ThePhantomStranger

I have no investment in the Hitman franchise, although I am familiar with some of the fiction and gameplay, and when I saw the battle nuns I laughed for a straight minute. I initially saw the nuns approaching and just assumed that they were going to pull out some guns and ice agent 47, you know normal videogame stuff, but then they took off the nun costumes and I'll I could think of was Metal Gear and Dues Ex HR.

As to the whole separate game idea I'd actually be pretty interested in what the game play would be like...

The only issue I have with the current xmb is that they splintered off the video section into video and tv/video services...it's just feels a little silly

I wonder if a company like sony will have the resources to push cloud gaming to a point where they're playable...

So this whole thing seems like a non-issue...stuff should get refined but some stuff should get smashed into other stuff to make newish stuff, like combining atoms into molecules, so that we can have a bunch of stuff. OK I don't see the problem here...HULK CONFUSED!

I'm pretty sure Digimon World 3 hardly counts as a game of any kind so much as a machine for pigs...haha inside references to a game that no one else played...

@Jay444111 said:

@Animasta said:

@Jay444111 said:

@Animasta said:

@Hailinel said:

@Animasta

a SMT (not persona or anything, mainline SMT) game developed by CD projekt RED could possibly be super amazing

God no.

yes! It'd be interesting at the very least.

I agree with the no part. However even I admit to being interested in such a project.

Another thing I want to see is Platinum games work on a Remake of SMT Strange Journey, instead of turn based it would be a lot like vanquish... it would be fucking amazing if done right.

see now that's a terrible idea, it's not like strange journey's story is all that compelling (it takes shit from SMT 1 and 2 pretty liberally), so what's the point?

Seriously, I will defend the fuck out of it man... I will, you will get a damn blog from me if I have to!

So what's wrong with CD projekt RED doing a SMT game? please spell it out for all us non-picture posting types out there.

OT: Kojima on the next Batman game, but throw in Grant Morrison for proper story filtering...also keep rocksteady as the gameplay side of the equation.

ALSO:

Any western dev taking a project from a Japanese dev because I wanna start controversy?!~!

@Knight244 said:

The hypocrisy here makes me want to cry when there's a quicklook up for a game called Lollipop Chainsaw and an ad for Tomb Raider on this very page with an image of a women who looks like she's been beaten. At what level of blindness are you operating? In fact one could make a good argument that the caricatures of women that video games are filled with is far more backwards then the booth babes themselves. Booth babes are actual women but Lara Croft for example has always been a warped cartoon character and now her new "realistic" make over appears to be in the service of men who like to see women get hurt really badly. In short I'm pretty sure the entire world has come off the rails.

This site covers videogames, more so the quicklook for Lollipop Chainsaw actually featured the excessive "sexy" nonsense in that game as a negative and there has been many a talk on the bombcast about the intentions behind Tombraider culminating in some of them saying very dramatically "Fuck this game!"

I'm all for getting some better female characters in games in fact let's all continue that discussion but it does not mean that we cannot still discuss the issue that this article talks about. Also this article seemed to transition into talking about the booth babes by stating that it seemed a bit ridiculous now that we are having these conversations about Tomb raider and such that we continue to see booth babes.

Personally my two cents are that if the mobile 3ds platforms (M3Ps) were given much more of an informational role in which they act more as presenters then M3Ps then it might be a bit less noticeable and distracting in it's immaturity. In addition I believe the car argument to be untenable due to the simple fact that cars, or more importantly those shows, appeal to a specific audience and are not a broad medium like vidya games. This is not to say that the concept of the booth babe is untenable in of itself, in my opinion all it takes is having them double as presenters of the product, knowing the product, and being able to go get a press kit for Vinny.

Also I'd like to thank @patrickklepek for specifically opening up the article as a debate and not simply stating all of this as his rock god decree. I presume that's what this meant:

That’s okay--we should have a debate about it.

Lastly I'd like to thank the GiantBomb site for not posting pictures of themselves body slamming people whilst sporting neckbeards...

Pretty awestruck by this post so much so that it left a grin on my face, also what's this you say about a game you're working on?

What I really want to know about the last of us is if it's going to be as linear as Uncharted...

Also great article Brad!

@Manhattan_Project said:

@Azraden said:

I hope this doesn't get lost under a torrent of "ITS NOT A BIG DEAL JEEZ" and "WELL THEY WERENT FORCED TO DO IT", but I really want to thank you for this, Patrick. My fiance is really into gaming as well but she is put off by a lot of sexist bullshit (Miranda's ass CONSTANTLY IN YOUR FACE, rape threats to Catwoman, etc) and she can't even game online for fear of harassment. I'm hoping this is another step forward to getting gamer culture a step forward and hopefully getting gamers to tackle the larger societal issues that cause these sort of things in the first place. So really, I thank you Patrick, and I hope more gaming journalist fall in line with these sorts of progressive ideals.

How is this sexist? WTF do you think a scumbag criminal is going to do? Respect her?

It'd be nice if they feared her, like they do Poison Ivy...