What a week, just before I go off on an awesome trip to New York City, ANOTHER shooting breaks out, in a Texan high school no less just today (and no I'm not bothering to make a blog about it, no sir), with the guaranteed crazies coming out to exploit it and pee on the graves of the lives lost (hell, I could just make a music video making fun of the idiotic responses blaming everything but mental illness sometime in the future), and Trump being an ignorant chump on the issue (and I'll note that I quite dislike him now after him needlessly escalating tensions in Syria), and of course Steam, that naked-ass monopoly on PC ownership, acting up. This time concerning Eroge, or Hentai games or porno games, but for consistency's sake I'll use the first term, in that they're being lately taken down with the developers of said games getting a notice from Valve (and thanks to some friend on DA and the KiA subreddit notifying and informing me on this).
Now to be clear, I'm not into Eroge since I quite frown on degenerate stuff (and quite strict on pornography) but even I am hesitant to ban them since if they go then the non-Eroge Eastern-games go then Western ones too, i.e. all games go. I know this is a slippery slope argument but there is a truth to it (that and the free speech thing too, though that's another blog for another time), namely that people have this crappy-ass dated view that all anime is hentai (sort of like that d-bag troll Mariotehplumber rambles on about) and both terms are "synonymous". I find that view to be a-well...retarded and so is the reasoning behind the take-downs of the games in question. What surprised me is that the organization who advocates for it and claims credit for the nutty actions is none other than the NCOSE (National Center on Sexual Exploitation), an anti-sex exploitation group who is aligned with religious groups and conservatives, giving the impression it's a rightwing group of sorts (and I don't mean it in a good way), yet are actually working with the US Democrats...go figure. When I first saw their "victory" page, I could have sworn it was from the radical feminist SJW's (you know the type that go around the world and spout this nutty s--t about the "patriarchy" ruling the West and such and such), but nope it wasn't the case, yet it's eerily the same garbage the "progressive" left would espouse so talk about a horseshoe theory in practice. And of course Vice is treating this like a bad thing (of which it is) even though they had articles that advocated for this by sane non-gullible observers.
Considering all of this, I would say that this needs to be stopped for the good of gaming, and besides Eroge isn't worth the attention, like hasn't Valve ever heard of this awesome invention called...um, the AO RATING?! like....you know the rating that MANY, and I mean MANY Eroge, both Eastern and Western made, DESERVE?! Where the hell is the ESRB in all of this? Oh right they're sitting on their thumbs and probably smoking pot (or something like that) than do anything HELPFUL; afterall it is the same organization that thinks gacha-lootboxes aren't a bad thing that's LITERALLY hurting gaming. That and some games (mainly visual novels) don't come with an ESRB rating, so it's almost like it's pointless in those cases. And I bring this up is because well last I checked people under 18 AREN'T allowed AO rated games, at all, more so than people under 17 getting M rated games (though that's another story) nor are allowed on non-PC systems (again another story), so when Valve under the leadership of the supposedly "godly" Gabe Newell addresses this, they should be reminded to REINFORCE the AO rating so that you know it can a place in gaming. That and give people Half-Life 3, I'm sick and tired of them going on about it being "confirmed" a quadrillion times.
Friday, May 18, 2018
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Journos May Cry: Far Cry 5 and the Politics Nonsense
Man, a lot of crazy s--t is happening on the internet, Channel Awesome is run by corrupt asshats (though thankfully the Nostalgia Critic isn't a part of them), Youtube's HQ is shot up by some psycho b---h, and now Far Cry 5...is getting flak for not being political enough or so the gaming "journos" say. Before continuing I will say that I'm currently not in the mood on covering all of them since I'm more focused on not just my projects but also playing Rayman 2: Revolution on the PS2 (thanks to Caddicarus!), which is quite good for the most part, so I'll just focus on one, particularly the Far Cry one for a good reason.
In a previous post I made back in May of last year, a lot of people are like wanting Far Cry 5 to be about Trump for idiotic leftwing reasons instead of like letting it speak for itself and not bother with the dumpster fire of politics. It's one thing to make a statement about how trash politics are in the USA for a multitude of reasons (and the Alt Right is part of the problem) but it's another to make it a flatout propaganda...game that blatantly takes one side and nothing else to the point of harming the game's quality. It's what Extra Creditz warned about, but then again they made the Division out to be some "commentary" on the US government acting like the frickin' SS but I digress. Anyway, Far Cry 5 is out (and again I'm not bothering to get it) and now the gaming "press" is in a tizzy about it; they are extremely confused that the rightwing white Christian people aren't the baddies but rather the multi-racial cult is. Gee, it's as if the cult that took over the town in Montana are supposed to be the ones that the player is going up against and rightly so; I mean cults are wackos, remember the one led by David Koresh? He didn't care if his followers were of different skin colors and indeed the game reflects that, sometimes cults don't care about race (though granted some do) and in fact the cult in the game is more reminiscent of ISIS, I mean it's no secret that the thuggish criminal organization attracts anyone regardless of skin color to their warped cause (except for Jews though). But the gaming "journalists" don't want that, they want it to be the Trump-bashing work of "art" they make the game out to be when it got announced. But when it wasn't, one of them went of his way to give it a low score for "not taking a clear stand", classy (sarcasm).
