I just looked it up now seeing as I hadn’t heard of this either
From what I can gather one of the senior members of the development team, Drew Harrison, made a joke in a tweet about Charlie Kirk’s death. Loads of right wingers, being the thin skinned, wannabe victims but apparently “free speech warriors” that they are, harassed her and contacted Sucker Punch trying to get her fired, threatening to boycott the game and so on. Sucker Punch predictably caved and did so
If I’m missing anything, please feel free to add to this. As I say I’m only just hearing about it and haven’t gone on a deep dive about it
Which is even more jarring when you realize they have been leaving Erika Ishii to be a lightning rod for all the chud hate basically since this was announced. No support for the face of their game but abrahamic god forbid someone make an incredibly mild “mario and luigi” joke.
Which is even more fucked (and yet actually makes perfect sense) when you remember this is the same studio that did a game about a Native American rebelling against a fascist corporation that took over Seattle. And then you remember they had Troy Baker voice said Native American and… yeah.
Real shame. I liked Ghost of Tsushima a fair bit (even if it was very clearly written by weebs, for weebs) and was planning to grab this as a goofing around game. But I guess sucker punch just saved me probably 80 bucks or whatever this was going for.
game about a Native American rebelling against a fascist corporation that took over Seattle. And then you remember they had Troy Baker voice said Native American and… yeah.
I might be having a brain fart, but which game is this?
Yeah even putting this situation aside I wasn’t that gassed for GOY. I played GOT and enjoyed it sure, but it was yet another typical open world action-adventure game with no innovation at all really, basically the same gameplay we’ve seen countless times at this point. It just had a halfway decent story, which is a low bar for video games, and looked really pretty. And what you say is very true I agree, “by weebs, for weebs”
knowone@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
I just looked it up now seeing as I hadn’t heard of this either
From what I can gather one of the senior members of the development team, Drew Harrison, made a joke in a tweet about Charlie Kirk’s death. Loads of right wingers, being the thin skinned, wannabe victims but apparently “free speech warriors” that they are, harassed her and contacted Sucker Punch trying to get her fired, threatening to boycott the game and so on. Sucker Punch predictably caved and did so
If I’m missing anything, please feel free to add to this. As I say I’m only just hearing about it and haven’t gone on a deep dive about it
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Sucker Punch then tripled down on it
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Which is even more jarring when you realize they have been leaving Erika Ishii to be a lightning rod for all the chud hate basically since this was announced. No support for the face of their game but abrahamic god forbid someone make an incredibly mild “mario and luigi” joke.
Which is even more fucked (and yet actually makes perfect sense) when you remember this is the same studio that did a game about a Native American rebelling against a fascist corporation that took over Seattle. And then you remember they had Troy Baker voice said Native American and… yeah.
Real shame. I liked Ghost of Tsushima a fair bit (even if it was very clearly written by weebs, for weebs) and was planning to grab this as a goofing around game. But I guess sucker punch just saved me probably 80 bucks or whatever this was going for.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I might be having a brain fart, but which game is this?
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Infamous Second Son
knowone@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yeah even putting this situation aside I wasn’t that gassed for GOY. I played GOT and enjoyed it sure, but it was yet another typical open world action-adventure game with no innovation at all really, basically the same gameplay we’ve seen countless times at this point. It just had a halfway decent story, which is a low bar for video games, and looked really pretty. And what you say is very true I agree, “by weebs, for weebs”
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yup, as much as I wanna play this, im going to pass. Hope they get the boycott they were hoping to avoid.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They are because those same people are boycotting anyway for toe other reasons.
catalyst@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well dang, that is shitty to hear. I had hoped to play this one. At least I found out now before giving them any money.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Bummer… Guess I’ll pass too. Is there any way that I can let them know that I’m not buying it because they caved, not because of the original tweet?