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Sony announced the sequel to samurai open-world game Ghost of Tsushima, Ghost of Yotei. Its main feature seems to be that you get to play as an ugly woman. This is precisely what the market has been waiting for:
Made for the modern audience (going to sell horribly)
Look at the voice actor lol: https://www.reddit.com/r/pacificDrive/comments/1fqs6v3/erika_ishii_voice_actor_in_the_upcoming_ghost_of/?rdt=58304
On a more positive note, Team Ninja is working on a new waifu simulator, Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation Prism:
Might be a good time to get into the series.
The developers for MGSD:SE recently fixed some of their character designs for the better: https://youtu.be/0rYYq7kN8pc
Konami likes money too much to ignore displeased fans. However, I find the character design of “The Boss” from the PS2 version visually more striking than the updated version in the remake. There is also the problem of suspending disbelief because it is easier to accept a woman physically dominating a much stronger man if the graphics are not overly realistic.
Well, there’s hardly anything realistic about what goes on in this game haha. It has some whacky boss encounters.
The slut simulator Stellar Blade recently got a patch that enables the interaction between wind and clothing physics. Thus, the gameplay gets immensely enriched by the valuable feature of winds blowing up skirts, thus exposing grade-A buttocks. Perhaps this was done in preparation for the upcoming 2B skin:
https://x.com/wapdahca/status/1839390131998077289
Sweet Baby Inc. finally admits that their goal is to “burn the games industry to the ground”:
https://archive.ph/hfitA
Autism at its finest: close to 20 years after its release, Gran Turismo 4 gets a patch that overhauls the original game. Among others, you get “enhanced engine sounds for 400+ cars with 130+ new recordings”. I find this most impressive. This is the level of dedication/autism that all the top game studios used to exhibit in the past whereas nowadays they focus a lot more on putting out yet another heap of slop for the masses.
https://www.theadmiester.co.uk/specii/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NYHWty265Y
I really should play Fallout New Vegas again sometime. This game probably has one of the best modding communities which gives the game such massive replay value.
I wonder if Fallout 3 enjoys a similar benefit in mods. I never quite enjoyed it as much as New Vegas, but I’ll put looking into it somewhere down on my to-do list I suppose.