When people say keep politics out of gaming, this is what they meant. If a game isn't about current politics and never intended to, it's best not to make it out to be otherwise; it makes you look like an ideologue and an idiot. It's a small wonder why people are annoyed when Wolfenstein II (the 2017 one) was being made and people in games "journalism" tried to make out to be about the mess in Charlottesville regarding some Alt Right clowns and Trump (again) even though the context of the game's setting is obviously not so, I mean it's set in the USA occupied by an unambiguously evil power that are the Nazis. And I also made a post on that back in October, and also that the marketing campaign is cringeworthy for the most part (except for the whole "Make America Nazi-free Again" which is probably the okay part since it sums up the goal of the game). And thinking about it makes me more reluctant to have media with Nazis in them again if (and when) they're going to be made again since likely more and more people will think they have to be about Trump and whatever goofy nonsense the Alt Right comes up with (though granted they are technically Nazis but of the hermit kind) and I find that stupendous as hell. It's almost as if we won WWII just to have ideological zealots of the Alt Left calling anyone right of them "Nazis" without context (of which is seriously a harmful thing by now) but that's another story for another time. Anyway, point is, if anyone tries to make some medium that just happens to be set in the USA and has a baddie organization who happens to be led by a white guy that doesn't follow anything on the lines of Neo-Nazis and the Alt Right to be about the Oompa-Loompa man with the funny haircut, chances are I'm not going to take them seriously ever. I mean it shouldn't be a political issue in dealing with evil organizations that aren't meant to be representative of Trump's administration in anyway but what can you do when the gaming "journalists" are desperate for views.
I'm sure there is a good article on how good Far Cry 5 avoids the dumpster politics but unfortunately it's part of a subscription only news site and you can only view 3 articles for free (and I hate that, I mean why should news viewing cost so much on the internet but I digress) and I'm hesitant on showing that. So instead I'll provide a video by Colin Moriarty (good dude he is!) on this nontroversy nonsense:
In a previous post I made back in May of last year, a lot of people are like wanting Far Cry 5 to be about Trump for idiotic leftwing reasons instead of like letting it speak for itself and not bother with the dumpster fire of politics. It's one thing to make a statement about how trash politics are in the USA for a multitude of reasons (and the Alt Right is part of the problem) but it's another to make it a flatout propaganda...game that blatantly takes one side and nothing else to the point of harming the game's quality. It's what Extra Creditz warned about, but then again they made the Division out to be some "commentary" on the US government acting like the frickin' SS but I digress. Anyway, Far Cry 5 is out (and again I'm not bothering to get it) and now the gaming "press" is in a tizzy about it; they are extremely confused that the rightwing white Christian people aren't the baddies but rather the multi-racial cult is. Gee, it's as if the cult that took over the town in Montana are supposed to be the ones that the player is going up against and rightly so; I mean cults are wackos, remember the one led by David Koresh? He didn't care if his followers were of different skin colors and indeed the game reflects that, sometimes cults don't care about race (though granted some do) and in fact the cult in the game is more reminiscent of ISIS, I mean it's no secret that the thuggish criminal organization attracts anyone regardless of skin color to their warped cause (except for Jews though). But the gaming "journalists" don't want that, they want it to be the Trump-bashing work of "art" they make the game out to be when it got announced. But when it wasn't, one of them went of his way to give it a low score for "not taking a clear stand", classy (sarcasm).
When people say keep politics out of gaming, this is what they meant. If a game isn't about current politics and never intended to, it's best not to make it out to be otherwise; it makes you look like an ideologue and an idiot. It's a small wonder why people are annoyed when Wolfenstein II (the 2017 one) was being made and people in games "journalism" tried to make out to be about the mess in Charlottesville regarding some Alt Right clowns and Trump (again) even though the context of the game's setting is obviously not so, I mean it's set in the USA occupied by an unambiguously evil power that are the Nazis. And I also made a post on that back in October, and also that the marketing campaign is cringeworthy for the most part (except for the whole "Make America Nazi-free Again" which is probably the okay part since it sums up the goal of the game). And thinking about it makes me more reluctant to have media with Nazis in them again if (and when) they're going to be made again since likely more and more people will think they have to be about Trump and whatever goofy nonsense the Alt Right comes up with (though granted they are technically Nazis but of the hermit kind) and I find that stupendous as hell. It's almost as if we won WWII just to have ideological zealots of the Alt Left calling anyone right of them "Nazis" without context (of which is seriously a harmful thing by now) but that's another story for another time. Anyway, point is, if anyone tries to make some medium that just happens to be set in the USA and has a baddie organization who happens to be led by a white guy that doesn't follow anything on the lines of Neo-Nazis and the Alt Right to be about the Oompa-Loompa man with the funny haircut, chances are I'm not going to take them seriously ever. I mean it shouldn't be a political issue in dealing with evil organizations that aren't meant to be representative of Trump's administration in anyway but what can you do when the gaming "journalists" are desperate for views.
I'm sure there is a good article on how good Far Cry 5 avoids the dumpster politics but unfortunately it's part of a subscription only news site and you can only view 3 articles for free (and I hate that, I mean why should news viewing cost so much on the internet but I digress) and I'm hesitant on showing that. So instead I'll provide a video by Colin Moriarty (good dude he is!) on this nontroversy nonsense:
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Gaming the Blame: Trump and the Press vs. Video Games
It's times like these where I whole heartedly disagree with Trump (including over Net Neutrality and climate change), and let it remind me that he is quite an idiot in spite of his good intentions. That and people are using the same ol' garbage "video games cause X" arguments, of which I've noted time and again isn't true. And yes I should I am quite supportive of Trump since IMO well he is slightly more desirable than Clinton was in 2016 and I hope for the best (and he sort is trying) but I should stop here and of course not let that stop you from hearing me out, since well I don't care if you hate Trump or not (and of course I've made a resolution to keep politics at a minimum for the sake of not just my mental health but also my safety).
