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instythot

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For PC releases as far as your second and third examples go, sure, but emulators are two generations back, and third party distributors like Limited Run Games are both overpriced and, by their nature and name, limited. The best chance a developer has is being able to insist on a physical release only.
I think the deep space waifu people did a physical switch version through limited run that does cartoon cooch nudity, not just cartoon tit nudity. They seem pretty open to throwing just about anything on a game cart whether or not the console manufacturer blesses it, if a dev's "art" demands going outside of those bounds
 

John Titor

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Surprised someone on Twitter hasn't made a crusade about Heike Kagero being homo/trans/what-the-fuck-everphobic.

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Funny enough, he isn't even a gay stereotype, he's a reference people won't get. He's a kabuki actor named after a famous noble, so it would be like fighting a Shakespeare character.
I feel like caesars legion in fallout new vegas being a joinable faction and practicing slavery while treating women like breeding cattle would stir up a lot of shit today.


Making the Legion look viable was hard enough already but modern people don't understand nuance. Legion's MO will sound sensible if you put yourself in the mindset of a person forced to live in an irradiated wasteland, they're cruel and unsympathetic but they also held shit together.
 

albert chan

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Pretty self-explanatory.

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Even the girls from the 2000’s look different compared to today‘s women:

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Also, the company that made this was sued because of one girl who lied about her age not knowing that she’d be filmed:


It didn't take long for one of the females in the game to come forward and sue the Bermuda shorts off of Top Heavy, Microsoft, and Sony, for using her visage (and more) without consent. Or legal consent, rather. The student was, in fact, 17 years old at the time, making her a minor and legally incapable of giving consent on such a matter.

Now, it appears as though the temporary holding order on the sale of the game has become quite permanent. On The Guy Game Web site, Top Heavy states, "The rumors are true! The most controversial video game ever created - The Guy Game - is no longer available!"

Maybe. But what to do with all that footage of the game starlets in action? Answer: Pack it all into a DVD, name it The Guy Game: Game Over!, and sell it for $19.99. In a Too Hot for TV move, Top Heavy is including new video footage and new girls not included in the game on the DVD, thus making the most interactive part of the DVD pressing the "play" button. The real bargain shopper will go for the special offer package, which includes the DVD and a hat and T-shirt emblazoned with The Guy Game logo, for $39.99.
 

Indian J.C denton

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The prince from the sands of time he's pretty much a misogynist during the early parts of the game (which makes sense when you consider it takes place in the middle east during the 900s ) also would include kaileena from warrior within not only does the chick straight up looks like a slut she's also the villain and the cherry on top
if you get all the life upgrades you get a special sword that's needed in order to get the good ending of the game after you defeat the real villain of the game the dahaka the ending cutscene has the prince getting blown off and fucked by kaileena whose a goddess btw
 

Dom Cruise

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The developers and creative director being allowed to make the game in the vision they see. Seems like it's all micromamaged by a committee of money minded executives who see trending ideas and Twitter as a focus group to be listened too.
I hate that we basically lost the Jack Thompson battle after all, the battle for game developers to be able to simply make whatever game they wanted.

I wonder what would happen if you went back in time to the peak of anti-Thompson sentiment among gamers and told them what would happen, the crushed looks they'd have on their faces, all the fighting for free speech in games and it was all done in vain, there's not even been an all new Grand Theft Auto game at all in almost ten years.

Even the girls from the 2000’s look different compared to today‘s women:
For one thing they were more likely to actually be women lol.

But yeah, 2000s women certainly have a look, it was a crazy novelty called women making themselves attractive to men, which is the polar opposite of what a good number of women go for now.

2000s culture revolved around penises going into vaginas or the desire for a penis to go into a vagina as much as the culture revolves around Black Lives Matter today and it absolutely doesn't even remotely revolve around penises going into vaginas anymore, that's the last thing they want anyone to be doing anymore.

I'm not sure why exactly the tide so radically turned against that save for the fact that unfortunately a lot of guys really were creeps.
 

