Apparently respecting Japanese culture: casting a (self-identified) genderfluid dyke born in Los Angeles and making her kick Japanese men's asses.

I hate western devs so much, it's unreal.

Ugly ass bitch. 38 years old as well.

I' have anti woke fatigue

>female protag
>woke cunt involvement

hard pass

>>713028109
Make a R.eddit acount then, fag.

>>713028109
Shadows lost, resetard.
Also do these freaks run off of a script?

>>713028159
>complaining about cultural appropriation on behalf of another culture
You first

>>713027965 (OP)
It's fiction. No matter how accurate they want to claim it to be it is still a fictional depiction.

>>713027996
disgusting cunt

>>713028158
fucking this

>>713028265
I don't give a shit about that. I'm just pointing out they are a bunch of hypocrites.

>Make game set in a historic setting
>WTF you can't just ask people who know a lot of history about that setting
Why are you like this? How are you actually this god damn fucking retarded, yet remember how to breathe?

>cast tranny for protagonist
good way to kill your sequel

I sense a Spiderman 2 / GoW 2 situation where this game will be much worse than the original.

>>713028502
>make game set in a historic setting
>cast femoid that wasn't even born in the same country and whose character doesn't fit the setting
Pick one, mongoloid.

>>713027996
That's not even remotely ugly. That's a 6/10 on a good day.

>>713028775

>>713028775
hahaha haha no

>dub

>>713027965 (OP)
You have to keep in mind that shes just the face model. I mean correct me if im wrong but thats not really adding politics per se.

>>713027965 (OP)
>first game was boring slop
>second game will also be boring slop
gosh

>>713027965 (OP)
You're only performatively offended and don't really care.

>>713027965 (OP)
we had threads about this month's go. this game is totally fucked

>ghost of lesbian gamer gate fuck you

>>713029019
https://blog.playstation.com/2025/06/18/cultural-lessons-for-ghost-of-yotei/
Playstation posted this shit today.

>>713029085
they're compromised

>>713027965 (OP)
Remember how the guy from the first game was a samurai lord but he took orders from every Strong Feminist Woman he met like a little bitch lmfao

>>713029085
Playstation Xbox squenix crapcom they're all doubling down on dei faggotry.

>>713027996
Temu akwafina

>>713029214
I like a strong Japanese woman

ghost of wokei

I can't believe how feminists just took over this game, and the people in charge were like
>OK fuck it

>>713027965 (OP)
They didn't respect it when they had a lesbian granny killing a bunch of armored men in the first one.

>>713029512
she was a widow

>>713027996
>38 years old as well
How dare people age? Everyone should just drop dead on their 25th birthday.

>>713028109
No matter how much you post this, it's not gonna do anything. This blowup from normalfags has been a decade in the making, it's not gonna go away after a month

>>713029575
Who had a lesbian relationship with her servant.

>>713028109
I've been getting anti-woke stuff like Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic and that whole circle in my youtube for months. I agree with their takes on wokeshit and all, but I don't know how they keep the negative energy up. Then I watch the Donkey Kong Direct this morning and I go around for impressions and its nothing but pure positivity matching my own feelings.

I just come to the conclusion that the world would be better off like Donkey Kong - totally devoid of wokeshit, so that the antiwokeshit would not exist as well.

>put black dude into samurai game that was barely known
>WHY ARE YOU BRINGING SUCH NON HONORABURU SHAMEFUR DISPRAY TO GRORIOUS NIPPON >:((((

>ask people if what they do is historically accurate
>NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT EITHER REEEEEEEEEE

Make it make sense.
Just for once, make it make sense what you eternally triggered people actually want.

>>713029214
first game was so woke. i thought Japan was some alpha land where women were permitted some authority if they earned it but not any random bitch rising to legend status lmao. fun game but shit tier characters

>>713029615
just women (except my mom)

>>713029684
It's their jobs. They're grifters. However, that doesn't mean they are wrong. It's just better if you don't watch them and form your own opinions.
I don't like woke stuff because it's usually a vehicle to insert the creators opinions on things that are surface level at best, and at worst, full on propaganda to enforce specific views for whatever reason. I'm convinced the trans movement is almost entirely for profit and mentally ill and sexually abused individuals are used by the most heinous and evil corporate pieces of shit to make easy money as the trans industry is a multi billion dollar a year industry. So instead of treating these sick people, they are used like cattle and the idiots who go along with it practice toxic positivity and refuse to see anything else, willingly let these people ruin their lives so they can feel better about themselves.

