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Otakus and weebs will always be weird and be a thing, but I assure you the fandom is the least to worry about Japanese games. At least they give you the fan service and to beholden it against you.

That’s the one thing Anime/Manga does that the west isn’t trying to do: fan service. I rather play video games where the devs appreciate my purchase and doesnt shame me for it.

If anything, you should help us Gatekeep anime/manga because western weirdos are trying to destroy fan service for us and Capcom, Tecmo, and Square Enix are complying with this ideology with ESG BS.

Tifa’s FF7 legendary chest was flattened by woke ideology in Japan. I’m already up in arms at this point.

@Salvince : And so are many other companies. Blue Protocol for example is being censored for western release. Anime is continually censored for release outside Japan for example. A lot of games are censored on PC for outside japan release. Steam continually forces censorship or just outright bans them.

I follow Japanese culture and their news. There is a push for a more “USA” approach now than ever before, not by everyone and it’s mostly the upper ranks of government and corporations. But a push none the less. It’s all part of the ESG being forced into corporations now. Japan lawfully as of this year has had the ESG forced into it’s corporate landscape. Companies like Square Enix for example have bent the knee and this is why we have bad games like Forspoken. You want to try and poke the finger at Sony, but it’s a much more vast issue and wide spread than you clearly think.

I wouldn’t label Woke as “propaganda” thought since it is the truth in regarding these changes. I will always love the original Resident Evil Series before 7 and I honestly don’t see what people disliked about Resident Evil 6 besides having more action which I will say has always been a part of the series.

Granted, I will also say that the choice to make a Son for Wesker to continue a legacy for him was a bad choice, but was also happy to see Sherry Berkin make a very compelling return, but all that is getting off topic.

The point I want to make is that woke content is not propaganda since its based in truth. I am sure it purely misconstruing your words, but I 100% understand what you’re saying and I am looking to refrain from buying Resident Evil 4 remake because I do not think they will make a faithful remake. After the disappointment of the Third Remake, I absolutely will not be supporting them any further.

I think we all speak for the Resident Evil Fandom when we say: “NO MEANS NO” to altering the series to fit a narrative and I won’t spend a red cent until CAPCOM admits that their choices are 100% wrong. Since that will never happen, I will wait for their collapse. Same goes for Square enix. After Octopath 2, I will no longer be purchasing anything from Square Enix until they are out of business or until they fix their localization/censorship issues.

This is all over the place.

Yeah, put me in the camp I do not care if I EVER play FFVII Remake. It’s not Final Fantasy VII. It’s a completely different beast. FFXIII took 3 tries to make a story that even made some sense. XV had some emotion in it, I will admit the ending got to me a bit, but in hindsight is dumb as fuck and that is ALL it offered. The button mashing action combat sucks, and I hate it in Final Fantasy. It’s fine for a game like Darksiders or Zelda, but I got to Final Fantasy for Final Fantasy! I don’t play Mega Man to get a game like Doom. Just  saying.

There was a time when I wanted a remake. After seeing what they did to Final Fantasy VII, I absolutely HATE what they did to it. I enjoy FF7 because I can just chill and play at my pace. No button mashing.  No frantic action. And it’s a complete game. I would have been content with the entire game just using updated graphics. Maybe make the world sprites and battle sprites the same. Remix the music. CHANGE NOTHING ELSE. That is all I ever asked for. I knew the day the trailer launched that this remake was something I wasn’t going to want.

All the spin offs of FF7 were cute at first, but in the 2000’s Square-Enix changed. Everything has become stagnant or forced. The add-ons to the story are just dumb. Advent Children was good. They made a “complete” edition that was somehow inferior. Crisis Core was meh. Dirge of Cerberus was meh. Everything post FF9 has the same damn art style.

And this is something that killed my enjoyment of FF7 for the future no mater which version I play. Once I realized this, I can’t un-realize it. It’s always in the back of my mind. In it’s absolute purest form, FF7 is about playing as eco-terrorists in a self righteous politically charged narrative. It really kills my enjoyment. I can’t STAND that shit in my entertainment. It really killed it for me.

Back in the 90’s we had things like Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Final Fantasy Tactics… Some diversity in style. Every Final Fantasy was DIFFERENT. I lost so much respect for Square in the last decade. While not entirely accurate, everything Square nowadays just looks the same to me.

Everything REAL Final Fantasy, not this online garbage that shouldn’t be a numbered entry, post FFXII has just been bad. I have zero interest in XVI. XV was the last straw.