So anyway, the point is, the gaming "journalists" and of course the "wonderful" Ms. Sarkeesian, who have made some truly wonderus "commentaries" on video games for like over 6 years now are speaking out against the US president by simply "defending" games, as if they did in spite of the contrary.
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Like wow, can they sink any lower; it's bad enough that they claim that games these days make you sexist violent Neo-Nazi Alt Righter (or pehaps that should be Paleo-Nazis? heh I digress) s--tlords who want to start a Fourth Reich and make people have respect for ISIS (because reasons??) and now they simply change their tune into thinking that's no so because someone who is obviously on the rightwing spectrum says something that agrees with their prior viewpoints. I mean at least Trump is consistent in being anti-video games back in 2012 with that one tweet about games making kids "monsters" and he's saying that stupid nonsense now. And I say, just stick with building walls, draining swamps, fighting fake news, and of course giving people lots o' jobs, I don't care if people yell at you for them (though their more screwier "arguments" can go to the shredder). However, I will direct much of my anger towards the gaming "press" and their ilk and crackpots like Sarkeesian in this case. Why? because they're the ones that are in on trying to make games to be a force of evil and yet they are supposed to be for gaming and are gamers too. I shake my head at this blatant hypocrisy and I say to them: f--k off and f--k your "opposing" views on Trump blaming games for the recent shooting in that Florida high school. Sure his view is s--t and but don't expect us gamers to come to your side when you turn around and disagree with him not out of caring about the gaming hobby but as a political ploy, to push agendas; that and declaring us the gaming community to be either "dead" or "evil" when trying to cover a certain controversy that sparked what might as well be the Afghan-Soviet War of gaming culture.
Hell in fact, I'll let Kizuna-chan speak for me:
And of course the Pop Team gals:
Hmm, this is the second time I got near dropping f-bombs here (and both touched the line and had middle fingers on full display), but I have too since well nobody needs to mess with gaming, not from some politicans (regardless of how well-intentioned they are) to scummy ideologues that think games need to be "PC" to supposedly evolve.
Speaking of which Trump is to meet up with the video game developers, of which would hopefully enlighten him on how gaming isn't some malevolent factor in recent tragedies, but then again he's about 72 years as of this post and my mother told me about how old people are hard to change. Oh and things are getting pretty hairy, with students of some other school in Florida disposing some of their games they consider violent, like wow, I guess suckers are born every minute (just like the people who bought the "PS4s" and downloaded Metal Slug Attack). I mean wouldn't that reinforce the false claim that video games cause violence and s--t? Talk about gullible.
But hey at least the age limit to buy guns has been raised from 18 to 21 in Dick's and Wal-Mart, and I'm like why now after like a couple other shootings in recent years? I just don't get society sometimes, especially since people need to look into the mentally ill aspect of committing shootings, of which the guy clearly was not right in the head in doing so.
So anyway, the point is, the gaming "journalists" and of course the "wonderful" Ms. Sarkeesian, who have made some truly wonderus "commentaries" on video games for like over 6 years now are speaking out against the US president by simply "defending" games, as if they did in spite of the contrary.
....
Like wow, can they sink any lower; it's bad enough that they claim that games these days make you sexist violent Neo-Nazi Alt Righter (or pehaps that should be Paleo-Nazis? heh I digress) s--tlords who want to start a Fourth Reich and make people have respect for ISIS (because reasons??) and now they simply change their tune into thinking that's no so because someone who is obviously on the rightwing spectrum says something that agrees with their prior viewpoints. I mean at least Trump is consistent in being anti-video games back in 2012 with that one tweet about games making kids "monsters" and he's saying that stupid nonsense now. And I say, just stick with building walls, draining swamps, fighting fake news, and of course giving people lots o' jobs, I don't care if people yell at you for them (though their more screwier "arguments" can go to the shredder). However, I will direct much of my anger towards the gaming "press" and their ilk and crackpots like Sarkeesian in this case. Why? because they're the ones that are in on trying to make games to be a force of evil and yet they are supposed to be for gaming and are gamers too. I shake my head at this blatant hypocrisy and I say to them: f--k off and f--k your "opposing" views on Trump blaming games for the recent shooting in that Florida high school. Sure his view is s--t and but don't expect us gamers to come to your side when you turn around and disagree with him not out of caring about the gaming hobby but as a political ploy, to push agendas; that and declaring us the gaming community to be either "dead" or "evil" when trying to cover a certain controversy that sparked what might as well be the Afghan-Soviet War of gaming culture.
Hell in fact, I'll let Kizuna-chan speak for me:
And of course the Pop Team gals:
Hmm, this is the second time I got near dropping f-bombs here (and both touched the line and had middle fingers on full display), but I have too since well nobody needs to mess with gaming, not from some politicans (regardless of how well-intentioned they are) to scummy ideologues that think games need to be "PC" to supposedly evolve.
Speaking of which Trump is to meet up with the video game developers, of which would hopefully enlighten him on how gaming isn't some malevolent factor in recent tragedies, but then again he's about 72 years as of this post and my mother told me about how old people are hard to change. Oh and things are getting pretty hairy, with students of some other school in Florida disposing some of their games they consider violent, like wow, I guess suckers are born every minute (just like the people who bought the "PS4s" and downloaded Metal Slug Attack). I mean wouldn't that reinforce the false claim that video games cause violence and s--t? Talk about gullible.
