And here comes... THE CUUUUUUBE!Are you excited for the new wholesome chungus sidekick to go with on an EPIC adventure in God of War : Laufey?
>>740771403https://x.com/SonySantaMonica/status/2064060009504223233They are getting ridiculed in the comments
>>740771403That's nuts.
I CAN MOVE SHIT WITH MY MIND!
>>740771403these sfms are getting crazy
>>740771403>>740771595How long is this Marvelization of pop culture media gonna last?
>>740771857If Doomsday and Secret Wars flop people will move on from Marvel as a whole. Downside is they might horseshoe around to DC if the next few projects end up being decent. So Joss Whedon humour or James Gunn humour, take your pick.
>>740771936Both those movies are projected to easily have a budget of over 500 million dollars. Not just for CGI but casting size and marketing. So ultimately to make some modicum of profit Disney would have to ensure both movies make at least 1 billion dollars. I feel like even 500 million is lowballing given Robert Downey Jr. alone commands like 200 million and more.
We need to be better cubes.
>>740771857Years because of the inflated dev times. All these slop are in mid-production, they aren't gonna just scrap them after investing so much. And this is assuming they got the memo and won't just double down and make more despite the financial losses.
>>740771403The cake is a lie!
VOICED BY JACK QUAID!
>>740772301Rich Evans cameo!?!?!?! OH MY GOOOOOOOD!
When this game releases, we're going to see Reddit humor and power like you could only imagine. Grown men and women in their 30's just losing their minds.
>>740771403The cube is one thing but why name it FRANK of all things. You're in a fantasy land, not california. Surely they could've come up with a better name.
>>740772620I was written by some dyke Australian woman twitch streamer. What the fuck are you expecting?
>>740772647For the game to NOT be written by some dyke Australian woman twitch streamer
>>740772620Franks became the French.French influenced Arthurian Legend and made the Matter of France/Twelve Paladins of CharlemagneSword in Frank is probably gonna wind up being Excalibur or some fancy French sword like Durandal.Why does the sword have to be Arthurian or French? Cause these writers certainly don't know any other magical swords from other countries.
>>740773016The gay little tassels keeps making me think it's some chink sword, but that's only because the only time I remember noticing them was from Dynasty Warriors.
I only play old games.
>>740772301OOOOOOOI CUBIE!!! AMIRITE MY FELLOW THE BOYS FANS!
>>740771857Capeshit is dead yet it's quippy culture persists. It's downright hell. I fucking hate how infantile western media has become.
>>740771403The cube is a lemon
fastpick your sidekick
>>740773730people will tell you that it's just escapism and better than the orange guy every day
>>740771403
I don't know why people blame Joss Whedon for all this shit. The last film that fag made was in 2017, and he's been cancelled for almost a decade after the woke mob turned on him.
>>740774042He popularized it when he made Avengers and the MCU exploded, dominating the pop culture.
For me its the force cubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tpi2Nio4fU
LOL THAT'S SO FUNNY AND JACK QUAID (HUGHIE FROM THE BOYS IF YOU DON'T KNOW) IS VOCING HIM OMG CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE A BLAST WITH THIS
>>740771403Seriously, who asked for this? I’m so confused
Yeah. I mainly come here for coom and off-topic posts. I don't agree with /v/ takes on pretty much anything when it comes to actual video games and i always do my own thing instead of taking advice from here. Every single video game mass-hated by /v/ i tried and enjoyed a lot, from Mass Effect 3 to Bioshock Infinite to The Last of Us 2 and the list goes on. In fact i think this place has the worst possible takes when it comes to video games and enjoying them in general. And this is probably why you see so many off-topic and coom threads because many people agree with me.
>>740774194Women and girls everywhere, this is not for you chud, sit down
People always cry about Uncharted and Last of Us and Marvel films, but it was Portal that really started all this shit. The cake is a lie, companion cube, Glados always chirping in your fucking ear and being le funny.
