Stranger Than Heaven devs explain Tupac inclusion

Everything I've seen and heard about this decision suggests RGG Studio see Tupac as one of their talent - they're not putting Tupac in their game, they're putting who they imagine Tupac would be 30 years after his murder in it. At that point it's barely an homage to the man. It's someone else.

It's genuinely impressive having a response as bad as the excuse for why they put Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven.

I think the whole of this Tupac thing could have been avoided if RGG were East Coast rapper fans instead of west coast. Members of the Wu Tang Clan very much fit the vibe of a Yakuza and are mostly still alive and into video games!

If their answer is, "Oh, we're totally cool with people who use weed now," I'll be very confused, but okay, cool. If not, how did their partnership on Stranger Than Heaven actually happen?

I was initially kinda interested in Stranger Than Heaven, but with the way Yakuza Kiwami 3 turned out, and their continued obliviousness with the Tupac thing, I'm gonna pass on it. If it's great, cool. But I'm so weary with RGG right now.

i can't help but notice that everyone speaking up about Tupac in Stranger than Heaven was curiously silent when Johnny Silverhand was cruelly resurrected into a spiteful ghost of vengeance in Cyberpunk 2077. i see you 👀

me with a time machine meeting the devs of stranger than heaven

nonsense aside that's sort of a strange sentiment since stranger than heaven's final time period takes place before uh he was born

My Stranger Than Heaven Preview video is now LIVE! Another Crime Dramagame from RGG STudio(the creators of Yakuza) yet this is very much its own thing that plays out in a different way, so lets talk about the gameplay! youtu.be/_BRNIv_iE64

and dont even get me started on who i helped get into stranger than heaven

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I would like to thank the developers of Stranger Than Heaven for making a combat system so similar to that of The Callisto Protocol that I was able to share one of my all-time favourite anecdotes.

RGG has consistently chosen the worst decision at every turn for nearly a year now - so much so that it feels like I’m primed to instantly give the most disingenuous read to everything about Stranger Than Heaven (because so far it’s all been that way)

This is not a story that makes any sense for the real life Tupac to be in and is now starting to feel more and more like cashing in on Tupac's legacy as a marketing stunt that isn't interested in respecting or honoring him. "Tupac was so cool" is not honoring him, it's reducing him to a product.

Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven has me sworn off RGG. This is rich white men who stole the Tupac estate from the family, selling it to nationalistd with criminal ties. To perform digital blackface puppeting a historical icon's corpse. I rarely say shit like this, but if you're black, do not buy