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The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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I used to have a cynical outlook on games years ago when a clownshow like this would happen, or when the industry was inundated with gray-brown 2 weapon limit Modern Warfare clones, but after developing more of a discerning eye for quality games, I find plenty of new games that are actually good that J enjoy. So now when I see a shitshow like this, it makes me really happy, because hopefully Druckmann never directs again, and ND is either shutdown or gets their heads out of their asses and stops making poorly written movie-games.
God bless.
God bless.
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Didn't they not announce the new release date until after the leak? It's entirely possible the delay was planned to be longer, but when the leak happened and any chance of grabbing decent week 1 sales before bad word of mouth spread went with it, they swapped to rushing to go gold, release, and stop throwing good money after bad with this turd.
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2019 was very much when the dominoes really started toppling. Hollywood saw woke bomb after woke bomb, while ProJared and Slazo coming back with the receipts made it acceptable to speak out against #Metoo bullshit in traditionally left of center Reddit and Twitter spheres. The Depp v. Heard situation is essentially a much higher-profile version of that, and will probably be THE final domino to topple for #Metoo. It probably would have kept going on for another 4-5 years as old in-development projects get pushed out the pipeline, but Corona-chan really put it into the ground.
Now, normal people are saddled with their own issues and extremely redpilled on celebrity idiocy, and Hollywood doesn’t have the money to waste on woke bombs. The good times for Hollywood are over.
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Got a link to the story? I liked the movie as a kid.
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I kindda remember that people were super unhappy when they discovered that Raiden was the protagonist of MGS2, and it wasnt until MGS4 that he stopped being ridiculed. But the game was good and Solid Snake was your ally. I cant imagine how people would have reacted if instead, you had to kill Snake.
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What are the odds Macho man Tranny Savage yells something incredibly cringy like "the future is now old man!" While 9 ironing Joel to death?
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I think the horrible backlash to the Game of Thrones Finale is what really cemented the importance of audiences. That show went from a pop culture icon to a forgotten series overnight because the writers were too lazy and arrogant to realize that they made the worst fucking choices. And meanwhile, during that time, humble modest little shows like Chernobyl were getting a lot of love and attention because it tried to tell an earnest story without shitting on anyone or "subverting expectations".
Obviously, audiences don't need to be pandered to or given everything they want without thought to the writing. But understanding the appeal of certain characters or story is critical for keeping a product loved and successful.
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I'm just imagining Sony going up to Jason Rubin, Andy Gavin, the old Naughty Dog team that's now with them at THQNordic, and/or Amy Hennings, groveling at their feet, begging for them to come back after Druckmann thoroughly and completely destroyed the company, because otherwise they'll receive bad optics as a result of a possible staff wipe/studio closure due to poor sales, and all of them just collectively telling Sony to go fuck themselves.
I know that's not at all what's gonna happen at this point but hey: a man can dream.
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“Naughty Dog has released a statement regarding ‘THE LAST OF US PART II’ leaks.”
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Probably also helped that Raiden himself was a Snake fanboy.
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I really can't seem to find a well documented version of the story oddly enough.
There's one youtube video that makes a reference to all the changes they made late into the film though.
cut animatics exist online of the scrapped sequences.
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I just read the leaks and now any interest that I had for this game has died like it was beaten by a golf club. And I barely had any of it to begin with.
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- this horrific symbol emailed to Naughty Dog head offices demonstrated beyond all doubt that the leaking of the The Last of Us 2, the first game to ever feature women, was indeed the work of nazi gamergate terrorists -
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That's right, keep shitting on your potential customers. They'll be back. They always come back, r ... right?
This never gets old for me. I'm familiar with the notion of "firing your problem customers" -- businesses do this fairly regularly with individual customers who make constant unreasonable demands or are sluggish with payments or whatever, because it becomes unprofitable to serve such customers -- but this radical idea of actively insulting and attacking entire groups of people you expect to buy your product is just amazing to see in action. They're so proud of themselves for doing it, too. Even as it destroys other companies (including those of their colleagues), they keep doing it, and encourage their peers to do the same.
They never consider this simple fact: I will never buy something from somebody who's calling me a cunt. Lots of other people are the same way.
On a side note, I always take issue with this use of "entitled" as if it's a bad thing. You're describing a paying customer. Yes, that means they're "entitled." Literally, by law, entitled to a product that satisfactorily resembled the product that was promised at the time of purchase. If they haven't bought your product yet, but you want them to, they're still entitled to judge it on its merits, the zits on your face, the phase of the moon, or how full their stomach is at the moment you ask them.
I can think of a use of the word "entitled" to describe a bad thing. A bad developer acts entitled to his potential customers' money whether he makes a good product or not.