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[RoboFu]

What is wrong with you people? Why are you always expecting a Bloodborne 2 type of show... Yeah, it wasn't stellar but come on, don't set your expectation so high. Same goes for Direct...

Because not having a BB sequel would be the most insane thing ever so we are always expecting it coming.

 

[DAHGAMING]

I was back but i'm misogynistic so looks like i'm gone again

A Load of woke nonsense.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Ghost of Girlboss looks good.

But I'll say this.

99.99% of male warriors couldn't dual wield katanas effectively due to the strength requirements. You basically needed to be Musashi, a giant and extremely athletic guy, someone who was as strong and fast wielding a katana with one hand as most others were going two handed, which is why he came up with niten ichi-ryu. It'd be disastrous for a lightweight woman to do it.

The only thing she should be dual wielding is my bread and butter

 

[Spukc]

Forknife gamepad

10 outa 10

Would watch again

 

[Fbh]

Pretty mediocre show.
A proper first party reveal at the end elevated it a bit, but as someone who didn't love GOT I hope there is more to it than just "more of the same in a new place"

 

[Jesb]

Not an amazing showing but better than I thought it would be. Was hoping this was a time to reveal RE9. Still some decent stuff was here.

 

[nani17]

Ghost of Girlboss looks good.

But I'll say this.

99.99% of male warriors couldn't dual wield katanas effectively due to the strength requirements. You basically needed to be Musashi, a giant and extremely athletic guy, someone who was as strong and fast wielding a katana with one hand as most others were going two handed, which is why he came up with niten ichi-ryu. It'd be disastrous for a lightweight woman to do it.

 

[Chiggs]

Sucker Punch saved the state of disappoinment

Did they? Because it certainly doesn't feel that way to me.

 

[saintjules]

I don't know about you guys but the Pro Enhanced games looked crazy on my LG B3 OLED. I'm glad I held off on playing some of these games.

 

[StueyDuck]

of everything in the SOP though, if you put all the wokeness aside. I can't believe how incredibly boring and bad DA:V looks, it was running terribly, the gameplay was just boring basically no hit reactions, just numbers going down, The voice acting and setpiece was lousy.

I can't believe they are shipping that game and it hasn't returned to reassess. Even the editor of the trailer got bored and had to just make random jump cuts in the footage.

 

[MasterDerico]

All i can see here is a serious mental gymnastics.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

What is wrong with you people? Why are you always expecting a Bloodborne 2 type of show... Yeah, it wasn't stellar but come on, don't set your expectation so high. Same goes for Direct...

Because we just want 1 really exciting game. Not a mountain of shit or - at best - mediocrity again.

 

[Sgt. Pinback]

I don't know about you guys but the Pro Enhanced games looked crazy on my LG B3 OLED. I'm glad I held off on playing some of these games.

You could tell how 'crazy' they looked through a compressed Youtube stream?

You must have a magic TV!

 

[Thief1987]

ASTRO BOT
The Last of Us Part I
Stellar Blade
Horizon Zero Dawn
LEGO Horizon Adventures
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Monster Hunter Wilds
Metro Awakening
Dynasty Warriors: Origins
FANTASIAN Neo Dimension
Fear the Spotlight
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Sonic X Shadow Generations
Alan Wake II
Hell is Us

T Thief1987 no brain cells were killed in creating this list

Well, I was wrong. Nothing to say. Apologize.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Not sure why so many are triggered by a female protaganist. First game you played a male, second a female. Whats the big deal.

idk but sony pulling a bait and switch annoys me... jin was an awesome protag we spent the game with and the game ended perfectlh storywise to continue his adventures.

i hope you dont mind the next goddess of war game with a genderswap kratos.

 

[Jesb]

The new ghosts doesn't really scream PS5. I thought they were gonna announce a remaster when I first seen it.

 

[splattered]

Ghost of Girlboss looks good.

But I'll say this.

99.99% of male warriors couldn't dual wield katanas effectively due to the strength requirements. You basically needed to be Musashi, a giant and extremely athletic guy, someone who was as strong and fast wielding a katana with one hand as most others were going two handed, which is why he came up with niten ichi-ryu. It'd be disastrous for a lightweight woman to do it.

Shhh her hair is bright purple under that hat, she identifies as a strong independent dual katana wielding Musashi.

And just so you know, It's Musashi-MA'AM

(Jk, doesn't bother me either way)

 

[Markio128]

As someone who is invested in the PS ecosystem with a PSVR 2 and a Pro on the way, I have to admit that there is a hell of a lot to look forward to from that show. And all that stuff is coming within the next 12 months, and not when I'll be too old to give a shit.

 

[Sgt. Pinback]

Ghost Of Vagina was the only thing that looked acceptable, and even that has annoying girlboss energy, and you KNOW it'll be the first one, but this time with a broad.

Just horrible. Imagine paying PS5 Pro + software prices for this absolute trainwreck of liquid monkey shit. My god.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

GOT 2 looks too much like the first. We have just had tidbits, but definitely looks like a PS4 game.

