Oh boy, here we go again..

[@MrKornnugget]

Why all the hate for Vin Diesel, he looks great in his new role.

[@gigalanderos1248]

ok you got me man

[@iwannadie9031]

You're telling me that wasn't Sneako?

[@chriswihulu]

"FAMILY!!!"

[@actionaccount8307]

it's a Vin Vin

[@tungzauzage977]

Vin Unleaded Petrol.

[@NOT__CHURRO]

Last of They / Them

[@510DeshawnPlays]

😂

[@mansour2424]

🤣🤣

[@jackbradley3388]

Lol that's great

[@tungzauzage977]

Globally I hope so.

[@axemanracing6222]

top notch

[@SherLock55]

"The Last Game From Us"

[@KronStaro]

and "Them"

[@kadangkusuma3201]

theory: the character is based on dragon age veilguard taash va.

[@DarkP1]

studio is gonna die after

[@NominDonutz]

@@BrawndoQC FOrmer president Bush in a video game located in Virginia

[@equiknox]

Hopefully not. I want the part lou part 3

[@yak-machining]

Aang the last transbender

[@nossyngod]

lmaoooo

[@HaRacycEBLErAtIng]

More like transanctioned bender 😁😁

[@KidneyStoner20]

The last genderbender

[@orly780]

If Aang and General Cho had a kid

[@yak-machining]

@@KidneyStoner20 that was too good🤣

[@Baniq1986]

Neutered Dog.

[@Logan_Deckard]

Hahaha, good one.

[@Cattildo]

Non-binary Dog

[@shatteredsentient5321]

Dog can't be naughty no more. It went on the chopping block.

[@nunuonroad9969]

Damn that’s cold 😂

[@DanteVerde-pt9zc]

As if they had any balls anyway, they've been making the same game for a decade now.

[@Hossak]

Comments on the Playstation youtube are gold. "They sell hair as a separate dlc" "Somehow, Concord returned....." and my favorite "If Concord and Dustborn had a baby with Jaguar..." LOL!

[@2huer09]

😭😭😭

[@RafitoOoO]

it's Faguar now.

[@LeonRivia]

"with jaguar" 💀

[@QPO5555]

@@RafitoOoO😂

[@thecompanioncube4211]

​@@RafitoOoObrother no... 😂😂

[@LivingDust92]

Game: "Our main character is a tomboy." Me: "Say no more. I'm in." Game: "She looks like a miserable chain-smoking 48 year old dock worker." Me: "Say no more. I'm out."

[@Starsteam1]

No don't judge people, judge actions

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@Starsteam1 Judge both.

[@nikxc23]

lol

[@wadenator8512]

You forgot lesbian, too. 100% this woman doesn't eat intergalactic sausage

[@YChik]

A character with this style couldn't work even as male. It's just ugly. Ugly characters works only if they have a grotesque design, take the game Cookie Cutter for example (speaking about female protagonist of course)

[@Kal-213]

I'm a woman and I would not want to play that character. The expression on her face screams "I'm better than everyone else"

[@MelissaGarrett1980]

Me, too. I just think she comes across as rude, condescending, and arrogant. No, thanks.

[@goji059]

the Rachel Ziegler look?

[@roomijsjeeee]

I’m a woman and I think she looks tough. Totally opposite from me and it’s interesting

[@girrockz112]

But I’m sure if it was a male with a shaved head no one would bat an eye, grow up.

[@Kal-213]

@@girrockz112 Love how no one mentioned the hair or lack thereof except for you

[@chshizuru]

Bro why does my female protagonist looks like Tuco from Breaking Bad

[@fury7912]

cuz Lalo is in it, it only makes sense

[@KindaDummy]

TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT

[@ahihi7706]

Nah don't disrespect Tuco like that

[@Conorator]

looks more like Rio from Good Girls

[@ElonDaOmnissiah]

Looka that! Whoooh!

[@brandonbeckham8803]

samus was a bad ass bounty hunter and then took her armor off and was a feminine conventionally attractive woman and her franchise is still going after 40 years.

[@Lampoluke]

The woke mob is still in denial about metroid being a succesful 40 yo series. They can't stand Samus

[@spk1121]

The Metroid franchise is the single greatest rebuke to the whole femicrazy narrative. If guys actually looked down on women, particularly in action roles, the outrage when Samus was first revealed all those years ago would have been tremendous. The fact that it went on to become one of Nintendo's most successful IPs ever shows guys don't care as long as it's a good story and her role makes sense in-universe.

[@templarknight7]

@@spk1121 Clearly they do care, it's why she's mainly in her armor. Guys won't play for long if they're constantly reminded that they're playing as a badass woman. The armor also makes it easy to self-insert, just like Master Chief in Halo. Just look at the backlash against this Naughty Dog game. You know nothing about it, but hate on it anyways just because you don't like the design of, presumably, the protagonist. Edit (since I get so many replies): Maybe I should clarify: Men don't like playing as women in story centric games. Obviously fighting games like smash don't matter as the objective of those games is to beat your opponent. For plot centric games where character development matters, men just don't relate to female characters. It's why, looking at the list of female characters that have been mentioned in this comment chain, there are so few successful ones. People keep mentioning niche characters and fighting games. For successful female led franchises, you have to hypersexualize them (Bayonetta, Lara Croft) or share screentime with male protagonists (Resident Evil). Resident Evil 2 is a great case study on this. You have essentially the same game played from either a male or female perspective. 80% of players choose to start the game from the male perspective. 50% of players complete the game from the male perspective while only 37% of players complete the game from the female perspective. If gamers didn't care, why is there such a huge difference?

[@Omegeddon]

​@@Lampolukebecause Metroid isn't a series that sells. Most of them only hit 2 million copies or less. Dread is the best selling game in the franchise at 3 million copies. Meanwhile if you look at another Nintendo franchise like Zelda BOTW sold 10x what Dread did.

[@Ozzystrayroo]

@@spk1121 to garnish that point, mention also old badass action woman like Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield, Lara Croft, Rayne, Heather Mason, Aya Brea, Hana, Joanna Dark, etc. badass women is never the problem. badly designed and written women have always been the problem

[@TheMusicforeverwhere]

Will Smith's joke hit me so hard.

[@actionaccount8307]

tell please

[@bogyomentol6331]

you mean slapping so hard :D

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Neil Drunkman: " put my game out of your F****** mouth!"

[@LV_427]

Now it's Neil Druckmann that slaps instead of Will Smith

[@thewhyzer]

You should have have kept his wife's name out of your fuckin' mouth.

[@inthejcurve7968]

the #1 rule in business…”Know thy Customer”

[@Murderface666]

Rule #2 of business: "Never let the customer run your business."

[@andresguerrero7536]

@@Murderface666 No customers = No business 🤣

[@Murderface666]

@ Yeah, but you aren't the targeted customer though... That's why you guys are derping out all over forums!!! You guys are trying to become gatekeepers with your cute little e-boycotts and failed! I get the cheeto-finger stained rage, but you guys became the woke-tithesis of what you claim to fear: Anita Sarkesian! But at least she had a nice🍑in jeans to look at.

[@Mereologist]

@@Murderface666 You have it entirely backwards. The number 2 rule - and everyone knows this one - is, "In matters of taste, the customer is ALWAYS RIGHT". Which is another way of saying that parting with money is optional for them, but you getting it is mandatory if you want to remain a business.

