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Well, looks like SBI's latest masterwork Unknown 9: Awakening is on trajectory to bomb

Predict the game's player peak

  • Less than 100

    Votes: 67 27.2%
  • 101 - 500

    Votes: 108 43.9%
  • 501-1000

    Votes: 56 22.8%
  • Over 1k

    Votes: 15 6.1%

  • Total voters
    246
Heard the game is crap anyway, but they're marketing it a lot.
I see advert a almost everyday
A waste of time and money and will just more fuel to the fire to this DOA flop. The number of followers on Kabrutus's website, combined with Steam's 30% cut on every copy bought, will ensure the game dies with a whimper. Even if the budget was around $50-60 million, the amount of sales wouldn't be close to breaking even.
 
Without SBI and Kim Blackmail's wretched fingers on it, Unknown 9: Awakening could have potential and likely would have been better received considering they don't have a DEI snake hovering on their shoulder ordering them to do this and do that for a higher ESG score.
I know you’re being coy right now.

You know how I know?

Because another Namco game that is set to release shortly after this game, called Synduality: Echoes of Ada, is also on trajectory to be a bomb, and that game has mechs and cute anime women. No one really cared about the anime, and that will transfer over to the mediocre-looking extraction shooter they made.

You can’t save every game. You also can’t blame every failure in life on one thing. It happens man 🤷‍♂️
 

GHG

Member
Noway...
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Get yourself to an optometrist as soon as possible.

She's dolled up with a ton of makeup on in these pictures.

This is what she looked like during the DS scans:

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I'd say the end result is pretty accurate, if not a bit on the flattering side of things (not that that's a bad thing):

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I know you’re being coy right now.

You know how I know?

Because another Namco game that is set to release shortly after this game, called Synduality: Echoes of Ada, is also on trajectory to be a bomb, and that game has mechs and cute anime women. No one really cared about the anime, and that will transfer over to the mediocre-looking extraction shooter they made.

You can’t save every game. You also can’t blame every failure in life on one thing. It happens man 🤷‍♂️
With few exceptions, most anime games Namco publishes usually don't do well. I, for starters, have no interest in buying any games from that mediocre franchise that is Sword Art Online. But yeah, games with potential sadly perish before they can gain an audience. A shame, really... "sigh."
 

Jaybe

Member
Sweet Baby Inc is all over this, more than most projects:

Sweet Baby Inc. co-founders David Bédard and Kim Belair were listed in the game’s credits section.

Bédard is credited as the Brand Content Manager at Reflector Entertainment Ltd. while Belair is credited as Story Architect at Sweet Baby Inc.
 

Kacho

Gold Member
Sweet Baby Inc is all over this, more than most projects:

Sweet Baby Inc. co-founders David Bédard and Kim Belair were listed in the game’s credits section.

Bédard is credited as the Brand Content Manager at Reflector Entertainment Ltd. while Belair is credited as Story Architect at Sweet Baby Inc.
RIP my YouTube feed
 
Another ugly female lead and of course non white. These people love stripping the beauty of these women because God forbid some guy may actually play the game and find her attractive. That would make them objectifying the female lead to these morons. They can’t stand seeing men attracted to pretty women because that is too normal for them to accept. That is exactly why they make them all ugly as can be.
 
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Everyone is upset about the character's face while im triggered by those last gen graphics. My eyes.

I thought the actress was poorly cast in the witcher 3. shes ok looking. but yennifer is supposed to be hot as fuck.
Even by double AA standards, this game's graphics, along with its other SBI-infested sister title Flintlock: Siege of Dawn, look awful. It's plainly obvious the majority of this game's budget went to uglifying the model and into Kim Blackmail and her company's pocket.
 

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
I'd never even heard of this game until this thread. Bamco's Western offerings tend to be pretty bad, so I can't say I would've had high expectations SBI or otherwise... but man, that's some kinda track record SBI's building for themselves.
 
Probably something that had a trailer shown halfway through a Keighley show, when I’m already tired of watching generic game trailers…
 

Bernardougf

Member
Everyone is upset about the character's face while im triggered by those last gen graphics. My eyes.

