Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@OorWullie That seems like the opposite of the game doing well to me. It's not even that old but being a Nintendo fan we are use to waiting a long time for price drops. I know the other consoles get drops in price rather quickly.
John 8:7 He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
MERG said:
If I was only ever able to have Monster Hunter and EO games in the future, I would be a happy man.
So L.A. Noire is up to #14 now on the eshop. I wonder if that's do to recent reviews and the lack of Amazon not having it. My Best Buy only got 8 copies and they had 30 of Doom.
John 8:7 He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
MERG said:
If I was only ever able to have Monster Hunter and EO games in the future, I would be a happy man.
But I'm somewhat concerned about the performance of LA Noire and DOOM. Moreso LA Noire. DOOM made it to around #20 in the Amazon charts for the week prior to release, but shot down to #100 within 72 hours after release. However, since it can now be found in a search, it's up to #79 now. Both it and Skyrim were around #80-90 for the month prior to launch, aside from a week around #50 then then week at #20.
But Skyrim is now #7 in all of video games. I think it's going to do pretty well. Maybe its release has helped DOOM. In either case, LA Noire isn't looking good. And it's a shame too because it's a really great game and so many people are ignoring it.
Ace Attorney fans would love it and just eat it up.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
PAL eShop Charts (as of 9.40am on Friday 17th November 2017)
1. Rocket League
2. Super Mario Odyssey
3. Stardew Valley
4. DOOM
5. Skyrim
6. Sonic Forces
7. Minecraft
8. Sonic Mania
9. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
10. Cat Quest
11. Snipperclips
12. UNO
13. L.A. Noire
14. Overcooked! Special Edition
15. Golf Story
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And here we have 2 people advocating hate speech in the typical white supremacist fashion of marginalizing racism so they can justify white people saying the N word...
To the mod, no I'm not generalizing that white people wrote this trash, go look it up.
First of all, in a story about Nazis and KKK nobody needs any racial slurs presented in a VIDEO GAME to understand the severity of hate behind these groups.. second of all of all the people they could possibly target, they've targeted a CHILD and additionally the black woman.
Of all the mature content in video games, sex, violence, profanity.. none of that is targeted at any individual person or groups.. as stupid as it is white people don't comprehend how hate speech is different than violence or profanity, they need it spelled out for them, hate speech is directly, personally attacking the actual player for their birth right.
How hard is it for you to imagine a young black girl to play this game and have this racist trash thrown in their face when they're already dealing with it on their day to day lives. This is outright pathetic to actually think this deserves to be in a video game..
And i know everybody trying to imagine what i look like, well just imagine the whitest mf you can.
@Inertiacreep For someone who is so strongly against racism, you seem to have no problem categorising people into different groups. The irony.
Young children shouldn't be playing this game in the first place, there's a reason why it as an 18+ age rating. On top of that, it's fiction. It's a game set in an alternate timeline after the victory of Nazi Germany of the Second World War, what else did you expect?
I've watched the segment you spoke of in the meantime, but I don't see how that cut-scene promotes racism in any way, shape or form.
@JaxonH
It's ok to be concerned, and I'm a Nintendo fan and want to see the Switch do well, too, but not every game released for the system is going to do well, man. And that's ok.
Some will sell like hot cakes (maybe Skyrim) and some will bomb (maybe L.A. Noire). Some will do ok (maybe DOOM). That's just what happens on any given system, especially when you have so many games available.
I think some of us are still in the Wii U mindset: Nintendo struggling to survive, every singular game release feeling like life or death of the system. That's not the case anymore and we need to move on from that kind of thinking.
@Inertiacreep The moderators wouldn't have censored any of your posts if you hadn't used profanity - just keep it clean and we can have a proper discussion about the topic.
You seem to have an impression that we're all 'stupid' and not understanding your point - but, to the contrary, you're far from alone in your views (@Anti-Matterreally doesn't like seeing this type of content in games!) ..in fact, unless I'm mistaken, I'm pretty sure that entire countries (such as Germany) have a total ban on such content - and games like Wolfenstein have to be heavily edited to get a release - so this isn't a unique point of view by any means.
I can certainly see where you're coming from - although, for me, I kind of just try to see the game for what it is: the developers are imagining how the world (US in particular) might have looked if one of the biggest wars in recent history (WWII) had have been won by the 'bad guys' instead - it's an unsettling and horrifying alternate reality - and one that the developers really slap you in the face with...the overt racism on display in the game is intended to disturb - and the player is supposed to feel disgusted - providing a real motivation to rise up and defeat this force of evil.
I totally get why you might feel it goes too far - but, from my point of view, keeping racism etc out of games (or other forms of entertainment) would just be sweeping it under the rug...things like this put a spotlight on these unsettling issues and confront them head-on. As a player, I would be disgusted (which is better than being ignorant) and it'd appeal to my sense of wanting to 'right the wrongs' of this alternate society.
It's certainly not for everyone - but bad guys in all forms of entertainment have repugnant personality traits to motivate you to want to see them get their comeuppance - in this case, the 'bad guys' are Nazi's and their repugnant trait (among others) is racism...it's raw, it strikes a nerve and is intended to unsettle - but it wants you to feel those things to want something better, in or out of the game.
It'd be different if the game was glamorising or glorifying Nazism - but, in this case, I feel that it's doing the exact opposite - and that's what helps it to stay just the right side of the line.
@Inertiacreep I think there's a complex debate about the use of language like that in a video game (or a film or a TV show).
I understand your argument; using language like that - even in an 18 rated piece and even where it fits thematically - can trivialise it and provide cover for people to use that same language in an offensive way. On the simplest level "it was ok for the people who wrote Wolfenstein to use that word so why can't I?".
It's not a popular argument but I don't think it's untrue and I wouldn't nail you to the cross for putting it across in a slightly clumsy way.
However. It's also completely disingenuous to produce a piece of work set in a particular period of time where the harsh realities of that period are ignored. A piece set in a Nazi/KKK run America where we're told it's bad for black people but the worst that we see it that they have to sit at the back of the bus isn't truthful and is actually unhelpful. It makes it easier to trivialise things, to write off those who warn about the dangers of fascism as merely moaning.
Of course in the best case you get something like Schindlers List - which is a very brutal movie with lots of racial slurs against Jews spoken but for a very particular and truthful effect.
In the worst case you get things like the Quentin Tarantino film where some crack Jewish soliders go into Nazi Germany to get "revenge" - it's a cartoon clearly but many people have such a poor grasp of history that it affects their perception of what happened in Nazi Germany. Of course in that case the problem isn't with the film - it's with the people watching it.
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