>>713031297
Drinker was an author well before he was a critic, and its impossible to not criticize woke shit if you happen to be a movie critic.
>>713029684
Well that's how it used to be, then for some reason it became all about labels and representation, now we have the culture and the counter culture and there's not much we can do about it.

>>713030357
They want to be triggered, duh.

>>713028109
why do you keep posting this?

>>713029501
It happens with anything successful. You really don’t realise how obsessed and autistic these people are. Make no mistake, the dev team that made Claire Obscura 33 is definitely being infiltrated as we speak. They get one person in the door, in hr or some shit, then before you know it the pronoun labels need to be announced before every meeting. These lunatics have no goals in life than to ruin things straight men enjoy

>>713031583
>impossible to not criticize woke shit if you happen to be a movie critic.
I agree. But it is still his job. I'm not saying he's wrong, just that he's incentivized to create a specific market for himself. Video titles full of bait headlines, overly dramatizing something, creating issues where there are none etc. etc.
You should always form your own opinion, especially over listening to someone who is doing a job for money.

>>713031770
Bot or paid actor. Hard to tell these days. Lots of paid actors get exposed every day, from both sides. There was that reporter who was getting money from Russia. And there was also that RedPill Twitter user who was actually a Paki posting propaganda for Iran and Hamas under the guise of an American.

>>713027965 (OP)
ywnbj

>>713032489
be jesus?

>>713031770
Hes an actual pajeet tourist who came here from that gamingcirclejerk reddit site during release of Kingdom Come 2 probably because some trooncels posted screencaps from here. He didnt knew about archive so he was spamming with cat pictures then he started to call others schizos and then decided to just permanently avatarfag with cat pictures and spam "anti woke fatigue". Hes also defending indians unironically so you can connect the dots easily.

>>713027965 (OP)
>>713027996
Who actually cares about actors and actresses. That's like woman behavior. Are you going to gush about Kim Kardashian next fag? I'll judge the game when it comes out.

>>713028109
no such thing, youre are just buckbroken

>>713030357
Anon, the people that put the nigger in the game were asking "historical advisors" whether it was historically accurate or not as well.
We want the game to be historically accurate according to Japanese historians NOT some faggot jew writing his homosexual, blacked fanfic.

>>713031297
it's rare to find someone with a functioning brain on 4chan

>>713028775
yellow fevercels are mentally ill.

>>713028775

>>713035924
You literally do not care, you literally get your opinions from other retards on the internet telling you to get mad, especially ones that never played the first one.

>>713031297
Stop noticing the patterns

>>713027996
Delete this picture, it's a racist caricature.

>>713029615
>Everyone should just drop dead on their 25th birthday.
Don't give them any ideas bro. At least Logan let you go to 30 before the state mandated suiciding with two shots to the back of the head.

>>713035998
NTA but would

>>713027996
God what an ugly mouth. She looks like a cannibal.

>>713029615
Who would want to play as an old woman? A premenopausal woman slaying fighting aged men no less. Oh boy its what everybody wanted out of their video game. caaaant wait

>>713027965 (OP)
Hate Erika but lets not pretend Japs haven't, from since the 70's, written revenge stories of women going after men in old Japan, not always Edo period but a lot during that time, and killing them. Shirayuki-hime from the 70's, very good movie by the way, comes to mind. The Onryo legends of women who died a painful death and comes back to torture and kill the people who wronged her also comes to mind from older Jap legends.

>>713027965 (OP)
I think by osmosis alone I learned more about Japanese mythology from the Nioh games and Okami than I'll learn about Japanese culture from gay Western devs.

>>713027965 (OP)
The actor who played Jin was not born or raised in japan either

>>713028109
I agree with you. I simply do not give a shit about shadows. I have more important things to do then get mad at video games I never played and I'm never going to play. I at most laugh at it once and simply play something I actually enjoy.