[@Murderface666]

@ Then you've never dealt with a business.

[@joemoer1]

They can call me anything they want, but you’ll never call me “a paying customer “

[@25percentdumb62]

If the rest of the game is good (I love the Bebop-esque concept), I might consider being a non-paying customer.

[@actionaccount8307]

paining

[@bestpcgaming7454]

can i call you non-buynary ??

[@QPO5555]

@@bestpcgaming7454😂😂😂

[@EdsonPonzani]

True, but is also true that they never expected u to be one They bank on the points this games give, not on the potential costumers I doubt the if this game sell well or not is even a concern to them, just if gets points or not

[@LordRykard9376]

"Comments turned off." Naughty Dog knows they've been cooking a turd for a couple years now, theres a vibe change, and cant back out.

[@Apoch86]

I mean, if they were at all smart, they'd just make the main character playable as male or female... It would cost less to add a male model of the same character, and hire a voice actor to redo the lines, than it will to continue down the path they're on...

[@thunderstrucktb4758]

@@Apoch86 That wouldn't fit their obvious agenda then would it?

[@Bonesawisready926]

It's probably not the only turd in the pipeline either. This game just kinda confirms to me that the 2020s are gonna be a lost decade for western entertainment.

[@chriswihulu]

They're basically proving us right, while also looking weak for not allowing the audience to comment, but they're too locked into this path to see that.

[@Suspect333]

This game looks dope tho? i dont get it

[@Ajax-0137]

It's not just the ugly character design. It's the trite girl boss, with the snarky attitude.

[@Ravalin]

bingo, it's the same kind of character that is shoved down our throats in games and shows for years that no one with a functional brain wants. Yet wokeist keep spamming them religiously.

[@jameswayton2340]

And if you look at the witcher 4 trailer with Ciri, only 10% of people disliked that video.

[@Jimusmc]

@@jameswayton2340 in time it'll be disliked when they find out CDPR hired someone from sweet baby inc a while back.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

The smarmy attitude + girlboss + Taco Hunter aesthetic is just a massive turnoff. There isn't a nonsimp dude out there who finds that remotely appealing.

[@Labyrinth6000]

I thought this character was the Dalai Lama for a moment. 😂

[@b0daddie]

The easiest thing to do to appeal to everybody is to make a good custom character creation system. You can make anything you want.

[@Selrisitai]

I prefer a proper character, myself.

[@korpiz]

Yeah, but that doesn’t push and promote the ideology and activism they want to do, they have to control people and their choices for that. That’s the reason they do it like this, it’s not about the customer, it’s not about enjoyment, it’s not about choice it’s about ideological activism.

[@logancoleman4507]

@@korpizwould you say that for every other main character you cannot customize in a video game?? just bc she’s ugly its pushing an agenda??

[@Dante02d12]

@@logancoleman4507I'm with you on this one. But we know there's an agenda because it's Naughty Dog and Druckman has been very open about his activism.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Yeah works great in Nioh 2. Just voices need to be done twice, for male and female. Except if you can't change the sex.

[@griffin1366]

I identify as a non-buynary customer.

[@frandomoot2523]

genius

[@jotairpontes]

Nice. I'll be using that from now on.

[@heisenberg2467]

How original

[@CaptainNingle]

@@heisenberg2467 Wow, look at the pot calling the kettle black.

[@erich3784]

SHIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEETTTTT

[@xHe11houndx]

Me in 2010: "Please Naughty Dog make a Jak 4" Me in 2024: "Please Naughty Dog leave Jak alone!!!"

[@lukasl3440]

Today Naughty Dog is not the same one as 10 years ago. Let alone 15-20 years ago.

[@FakeHeroFang]

Wojak 4

[@Austichar]

Modern day Naughty Dog would kill Jak off in the first hour and have his girlfriend be the main character.

[@user-qd5lo6oi8n]

I actually thought the same thing. Jak series is my favourite ever, it was way ahead of its time. Jak 4 if kept true to the series would be amazing, but for sure they would find a way to make it lame and political with the types of characters. Jak games were from a time when people just make media/art however they wanted and nobody even thought about the sexuality and race of characters.

[@Hammerhead0276]

They did make a 4th Jak game ages ago but it's uh...not good

[@MrClobbertime]

I've always thought it was funny that 'empowering' women seems to mean making them look and act as much like men as possible, especially when that action is what they claim is 'toxic masculinity' and consider it bad behavior in men but empowering behavior in women.

[@Copperscaled]

"it's bad if men do it, it's good if women do it" can be extrapolated to alot of idiotic logical conclusions recently, like "diversity hiring" being equal to discrimination against the big bad white men.... i'm not even white btw. if people in a different country with a different skin color can see this and say it's odd, everybody in america and europe should be able to do the same. hopefully you guys getting trump back helps you stand your ground against bullshit in the future.

[@mattmaclean1422]

@@Copperscaledand alot is misspelled my a lot of idiots.

[@doommaker4000]

​@@mattmaclean1422Too bad, you also made a spelling mistake.

[@crazyinsane500]

Well by buying goodwill with people impressed by flaccid attempts at empowerment like this, Neil Druckmann is able to ensure that they won't report on the actual real world harm he has done. *Any* publication that will defend this character design is not going to have an article about Naughty Dog firing the victims of their lead MP developer, Robert Cogburn, leading to Sony having to step in to fire him. It's not about actual empowerment, it's the Weinstein strategy of putting on a front of empowerment to cover up for being a monster.

[@49.hedayetulislamprottoy19]

English, please?

[@laurentguyot3362]

I've had a revelation, I became nonbuynary

[@HaRacycEBLErAtIng]

Good revelating!

[@Joice255]

Going back to the sonic trailer. We didn't hate sonic because he was blue. We hated it because it made him look ugly as shit. And the feedback worked

[@spk1121]

Spot on

[@AgagaSnsns]

Be honest, you're hedgehog-phobic.

[@FractalPrism.]

paramount listened & fixed it, the sonic movies series went on to make millions sony stuck to their failguard until all 37 ppl threw concord in the dustbin

[@VitaliyMilonov]

​@AgagaSnsns sorry, i only goon to attractive hedgehogs

[@darkstrider256]

The people at Paramount listen. Neil Druckmann won't

[@snorpy]

"Unconventionally attractive" is the PC way of saying "unattractive".

[@Pyro_UH]

UNconventionally ATTRACTIVE.

[@millanferende6723]

@@Pyro_UH More like "conventionally unattractive."

[@patricklindsay72]

It's also a console way of saying "unattractive". LOL

[@jgunner94]

Some just don’t like her being bald cause she’s definitely not unattractive.

[@coldwaterboilsfaster8041]

@@jgunner94 True, As a ogre myself i find her quite alluring.

[@anymea5159]

There are many beautiful asian girls in the world, but they decided to give us an average Hong Kong mafia dude

[@PatrickMorin-f4j]

Who’s supposed to be a woman.

[@marikishtar]

dId YoU mIsGenDER ThEM?

[@heartlessnobody1143]

​@@marikishtar no he SHOT it, big difference

[@CEREAL_KILO]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@x340x]

to be fair, the actress the character is based looks way better irl, im not sure what happened here.

[@sebastiandelfavero5243]

All of this could have been avoided with a character creation system

[@Selrisitai]

Yeah, like in Veilguard! Oh, wait. . . .