I look forward to being able to repeat that opinion when part 2 comes out in 2029.

Rant over.

I just dont get it who is asking for this stuff in Gaming?! I see many games being affected by this “trend”. Hardcore feminists play games now? Karens in the gaming industry? Who is doing this stuff??

Mainly people who don’t play videogames at all (activists) and for some godawful reason, they are hired to every high position including development teams. It doesn’t help that most people have no spine and just cater to the anti-fun crowd and it gets worse when big publishers (Capcom, Square-Enix, Sony) are changing their policies so they can push this SJW nonsense.

I’ll say what I’ve long been thinking: The golden age of home console and triple AAA gaming is dead. It died somewhere in the last decade and it’s not coming back.

That’s not to say gaming itself is dead, it’s just that the era we were lucky to born into, from the NES up until the 360/PS3/Wii, a time of innovation and rapid advancement of software and hardware capabilities, is over. Gaming is no longer a niche hobby which required developers to create something that engaged and rewarded the player, but now mainstream and thus they can safely rely on guaranteed ways to make easy money.

It’s the sad truth. I don’t like it, but there it is.

These days the only way to find truly excellent game design is with indie and fan games.

I’m not going to entirely disagree with what you’re saying. Your statement holds a lot of truth, but I’m not ready to say there is no such thing as a good AAA game anymore. Maybe it’s because most of the Indie games I end up playing disappoint me. Pathfinder: Kingmaker is the first Indie titles in years that I haven’t been disgusted by, so it’s not impossible for me to find something to my tastes, but it doesn’t happen often.

I also think it depends on the genre when we’re talking current day AAA quality. Best example of something on the horizon is Blue Protocal by Bandai Namco. BanNam is putting out alot of effort to make this upcoming MMO the best possible product for its customer base. They are listening to the people and taking everything into account, so much so they are taking all the time they need to get it done, and everyone is fine with that, because we want the best game possible.

And love em or hate em, Square Enix does a great job with FF14.

So I’m not ready to entirely throw out the baby along with the bath water, even if the baby is a little bastard more often than not.

I actually formally quit Twitter yesterday. The app is uninstalled from my phone and I’ve made my farewell post.

I would have done it sooner, my resentment for posting has been festuring for a while but had come to a head since about September of last year, but I did still enjoy interacting with my followers and mutuals, and getting gaming news by following the official accounts of Nintendo and Square-Enix and etc., but enough was enough.

And it wasn’t motivated by any politics in general, I mostly just talked about video games and whatnot. But I was tired of the vitriol and venom that site generates every single day. I didn’t want to end up becoming an overly pessimistic and unhappy person due to being in constant exposure to all that.

Console-wise:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate

Fire Emblem: Three Houses (it’s last DLC launched early this year)

Destroy All Humans!

Genshin Impact (PS4 version)

Mobile-wise:

Fire Emblem Heroes

Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius War of The Visions (Sheesh, Square-Enix, even the abbreviations are becoming mouthfuls at this point)

Games I didn’t play for very long but might as well mention as well:

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Star Wars: Battlefront II (the EA one)

Donkey Kong Country 1, 2, and 3 (via SNES Switch Online)

“Because it’s the Avengers, the characters should be overpowered and not require any effort on the part of the player.”.
Fuckin’ normies have ruined AAA gaming.
If it’s not a mindless button masher a toddler could master in a hour, all you people do is bitch.

Hopefully, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix have enough sense to balance the game for core gamers that will actually stick with the game. Normies are gonna leave no matter what but, if they cater the game to them, they wont have much of a core playerbase, either.

I think Nintendo’s approach to the mobile market has always been more about brand awareness to drive people to their dedicated hardware and that is achieved by smartphone games that have long life. I don’t think Nintendo ever planned to do what other companies do in the mobile market such as releasing dozens of games for one IP (I.E. Square enix releasing a bunch of Final Fantasy mobile games).

I think Nintendo’s plan was release 1 mobile game per IP, so in that regard their release schedule for mobile games was always going to end up declining since they have no interest in releasing multiple Animal crossing mobiles, or Mario Kart mobiles etc.

If you like anime games, Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai: Another Road is a really great one to get, as well as any of the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Heroes games. While Shin Budokai isn’t as good as Budokai 3 for PS2 or whatever, it’s a great game in the Budokai series… same when it comes to the Ultimate Ninja games on PSP

And since someone already spoke about FF7: Crisis Core… Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is another good Square Enix game on PSP.