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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 16:53:09 GMT
what about balls ? it's a concern because space suits look so constricting, which causes overheat and kill sperm production. But maybe they're ventilated. There 's no codex about it. Yup. I love big balls, I cannot lie. Lol. loves big cocks, but also loves big balls...How about giant balls and no cock? Asking for a friend
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Post by SirSourpuss on May 10, 2021 17:46:50 GMT
what about balls ? it's a concern because space suits look so constricting, which causes overheat and kill sperm production. But maybe they're ventilated. There 's no codex about it. I prefer huge balls, with an equal proportionate cock. That's how it's gotta be. One of the things that I enjoyed about being ~200 pounds, was that all my underwear were big enough, for that size. Now that I'm down at ~140, it's like that scene in BG2 where Jon Irenicus fights off the Cowled Wizards.
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Post by Radec on May 10, 2021 18:32:50 GMT
Disagree hate fade to blacks with a passion. I want to see representation of the sexual aspect of relationships, not have cut so others can get more pc romance stuff such as useless hand in hand walking. Well my feeling is that all this romance stuff has become overly taxing on game development and other aspects suffer. I'd rather see it removed altogether than waste resources showing awkward sex scenes to the fullest extent. I don't mind it starting with heavy kissing and undressing but beyond that it's unnecessary imo. Same, it does nothing for me and if anything has a negative impact on the development with time and resources devoted to satisfying every little request made by the dating sim crowd, as opposed to optimizing other things about the game I might actually give a care about. You also get the unmitigated cringe (tali sweat taste, garrus foot fetish) that this sort of thing encourages. They can never bother to make these things affect the narrative or characters' development anyway. It's just some flirt dialogue with a 30 second snu snu scene at the end. Fraternize with Williams or Alenko in ME1, it's still canon waifu Liara getting obsessed with and saving Shepard, and the other two go though the same "I don't trust you because [insert forced drama]" arc regardless. The characters react less than cardboard cutouts. It's so uninspired. Just my opinion though, and clearly one in the minority.
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Post by turianlannister on May 10, 2021 22:10:20 GMT
Well my feeling is that all this romance stuff has become overly taxing on game development and other aspects suffer. I'd rather see it removed altogether than waste resources showing awkward sex scenes to the fullest extent. I don't mind it starting with heavy kissing and undressing but beyond that it's unnecessary imo. Same, it does nothing for me and if anything has a negative impact on the development with time and resources devoted to satisfying every little request made by the dating sim crowd, as opposed to optimizing other things about the game I might actually give a care about. You also get the unmitigated cringe (tali sweat taste, garrus foot fetish) that this sort of thing encourages. Wait, Garrus foot fetish? I romanced Garrus and this is the first I'm hearing about this
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Post by Cyberstrike on May 10, 2021 22:36:23 GMT
Personally I think big boobs are overrated (particularly fake ones) and find there are far more interesting things on a woman's body. In terms of videogames I think the best approach is to keep things at a range of normalcy...small variations in height, weight, and proportions. Attractive faces are the bigger must. Actual sex scenes are a waste of resources, mostly cringy, and better done if you fade to black. I'd rather see hugs, cuddling, and walking hand-in-hand for romance representation.
The most recent to try and avoid that was Abby in The Last of Us Part II and the sheer amount of insane hatred that she got from the useless hardcore gamer trolls over her appearance and nothing else was sick and disgusting. Look there are a lot of legit criticisms to have with TLOU2 but Abby's appearance is NOT one of them.
One of the things that I loved most about that game was how switched the typical and often sexuality is assumed based on appearance of it's lead characters. I mean co-lead Ellie looks like a "traditional" straight woman and while Abby looks like a butch lesbian and yet when the game makes no secret that Ellie is an out lesbian and Abby is shown to be straight.
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Post by Cyberstrike on May 10, 2021 22:40:52 GMT
It's Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones on a turian's face (apparently it's Chellick) making him Turian Lannister I've never seen Game of Thrones. But may I just say I find it disturbing lol.