I thought the actress was poorly cast in the witcher 3. shes ok looking. but yennifer is supposed to be hot as fuck.
Yeah.. awful cast .. as almost all except Henry. But nothing topped Tris casting..
 
Man, what the fuck is this thread. Who is this Kim Belair (I know, don't be too obvious) and why do people want her to be in jail...?
Kim Belair, a.k.a Kim Blackmail, is the wretched and accursed CEO of the woke consultant group Sweet Baby Inc. (YES, that's LITERALLY their name!) There a POS company that's been blackmailing video game companies like Insomniac Games since 2018 with the threat of cancel culture from their minions and friends like IGN and Kotaku unless they conform to their demands of injecting DEI into their games, which results in the uglification of women, pro-feminism and anti-male, anti-white propaganda, and the destruction of characters such as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Alan Wake.

Every gamer, including me, with a sensible brain despises this bitch and her cohorts for shoving their disgusting form of black supremacy and DEI slop into some of our franchises and ruining the characters we love and hold dear such as Spider-Man/Peter Parker.

They made news back in February of this year when one of Kim Blackmail's minions, Chris Kindred, tried to force Steam to delete Kabrutus's list of their work on his page because he was exposing their dirty deeds online. Of course, this backfired IMMENSELY and got everyone, including me, to become aware of the forced DEI and wokeness in games that most of us weren't aware of.

YouTube is loaded with videos about Kim Blackmail and her company. If you're a PC gamer or a console gamer wanting news about this POS company and many other DEI Consultants such as Black Girl Gamers, subscribe to Kabrutus's website on Steam so you can be better prepared. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44858017-Sweet-Baby-Inc-detected/

And also this video about her --->
 

Tajaz2426

Psychology PhD from Wikipedia University
I think what may be happening with the film and game industries is somehow these younger folks believe subverting expectations is a way to challenge your audience and make them act in the manner and have the morals they see fit.

They have no realization that subverting expectations is just using plot twists and such to challenge the audience and give them what they thought they didn’t need. A new twist surprise towards the third act, etc.

They believe that to subvert expectations they must piss of their customers, which isn’t how business works. They honestly believe people really want the opposite of what they say they want, this is the world we live in and it is scary how people have become so dumbed down.
 
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taizuke

Member
I have a serious question for the techie ladies and gents.

Do we have the scanning technology to just put the actual actresses face in the game? I’m so damn confused why they do this to women and men look great in comparison.

Thank you in advance.

Western devs had the technology 5-10 years ago but it was stolen by Hideo "You'll be ashamed of your words and deeds" Kojima and eastern developers.
 
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Eotheod

Member
Even by double AA standards, this game's graphics, along with its other SBI-infested sister title Flintlock: Siege of Dawn, look awful. It's plainly obvious the majority of this game's budget went to uglifying the model and into Kim Blackmail and her company's pocket.
Funny enough, Flintlock was actually a pretty okay game. Move past the rage bait brain dribble and it's a half decent Soulslike, albeit with expected differences. Short story helps too.
 
I have a serious question for the techie ladies and gents.

Do we have the scanning technology to just put the actual actresses face in the game? I’m so damn confused why they do this to women and men look great in comparison.

Thank you in advance.
They have the technology and they do it on purpose. Supposedly because of the “male gaze”, “ realism” and trying to blur the lines between male and female appearance-wise which imo is just terrible. Look at the actresses in Death Stranding, Yakuza, Black Myth Wukong and Resident Evil for examples. They basically look identical. If Asian developers can nail the female model’s likeness with smaller budgets most likely, there’s no reason why Western studios female models can’t hardly resemble their real life counterparts.
 
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mrqs

Member
This game/studio is headed by the guy who directed Assassin's Creed Unity. I had high hopes for this, but it looks super bad, unfortunately.
 
Fans of the Unknown 9 book series. It remains to be seen if this audience even plays games and will care about this side story.

