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@@YoVideogames This is a thing? Take my money. Right now. Take it.

@@ReKalibrate lol yeah this is great

@@YoVideogames what the heck this is real holy snap probably check it out thanks yovideogames

Uhm, don't quite think you know exactly what "cultural appreciation" is... 'cuz, you know, that's an actual thing and specifically refers to honouring and respecting another culture and its practices as a way to gain knowledge and understanding of said culture. Playing the devil's advocate for a moment, I can understand parts of the "cultural appropriation" argument from the angle that some aspects of GoT are anachronistic. For example, haiku appearing hundreds of years before haiku was a thing, the Japanese armour sets being a bit of a mishmash between period-correct, boxy armour and more streamlined Sengoku period armour, Jin having a katana rather than a tachi despite the fact that the Mongols' armours and stuff was the very reasons why the katana's design was even invented (bit of a missed opportunity imo; there could've been a main quest line about Taka forging a proto-katana for Jin to make him more efficient at taking down Mongols) and Jin wearing a katana and wakizashi set tucked into his obi, edges up, which would not become vogue until the Tokugawa period... In summary, if you're a stickler for such details, I suppose you could argue some level of offence and appropriation based upon ignorance or historically incorrect representation... But then again, Sucker Punch have acknowledged most of these things and have made it quite clear that their main concern when making GoT was about making it "A Kurosawa Movie: The Game" and their love for the culture they wished to portray, and the amount of work they put into portraying it well, anachronism aside, shines through way more clearly than any unintentional offence they may cause. (Heck, the Mongol artefacts and stuff that even provide some educational information about the Mongols' culture kinda emphasizes how much research they put into the game.)

Sony literally made a video that has a Japanese historian look at the game and he just fangirls over it. So... fukit. :V

@@GrahamChapman It's still appreciation at the end of the day. Hell, considering how amazing it's doing in Japan I doubt they care about everything being one-to-one accurate. I would even say that they feel flattered as hell consider how much they've been gushing over it. Lol

@@imarock.7662 Well, yes, but also, no. I mean, expressions actually do mean different things. "Cultural appreciation" isn't just appreciating a culture, it's specifically about appreciating it from a pretty much academic or educational perspective. And I think it's fairly important to respect and uphold the definitions in these specific cases so as to not give actual appropriators any ground... Like, there are some people who do think they're just "appreciating" something from a culture when they're actually appropriating it. They're not doing it with any kinda malicious intents or anything like that, they're just a bit shallow and ignorant is all, but I think it's still important to encourage people to not satisfy with shallow or ignorant portrayals of certain parts of a culture that you just think is kinda neat/you "appreciate" the visual aesthetics or whatever. (All of this is, of course, not quite applicable to GoT since SuckerPunch did put the work in, but is more just an argument defending the importance of protecting our language so we don't end up disempowering certain expressions and stuff.) Yes, I've read about GoT's great reception and success in Japan, too. Toshihiro Nagoshi's praise for GoT in particular was nice to read about, (I recommend people to check it out,) because he also mentioned the fact that a lot of Western representations of Japan do tend to feel a bit off, but that GoT managed to pull off the mean feat of making Japan feel right to Japanese audiences... And that's basically what I'm talking about in the above paragraph, too: Even if you "appreciate" Japan and Japanese culture to the extent that you decide to make a movie/video game in a Japanese setting, it's still not guaranteed that the "Japan" you're portraying isn't a caricature based upon a shallow and/or ignorant image of what Japan and Japanese culture actually is like. Which is exactly why GoT is an unusually good game and you kinda gotta respect SP for the amount of research they put into the game to make it turn out as good as it did, the occasional anachronism and flaw like that notwithstanding.

@@GrahamChapman Ehhhh. I still think it's appreciation at the end of the day tbh. Also, if I'm keeping it a buck, I think the whole "cultural appropriation" thing is pretty silly, since so many who cry "CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!" do it over the most absurd things that aren't even cultural appropriation, like a certain hairstyle or clothing. Besides most people who do cry it, aren't even of the culture or race they're trying to "defend," and the ones who are don't even care. At least from what I've seen. Idk, I just think the "cultural appropriation" thing boils down to just people getting pissy over petty things. Like, I agree with some of what you're saying, especially the second paragraph in your second reply, but with some of the top stuff....ehhhhh. Just my two cents.

DOOM ETERNAL SAYS OTHERWISE

One of the few games Ive perfected. It was so good dude.

lil Artman X doom eternal is my goty as well. Fucking loved that game

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This game is my GotY as well

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Is there any other choice? (I know there is, but is there?)

@@andremartinez5307 Nobu/ Sora / Kage

I was sad when my kage died it was great

If 90% of players like us didn't choose "Kage" as the horse's name, I'd be shocked.

