EvaUnit02 on 4/3/2024 at 07:00
Caveats about (
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2292260/STAR_WARS_Dark_Forces_Remaster/) Night Dive's remaster of Dark Forces:-
-No option to disable auto aim. So the assist to compensate for antiquated, awkward AF digital vertical aiming (pre-standardisation of mouse look) can't be avoided.
-No quicksaving/loading.
-Price. $30 USD for a 30 year old game? Come on now.
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Quote Posted by Tomi
Knowing EvaUnit's opinions on modern "woke" gaming, I suspect that this is mostly about Lara Croft's reduced cup size.
Regarding next CD TR, we've had leaks:-
Lara will be more or so a "defender/returner of artefacts" rather than a tomb raider for her own pleasure. Clutching pearls over colonialism is very much a woke talking point. She'll reportedly have a girlfriend out of nowhere, classic Lara is way too much of a narcissist to be tied down.
As for your ad hominem, all the insults in the world won't change reality:- the "uglification"/elimination feminity of female characters in Western entertainment media is very a real observable phenomena. For the last several years that they won't nerf the sexuality of characters designed for the "female(/gay male) gaze" (or super kinky shit like Baldur's Gate 3's druid bear sex.) Eg Mortal Kombat 12 removing all almost female fanservice, denying classic outfits; having more or less "combat bhurkas", meanwhile many male characters costumes are the equivalent of Chippendale dancers. The contrast between the accuracy of mocapping of the male and female face models for Ryder siblings in Mass Effect: Andromeda (Alec Ryder looks like a male model, Sarah Ryder looking like she had birth defects.).
It's even worse when they go back and censor content from the past. Eg even recent games aren't safe from censorship caused by dumbing to Californian neo-puritanical global standards. Eg Just the other day they released a patch for four year old game Final Fantasy VII Remake: Intergrade, bringing the censorship of flashback Tifa's outfit in line with the censorship of the Crisis Core remaster.
Keep denying reality and carrying water for the establishment party line by all means though. It'll just hasten to the inevitable crash of the AAA industry. I very much welcome it, we need a great reset back to prior to when non-gamer bean counters and investors took over. Like Volition and Saints Row: get woke, go broke.
Tomi on 4/3/2024 at 18:50
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
As for your ad hominem, all the insults in the world won't change reality:- the "uglification"/elimination feminity of female characters in Western entertainment media is very a real observable phenomena.
Dunno about that, at least I think the term "uglification" is a bit too much. Maybe it's more about portraying these female characters in a more "realistic" way, rather than turning them into plastic bimbos with absurd figures (e.g. Lara Croft in older Tomb Raider games). The world is changing and in this case I think it's for the better. Labelling just about everything as "woke" is getting a bit tedious. Bikini armors and all that have their place, but in games that are supposed to be taken at least somewhat seriously, I find them just kind of ridiculous and immersion-breaking.
Jason Moyer on 4/3/2024 at 22:25
If I can't beat off to a videogame, what is this world coming to.
Aja on 5/3/2024 at 00:46
I thought Sarah Ryder was kinda hot.
demagogue on 5/3/2024 at 02:27
Stiletto Anyway pls.
There are games where stylized sexiness is called for and games where verisimilitude is called for, just like stylized vs. verisimilitudinous environments. I think the issue here is that it goes with the sensibility of the upcoming generation. You can't say sex appeal doesn't have an aesthetic for them. There are probably more anime sex or fan service games coming out now as have ever come out. It's just not the aesthetic it was in the 1990s.
Sulphur on 5/3/2024 at 03:46
Look if a game doesn't make my peepee go sproingsproing, the devs are garbage shill sell outs pandering to the lowest common denominator. Y'all ought to be ashamed of yourselves, I can't even wring one out to Chun-Li any more because I can barely see the boob physics
Jason Moyer on 5/3/2024 at 07:04
Thank god Don'tnod didn't uglify Nilin Cartier-Wells, that was a solid 10 hours of staring at her ass while I pleasured myself. Because being sexually attracted to a videogame character is totally normal.
PigLick on 5/3/2024 at 10:24
Thank the lord, I thought I was the only one!