>>713033760
All of your political opinions come from twitter ragebait posted by literal Indians for the purpose of getting money from twitter for your views. You live in hyper-reality. Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, etc, profit off your anger and keep you in your simulacrum of the actual world to gain wealth from you. They want you mad over meaningless nonsense. Not a single video game you rant hours and hours about online matters in the grand scheme of things. Assassin's Creed Shadows is already forgotten about by basically everyone, it's only the "anti-woke" people who flip their shit about that mediocre game. It's a repeat of the Satanic Panic and just as retarded. Nobody even knows what woke means anymore. If someone starts using buzzwords I immediately cast whatever they are saying into suspicion. Buzzwords are designed to make you think like a retard.

>>713035850
What I love about this image is that he he bought that product and chooses to watch that channel. He is purposefully consuming content that makes him mad. If you can't find content you enjoy in the age of information, that's your problem honestly.

>>713037427
>Thinking the people manufacturing this outrage actually know anything more than the average foreign layman about Japanese history or culture themselves
It's just a vehicle for what they really wanna be mad about all the time

>>713031297
I mean, my opinions are pretty much formed by myself - or so I would like to think. It's just that those guys articulate and communicate those opinions way better than I can. And in the Drinker's case, with a much cooler sounding accent. From seeing my thoughts echoed and resonate with their huge audiences, there is a definitely a form of validation in clicking on the vids and watching and reading the comments. It's just so numbingly one dimensional however.

They have these orbiter channels like Geeks and Gamers that were constantly going on and on and on and on about the wokeness and depravity of Assassin's Creed Shadows. I'm thinking to myself, that's great and all, but there's a perfectly fine, non-woke Xenoblade coming out on the same day that could use some spotlight. Nothing. You look at earlier Nerdrotic vids and it's crazy how positive and unjaded he is compared to now.

In any case, the more extreme woke stuff just seems to be some kind of mass brainwashing experiment that took over ten years to push back against.

>>713027965 (OP)
The first game was shit too I don’t get how you people could play it

>>713037717
Got to be honest, I really really hate Erika Isshi however the retardation about this game is stupid. This game is basically just Shirayuki-hime, 1973 Jap movie, but in video game format.

The TL:DR about that movie is that a woman gets her entire family killed, trains for years in swordsmanship under a master and then goes off to kill all the men who killed her family.

>>713037594
Ok

>>713028502
they say the movie industry is dying because they start production with unfinished scripts

>>713038114(me)
>a woman gets her entire family killed
Correction on this, her entire family gets killed though she doesn't cause it

>>713038114
Sounds badass. I don't mind Erika so should be fun to play as another spectre of revenge with that inspiration.

>>713038243
Given it's (current year) it's probably not going to be as well written nor the main character as pleasant to the eyes. In both demeanor and appearance.

>>713027965 (OP)
>has nothing negative to say about the game so goes after ad hom of the character model
jesus christ, so much >>713028109 its unreal

>>713038243
If they go into the more Onryo side of things then that would actually be pretty cool, since I quite like the old Onryo stories, legends and Kabiku plays from Japan. You know I kind of have hope for the game, mostly because SuckerPunch managed to get Erika to shut up for more than a year.

>>713038338
It's in the eye of the beholder. The first game was gorgeous and fun even though the main character didn't give me a boner when I dropped his naked ass into all those hot springs.

>>713027996
She'd look fine if she weren't fat.

>>713027996
Would desu

>>713038420
NTA but speaking of hotsprings SuckerPunch has confirmed those will still be a thing in Yotei though whether they'll go all the way will be seen when the game comes out.

>>713038420
It's not even a sex thing, as you quickly made it, but that the character just isn't as appealing to look at from an aesthetic viewpoint. Is it that hard to discuss beauty without someone bringing up "yeah but you just want to fuck her"? No, I just want to have beautiful characters again and not some 40 year old looking granny doing things that was previously done by a man in his 30s.

>>713038551
All the little "hear your character's thoughts" moments were a nice touch to make the collectathon more interesting but I won't complain if they change up the delivery a bit instead of copy pasting.