>>740771403GOOOODS! GIVE ME 90° ANGLES!
>>740774194Going by twitter statistics, leftists who don't play video games and third worlders.
>>740774187
>>740774523I hope the video game industry crashes and burns
>>740771403A CUBE OF WHAT?
>>740774612gelatin
>>740771403ERM... that's like so HELLA random. Fucking awesome!
>>740774523They couldn't animate a cube? A FUCKING CUBE?
>>740774230Well I have more hours and all cheevos too so you're objectively an inferior species to me and I think it's shit.
i'd rather play finding nemo
>>740773771
>>740771403reminder that this middle aged old hag is just as strong as kratos and just a good of warrior as kratos. in fact, she might be even stronger than kratos. Powerful stuff here
How smug and snarky is the cube going to be?
>>740775207Which begs the question of what the fuck she was doing while all the giants and midgets were getting raped
>>740775207What the heck?!?! A strong woman??? NOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>740775557...that spent 12 years hiding in a forest, bumfuck nowhere
>>740775605So? Why would she care about the midgets and black giants? Maybe she just wanted to chill and wasn't some fag who had to stick her nose in everyone's business.
>>740774230Your did it... you're became the Better Man
>>740775667those midgets and black giants were women you miserable churl
I fucking hated ragnarock so much
>>740775207and she didn't even need a real backstory or go through 3 games to get to that point! Women. are. stronger. than. men.
>>740771403GoW hasn't been good in ages. the novelty of 2018 wore off by 10% playtime and they dragged out Kratos' emotional unavailability for Atreus way too long. i get that gamers are retarded but it was just too much
>>740774230>Mass Effect 3 to Bioshock Infinite to The Last of Us 2ME3 was hated because it wasn't as good as the first two, can we agree on that?Bioshock Infinite was pretty decent, only a small minority of /v/ hates it.Last of Us 2 has great gameplay but a terrible story which makes people want to avoid it. Also sold half as much as its predecessor so it's not just /v/ hate. What else you got?
>>740775856I loved the original GoW.Liked the 2018 remake.Hated Fagnarok.Laufey will suck too.
>>740774194Probably that nepo hire bimbo who wrote a cookbook I guess?
>>740771403>this shit posted on the replieswhich one of you was it
>>740776269Me.
>>740771403Well, that just happened...
>>740771857At least another 15 years until Millenials and elder gen z are out of the marketUnless people actively fuck over the quirkslop
>>740775557stronger than kratos. i bet her farts are even louder than his too
>>740771403Still not buying any game made in California, no matter how much they screech.
So I've never played any of these game so can someone tell me what the fuck is with the cube? Is this some kind of mythology gag that is going over my head or just some le funny randumb bullshit?
>>740775306See >>740774523
>>740775862Wait she's trans??
>>740776454talking sword isn't tumblr enough so it needs to be in a jelly cube for extra quirk points
>>740776454It's a trope in millennial capeshit, just there to quip every minute.
I LOVE EBIC REDDIT CUBE!!!
>>740771857Until people stop giving lead writing roles to Millennials, I imagine. I don't know why my generation was so enamored with quippy, mood spoiling humor. Joss Whedon one-hit-KO'd all of them I guess.
>>740776454Deb is into dnd and gelatinuous cube is a popular creature there, I guess they thought it would be a funny gag
>>740776575>>740776539Yeah okay but why a literal fucking cube? Why not a some kind of animal companion or literally anything else? Why is it just a cube?
DAW must be pissed with that in game model.
>millennialsThe people doing these games are GenXers thoughever.
>>740772161A hidden mode stashed away in the deepest recesses of a game is not comparable to a fucking main character. Most people don't even know about Tofu. But nobody who plays Laufey is going to miss this thing.
The white race deserves its genocide by this point in human history
>>740776837It's funny. They look exactly how I imagined they'd look.
>>740776837
>>740776837zoomers can't tell the difference between gen x, millennials and (strangely) older zoomers.