But hey at least the age limit to buy guns has been raised from 18 to 21 in Dick's and Wal-Mart, and I'm like why now after like a couple other shootings in recent years? I just don't get society sometimes, especially since people need to look into the mentally ill aspect of committing shootings, of which the guy clearly was not right in the head in doing so.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Bullet for No Valentines: Yet Another Shooting in the USA
(for today's post I will be linking to USA today of which thankfully is low on politics so I won't bother archiving them; that and I must stress that I'm a bit late but it's still relevant as of this post)
...When will this trend of some psycho dude/person/pisano going to some [insert place here] and proceeding to shoot innocent people with firearms for [insert reasons here] end? I mean good lord, you think like by now we have a bunch of systems in place to prevent such a thing after oh say the Aurora theater shooting or hell all the way back to Columbine but no it appears to be a frequent occurrence in this ever so troublesome 2010's (which is already bad enough for a variety of reasons but I won't elaborate on for the sake of my health). Well this shooting in particular just happens on Valentine's Day (which if you ask me is an alright holiday, quite indifferent to it actually but sadly that's not the main topic), in some high school in Florida and I heard about this from my grandma when she picked me up from work (though granted it was inevitable given that YouTube would let me know about this tragedy with its breaking news feed, of which I have my concerns about it but that's another topic for another time).
And right on schedule the crazies are coming out of the woodwork, starting with the typical conservative dudes who are "anti-violent vidya gaemz" because somehow an entertainment medium is responsible for such tragedies. And once again I call BS on it, given how as a fact, video games themselves do not cause violence (nor sexism)...ever. That and I also find it funny that the Mast guy is like "concerned" about the "desensitizing of violence" that movies and games push yet he himself fought in Afghanistan and lost his legs there, like as if they're responsible for the suffering he went though, go figure. Though my mom is like sort of in agreement with that Kentucky governor guy (why?), but I guess she might be referring to the kid playing games not suited to his age getting the wrong ideas, so if anything it's the mental condition and the parents who are to blame for the kid acting bad. And in this case, well the young man behind the Parkland shooting is clearly messed up in the head and he has himself to blame (and funny enough chose to run away and not commit suicide), meaning the cause is related to mental illness, of which should be a big consideration when investigating horrid behavior. I mean he blatantly stated he wanted to cause damage for the sake of it (unironically) and that alone to tell everyone something is wrong with him. And speaking of mentally ill, people are blaming guns because "guns kill people" (which is half true mainly because people kill people"), and implying that somehow the current US president and the NRA are responsible for this. I just...I just...wow, that is some serious conjecture and almost like they're scapegoating the two, as if they can control who can shoot and can't.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before the leftwing SJWs come out to add their "informative" and "though-provoking" views on this tragedies, I can only cringe at what they have to say (not that I want them silenced mind you). And I think I might need to concentrate on something positive before I go crazy from all of this, like trying to beat Rayman 1 on the PS1.
...When will this trend of some psycho dude/person/pisano going to some [insert place here] and proceeding to shoot innocent people with firearms for [insert reasons here] end? I mean good lord, you think like by now we have a bunch of systems in place to prevent such a thing after oh say the Aurora theater shooting or hell all the way back to Columbine but no it appears to be a frequent occurrence in this ever so troublesome 2010's (which is already bad enough for a variety of reasons but I won't elaborate on for the sake of my health). Well this shooting in particular just happens on Valentine's Day (which if you ask me is an alright holiday, quite indifferent to it actually but sadly that's not the main topic), in some high school in Florida and I heard about this from my grandma when she picked me up from work (though granted it was inevitable given that YouTube would let me know about this tragedy with its breaking news feed, of which I have my concerns about it but that's another topic for another time).
And right on schedule the crazies are coming out of the woodwork, starting with the typical conservative dudes who are "anti-violent vidya gaemz" because somehow an entertainment medium is responsible for such tragedies. And once again I call BS on it, given how as a fact, video games themselves do not cause violence (nor sexism)...ever. That and I also find it funny that the Mast guy is like "concerned" about the "desensitizing of violence" that movies and games push yet he himself fought in Afghanistan and lost his legs there, like as if they're responsible for the suffering he went though, go figure. Though my mom is like sort of in agreement with that Kentucky governor guy (why?), but I guess she might be referring to the kid playing games not suited to his age getting the wrong ideas, so if anything it's the mental condition and the parents who are to blame for the kid acting bad. And in this case, well the young man behind the Parkland shooting is clearly messed up in the head and he has himself to blame (and funny enough chose to run away and not commit suicide), meaning the cause is related to mental illness, of which should be a big consideration when investigating horrid behavior. I mean he blatantly stated he wanted to cause damage for the sake of it (unironically) and that alone to tell everyone something is wrong with him. And speaking of mentally ill, people are blaming guns because "guns kill people" (which is half true mainly because people kill people"), and implying that somehow the current US president and the NRA are responsible for this. I just...I just...wow, that is some serious conjecture and almost like they're scapegoating the two, as if they can control who can shoot and can't.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before the leftwing SJWs come out to add their "informative" and "though-provoking" views on this tragedies, I can only cringe at what they have to say (not that I want them silenced mind you). And I think I might need to concentrate on something positive before I go crazy from all of this, like trying to beat Rayman 1 on the PS1.
Monday, December 4, 2017
Rockman Returneth!! Capcom Resurrects Rockman for Real!
They did it, they finally done it....and I'll tell you what....it's a good thing.