>>713038728
Well the aesthetically pleasing thing about Jin was his armor, if we're talking pure aesthetic sense, and that wouldn't suffer much from the actress having a weird smile or whatever. I'd assume they'll bring their A game to the costume design again this time, unless a tragic Spider Man 2 event occurs. And to be clear, it's unrealistic for a man or woman of any age to almost single handedly evict the entire mongol occupying army off their island. We're in "mythical/video game protagonist" territory no matter what their hormone balance or genitals are.

>>713029214
I would too, a feisty woman can controll me any way she likes

Why is Ayame in Tenchu no problem?

>>713027965 (OP)
lesbians are Japanese culture

>>713035998
Plus, fetishizing race is disgusting.

>>713040335
Not really, everyone does it to some degree. it's just that asians are ugly, arr rook arike.

>>713027965 (OP)
New /vpol/ outrage dropped?

>>713029684
This.
At the end of the day we can just play Donkey Kong and bing bing wahoo as woketards corrupt everything else in sight and the antiwokes make seethe videos while the games themselves sell no copies and the companies go bankrupt. The politicstards have defiled everything, but we still have a refuge where we can be free and frolic with joy, even if only for a time.

>>713037594
Writting this essay must be "more important" to you.

>>713027965 (OP)
>we want a respecful interpretation of Japan
>lets make the protagonist some ugly tranny who can take down a hoard of men on her own
Ok

>>713037594
Bro writing an essay here about how much he doesn't care. Sure bud I believe you. This is definitely not a blatant case of you trying to undermine people who disagree with you to try and deflect all criticism towards YOUR movement. God forbid I'd never assume that.

>>713028775
Damn, you must've grown up in a barnyard if that's even close to a 6/10 for you.

>>713028984
>but thats not really adding politics per se.
We are long past giving any studio benefit for the doubt with this crap.
Hard pass.

>>713035998
would
>>713040335
literally me

>>713027965 (OP)
You owe him an apology

>>713027996
Literal tranny

Interesting how the first game had none of these """""advisors""""" and Japan loved it.

>>713028775
holy fuck get some standards. Bitch is a 3 at best

Kill yourself

>>713045110
Not just Japan but the actual island of Tsushima

Course the game did big them up as protecting the mainland from the Mongols so I'm not surprised they liked it

>>713028984
is she not the voice actor as well?

>>713045110
Bet you 20 bucks any "advisor" working on it are a 32 year old white woman who's never been to Japan and can't read Japanese.

>>713037442
he was based though. not a woketard.

>>713027996
She's funny on dropout, hope she's got a comedic streak to her in Yotei and not just another straight laced Japanese person forced to make hard decisions.

>>713037594
One of the few people on this website with a brain.

>>713028159
He has one, his favorite subreddit is r/gcj

Why should we respect Japanese culture? I'm not Japanese. My country is better than Japan in every way, but we need to bow down and kiss their boots? Explain that to me.

>>713028682
Sly 2 > Sly 1
Infamous 2 > Infamous 1
Suckerpunch doesn't miss.

Recent Sony Sequels are always shit and woke.
God of War 2018 to God of War Ragnarok
Last of us 1 to Last of us 2
Spider-Man 1 to Spider-Man 2
Horizon 1 to Horizon 2

>>713028109
Oh boy it’s this fag here to have another tantrum.

>>713037594
look at this beta bitch tranny faggot cope. Everyone hates your dumbass. Yes, even your tranny discord "friends"

Gaming is done with you retards. End yourself

>>713045110
>none of these """""advisors"""""
Those advisors where them actually going to Japan, Hokkaido specifically, and getting advice from people who actually lived there as well as around Japan in general for Edo era customs and traditions. It's in the PS blog above that I doubt most people actually read >>713029085 I don't know how else you wanted them to do it aside from literally going to Japan and making the Japanese teach them.

>>713045510
Post country and you will be judged by the court of /v/

>>713045424
samefag

>>713045276
....anon-san >>713045629

>>713045331
He lives in the same city and is in the same line of work. What do you mean?