I guess we will find out. The oddest thing here is attaching a specific blame to it. There was no known universe where this game should be projected to be a smash hit with a title like that and such mediocre marketing for a book series that hasn’t even been marketed that much outside of gaming.
The book is also written by the same person from SBI.
 
Unfortunately, for this game I think this game will be “Unknown” to the public. Hype and excitement seems REALLY low for this one. I’m going to be brutally honest though. I think the game looks kind of cool and interesting, but the combat and some of the animations seems quite janky to me which I noticed from it’s debut. I’ll probably check it out eventually.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
Unless I missed the tons of preview videos and articles because people didnt post them (I just skim GAF and Ree for news threads), did this game gets lots of marketing?
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
I have a serious question for the techie ladies and gents.

Do we have the scanning technology to just put the actual actresses face in the game? I’m so damn confused why they do this to women and men look great in comparison.

Thank you in advance.
They should. That old game called LA Noir on archaic Xbox 360/PS3 tech had great facial animations.

As for game makers dumbing down any actress' into looking like Swamp Thing, that's a game studio choice. Not limitations. People would post on gaf pics of actor's who are just as handsome in the game as real life. So if the guys can look just as hunky with accurate faces and stubble, the women should be able to be just as beautiful.

But weird video game employees will dumb her down because she's too good looking for a game, even she's that good looking in real life. You'd think if there's any changes, it would be to make the actors and actresses even better looking just like make up artists touching them up or magazine covers getting airbrushed. But nope. Western devs uglify the women but often keep the guys still studly.

Figure that one out.
 

hemo memo

You can't die before your death
This doesn’t make sense to me. Imagine a company hires a consultant to help them improve their sales, but the consultant’s advice actually leads to a decrease in sales. Yet, they keep hiring them.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
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and we've had this

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, get ready to feast your eyes on this!

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.... how long until we can seriously make one of those "gruff white male video game character" compilations for this tired, overused design template?
I like how game companies often stress politics or tolerance.

But then when Black women are in a game, they often get giant afros or Scary Spice hair. lol
 

DrDryRub

Banned
You people are still obsessed with SbI? Seriously why the F do you all care so much? They aren't going anywhere, they also aren't the ones killing games, the devs making bad games are. SBI are still getting hired as consultants and getting paid while you all cry, b*tch and moan like 4 yr olds. Bro it's time to move on and act like an adult.
 
You people are still obsessed with SbI? Seriously why the F do you all care so much? They aren't going anywhere, they also aren't the ones killing games, the devs making bad games are. SBI are still getting hired as consultants and getting paid while you all cry, b*tch and moan like 4 yr olds. Bro it's time to move on and act like an adult.
...Have you been paying attention to the gaming news, lately pal? Sweet Baby Inc. is finished. They've gone underground; they literally deleted their website and rebuilt it to remove ALL references to their clients and the games they've worked with. Every game they have been involved with has either flopped and caused massive layoffs (Flintlock: Siege of Dawn, Tales of Kenzaru, soon-to-be Unknown 9 Awakening) and even games like Alan Wake 2 and Spider-Man 2 have their company's reputation ruined and with both being sales disappointment.

Are you aware that Kim Belair has blackmailed gaming companies as I've stated in my post above that forced companies like Insomniac Games to hire them to avoid bad press? Do you HONESTLY really think any sensible gaming company would want to hire these talentless DEI hacks to work on their games? Who the hell wants this disgusting form of black supremacy, anti-male, anti-white, and uglyfication of women bullshit? None of us like this! And Kabrutus's list on Steam proves it.
 
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hemo memo

You can't die before your death
You people are still obsessed with SbI? Seriously why the F do you all care so much? They aren't going anywhere, they also aren't the ones killing games, the devs making bad games are. SBI are still getting hired as consultants and getting paid while you all cry, b*tch and moan like 4 yr olds. Bro it's time to move on and act like an adult.
If SBI's advice is so great, why are so many games failing? Is it just a coincidence, or could their 'expertise' be part of the problem?

One day, people will look back and wonder how SBI got away with it for so long.
 
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