The same here and from I seen and heard about it, I don't think I'm missing much.
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Post by Cyberstrike on May 10, 2021 22:49:09 GMT
all I see in the trailer is a hetrosexual couple I think it's worth drawing a line between the game (where representation has improved over time) and game marketing which is considerably more coy and plays to tradition demographics. To the point that female-version marketing is very much an afterthought (though it exists). And as you point out, same-sex hasn't yet arrived in the marketing department (still worried about Fox News perhaps)
In the ME:LE trailer did show the scene where Female Shepard and Liara kissed in LotSB. I mean in the DAI trailer where Sera is first shown, I got the feeling that she was lesbian (or bisexual) from the way she was animated and shown and the way Alix Reagan's dialogue described her. I think they're known for LGBT romances now and so they don't feel like making it a big deal.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2021 22:52:22 GMT
I've never seen Game of Thrones. But may I just say I find it disturbing lol.
The same here and from I seen and heard about it, I don't think I'm missing much.
Seasons 1-6 are very entertaining imo, but 5&6 had dips in quality. The ending of GoT, on the other hand, makes ME3's ending look like a well-planned masterclass in concluding an epic tale. I say this, triggering myself as I type it - because it is giving deserved praise to the bad job that BioWare did. It is simply not nearly as terrible as what D&D did with the GoT. So, if you are ok with some rape fantasy in your wizards and warriors epic, and don't mind brutality, I can recommend the early seasons. Stop your playthrough after the BotB and you have seen the best it has to offer which is quite a lot. GoT is interesting for this topic - strong women, sexy women, deadly women. The nurturing ones were killed pretty quickly iirc. The treatment of women is all over the place, but they hold plenty of cards. A properly made GoT game would have potential for this topic.
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Post by General Mahad on May 10, 2021 23:54:26 GMT
Personally I think big boobs are overrated (particularly fake ones) and find there are far more interesting things on a woman's body. In terms of videogames I think the best approach is to keep things at a range of normalcy...small variations in height, weight, and proportions. Attractive faces are the bigger must. Actual sex scenes are a waste of resources, mostly cringy, and better done if you fade to black. I'd rather see hugs, cuddling, and walking hand-in-hand for romance representation.
The most recent to try and avoid that was Abby in The Last of Us Part II and the sheer amount of insane hatred that she got from the useless hardcore gamer trolls over her appearance and nothing else was sick and disgusting. Look there are a lot of legit criticisms to have with TLOU2 but Abby's appearance is NOT one of them.
One of the things that I loved most about that game was how switched the typical and often sexuality is assumed based on appearance of it's lead characters. I mean co-lead Ellie looks like a "traditional" straight woman and while Abby looks like a butch lesbian and yet when the game makes no secret that Ellie is an out lesbian and Abby is shown to be straight.
To be fair, Abby’s arms were WAY thinner during the debut trailer that many thought she was Ellie’s mom. The actual in-game cutscene showed Abby bulked up.