[@sebastiandelfavero5243]

@Selrisitai let me rephrase that a Good Character Creation

[@Selrisitai]

@@sebastiandelfavero5243 I think there's something to be said for a prefab, fully developed character. I don't think Shadow of Mordor would have been as good without Talon, the man, as the protagonist.

[@cherry414]

Agree because we have too many crybabies in the comments

[@Roadruuner]

And then you can say goodbye to the incredible facial animation and voice acting that naughty dog has in their games.

[@Arcademan09]

It's not even a theory anymore, it's a straight up fact AAA are afraid of portraying attractive women because... someone on Twitter will complain?

[@majorpeepo]

R34?

[@1Jack22]

no, it their ideology, they are the ones who complain

[@kristoffer8609]

@@1Jack22 This. They are actively fighting their audience. It's quite amazing. If you think about any other type of business doing this, they'd be bankrupt in a week.

[@alexholker1309]

Nah, everyone on Twitter who would complain left. Someone on *Bluesky* will complain.

[@blurghgitty3000]

In all honesty you guys have turned into the twitter complainers that you're talking about. You've become what you hate, congrats.

[@anthonybf2]

It's time for Naughty Dog to receive the Old Yeller treatment.

[@ricardohoang8452]

naughty dog and cdpr

[@sasori_es]

@@ricardohoang8452 why CDPR?

[@TasselledWobbegongShark]

@@sasori_es i think bro is an incel and hates Ciri as a character

[@EllanaWolf]

@@sasori_es Because they’ve gone WOKE.

[@anthonybf2]

​​@@sasori_esnext witcher game features a strong independent fefail as lead character despite wamens not being allowed to become witchers, also CDPR has been recently shoving and pushing DEI garbage on their website/socials

[@TheMandellaEffectbruh]

Intergaylactic - A search for identity

[@rodan888]

😄

[@DanteisntHere]

How u assume she is gay?

[@weirdguylol]

​@@DanteisntHereTrue, she must be an attack helicopter

[@DanteisntHere]

@@weirdguylol u think u are funny?

[@jaideepshekhar4621]

​@@DanteisntHere How about a hairless ape?

[@Lightsoul1987]

I don't care if she looks like a supermodel or not. I want a well-written character who makes understandable decisions and not an over-perfect Mary Sue

[@Harpagio]

You can't portray her as desperate and down on her luck when she's literally driving a Porsche.

[@error17_]

also got that spoilt bored teen snarkiness

[@chriswihulu]

Yep, fits as well as if the Nostromo from Alien, had a Ferrari label and sticker on it.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@@chriswihulu ...while they're rocking some JVC speakers....

[@SyLuX636]

The trailer is full of sponsors and expensive brands if you looks closely.

[@SoccYT]

​@@SyLuX636this is what told me that this game was gonna have more red flags in it. The trailer having sponsors in it in your face like that is a bad sign.

[@enutrofdude]

The protagonist seemed like a smug smartass. Not "masculine", not "feminine", just an arrogant person with a selfish attitude. Confucious said, “People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration.” I've found this philosophy to be broadly correct in regards to the many people I've met over the years... and I don't mind applying it to video game characters, either.

[@Gentleman...Driver]

I dont have an issue with that. You are playing as a cold hearted bounty hunter. Like in the wild west, but in space. A bit like Star Wars, before they ruined the lore of Boba Fett.

[@ikeaira8701]

Swap it with a male and you'd be praising it. Sit down

[@marksmithcollins]

It is typical Californian.

[@marksmithcollins]

@@Gentleman...Driver No, bounty hunters are serious and cold blooded, not bi*ching. Wild west people were not psychopaths, they just acknowledged the cruelty of environment and embraced it.

[@enutrofdude]

@@Gentleman...Driver Yes, edgelords have always been the most efficient bounty hunters and many Hollywood movies prove this.

[@Gabbogabagool]

I really found interesting how they think how a "girlboss" attitude is just being ridiculously snarky and prideful and nothing about like... Traditionally masculine virtues such as heroism, bravery, strength, chivalry etc.

[@nom928]

Forksporken probably has them beat in that department.

[@marikishtar]

"It's women empowerment baby!"

[@maffe_distroyer]

I totally love it, they are so transparent on how bad people in the core are so theres no free space to doubt! It makes so much easier , if you see anybody with dustborne , forspoken or this game in their steam list , is time to flee away and never go back 😂

[@amc5931]

Because they have no clue what actually makes a likeable character. They model them off what they perceive as popular male characters and Disney humor, because they see that’s what gets views. They think everyone wants a female version of RDJ/Deadpool, when you could look at a character like Geralt or Master Chief who are much more stoic and not quippy, and have a very devoted following

[@Ikuraga]

This is not a girlboss… This is a they/them boss bruh… Hell it could be a heboss, we don’t know their pronouns 👊. 😂

[@fredaves622]

It's ironic how her weapon looks like a comb, but she's hairless.

[@googletarded8300]

Without any context, I thought that character was that airbender kid.

[@chaddrusso8850]

Lol same

[@Sniegel]

PoE 2 Monk

[@K.B.D0]

If Aang,baldi and caillou became one person😂

[@chaddrusso8850]

@@googletarded8300 lol I can’t stop thinking about it now, like you can’t unsee it😂 Aang the last genderbender😭

[@Shiirow]

Aang is Space.

[@melbu6311]

The Dog isn't that Naughty anymore.

[@sorkinquinzel]

You're absolutely right-spending time arguing over fictional or minor issues online can often feel like yelling at clouds. It's ironic how people channel so much energy into outrage over things that ultimately don't affect their daily lives. Instead, focusing on things you enjoy, improving yourself, or making a tangible difference is far more fulfilling. People might just need a reminder: energy spent on negativity could be better used building something positive or engaging in meaningful conversations. Let them yell at the clouds while you rise above!

[@laurentguyot3362]

@@sorkinquinzel I play games everyday so it affects my daily life

[@alansmods1775]

Dog turned woke lol

[@pinobluevogel6458]

@@sorkinquinzel In some ways, I agree with your post. It is far better to focus your energy on the stuff that is positive and good, like quite a few of the asian and eastern european games. Still, it can be entertaining, justified or even pleasurable to rage against game design studios that go too far with their ideology. Once gamedesign moves away from good gameplay, interesting or cool looking characters and starts to design games to promote their very unpopular agendas, they deserve to be ridiculed and boycotted and they will eventually go bankrupt as a result. Most gamers have been starving for something that hasn't been infected with this woke virus. I genuinely believe that if this game was released way before the industry moved away from designing games for their core audience, it would not have this negative a response as it had now. Now, even a whiff of something that feels wrong will set everyone in a (undestandably justified) rage. This is what you get when you push people to their limit and keep shoving garbage down their throat. It is not just the social politics that they push in games, it is all of that in addition to the crazy monetization in games, the lack of quality in triple A games, the massive layoffs just to try and get better looking end-of-year financial spreadsheets, the sexual harassment scandals in large game studios, the bigger companies that buy up succesful small studios dismantling them soon after, ... there is so much negativity in the gaming industry, it is almost unreal. We can ignore it and try to focus on the positive, but sometimes it just feels good to look someone in the face that force-fed you garbage for many years and say "I told you so."

[@Beforezzz]

Naughty Dog died after The Last of Us.

[@Phaevryn]

Jack from Mass Effect 2 worked, because they created a proper character and knowing her background it made sense, and it was well written. This is really just another DEI.

