Stranger Than Heaven sets Jan 17 release, Tupac to appear
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and Sega confirmed Stranger Than Heaven will launch January 17 and announced Tupac Shakur will appear as an in-game character. The cast reveal also lists Japanese actors Takashi Ukaji and Kohei Tsuji joining the guest lineup with Tupac. Tupac's inclusion is a rare high-profile posthumous portrayal in a major release, making the title notable for both gaming and music culture crossover.
The Tupac stuff in Stranger Than Heaven was already gross, but its way worse now that I know his "estate" is just this one random rich guy, and not Tupac's surviving sister.
C H A I59I feel like maybe some guy completely unrelated to a dead person shouldn't be allowed to own the rights to that person's likeness, actually.
CrumbedUp - Billy Bat English Vol 1 Out NOW48oh, not just a random rich guy he's the guy who signed Tupac to his label he's also the executor of his mom's estate and Tupac's sister sued him saying he was embezzling from it
xjkappax18When Ed Gein props a corpse on a stick and make it dance people call it illegal when billionaires do it they call it a technological advancement.
Camila con C (y el libro misterioso)11Its funny how capcom has gone full redemption arc, meanwhile RGG is doing a full villian arc. things were so different back in 2017....
DaysAhead❔🌌6knowing this: snoop's super generic answers (outside of not knowing/caring about what's going on) feels like a lie by omission
The Bardess4This whole "digitally resurrecting" dead celebrities and icons is very gross to me and I'll never get over that. Let them rest for fuck's sake.
Benasaurus Wrex4I've completely checked out on that game. Seeing Tupac in it today just reinforced for me that this was the right decision.
moodytenure.bsky.social2No wonder drake ended up with that ring
Comfortable Creatures2Honestly Yakuza Kiwami 3 was already the sign for me that the RGG we once knew was just gone so we're not even putting the final nail in the coffin here, we're encasing the coffin in cement.
Tu Pac announced Stranger Than Heaven, game out Jan 15th, 2027
Wario64106Snoop Dogg on stage for Stranger Than Heaven. "I'm a big fan of SEGA" - Snoop Snoop Dogg says he works very closely with the Tu Pac estate Death Row Games - "bringing to life in a couple months"
porkfriedrice.bsky.social73this is how I find out Tupac is alive???
Queso37God I hope they don't use AI for his voice or something
yeaitsme1015.bsky.social34That honestly is a bit disturbing to me. Also Lap Dogg in the game is also disappointing.
sean24Confirmation Tupac went to Heaven
90daysensei.bsky.social16Hate to be the friend that’s too woke but i don’t love that choice
wawahoagiefest.bsky.social13Um... Don't know how I feel about this
👾LockeWick👾12The moment any interest I had for the game completely faded away.
Cold stone Steve ice cream7I really don't think he did
Zac!7Snoop helping a bunch of dorks make money off a dead artist makes perfect sense.
Dom Rocco7I was really psyched for this game and if this is some AI bastard Tupac I'm out
RealBoomerghost6we got Tupac back before gta6
Now watch Nagoshi add Biggie Smalls to Gang of Dragon.
Chiropi_NocturnaVT5I honestly feel so disturbed by this. Like idc if Snoop is "working closely" with Tupac's estate or whatever; this seems just straight-up disrespectful to me. They're puppeting a dead man as entertainment. How is that okay?
Goblin In A Jacket4tu pac didn't announce shit, he's been dead for decades.
🍉wooooooooods3Either he is completely mute or Snoop’s joining Drake at Oakland
Watcher at the Gate2So dumb and so shady
HeckmanFT7 🐰2sega with all due respect wtf are you doing
Blaster13602Well, I guess that's one way to piss on someone's grave.
Went from waking up so excited to see more Stranger Than Heaven news and then seeing the fucking Tupac thing like Ive never been so quick to drop something I was really excited about lmfao
★ winnie ★56I cant tell you how much a period piece Yakuza style game calls to my interests but RGG/Sega is maybe the studio with the most Own Goals ever its honestly morbidly impressive to watch
Gunpla Brian4Winnie?!? WINNIE WHAT IS THIS?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!?
Catherine (she/they)3I have never gone from "I will actually preorder this game, money no object" to "...at least we'll always have the trailers" so fast.
The inclusion of Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven alone was already gross enough to make me think it was gonna be a pass but this just confirms that. RGG is so fucking cooked.
DunnieBITES!5I already knew RGG was falling off pretty bad given everything else they’ve been doing, but like This is such a genuine deeply unpleasant surprise and *nobody* seems pleased about it. Like they went “how do we piss off the most amount of people at one time?”
CDJohnny2This just confirms to me that the ONLY true prequel will always be Yakuza 0. Fuck RGG and their new bullshit.
look, okay: Bunta Sugawara is in Stranger than Heaven, and he's been dead for a while Toshiro Mifune is in Onimusha: Way of the Sword, so same but I'm not sure how I feel about Tupacuza Origins here
Lucifer Hunklehead2Feels tacky, but not anymore tacky than the, like, 5 or 6 posthumous albums "by" Tupac that have come out. Whatever ick factor this has is kind of flattened by those existing already
George J. Horvath2Yeah, & Onimusha 2 used Yusaku Masuda, who was dead by then too My first reaction to the complaints was "Wait, did we learn something horrific about Tupac that I didn't know about?", because using a dead guy in a video game has been done before. Hell, SRW still re-uses voice work from dead people.