Anyway, it shits all over that thing Ubisoft is cooking.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Why did they get rid of Jin Sakai? I don't mind a female protagonist at all. I just assumed the sequel would have Jin Sakai playing the lead.

 

[SlimySnake]

Ghost of Girlboss looks good.

But I'll say this.

99.99% of male warriors couldn't dual wield katanas effectively due to the strength requirements. You basically needed to be Musashi, a giant and extremely athletic guy, someone who was as strong and fast wielding a katana with one hand as most others were going two handed, which is why he came up with niten ichi-ryu. It'd be disastrous for a lightweight woman to do it.

I hate it. I just hate the reasoning behind it. I hate that the fact that they did it AGAIN after TLOU. People buy sequels to play as the protagonist again. They fucked over Joel. now they are fucking over Jin. Watch Peter get replaced by Miles in the third game.

I dont mind playing as female characters. Im playing and enjoying star wars outlaws right now. i played as a girl in avatar. I love Lara in tomb raider. I just hate protagonist switches. the first game was successful because they had a likable protagonist. It was a breath of fresh air coming just weeks off of TLOU2 where both ellie and abby acted like mean old angry birds. Now I bet you anything they will turn her into an angry vengeful bitch just like they did Ellie, Abby and Aloy in HFW.

If i dont like it, the twitter and reddit mob sure as hell isnt. it's such a needless change and it will dominate the discourse long after the game launches. just stupid.

 

[semiconscious]

i liked the vibe of hell is us. it's just off enough to feel like a game that kojima's kid brother could've come up with...

 

[Ristifer]

I mean, GoT2 (GoY) is great and all. But it's not gonna be $1100CAD great. Sony gotta come out with their dicks swinging way more than that, sorry.

 

[PatientGamer]

Waiting patiently for people to get mad that you're playing as a woman in the new Ghost game...

EDIT: You guys never fail to deliver.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Onna musha is real thing

this just means female warrior, not samurai, they definitely weren't dual wielding katana's, most of them were trained with spears/glaives.
Onna bugeishi would be the closes to a "female samurai", and some clans had female daimyo's, but I don't think there's ever been a documented case of a female ronin.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Ghost of Girlboss looks good.

But I'll say this.

99.99% of male warriors couldn't dual wield katanas effectively due to the strength requirements. You basically needed to be Musashi, a giant and extremely athletic guy, someone who was as strong and fast wielding a katana with one hand as most others were going two handed, which is why he came up with niten ichi-ryu. It'd be disastrous for a lightweight woman to do it.

What will happen now with all the stealth and ghost mechanics? Those were tied to Jin.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

I hate it. I just hate the reasoning behind it. I hate that the fact that they did it AGAIN after TLOU. People buy sequels to play as the protagonist again. They fucked over Joel. now they are fucking over Jin. Watch Peter get replaced by Miles in the third game.

I dont mind playing as female characters. Im playing and enjoying star wars outlaws right now. i played as a girl in avatar. I love Lara in tomb raider. I just hate protagonist switches. the first game was successful because they had a likable protagonist. It was a breath of fresh air coming just weeks off of TLOU2 where both ellie and abby acted like mean old angry birds. Now I bet you anything they will turn her into an angry vengeful bitch just like they did Ellie, Abby and Aloy in HFW.

If i dont like it, the twitter and reddit mob sure as hell isnt. it's such a needless change and it will dominate the discourse long after the game launches. just stupid.

Stop jumping to conclusions you haven't even heard their pronouns yet

 

[DForce]

2025 is going to be a solid year with Ghost of Yotei and Death Stranding 2.

 

[Ogbert]

It's as if everyone in the industry has decided that games are no longer allowed to be fun.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Music is FIRE!

Does it have some western vibes or is it just me? Very cool.

I thought "this sounds like Ennio Morricone Dollar Trilogy stuff but with Japanese instruments" and I lost it. Really weird.

Also, the new protagonist is going to fuck that wolf at some point, isn't she?

I'm not into the Playstation ecosystem, but the show was at an acceptable time here (midnight) instead of 3AM like in the good old days, so I thought, why not watch this?
Let me tell you, I've been disappointed by many a Nintendo Direct, but if I were a PS user, I may feel even worse after this SoP. There was even a farming sim, ffs.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Watch Peter get replaced by Miles in the third game.

They already said that's what they're doing

 

[sncvsrtoip]

I hate it. I just hate the reasoning behind it. I hate that the fact that they did it AGAIN after TLOU. People buy sequels to play as the protagonist again. They fucked over Joel. now they are fucking over Jin. Watch Peter get replaced by Miles in the third game.

I dont mind playing as female characters. Im playing and enjoying star wars outlaws right now. i played as a girl in avatar. I love Lara in tomb raider. I just hate protagonist switches. the first game was successful because they had a likable protagonist. It was a breath of fresh air coming just weeks off of TLOU2 where both ellie and abby acted like mean old angry birds. Now I bet you anything they will turn her into an angry vengeful bitch just like they did Ellie, Abby and Aloy in HFW.