[@agamemnonofmycenae5258]

Plus, she was just one character out of many.

[@dinoblacklane1640]

Plus she's a side character and not the main character

[@XenonArcher]

ok so if she had hair, would it be fine? you know jack from mass effect, cus youve played the game. you dont know this character in intergalactic yet lol

[@sabnock31]

Jack also looked like a woman and not a teenage Asian boy.

[@FeralDucky]

Jack also very much looked like a woman with a shaved head and slim body, and not just a bloke with a vaguely female voice

[@emrecopur8455]

When it's released it will become another masterpiece from ND.

[@SprangMcCrang]

This game looks like Cowboy DEIbop. And that hurts me.

[@ImDumbSry]

😂

[@Ridlay_]

Oh man

[@magepunk7711]

Cowboy bipoc

[@tr3buh]

me too, it's just disgusting

[@InvidiousIgnoramus]

No, no. That was the Netflix live action Bebop.

[@crab264]

I have no idea why this is so hard to grasp for these companies. Strong women in a physical sense aren't fundamentally masculine in nature. They can be beautiful and like predominately feminine things, its just that their body has been honed to a physical height that makes them appear less "Girly." And in the mental scope of strength, their appearance means nothing for that barring character design and backstory. Having high amounts of will or intelligence doesn't mean a woman should look masculine in order to convey that strength. It's counter-intuitive to the overall idea of "Strong Women" in media. Making her bald and near androgynous in body-type comes off as a stereotypical rendition of a strong woman instead of an artistic interpretation. If you want her actions to be more important than her appearance, give her a mask or some cool helmet so we straight up can't tell what she looks like. It'd force the audience to judge her off of actions she makes far more than what she looks like.

[@ryllharu]

Even when they are trying to go for physical strong, they're still getting it wrong, but this wasn't the case before. Fable II got it right with Sister Hannah "Hammer" who was physically imposing in all dimensions. But it never felt patronizing. You felt like she had trained and earned her physical abilities over a long time. She had a lot of traditionally masculine traits, but an equal amount of feminine behaviors and mannerisms. She still felt like a real person instead of a shallow interpretation of someone with "strength" who they make female to check off more boxes from a sterile list.

[@narsheguard6417]

Literally Samus Aran. Beautiful, and everyone loved her before they even knew what she looked like.

[@newdivide9882]

They understand that. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t turn off comments immediately. They know they’re serving something nobody wants. All to please ESG investors. Which is weird because that’s just you shuffling the same cash around over and over… with no new profits injected into the loop… No profit made and THE MESSAGE rejected

[@meddlingmage23]

Operation Mockingbird

[@thunderborn3231]

NEVER FORGET, the tv company reduced she-hulks muscle mass by 60% because it scared them

[@ricequackers]

Well it doesn't appeal to men as you say, but I don't see how it appeals to women either (straight or otherwise). It only appeals to activists.

[@unncommonsense]

Activists don't buy a lot of games, they just like to say how r-cist and s-xist they are.

[@RealNefastus]

Who don't even play video games, so they're not gonna buy it.

[@serena1174]

True

[@theunknowman12]

Can confirm. Watched TGA with a couple of friend and some of them are female. When the trailer comes out we all said "who's gonna play this?"

[@hochhaul]

It's made for people like Elliot Page.

[@mar__k]

Samus from Metroid has been a badass female lead for decades, and no one ever complained, people loved her. Proving that great games and franchises aren’t about the gender of the character. it’s about the story, gameplay, and design. Characters like Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn) and Ellie (The Last of Us) prove your point otherwise as well so wtf is your point?

[@Gunnar_Konig]

Could have just made it a male Shaolin Monk in space and everyone would have loved it.

[@d1MnZz]

men bad, can't do that

[@jextra1313]

That would be cool as hell. Also, remove the cringe product placements.

[@KronStaro]

watch them read your comment, do just that so they dont go bankrupt, and make millions, and give you nothing.

[@HectorLopez0217]

If you could play as a sci-fi Kung Lao with a laser hat I would buy that day one

[@thunderborn3231]

hell it could have been a female shaolin monk and been badass, but they went with the stupid thing woke people always do the 'theyre just like me' thing it always backfires

[@Ark_Strike]

Its not her skin color, not even the shaved head is a problem either, its the attitude of the character already giving out massive girlboss vibes but it also being so plain obvious her existence was made for the sake of DEI, that's enough to turn people off. Make good characters and the diversity will follow.

[@cirescythe]

This. They basically do the exact same character in every game. Its like Taash. If she was somber, focused and acting like a professional those characters might land. But its always quirky, smug and annoyingly sarcastic and disrespectful.

[@kristoffer8609]

Well... to be fair those first are also a problem now. We've seen this type of nonsense so many times now.

[@kingcobra9159]

No. Its all that you mentioned, period.

[@Vehkxs]

Bro never seen G.I Jane. The cinematic was fine.

[@MiamiCereal]

Wrong. Not girlboss, just slacker MC. Replace her physically appearance with a male slacker anime character, but keep everything else - facial expressions, the way she drinks from the cup etc

[@michaelchia6972]

….even she looks tired to be in it.

[@jbkibs]

lol. So true.

[@RaccoonCityPark]

THIS...like, why should we care if the main character looks bored

[@cultureinvasion]

God I love Mass Effect Andromeda for that! 🤣😭

[@Indian_gae_boii]

you mean THEY

[@stanislavkimov2779]

@@Indian_gae_boii yes, he was meaning to call them they.

[@miorioff]

Imagine if they made a hot tomboy girl-next door type who has abs and tanned skin? God, I would be so sold on this

[@roomijsjeeee]

That would be fire but if ur gonna say she needs huge tits im out

[@flyhyland]

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” ― Thomas Sowell

[@Ozzystrayroo]

this quote has not been used wide enough, and Thomas Sowell has not been read enough by people. such a shame really

[@prw56]

The irony is both sides of the fence apply the quote, the side that claims the "privileged" already had it, and the side pointing out that DEI is preferential treatment.

[@CryptidZealot]

Care to tell me what preferential treatment is? Male main characters? If you're arguing that people shouldn't want male characters in the limelight then what about male representation? You're gonna argue about privilege now?

[@KronStaro]

except with the entire DEI thing its the other way around "they felft descriminated when they were treated equally, so now they get preferential treatment"

[@johnstewart1502]

@CryptidZealot Despite you being crazy I really like that pfp where is it from?

[@Twangy1]

I mean, even if you ask women if they’d rather play as DEI Mr Clean or Eve from stellar blade the majority are picking Eve

[@accelerator8558]

Bayoneta and 2B are really popular

[@jamiehughes5573]

They have thousands of r34 content for good reason

[@iriska_kiskan7675]

Even the female characters from DAV are more attractive than this bald person.

[@Spike2276]

When men look at men, they'd rather look at good looking men. When men look at women, they'd rather look at good looking women. When women look at men, they'd rather look at good looking men. When women look at women, they'd rather look at good looking women. I know, shocker...

[@Vindicative1]

DEI mr clean😭

[@johnnyyang3285]

说实话，这些公司有这种技术，本来可以制作满足更多人的审美的顶级游戏 我们辛苦工作一天，回家打开电脑，为的是进入另一个虚构的美好的世界，而不是看到一些比现实世界还恶心的东西。

[@Nk43Fai]

We don't share the same language, but our ideas apparently do. I totally agree with you👍🏻 Unfortunately, the old idea of what it meant to play and to enter more beautiful worlds that distanced themselves from this one is being lost.