Daisuke really plays up the stoic and honorable samurai in the beginning act, but I've found him to really open up in Act II onwards, especially when interacting with the side cast, really shows the growth of Jin during his transition to the Ghost. Nakai does show great character all the way through though, I agree.

I think that was the point of Jin in the beginning. He is trying still to be that honorable samurai his Uncle raised him to be so he is very stoic & boring. However i feel that when he begins to adopt more of the Ghost mentality he opens up a lot more & shows much more emotion especially during the final duel which was very well done. And as some have said his interactions with the other side characters do lighten up his character.

I personally really like the stoic approach. It's not the bad kind of stoic imo

Metroidsmashington I mean at the start anyhow that’s kinda the point because Jin starts out stiff with his family code of honor. But even then he has great moments to show that he’s not a complete stiff (him joking some with Ryuzo at the beginning of the game, Jin playing the flute for Masako when she tells him a family memeber would play music at night at a cliff side, him always treating his horse like his best friend even sleeping on him at times, etc.). I just feel as though Max and crew just never really bothered to try and look past Jin’s stoic demeanor to appreciate his character

To the people trying to explain why he's played stoically and he later transitions throughout the game: I don't care. I never said I had that issue. I play in japanese.

I’m really glad this game and a friend of mine got me into Kurosawa films man. What a fantastic director.

@@NirodimosNeedAKing You obviously don't know how video games work. It doesn't need to be an RPG to have new game+. Look at Jedi Fallen Order, Spider-Man and God of War. None are RPGs yet they were all given a new game+ after fans asked for it. So this will get one too since so many people are asking. And why are you bringing up Infamous? Just because that never got one doesn't mean this won't smh

@@NirodimosNeedAKing Way to completely miss the point. Nobody cares that you platinumed Spider-Man. The whole point of new game plus in video games is to replay the game without having to grind as much as the first playthrough, and usually on the hardest difficulty that sometimes isn't unlocked until you beat the game once. Plenty of games do it differently. Look at Fallen Order which is similar to GoT in that there's no stats but only skill points . It's new game plus didn't give you skill points to make you start off stronger, but instead you started off with every cosmetic that you previously unlocked in the first playthrough, thus removing the time spent having to look for them again. You even got a new costume an added features. GoT can literally do the same thing. Even Arkham Knight has new game plus, so do you know how stupid you sound trying to bring up RPGS like Persona or Witcher when there's plenty of non-RPGS that have it? And saying "this is a sucker punch game" also doesn't mean anything, you really think they're gonna watch all of these people ask for New game + and just say "no we don't care about what fans want"? Just because they haven't done it before doesn't mean they'll never do it, how stupid can you be son lol. This game is way bigger than Infamous, obviously they're gonna wanna please the fans as much as they can. They literally just added a new difficulty and more accessibility options just yesterday. Now get off the internet, you're done here.

@@NirodimosNeedAKing Bro...this game needs a NG+. The fact that there isn't a NG+ is a disservice to how great Ghost is.

@@NirodimosNeedAKing Fans want to play through this game again with a NG+. Imagine trying to justify why you want to remove more content from a game. Yikes. NG+ is needed in this game.

Canucks4us man I completely agree. I feel like the people out there complaining about how it was made by Americans are just looking for something to be mad about, something to criticize which honestly is becoming more and more of a thing these days. Everybody gets mad about everything now it’s ridiculous

I've heard some of the English dub and thought it was good but I've played entirely in Japanese from the get-go and I gotta say that I really like Jin in Japanese. I've been trying to do basically everything and so far I've realized that a lot of his character seems to come out in the side quests but most of it I felt was very subtle. The questline with Yuriko really showcases that imo and so far it's one of my favorites.

clayisahottie I think it’s just me that feels this way but the standoffs got boring to me kinda quickly. Don’t get me wrong it was a cool mechanic and I love the game but I just got tired of it

@@jeremyroberts8822 dont know how far you got into the game but the enemy's will start doing feint attacks in a stand off just to mess with you and they got me a couples times.

It's a "different strokes for different folks" kind of deal, because I absolutely loved those extra systems in RDR2. They made the experience a lot more authentic, giving me time to really get immersed. So should RDR2 have been like GoT? No, because it is its own unique experience and it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but that's okay. Some people have the patience for a game like RDR2, some people don't... It is what it is.

Curious though as to the historical accuracy of it in 1274. Not as a dunk on the game, but because I really dont know how far back some of these techniques go.

YoVideogames during the development of the game SP consulted with a Kenjutsu school called Tenshinryu Hyoho. While not a koryu themselves they do practice various forms of battojutsu that are derived from other schools that are. One basic sword technique you find in almost every school is called “Suriage” which involves parrying a vertical strike from below using either the Mune (back) or Shinogi (side) of the blade and immediate counter with a vertical strike of your own. In GoT this is what you get when you perfect parry resulting in an insta-kill. It’s impossible to say if such a technique was used during that era of samurai warfare, but often times the techniques that are the simplest are the ones that survive through hundreds of years of transmission.

