Thread 718924909

Legit one of the best games of the decade.

>>718924909 (OP)
I know you're baiting, but has anyone actually played this? How was it? I was curious because the setting seemed cool, but the combat didn't look all that interesting.

>>718925169
Nobody played Song of the South of Midnight, Anon. That's why MS laid off the studio.

>>718924909 (OP)
No thanks, I'd rather play what is effectively a do-over of a previous game instead.

>>718925169
>but has anyone actually played this? How was it?
Yes, there's people who played it, and yes, the last part of your comment is what they thought of it.
Really, what are you even expecting from political propaganda? These kinds of things are usually the message first and everything else after, so they usually don't end up being good since they really didn't care for making it good.

>>718925169
I played it on my game pass trial. It's okay, the combat has just enough depth so it doesn't put you to sleep, but not enough to get you invested on figuring out the optimal upgrade orders. I played the game on the highest difficulty setting and it was engaging enough that I had to think which enemies to attack first. It also meant that you couldn't just button mash and win the fight. I'd imagine the lower difficulty settings would've just been button mashing. The story and the world building are definitely its best part. I can't think of many games that take place in the swamps of the south besides infamous 2 and blood money which I am a sucker for so I played it to completion.

>>718925598
What's the message?

>>718925169
it's walking sim modern slop like FF7R.
it makes the revolutionary innovation of changing yellow retard paint to blue retard paint.

>>718927586
So this is what devs do to hide loading now. Amazing.

>>718925598
>political propaganda
You mean having a black protagonist

>>718924909 (OP)
>>718925169
+++ good combat, good graphics (but close your eyes when the nigger talks in cutscenes), can play in different language so you don't hear the nigger accents, good presentation outside of the niggers, actually cool bosses and scripted elements, like 7 hours worth of content

--- written by SBI, typical wokeness stuff, mixed race family stuff, all white people are rich and bad and/or dead, protagnigger and her mom is super fucking ugly, has a weird bump in her forehead and both of them have weird fentanyl eyes

>>718927820
Gross

>>718924909 (OP)
>nigress on the cover
No matter how good it is i will never play it.

>>718927705
>now
Did you just wake up from a coma?

>>718927705
there are games where you can skip it by clipping out of bounds and what people found especially with FF7R is that most times you get locked into a slow moving state, the level is already loaded beyond it.
the only purpose it serves is to pad out your play time. deliberately wasting it by slowing you down to snails pace.

>>718924909 (OP)
Make your case, OP

>>718925319
based sins 2 enjoyer

>>718927820
You mean the game setting is a nigress in the south of the US when everyone was supposedly racist?

>>718929341
Ah yes, and therefore it famously had no black people in it

>>718929341
>The south of US famous for its lack of black people

>>718927820
She was white before SBI

>>718930012
I find that hard to believe given the entire setting and themes

>>718925169
I liked it. It's my GOTY so far but that's my personal taste. The art and music are the main highlights. Story and writing are pretty good, but may not resonate with everyone. The presentation really helps.
Gameplay is meh. The combat system itself isn't bad, but every fight plays out in an almost identical arena, and the way levels are designed make them feel very repetitive are several hours. Platforming feels pretty solid if easy.
7/10

On another note, I don't know how much influence on the game SBI actually had. I read an interview a while back with the game's director where he said that consultants, presumably SBI, were used early in the game's development, but he wasn't satisfied with what they produced so his team did their own research. They actually did research trips to the South to get the environments right.
I know the MC was going to be white at some point early in development, but from what I can tell from concept art her race was changed pretty early. I think the story went through a lot of revisions even into the last year of development. In the announcement trailer for the game, shown two or so years before the game's release, Hazel's character and voice are completely different, and she never makes any facial expression as garish as in that trailer.

>>718929908
>>718929617
You guys should at least try better bait, holy shit how fucking talentless the average leftycuck is...

>>718930616
no u

Really though it's unclear what your point even is
South racist
???
Therefore, black protagonist bad

>>718924909 (OP)
It's a GameSlopPass Rent filler. The developer Compulsion Games has been hit with an unspecified number of layoffs after Phil Spencer did the latest waves of firing. Xbox brand.

