SBI: Namco game Unknown 9 lives up to it's name. Release imminent and no-one bats an eye.

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Apart from them botching the protoganist, it seems like a generic/ mediocre game at best.
Writing comes straight out of the hands of Kim Belair from Sweet Baby Inc. <- I wonder if this is the problem.

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It even appears that they hired in Indian voice actor for an Indian character and later decided she shouldn't sound Indian and had her redo all the lines.
Out of touch much?

I only heard of this game due to a topic on GAF. Anyone else heard of this?
 
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She doesn't really look that ugly though?
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This is the REAL version.

Comparison:
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Ok ugly is a big word, but why change a beautiful woman? This is Star Wars Outlaws 2.0


Looks aside, its VERY quiet on Socials regarding this game. It currently tops the SBI detected Curator page and the Steam Community is something else.....
 

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Shot_21_02121f1.jpg

This is the REAL version.

Comparison:
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Ok ugly is a big word, but why change a beautiful woman? This is Star Wars Outlaws 2.0


Looks aside, its VERY quiet on Socials regarding this game. It currently tops the SBI detected Curator page and the Steam Community is something else.....
Ngl man I really do not see many differences here at all, that is clearly her still. If people get up in arms over this that's gonna be really stupid. They didn't even change her, if anything, the only thing that sticks out is her chin isn't as long and last I checked the idiots complaining about DEI/SBI said long chins and "strong jaws" are "DEI man jaws."

This culture war shit really is nothing more than brainrot.
 
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Ngl man I really do not see many differences here at all, that is clearly her still. If people get up in arms over this that's gonna be really stupid. They didn't even change her, if anything, the only thing that sticks out is her chin isn't as long and last I checked the idiots complaining about DEI/SBI said long chins and "strong jaws" are "DEI man jaws."

This culture war shit really is nothing more than brainrot.
Brainrot instigated by a mob of self entitled do-gooders and snowflakes. Of course people will revolt.
 
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Brainrot instigated by a mob of self entitled do-gooders and snowflakes. Of course people will revolt.
How exactly is it instigated by self entitled do-gooders when the brainrot is being led by an army of grifters who only want to feed you fake outrage and conspiracy for money?

It has gotten to the point you can't have ANYTHING that isn't a straight white man in ANY media without idiots calling it DEI or "didn't earn it," being blatantly racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever the fuck. You don't think that it's gone too far?

It literally started when a man who hasn't played the games he complained about "noticed" things and couldn't even explain in detail what he "noticed." Then, everyone started dickriding him because they thought they could have another gamergate. In reality it's having no meaningful effect and people are harassing developers and stalking them now simply for being associated with a title they perceive as "woke" or "DEI-infested."
 
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There is no uglification in this one, the actress looks that mid in real life as well, They captured her 1:1. They wanted an Indian and got a mid indian british instead of any of the bollywood actresses from India.

Looks the character aside, the game is pure distilled garbage in terms of design and gameplay
 
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How exactly is it instigated by self entitled do-gooders when the brainrot is being led by an army of grifters who only want to feed you fake outrage and conspiracy for money?

It has gotten to the point you can't have ANYTHING that isn't a straight white man in ANY media without idiots calling it DEI or "didn't earn it," being blatantly racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever the fuck. You don't think that it's gone too far?

It literally started when a man who hasn't played the games he complained about "noticed" things and couldn't even explain in detail what he "noticed." Then, everyone started dickriding him because they thought they could have another gamergate. In reality it's having no meaningful effect and people are harassing developers and stalking them now simply for being associated with a title they perceive as "woke" or "DEI-infested."
Where did the DEI movement and shoehorning begin? Gamer side? No. You call it grifting. Others call it making a stand against agendas being pushed into a medium where it has no place whatsoever. Games are meant as a form of escapism from the drudgeries of normal everyday life.

Gamers in general don't want current day society BS in their games. They want to ESCAPE it. Companies like SBI are terrorists using fear mongering against devs. Calling everyone who dont agree bigots, homophobes, etc, etc. Inclusiveness is fine. No-one should be felt left out. But don't force it in a narrative which wasn't meant for this.

Perfect example would be the Transgender Stormtrooper lately. WHY!?!?!?!?! Does it add to the lore/ story? NO. Does it elevate the show to a new height? NO.
Does it fit the story? NO. Its shoehorned in because they can. And this is where the crux lies.