[@rylsdark]

based af opinion

[@PedroAugusto-kk3jg]

People that care how a video game PIXEL character is atractive or not is what is ruining video game, all video games will be anime girls

[@luzviminda795]

​@@PedroAugusto-kk3jg I don't see on how that's bad thing.

[@zhengcai2160]

@@PedroAugusto-kk3jg You have no logic here. Not everybody likes anime. But people don't like ugly.

[@BevanWard]

men want to play two types of characters, men they want to look like, and women they want to look at

[@FKA_Skull]

“Turn comments off” = “Turn sales off”

[@Stojeq]

Boring

[@BiriBiri925]

The most amazing thing about it is...they know. They know people won't like it. But they do it anyway.

[@Palestinewillbefreeeeeee]

Only for 1nc3ls thank god

[@MrPedro13000]

​@BiriBiri925 they know chronically online incels won't like and will be crying in the comments. You guys always say the same shit that the game wont sell and they always do 😂😂😂. Im pretty sure the high payed industry executives know the market a little better than an incel who never leaves his stinky room. If they do it it's because they know "woke" sells more, and you guys actually play into their hands by creating this controversies and giving them free marketing

[@antagonizingprotagonist8721]

Girl looks like live action Aang

[@onesmileybaldy8303]

It’s a girl?!?

[@Moddiebun]

theres an actor who she looks exactly like, i cant remember his name tho

[@youngrootv]

@@onesmileybaldy8303yes, I know it’s somehow crazy to comprehend, but bald women exist. Crazy I know!!!

[@fast920]

@@Moddiebun not jada smith right lol

[@frankiefriedman6158]

Lorax : "That's A Woman?!"

[@Nilm_]

2:34 Editor on point as always

[@phantom0590]

she seems to be more jacked than Asmonbald

[@Jugement]

Is it still really meta to praise the editor by pointing the obvious with a timestamp 2 years later ? Or can we finally start making original comments again

[@thecrypticstench]

Asmon finally embraced the BALD LMAO!!

[@RadianMeasure]

editor fixed the game

[@blackknife1236]

Literally spat out my water at that. Was not expecting it Bravo editor 👏

[@Volinus]

"Xiaolin Showdown in SPACE" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JustSomeReptile]

Naughty Dog went downhill the moment Niel Druckman got involved.

[@Lumpster]

o7 to jack and daxter

[@88NS14]

Neil cuckman fr fr

[@singleorigin3194]

Yeah he is a talented guy. But shouldve sticked to tlou games. To me he kinda ruined uncharted. Here you have indiana jones that doesnt get old, but they still made him old depressed doormat next to a motivated strong moral woman

[@Steroyd666]

Naughty Dog went downhill when he became top dog, Bruce Straley and Amy Henning kept his stupid ideas in check and now they're gone.

[@aligmal5031]

you mean the moment Anita Sarkeesian got involved

[@justlloyd7881]

I hope the Chinese start making a game about a gigachad bounty hunter. Just to fuck with this game and make good money in the process..

[@archionois]

I wish, the intergalactic chinese comics have been popping off lately

[@CapucineNighly]

Chinese or the South Koreans. I wouldn't mind playing because at least it'll be designed nicely.

[@Pepe-dq2ib]

@@CapucineNighly in high heels too, koreans love high heels in medieval knight setting.

[@adamh4h4]

Chinese or any other Asian studio if they decide to make a game. The West used to have peak design but now its amateur crap. So sad.

[@Bonesawisready926]

Or just make it about a hot bounty hunter who hunts basically naked. Make Soul Caliber armor look like Church clothes just to troll.

[@Sparkledash1]

If i want a badass female space bounty hunter, i wait for the new metroid

[@kintsuki99]

I used to agree with that but now I strongly incentivize everyone to not buy anything nintendo, ever and does not matter what.

[@FcoEnriquePerez]

Exactly!! I mean, we will always prefer to play as a bad ass dude, we are also ok playing a bad ass GOOD LOOKING woman... But an ugly one, that looks and sounds like a 48y/o miserable alcoholic... Not so much.

[@Anoonymous420]

METROID PRIME 4 BABY!!!!!

[@Anoonymous420]

@kintsuki99 I don't care. Developers have been working hard on Metroid prime 4 for like a decade now. I'll buy it if it's good.

[@Sparkledash1]

@@kintsuki99 i accept your moral protest, but i don't care.

[@fifapoiint]

I'm sorry but this game looks amazing. and I'm actually excited to have her in this game. She looks great, the game looks great And Naughty dog never disappoints. I can't wait.

[@ReviewBigCheese200]

If you like it you like it, its a free country, most people seem to not like it though, including me

[@fifapoiint]

@@ReviewBigCheese200 It's all good. I get it. 🖖

[@DOOMStudios]

“From the studio that brought you Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, Uncharted, and The Last of Us.” I love how they are saying “the studio” but not “The People.”

[@Blast1314]

Well they all left, the people who made the stuff that you loved has moved on and all that’s left is a shell parading around with a paricitic mass controlling the shell like a puppet

[@GigaWhatt0]

That's because most of them left during the development of TLOU2 because Neil crunched them way too hard.

[@wavion2]

"From the studio that fired the people that brought you Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, Uncharted, and The Last of Us.”

[@Zanian19]

Well yeah. Crash is like 30 years old at this point. Jak and Daxter ~20. In other words, most of the people who worked on half their game franchises are probably dead or retired. It's also the first new IP since they started on Last of us 15 years ago. Like literally every other company in the world, employee turnover means new people. And "From the people who brought you... this. Soon" doesn't really have the same ring to it.

[@acrane3496]

From the "insert good thing here" is a red flag for either something mediocre or something bad.

[@stoicamihai5011]

0:15 thanks for the jump scare

[@Batya-ey8cf]

2:32

[@aaronf2467]

🤭💀💀

[@SalmanSafi-iy6qi]

Broo.. 😂😂😂

[@JuanRodriguez-yq5og]

😂

[@saurabh79323]

😂😂

[@camper9787]

It is not even about the " masculine audience ". Most of women want to play attractive looking girls in a game.

[@bricksaberplus9703]

why?

[@Wilh87]

@@bricksaberplus9703 It's a simple fact that people like to look at attractive people. Just look at Hollywood...

[@JamesBob1337]

@@bricksaberplus9703 cause they wanna look pretty

[@MaimutaEvoluata]

This right here! I know so many women who love video games and they're all sick and tired of the obnoxious butch stereotype, which isn't only about the looks but also the personality. Like they would rather play the eye-patched woman from the trailer instead, because they find her more interesting.

[@CelestialQueenLollipop]

​@@JamesBob1337 And it's not even a bad thing tbh. Who wouldn't want to become a pretty girl playing?

[@darkplainsdrifter3499]

"That's gonna be a no from me, [Naughty] Dawg."

[@DragonHeart613]

Neil Druckmann continues to wreck Naughty Dog.

[@EdsonPonzani]

U may say that he continues to diminish the quality of their games, but to say Naughty Dog is "wreck" in any way is just delusional Like it or not TLOU2 still holds the record for most sells units in the first quarter for a playstation game The TV show he worked in also broke records and got 2 new seasons approved Uncharted 4 wasnt a small hit nether This and other factors is why the game above is even in production to begin with, not to mention TLOU3 Unfortunately in the 2020s, is not who has the best game that wins, is who has the most points That is how and why they even put this ideas in gaming in the first place

[@pintbreaker9570]

Naughty Dog is far away from beeing wrecked 😅, some people...