>>740776837copying what's popular with millennials
>>740774187I thought it was Dave Foley just listening by ear. I'm glad it isn't. I would have lost respect for him.
>>740777020what's that elevator thing
>>740777232Presumably just floor instructions to face the corner so you don't spread the coof.
>>740777142You just want to blame millennials for everything, but they are actually innocent in all of this.
>>740777142copying what was popular with millennials when they were idiots in their teens and early twenties. industries moved on from dude weed movies but not from safe edgy lolrandum nihilism
>>740772301THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DARK AND EDGY SUPERHERO TV SERIES "THE BOYZ"? THE SAME SERIES FULL OF POLITICAL SATIRE? OH MY BASEDENCE! WELL... THAT HAPPENED! I FUARKING KNEELED!
>>740771403This is AI made, right?
>>740777393i will never let you live down homestuck coward
>>740773947You joke, but there's definitely some legitimacy to pointing out the "cube" sidekick is to sidestep having anything too manly on scene in a heroic role. There is a concentrated effort to erode masculine heroes and that's by design.
>>740771403>that sword tassel
>>740771403wish soulless amerimutts would stop raping european culture
>>740771403i've never played (nu)gow before but i thought these games took themselves very seriously?
>>740774230Bioshock infinite is actual, irredeemable dogshit on par with duke forever. I don't agree with /v/ a lot of the time either but I'm glad I still have at least some resemblance of taste
>>740774523Is this the guy who recently was on redlettermedia? He was entertaining as fuck
>>740778089This. Infinite is a significant step down from Bioshock, which was a step down from System Shock. And that's just on a fundamental gameplay level before you get into the abysmal, nonsensical "plot."
>>740777970Americans don't have history or culture, they just turn everyone else's into a product to entertain themselves.
>>740777393For me it's reach and odst
>>740771403You know, from a certain perspective this retarded and sometimes infantile, sometimes woke shit is a good thing.Normally I would have given zero shits about another God of War game. It would have existed, but from my perspective, that would have been it.But now I actually get to laugh at its inevitable failure and get a bit of amusement out of it.So from a certain perspective, Santa Monica Studios is running an entertainment charity for me, where they bankrupt themselves so I can have a laugh without paying anything for it.What a bunch of nice guys.
You are Laufeying... AAA studios are laying off thousands of people and you Lauf, you thing it's funny? If SantaMonica doesn't get their realistic estimation of sale numbers the poor folx who thought of Phranque will lost their/them job...
>>740774523why the fuck do you need mocap for a cube?
>>740776837genZ doesn't even know what generation their parents belong to.
>>740778596the cast needs to know where the cube is so they can act betterthat's the excuse...
>millsoys passing the buck
>>740777868>sidekick is to sidestep having anything too manly on scene in a heroic roleYou know they could have had another woman right? Or a girl? Or a "female" cube? Or a talking deer? Or did they pick a male voice to.... trick men into thinking they're cube?
>>740774748>>740774230Bow down weaklings.Look, the gameplay is satisfying ans excellent, if a little on the simple side. But the stories and woke shit is PURE DOGSHIT and I will never forgive sony santa monica for it.
>>740777853The millennials that even knew what the fuck homestuck is (I still don't) literally did get shoved into lockers. Deltatroon is an epidemic in gen z by comparsion. I've never met a single person irl who knows what homestuck is in 33 years of existence.
lol it’s only against evil things. Like religions that eat people.
Hahah I ran away too. Felt like I was in trouble ! Felt embarrassed lmao damn it
>>740778782Pandering to zoomers has destroyed civilization
>>740779139>pandering to zoomers>0 (zero) games revealed with loli in microbikinisLmfaoooo
Hahaha it’s cute. They’re fans of whoever what wtf is this game called? I forgot hahah
>>740778782In reality:Boomers actually made the great games (thanks boomers!) and Gen X has been a plague upon all forms of media. Millennials haven't even had a chance yet other than creating indie games that btfo even the boomer greats. It's not really much of a flex to make a better version of a 30 year old game, but hey, at least it is something. Industry finances are frozen and old fucks are holding on to management positions longer than ever before. The average ceo age is 71 ffs. This extends to all positions and all shot calls. You need nepobaby funding for real millennial lead games like E33 to appear in this landscape.
