The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

[SiccDicc]

I dunno, there have been other instances when famous franchises completely fucked up from start to finish like ME3 or DmC. ME3 pretty much turned Bioware into a joke overnight and nobody wanted to even touch Ninja Theory until MS acquired them. How many copies TLOU Part 2 might sell is up in the air, but Naughty Dog's future doesn't look good unless they drop that fuck Druckmann.

I disagree. It'll always be shit because Druckmann pushed out anyone with talent and a spine to tell him to fuck off. All that's left are people that believe in him and his vision.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I disagree. It'll always be shit because Druckmann pushed out anyone with talent and a spine to tell him to fuck off. All that's left are people that believe in him and his vision.

He's the owner of The No Fun Zone with adjacent Minigolf.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Also it's a known fact that all the games got kneecapped were godawful and it was an act of mercy so people would just ignore the profitable games since their censor boners were appeased.

because Sakura Wars was released with no changes and with the first person touching view intact(remember how this was supposedly cause for concern with Senran kagura)

Your waifus were scientifically proven to be shit.

What? I thought you enjoyed Sakura Wars. The new one looks like fun.

 

[Marissa Moira]

What? I thought you enjoyed Sakura Wars. The new one looks like fun.

It is fun, I'm just saying that the other games that got censored were trash.

You can clearly see that the no-effort games were the only ones that got trounced. We now have close to two years worth of data to back this up on what games got hit and what didn't, and what was the fault of the developers and not specifically sony(i.e. capcoms whole business with DMC5).

Sakura Wars despite having all the supposedly offending things(swim suits, first person mode, heavily reliant on dating sim mechanics, boob jiggle) came in unscathed. Which meant the censorship policy was not really about censoring content but more about removing bad games from the running by taking away their crutch.

Senran kagura is even bad for fap bait since the models are so low poly and the girls all essentially share 1 of 3 bodies but with a different head attached.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I'm reminded of an incident where Louis Walsh, the manager of the insufferable boy band Boyzone and later the insufferable boy band Westlife, took his clients out to the boot of his car after they refused to bend the knee to him and said, "You want to see your fucking sales? There's your fucking sales." Inside the boot was a giant mess of Boyzone CDs that he'd arranged to be bought to massage them up the charts. What's the betting that Naughty Dog and/or Sony has forced its employees to buy copies of the game. After all, we all know the corporate maxim - act as if.

Err wasn't he molesting them? Along with that fat dead rapist Lou Perlman.

Someone mentioned jak and daxter. I'm reminded of the fact that jak was voiced by sharon carter's dead boyfriend on Everwood.

It is fun, I'm just saying that the other games that got censored were trash.

You can clearly see that the no-effort games were the only ones that got trounced. We now have close to two years worth of data to back this up on what games got hit and what didn't, and what was the fault of the developers and not specifically sony(i.e. capcoms whole business with DMC5).

Sakura Wars despite having all the supposedly offending things(swim suits, first person mode, heavily reliant on dating sim mechanics) came in unscathed. Which meant the censorship policy was not really about censoring content but removing bad games from the running by taking away their crutch.

Senran kagura is even bad for fap bait since the models are so low poly and the girls all essentially share 1 of 3 bodies but with a different head attached.

I'm still wondering who's responsible for getting the harmless face petting of FE Fates removed.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The meme is crossing over to lolcows.

 

[Hangula Hungui]

More damage control from Troy Baker. Funnily enough, he only mentions screenshots, not the actual video that was leaked

 

[Marissa Moira]

I'm still wondering who's responsible for getting the harmless face petting of FE Fates removed.

I thought it was Alison Rapp.

I'd buy an all encompassing version of Fates for the Switch like what the special edition supposedly was(it was produced in stupidly low numbers). But considering that SMTXFE TMS was re-released with the US changes, I don't think they would bother going back and fix that release. The 3DS card for the special edition was an entirely different card than the normal release. It's also one of the larger data sized 3ds carts IIRC.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

More damage control from Troy Baker. Funnily enough, he only mentions screenshots, not the actual video that was leaked

It looks like Sir Baker is aging like a fine jar of mayo. But then I never listen to any guy that wears a damn fedora.

 

[Jaimas]

Something bothering me since the revelations about Druckmann originally surfaced was his pushing out Amy Hennig, because anyone who's been paying attention over the last decade or so knows exactly why he fucking did it.