Putting in people of color is no problem for me. But letting an Obese woman run like a gazelle and jump like there is no gravity (Concord) just shows how clueless the industry has become.

Star Wars Outlaws: They wanted a "normal woman". We got a minger who can judo chop a Stormtrooper on the helmet and instantly knock him out. IT DOESNT FIT!!!

Its double standards like this along with the whole "If you don't agree you're a racist bigot" narrative which should be shot down with a cannon.
All these narrative consultation agencies have the most mysoganist kinds of people at the helm. You know, the type that thinks everyone who as much as lightly criticize something should be cancelled. Kim Belair, Chris Kindred.

Just because you could doesn't mean you should.

Companies are now alienating their fans and playerbase for a group of morons who are easily offended. They are catering to a crowd of purple haired neckbeards and people with an existential crisis because that's where the whole they/them nonsense came from, these people were never engaged in gaming in the first place.

The "modern audience" doesn't play games. Numbers have shown that. But devs keep playing the do-gooder card by catering to them instead of their long term fans. Who are becoming vocal. Go ahead. Blame them.

Toxic behaviour receives toxic behaviour. You reap what you sow. Eye for an eye, etc.

Yeah games in which developers have used agencies like this should be burned to the ground. The devs clearly don't care about us. So why should we care about their well being?

Everyone is fed up with this brainrot but not making a stand = accepting our fate and the future of videogame storytelling.
And we're not having it.
 
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Where did the DEI movement and shoehorning begin? Gamer side? No. You call it grifting. Others call it making a stand against agendas being pushed into a medium where it has no place whatsoever. Games are meant as a form of escapism from the drudgeries of normal everyday life.

Gamers in general don't want current day society BS in their games. They want to ESCAPE it. Companies like SBI are terrorists using fear mongering against devs. Calling everyone who dont agree bigots, homophobes, etc, etc. Inclusiveness is fine. No-one should be felt left out.

Companies are now alienating their fans and playerbase for a group of morons who are easily offended. They are catering to a crowd that was never engaged in gaming in the first place.
The "modern audience" doesn't play games. Numbers have shown that. But devs keep playing the do-gooder card by catering to them instead of their long term fans. Who are becoming vocal. Go ahead. Blame them.

Toxic behaviour receives toxic behaviour. You reap what you sow. Eye for an eye, etc.
Toxic behavior = calling out people who deserve to be called out lmao, you have some rose-tinted glasses on if you believe the anti-dei/sbi movement is anything more than people being angry that others different from them exist.

Why should games not reflect reality? You think developers should forego the reality that other people exist or something? You think LGBTQ and other races of people simply existing is a "drudgery" in every day life? The "movement" has devolved to racists and people who have never seen a woman in their life, to the point they think a woman with a visible adam's apple or a even slightly defined jaw is a man. That isn't a simplification, that is the truth, go and look at posts made by Grummz, just sift through that refuse called comments there for a bit.

SBI is a consultation company that is entirely optionally hired to make sure nothing in their is seen in poor taste, you act like this doesn't happen in any other medium, you do know that even Cyberpunk 2077 got put to the fire a little for the usage of the Tā moko face tattoo that is used by the indigenous Maori people, right? I remember seeing someone talked about how it was appropriation of their culture since it was a choice in a character creator. SBI and others like it are hired so developers dont end up with stereotypical depictions and can flesh out characters realistically.

Here is an example that Kim Belair (the devil, according to gamergate) gave, she said she was working on a team that had an all-white cast and they told her they wanted to shake it up a bit. To quote the team: "let's have a stereotypically french guy, so he'll have the beret and a striped shirt." To which Kim asked that if they wanted to shake it up, could they at least be a person of color? The team lead said "Oh no, that would be weird. They're ALREADY French." This should raise some concerns to anyone with a brain that they think having different nationalities is weird.

Companies are not alienating their fans or their playerbase simply for having other people that exist in their games, in fact, the only ones being alienated specifically are the ones who harass developers into privating their accounts. If you call that a good thing, you may be the exact person those companies don't want around. Warhammer is a great example of this, there is a sect of their fanbase that is outright everything that brings a bad name, to which WH released a statement saying Warhammer is for everyone and if you don't agree then get out. They even threatened legal action on a neonazi named TArchcast who was originally known as ArchWarhammer because they didn't want to be associated with his ilk.

