in the same ways women’s bodies are. You’re either socially blind, or lying, to claim otherwise.
As a person gets older they usually don't care what other people think. This is why a lot of old heads just say things regardless of how it makes you feel..
insecurity is a young man's game.
@EveilCharm
Pretty much. What's really interesting is that they still choose to use the trailer from the previously uncensored version, which is definitely what lands this situation into grounds for consumer fraud.
@Otome_chan311
There are definitely positives. Indies are doing quite well, and that's mainly where my focus is atm. I wouldn't dare call this the best year, but between those and the backlog I'm not starving for something to play.
Once the Booth Babe and F1 racing girl industry was killed by the loud opinionated mids, we started seeing this crap.
It's almost reminiscent of the homely activists that lead us into prohibition.
Not surprising. It went from "overwhelmingly negative" to "mostly negative" despite the number of negative reviews growing exponentially.
Interesting enough,even the positive reviews, recently, have shown disagreement with the changes.
Welp, looks like autumn games gave a phone call to Steam about the negative reviews of their product and now they've listed the negative reviews off-topic...that's nice
@Steam
, that's real nice...🖕
Oh God, I thought
@GundamIsHere
was joking.
No, the Pelosi dude really is saying "GamerGate made me do it!"
I can just hear all the Woke Wikipedians scurrying off to add *every* news story mentioning this to their article slandering GamerGate supporters...
It seems like we need to go back to unapologetic design of characters and media, again. Apparently, when we stop giving a fuck about who we offend, the things we create seem to be better than this soft batch bullshit we have now.
@Lewchube
@GrammatoG
To be fair reusing assets shortens development time and allows focus on other areas. It's likely one of the most economically logical part of the dev cycle. I can't even tell you how many times it's been done in graphic design and animation. Which is why the response confuses me.
Don't exactly know if I'll have the time to work on a full vid discussing this, but you should note that the problem isn't exactly the mode itself, rather the fact that Streaming platforms are basically dictating the direction of content produced by game developers.
Ed Boon is open to creating a “Streamer Mode” that would CUT or LIMIT the BLOOD & GORE in Mortal Kombat 1.
“I’m always trying to think what can we do to keep the spirit of what the game is, but also allow streamers, because I’m fully aware of streamers, to show the game and…
@NotHaru47
I know I've tweeted often about Sam Maggs, but her career has Anita Sarkeesian levels of IP destruction, and needs this to be more widely known.
That's another thing.
Count Orlox was a direct reference to Count Orlok The vampire from the 1922 German silent film Nosferatu, which some believe was influenced by Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. They didn't even try to understand the reference.
These mofos ain't shit.
@PickleJuiceJoe
@RainbowSquidInk
Yeah for some reason these people really think black folks want the scraps thrown from the progressive table.
The audience for DBZ Bleach and other shows say otherwise.
@JnG_Art
From a writer's perspective it seems like over correcting to explain why they altered certain characters, and trying to make it work within the established universe.
Problem is it takes away from what people actually came here to see; hot Belmont on Dracula action
This. All day long.
They're not as intelligent as they believe they are
They're not as well versed on the materials or any politics they repeatedly parrot.
And they sure as hell can't write their way out of a wet sack.
Which is why they hate when we mock them for it
@TheStrxggler
@TGBED8v8
Writers intending to "subvert your expectations" should be shown the door. Immediately.
None of them are as clever as they think they are and all they achieve is pissing off their audience.
@yungmysterymane
@illya_laifu
I think it's for the same reason why they won't release a separate censored version of the game. People naturally would have ignored it for the superior versions and they can't have that.
@BeigeShiba
I'm really over this "we're breaking new ground" mentality with things, now.
Just really comes off as "we don't have any faith in our work and have to put on airs to make it"
Video games are a billion dollar industry that eclipsed the movie industry for some time, now. SAG-AFTRA probably believes cutting off the AAA game supply will give more leverage in negotiating terms.
Problem is the AAA games aren't the end-all-be-all all of gaming
SAG-AFTRA plans to send a strike authorization vote for the video game industry after they failed to meet the needs of video game actors.