Yep, I hoped this was coming and they did it: Capcom is officially coming out with a new Rockman game that's officially a new game and not some release of sorts, Rockman 11 in particular. By the look of things, it looks like a sign that Capcom is truly turning over a new leaf after a string of very questionable decisions since this decade began and committed the equivalent of the Armenian genocide of gaming that is cancelling the anticipated Rockman Legends 3 game that rightly angered the Rockman fanbase for a good 6 years and counting. Speaking of which, with the 11th game coming out, Capcom outta owe the fanbase (and Legends fans like me) a favor and restart development of Legends 3 as an apology along with making the equivalent of the N Sane Trilogy for the first two Legends games (though I suppose a release of them on the current systems outside of PSN might suffice but that's another story for another time). That and maybe making a new kind of Rockman for another genre for curiosity's sake but again another story for another time.
Speaking of which, I'm quite surprised that the upcoming game is going to be in a 2.5D style instead of being sprite based in general, either in the classic 8 bit or in 16bit, but at least they look MUCH better than the artstyle of Mighty No. 9 of which that game was a bizzare bust so to say. And of course plays in the style of the last 10 Rockman games but I'm pretty sure there's plenty of room for new stuff to come along; that and it's a good thing I'm planning on playing the first Rockman game for the NES.
I don't know about you but I'm starting to have more respect for Capcom than I have for SNK, at least Capcom is doing the right thing. SNK on the other hand has yet to convince me that they're truly brining some badly needed umph to their non-fighter IPs, especially one concerning a certain Super Vehicle but I digress.
Yep, I hoped this was coming and they did it: Capcom is officially coming out with a new Rockman game that's officially a new game and not some release of sorts, Rockman 11 in particular. By the look of things, it looks like a sign that Capcom is truly turning over a new leaf after a string of very questionable decisions since this decade began and committed the equivalent of the Armenian genocide of gaming that is cancelling the anticipated Rockman Legends 3 game that rightly angered the Rockman fanbase for a good 6 years and counting. Speaking of which, with the 11th game coming out, Capcom outta owe the fanbase (and Legends fans like me) a favor and restart development of Legends 3 as an apology along with making the equivalent of the N Sane Trilogy for the first two Legends games (though I suppose a release of them on the current systems outside of PSN might suffice but that's another story for another time). That and maybe making a new kind of Rockman for another genre for curiosity's sake but again another story for another time.
Speaking of which, I'm quite surprised that the upcoming game is going to be in a 2.5D style instead of being sprite based in general, either in the classic 8 bit or in 16bit, but at least they look MUCH better than the artstyle of Mighty No. 9 of which that game was a bizzare bust so to say. And of course plays in the style of the last 10 Rockman games but I'm pretty sure there's plenty of room for new stuff to come along; that and it's a good thing I'm planning on playing the first Rockman game for the NES.
I don't know about you but I'm starting to have more respect for Capcom than I have for SNK, at least Capcom is doing the right thing. SNK on the other hand has yet to convince me that they're truly brining some badly needed umph to their non-fighter IPs, especially one concerning a certain Super Vehicle but I digress.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Arbalest Oscar Mike! Full Metal Panic video game Announced!
I thought I never would see this happening in real life but here it is: Full Metal Panic is getting a video game, specifically a strategy RPG of sorts. Like hot damn, one of my dreams is becoming true right in front of my eyes as I'm typing this.
Now to understand why I'm happy about this, you have to know that I am a big fan of the Full Metal Panic franchise since I watched the first few episodes on Hulu (at a time before they decided it was a "great" idea to be paid subscription only recently and outsource the free part to Yahoo TV for some idiotic, Lickboot-ite reason). I mean I'm quite impressed with a show that combines military sensibilities with cliché anime high school highjinks and that alone is gold in my book, though I'm not much of a mecha person (I prefer the types like the Level Armors from Metal Slug) but I digress. And it seems like FMP is making a comeback 12 years after that disappointing mediocrity that was Second Raid, like seriously that show disappointed in many ways despite its return to the military related intrigue and stuff after the lighthearted high jinks of Fumoffu (though that season alone is enjoyable in its right); though I am aware of the manga adaptations and the light novels continuing after Second Raid but I never read them as of now. In addition, not only are we FMP fans getting a video game adaptation of which I longed for some five years now, but also a new season for the TV anime series, called Invisible Victory; like it better have the voice actors from the previous season reprise their roles or I ain't gonna be happy.
Anyway, I'll do a little analysis of the teaser being shown on the article in question and I'll post my predictions just afterwards. So we get some exposition lines as we see some tire tracks in the snow, surprisingly voiced in English with Japanese subtitles (it's as if Bandai-Namco knew that the FMP series has fans in the English speaking West), then we cut to some snapshots from the show with the two main protagonists, and then we see the gameplay and it looks alright. I mean this is a beta of sorts and hopefully not the final product; it'd be stupid of Bamco to so but moving on. So what we see so far is something that allows you to freely roam around the battlefield as long as its in some circular limit and that it looks like a turned based RPG of sorts and I'm fine with that given that I excel at turn based stuff than real time ones. That and you have the ability to use firearm and melee weapons since that's how it is in the show, though I wonder if the game allows you to master the Landadrive thing that Sosuke struggled with in Second Raid? That'd be something. That and the armslaves (the robots the characters use to fight with) are chibi looking for some reason. And from what I know, the game is being made by the same folks behind the Super Robot Wars series of which funnily enough featured FMP in it and I have never played the SRW franchise in particular. Already the game is promising yet it looks like it needs polish before we see a full trailer in the future.
