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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This one is sort of double funny to me. I just started playing the first and its cool. All i see online is a certain type of freeze-gamer talking about how "authentic" it is. The game is massively historically inaccurate to the period, in massively obvious ways. Whats it is authentic to is samurai movies! Like everything looks like something from a Kurasawa film, all the forests look like places Zatoichi would fight like 50 guys lol. Its cool.

I love that their bullshit "authentic" experience is ruined lol

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I actually hate the "kurosawa" mode though that's a b&w filter.

Kurosawa is when no colour. Blocking? Existentialism with strong proletariate sympathies? Meditations on greed and altruism? The suffering of war? What are you talking about...

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not to be confused with Kuwahara mode, which smooths out and denoises the image giving a painterly look

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

is that real lol? Also are they worth playing? They looked very beautiful but exhausting in the way every overdesigned game is.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhN-JK3U9g

It's literally a real technique that was originally used to clean up cardiac scans

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

but acerola,

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

I don't like that mode either

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

not to make any G#mer arguments hold water but there is a difference between "historical accuracy" and "historical authenticity".

Its like how in Total War games you had a very authentic mishmash of troops that were definitely not historically accurate.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a great point. And i don't have any sort of a problem with whether a game is accurate or not. But that isn't really how these freeze-gamer comments come off to me. Its more like "wow this game (made byva Western studio) is what I, an uneducated american, think is authentically Japanese"

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

One criticism of AC Shadows I do have is that the towns and villages are in fact too authentic and it makes every single location in the game fucking depressing because the period was god damn fucking awful, everyone lived like shit. The only nice places are the villages with rice farms.

And period authenticity in architecture and setting is like the thing they do best in those games.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm really glad Ghost of Tsushima didn't go for historical accuracy. It's way more fun the way they did it.

And period authenticity in architecture and setting is like the thing they do best in those games.

They do a great job with that. I wasn't a big fan of Unity, but Paris in that game is one of the most impressive settings ever.

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Ubisoft Marx is in my top ten favorite memes catgirl-happy

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

So many of the cutscenes look like they’re from a Kobayashi film.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Whats it is authentic to is samurai movies! Like everything looks like something from a Kurasawa film,

You say this, but it has a "Kurosawa Mode" that is literally just a black and white filter. There are no words to express how that makes me feel.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, kuro (黒) means black, and sawa means... sawa means... uhh... so it means black and white mode.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Sawa is a reference to canadian actor Devon Sawa, who is white.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Obviously it's Saint Sawa, patron of Serbia. So it's a Black Serbian mode, turning entire game into A Serbian Film.

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sounds like they took the criticism about the first game's "Kurosawa Mode" and redid it for the second. When it's active the mode has new music, redubbed lines with more "authentic" sounding audio quality, the B&W effect isn't just a simple filter anymore. Looks kinda dope honestly

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah Kurosawa mode was a weird choice

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"woman with a sword" genre continues to be a big hit with the people who actually buy video games instead of complaining about them on twitter, more at eleven.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

Kill Bill was famously a massive flop because it featured women with swords.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Woman with a sword is actually a very popular genre for the incel gooner crowd, you just need to make the woman look like a rubber sex doll and have the camera follow her butt.

In other words, make the game in South Korea

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

But if one of those characters wears a wetsuit instead of a bikini in her summer skin, you might accidentally spark a civil war.

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

LADY NO MAKE WEEWEE HARD, ME MAD

i wish i didnt have to wait probably 2 years for this on PC. Ive been playing Tsushima on PC and damn its good. i could just ride around for fun.

[–] Umechan@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't get straight men. There are countless places you can go for porn. I've never played a game because I was feeling horny. Are they so lazy that they can't simply open another window or app on their phone? Does it need to be integrated into everything they do?

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago

They just hate women and hate seeing them depicted and treated as human beings.

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

they need their gaze appealed to 24/7. it's really some psycho shit. I dont browse instagram ever, but when i go to my "explore" page or whatever, it's mostly asses and boobs. I don't even have to try and it shows up. i'm almost annoyed with it lately, it's like "yes yes youre very pretty, big butt ok moving on now". Maybe im just old lol.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

this is a vanishing minority of straight men, and there are fuckloads of queer virtual novels and shit.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

This will give the chuds exactly what they want. Sony have another hit on their hands, which means they'll never touch the property again

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is the story in this one? The first one had a conflict between samurai honour and ninja dishonour which felt kinda silly and shoehorned.

[–] cdzero@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

This is a revenge story. Felt a lot more natural.

[+] musicpostingonly@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

chuds mad because the female protagonist didn't have huge jugs

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

frothingfash it coulda sold 5 million

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really don't follow modern games, but I think it's because the VA in this game is a woman who's pro-lgbtq and her avatar in the game isn't dressed in bdsm gear.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The VA is non-binary

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

waow-based

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not in the loop with this particular game but apparently it was another case of chuds saying the game would fail because of woke or something.

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Chuds hoping a game fails because it isn't quite the way they want it, and then they buy it anyway because they're incapable of putting their money where their mouths are. In the end, they don't actually care about what the game looks like because as soon as they put both hands on a controller and play it, what matters most to them is the gameplay, which is 99% looking at the character's back.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 10 points 4 months ago

Looking forward to playing it on pc someday.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ghost of yotey

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Idgi but ubpear you all the same

[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

It’s kinda funny, Sony spent billions so they’d have experts on infinite money printers, only for those experts to convince a game studio that the infinite money printers doesnt work, and another studio moves more units than there have been players for the infinite money printer in years.

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