I mean, people have been playing with regular toys, watching movies, and reading books for generations, and there's 0 challenge (unless you can't read I guess.)

A video game can be the same. You don't need to be challenged to find the game meaningful and interesting and rewarding. A challenging experience can be it's own type of satisfying, sure, but challenge is only one aspect of game design.

Oof couldn't handle yourself being wrong even when it was a shitpost, so they're idiots now? Harsh bud man.

The point I'm making is that your implied claim that it's "pussies" that wrote about this is a trash stance.

It would be like if a dev accidentally drew a swastika in some otherwise innocuous pattern, and then being like "I can't believe these pussies care so much about Nazis, I don't personally care!" Like, bruh, obviously it matters, and the when the dev agree it matters instantly, you can be pretty sure it does. It's not "being a pussy" to point out something obvious like this.

Hanlon's razor tells me no it's not intentional, but given the developer thrived on manufactured outrage for marketing in the past, it wouldn't necessarily be surprising.

Also, thanks for your presented stance as 'not-a-baby,' but the devs themselves disagree and give a shit, so it doesn't seem very valid as far as noncommittal stances go🤷‍♂️

When we say "everyone is a pussy" are we including the publishers and developers who agreed instantly to changing the art the moment it was noticed?

The slang 'Hard R' has been in the English lexicon for several years now and something like this isn't subtle, even if it's certainly unintentional because of the game coming from a different culture and language.

I'll say 8/10, high 70s meta. Decent splash, but won't be making waves. The AC6 of this year.

From what I've seen and played of the demo, it's definitely copying the homework of Nier and Sekiro without really understanding the assignment. But who knows, maybe the main game will have a lot of surprises after the first hour to throw around, and it can really do worse than copying 2 excellent games.

People seem to be forgetting this studio did nothing but shitty gacha games before this though, so the chances they come out of essentially nowhere and produce a GOTY worthy game are basically 0. Definitely feel like the simp squad is overhyping it a bit because of TnA.

It does look nice and run well at least. Perhaps the best thing about the game is it will mark the point where big UE5 releases finally stop shitting the bed in tech and design.

It doesn't seem like you understand the point I was making. Sexualization on it's own is not the issue. Valueless sexualization that exists without justifiying itself is the issue.

Alita is literally a body of metal that doesn't show any actual curves beyond a vaguely feminine outline, and the whole manga/movie uses body augmentation as a display of body horror, so that's a horrendous counter argument. Bayonetta's entire premise is that she fights naked with hair armor and stripper moves, you aren't meant to be taking Bayonetta seriously by any stretch. The other two are also mostly valueless sexualization so they don't help your argument, but at least with x-men they are following common superhero design tropes of using skin-tight costumes to display fitness.

Except the main character of Hades 2, Melinoe, is attractive without being sexualized so the premise falls apart before it even begins.

And there have been plenty of Western games with attractive female characters as leads or central focuses. Literally last year's unanimous GOTY has a bunch of hot females as main characters who can run around naked the entire game if you want.

If you can't see that maybe your perception of what's attractive is warped.

lol

First off that's Aphrodite, goddess of sex and love whose powerset is about charms and crowd control, so her being sexual is relevant to her character. In Stellar Blade she's wearing skin armor with jiggle physics because the dev likes tiddies, not because it adds value to her character concept.

Also, Aphrodite has one single sprite in the entire game and is up on screen for about 15 seconds per hour of running the game, and that's assuming she even shows up on any given run. She is a side-character at best who doesn't have more than an extremely small part in the game.

This is a blatant false equivalence you are drawing by taking tweets out of context.

What is the methodology of this article? From what I can tell it just appears to be the 30 most hated countries, according to some guy.

This is fairly pathetic and desperate.

Dude just heard the story from family and enjoys the embellished version when the real version is the uncle just went missing. The idea that this is a sign of dementia, or worthy of a thread at all, is ridiculous.

Meanwhile at Dump's latest rally he can't remember the word 'alien' and vamps because he doesn't know anything about the battle of Gettysburg.