Companies facing a possible strike include Activision, EA, Epic Games, Insomniac Games, Take 2 and WB.
@NotHaru47
The old argument for more expensive games was ye old inflation, despite there being semiconductor shortages in thr 80s and 90s.
Now it's just YTers loving the taste of boot, and trying to get us all to buy into the scam.
#NewVideoAlert
Featuring on Rumble.
#CastlevaniaNocturne
Has got everyone throwing hands, But when gimmick twitter accounts attack, I punch back. Check out my new video entitled "The Revolution will be criticized" .
The hilarious part is this; You want to claim that you're "eating good" while sitting underneath the table catching scraps thrown out by more successful white people.
Nigga, we got leftovers in the fridge if you're that starved...
Wait... Is this the same group that sees every male friendship as potential gay shipping fodder, and turns characters into rainbow bait for le representation? Or the same group that can't see women in provocative clothing without associating them with porn addiction?
how odd.
A new study shows that nearly half of Gen Z viewers want to see less sex on screen and want to see content about friendships and platonic relationships.
@DiscardedSenpai
This seems like a means of covering her ass to look like she's on your side, while discrediting everyone upset over the censorship by telling them "porn is free" .
I'd buy that if Rondo of blood didn't take place on the opposite end of Europe. Also, Wasn't Wallachia under Russian occupation during the mid to late 1700s? There was a push for religious equality at the time but that was beaten back down by Emperor Leopold.
Again, keep up.
@InkViper
@fsbossfight
The French Revolution is just the backdrop they used cause it’s happening within same time period and can have themes that reflect the cast(rebellion, fighting oppression etc.) You don’t need a basis in the games to understand whats going on, this series is its own thing
No.
Design should be consistent to the world the characters exist in and a reflection of the characters personality and outlook.
Cosplay should be dependant on the cosplayer's own skill & effort to nail the look.
@Fenrirtheicewo1
Pretty much.
Can't use the "it's a show about vampires" argument when the problems were caused by watering down a simple video game plot with a bunch of convoluted story elements for current year audiences.
Nah. Nintendo of America has to go too!
They've already fucked up enough translations, and i'm betting all my chips, that they've completely butchered/censored the English translation of Tears of The Kingdom!
They're filled to the brim, with left wing degenerates.
Fuck em'!
@InfamousBloodia
Asking for accountability from someone who clearly doesn't grasp the concept, and will use every trick in the book to dodge consequence
Very bold of you. lol
@antiochcow
I wanted to like it during it's first couple of episodes, but the changes in the characters were just too vastly different than the games. That and Ellis saying Grant can't exist because Wallachia is landlocked.
Bro, I thought you were a creative writer Lol
You say things like this, but the majority of videos, video essays, streams, and discourse are about retro gaming.
Newer game discorse ends weeks to a month after release w/ exception of controversy, a patch needed to make it playable or how ppl are getting finessed by DLC
@NotHaru47
Bingo. If I purchased the game and want to add mods, something I have been doing for years before this, why is a website trying to impede that for their own ideological reason?
Who made this website the authority on what I can and can't do with my own property?
@rdmetz
@InfamousBloodia
@GamesNosh
Game's a remake of a arguably better game that still exists regardless. And no one who claims "i've already won" is honestly a winner.
Believe it or not, Everything that is remade is in constant competition with what came before. If media can't be on par with or better than it's predecessor then it has failed on a fundamental level.
@Scratch_Point_Z
It definitely is narcissism, and done in a pre-packaged performative way. Just look through the feeds of someone doing this public show of emotion and you'll find that it's often done just for the clout and to get eyes on their otherwise lack of success in other endeavors.
@RPX22
I should, but it has been funny pointing out the posers
Here, if it makes you feel better Bloodstained just got an update that adds new modes, and actually expands replayability. And is created by Koji Igarashi (Iga) who worked on both Castlevania Rondo of blood and SOTN.
So.. there's this new talking point that this nude mod is now making the FGC unsafe for women...because no woman has ever seen another naked woman before this...
🤔 Only fans models are probably fleeing in terror, rn. Must be why they're always going to Dubai..