[@Wertzuio]

@@EdsonPonzani TLOU2 only sold well because fans expected to have joel in it and also there werent as many woke diappointments at the time meaning many pre ordered it

[@JDPower-mk3xe]

Amy Hettig carried their entire studio with her writing. She’s currently working on the Captain America game, which looks pretty good.

[@zretil]

@@EdsonPonzani TLOU1 sold 25m copies, TLOU2 10m, this is not a good graph, the upcoming game will be lucky to reach 3 million.

[@Bun777]

It’s Caillou with female parts but with the same personality and haircut.

[@ToyokaX]

And also has cancer.

[@kaz6854]

Nah Caillou better

[@Rubenz343]

Caillou is peak, not even comparable

[@XMitrilXPL]

They should have just let players customize the main character. Maybe not complete Skyrim character creation like gender change, or changing body proportions too much. But changing hair, complexion, scars ,etc. That would have saved them.

[@MarkDeSade100]

The people who made this game don't want you to be able to see an attractive woman, they hate attractive women just for existing. Out of jealousy, or because they hate anything that makes men happy.

[@elyswest6742]

character creation is a false sense of free choice. try playing Lord of the Fallen. they made it look like we have an absolute freedom of character creation, even they use like, triangle diagram or smth, turns out it impossible to make them slightly looks attractive. all the choice provided by them are all ugly. hell, i try choosing priest class, and change it to body type B that is supposed to be the female type, when i undress her for more detailed customization. i really need to check if i choose the right body type several times, because i though it keep changing back to the male body type. turns out there is no different between body type a and b, lol. only male body, but with or without wraps on their chest. all the face customizations looks like alcoholics, receeding hairline, and all. so, my point is, be careful with character customiization. sometimes it even worse

[@Ichigo2k9]

Boy are you going to be horrified next time you touch grass and see real women.

[@Ichigo2k9]

​@@MarkDeSade100Are you saying only women you deemed fickable should exist?

[@flayedman5404]

What's the point? They want to brainwash people, not give them choice and freedom

[@KerMaWaffLe]

The first issue with this shit is that, it once again, proves that Triple A Studios have no FUCKING clue who they're selling to. Remember, supply and demand? Now it's Supply and Ignore The Demand.

[@TropicaIJay]

Tell me this game is being directed by Niel Druckmann without telling me..

[@beastvicious8672]

Tell me he's jewish without telling me. Literally every game like this. Saint's Row was the same, it's always them.

[@takotako3321]

love how neil keeps triggering all the incels 10/10

[@xpotoh356]

​@@takotako3321 He isn't going to get carried by reputation of previous game this time. I would gladly look at you laughting, when that trash is going to flop.

[@takotako3321]

@@xpotoh356 why would it flop? Naughty Dog make good games

[@xpotoh356]

@@takotako3321 1) The last new game was TLOU 2, which was controversial and made 4 years ago. After that there were only remasters. 2) No matter how good technical part of the game (lack of bugs, perfomance etc) it (relatively) doesn't matter if the context is shit. And with Niel Druckmann the plot, general game and character design and, well, everything non-technical is going to be exactly that. In short: It's not Naughty Dog is bad, Niel Druckmann is. This is 100% flop.

[@savantslacker9117]

Her design is actually pretty good for a young Asian male.

[@tris9596]

shaolin asian male

[@Hadigreece]

No

[@Keiksdkk]

Bald head guy is not cool in Asia.

[@johncronk8867]

I had more to say, but I couldn’t find a good way to say it. I’ll just leave it at this: I agree with you.

[@Pencyduk_Legend]

@@Keiksdkk Says who 😂

[@schnader]

If we didn't know any better this could've been Ubisoft's new Star Wars game

[@marcinpomidor1226]

my thoughts exactly :D

[@Alliwantedwasapepsi]

They're going to sell this game in an hermetically sealed echo-chamber.

[@flamingburitto]

Entertainment is the only industry where the creators of the products get off on hating the target audience. And making products that THEY KNOW majority of the audience will hate. And then still somehow act surprised when the product fails. I pray to god i never have to work with these people when i finally enter the industry.

[@1320crusier]

Film industry.

[@Trozzo]

The film and comic book industry does the same thing

[@GigaWhatt0]

Only industry? Lol. See comics and Hollywood.

[@NyesoEX]

go indie and stuck with it... is the only way, because the gaming industry won't have a mass exodus so soon

[@lancevance6346]

Remember that wholesome bald guy who was helping people get re-hired in other studios after covid? This is just how it operates. The corporation at the top might not need them anymore after a bad product, but these people still know the other people to recommend , and them and their friends just bounce around from one studio to another as permanent fixtures. There's little consequence even if you're bad at your job.

[@LOL_Garrus]

Remember when Paramount made the initial Sonic and everyone said it looked ugly and creepy? Well, Paramount read the room, made changes, and Sonic went on to become massively successful. A little bit a humility goes a long way.

[@BRsPedro]

She's not objectively ugly tho, Sonic's design was bad regardless of being sexually appealing or not, in Intergalactic's case people just want the main character to be hot, which is pathetic. If she was the most hypersexualized character of all time people wouldn't complain (Stellar Blade) and that sums it up.

[@apostle303]

​@@BRsPedro so just make her hot af, or make her a bunny/fox whatever, people will buy this shit

[@anaiswatterson1696]

​@@apostle303whatever I don't want to play as a cancer patient while on chemo

[@maboilaurence8227]

Humilty? From Neil Drukkman?

[@HachuneMiku01]

The funny thing is, ugly sonic got recycled into the Chip n Dale movie, and people loved him lol

[@FredrickTesla]

Look at the way the cloth moves when she "dries" her hair. It never touches her head. it's animated like she had a full head of hair. How much do you want to bet that they decided she would be shaved about a month ago?

[@adb888]

Could also have originally been a male character until some DEI wacko intervened...

[@AgagaSnsns]

Then it means that they like to shoot themselves in the foot

[@Robofreak19]

Actual good point. I can also see them swap the bounty hunter and bounty target actors for DEI reasons like last minute... but lets not get to negative before we see some actual gameplay... naughty dog has mostly been cooking good games up to now.

[@shadowkhan422]

@@Robofreak19 The way I heard it , they are responsible for quite a few of the flops from Sony last decade . Sony has a bit of a civil war going on and ND is in the lead of Sony USA - which pushes all the usual BS

[@evilpenguin99999]

@@Robofreak19 I avoid any game or media that i see pushing an agenda, dont need to get lectured or brainwashed.

[@JoseMariaMx1]

It's like Naughty Dog is allergic to money or something😂😂

[@archeops.]

Did anyone also notice the product placements in the trailer? What fresh hellscape in gaming is this?

[@zackang4731]

ah yeah thats the first thing I noticed actually. Porsche, Sony, and a few other forgettable ones(clearly the product placement didn't work)

[@smartminion9707]

didn't work with me, because my eyes might have saw it, but the brain didn't prosses it

[@dantealighieri4543]

That was one of the first things I noticed right away and made me wonder, "what the hell is going on with all these brands in here?", it literally felt weird. You can clearly brands like Porsche, Adidas, Sony and it feels like a commercial for those brands more than a trailer for a new IP.

