What is it with this trend of western devs using anime, especially classic anime, to promote their games? Did they finally realise that western entertainment has become so repulsive and lame to the average person that now with the popularity of japanese media they HAVE to do it? Honestly feels like a desperate attempt to use anime as a skin suit to hide a certain shit ideology that has been rejected at a large scale and resulted in massive failures these past few years
What is it with this trend of western devs using anime, especially classic anime, to promote their games...
Evil cant create
To get normalfags into anime to make anime itself westernized trash
Tons of anime avatar posters on Twitter and Bluesky defend them so they decide to pay lip service to them by lying about what the inspiration of their games are.
I think you are stupid but I see how your logic could apply to ND, what's wrong with Marathon?
all anime ripped off ideas from the west anyways especially the good ones like Cowboy Bebop
Intergalactic sounds and looks so bad
I get the influences, but what the fuck is graphic realism meant to mean?
what's wrong with Marathon?
Did you live under a rock for a few years?
Bungie has become one of the most far left devs in the industry
"Return to form huehuehue..."
tranime has entered normalfag lexicon
I am tired of anime and it's consequences.
A return to form?
inspired by "a bunch of shit that people probably like"
Nice search manipulation. If they're just going to make shit up they should've included "inspiration" from professional wrestling, FIFA, tariffs, and Switch 2 pricing.
The small teaser of the gameplay made me lose all faith instantly on the NG game.
No, I don't think the mc is horrid or bad. Just art direction which is generally cool imo. Same with general style, tho Sony stuff is quite fucking embarrassing.
But fucking over-the-shoulder 3rd person game is just depressing. Why not go with Jak style instead?
Anyway it will be another case of "good graphics and va with few interesting characters and locales" and that's fucking it. Otherwise it's gonna be fucking GoW/Uncharted slop and look like trash 5 years after release while OpenGOAL Jak games look still good.
Bait the weebs since the golems aren't buying
What did Cowboy Bebop ripped off from
Akira and Cowboy Bebop are the animes that people who don't like anime namedrop in order to appeal to certain people.
It's a cynical marketing trick - these people are the same people who call you a pedo or a loser for liking anime.
Marathon actually looked pretty successful with it's aesthetic. Intergalactic looks terrible.
Every second episode of cowboy bebop is literally just an homage to a different western scifi movie.
There's that entire episode where an alien is on the bebop and it's getting around in the airducts. It's literally just a massive joke about the 1979 movie alien.
There are a dozen other examples of this.
be weeb
dickride the same 3-4 animes in that ONE GENRE because I'm so sugoi and different from the rest of anime watchers
gets surprised when everyone else also watched it
I agree 100%.
Still going to buy it.
Bungie already made a game inspired by GitS. That was Oni, the main character was a shameless ripoff, but it was still a pretty cool game.
Return to form
Can't you people read? It does not say that.
To be fair, The western developers did do anime inspired games decades ago. And Bungie was one of them.
White people and Americans desperately want to "be anime," but only the old actiony stuff, not the icky fanservice stuff or relaxed SoL stuff.
They want to emulate GitS and Akira and those older shows/OVAs that were their first exposure to "mature" animation, but they're all horrible hacks, which is how we end up with shit like pic related.
because those are the few actually good shows and not the pedo shows that anime fans watch
icky fanservice
found the SJW hamplanet rainbow-haired dyke
We're 30 years into westerners being "inspired" by anime and they have yet to produce a single thing worth a damn outside of a few decent games from the mid-2000s.
Everything else ranges from forgettable to dogshit.
I've come to the conclusion that westerners don't actually "get" anime, or what people like about it.
Its not about anime OP. Western directors,designers,writers and more in past couple of years started to use terms how they are "inspired by" [here insert that classic/beloved thing] even though very often in finished project there is literally nothing to be found in common with that "inspiration".
I agree, they desperately want to make something as beloved like the animu from the 80s and 90s but they don't have the talent and are so far gone the ideological rabbit hole that they end up sabotaging whatever they touch
I bet he pronounces it ah-kee-ra
FPBP
Leftists can only destroy. There is a reason why ALL AAA companies only do sequals and remakes now. None of the DEI fags can actually be creative
Creativity requires you to be bold and challenge society. Leftists are not allowed to offend anyone but white people. They will never create anything. They are full of hate should be killed as soon as possible
Manga has been outselling comic books for years.
Isn't it pronounced Ack-ur-a?
Because they grew up thinking "man this anime stuff is cool, I can't wait until I'm old enough to subvert it".
Based
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They don't really know anime but they know Western literary sci-fi even less.
They can't say their work is based on CJ Cherryh, Ben Bova, Elizabeth Moon, etc. because that would
A: Expect their audience to know CJ Cherryh
B: Require them to read CJ Cherryh
When I read a Little Fuzzy reference in Remnant:From The Ashes I had to doublecheck it wasn't a Japanese developer because a US studio referencing H Beam Piper is unheard of.
One of the biggest redpills you can get these days is realizing normalfags don't treat media like you do.
You may get into media to have fun, to have experiences, to feel emotions you wouldn't feel IRL without legal consequences (anger, horror, etc) or you may simply be interested in the journey the characters go through, or you may want to test your physical vidya skills either on planning in turn based stuff or your reflexes in action games.
No, normalfags treat media like legal opioids to run away from their problems in real life, they use vidya like alcoholics and smokers use beer and cigars respectively.
This is why you constantly see from them that weird passive-aggressive faggotry over "muh escapism is le bad".
At the end of the day shit like this is just goylems treating "the animays" like an alcoholic would treat a chicken flavor beer, like a fancy gimmick they consoom just for the novelty of not drinking the same shit as always.
Bungie already made an anime game 20 years ago. And there's nothing wrong with liking kino animes like Akira, gits, Ninja Scrolls, ect.
you sound like a bigger fag than druckman.
Honestly, nailed it. Western studios keep lifting the aesthetics without understanding the heart. Anime resonates because it leans into emotion, sincerity, and unironically explores themes most Western stuff is too self-conscious or cynical to touch. Too many wannabe anime-inspired projects just slap cel-shading on a surface-level plot and call it homage. It’s all form, no soul. Mid-2000s stuff worked because it felt like genuine admiration, not corporate checkboxing.
Nothing about either of these ugly ass games looks like anime or manga
given every single anti-anime fag keeps getting outed as a kid diddler, this just sounds like projection
Western studios keep lifting the aesthetics without understanding the heart.
At this point they don't even get the aesthetics either, all their goyslop keeps looking like calarts more than they do anime.
I was just about to post this mate.
Should we be surprised that nu-Bungie aren't acquainted with their own catalogue?
white people
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Of course there's nothing wrong with liking good stories, dude. Making two games inspired by the same show without acknowledging that you've done so is weird and going into hack territory though
There's also Shogo from Monolith inspired by Evangelion and Patlabor.
Millennials grew up with anime. Generations above that were generally too close minded to give it a chance.
It's not the deep.
CONRAD BEEPBOB, "JITS", EVENGELLOYN REAL CLASSICS
return to _____
It's DOA
I like how it's always Akira or Cowboy Bebop. Maybe Ghost in the Shell or Evangelion if they want to be adventurous with the namedropping. Nothing wrong with those anime and being inspired by them but it's amusing how the namedrop has become cliche.
without acknowledging that you've done
They are openly acknowledging it. The fuck are you talking about.
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