I know this is mostly preaching to the choir, but I don’t understand why this is such a problem. Same sex romance has been a thing, if not the standard, in video games for years. At least since the early 2000s if not sooner. So why is it an issue now with this game? Aloy isn’t canonically straight. Her sexuality has…

For the people who are super into this, I hope uh... I hope this serves as more of an alternative than an appetizer if you catch my drift.

Why not just make it some cop-show-esque premise about busting a drug cartel? Like, I get that TV cops are still obviously copaganda and usually there’s some subtle racism if you dig enough in the show, but it would still help to take away any real world ambiguity. You could be a special cop that only deals with high…

Uh oh we got an internet cool guy here. Please tell me oh wise one, how would you survive without engaging in the only available system in most of the modern world?

“corporations don’t work like scalpers because they don’t buy up entire commodity sectors and jack the prices up. it’s literally illegal”

The gun is called starvation, so yes, there is a gun to your head forcing you to work.

I think the key word is “conservative”. This is exactly the type of stuff that gains wide traction on conservative media and excites the frothing GOP base to vote in a primary.

Or we call all successful capitalists scalpers from now on. Seems accurate given how corporations work.

Scalper is such a negative and derogatory term. It’s offensive, please call them “Successful Capitolists”

My only real comment on this is that if the final version of the game is like this, I wouldn’t want to play it as it would make me nauseas.  I really hate the jankiness camera thing that was a big thing after the Blair Witch came out.  I don’t even normally get motion sickness from cars or boats/ships and that stuff…

I mean, it looks like it’s singularly unpleasant to play, but that’s also my opinion of every other first person shooter that attempts realism.

The game is still in pre-production, with no mention of even a vague release window.

Yeah this feels very much like the “Unreal remakes” that Google keeps recommending me in the news feed that are basically just people dropping models from existing games into UE5 but with tons of bloom lighting. It can look cool but it doesn’t mean it’s gonna be a playable game (and even it turns into a game, it…

That bodycam gif on the front page is fucking triggering. Get it off Kotaku, this game is sick and it sucks that a reminder of police brutality autoplays on a video game site's front page.

if this is real it will be terrible to play, with all the tilting of the camera (which is what makes it look like camera footage and not a game in the first place)

The part of my brain that went “buuuuullllllshiit” when the Killzone 2 trailer was shown got triggered by this trailer. Not that it’s impossible to create animations this varied for head and hand movements, reloads, etc. but I’d put money on this looking like someone playing the game in VR because that’s how they…

Totally buy that the game is real, having watched some of the nifty stuff Unreal 5 can do over on YouTube. It’s totally possible to photograph and recreate actual buildings from what I understand.

That's a no from me. Her characterization was vastly improved and she felt like a much more rounded person. 

The THREE very different reload animations for the same gun is a definite redflag for a game so early in development. That and the varied movement like the gun tilts randomly unrelated to movement, it looks more like a real person holding a gun not canned animation. Which leads me to believe it maybe ingame but it’s…

If it was REALLY realistic, the video would cut out before, during, and after every time you shoot someone.