Travis Touchdown

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Cheat codes. For the longest time I thought devs stopped putting cheat codes in games just to nickel and dime you with microtransactions instead, but that only really applies to mobile games. Cheat codes on consoles and pc games mostly just let you dick around in god mode, just unlock content without having to play the game, or just use silly shit like Donkey Kong mode in Goldenye, all of which DLC rarily ever do, so why did games stop using them? Is it just because people care more about bullshit achievements now? The only games I played recently that have cheat codes were Megaman Legacy Collection 2 and Shovel Knight Showdown, both of which are just to unlock all content if you want it right out the gate. That seems like such a no-brainer for fighting games in tournament setups.
 
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why did games stop using them?

There's greed. You mentioned that already, but there's a few reasons people don't like being talked about.

There's also the way games are made these days. Cheat codes like infinite ammo, level select, etc. were useful to test games. Nowadays games can be made in a way that doesn't require them. It's why "cheats" on PC were just console commands.

When games were made by 12 people in a basement, it was easy to sneak in an image of a dev or an inside joke. When you have 100+ people in the main studio, plus however many outsourcing studios. You can't really add a DK reference since it takes too long, and has to be tested and go through certification.

Which is another reason why you don't see cheat codes. Certification, testing, universal standards like menu layout. It's simply too expensive, and doesn't add much to the profitability of a game.
 

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Played Silent Hill 2 again, and can’t help but wonder if we’ll ever see something like the Dog or UFO endings in more mainstream titles again. Something hidden that intentionally shits all over the tone and story just for laughs.
Isn't that what Whedonisms are for though?
 

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No idea. At the very least the endings I mentioned aren’t smarmy or cynical about it.
You're absolutely right on that point, and that's the problem. Joss Whedon and the MCU has ruined storytelling by making bathos into a goal for virtually all mediums, and the rise of "Subverting Expectations™️" has made that trend worse by making subversions hammer down their insulting nature after coming completely out of left field.
 

Overcast

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You're absolutely right on that point, and that's the problem. Joss Whedon and the MCU has ruined storytelling by making bathos into a goal for virtually all mediums, and the rise of "Subverting Expectations™️" has made that trend worse by making subversions hammer down their insulting nature after coming completely out of left field.
I do miss when something was being relatively straight forward rather than trying to pull the rug from under you.

There’s a reason why tropes, archetypes and cliches stood the test of time after all.
 

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I don't think a modern game could do Caesar's Legion. A fascist authoritarian faction with child soldiers that crucifies it's enemies and keeps women as breeding slaves? And you can join them? It's one of the reasons I don't think an official remake of FNV will ever happen.
 

IneptRobot

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40 page game manuals. Fuck it, physical game manuals in general.
The two best game manuals I remember reading front to back are Halo and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
Halo went deep into the background of the world, told a short prologue story, detailed the MJOLNIR MK. V armour and the systems it used and even gave the aliens original species names vs the ones the humans gave them.
Arcanum had a huge lore dump and the history of the world and a recipe for Halfling Banana Bread at the end of it. You could read that manual and make a DnD game out of the world before ever even touching the game.
 
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I'm sure Conker Bad Fur Day.
The Xbox version doesn't meet even the same original feeling and that game was released in 2005, 4 fucking years later than the original release on the N64, and that's because the game is censored and you need pay to uncensoring, lmao.
And i'm still surprised how Nintendo accepted that game; there's a lot of background about that anyway.
On the other hand, Conker's Bad Fur Day 64 got rereleased on Rare Replay in 2015, while Live & Reloaded didn't. Rare Replay was even a pack-in game for a while, so, go figure.

It’s weird how inconsistent the Nintendo censors were back in the day. Maniac Mansion has blood all over the title screen, Abadox is full of blood, the Water of Life in Kid Icarus still looks like wine (even though it’s sake)...
There's a short article written by a developer recounting their experience with Nintendo, cataloging everything they asked to be changed or removed, and some of it is crazy. Maniac Mansion's engine is named "Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion", or SCUMM, and even that had to be changed in the credits because Nintendo didn't like the word "SCUMM". So, thanks to Nintendo being so overzealous with their censorship, they missed the most offensive thing in the game, and probably the most offensive content on the entire platform.

Fun fact: There's even a weird glitch where if you show Weird Ed the exploded hamster, you can still move your character around like an invisible ghost after he kills them. This doesn't happen if you die in any other way.
 
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