>>718930868
>The developer Compulsion Games has been hit with an unspecified number of layoffs after Phil Spencer did the latest waves of firing.
This tells us precisely nothing about the quality of the game

>>718930340
One of the last genuine vidya opinions left on this board, a rare sight

>>718930830
No, south racist ergo black woman fighting muh racismos, the game is literally fighting against racismos south, there's nothing of value about it besides muh agenda.
Stop being a fucking retard, """"""anti-racism"""""" shit is political, the game by being that is political, plus antiracism is racist in its very nature because it's "let's invert the turns"

>>718931845
Please put down the phone and touch some grass

>>718930936
>This tells us precisely nothing about the quality of the game
If it was good word of mouth would have done its wonders and the game would have sold lots of copies.
Minecraft had no publicity and just with people trying the game and telling someone else made it one of the most played games ever, this game had M$ behind it and couldn't even reach 1000 concurrent players on steam?

>>718931967
>Please put down the phone and touch some grass
>Implying I'm a phoneposter
You should touch some grass bro, bet you've never left the city you're living in

>>718932004
>If it was good word of mouth would have done its wonders and the game would have sold lots of copies.
Ahhh, the just world fallacy combined with appeal to popularity

I guess CoD is the best game ever ten years in a row

>>718932063
>Implying I'm a phoneposter
Yes, very good, you caught that one, well done

Seriously though, take a break before the brain rot becomes terminal

>>718932164
>I guess CoD is the best game ever ten years in a row
Anon, it's an AAA game, having less than 1000 players with literally the second richest corporation behind it is indeed a result of being bad and unappealing.
An indie game no one knows can be extremely good but sell bad because the developer isn't intendeed to have lots of money to advertise the game.
This game had everything in its favor and yet it failed, can't you do 2+2?

>>718932681
90% of this thread is people bitching about muh nigger protagonist without even having touched the game. But sure, if it was good you'd see word of mouth, huh? And when you literally do, as in this actual thread, you say it's obvious bait.
Can't say I saw too much marketing for this game, either. Microsoft shut down a lot of studios so it sounds like maybe they were just overspending and poorly managing their studios.

>>718924909 (OP)
I know the internet is woke as fuck and it makes it seem like the entire world loves niggers and trannies and ugly fucking retards, but in RL no one wants to see that.

>>718933391
>And when you literally do, as in this actual thread, you say it's obvious bait
Are you fucking subnormal?
When has anyone said this game was good to me specifically and wasn't some poor quality bait like le muh touch grass or le muh it's just a nigger in the south.

grim

>>718931035
dude called a shitty game his GOTY, it's an opinion you can safely discard. go pirate the shit and play it for yourself, it's not good and neither is the story.

>>718933870
Literally the OP of the thread you're in you daft cunt
As well as several more replies

>>718933952
>If the game is good why is there no word of mouth?
>This guy said he liked it
>Well he's obviously wrong because the game must be shit

>>718933962
>voices in my head
im sad for u etc etc but try not to putting your thoughts itt ever again :)

>>718934272
Literally what is your diagnosis? Or are you going undiagnosed?

>>718934385
there is no need for projections dear crazy person :)

>>718934034
i've played it, there is nothing good about it. Gameplay, story, setting. There is nothing good. You might as well play Gone Home, that game got praise for the same reason. Replace faggots with groids with slightly more gameplay. GOTY!! Get a grip

>>718930340
play more and better games, retard. ill give you the benefit of the doubt: even IF this pozzed piece of gutter trash was actually a 7/10, way better games have came out this year
anyone still playing western games is a cuckold and a homosexual

>>718927586
yo that AAA gameplay

>>718925169
I thought it was fine. Solid 7. I could see how some people who feel like it's a waste of time as there's really no catharsis naratively and the mechanics are never deep.

>>718934989
7? You give this shit a passing score? It's a 5, at best and that's still being generous.

>>718925169
>every white character is a tyrant or a weirdo that was abused by other whites
>every black character is a sympathetic and if they did something bad it's merely because they lashed out against whypipo oppression
>even demonic nigga that messes with protag is whitewashed by the end
Woke garbage

Combat is mediocre and repetitive, platforming is a mixed bag, they could have done more to make it better, like allowing you to create platforms mid-jump, seems like a no-brainer
They should have dumped crappy arena fights and focused on bosses, some of them are simple but amusing
But then they wouldn't be able to sell their short game

>>718935078
Oh right it's about a black woman, I forgot. 0/10.

