Not sure why. Sounds like the character has some younger Drake in her.
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Forspoken is getting meme'd on
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Not sure why. Sounds like the character has some younger Drake in her.
DRAMA [Trivial: Failure] — So just so we can touch base here... we're
kiiiiinda some sort of superstar cop (yeah, like that's a thing). Turns out
I'm stuck here in Wacky Future France because I need to solve a murder;
maybe the butler did it? Just my guess. Tiny little problem is, I got no idea
who I am, I'm hung over like Hemingway, and, oh yeah, get this: I'm
talking to my own freaking brain. All of them. All of the brains. And each
brain talks like they're listening to C-SPAN while reading a thesaurus. So
before I start getting all political in here - just FYI, I think monarchy is the
queen bee's knees - I think I need to find my pants before I talk to my
total dweeb of a partner. ...He's right behind me, isn't he?
KIM KITSURAGI — Detective, why are you talking like that.
kiiiiinda some sort of superstar cop (yeah, like that's a thing). Turns out
I'm stuck here in Wacky Future France because I need to solve a murder;
maybe the butler did it? Just my guess. Tiny little problem is, I got no idea
who I am, I'm hung over like Hemingway, and, oh yeah, get this: I'm
talking to my own freaking brain. All of them. All of the brains. And each
brain talks like they're listening to C-SPAN while reading a thesaurus. So
before I start getting all political in here - just FYI, I think monarchy is the
queen bee's knees - I think I need to find my pants before I talk to my
total dweeb of a partner. ...He's right behind me, isn't he?
KIM KITSURAGI — Detective, why are you talking like that.
This. I'm convinced they're thanking their stars for this.
Free publicity over something trivial. More people will see the graphics and the masses don't care about the "cringe" aspect of this kind of voice over. It worked for many movies. no reason it won't work here.
Definitely has big *record scratch* "yeah, that's me" vibes.
I know it's going for a more casual "Marvel" style and it's a normal human girl from New York or something sucked into magic land, but I dunno. I feel the whole isekai thing is played out so having real human beings sucked into magic fantasy lands and being all "woooow, ok I'm the chosen one with magic tools. sooo crazy!" comes off as the character kind of humble bragging. Like "Yeah, that's me, sucked into this magic world and shooting fire balls and flying and fighting massive dragons. Oh, yeah, it's not that cool, just another day for me in my new super awesome cool life!".
And yeah, I don;t doubt AT ALL that there is a lot of idiots hating on this game purely for the black female lead but don't pretend that people also didn't meme on Jack Whiteman-McKillChaos in Final Fantasy: Angry White Man Simulator 2022 (or 21, whenever it was farted out).
I know it's going for a more casual "Marvel" style and it's a normal human girl from New York or something sucked into magic land, but I dunno. I feel the whole isekai thing is played out so having real human beings sucked into magic fantasy lands and being all "woooow, ok I'm the chosen one with magic tools. sooo crazy!" comes off as the character kind of humble bragging. Like "Yeah, that's me, sucked into this magic world and shooting fire balls and flying and fighting massive dragons. Oh, yeah, it's not that cool, just another day for me in my new super awesome cool life!".
And yeah, I don;t doubt AT ALL that there is a lot of idiots hating on this game purely for the black female lead but don't pretend that people also didn't meme on Jack Whiteman-McKillChaos in Final Fantasy: Angry White Man Simulator 2022 (or 21, whenever it was farted out).
Nothing on XV reaches this level of Joss Whedon bullshit.
Urghhh...Square-Enix marketing is the worst. Can you imagine if Horizon marketed itself like this? Even Borderlands trailers aren't this cringe.
The game has like 5 writers with Amy Hennig being brought in last. Doubt her input will matter much if she's just there to polish up some dialogues.
I think that's what makes it so off-putting, is how clearly you can hear the writers trying to hit that demo, and falling short. Buffy was a huge deal, but it's old hat here in 2022.
Hopefully this is just a case of poor marketing exacerbating the issue. Ella Balinska deserves better
Yeah, not to say that there's nothing to criticize in the footage that they've shown for the game, but some have made it pretty clear that they really dislike the XV team or the writers and that would explain why there's such a wild disconnect between the trailer we just saw and the reaction to it.