Given that the show had featured some good share of stuff happening in the high school the protagonists go to (especially in Fumoffu), my good guess is that at least a third of the game is spent doing stuff in high school, just like how it is in the Persona games, and that it can have an effect on the missions Sosuke undertakes outside of high school. Though come to think of it, that Fumoffu suit, the one where it looks like some yellow bearish creature with a green bowler hat, should be a usuable armslave just for s--ts and giggles; it'd make some great let's play material and Pew Die Pie better utilize it if he's gonna play the game in the future (and p--- off the haters from places like the Wall Street Journal for the mudslinging they did early this year) but I'm getting ahead of myself. Another good possibility is the addition of new characters specifically for the game in question and hopefully more interesting than most of the ones from Second Raid, though it'd be pretty odd for the antagonists from both the first and third seasons to show up as some sort of bonus boss fights or somethin'. With all of that said, I'm looking forward to what this FMP video game that I have long clamored for, though admittedly in my own head, will bring us when more details arrive in the future.
My only big concern is the platform of choice right now, the PS4, of which I said time and time again, I'll never invest in unless Sony throws in disc based backwards compatibility with PS1 and 2 games but sadly they're too stupid and greedy to do so, rather making us wrongly rebuy them on PSN and this Gaikai garbage but that's another story for another time. And of course, no Vita, because again Sony is too stupid to care for that underrated and awesome device and unwisely gave up on it in the West (sometimes making me wondering why I bothered getting it in the first place last year) but again I digress. Hopefully there might be a chance for a PC release, albeit on Steam but that's okay, better there for me than not given that I have a Steam account (though I prefer to buy them digitally now since I'm not bothering getting physical PC disks since they require Steam stuff and I do not wish to contribute to perpetuating this stupidity but that's another story for another time). Oh yeah and it might have DLC (or rather will possibly have) because EVERY game's GOTTA have it for some reason...can't they just not and leave it up to the developers to give their games some or not yet it should be MANDATORY for ALL games to have a complete edition with ALL the DLC by now (otherwise the developers should stop making games, nuff said); but hopefully the best case scenario is that they're like add on post launch content and not like horse armor and s--t.
But anyway, the fact that we FMP fans are getting a video game and a fourth season is a sign that good times are ahead for the franchise in question and that's a good sign in my book; that and it was something I just woke up too before making this post so better wake up to good news than bad I guess.
Now to understand why I'm happy about this, you have to know that I am a big fan of the Full Metal Panic franchise since I watched the first few episodes on Hulu (at a time before they decided it was a "great" idea to be paid subscription only recently and outsource the free part to Yahoo TV for some idiotic, Lickboot-ite reason). I mean I'm quite impressed with a show that combines military sensibilities with cliché anime high school highjinks and that alone is gold in my book, though I'm not much of a mecha person (I prefer the types like the Level Armors from Metal Slug) but I digress. And it seems like FMP is making a comeback 12 years after that disappointing mediocrity that was Second Raid, like seriously that show disappointed in many ways despite its return to the military related intrigue and stuff after the lighthearted high jinks of Fumoffu (though that season alone is enjoyable in its right); though I am aware of the manga adaptations and the light novels continuing after Second Raid but I never read them as of now. In addition, not only are we FMP fans getting a video game adaptation of which I longed for some five years now, but also a new season for the TV anime series, called Invisible Victory; like it better have the voice actors from the previous season reprise their roles or I ain't gonna be happy.
Anyway, I'll do a little analysis of the teaser being shown on the article in question and I'll post my predictions just afterwards. So we get some exposition lines as we see some tire tracks in the snow, surprisingly voiced in English with Japanese subtitles (it's as if Bandai-Namco knew that the FMP series has fans in the English speaking West), then we cut to some snapshots from the show with the two main protagonists, and then we see the gameplay and it looks alright. I mean this is a beta of sorts and hopefully not the final product; it'd be stupid of Bamco to so but moving on. So what we see so far is something that allows you to freely roam around the battlefield as long as its in some circular limit and that it looks like a turned based RPG of sorts and I'm fine with that given that I excel at turn based stuff than real time ones. That and you have the ability to use firearm and melee weapons since that's how it is in the show, though I wonder if the game allows you to master the Landadrive thing that Sosuke struggled with in Second Raid? That'd be something. That and the armslaves (the robots the characters use to fight with) are chibi looking for some reason. And from what I know, the game is being made by the same folks behind the Super Robot Wars series of which funnily enough featured FMP in it and I have never played the SRW franchise in particular. Already the game is promising yet it looks like it needs polish before we see a full trailer in the future.
Given that the show had featured some good share of stuff happening in the high school the protagonists go to (especially in Fumoffu), my good guess is that at least a third of the game is spent doing stuff in high school, just like how it is in the Persona games, and that it can have an effect on the missions Sosuke undertakes outside of high school. Though come to think of it, that Fumoffu suit, the one where it looks like some yellow bearish creature with a green bowler hat, should be a usuable armslave just for s--ts and giggles; it'd make some great let's play material and Pew Die Pie better utilize it if he's gonna play the game in the future (and p--- off the haters from places like the Wall Street Journal for the mudslinging they did early this year) but I'm getting ahead of myself. Another good possibility is the addition of new characters specifically for the game in question and hopefully more interesting than most of the ones from Second Raid, though it'd be pretty odd for the antagonists from both the first and third seasons to show up as some sort of bonus boss fights or somethin'. With all of that said, I'm looking forward to what this FMP video game that I have long clamored for, though admittedly in my own head, will bring us when more details arrive in the future.