>>713037594
>I at most laugh at it once and simply play something I actually enjoy.
I feel like this is generally what most people do. Like when I saw Ac Shadows had a black guy samurai I just rolled my eyes and thought it looked retarded and I moved on. I didn't go watching 100s of rage videos about it.

>>713028109
I have woke fatigue

>>713045534
the people who worked on those games are probably long gone. its a totally different time we live in.

>>713045510
>My country is better than Japan in every way
You have an age of consent lower than 13????

>>713029615
>age well
She looks like shit. What are you smoking?

>konnichiwa dude
>here is that tight and docile female samurai I was telling you about

>>713040335
>t. roastie
I've never understood this.
I'm not fetishizing race to say I personally find Asian women very pretty.

Saying I want all Japanese women to step on my balls is fetishizing them.
But I feel ugly-ass white women call any non-Asian who thinks Asian women are, on average, rather pretty, fetishizers.

What's sad about it, is that I would find White women just as pretty if they dressed and ate as well as Japanese women.
But women talk like the incels they claim to hate and make excuses for why they can't dress as well, or eat as well as Japanese women.

>>713045825
They're all still there, retard. SP doesn't have high turnover.

>>713045792
I think its just that most normies don't really care that much about video games one way or the other and just find anyone who complains about stuff like video games on any side to just be annoying as to normies video games are not worth caring that much about. To them its like someone complaining about a doll having the wrong color hat or something.

>>713037594
>All of your political opinions come from twitter ragebait posted by literal Indians for the purpose of getting money from twitter for your views.
Wokefags like this always have the same cope. After their retarded consulting firms were outed they jumped on a bunch of random retard from twatter that no one gave a shit about and then claimed that they were where people were getting these opinions from. Just ignore the fact people have been calling out woke shit long before any of the twatter fags were. But it’s not about the truth or arguing what is and is not happening but rather pushing a narrative. The narrative is all that matters to wokefags because it’s how their mind works. There is no reality beyond their narratives and anything that shows there is might as well be poison.

>>713027996
Bitch could eat an apple through a tennis racket.

>>713045663
The US of A. The only country that matters

>>713045792
This meme is inaccurate because normalfags aren’t the ones crying “anti-woke” it’s just wokefags pretending to be normalfags. They know their shit has been doing poorly and more and more people are getting sick of it so they have to do everything they can to create the idea that people that oppose them are just as bad as they are. It’s a suicide tactic since at this point they’re not defending their own bullshit, just hoping that they can take down the people who are against them as well.

>>713035998
Lol. Her tits are massive though. You need to acquire dick size and Japanese fluency. Easiest way to get a fat girl with massive tits. I highly recommend it.

>>713045825
>the people who worked on those games are probably long gone
Basically all of them are still at SuckerPunch, but okay

>>713028158
I'm fine with female protags but only in the absence of modern political tomfuckery. So in effect, I hate most female protags that come out these days. Devs can't even manage to write a gay character that isn't a soapboxing faggot anymore.

>>713027996
The actress has nothing to inherently do with development of the game.
The game would most likely be good with or without her

>>713048803
Kind of impressive SuckerPunch managed to get her to shut up for like a year or so.

>>713046312
God I want to nipplefuck those tits.

>>713038546
yeah I would knock her teeth out too

>>713045534
and look at their current state

>>713046257
It's both

>>713037594
You're a retarded faggot.

>>713050816
You mean SuckerPunch? They are doing pretty good anon, not sure what to take from this?

>>713028109
Yeah because you're woke.

>>713027965 (OP)
Cope and seethe more. No one cares.

>>713031297
I have never watched a single video from these dudes but at the end of the day from what i hear i mostly share opinions with them so i'm not going to badmouth them, i'd much rather target the faggots ruining videogames instead of people with sub 100k views per video on youtube

is it true veilguard's writers on the game?

I think asian women are neat.

>>713037594
>He is purposefully consuming content that makes him mad.
Congrats, you have solved /v/. The real psy-op is the one the retards here play on themselves.

>>713027965 (OP)
>>713027996
I don't care the MC is a girl I'm still buying it day one.

>>713027965 (OP)
I know right, she might as well cast fire and lightning spells.