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Post by Noxluxe on May 11, 2021 3:31:16 GMT
I honestly hate the word "representation" in this context. It implies that a singular featured character of any given minority group must necessarily reflect the developer's or the audience's view of the whole group either in-universe or in real life, or should unfailingly reflect the reality of them, which is patently ridiculous. As if Dorian "represents" gay people in Thedas or real life just because he appears in Inquistion and is a gay character. Or as if David Gaider's view of lesbian woman is that they're short, anarchistic, bloodthirsty and have trouble formulating complete sentences just because that's the lesbian character he most felt like including in the party. I have plenty of both mainstream and decidedly non-mainstream interests, and have no problem with the idea of games that heavily or tastefully feature any given orientation or sexuality, as long as the writing bears it out. But it annoys me when otherwise well-written stories suddenly break their own rules in order to enable "inclusiveness" just for the sake of it. Or when people off-handedly expect that others invest and risk huge amounts of money to make the "representation" in some piece of entertainment seem more arbitrarily symmetrical. The base ideas that stories about human beings - who notoriously tend to be less than perfectly open-minded and equal in all their expressions, if anyone can believe that - and human conflicts should be compromised and whitewashed in order to try to make everyone feel better "represented", or that someone else should feel compelled to pay and work to cater to your niche whether or not there's anything in it for them are both crazy to me. Which is why I really wish people would be more supportive of indie and niche games, movies and shows that actually go out of their way to focus on and plausibly set up and explore nonconformist orientations and experiences, instead of complaining that mainstream products don't magically please everybody whether it makes sense or not, even if such a thing was possible. Those are my thoughts about sexuality and representation in video games. As for Mass Effect, I don't see why non-heterosexual relationships and non-mainstream body types and preferences wouldn't be way more common in 2185+, at the very least in human society, considering the overpopulation and advanced biotech. Maybe there would be a slightly more traditional bent in small, budding colonies and on space stations where population control might be more important and general social health and stability more closely monitored? It wouldn't have bothered me if humanity in ME had been presented with a bit more variation like that. It would, however, bother me if the franchise suddenly retconned humanity to be incredibly colorful and varied in their sexualities compared to previous games. I'd much rather have a new franchise about that humanity with their own history having their own problems instead.
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Post by SofaJockey on May 11, 2021 8:55:41 GMT
In the ME:LE trailer did show the scene where Female Shepard and Liara kissed in LotSB. I mean in the DAI trailer where Sera is first shown, I got the feeling that she was lesbian (or bisexual) from the way she was animated and shown and the way Alix Reagan's dialogue described her. I think they're known for LGBT romances now and so they don't feel like making it a big deal. That's a fair point, though I think the MELE trailer has been the first point that the marketing department has properly acknowledged the representation actually in the game. (Andromeda didn't even have enough same-sex choices to complete the in-game romance achievement, until Jaal was adjusted in a patch)
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Post by helios969 on May 11, 2021 9:12:13 GMT
Personally I think big boobs are overrated (particularly fake ones) and find there are far more interesting things on a woman's body. In terms of videogames I think the best approach is to keep things at a range of normalcy...small variations in height, weight, and proportions. Attractive faces are the bigger must. Actual sex scenes are a waste of resources, mostly cringy, and better done if you fade to black. I'd rather see hugs, cuddling, and walking hand-in-hand for romance representation.
The most recent to try and avoid that was Abby in The Last of Us Part II and the sheer amount of insane hatred that she got from the useless hardcore gamer trolls over her appearance and nothing else was sick and disgusting. Look there are a lot of legit criticisms to have with TLOU2 but Abby's appearance is NOT one of them.
One of the things that I loved most about that game was how switched the typical and often sexuality is assumed based on appearance of it's lead characters. I mean co-lead Ellie looks like a "traditional" straight woman and while Abby looks like a butch lesbian and yet when the game makes no secret that Ellie is an out lesbian and Abby is shown to be straight.
I actually really loved the game...though it's depressingly dark. But the change in perspective and contrast between characters was effective in conveying what the writer wanted to impart. Abby's appearance didn't bother me...I guess I didn't even realize it was a thing...but hardly surprising given the general amount of nerd rage these days. People get worked up about everything so the best thing to do is ignore the noise and just go about your business.