My only big concern is the platform of choice right now, the PS4, of which I said time and time again, I'll never invest in unless Sony throws in disc based backwards compatibility with PS1 and 2 games but sadly they're too stupid and greedy to do so, rather making us wrongly rebuy them on PSN and this Gaikai garbage but that's another story for another time. And of course, no Vita, because again Sony is too stupid to care for that underrated and awesome device and unwisely gave up on it in the West (sometimes making me wondering why I bothered getting it in the first place last year) but again I digress. Hopefully there might be a chance for a PC release, albeit on Steam but that's okay, better there for me than not given that I have a Steam account (though I prefer to buy them digitally now since I'm not bothering getting physical PC disks since they require Steam stuff and I do not wish to contribute to perpetuating this stupidity but that's another story for another time). Oh yeah and it might have DLC (or rather will possibly have) because EVERY game's GOTTA have it for some reason...can't they just not and leave it up to the developers to give their games some or not yet it should be MANDATORY for ALL games to have a complete edition with ALL the DLC by now (otherwise the developers should stop making games, nuff said); but hopefully the best case scenario is that they're like add on post launch content and not like horse armor and s--t.
But anyway, the fact that we FMP fans are getting a video game and a fourth season is a sign that good times are ahead for the franchise in question and that's a good sign in my book; that and it was something I just woke up too before making this post so better wake up to good news than bad I guess.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
The New Kerfuffle: Why the Politics and Marketing Should not Mix
In light of the uproar about the marketing campaign behind Wolfenstein: Shadow of the Colossus and the misrepresentation of the uproar by the mainstream media to be some neo-Nazi shenanigans and Micah Curtis's somewhat understandable response, I'd figure I put my two cents on this issue and let me warn you this can get political but I have to say it.
Now before continuing, I must stress that I am clearly against Nazism and its ilk (talking about the Nazi Party, the SS, the Waffen-SS, and some likeminded Wehrmacht fellows), like 100% against them and that I'm perfectly okay with killing them in video games since well they are what that guy from South Park said, "very very bad people" (paraphrasing here but you get the idea). Even if they have some good ideas like opposing capitalism and communism (and pro-animal rights), it doesn't matter since those small bits of good will never outweigh their bad ideas and their actions since they believed that solving the problems of mankind was to either exterminate and/or enslave those that are "racially" inferior; small wonder why they are rightly considered the slime of humanity and often considered the villain by default. Though I'm not too gung ho on the Nazi-killing business these days since it's been done before and that I have other equally evil targets to go after than a common dead, evil horse; I mean they are the ultimate generic villain to use in pop culture (though at least it's justified mind you given what they are and did) that at least almost no one in the world can get offended at (compared to say Communists but that's another story for another time) and rightly so. In addition, I'm fine with this more darker and mature direction the new Wolfenstein series takes in that they remind us that the Nazis aren't just some people with different uniforms on the different side of the conflict but really bad people just as they are in real life (though they lack a lot of interesting contraptions in their arsenals), though to be honest they are somewhat more relatable (or rather barely) than demons but it doesn't matter at this point. Same can be said of vice versa, but it again it doesn't matter, they are acceptable targets after all and that's that.
Now to this marketing controversy; and as you know, a recent tweet said, "Make America Nazi-Free Again" and of course the internet is in an uproar; outsiders may look at this as a sign of "rising Neo/AlterRighter/Nazism" and get upset or at least groan but a closer look reveals that the community has a problem with just the marketing, not the fact that you fight Nazis. I mean the gaming community is pretty much A-Okay on that and rightly so; it's just that headline that clearly copies Trump's campaign slogan of which actually originated from Regan's old 1980 campaign slogan (making wonder if we should make him "evil" because of that phrase). And to be fair it's somewhat understandable to be not comfy with that phrase of "make something great/something again", far too often it's been used to mock Trump and/or equate villains in fiction with him because the mainstream media says so. Thought at least Mr. Curtis on reddit argues that the phrase is part of pop culture now and the least people can do is use it in a neutral and maybe positive way and I think he has a good point; it'd make me more comfier to see it used less to spite Trump.As for my view on the marketing line about "making America Nazi-free again", I just wish they gotten a better line since that one would end up dating itself, like "Take Back America from Nazi Tyranny" or "Free USA/Smash the Reich" or something like that.
Edit: In hindsight, I think the marking line in question is probably the least offensive the idiotic twitter handler spouted given the game's objective of freeing the USA from Nazi tyranny.
But of course I need to get into the bigger scope of things regarding the politics going on as of this writing; see, this admittedly unnecessary freak out over this tweet is a symptom of this idiotic tying in current politics in the US to the dystopian setting of the game by the mainstream media and their sympathizers, especially the likes of Polygon and their ilk as well as the leftist attempts to label anyone to the right of far-left as a "Nazi", thus ending up diluting the meaning of the term and taking Godwin's Law to the extreme. And as you can see, it really isn't helping, considering how VASTLY different the Trump Administration (for all of its flaws...especially that d--k Paj) and an ACTUAL Nazi occupation of the USA are, and it isn't just Wolfenstein getting unnecessarily politicized (at least in the marketing section), Man in the High Castle and A Handmaid's Tale are getting this too and it needs to stop. All this does is show how immature the media are when it comes to handling current politics, making me take them very less seriously to the point of mocking them (there's a good reason I made two maps making fun of this idea of Trump causing a MITHC situation though and I'm not bothering to upload them to AH.com ever) but thankfully I'm too smart to waste my time with these idiots, especially their followers who retweet whatever garbage tries to tie Trump to X and watch stupid late night "comedies" bashing him nonstop (of which make me question their statuses as "adults" if they're over the age of consent); hell, I rather deal with people who retweet stuff about Metal Slug Ass-tack and make stupid videos about something something MSA crank-artichoke deck of cards stuff over anything politics related but I digress. However, I have one thing to say to all of you mainstream "news" sites (both gaming and non-gaming) and the people believing the idiotic narrative of [insert dystopic work of fiction] being "comparable" to Trump and the USA: go f--k yourselves! Please, take your dumb, kiddy grade fantasies of today's USA being something something dystopic and shove them up your asses and put a spin on them.
