I meant to ask this before. Whatever happened to that SF fan anime? I always wanted to see your Bison VA work in the full length project but to my knowledge it never released.
No problem, thanks for being receptive and reading my megapost, hah! Just doing my part to let people know more about this so that in the future we all have it better - the performers and the audience.
Unfortunately, Iām not too sure about itās current status. I havenāt kept in contact with Otaking lately, but heās a pretty busy guy, last I saw heās still working on it, but also working on other projects in the meantime. Should be a lot of fun when itās finished, fingers crossed for some updates soon! 
1 Like
I donāt know why you are so focused on how I chose to consume the gameās story. I would have still disliked the gameās story if I actually played the thing. The only thing that would have changed is that I would seething as I would have paid $60 for it.
Summary
I do think Abby was setup for failure. Sheās unlikable from the jump, her initial plan was to charge head first start into a heavily fortified town. She only finds Joel through dumb luck and kills him. After getting her revenge Abby doesnāt change much. Her comrades in the are just as unlikable as she is, engages in an ethnic cleaning campaign against a cult, Abby has no issues killing the people within her group if they go against her and Lev feels more like a prop than character seeing how he only exists to make Abby more sympathetic. Iām honestly at a lost as to what Naughty Dog wanted me to feel about this character. She was a sociopath who didnāt always kick the dog I guess.
1 Like
Hey man, you know far more about this than I do. You are literally directly effected by it. Iād be a fool NOT to listen to you.
2 Likes
Yeah.
Summary
I donāt get how they forgot how to build a character to make you like them, as they did that well in the last game. Seems they threw that book out of the window with Abby. Every attempt they make to make you like her comes off (to me) as shallow and manipulative after weāve seen her kill someone who saved her like that.
Jeremy Jahns just shot out an idea during his spoiler review that sounded good.
Summary
Basically said they should have had game where you play as Abby and Ellie. You know sheās after revenge for a her family but you donāt know itās against Joel. Near the end of the game, you she learns about Joel and then that would lead into the 3rd game. This would have given audience and Ellie the chance to build a repore with Abby like htey did with Joel and Ellie in the first game.
3 Likes
@purbeast was it you who has arcades at home? You might be interested in this
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iircade/iircade-immersive-arcade-gaming-at-home
5 Likes
Yeah I have arcades at home but not interested in these things. I saw the kickstarter a while back. IMO the price is stupid expensive for a bartop. I personally have no use for a bartop and those look like arcade 1upās in that having 2 grown adults playing simultaneously isnāt realistic. I will be interested in how the whole game eco system works out though.
EDIT:
And they are charging for emulated games too. Itās nice that it simplifies it for people who donāt want to bother which is nice but I know how to do all that myself.
Summary
JUST saw that review (without looking at this post). That would have helped a lot. If we HAD to have Abby and Abby had to kill Joel, we needed some more fleshing out (in a non parlor-trick way) before she did it.
I simply disagree with you that you think knowing the story for months and then watching someone else play what you already know is going to happen pretending like you donāt already have a bias to the game has no effect on how you consume it and that it is the same as playing the game without having any idea of what is going to happen. Itās a fundamental concept that I simply disagree with you on. And thereās really no reason to keep discussing it.
You think that watching a game and playing a game results in the same consumption of the whole product. I donāt. Thereās really no getting past that.
3 Likes
No one is under the assumption that playing a game and watching it are the same.
But people can know that if the selling point of a game (in TLOU2ās case, story) looks bad to them, it would have been worse had they played it. I donāt see how thatās a difficult concept to understand.
1 Like
I never made this argument. No one made this argument. Where did you get this from?
1 Like
I saw that, $350 for a Bartop that runs emualtion?
HARD PASS.
That is way too much for a Bartop. For $100 more you can get the Arcade 1 up in Walmart.
1 Like
What is it with everybody working with Tencent? It honestly doesnāt look bad but I donāt trust them
Tencent just provides easy money for a lot of companies. Yes, theyāre corrupt as shit but most developers donāt really care. They want the free money.
2 Likes
Tencent got so much money but they couldnāt bother to make new sounds or something. Re-using SF4 sounds just makes it feel all kinds of chinese cheap.
I honestly donāt mind the reuse of SF4 sounds, game had great sound design IMO. But I can understand wanting something different tho
I like the 2D sprites Tencent is using too (or what appears to be 2D)
Really lets you know whatās up with SF5, doesnāt it?