BUT HATOK, THOSE AREN'T MAINSTREAM AAA VIDEO GAMES EDIT: Does anyone remember the era of video games when there was no DLC, there were no patches, updates, or any fixes? I do, here's a treasure from that time You can be a mother who owns her own farm and runs the town. Or not. It's your call.
But 4Kids won't be around to do the voices....
I want people to keep in mind when insulting these characters that this is something true: A lot of people connect with these characters. Now obviously obligatory fem side kick no one cares about. But in video games, people care about Peach, Lara Croft, Samus, Cortana, Sylvia etc. Women especially. Even if it's truly because there's nothing else, it says a lot about their roles when they have very strong fan followings when these people could just dedicate their lives to The Boss. I just wanted to say this because I noticed a lot of people were speaking broadly and condemning female characters as a whole rather than citing examples of bad. I think if a character has a lot of fans, it means they did something right. Whether we like those characters or not is an entirely different thing. Black Widow is the victim of at least three syndromes mentioned in this thread. Trinity syndrome, sex appeal, and sidekick. Do I think that devalues her personally? No, but I'm saying other people probably will.[DOUBLEPOST=1403031160][/DOUBLEPOST]WHY'S THIS GUY WHO LIKES SUDA CHARACTERS TALKING ABOUT WOMEN IN MEDIA OUTRAGEOUS LISSEN DAWG.... Spoiler: Shion
No one questioned your like or your opinion towards MGS2. You said it's not a classic by anyone's standards. That's factually incorrect- that game has been given much praise over the years now that the Raiden secret is out and is widely complimented for its meta-narrative. The game is very popular nowadays and has appeared on many publications' greatest games of all time list.
>221 game backlog >replaying Mass Effect because months ago I romanced the wrong character THIS LIFE IT HURTS
@Misty 's here! ABORT! ABORT ABORT! [insert gif of someone hitting a big red button saying MISTY IN THREAD and alarms going off and people retreating and stuff]
He shows a video to display "Franklin" talking. The only person talking in that video is Lamar. He has never played GTAV. Anyway, the way he talks is that what he wants is less games. I used to love David Wong. I read a lot of his works, but he always talked vague ideas. He betrayed his own words to become an SJW, and now he's finally talking specifics to show he really has no idea what a video game is or why they're good. The story is the weakest part to a game in most cases- the best case being Dark Souls. It almost has no plot, but fans read the description for every item until they had crafted lore and a tangible universe. Laying the seeds and creating a setting are much more important than integrating a story and gameplay (the most basic terms possible here... What type of gameplay does he want linked to the story? Why does he want less combat games if he wants "gameplay" linked to a story? What type of story? What part of the story needs to be linked that he feels isnt'- the narrative, the setting, the characters, the dialogue, the actual events tied together?) He's saying nothing- but it's the way he writes that gets people a little high on his words. He writes in a way that denies all other possibilities and says nothing. All I see here is a man who wants games to be movies. Suggesting To Kill A Mocking Bird or Pulp Fiction have game adaptations (whether he was being figurative or not , he said this) is nearing stupidity- there'd be no game aspect. Saying that playing games with your friends is bad (I know he was harping on these games being only playable with friends, but he omitted that the only game he mentioned that was co-op only was that Need for Speed, while Fable has AI's fill in and has a single player. I'm not sure on Unity as I don't care.) is just dumb because he wants the immersion (Something that doesn't even exist... the word they want is engrossment. If immersion existed in video games, a microwave signaling my now burnt hot pocket wouldn't take me out of the world of Bioshock Infinite). Saying that games need less mini-games is dumb because people hated that Infinite lessened the Bioshock 1 experience. Saying that there only needs to be one console is a horrendous idea because even back on the NES when Nintendo basically had a monopoly they did some pretty messed up stuff (just to reiterate... exclusives are the single best thing for the console market and if you don't like it, tough. Console players don't like PC exclusives staying exclusives. We get met with "Oh well" rightfully). He's just... he's just wrong. Even when he wrote about Infinite he was just mind blowingly missing the point. Like when he talked Elizabeth's reaction scene? You know, like when he said how the aggressive dickhead soldier is checking for bullets on bodies of soldiers because he's low on ammo while his companion realized that rebellion isn't a romantic tale made no sense? It's clear he didn't even play Infinite, as he could've easily used a better example- why is Elizabeth finding money but they're eating out half-finished candy bars out of the trash? Why not buy food? Either way, he's very, very Wong. He's factually wong on many levels and at some points even being childish and ignoring how life works (that console monopoly thing kind of irks me). Still, his writing is very intoxicating. It's easy to see why people sides with him- he makes his points so well that you feel you need to side with him. But he also wants games to movies so I really can't be bothered. Addendum: Lissen, I get wanting more engrossing games with more stories. But if we had that all the time like we did after Bioshock came out (who played Singularity?), it wouldn't be special. Not every game needs to use narrative to make it so you don't get off the couch. Look at Mega Man. I know lots of people who played HOURS of Mega Man and didn't beat one level. They kept playing because the challenge was inviting and the combating and jumping through an obstacle course you know you can beat is engrossing on its own.
Guys, part two is actually hilarious because he's complaining about how diverse characters should be right (and in the usual way, omitting shining examples) and gets to Franklin from GTAV. He shows a cutscene where he thinks Franklin talks, but rather it's the character Lamar. HE CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO VERY DIFFERENT BLACK PEOPLE That was so delicious I shall return to this restaurant.
I used to fill it with Noibats for people just starting to get. I hope it worked.[DOUBLEPOST=1402983440][/DOUBLEPOST] Didn't know you knew anything about fighting. I used to watch MMA but every fight just turned into men looking like they were boning.
Fun fact: I enjoy watching boxing. Probably due to Punch-Out and Rocky movies, but no less I have fun when I catch a fight on TV.
I don't think women are mocked in media. I think misrepresented, objectified, and treated as the end to a joke are very different (this one is mocking). Women are even treated as the knowledge banks in sitcoms. That said, this isn't a place for fights and hasn't been for 133 pages, Mak. This isn't a place to really beeee bothered by someone's opinions. If it's not a safe place, then it's lost its point.[DOUBLEPOST=1402978961][/DOUBLEPOST] It's the quickest way to lotto heaven
Minus the giant image, he kinda got you @Trigger
I'm not saying mocked (I don't think women are ever mocked either honestly), but equal representation for those sexual preferences is um... difficult. Gays and women are movie stars. Transgendereds are used as an insult still :/
A friend of mine and I were discussing how asexuals and trans-gendereds have it a lot more difficult in media than gays or women.
Hang on a second.... If you thought.... That people on a Kingdom Hearts fan forum... Would know the answer to defying gravity.... Wouldn't you see more people floating around @Misty , you've secretly developed a physics bending organization.
It appeals to one handed players. No but really, I'm down for exploitation games. But can they at least be good games?
Onechanbara is way better exploitation and a way better game.
It's all the way over there...[DOUBLEPOST=1402970872][/DOUBLEPOST] >Come to Kingdom Hearts forum for porn May I suggest 4chan?
Lady from Devil May Cry is one of the best female characters in games, and she's a tomboy. For good reasons, too.
Gross .
