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Enderal, a whole new game built ontop of Skyrim. Offers an entirely different setting, map, class system, enemies, spells, and has an actual story that you will not soon forget.

If it's right to ridicule people for buying shein clothes, supporting sexist influencers or spending money on gacha games, then it's also OK to ridicule them for enjoying AI art. It is correct to be against behaviors that hurt society even if they don't have an immediate, direct effect on you. You deserve what you tolerate.

It helps that currently it's overwhelmingly dogshit, the linked video illustrating that quite well, with it being a random collection of glitched out, disconnected images with no soul. And don't get me started on the Suno slop flooding youtube...

Glowing praise from journalists and middling scores from youtube reviewers... Same exact situation as Veilguard even down to Mortisimal glazing it.

It's gonna be awful isnt it

it’s been an annual tradition of mine to play this game on Christmas Eve

Oh wow! I'm not the only one! It's nice that the bot issue seems to be severely reduced, this year is was the first one where I didn't have to switch servers multiple times to avoid masses of spinning snipers

Project: Gorgon is my forever home MMO, I'm not super active currently but am online for events and such. I've found it to be the only title on the market that feels like a world you join instead of a game you log in.

Haven't bought yet but I'm thinking of getting Old School Rally. I played a few racing games that looked just like this when I was a child so the visuals are giving me intense nostalgia

Rhinos! RRHHIIIIINNNOOEEESSS our enemies hide in METAL BAWKSES the cowards, the fools! We... we shall take away... their metal BAWKses.

Why? He is a historical figure. Why does a historical figure in his historical setting feel bizarre?

Why him being a “full fledged samurai” even matters?

This is just difference in opinion. For you it's OK. I get that this series is only very vaguely based on history but this is a step too far for me.

Seriously ask yourself why having ONE SINGULAR black protagonist in a series where protagonists have so far been overwhelmingly white

Why MUST they make the main character in a 1580's japanese setting black? The series hasn't had a single asian protagonist. Couldn't they have chosen a black history setting if this is what they wanted?

I just think it's bizarre to have a black dude protagonist in a historical japanese setting. I've read through the sources on Yasuke and I think it's a stretch to say he was like a full fledged samurai. Especially given that the biggest proponent of that theory, Thomas Lockley, made some sketchy edits between the Japanese and English version of his book on him.

Yeah fair enough, this stuff isn't unique to Californian developers, they are just the first that come to mind.

And does it not matter that it’s based on a historical figure?

Yasuke existed in Japan but I think they went too far in making him a protagonist. As I understand it he was a curiosity that Nobunaga kept around, not a full fledged samurai. I think it's also important to consider the current gaming landscape. There's titles like Dragon age Veilguard, Concord, Dustborn, Forspoken, Fintlock and others coming out these days that put heavy focus on inclusion/diversity over quality (as evidenced by poor sales numbers). It's hard to then look at an upcoming game set in historial Japan that somehow features a black protagonist and not think that they're trying to push some weirdo agenda rather than tell a cool story.

The point about translation, for instance

I want to touch up on this. The reason I didn't write much about my claim about for Yasuke not being a proper samurai is because it is my understanding that it is the default position and thus doesn't need to be proven by evidence. But if I was asked to provide evidence, I would link the comparison of his translated and untranslated book in this post. Since Thomas Lockley is the main source behind the myth, I think discrediting his book should be enough to also discredit Yasuke's role as a proper samurai.