[@AverageJoe483]

“ how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man ! “

[@schmo49]

Bioshock infinites DLC where you play as Elizabeth is the unrivaled peak of female lead game design. She's not a man with a feminine skin. She cant fight hand to hand like any other character. She even struggles with the weapons. Yet despite these differences from Booker, she still manages to be a "strong" female character who accomplishes a lot. Stop pretending these differences dont exist between men and women and give your women the agency and ingenuity to accomplish a task in a way that suits them. Maybe punching your way out isn't an option as a female character. Maybe make a stealth game. Maybe specialize in movement and gadgets. Oh shit I've created a rougue, a class that already exists.

[@Dark0blivion]

Many of these games deal with theoretical futures with cybernetics and human augmentation. I don't see why we'd impose, say, 1950s standards of female strength on a female character set in a distant cyberpunk future.

[@erxanerxan9769]

Both the females op was speaking about and shown in the video look to be natural with no mechanical parts. they have no difference from normal women.@@Dark0blivion

[@sdzero]

@@Dark0blivion 1950s standards? Those are the standards of reality in every era of time. If they really want to make women mannish then they must not really love women as they are. Even in fantasy you won't see Wonder Woman best Superman with brute strength and that's good. It makes things more interesting when women are put up to a task.

[@Albert_YTC]

I just can’t believe how the actress for her is black and they made her Asian in the game

[@WoWSpartacus]

So Naughty Dog DID NOT learn their lesson from Last of Us 2. That's a bold move Cotton.

[@Billy-bc8pk]

All these companies will keep going -- it's a battle of attrition. The thing is, will the next generation of gamers hold out against this saturation the way the old guard and current gen have?

[@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825]

Only reason lou2 did "good" was because it was riding off of the 1st game. Had it been the first one and it would've been horrible in the selling part.

[@LSB001]

@@Billy-bc8pk Gen Alpha males hate woke shit. It's Gen Z who got completely castrated by feminists.

[@Spillow-C]

a BALD move

[@aj991]

@@Billy-bc8pk with how pretty Asian Games and their aesthetic? These companies can burn money all the want, but they gonna lost money. Human are attracted to handsome/pretty human it's proven since we hunt with stick with stones.

[@kaede15]

Best comments Ive seeb so far: "DEI girl boss who looks like she's part of the 4B movement...." "Nobody wants to play as Vin Diesel mid-transition" "My wallet continues to identify as Non-Buynary"

[@denisn8336]

LMAO

[@redninja3056]

Wow what terrible jokes and you say Hollywood can't write jokes lol

[@roomijsjeeee]

Our little comedian

[@ScrionGaming]

Our expectations for the grand finale trailer: GTA6 What we got: This

[@6MinutesLothar]

Nah! Leave that shit to Rockstar IP. Y'all should stop coping, duh!

[@thisbubblygoodness7611]

Expecting grand theft auto? That was stupid, Rockstar only releases trailers when they want to, they never like sharing spotlights with other games

[@TheMockingjay74]

Me: Watch_Dogs 4

[@fluffly8935]

GTA6 announcement trailer already came out like a year ago

[@Syphonpsx]

Gta 6 will be woke slop

[@forgetmenot-573]

Tbh, the rason why she is bald is probably more because is cheaper Since she got no hair you can put it in a Non-gravity scene and you wont have to worry about the hair messing out

[@krspy1337]

i doubt Naughty Dog's dev team wouldnt be able to do that, just look at TLOU2's gameplay and graphics

[@Gonzalo_105]

A helmet would help in that case too.

[@bunnyleaningonasquishedbun5542]

They could've made her have a helmet, like you know, Samus from Metroid?

[@KrayXileNiflrekk]

Last image was the perfect example of good character design 👌🏻

[@griffinarcher2911]

The least bald he's ever been

[@roomijsjeeee]

A man version? Weak incel

[@Adspecter]

Apparently Lalo Salamanca actor from Better Call Saul is in this game. Honestly, if they made him the MC, it would be a hit.

[@unncommonsense]

That dude is charming af.

[@HSE331]

oh god theyre gonna pay him an insane amount of money just to have him read borderlands tier dialogue

[@SuperhotdogZz]

That would be doped af.

[@fantomflame467]

2:28 This MC looks like Aang from Netflix who's BEN10 cosplay went wrong and did Albedo's instead😑

[@AgagaSnsns]

She 100% looks like a young man

[@a.k.rundizbeat3212]

😂😂😂and she also look like that bald chick from Alien romulus, not only that they both set in space too, like wtf

[@ether2275]

Nah, Don disrespect my boy Aang like this. He actually rocks the shaved head.

[@marcbraun5342]

My first impression as well. Even the jacket and the overall outline is similar.

[@CH4NN3L_o_o]

I thought this was about Avatar Season 2 on Netflix from the thumbnail. The character looks identical to the actor!

[@frank4uever]

Neil Druckmann born in "Tel Aviv, Israel" i hope that enough to explain everything to the audience.

[@ronaldjensen9919]

Who's he? A- My lawyer told me to not go further with this comment.

[@masha22092000r]

As a teenage girl in early 2010s, I wanted more female protagonists in RPGs (an option to choose like in Mass Effect is perfect, too)... And by female I mean someone that looks & acts like a woman. Not androgynous creatures with no personality beyond "stoic" and "sarcastic". Cause this right here is a definite pass.

[@Drtestis142]

It's just one trailer, there might be some change to her/they personality depending on what route the game takes

[@iridescentmelody2179]

This 100%! It feels like an insult...

[@lmpudicus]

​@@Drtestis142 doesn't change the fact that she looks like vin diesel mid transition... also the personality change is still possible, but very unlikely. As you said, depends on what route the game takes.

[@monkedelufi6106]

W

[@StayCalm0]

You mean you don't like to be pandered to and be told the only way to be a strong female is to be a man?

[@grabsak]

I was watching the Game Award while reading the chat, and 70% - 80% of the comments were "Woke" or " Woke garbage will not buy" when this game trailer was showing.

[@kenshinhimura6280]

I watched the entire show and most of the time people commented "woke" on EVERYTHING, even for no reason at all

[@zhenyucai8688]

​​That's the culture these studios created. They shoved sooo much woke dei junk into consumers faces now all people see is woke. They have no one to blame but themselves.

[@TanyaDegurechaffDIDNOTHINGWRON]

​@@kenshinhimura6280 Examples ? Most games from the west are woke trash so it isn't surprising. They where probably true.

[@grabsak]

@kenshinhimura6280 Yes, that's true, but that's what these studios created. Take Ubisoft for example. No one cried out "Woke" with Assassin's Creed Odyssey. That game let you pick between a male and female protagonist. No one cared that they pivoted from Alexios to Kasandra with all their promotional material. No one cared that they did the same with Eivor. But we've learned since 2020. They've pushed this agenda on gamers, and now every single time, gamers see something that is close to being diverse they yell "Woke"

[@paulabee81]

How is it woke? 😂

[@Edrigangr]

You know what... this reminds me the whole "Date me or you're transphobic" bullshit rhetoric they have been trying on for years now.

[@evilpenguin99999]

Honestly i dont even care about the looks of the character, but i know what is behind that and the kind of dialogue, script and shit i will have to deal with. No ty.

