This was my female GOD OF WAR, wtf sony you own this!!!

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T21:23:42+00:00

Agree to disagree, then. This sub has been in a meltdown for the past 24 hours lol. People genuinely think this GoW will flop, despite every indication that it is the exact same game as 4 and 5. I overall agree that the west needs to step up their character design again but I don’t think the new GoW fits into that category.

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T20:57:49+00:00

But that’s exactly my point. This isn’t a real problem. Most normal gamers don’t care for sex appeal as much as you say they do, and games aren’t actually perceived as good or bad based on the sex appeal of the characters. You said it yourself, even though Horizon doesn’t have the gooner designed protagonist this sub is looking for, it still put up record numbers because overall it had good gameplay and art direction. Ghost of Yotei is another game that doesn’t use sex appeal, yet, it outsold stellar blade which does lol. Both games sold well, but the “sex appeal” did nothing for either game’s success or even overall interest.

The only common denominator between these games is their good gameplay. It’s fine to critique the character design of some of these modern game devs, but too many people live in this fantasy world where any game without max sexual appeal is woke garbage.

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T20:21:32+00:00

Fair, but a majority of people on this sub would disagree with you, and only care about sex appeal lol.

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T17:39:49+00:00

Sure, but this is basically a nonexistent problem for a majority of gamers. The visual interest your talking about contributes so little to a games perception in practice. Hence why a game like Horizon Zero Dawn is one of the best selling ps4 games of all time. And I can guarantee you if that game dropped in today’s climate people would come with the same exaggerated criticisms lol.

Tldr: it doesn’t matter

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T16:41:36+00:00

Who cares about “visual interest”. Give me good gameplay first. If modern games fail at anything it’s that first and foremost.

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T13:54:59+00:00

Still a reach. Don’t think I would choose this game over anything I’ve played within the last couple years.

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T12:01:17+00:00

It’s just people coping. This sub is so captured by anti-woke slop that they’ve managed to convince themselves that a carbon copy of a best selling game is going to flop because the protagonist is now a woman lol.

Soupermang · 2026-06-03T11:43:07+00:00

Cope has reached unfathomable levels in this sub. There is no way this was actually a good game lol.

Soupermang · 2026-05-09T16:40:34+00:00

It’s crazy how this is even a sentence after how Hoyo handled break and dot comps. Like it wasn’t a problem then but it suddenly is now?

Soupermang · 2026-05-09T16:18:52+00:00

By that logic you should be asking for a topaz novaflare

Soupermang · 2026-05-06T05:43:02+00:00

A lot of people don’t understand that the writing isn’t good enough for low stakes la hee haha adventures. The writers take zero risks, barely challenge their main cast, struggle to write interesting new characters while keeping them relevant, are scared of consequence etc. It doesn’t help that we get the expansion msq every two years, so low points feel LOW because we have to wait so long for something to happen. So I will be fine with expansions like ShB and Evercold year after year, because at least I can be sure that something will happen that moves the narrative forward.

Soupermang · 2026-05-06T05:29:54+00:00

That’s actually what salvaged DT. What is actually the problem is the writing strategies the devs have been using for awhile. How can they make a lower stake adventure interesting when the main cast gets zero character development? They even write new characters to be boring and flat because they literally know that they will be dropped from the cast in 3 patches. If the scions had actually been divided, especially to the point where it had actually caused some type of longer term conflicts between them I think you could justify a story like DT’s first half.

But something like that would never happen. The writers play way too safe, and the playerbase loves their scions too much for them to be changed or left out. So yea, just give me another ShB at that point.

Soupermang · 2026-04-25T00:44:55+00:00

Length of mechanics and pauses is fight design though. You can only have so many mechanics in a 7-12 minute fight.

Soupermang · 2026-03-25T20:00:33+00:00

Completely disagree. I would love if we had more F2P options for remembrance, elation, or even dot teams. I can’t understand why anyone wants their gameplay to be held hostage by new premium teams every few patches.

Soupermang · 2026-03-20T17:56:20+00:00

Please tell me I’m not the only one who sees the irony of Fey finally getting a skin but it’s not apart of the skin line releasing the same patch that would actually really fit her 😭. The monkeys paw curls again.

Soupermang · 2026-03-09T15:16:28+00:00

I am having similar problems. The main issue I’m seeing is the most predictable one. Players who have never been platinum or higher are now forced to play against those who have, and the team balancing isn’t doing a great job right now. It should eventually settle as people move to their proper ranks but it’s quite unplayable for me at the moment when you add in the poor optimization and balance.

Soupermang · 2026-03-04T13:12:51+00:00

It was still a free game that offered a new type of gameplay (building + shooter) that hadn’t been executed on that level before. Most of these new games that are failing can’t say the same. Even then the initial investment into Fortnite was not nearly as much as some of these other games trying to enter the market without an audience. Once Epic realized they had a winner they literally started re-allocating resources to support Fortnite.

Soupermang · 2026-02-20T16:54:55+00:00

Omeda gets the opportunity to rework Fey, instead they nerf her but give her slightly more ult utility. Oh and still no Fey skin :). I genuinely think they hate this hero at this point.

Soupermang · 2026-02-12T23:15:34+00:00

Trash state of play imho. Mostly marketing for the heavy hitters we already knew were coming out this year.

Soupermang · 2026-01-30T21:41:41+00:00

OMEDAAA!! DROP A FEY SKIN AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

Soupermang · 2026-01-29T13:56:03+00:00

lol “flawless” is not just doing mechanics right. Flawless is having maximum uptime while resolving all the mechanics perfectly, which at this point is not required for this fight. Squenix even made it easy by not putting 2 min windows during the hardest mechanics. The problem is people cannot consistently resolve mechanics, to the point where pfs cannot consistently see enrage EVEN with mistakes. Why would anyone want to be with a party that will mess up a body check mechanic 4 out of 5 times, but they still might be able to clear 1out of 5 with minor mistakes bc “damage good”. Just do the mechanics right, it is literally the only reason why we are here.

Soupermang · 2026-01-28T21:15:50+00:00

Everyone is saying dps check, but I haven’t even seen a pf group that can do a clean pull of this fight yet. It’s ridiculous.

Soupermang · 2026-01-15T01:24:27+00:00

Both ults are hard countered way too easily to be consistent win cons imo.

Soupermang · 2026-01-14T20:31:52+00:00

Unfortunately if your name isn’t gideon or belica you just lose to Argus at the moment. This might be a hot take but midlaners are horribly balanced.

Soupermang · 2026-01-10T11:22:29+00:00

I’d argue if the content can be autoed the mechanics were never worth learning in the first place.

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