That being said, the Katana as it is seen in the game would have been a different length, curvature, and was worn with mountings that positioned the blade edge pointing down. It wasn’t until around the 15th century that they started wearing them as the game portrays. Something they did get right, at least in spirit, was how completely unprepared the samurai were for the invasion of Komoda and of their misconceived notions of being able to engage the Mongols in one on one duels.

Be careful, there's still plenty of people that loved that game that will attack you for not liking it lol

Both are amazing, groundbreaking games. You don’t have to insult one to appreciate the other.

@@AncientCityMusic the first last of us was good, the second one was slow and boring for me, and many people don't like the second one cause it's a carbon copy the first story, cause it's another revenge story, and the director of the first didn't want to do another revenge story.

Every time you lock blades in a duel, I start mashing the sword button outta habit because in most other games, that would be a multi-tap button prompt.

@@NirodimosNeedAKing you could say ghost of tsushima is just a better assassin's creed game mixed with shadow of mordor

@@NirodimosNeedAKing not the combat. The parkour, stealth taking down forts the Investigations trailing targets its ac like.

Just my opinion, but I liked Ghost of Tsushima better than all of the games you mentioned. You really should try it if you have the chance :)

@@andros1486 So did I. Which is really saying something because I LOVED Horizon and RD2. Haven't played Days Gone yet tho

Titan_ days gone is pretty good man or atleast I thought it was. It didn’t deserve some of the more mediocre reviews it got

@@jeremyroberts8822 absolutely yeah. I felt it was on par with its contemporaries and the tone, setting, pacing and stealth in the gsme suited me more than many similar games

@@jeremyroberts8822 My friend said the same thing. It's definitely on my list to play soon

I honestly feel like Steeb said that because the pacing from RDR1 to 2 was a DRASTIC change. It's actually jarring. GoT pacing feels like it's pacing is the next evolutionary step from rdr1

Got is beatiful, but Rdr2 for me is still the best looking game of this generation.

Agreed, just because two pieces of media share a genre, doesn't mean that they're looking to tick the same boxes. Both Ghost of Tsushima and Red Dead Redemption 2 are in my top 5 for the generation for different reasons.

It’s always like that unfortunately

I picked the grayish black horse I named it Nobu.

hunter affleck so basically like a horde mode type of thing is what you want? I mean that would be dope I’d be down for that

@@jeremyroberts8822 yeah basically . Either a customizable horde mode where you can add as many soldiers in like T.A.B.S or like a challenge mode type of thing where you just start off at round 1 and you start with 3 people to kill . Then round 2 with 6 people and difficulty gets pushed up , r 3 with 9 people so on so fourth. Anything like that would be awesome to add as a free update.

They are 2 very different games with different focuses, not a fair comparison

You are not alone😂

A little contradiction doesn't hurt anybody

Renzythegreat91 what are your other 2 favorite games from this year so far? For me the best games this year are doom eternal, this game and resident evil 3 remake

jeremy roberts the other 2 games I’ve personally really enjoyed this year are FF7 Remake and this is kind of a controversial game but I really enjoyed Last of Us 2. I sometimes switch out between FF7 Remake and Doom Eternal in my top 3 though lol

Clownman bro!!!! The nemesis system would be awesome in this game!!! Dammit man now I’m bummed because the game would be so much more awesome with a mechanic like that

Please the combat of Ghost makes fallen order look like DS2.

That's a hard one not gonna lie

Terriq Jones no it’s not. GOT is way better. GOT is what BOTW wanted to be, not RDR2.

@@ragingraccoon3964 It's purely subjective I honestly can't decide but BOTW had it's time in spotlight

Terriq Jones there are objective qualities to video games.

Yea agreed, now on lethal difficulty

yea i already played through the entire game and want a reason to play it again.

@sadiq2008 i will, but im also mad that theirs no new game+, missed opportunity

Some games are meant to be played, completed and put on the shelf. That's not always a bad thing

@@strtfghtr88 true, but this only took me a short while to 100% on the hardest difficulty, but now since there is a upadte with a harder mode, i can be at peace again

I'm the same but it's because they didnt expect it to be that successful and they're working on something more currently.

Same. It's all about perspective and I have been loving playing the game in Japanese. A lot of the humor and overall personalities of the characters comes across FAR better in the Japanese dub and even in things as small as tone of voice. The english cast of the game is also stellar, but people have to actually understand Jin's character to really judge it. It still has the slight humors of a kurosawa movie but at its heart it is a historical tale of the heir of clan Sakai (even though a Jin Sakai is a fictional character, the Sakai clan is real just like the rest), having to deal with the internal turmoil of being forced to set the very foundation of your life, all you've known aside for the sake of your home. It's honestly beautifully tragic and I'm not even done with act 1.