[@sebastiangibson9671]

oh hey i knew someone like that irl!! luckily mostly people dislike them the only reason they probably have friends is cause people are as sociopathic as them

[@emeraldwind4897]

@@evilpenguin99999 me too. same DEI, lesbian girl boss crap being pushed on us again. What a shock.

[@evilpenguin99999]

@@emeraldwind4897 To give u a gaming example playing league of legends i have played a shit ton of illaoi. Did i care that she looked strong and manly? No. Why? It was part of the character design only with no agenda.

[@emeraldwind4897]

@evilpenguin99999 League is pure example of DEI lol. The whole point of this situation is that most gamers don't wanna play as the usual strong lesbian that's being forced into AAA games today.

[@kickless7776]

Was not ready for that jump scare at the end

[@SFJake250]

I'd play as Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. But not as this. What is insane to me is they don't just make tough girls or less attractive women, they make downright repulsive characters. They are unattractive in physical and non-physical ways. They are the absolute last thing I'd want to play as in every way.

[@chriswihulu]

They honestly look like some of those ugly AF character designs, we saw being made in Fallout 4 and Saints Row 3 and 4, but they didn't commit to make the all-out ugly.

[@drawgam2946]

@@Spoofcaster Im sure she looks much better irl.

[@EllipticalReasoning]

@@Spoofcaster I have no knowledge of or personal animosity to the actor. But if your lead actor for a game is ugly, you shouldn't make the character look just like them.

[@chriswihulu]

@@Spoofcaster I literally never said anything about the Actor at all, nor did I ever look into it, because that's not something I care about. You sound like those people, who think that because we think Rose Tico from Star Wars is a dumb AF character, that our issue is directly tied to Kelly Mary Tran as an actor. I can think of whatever I want of the character models and presentation from ND, but you can't take that and say "oh, it's because you hate the person behind the acting" when I don't even know her name, nor do I care to know. TLDR: take your bad faith arguments and find someone who cares, because all you're worth, is being Muted in replies.

[@CarnageTheory]

I'm a simple man. I see Rise Against cover profile picture, I thumbs up.

[@derkevevin]

>naughty dog there is no point in trying to argue or reason with the people who made The Last of Us 2.

[@antismo9998]

Exactly. The Last of Us 2 was a masterpiece in storytelling. No doubt Naughty Dog will deliver with this one too

[@derkevevin]

@@antismo9998 🤡

[@roomijsjeeee]

@@antismo9998tlou is sooo good

[@NoodleLad_productions]

Naughty Dog nah its Dead Dog

[@TheFightConnoisseur]

Neutered Dog

[@generalimlerith8356]

Play to your demographic or watch your product fall into the abyss

[@DisemboweII]

Problem is, they think their demographic is 100% far left transwomen and lesbians who "yaaas" when they see trailers like this, not straight dudes going "damn she looks terrible". If she had makeup, Chun-Li hair buns, a feminine figure and came across actually _likeable_ I guarantee the trailer would've gone down a storm. Lots of bonus points for actually using an 80's anime aesthetic instead of the modern "uncanny valley" graphics they usually fall into. Straight guys don't mind playing as women, as long as they're... well, women.

[@TriFF51]

This game is gonna sell like crazy, let's be real.

[@denisn8336]

@@TriFF51LOL no even the last of us 2 didn’t ultimately outsell the first game. Enthusiasm for naughty dog is at an all time low. Well unless your a pony

[@guilhermeurizzi2375]

​@@denisn8336yeah! XD

[@TheIndulgers]

I cannot believe they hyped THIS up as the finale. What a disgrace.

[@Yui-ys5cv]

I mean if this was the old naughty dog, this would be one the bigger announcements

[@person2795]

How? Its just another game just like all the others

[@Mikedastud]

1:22 this floored me 🤣

[@michaelbarton4705]

The concordillion dollars comment had me laughing out loud.

[@Spudsbottom]

I'm a woman, I don't want to play as a they/them looking creature. It's not real life, let every protagonist be hot (both males and females). If I'm going to have to look at them for 20 hours + why shouldn't they be aesthetically pleasing? As a side note any arguments that state that this is what a 'real woman' looks like are kidding themselves. Outside of particular spaces; which I expressly choose to avoid like the plague, women do not look like this.

[@kristoffer8609]

True. I wish women actually looked like this. Wouldn't have any desire for them if that was the case...

[@bafab00ey]

If developers could make appealing females characters like Lara Croft or Samus. Even the chicks from RE. Then they'll be appealing.

[@klebyell]

if your enjoyment is directly tied to rendered hotness i'm sorry the internet ruined you this hard

[@red_phoenix0570]

@@klebyell it's not necessarily hotness. it's attractiveness. Human attractiveness isn't strictly sexual. Some people are simply more enjoyable to look at, like a flower for instance. I'd rather look at a flower for hours than a pile of maggots. It's an extreme comparison sure, but you should understand that it's not about hotness, it's about not looking at something intentionally designed to be ugly. If people are forced to look at something they find unattractive they simply wont enjoy the experience as much.

[@zhenyucai8688]

​@@klebyellI mean we they could've at least made the character stand out. Why they make her look like a shop vendor in another game.

[@KronStaro]

Hasnt there already been a survey that 90% of people dont want their characters to look like themselves IRL, but actually want their character look better than their IRL self? did they all miss the memo?

[@Zvezda31]

The game was probably far in development to change it

[@redninja3056]

Well that sure isn't true since most men need to play a straight white male character for them to like the game. Or the girl needs to be extremely hot. Trevor is a character people love and he's ugly as shit but not a female so it's okay

[@Sven989]

Naughty Dog working hard on the re-master and remake for this already.

[@k1logr4m51]

Nah I think they'll be too busy finishing the game after release.

[@luizpaulo8169]

The games looks great, people are whining about for nothing.

[@brandenp09]

Worst part is that if they wanted 'inclusion' they could have just made her in to a buff black dude. No one would have cared as long as he was a badass in this type of setting. Imagine if they had the main character looking like Blade instead. I would have bought the game in a heartbeat.

[@Subpar1O1]

Personally the part that I hated and knew people would hate about the trailer is how snarky she is. Frankly I don't care that she's a buff woman who shaved her hair, that means nothing in the grand scheme of things but the developers clearly think it does, why else would the trailer open with her taking a buzzer to her hair? I just don't understand why they make characters like this and also give them no redeeming traits. The fact she's all those things does not matter but how are you expecting people to attach to your main character if there's nothing to like

[@Billy-bc8pk]

@Subpar1O1 Because of saturation. Even now there are still normies saying "Wait and play it first; don't judge it; it's just a cinematic trailer!" it's the same excuse they're using for The Witcher 4. There was nothing likable or inviting about the way they portrayed Ciri in that cinematic trailer, but people will still defend. The old guard will avoid buying it, but gen z will eat it up because it's what they've been raised on.

[@veritas4698]

@Subpar1O1 Her clipping her hair was so important to put in but they put the clippers upside down.

[@justsomeguy452]

​@@Billy-bc8pkGen Z doesn't play single player narrative games. The numbers show they don't play video games as much as millenials. Their time is much more likely devoted to TikTok or KZbin. The one's that do play Fortnite or similar free to play multiplayer games. Also other numbers show Gen Z is becoming much more right leaning and rejecting the modern identity politics. This was shown in the exit polling following the United States presidential election.

[@justinlevy274]

@Subpar1O1 It was the coke sip for me, it's like they sped run on me not liking the character