>>740778818Because a male voiced character disguises the intent better. What difference does it make if it's a "boy" cube or a "girl" cube? It's already a chungus fucking shape and not a burly man who threatens to upstage the main woman.
>stop making things I don't like!!Stfu up yall
>>740779334>You need nepobaby funding for real millennial lead games like E33 to appear in this landscape.then why was Mixtape such a flop? it had a funding other companies would kill for
LOOK AT HIM GO LOL
>>740779334The coping begins, 5 years ago it was millennials who made all the great vidya but now they are "too young" to have been game devs.
>>740779394When they hemorrhage money for their stupid decisions, at least they'll console themselves saying "at least one anon liked it!"
>>740778840Why did you spend two months of your life on each game
>>740779507Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it will fail
>>740779424because it's bad
>>740779581It will sell a fraction of what a Kratos-led game would sell. And that's so self-evident I shouldn't need to say it.
>>740771445>>740771403lmao
>>740779645Because women? Horizon sold well
>>740779604have you played it? show gametime and cheevos
>>740773771one of those steel balls in Elden Ringball beats cube everytime
>>740779581It's off to a great start!
>>740779743Because consumer expectations. You cannot just replace every male character in their own series with a woman mid-series. This isn't a >"BUT BUT BUT TOOOOOOMB RAIDER EXISTS"situation. It's GOD OF WAR, not WIFE OF GOD OF WAR
>>740779743Horizon was a new IP and Aloy was the original MC + that game was bundled with every PS4/5.Laufey is replacing an existing male lead and using his popularity to gain legitimacy.
>>740771403this reminds me of these arachnophobia modes some games have where they turn spiders into blobs or whatever
>>740779896It's gay but at least it has a justification.
well, I don't care to play as a woman so no buy, and the cube looks stupid as hell
>>740779824Uncharted lost legacy sold well
>>740779787>have you eaten it? how do you know it's shit, show exam with worm infection
This looks so bad, it's the kind of thing you'd do as an indie because it's hard to animate complex 3D models.
>>740771857As long as zoomers buy into it.
>>740780056Better than Nathan Drake-led game would have? Probably fucking not.
>>740779424>Australian musician and game developer Johnny Galvatron is in his early to mid-40sLiterally schrodinger's eldest millennial or gen x's youngest member. Much closer to gen x zeitgeist than millennial zeitgeist.You also can't pick the nepobaby roll and this one is Larry Ellison's 40 year old daughter. My point is millennials are not getting funding to lead games they want to make.
>>740780278Moving the goal post already?
>>740776650>Until people stop giving lead writing roles to MillennialsNONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO DIRECTED, WROTE, PRODUCED, OR DISTRIBUTED THE MOVIE WERE MILLENNIALSTHEY WERE LITERAL BOOMERS (born 1965 or before) OR GEN X. MILLENIALS ARE NOT PRODUCERS ON HOLLYWOOD SETS.
>>740780365If your goal wasn't to prove that a female-led hijack of a series can't do BETTER than a game being led by THE FUCKING HERO WHO STARTED IT then your goal wasn't a win for you in the first place.
>>740778840I acknowledge your superiority and mental fortitude for sticking with this pile of shit.
>>740779334Don't want to bat for soillennials too much but this anon is absolutely right about the gen X. They don't get nearly enough shit that they deserve. Like a jew transferring all his sins to a chicken so too did the gen X piggybacked all their shit onto boomers.
>>740778089Wait a minute....................... that card...