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Post by Noxluxe on May 11, 2021 12:32:06 GMT
I actually really loved the game...though it's depressingly dark. But the change in perspective and contrast between characters was effective in conveying what the writer wanted to impart. Abby's appearance didn't bother me...I guess I didn't even realize it was a thing...but hardly surprising given the general amount of nerd rage these days. People get worked up about everything so the best thing to do is ignore the noise and just go about your business. A sound thought. What I observed was that a bunch of players thought her build seemed really distracting and out of place in the specific context of The Last of Us, as opposed to, say, a women's MMA locker room, and then another bunch pushed back talking about how there's nothing strange or unusual about a woman being built like that, and the conversation just devolved into an academical debate about how likely it was for a woman to develop those muscles under those circumstances vs. how awfully sexist it was to even have that thought, rather than a rage over those muscles specifically being one of the main detractions from the game. And because something like an actual debate was being had with each side arguing theirs that just eclipsed most other conversations about the game which were pretty one-sided one way or the other, including on the glaring writing problems. And now, because people just can't keep things separate, the narrative is that the internet couldn't handle Last Of Us 2 because woman with muscles. Sigh. Personally I found Abby's build pretty silly, though the satisfaction of getting to punch zombies to death with her bare fists helped a lot. Combined with the general preachiness of that game and utter lack of story cohesion it was just hard not to feel like the writers really wanted to make a point about butch women, and were more interested in that than telling a true story about a character who thought and behaved like a real human being. Which is another problem I've noticed with all this representation talk. If the game had come out in 2006 nobody would have thought twice about Abby being a really muscular girl in a video game, but because there's this concerted, pervasive effort to push inclusivity in media now it's getting more and more difficult for people to simply trust that a character or story like that is written because someone thought it was really cool, rather than because they wanted to manipulate everyone else into thinking a certain way about women. Which puts a lot of people off even before actually consuming a given work, just because they don't feel like they can trust that it's been written in good faith. And the writer most certainly conveyed what he wanted to impart, no doubt about that. By the end I felt like he had taped the supposed message of the game to a brick and smashed me repeatedly in the face with it, even though the story he had written completely failed to actually support it even from the very first hour. When every conflict in your story obviously about how revenge is empty and only leads to more pain would have been painlessly solved by characters just executing all their enemy captives instead of letting people go to take revenge later... you clearly weren't very focused on the actual narrative while writing it. The Last of Us 1 did a great job of setting up a difficult, dramatic situation and having the main character solve it the way that made sense to him, and then leaving us to reflect on what was right and wrong and what the whole thing meant in terms that might be relevant to us. The sequel did the exact opposite of that. Which is kind of the root of all this 'trying to tell people what to think no matter how utterly bizarre it makes the story' crap.
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Post by Cyberstrike on May 11, 2021 12:42:42 GMT
The most recent to try and avoid that was Abby in The Last of Us Part II and the sheer amount of insane hatred that she got from the useless hardcore gamer trolls over her appearance and nothing else was sick and disgusting. Look there are a lot of legit criticisms to have with TLOU2 but Abby's appearance is NOT one of them.
One of the things that I loved most about that game was how switched the typical and often sexuality is assumed based on appearance of it's lead characters. I mean co-lead Ellie looks like a "traditional" straight woman and while Abby looks like a butch lesbian and yet when the game makes no secret that Ellie is an out lesbian and Abby is shown to be straight.
I actually really loved the game...though it's depressingly dark. But the change in perspective and contrast between characters was effective in conveying what the writer wanted to impart. Abby's appearance didn't bother me...I guess I didn't even realize it was a thing...but hardly surprising given the general amount of nerd rage these days. People get worked up about everything so the best thing to do is ignore the noise and just go about your business.
People were complaining that she couldn't be that jacked in that world even though she lives in sports arena and she has access to food, meds, and a fully functional gym. People were bitching about everything in that game they didn't like Ellie being a lesbian and she doesn't have a graphic sex scene or that Abby does have a graphic sex scene, Lev being transgender, Joel being brutally murdered by Abby. The story being to dark, not being realistic enough, being too realistic, being too long, being too short, and etc. I thought it was pretty good even great at times but it's a extremely dark story. My biggest gripe was how the story was told where you play as Ellie for a long time then at certain point it switches to Abby then you play as her. I thought the way they did it with the parallel story in the prologue (and the way they told the story in The Last of Us part 1: Left Behind DLC) was better and might have worked better and/or made more sense with certain events that come up in the game (like Ellie killing Abby's dog) but hey that is just me.