See, Druckyboy belongs to the same insane ideology that's been trying to push the "everything must be laden with identity politics" shit that's been a canker in the heart of the industry since 2008. This is the same group of speds catering to the ResetERA/Gamerghazi/Rationalwiki crowd, with all of the outright insanity that implies, and you know nothing else about Social Justice, it's that its treatment of dissenters, even if they are minorities, women, or both, is outright surreal in how appalling it is.

In the case of Amy Hennig, she actively opposed the identity politics bullshit pushed by this crowd, and had the balls to say "No, there isn't any institutional barriers keeping women out of the industry, and there hasn't been in decades. Fuck off." She was one of the most critically-acclaimed writers video gaming had, to boot, the kind that actually could get people to buy games. An industry veteran, who doesn't care about your ideology, and actively opposes what you're trying to do? We can't have that shit.

So they did exactly what Bioware did when it got overrun with the same crowd: Pushed an established veteran who refused to go along with the message (Ree Soesbee in Bioware's case) who had actual credentials (a fucking PhD in literature) out so they could hire a completely unqualified hack that believed in the ideology (Jennifer Hepler) who has repeatedly claimed she hates video games to fill the slot who she left behind.

This is the same race to the bottom mentality that swept through Sci-Fi as the Hugo Awards became a fucking joke and writers the caliber of Chuck Wendig became the norm.

 

[damian]

More damage control from Troy Baker. Funnily enough, he only mentions screenshots, not the actual video that was leaked

Met him once, nice dude. He's very loyal to the people that employ him so I dont blame him for playing company man.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Met him once, nice dude. He's very loyal to the people that employ him so I dont blame him for playing company man.

In a business that is apparently blacklisting anyone who’s engaged in “wrongthink”, I cant blame him either.

 

[Jan_Hus]

Also another benefit of hiring an unqualified ideologue...

you can pay them a hell of a lot less than someone qualified. Hell they’ll probably thank you for the opportunity.

 

[Ruin]

Can we get a fuckin jannie in here to clean up four pages of autistic console war shit? I just want to laugh at Naughty Dog and Macho Man Tranny Savage.

Seriously guys tard out at each other over DMs or something.

 

[Judge Holden]

- AH SUPERINTENTENT CHALMERS WELCOME! I HOPE YOU'RE PREPARED FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE GOLF SWING! -

OY GODS! MY GAME IS RUINED!

Ok between Senator Abbstrong and now the choking mayme I think we can conclude that this shit is as big a goldmine of hilarity as many of us hoped back when the leaks first came out

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

Also another benefit of hiring an unqualified ideologue...

you can pay them a hell of a lot less than someone qualified. Hell they’ll probably thank you for the opportunity.

Especially unqualified ideologues who come from well-off parents that they can sponge off of. Funny how that describes so many SJWs (and before them, Marxists). Hmm...

 

[Boobie Bomb]

Nothing wrong with this video AT all. Almost like the story has been spoiled. No pun intended.

 

[Dom Cruise]

That level of detail in MGS3 was inmense, aside of all the other things you can do like destroying ammo caches and food supplies, all of that having direct consequences on the soldiers. You also can find the End's parrot in the river sequence screaming "Grandpa" if you killed it during the fight.

It's actually kind of scary how insane the level of detail those PS2 Metal Gears had.

My problem with Spec Ops is that it treats playing modern military shooters as the moral equivalent to raping babies in front of their terrified mothers. Yeah, many people play video games so they can roleplay as larger-than-life action heroes who save the day. There is nothing immoral about that.

I wouldn't call it immoral, but I do find those games like Call of Duty to be a bit tacky, there was nothing wrong with giving gamers a taste of the hellish reality of war with Spec Ops: The Line.

The Last of Us 2 however is not giving gamers a dose of reality, it's giving a gamers a dose of SJW bullshit which is far removed from reality.

 

[Boobie Bomb]

Finally a good Star Wars film to watch

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

It's actually kind of scary how insane the level of detail those PS2 Metal Gears had.

For me it was amazing. Metal Gear 3 had all sorts of weird secrets for you to discover, like being able to snipe the End befor fighting him, that you could easily beat the Fear using the fake death pill, hungry soldiers will fight for food or Eva's medical record which is terribly hilarious. And let's not begin with the codec conversations.

But the best for me was that if you saved while Snake was in prision, when you loaded you would be in a minigame about a guy that beats vampires with canes that apparently was an extremely early concept of an scrapped game. This kind of attention to detail and hidden stuff really makes me enjoy the games Kojima makes, because he even lets you do absurd and stupid stuff.