>>713052843
>I don't care the MC is a girl
the jury is still out on that one

>>713027996
Why does she look like that?

>>713028775
>That's not even remotely ugly.

>>713037594
>you're not allowed to resist ideological rot in your hobby/society because some people have hitched a ride and cynically monetized the topic
You'll have to try better than that.

>>713043261
Yeah right, because a man taking down 90% of the mongols invaders was realistic. Stop being a bitch ass faggot. Anti woke faggots are getting more obnoxious than the original woke ones.

>>713031297
Absolutely fucking based. Right on all accounts.

>>713037594
>If someone starts using buzzwords I immediately cast whatever they are saying into suspicion
>hyper-reality
>ragebait

>>713050816
>The same people who made Sly, Infamous, and Ghost
>Are also making Yotei
Fun fact. Sony approached and asked SP if they wanted more staff. SP declined because the leads believed that a relatively smaller team meant more creative passion. SP is smaller than most AAA studios and most of the staff is still there. Fucking retard.

>>713030357
>historically accurate
You have no idea who "cultural advisors" are, do you?

>>713055179
Yeah, totally ruined Ghost of Tsushima being loved in Japan and Suckerpunch being recognized as tourism ambassadors.

>>713027965 (OP)
Yes, they should respect Japan by turning historical figures into braindead bimbos with futa dicks instead. And add a gacha system so they feel more at home.

>>713031297
You've got a good take overall but
>they're grifters
I still have a problem with this. Is it automatically grifting if you make money for discussing or reporting on a topic? And if so, shouldn't we extend that label to basically every news outlet? Even nominally not-for-profit ones probably have hefty incentives to pander to their base.
There's something to be said for people having incentives to push certain ideas, but I don't think the "grifter" label is useful in practice. It's essentially just used to to dismiss the validity of information or ideas because it happened to pass through the hands of someone who can be ad-hominemed as unscrupulous and insincere.

>>713055414
Nagetive takes sell better than positive or neutral takes, grifters focus on the negative to maximize profit.

>>713028775
I'm British and even I don't consider that a 6/10. GTFO

>>713053534
Asian American

>>713028109
Engaging fully with the anti-woke rhetoric even if you agree with it will just make you miserable. The people who do have no life beyond hate and outrage. People with even a modicum of decent mental health cannot keep up with that negative energy for so long.
What you should do is, if you are still against what you percieve as "woke shit" in video games, identify the aspects you dislike and simply just ignore the media. Try not to engage with discorse. if you must get your thoughts out, do so and then close the door in your mind about the topic.

>>713055581
>grifters focus on the negative to maximize profit.
Which is also something that news outlets have done for at least a century. In this case, it's called sensationalism or yellow journalism.

>>713028109

>>713028109
>sure my hobby got invaded by hysterical culture war shit, but I'm just so TIRED of the people fighting against it

>>713029650
proof or kys, now, also you didnt play the game, she would have died on every occasion if it wasn't for jin helping her, and on top of that jin had to solve all her problems because she was simply incapable of taking on more than a few mongs alone

>>713027996
She also one of the most unfunny people from Dropout

>All Yotei threads will now devolve into culture war bullshit
Grim. Hopefully the July State of Play shuts all you annoying retards the fuck up.

>>713055909
What is funny is that all these game news organizations are dying. We will be left with IGN and Youtubers.

>>713055907
>Engaging fully with the anti-woke rhetoric even if you agree with it will just make you miserable.

This is projection. A lot of people engage in anti woke rhetoric because it's fun to dunk on rainbow haired retards.

>>713055907
>nooooooo stop talking about it PLEASE it makes a miserable loser, just ignore it!
no
I can have a life and also complain about your death cult ideology infesting my hobby. thanks.

>>713027996
El goblino
Blackrock and DEI love worshipping ugliness

>>713028109
Same

>>713033760
As expected in modern /v/
Goddamn I hate the third world. Any janny worth his salt could've recognized the obvious avatarfagging months ago, but alas, all the modern jannies are just reject freaks who wait for cunny threads instead of perusing the board and making sure that discussion is video-game related.

>>713027996
She looks ok.

>>713028109