Literally everyone I know under 30 just says "I'll wait for it to come out on streaming." To a point where they don't even worry about spoilers because basically everyone does that.
And by the time it hits streaming, its already failed and lost money.
Once that was finally realized he did get a lot more interesting, the second half Jin was a really solid character.
But for most of the first area and a good chunk of the second one he is basically comatose from the culture shock and just completely devoid of anything. For good reason I suppose, but it hurts the game's first impression a lot.
Its very much a game where I recommend people skip all the collectables in the first area and just shotgun the side quests and then missions to get the game moving, because if you get distracted chasing foxes and charms you'll burn out before anything good happens.
On release you never physically saw her as far as I remember. She was always one step ahead of you and by the time you caught her she was on a boat in the distance and your archer mentor was like "she paid for her sins, let her go" and she gets away completely.
I didn't have any friends with a PS4 willing to play, so I was just pure pugs, which meant I was unable to progress pretty quickly. Might be less of an issue now with it being on Steam.
The overall difficulty just felt a bit overtuned for something launching half a year later, when the player count was probably 10% of what it was. Meaning you basically had to bring your own friends to enjoy what it was going to throw at you.
Ghost was one of the only Sony exclusives that managed to escape controversy of any value and make a good amount of money.
Considering every other Sony company has failed that test, it probably brought all the eyes and focus down on them to help "save" the company.
but a good main character is necessary for a game like this to be compelling
Jin wasn't really a good character. He got the job done barely, but was carried heavily by the rest of the characters until about the half way point when he unlocks his super mode ability and starts actually developing a personality.
But that's an even bigger knock against them. A bland, neutral character is more than sufficient if the rest of the writing holds up, but a character that actively detracts will pull down anything else around it.
What a shame. Ghost of Tsushima was a surprisingly good game that really didn't get the praise it deserved thanks to TLoU2. It had surprisingly interesting stories and tackled the "honor versus pragmatic" dynamic with a lot more nuance than most do. Excepting the infuriating Archer Girl sidestory, which seemed out of place even in the game itself with how it literally never lets you see her so it can Mary Sue the fuck out of her.
Even the combat was incredibly fun once you got your mind around it, enough so that they patched in a stupid coop mode months later with it (that they also made way too hard so you couldn't play with randos and needed a 4 man group coordinating).
Its a shame they tacked on a ridiculous open world of padding onto it, so most people threw it away justifiably before it came into its own.
And its not like we don't have a decent noted history of handfuls of Republicans being sex pests and hypocrites. Everyone knows it and it usually was enough to bury them (which is why no one believes it much now).
Its why pre-Trump the entire Right Wing and Republican party was dying so hard that an "alt-right" was able to be created from various factions sick of dealing with their retardation. And this was prior to them redefining "alt-right" to a very specific group.
Its not even owning the Chuds. Its going out of their way to find new insidious fuck ups to embroil themselves with further.
Because its not like they are announcing these things and boasting about it, which is what they would do if they were trying to own someone (like gay black samurai was). Its constant little under the radar controversies which only a really keen eye could even point out.
At first I thought it was just pure ignorance and Westerncentrism that kept them thinking they could get away with all their nonsense in this game. Standard Ubisoft retardation.
But at the rate of direct and very difficult to pull off by accident fuckups they have, this feels deliberate. Like they are actively trying to accomplish some task through sheer offense against the Japs.
Pooners never reach even close to the level of Testosterone and aggression of an average male, no matter how much they wish it were the case. The Test likely is why she was so obsessed with having constant anal sex with fat ass brown women, which was a major thing driving her insane, but that's less tranny and more femcel.
Women serial killers and cult leaders are also extreme anomalies, but they still happen too.
It wasn't even really ideology. Hale was going to go off the fucking rails regardless of the tranny part. That just gave her something to narrow her focus on.
She had been in psychiatric care since she was 6 and they consistently dropped the ball there harder and harder. If anything it made the entire "Mental Health" field look fucking awful beyond reason because of how bad of a job they did.
Well its not like the people making these games are incredibly talented devs doing leaps and bounds worth of effort to concoct these ugly goblins.
They almost certainly are using pre-existing frameworks, made by competent devs, and then just re-sizing certain parts to match their own manjaw and lack of tits.
All things equal, single player games will always do better than multiplayer games until you reach that event horizon where enough people are playing the game to get other people to play it too.
Plus you can see the instant rot and unfun-ness of a multiplayer game in 2 matches, plenty of time to refund it. Single player games are never that kind, unless the character creator hurts you that much.
then they shouldn't have to pay Federal taxes
Why should they? They don't live in Federal territory, what are they paying for? The privilege of keeping their citizenship card? I doubt half of Congress is paying Israeli Taxes for theirs.
I didn't know NDAs were literal magical devices that controlled you and physically forbid you from doing anything.
Next you'll tell me signing a pre-nup makes women physically unable to gain weight and leave a divorce with zero money.
I'd be willing to compromise in that regard. Honestly, the government takes off 900 holidays a year and leaves us holding the bag, I think we should have the right to make them work extra hard a few days a year while the rest of us get elections off.
But that would also require full compliance with National Holidays, unlike now where all the poor jobs don't get shit off for half of them. Otherwise its still discrimination against the poor.
I think if you are military personnel you are likely on something I'd consider American location, whether base or ship, which has direct line to America through government channels. I'd say that is a fine exception.
Anything else however, I don't think deserves to be given the risk nor extra effort.
They are almost entirely spectacle movies. You can't really talk in depth about how a cool CGI Imax scene made you feel, so it never warrants discussion and that shuttles it quickly out of the public mind.