If i dont like it, the twitter and reddit mob sure as hell isnt. it's such a needless change and it will dominate the discourse long after the game launches. just stupid.

Jin was boring as hell. Best games like rdr2 or all gta series done it. Imo good decision to move to new character and new period.

 

[Jesb]

Hell is us looks awesome af. By far best part of the show.

 

[Clear]

Waiting patiently for people to get mad that you're playing as a woman in the new Ghost game...

EDIT: You guys never fail to deliver.

Don't have an issue myself, there have been female ronin/ninja warriors throughout the history of the chambara genre.

The existence of reactionary comments in contexts where switching gendered protagonists *is actually organic*, is one of the reasons I despise the vapid tokenism of DEI backed product. A few years ago people would have gone "oh cool", now due to overexposure and endless sermonising on gender issues people simply brace themselves for the worst...

Very sad.

 

[PeteBull]

Ghost of Girlboss looks good.

But I'll say this.

99.99% of male warriors couldn't dual wield katanas effectively due to the strength requirements. You basically needed to be Musashi, a giant and extremely athletic guy, someone who was as strong and fast wielding a katana with one hand as most others were going two handed, which is why he came up with niten ichi-ryu. It'd be disastrous for a lightweight woman to do it.

As a big antifeminist here, i will still give it benefit of the doubt, aka some new/special very light material for the blades or something along those lines, as long as she isnt wielding swords looking like this

 

[MethodRed]

Girls can hold a sword? Unrealistic.

 

[Bojanglez]

Why did they get rid of Jin Sakai? I don't mind a female protagonist at all. I just assumed the sequel would have Jin Sakai playing the lead.

Maybe it's not right to think of it as a sequel, more of a new entry in a series, much like Final Fantasy.

 

[gunstarhero]

Was really hoping for an Astrobot remaster…

Maybe next year.

 

[Putonahappyface]

I understand now. Ghost of Yotei is set a few hundred years after Ghost of Tsushima, that's why Jin Sakai is history.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

That is, however, a Hattori Hanzo.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Added The Midnight Walk to my Steam Wishlist.

 

[Ashamam]

i hope you dont mind the next goddess of war game with a genderswap kratos.

Seeing as it would be a new game, why wouldn't I? I kind of prefer a fixed gender to choice anyway as I think they can better build one story rather than two. Most important thing to me is that the character is interesting. Often it comes down to intent, if the intent is to tick a bunch of boxes you can just about bet that the character is anything but interesting and it will be obvious. There is a bit of that going on in the industry sure, but it will self correct as the games tend to just not be good as devs are too busy patting themselves on the back and not catering to their audience. But its a bit ridiculous to think a gender choice is automatically pandering when literally half the population is women.

 

[Fake]

Why did they get rid of Jin Sakai?

Figures.

 

[FUBARx89]

Shit show. Disappointed to see I was wrong in the leak thread thinking it could be a sizzle reel of sorts.

Dino Crisis is nice though. Hopefully RE2&3 OG come aswell.

Also surprised Sony is letting you pay a tenner for Horizon upgrade. Really did expect them to go all in.

 

[possumarmada]

Ghost Of Vagina was the only thing that looked acceptable, and even that has annoying girlboss energy, and you KNOW it'll be the first one, but this time with a broad.

Just horrible. Imagine paying PS5 Pro + software prices for this absolute trainwreck of liquid monkey shit. My god.

Jesus Christ some of you are just fucking sad. The amount of small dick energy on this board is just too much. I know this has been carved out to be your little safe space but you guy are the human equivalent of fucking clown shoes.


I'll see myself out.

 

[Tommi84]

I bet Horizon or Days Gone is going to be the "megaton" they end with, I just can't.

I'm happy you were wrong

 

[LegendOfKage]

Waiting patiently for people to get mad that you're playing as a woman in the new Ghost game...

EDIT: You guys never fail to deliver.

I wouldn't want to play as some new guy 300 years later either. I wanted to continue the story that clearly ended without closure. I don't think that's a lot to ask.

 

[FeralEcho]

What will happen now with all the stealth and ghost mechanics? Those were tied to Jin.

Who needs those when you can use gaslighting to destroy your enemies like any good girlboss does.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Seeing as it would be a new game, why wouldn't I? I kind of prefer a fixed gender to choice anyway as I think they can better build one story rather than two. Most important thing to me is that the character is interesting. Often it comes down to intent, if the intent is to tick a bunch of boxes you can just about bet that the character is anything but interesting and it will be obvious. There is a bit of that going on in the industry sure, but it will self correct as the games tend to just not be good as devs are too busy patting themselves on the back and not catering to their audience. But its a bit ridiculous to think a gender choice is automatically pandering when literally half the population is women.

I dont, i prefer ips to stay consistent.

Like on opposite side male sirens in borderlands would feel wrong. Or the next Control game having a guy as protagonist.

Consistency.