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I actually really loved the game...though it's depressingly dark. But the change in perspective and contrast between characters was effective in conveying what the writer wanted to impart. Abby's appearance didn't bother me...I guess I didn't even realize it was a thing...but hardly surprising given the general amount of nerd rage these days. People get worked up about everything so the best thing to do is ignore the noise and just go about your business. A sound thought. What I observed was that a bunch of players thought her build seemed really distracting and out of place in the specific context of The Last of Us, as opposed to, say, a women's MMA locker room, and then another bunch pushed back talking about how there's nothing strange or unusual about a woman being built like that, and the conversation just devolved into an academical debate about how likely it was for a woman to develop those muscles under those circumstances vs. how awfully sexist it was to even have that thought, rather than a rage over those muscles specifically being one of the main detractions from the game. And because something like an actual debate was being had with each side arguing theirs that just eclipsed most other conversations about the game which were pretty one-sided one way or the other, including on the glaring writing problems. And now, because people just can't keep things separate, the narrative is that the internet couldn't handle Last Of Us 2 because woman with muscles. Sigh. Personally I found Abby's build pretty silly, though the satisfaction of getting to punch zombies to death with her bare fists helped a lot. Combined with the general preachiness of that game and utter lack of story cohesion it was just hard not to feel like the writers really wanted to make a point about butch women, and were more interested in that than telling a true story about a character who thought and behaved like a real human being. Which is another problem I've noticed with all this representation talk. If the game had come out in 2006 nobody would have thought twice about Abby being a really muscular girl in a video game, but because there's this concerted, pervasive effort to push inclusivity in media now it's getting more and more difficult for people to simply trust that a character or story like that is written because someone thought it was really cool, rather than because they wanted to manipulate everyone else into thinking a certain way about women. Which puts a lot of people off even before actually consuming a given work, just because they don't feel like they can trust that it's been written in good faith. And the writer most certainly conveyed what he wanted to impart, no doubt about that. By the end I felt like he had taped the supposed message of the game to a brick and smashed me repeatedly in the face with it, even though the story he had written completely failed to actually support it even from the very first hour. When every conflict in your story obviously about how revenge is empty and only leads to more pain would have been painlessly solved by characters just executing all their enemy captives instead of letting people go to take revenge later... you clearly weren't very focused on the actual narrative while writing it. The Last of Us 1 did a great job of setting up a difficult, dramatic situation and having the main character solve it the way that made sense to him, and then leaving us to reflect on what was right and wrong and what the whole thing meant in terms that might be relevant to us. The sequel did the exact opposite of that. Which is kind of the root of all this 'trying to tell people what to think no matter how utterly bizarre it makes the story' crap. Nice accounting of the LoU2 debacle, and great point about representation. People think they want representation, until that representation doesn't resemble them much. I mentioned earlier a different R word - respect. Don't represent for inclusion's sake, respect for humanity's sake. And don't force it. If it has be forced, force it to the cutting room floor.
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Post by jrpN7 on May 11, 2021 13:52:46 GMT
All this talk of big dicks and balls. I approve. Gay men, straight women, bi peeps, pan peeps, curious straight men ...unite!
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on May 11, 2021 13:57:54 GMT
In the ME:LE trailer did show the scene where Female Shepard and Liara kissed in LotSB. I mean in the DAI trailer where Sera is first shown, I got the feeling that she was lesbian (or bisexual) from the way she was animated and shown and the way Alix Reagan's dialogue described her. I think they're known for LGBT romances now and so they don't feel like making it a big deal. That's a fair point, though I think the MELE trailer has been the first point that the marketing department has properly acknowledged the representation actually in the game. (Andromeda didn't even have enough same-sex choices to complete the in-game romance achievement, until Jaal was adjusted in a patch) Meanwhile now groups like gay men, ace people, etc can’t get two romance achievements in MELE unless they don’t play as themselves. And lesbians can’t get all three (unless LotSB counts for it).