Now I usually don't say stuff like that but I must stress how little patience I have for this politics nonsense, especially when we should be more concerned with stuff like ISIS, radical Islamic terrorism, alt-left antics, figuring out the motive of the Las Vegas shooter, and when the hell will SNK (the company) make something non-KOF and non-mobile? Those are more important than trying to "relate" how Trump being president is to something truly bad like actual Nazi Germans taking over and messing up the U.S. of A.
Now before continuing, I must stress that I am clearly against Nazism and its ilk (talking about the Nazi Party, the SS, the Waffen-SS, and some likeminded Wehrmacht fellows), like 100% against them and that I'm perfectly okay with killing them in video games since well they are what that guy from South Park said, "very very bad people" (paraphrasing here but you get the idea). Even if they have some good ideas like opposing capitalism and communism (and pro-animal rights), it doesn't matter since those small bits of good will never outweigh their bad ideas and their actions since they believed that solving the problems of mankind was to either exterminate and/or enslave those that are "racially" inferior; small wonder why they are rightly considered the slime of humanity and often considered the villain by default. Though I'm not too gung ho on the Nazi-killing business these days since it's been done before and that I have other equally evil targets to go after than a common dead, evil horse; I mean they are the ultimate generic villain to use in pop culture (though at least it's justified mind you given what they are and did) that at least almost no one in the world can get offended at (compared to say Communists but that's another story for another time) and rightly so. In addition, I'm fine with this more darker and mature direction the new Wolfenstein series takes in that they remind us that the Nazis aren't just some people with different uniforms on the different side of the conflict but really bad people just as they are in real life (though they lack a lot of interesting contraptions in their arsenals), though to be honest they are somewhat more relatable (or rather barely) than demons but it doesn't matter at this point. Same can be said of vice versa, but it again it doesn't matter, they are acceptable targets after all and that's that.
Now to this marketing controversy; and as you know, a recent tweet said, "Make America Nazi-Free Again" and of course the internet is in an uproar; outsiders may look at this as a sign of "rising Neo/AlterRighter/Nazism" and get upset or at least groan but a closer look reveals that the community has a problem with just the marketing, not the fact that you fight Nazis. I mean the gaming community is pretty much A-Okay on that and rightly so; it's just that headline that clearly copies Trump's campaign slogan of which actually originated from Regan's old 1980 campaign slogan (making wonder if we should make him "evil" because of that phrase). And to be fair it's somewhat understandable to be not comfy with that phrase of "make something great/something again", far too often it's been used to mock Trump and/or equate villains in fiction with him because the mainstream media says so. Thought at least Mr. Curtis on reddit argues that the phrase is part of pop culture now and the least people can do is use it in a neutral and maybe positive way and I think he has a good point; it'd make me more comfier to see it used less to spite Trump.
Edit: In hindsight, I think the marking line in question is probably the least offensive the idiotic twitter handler spouted given the game's objective of freeing the USA from Nazi tyranny.
But of course I need to get into the bigger scope of things regarding the politics going on as of this writing; see, this admittedly unnecessary freak out over this tweet is a symptom of this idiotic tying in current politics in the US to the dystopian setting of the game by the mainstream media and their sympathizers, especially the likes of Polygon and their ilk as well as the leftist attempts to label anyone to the right of far-left as a "Nazi", thus ending up diluting the meaning of the term and taking Godwin's Law to the extreme. And as you can see, it really isn't helping, considering how VASTLY different the Trump Administration (for all of its flaws...especially that d--k Paj) and an ACTUAL Nazi occupation of the USA are, and it isn't just Wolfenstein getting unnecessarily politicized (at least in the marketing section), Man in the High Castle and A Handmaid's Tale are getting this too and it needs to stop. All this does is show how immature the media are when it comes to handling current politics, making me take them very less seriously to the point of mocking them (there's a good reason I made two maps making fun of this idea of Trump causing a MITHC situation though and I'm not bothering to upload them to AH.com ever) but thankfully I'm too smart to waste my time with these idiots, especially their followers who retweet whatever garbage tries to tie Trump to X and watch stupid late night "comedies" bashing him nonstop (of which make me question their statuses as "adults" if they're over the age of consent); hell, I rather deal with people who retweet stuff about Metal Slug Ass-tack and make stupid videos about something something MSA crank-artichoke deck of cards stuff over anything politics related but I digress. However, I have one thing to say to all of you mainstream "news" sites (both gaming and non-gaming) and the people believing the idiotic narrative of [insert dystopic work of fiction] being "comparable" to Trump and the USA: go f--k yourselves! Please, take your dumb, kiddy grade fantasies of today's USA being something something dystopic and shove them up your asses and put a spin on them.
Now I usually don't say stuff like that but I must stress how little patience I have for this politics nonsense, especially when we should be more concerned with stuff like ISIS, radical Islamic terrorism, alt-left antics, figuring out the motive of the Las Vegas shooter, and when the hell will SNK (the company) make something non-KOF and non-mobile? Those are more important than trying to "relate" how Trump being president is to something truly bad like actual Nazi Germans taking over and messing up the U.S. of A.
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