>>718935208
>muh fuckin black protag
You're just a retarded disney adult ledditor, no wonder you enjoyed this awful piece of shit game.

>>718924909 (OP)
would have sold at least 2x more if the protagonist was a hot white woman and 5x more if it was a hot white male

>>718934461
You are incapable of normal conversation.

>>718935479
sorry dear crazy person i'm soooo sorry for endangering your poc species lol :)

>put a black woman on the cover
>game flops
When will they learn?

>>718924909 (OP)
>>718925169
my brother put it down as one of his favorite games but he's also a race traitor that fucks blackies constantly

>>718925169
I played the first few hours of it because it was on game pass. The DMC-lite gameplay inspired me to finally play through DMC 5 as Vergil.
The swamp magic lore sounded like fun but in practice the gameplay just wasn't compelling enough to stick around for the story.

>>718934753
I really liked Expedition 33. It's definitely the better game. When I said SoM is my GOTY, I just mean that I liked it more, even if it isn't the best game I've played this year. It just appeals to me specifically.

>>718927586
I have dropped games before for this shimmy shit.
Couldn't even finish the gears series because they did it with 5 so often

>>718934753
>Anon doesn't understand what opinions are

>>718935592
What /pol/ does to a nigga lol

>>718924909 (OP)
Kind of a shame. The visual style was nice and having a black woman as the protagonist actually makes sense with the setting.

>>718925169
So you *have* played it.

>>718936071
>7/10 game of the year
he understands, you're just a retard. I'd call you a shill but i doubt anyone would bother paying you

>>718927820
I know you're being reductive but these kind of games always go significantly further than just "having a black protagonist". The bad guys will always be white and the black cast will be portrayed as angels who are all working together to escape oppression from whitey.
Which we know is far from reality, because black people in the US commit an outsized amount of violent crime, mostly against each other. Maintaining suspension of disbelief becomes pretty difficult with games like this.

>>718935720
still better than all the gachatrash surrounding it, even if it's comparing aids to terminal cancer

>>718930012
canonically she's still half white

>>718936432
>what is the ODR

>>718936516
lightskin women should marry me

>>718936672
>lightskin
go back

>>718936823
nigger

>>718927586
didn't even have the decency to show sideboob
fucking faggot ass westoids

>>718937207
says the faggot using their terminology

>>718930340
>its my goty so far
>7/10

>>718936249
my favorite game is a 7/10
its still my favorite

>>718937786
get better taste. my favorite game is a 10/10

>>718937786
>>718937907
What are your favourite games?

>>718925227
Nobody played Marvel Rivals either which is why developers were laid off.

>>718938698
Incorrect. Marvel Rivals studios were laid off because they were Capitalists. Hence all the titty skins.

It looks like an interesting game with a lot of black american folklore. Too bad I have heavy fatigue so I ignore games like this. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

>>718939012
m8 sounds like the thing giving you fatigue is this very website

i ain't playing wokeslop. I rather go to work and I hate working.

>>718935078
What else would you give to a game that doesn't have a satisfying narrative and flat mechanics? Yeah, a 5. Or a 4 because it's ugly as well.

>>718938117
final fantasy 9

>>718931845
>No, south racist ergo black woman fighting muh racismos,
No it isn't. At least do the bare minimum of research before trying to shitpost and bait about a game

>>718940518
They really do create their own problems.

>>718927705
>now

What rock have you been sleeping under for the last 20 years?

>>718927820
Sadly those two things seem to go hand and hand more often than not. I don't know about South of Midnight, but games with black protags seem to almost always inevitably have sociopolitical agenda horseshit in them, especially if it's a female black protag.

>>718924909 (OP)
Post the pre-SB concept art of the protagonist?

>>718937767
There are better games from this year, I just enjoyed this one most. Like, Lawrence of Arabia is a better movie than Die Hard, but I enjoy Die Hard more.

>>718925169
I enjoyed the movement and the combat but the whole structure of the game was too formulaic for me and once i've done it a few times I got sick of it. I did enjoy the art and the music but I'm not too interested in the subject matter of another southern folk tale to keep going. Overall I think the game has some good bones to it and if you do enjoy the subject matter and theme you'd like it.

>>718942316
They devs often virtue signal anyway on twitter and interviews anyway, so all pretense that it's not woke will never work.