>>740780479There's a difference between hemorrhaging money and not selling as much as the main characters games
>>740780589I don't even care about that meme, the downgrade in gameplay is so severe ken levine should be hounded from the industry
>>740779516Deathless 100% runs, doing all objectives without and all side missions without dying, all in one run.Significantly harder than one would think.https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2712709313
>>740780618Why would anyone knowingly take a franchise in a direction that is guaranteed to do inferior numbers to just making a true fucking sequel? Why choose "less money" over "more?"It WILL sell a fraction of a Kratos game. There's just no dodging that reality.
I think what bothers me most is that the cube is so painfully obviously put there to appeal to the mocap actor, who is an annoying theater kid that has latched on to dnd like all of those insufferable critical role faggots. There's no gelatinous cube god or character in religious history, it's entirely dnd, so instead of following a theme they created a character for the sole purpose of making their lead mocap actress happy.
>>740771857>Marvelization of pop cultureMarvel is pop culture since the 50s you absolute retard.
>>740774230The only game I hard disagree with /v/ on is BG3, all those games you listed are shit tho.
>>740780841He blatantly meant the MCUification, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as easily.
>>740771403If you think about it who ever thought of the cube was insane. They wanted a character that didnt offend anyone so they put in a cube
>>740780841You know exactly what he meant you fag, fuck you are a faggot.
>in another timeline where god of wife was made by a normal studio>laufy looks like prime angelina jolie>she wakes up in a place where dead gods end up>makes friends with a micro black hole, something that feeds on gods, but seems to like her>they go from place to place, meeting and fighting gods from every religion>makes friends with a dude called mars>at the end they find a way to go back to the living world>laufy says she's looking forward to see her husband again>mars asks who he is>kratos, he's really sweet>mars starts sweating>they arrive back in the living world>kratos shouts AREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS
>>740780783Because they want to
How did we go from thisto this >>740771403
>>740780927then why is /v/ so offended
>>740776960Tofu is nothing to be ashamed about and he is the bravest.
>>740781016Well I hope they enjoy a very public failure then. Sony has racked up a lot of those as of late.
>>740780841Ain't you a daft little negro
>>740780523There's also another problem: millennials are getting old. It would be remiss to not analyze the entire phenomenon of freezing the management and shot calling structure. Younger passionate millennials were never given the reigns like the boomer greats. In fact that may be a large factor why the boomers DID make good games, they were younger and full of passion. Gen x's abysmal output can be linked to this phenomenon too, they didn't get control until they were too old and creatively bankrupt. This pattern may well repeat with old millennials too. This problem is systemic and not just gen x bad gen y good. It's mismanaged succession of power to promote vitality and passion in media. It's a problem of aging itself and not generational divides.
>>740781087>Not selling the maximum amount is a failure! You sound jewish
>>740781158>It will sell 99.9% of a Kratos title! Y-you'll see!sure thing buddy
>>740781076So shapes pisses of v?V goes in the square hole
>>740771403It unironically looks a lot better than the previous two nuGOW games.I'm probably not getting it though because the writing in the trailer was actual genuine marvelslop and I'm sure the game will be chock full of the usual nuGOWisms like the terrible 'puzzles', traversal, forced RPG elements, unskippable cinematic walk and talk sections
>>740780785The cube is pretending to be retarded and is the final boss.
>>740781076There is such a thing as being "too safe." If you chose a fucking shape as a character, you've definitely erred on that side.
>>740771403It's mindboggling how this game is this much uninteresting, no joke, everything I see about it makes me lose even more interest in the game.
>cube (portal) = lol heck yea lmao!!>cube (gow) = criiiinge!?
>>740781771>quirky game about puzzles>god of warhmmmmmmmmm...
>>740781771>le disingenuous post xd!
>>740781771>game released 19 fucking years agovs.>game releasing this year(?) with 2007's fucking humorLE CAKE IS LE LIE, AM I RIGHT FELLOW KIDS?
>>740781158>bad faith arguments in favour of subversionAnd you ARE jewish.
