Surprised it took that long.
I still love that the pinnacle of male badassery is blonde haired blue eyed Super Saiyans. Even if they did get surpassed with... red, blue, and like silver or something later.
Especially since it'll only fit that card and in 5 years, tops, you need to upgrade.
That's fucking eerie.
The closest any game got to the 'heroic CEO' was Deus Ex Human Revolution, where your boss, David Sarif, may literally be the only person in the entire game that isn't a massive insufferable fucking asshole. That list does include Adam Jenson himself, too, btw.
All the same, he really didn't do much. I guess his act of heroism was turning Adam Jenson into a murderous cyborg, more or less against his will.
I can't think of much in the 'dystopia' genre, but I mean, they're still churning out shit like Jack Ryan which is "The CIA are your friends".
What was the Bob Odenkirk John Wick-esque movie? "Nobody" or something? A fun movie, Bob Odenkirk is always great, but the entire movie is literally "the CIA actually has agents to murder American citizens for wronging them (but they were super bad guys, trust me! Even though the Bob Odenkirk origin story is him killing a guy for fraudulently misusing government funds to buy himself stuff), and then even after they're retired, they can walk around doing whatever they want to whoever they want, murder hundreds of people, and when they're arrested and in custody, the government will make one phone call and they'll walk away completely free, no questions asked".
And even if he did, there's a backup amalgamation of faceless suits at the board of directors who will just keep the machine running.
Though Cyberpunk 2077 actually did reflect this. Johnny Silverhand literally detonates a fucking nuke to wipe out Arasaka's stateside headquarters and kills thousands of them, and the company just kept right on working, turned the rubble into a memorial, and built and even bigger, more odious tower in the same place.
Basically this, I meant to expand more on why I brought up V for Vendetta but the post was long enough.
In those kinds of movies, the bad government is always just comically ridiculous.
It comes down to the actual problem we have in the real world. By making 'Commies' a normalized punchline to works of fiction, it means nobody can now believe that there's actual Marxists and Communists taking shit over. You sound like a stupid asshole when you talk about it.
Back in my day, games were made by fucking rockstars hammering keyboards with their massive erections while flying down the highway in their Ferrari F40s as bimbos would cling to the side, all while promising to 'make us their bitch' in their marketing material.
Some developers don't need to be good at games. Nobody gives a shit if the graphics artist is good at games. He has no need to be. Slave away at photoshop, wagie. Make us a model that looks like this.
Level developers, however, 100% need to be experts at the game, because they need to make it flow and balance and be suitable for advanced strategies.
Anybody remember when we used to get games where the marketing material literally said the lead developer of the game, himself, was going to personally "make you his bitch"?
The funny thing is the worlds are never actually that fucked up, it's always 'told' not 'shown'.
I would dare say that Skid Row in Los Angeles is legitimately a worse place than the worst of the worst places depicted in Cyberpunk 2077. Night City is literally a better place to live than Los Angeles. You can walk down the street and not have human shit thrown on you. You can park your car and nobody stole it or robbed you blind while you were out. If someone attacks you in-game you can freely mow them down, but in present-day Los Angeles, you'll go to prison for self-defense, especially if you shot the 'wrong' type of person.
The pathetic thing is that there's all these pieces they could actually do something with. Okay, so maybe games think child rape is too intense and would never pass ratings. Well, you have the 'XBDs' in Cyberpunk, where people live out fantasies of murder and rape.
Well in real-life we know for sure we have at least some kind of cabal of child-raping elites. They went and would hang out on an island with their friend Jeff.
You ever seen a single fucking one of these game even depict the idea that, hey, maybe all the politicians are XBD connoisseurs? If they ever did do that, it would only ever be just one guy, and the player would go kill him or something, hooray, mission accomplished!
Or, if they did do that, it would probably be absurdly over-the-top, and the player just kills all of them. And the world will probably seem unaffected and that's it. You defeated Satan Inc. There's no crushing realization that the lone player is actually utterly powerless, and the game ends like most dystopian games should, on a downbeat note where the real lesson is that you are no hero, and you've got to live with the terrible things you may have learned.
And that goes back to my original point. The players are shown that something like that is a one-off thing, so they subconsciously take that to the real world. "Oh it's not possible all our politicians could be baby-blood-drinking satanic demons. Like maybe one guy, probably Trump."
Indeed, not the first time.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/08/doctor-in-brazil-allegedly-rips-babys-head-off-at-childbirth/
Um. Or the second.
https://article.wn.com/view/2014/01/04/Baby_internally_decapitated_at_birth_by_forceps_Parents_figh
What the fuck?
DUDE. I was just thinking the other day how awesome a spiritual successor to Black and White would be... Especially if it was VR capable and you literally could fill your floorspace with the game world.
Wait is this the second time this happened?
Do you guys think that just one day there won't be any cops at all anymore?
If you think pigs are bad now be glad I'm not in charge, I'd have them machine-gunning dudes down simply for running away from them and kicking in doors of houses playing tejano music to brand, amputate the feet of, and then deport everybody inside. No it doesn't matter if they're "legal".
If you go to the channel on the Odysee page they also replaced Bovriv the Russian dude in Diamond City and definitely it's a bad AI voice. I also "get" why it doesn't make sense 200 years after the war you'd still have people speaking like Russian immigrants right off the boat but I did like the guy as an NPC, it was some performance variety in a game franchise notorious for having little variety.
They should have replaced an NPC with a voice and speaking mannerism of Carl from Aqua Teen, that'd be great. And would fit the location lol.
It helps that Bethesda's voice acting is notoriously cheap and utterly shit, too. AI actually would unironically do it better, since Bethesda basically just hires no more than ten people to voice every single non-named NPC in the game, and a few of the named ones too.
That being said I'm curious if/when we'll see full AI integration into an RPG, but I'm betting currently AI chat models are too 'wild'.
It also gets rid of all the... checks what sub this is... blacks.
https://odysee.com/@GroundedCommonwealth:8/Old-vs-New-Kleo:5
Amongst other things they also got rid of Troonbot.
I love how 80s trailers just had gratuitous violence in them. Also i miss that smokey voiced narrator.
THE DRUIDS ARE TURNING THE FRICKEN BEARS GAY
Wasn't there a movie that unironically had a 'kid vampire' who kept creeping on little girls and wanted to turn them because he'd been a vampire for like 150 years? I'm trying to remember it, all the other vampires were like, scummy losers living in a van.
Lol I read the comic. What drivel. I can't even tell what happened at the end unless a page or two is missing. But sure Picard starting a fistfight over a video game is very in-character for him...