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Post by SirSourpuss on May 11, 2021 14:10:53 GMT
By the end I felt like he had taped the supposed message of the game to a brick and smashed me repeatedly in the face with it, But the real question is whether the brick was golden and did it have a slice of lemon attached to it. Beyond the glaring narrative issues of TLoU2, one of which is carving a path made out of human corpses, just to reach the person you want to kill, only not to kill them in the end which ... at that point, I'd consider anyone desensitized to the idea of murder to then get second thoughts? Like, it's at the 593rd that I draw the line and I stop killing, can't kill no more, especially this bitch that killed my father figure right in front of me and made me watch while she and her friends did it, right after my father figure saved their lives, which already proves they are irredeemable fucking assholes that I could never bring myself to root for there is also the matter of how Naughty Dog handled the leaks, by outright lying about them, handled the marketing, with that false advertisement that showed Ellie and Joel talking about how Joel wasn't going to let Ellie make the trip alone and in the game, the same scene plays out exactly like the trailer, only Joel is not in the scene, but some other guy, or how they copyright struck youtube channels for merely mentioning TLoU2 and leaks, without even discussing what the leaks were about, but rather talking about how fans expressed their feelings toward the content of the leaks. Especially the last part was incredibly out of bounds, by Naughty Dog. And I am sure it wasn't ND or even SONY that had a hand directly, but a company that SONY hired to do the damage control, but even then, employees of that company would not be taking initiative to flag all channels even brushing the game in a negative way. They had instructions, they came from somewhere and what could and could not go was dictated from up top, a.k.a. the SONY/ND PR department. It wasn't a mistake and it wasn't an overzealous employee that did these. These actions reflect on the company, its staff and their work. And not to mention SONY/ND never made an apology statement, only that it was a third party that was hired to do the job. Imagine for a moment that the US hired a PMC, mercenaries, and were told to do a mission in ... Iran and while doing so, the mercenaries ... killed an entire village of unarmed civilians. Would the US say "we're not responsible for the actions of the people we hired to do a job for us"? Well, fr the US it wouldn't be the first time. And it'd go about as well as it has each time something like that has happened. So that's what SONY got. Not an equal outrage, of course, because loss of actual life is kinda different to false copyright strikes, but either one is not a good look. Just one is far worse than the other.
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Post by Radec on May 11, 2021 14:20:02 GMT
That's a fair point, though I think the MELE trailer has been the first point that the marketing department has properly acknowledged the representation actually in the game. (Andromeda didn't even have enough same-sex choices to complete the in-game romance achievement, until Jaal was adjusted in a patch) Meanwhile now groups like gay men, ace people, etc can’t get two romance achievements in MELE unless they don’t play as themselves. And lesbians can’t get all three (unless LotSB counts for it). I cant get any romance achievements if I play as "myself", since im not a philandering scumbag or idiot, and all of the romances are some combination of fraternization with a subordinate, dangerous for one's health, or ethically dubious. Im also not a biotic IRL, so I guess I'll never get the lift or throw trophies either. Shepard=/=me. Hence "Role playing game"
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Post by Sondergaard on May 11, 2021 16:45:03 GMT
Personally I think big boobs are overrated (particularly fake ones) and find there are far more interesting things on a woman's body. In terms of videogames I think the best approach is to keep things at a range of normalcy...small variations in height, weight, and proportions. Attractive faces are the bigger must. Actual sex scenes are a waste of resources, mostly cringy, and better done if you fade to black. I'd rather see hugs, cuddling, and walking hand-in-hand for romance representation. Disagree hate fade to blacks with a passion. I want to see representation of the sexual aspect of relationships, not have cut so others can get more pc romance stuff such as useless hand in hand walking. I preferred Inquisition's take on it, showing them after the deed (with Cass or Sera anyway). Casual, comfortable nudity. Didn't feel cringe at all.
