I don’t really care, but it’s funny if it makes chuds mad.

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    “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.

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      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

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

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    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

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      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…

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      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.

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        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”

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          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.

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            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.

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      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.

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      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?

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        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.

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    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.