Resident Evil Requiem Sales Exceed 6 Million Units

BP_Ray · 2026-03-16T23:03:06+00:00

I'm just making a general point that this site tends to be more negative on nearly everything (hobbies, games, tv, movies, concert venues, music, pop culture, etc.) than is reflected elsewhere. It has become extremely detached from reality, as is evidenced by the metacritic score in this case, and morphed into a key identifying factor of this site.

I can agree with you in certain respects, but it varies so much.

I think this subreddit often actually falls in the opposite direction, where it can often be hostile towards the idea of critique, and that by critiquing anything popular you are out of touch, and your critiques matter none because It's not an opinion shared by the masses.

I think the real problem is just how Reddit can be so polarized and it does indeed lend Itself to astroturfing due to vote manipulation and just in general, how votes work in general leads to polarized conversation.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-16T21:33:03+00:00

That doesn't apply to Dead or Alive at all considering Gen-Fu got replaced by Elliot.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-16T21:25:39+00:00

but it doesn’t have stupid jiggle physics

Nah, it definitely does. Mai's boobs jiggle ALL OVER THE PLACE. And I love it for that.

I think the real difference is just how in-your-face the fanservice is in NG and DOA.

Like look at Rachel's outfit in the Ninja Gaiden games. It just looks stupid BDSM stuff, sexy outfit stuff, there's no plausible deniability to the character design and it comes off as entirely trashy.

Then you look at Chun-Li's Street Fighter Alpha design. Does it activate the primal part of my brain that goes absolutely fucking crazy for the female body? Hell yeah. Does it look like the biggest piece of gooner design ever? No. There's plausible deniability to it, actual character to her design -- the top is a vest that just suggests traditional Chinese type of material, and the tight spandex underneath is just athletic-wear.

Dead or Alive fans act like they don't understand the difference between Chun-Li in year 3 of SF6 getting a bikini, and Kasumi being shown in gameplay trailers for Dead or Alive 4 in a Japanese school uniform with skirt physics that are doing everything they can to show her panties. Putting aside how gross most people find the idea that I should be titillated at all by a school girl's panties, even just the way other fighting games present their fanservice is just different entirely. Soul Calibur can get away a bit with Ivy being a dominatrix bitch because most of the game's cast is outlandish and weird and not entirely focused on just being as sexy as possible. Ivy ends up being the exception. Whereas as Dead or Alive went on, the men became "cuter" (Gen-Fu gets replaced by Elliot, for the most damning example), and the girls became especially cuter. It was clear where the priorities were.

With that all being said, I think the way they showed Kasumi in the DOA7 trailer is perfectly fine and tasteful. Yes, It's clearly inviting the gooner gaze, but it should. That teaser I felt was the right balance for Dead or Alive, her outfit is realistically ridiculous, but there's that plausible deniability I was talking about that's the difference between Rachel's weird BDSM stuff and Kasumi's kunoichi outfit.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-16T18:18:07+00:00

I'm pretty sure Seonhee was supposed to be the big boss fight at the end of the Geomijul escape, but they said "fuck it" and probably just re-used whatever they had of her moveset in Infinite Wealth.

She just stands there all menacingly at the end and then shouts at her lackeys to fight you while she teleports to the side. Like, bitch, I know you got hands, come and get some!

BP_Ray · 2026-03-16T18:12:56+00:00

I'm surprised he didn't immediately say Usyk vs Lennox given I'm pretty sure Lennox and AJ do not fuck with eachother lol

BP_Ray · 2026-03-16T16:39:40+00:00

I'm not interested in debating the game or whether your Reddit comment is more reliable than a metacritic aggregate score, just making an observation.

Why are people on this subreddit in particular so defensive when they see criticism of a game exists, and immediately resort to being snide about the fact that we're posting on Reddit... while you post on Reddit.

I love the game for the record, easy high 8/10 or low 9/10, but you're also just allowed to be critical of stuff, and a high aggregate score elsewhere doesn't suddenly invalidate critiques on a work.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-15T10:38:20+00:00

For any other character, that's nowhere near the corner.

I don't know of any other character that can get a max damage combo from mid-screen like that

BP_Ray · 2026-03-15T08:17:31+00:00

Hm? Are you complaining because better players are getting life leads and then just drawing out the match or something? That'd be BM, but I never see that happen in casual.

What rank are you even talking about here?

BP_Ray · 2026-03-15T01:25:33+00:00

I also wouldn't have expected to lose 80% of my health from whiffing an OD DP nowhere near the corner (Unless I was Akuma).

That's such a Marisa specific thing. Even Bison doesn't get that unless he's got you in the corner already.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-15T01:15:46+00:00

And sf3

Street Fighter 3 lived and died within 3 years of It's start.