>>740775207>A random Jotunn goes to the afterlife and beats up all the gods of war from around the world
>>740781771remind me when exactly portal cube said "Focus, M"?
>>740776837>both of them said their first interraction with GOW was the 2018 trash
new jerusalem but its a wise cracking cube so quirky so funny haha just make a mockery of it all but nothing else hehe hoho
>>740780902Still doesn't make sense>when is pop culture going to stop iterating on itselfNever? You fucking retard?
>>740783613You are fallaciously making it seem like pop culture is a connected line. It's really not. Popular things just take off with the zeitgeist and don't necessarily have anything to do with the last explosive trend. No, not everything that happened since MCU was built off MCU. Of course it fucking wasn't.
>erm pop culture means literally anything that's ever popular? actual nigger retard
>>740772620Uhm it's Phrank or Pharaque
>>740782286Even though she was a mere giant she was confident enough that she could take them on and beat them.Her Woman Intuition™ is never wrong anon but you are a male so you don't understand. It's a perk women unlock after womenstruation
>>740781956>strawman argument
>>740784082it's hard to confront the stupidity of the thing you said. Sad that you've chosen not to.
Erm... that just happened!He's right behind isn't he?
>>740784448yikes
>>740777853That's an elder zoomer thing. Millennials are the scapegoats for genx and boomers and zoomers. Notice how you can't point to any discernible traits for genx? That's done by design.
Nu GOW was already cucked. this is just the culmination of that faggotry
>>740784549That sounded better in my head.
>>740781827Why did you say god of war twice?
>>740785145I guess this just happened!!
>>740772023Imagine if Mao Mao ate the entire cube.
>>740781771I too remember when the companion cube said; >"It is like the ground came out from under it"When I shot a portal under a turret.
>>740775856I went into 2018 expecting to shit on it for enjoyment and was supprised at how much I came out genuinely enjoying it. The last Valkerie fight on Give Me God of War is legit one of my fave boss fights of all time. Ragnarock somehow failed to fix any of the gameplay issues of its predicessor while seemingly tossing the slow burn story setup out of the fucking window. I don't know how anybody was able to enjoy that trash.
>>740771595So.... confirmed Kratos number one helper is a squirrel?
>>740785907If Sigrun is your best boss then you need to play better games.And I say this after spending 100+ hours messing around with her fight.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5WjuvZnww
>>740785969I would really prefer if you would be a better man
>The notion that a woman could inspire the sort of change we see in 2018 Kratos is not unbelievable, but it is unimaginable>GoW2018 understood this and wisely excluded any physical depiction of Kratos' wife or their relationship>Ragnarok writers seemingly resented this deliberate choice as a 'refrigerated woman' trope>they completely ruin the intentional mystique and we see how Kratos acted the exact same way with his wife as his son (teehee she calls him 'Grumbles')>you are hereIt's her franchise now, Chuds.
>>740781771One did it wellOne did it badlyI'll let you decide which is which
>>740771857for as long as you will keep giving it attention
>>740771403I can imagine anthony's smug face when he wrote that part.
>>740776689because the writers are s0iguzzling redditorsnothing deeper than that
>>740786706she was terrible in 2018 also
can't believe they said fuck it and made the blender cube a character
>>740774523Quaid needs to kick his agent in the fucking balls
>>740771403The cube can honestly fuck right off. What a horrible idea
>>740771403nice mocap you can see the FIERCE CHARGE being held back so the actor gets bumped on the right spotmovie game
>>740774523hes not even that bad of an actor and was alright in the boys but clearly hes just gonna be quipping one liners left and right as a fucking cube that will DEFINITELY not destroy the immersion this is low even for modern nu slop standards lmfao
>>740771403Guardians Of The Galaxy did irreparable damage to storytelling as a whole
>>740776650>>740780429Even if it were true, millennials aren't the only consumers of quirkslopp, it's very popular with zoomers and alphas That means once boomers are gone, millennials will make quirkslop, zoomers will also make quirkslop and so will alphas