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Post by General Mahad on May 11, 2021 16:55:44 GMT
By the end I felt like he had taped the supposed message of the game to a brick and smashed me repeatedly in the face with it, But the real question is whether the brick was golden and did it have a slice of lemon attached to it. Beyond the glaring narrative issues of TLoU2, one of which is carving a path made out of human corpses, just to reach the person you want to kill, only not to kill them in the end which ... at that point, I'd consider anyone desensitized to the idea of murder to then get second thoughts? Like, it's at the 593rd that I draw the line and I stop killing, can't kill no more, especially this bitch that killed my father figure right in front of me and made me watch while she and her friends did it, right after my father figure saved their lives, which already proves they are irredeemable fucking assholes that I could never bring myself to root for there is also the matter of how Naughty Dog handled the leaks, by outright lying about them, handled the marketing, with that false advertisement that showed Ellie and Joel talking about how Joel wasn't going to let Ellie make the trip alone and in the game, the same scene plays out exactly like the trailer, only Joel is not in the scene, but some other guy, or how they copyright struck youtube channels for merely mentioning TLoU2 and leaks, without even discussing what the leaks were about, but rather talking about how fans expressed their feelings toward the content of the leaks.Especially the last part was incredibly out of bounds, by Naughty Dog. And I am sure it wasn't ND or even SONY that had a hand directly, but a company that SONY hired to do the damage control, but even then, employees of that company would not be taking initiative to flag all channels even brushing the game in a negative way. They had instructions, they came from somewhere and what could and could not go was dictated from up top, a.k.a. the SONY/ND PR department. It wasn't a mistake and it wasn't an overzealous employee that did these. These actions reflect on the company, its staff and their work. And not to mention SONY/ND never made an apology statement, only that it was a third party that was hired to do the job. Imagine for a moment that the US hired a PMC, mercenaries, and were told to do a mission in ... Iran and while doing so, the mercenaries ... killed an entire village of unarmed civilians. Would the US say "we're not responsible for the actions of the people we hired to do a job for us"? Well, fr the US it wouldn't be the first time. And it'd go about as well as it has each time something like that has happened. So that's what SONY got. Not an equal outrage, of course, because loss of actual life is kinda different to false copyright strikes, but either one is not a good look. Just one is far worse than the other. They and Sony went hard on the leaks, I even got slammed with a copyright notice by those chuckleheads on this very site (not by the mods, you guys are okay).
I will enjoy watching their failures much like I do with BioWare and EA.
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Post by General Mahad on May 11, 2021 16:58:25 GMT
Disagree hate fade to blacks with a passion. I want to see representation of the sexual aspect of relationships, not have cut so others can get more pc romance stuff such as useless hand in hand walking. I preferred Inquisition's take on it, showing them after the deed (with Cass or Sera anyway). Casual, comfortable nudity. Didn't feel cringe at all. Cassandra's was romantic I'm not going to lie.
BioWare did well in that regard, why they wanted to follow The Witcher with romances in Andromeda was beyond me.
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Post by Noxluxe on May 11, 2021 17:16:28 GMT
Disagree hate fade to blacks with a passion. I want to see representation of the sexual aspect of relationships, not have cut so others can get more pc romance stuff such as useless hand in hand walking. I preferred Inquisition's take on it, showing them after the deed (with Cass or Sera anyway). Casual, comfortable nudity. Didn't feel cringe at all. It could be a little cringe. But it was a damn sight better than full-on sex scenes, agreed. Probably my preferred approach to the subject as well. Give me tender pillow talk over awkward 3d animated dolls humping for thirty seconds any day of the week.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on May 11, 2021 17:27:35 GMT
I would love if they had explicitly Ace characters and romances in the games. The only one they’ve had so far is Brie in Anthem. If not that then at least continue ones that can be seen that way (Josephine) or at least leave it ambiguous if you have sex or not (Kelly, Suvi) or some have two routes one with one without (Cora, Dorian) and respect the choice (unlike Jaal that despite the option still acts like you did).
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Post by SirSourpuss on May 11, 2021 17:28:01 GMT
They and Sony went hard on the leaks, I even got slammed with a copyright notice by those chuckleheads on this very site (not by the mods, you guys are okay).
I will enjoy watching their failures much like I do with BioWare and EA. Wow! Really? What the fuck? I had no idea. Talk about the nerve of these people.
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