Again, there's going to be plenty of legitimate criticism for the game and i'm not trying to hand waive them, but some of the comments surrounding this game (especially the protagonist) are very suspect.
This dialogue is arriving at a time where people are tired of Whedonspeak, but it's also after people were doing gymnastics at Olympian levels to shield Stranger of Paradise.
Seeing how some constantly latch onto any opportunity to feel justified in bashing this game so hard for the sake of it (and not because of questionable comments like the hip hop walk one) is definitely getting a little weird.
Seeing how some constantly latch onto any opportunity to feel justified in bashing this game so hard for the sake of it (and not because of questionable comments like the hip hop walk one) is definitely getting a little weird.
it's not a good trailer, but i still have hopes for the game
good thing i was already sold on it before this trailer lol
square enix's western marketing really sucks
good thing i was already sold on it before this trailer lol
square enix's western marketing really sucks
I totally feel the opposite here in that the protag's dialogue is pure "so let me get this straight, I'm gonna do this AWESOME THING???"
It's too enthusiastic for humble bragging, if you ask me.
Jack Finalfantasyorigin Bullshit Garland is a treasure.
Yeah, this is what I think whenever there is a big commotion to criticize a game's story presentation for some reason. There are so many games with terrible writing that people love, including a lot of the people with anime avatars that are leading the charge
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If you don't like the game you're racist
Are you implying that people approach this game in good faith?
Anyway, we've barely heard anything of fancy British bracelets right? I'm sure they will say all sorts of cringy stuff or overly explain tecnobabble (magibabble?) before saying something funny like "just shoot the magic crystal!".
Game still looks good though. Magic looks really cool and fun. Worst bit about the game is the pricing on PC though, trying to charge what was it, £70?
Game still looks good though. Magic looks really cool and fun. Worst bit about the game is the pricing on PC though, trying to charge what was it, £70?
I wonder what's the difference that makes them defend that SE game with corny writing and corny trailers and bash this SE game with corny writing and corny trailers…
Was there any criticism for Johanna in Deathloop? No it wasn't.
Also, this game, despite starring a black woman it's written by white people and they went all the way to put the most embarassing stereotypes available for them.
Yes, i'm having fun laughing when the best they can do was stereotyping the shit out of the character.
I want to like this game but it feels like square is making it damn hard to do so. Every showing rings like a squandered concept, rife with trappings of a particular tone of media that I just can't stand.
It doesn't help that the gameplay showings have been...mixed and that it's not really clear that Luminous has fixed the core issues with XV in its moment to moment game feel and the like.
It doesn't help that the gameplay showings have been...mixed and that it's not really clear that Luminous has fixed the core issues with XV in its moment to moment game feel and the like.
People are comparing it to the likes of Marvel? What exactly were people expecting...
I don't get the issue with this.
I don't get the issue with this.
We've known about this dialogue for a year btw.
View: https://youtu.be/AdZUrXCqUck?t=67
The reactions to this game's writing are frankly, quite insane, given that it's not bad at all. Compare the pacing and performances of this scene to anything in FFXV.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0I46-q3O2E
View: https://youtu.be/AdZUrXCqUck?t=67
The reactions to this game's writing are frankly, quite insane, given that it's not bad at all. Compare the pacing and performances of this scene to anything in FFXV.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0I46-q3O2E
A japanese studio making a title aimed at west starring a black woman and written by white people.
If only they had black people in the writing department or someone with a strong understanding of black culture we wouldn't have to deal with this shit.
I don't think S-E ever really saw their western studios as equals or as a 'real' component of S-E, that's part of why they sold them off.
Please dear god I hope the Mario movie doesn't actually have dialog like this
Cheesy dialogue in a video game!? No way!?
I don't really see the big deal. Sounds about the same as anything I heard in almost any mainstream game.
I don't really see the big deal. Sounds about the same as anything I heard in almost any mainstream game.
The game finally trended on Twitter and it was nothing but people dunking on it.
I would be devastated.
I would be devastated.