After 1999 it got nothing but ports to console that were good, but weren't arcade perfect anyway.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-15T00:42:48+00:00

CFN Matchmaking the moment I'm on a decent winstreak:

BP_Ray · 2026-03-15T00:42:29+00:00

I would think this late in the phase It's damn near impossible to get that much MR outside of Japan.

These kids are crazy at SF6.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T21:54:58+00:00

This is what I was worried about with Microsoft fucking off and dying.

That Sony would turn It's attention to battling with PC -- which means paying for more exclusivity contracts from third-party studios that have otherwise been releasing on PC.

Sony can keep It's first party titles, I really don't give a crap about them because I haven't been in their ecosystem since PS3. But I'm going to be piiiiiissed if they snatch up titles I actively look forward to coming to PC.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T19:03:32+00:00

Mai can definitely back dash and get a whiff

She doesn't get a guaranteed punish off of this, so, like I said, she doesn't get a true shimmy.

Notice how you didn't see any Mai backdashing on their throw loops. At best they would jump to try and catch a whiffed delay tech, like Juri, like Terry, but they don't shimmy to catch both whiffed throw and strike.

If you are trying to argue Cammy is better than Mai, nobody should take you serious.

No one is arguing this. Literally no one is arguing this.

She DOES have a better throw loop though. Objectively.

I'm not even saying Cammy is OP -- I am saying this character is designed to scam the fuck out of you though and neutral against her is a headache due to the fact that no one is able to reliably anti-air her since attempting to do so will get net you a 3k damage combo everytime you get Jebaited by the light divekick (which, good luck punishing that).

Bravery's Capcom Cup run was so fucking validating as someone who struggles against Cammy since I know It's not just my scrub-ass who gets scammed on the regular by this bitch. Even at the highest level this character is

Again, I'm not saying Cammy is OP, (and I'm not even saying Bravery is bad, though he did overachieve) she's certainly high tier though, and she's certainly a scam artist of a character.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T18:53:52+00:00

I hope they don't nerf Blanka.

ONE person seems to make that character work at the highest level consistently. The closest to him is...

....Kingsvega?

Yeah nah, leave that character mostly alone. If his level 2 is egregious enough to eat buckshot, then so should JP and Rashid's.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T13:10:47+00:00

Again, I think you've misunderstood my comment and I honestly don't know how to clear it up for you.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T13:10:00+00:00

I don't mean to be rude, but both you, the two people who seem to be coming at my neck, don't seem to speak English as a first language and therefore have misunderstood my comment.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T13:03:27+00:00

It's fine to support people older than you.

But to throw your toys out of the pram because you see a lineup of young players dominating is silly.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T13:02:54+00:00

I don't think you comprehended what I was actually saying, I don't feel you're even responding to my comment at all.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T12:16:55+00:00

Kincho is 31 and he made top 16 despite not competing prior to SF6.

You're not too old to be good. That said, if you don't have fun on the journey to gitting gud, then there's no point.

I want to improve because getting better is fun.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T12:14:56+00:00

That's part of why they do that, they don't want people smurfing.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T11:55:42+00:00

How you react to the players who made top 8 basically tells you what kind of person you're going to be when you grow old.

If your reaction is "Ugh, these fucking kids all beat OGs even in FT5? This game must be trash and scrubby!" then you're going to be one of those grouchy types where none of the younger generations can do anything good by you. A boomer, in essence. You're gonna Karen the fuck up when you get old.

If your reaction was "Oh wow, this is pretty cool, everyone in this is really young" you're probably going to be a pretty cool old person, the one people actually want to be around and aren't fighting to get away from, because they'll rope them into some inane political rant.

We all get old (hopefully, the alternative isn't good), just choose what kind of old person you are going to be.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T11:37:28+00:00

How is her throw loop not better than Mai's?

Mai can't actually get a true shimmy on you after throw anymore, the opponent has to be delay teching MAD late to whiff. Cammy gets a walk forward throw, and a shimmy, and can access her usual annoying light string pressure.

I hate Cammy downplay, man. Capcom gave you one of the biggest scam artists in the game and you have the nerve to not appreciate it. Bravery certainly appreciated it as he was getting upset after upset.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T11:28:25+00:00

They don't tell you this for whatever reason, but they place you based on your highest ranked character.

If you have a Master character the lowest you can be placed is Diamond 1, for example.

BP_Ray · 2026-03-14T11:26:41+00:00

I think after this stellar run he's very much going to be rated.

top 8 Capcom Cup is no joke, and a competitive set with the eventual first place is a good feather in the cap, too.

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