Has nothing to do with virtue or faking anything, a lot of the developers on teams nowadays are a diverse cast of characters and there is nothing wrong with that.
 
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Hey look at this, remember when I said the anti-dei is a bunch of racists masquerading as saviors for gamers?

Here's MangaLawyer, your source, equating the male protagonist shown for Subnautica 2 to Miles Morales for seemingly zero reason other than the fact he's black and has a similar haircut.
 
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Is that Yennifer?

Yea they made her ugly and went to the BioWare school of making doofus faces. Yea she has an ethnic look to her but they def dialed up making her ugly for this game. Netflix yenn could still get it …

SBI’s mob grift and hustle is over. No one buys this shit. Acolyte marked the end of this garbage direction in media. They can only lose money for so long.
 
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She's not ugly nor super hot. She looks similar to the main actress but suffers from jaundice. But the overall outfit makes her look a bit goofy. Problem is not her face but the game must have more BS that's associated with the scums of SBI.
 
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The outfit is the issue. She looks fine. Same as the Star Wars Outlaws protagonist. There is nothing wrong with how they look more then the graphic being shitty
 
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Perfect example would be the Transgender Stormtrooper lately. WHY!?!?!?!?! Does it add to the lore/ story? NO. Does it elevate the show to a new height? NO.
Does it fit the story? NO. Its shoehorned in because they can. And this is where the crux lies.
"Sister" the CLONETROOPER you are are referring to has been nothing more than a minor character in two Star Wars novels, she has never been the focus on anything, it was not shoehorned in, she's been a thing for a whole two years and no one batted an eye until people started bitching about trans people even harder, then started digging up everything they could to sow outrage like you're experiencing here, she isn't new, she's BEEN a thing.

Star Wars Outlaws: They wanted a "normal woman". We got a minger who can judo chop a Stormtrooper on the helmet and instantly knock him out. IT DOESNT FIT!!!
Why are you calling her a derogatory slang word when you could literally just say you don't like the way she looks, even though she is not supposed to be this attractive, fair looking woman, she's supposed to be rugged, she's an outlaw, a literal scoundrel. When you don't use an edited-in-poor-taste image to spread a false narrative, she doesn't even look unattractive or unpleasant in the slightest. The VA was happy to be able to bring Kay Vess to life so well in the game as well, Kay is loosely modeled off of her VA, a common tactic game developers have been using for years and is only becoming more popular.

Yes, the stealth takedowns are stupid in the way that they don't have unique ones for the stormtroopers, but that is one of the smallest nitpicks I've seen in a game aside from people whining their ass off over a cleft chin. It's a game, suspend your disbelief, the series is sci-fi, anything can happen.
 
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Ngl man I really do not see many differences here at all, that is clearly her still. If people get up in arms over this that's gonna be really stupid. They didn't even change her, if anything, the only thing that sticks out is her chin isn't as long and last I checked the idiots complaining about DEI/SBI said long chins and "strong jaws" are "DEI man jaws."

This culture war shit really is nothing more than brainrot.

If the industry crashes "gamers" deserve it

At this point most of the people obsessed with this stuff (from both sides) are grifters or talk more about games than they play them
 

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You tried to make a game that nobody wanted.
Are all of your creative decisions based on checking diversity boxes instead of making something fun?
Idiots running the show are more focused on being "inclusive" than delivering quality.
Who can’t see the glaring issues when you put politics over storytelling?
See that pandering to trends like DEI and wokeism doesn't make a good game?
I am not surprised this disaster failed spectacularly.
Mocking you for thinking this approach was ever going to work is the least I can do.

My issue isn't just with this game, but with the industry as a whole.
Avatar customization now feels like a checklist of social justice requirements.
Is a compelling story really so hard to focus on?
Trans woman protagonists, non-binary side characters, and token diversity everywhere don’t automatically make a game revolutionary.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm really tired of idiots that can't see what's right in front of them.
 

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Shot_21_02121f1.jpg

This is the REAL version.

Comparison:
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Ok ugly is a big word, but why change a beautiful woman? This is Star Wars Outlaws 2.0


Looks aside, its VERY quiet on Socials regarding this game. It currently tops the SBI detected Curator page and the Steam Community is something else.....
That is not that big a change tbh. They mostly tried to make her look older, I guess?