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TheDag  Per Aspera ad Astra  1yr ago (text post)   1668 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 11, 2022

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Anyone playing the new God of war?

I've heard some conflicting things, that the dialogue writing has taken a nose dive for instance, but I'm having a hard time telling if there are genuine gripes that are getting drowned out by astroturfing/fans or if it's butt hurt culture warriors throwing a fit.

I could of course check out some streams but k would prefer not to spoil myself if I'm going to play it.

Never played any of those.

Found an interesting thread on twitter how the newest game was hit by the changing attitude to masculinity where having a unapologetically masculine killer as a protagonist isn't acceptable anymore so they mellowed him out and gave him a beer gut.

It also mentioned Last of Us, another game I never played which apparently features a post-catastrophic survival situation of an adult dude and an unrelated(!) teenage girl and they don't end up fucking which makes less sense as using polystyrene for ballast.

Nothing makes women more likely to glom onto a man than him successfully protecting her from actual danger. That they'd not end up fucking seems extremely unlikely.

Can't repost the thread it, for some reason I've got a search ban from oct 25 so..

I could of course check out some streams but k would prefer not to spoil myself if I'm going to play it.

Pirate it and buy it if it's good ?

The girl carries the zombie fungus. There’s a second major reason that’d spoil the story. It is more than adequately justified.

like an implant, or she's a typhoid mary or what.

She’s infected but uniquely nearly asymptomatic.

But doesn't spread it?

Yep. It’s actually well written, as zombie stories go. Probably worth playing if you have the right console.

I've never owned a console and never will. I also do not like 3rd person games, especially if you can't even design the character whose back you're going to be looking at the whole bloody game.

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