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[Leonard Helplessness]

Mass Effect 2 had this character named Jack, who was every tomboy mean girl trait taken to eleven. She wears nothing but leather straps, has a shaved head, is covered in tattoos, is violent as fuck, swears constantly, etc. etc.

She's also straight as a rail and firmly rejects any romantic advances from women, because it's all just a facade she puts on until she finds a man she can feel safe with so she can be trad gf. I'll be very surprised if they don't change her sexuality for the remake.

 

[Pee Cola]

Lemmings probably wouldn't fly in current year, because (a) many of the stages involve needing to euthanase lemmings with explosives and (b) perpetuating the stereotype that lemmings are inherently suicidal.

Granny's Garden would probably be unacceptable too, as it vilifies witches.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Edutainment software with effort put into it isn't acceptable anymore

You had a gamut of interesting games like Zoombinis and Creatures up until the late 2000's then all this shit stopped.

Currently most stuff is subscription service if you want edutainment games. But they're all vastly inferior to what came before. Many also used to be tied subscription box shit as well before physical loot boxes became unpopular.

 

[Zelos Wilder]

Tales Of Symphonia

Calling Collette an ironing board

Having Zelos hit on every female NPC to get 100%

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

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.


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.

Mainly because the rockstar lifestyle is pretty much gone and the 17-25 group that wanna make games don't have the money or influence to convince some model to pose for their games.

Well there is the route of instagram and only fans if you are looking for a talent pool. But good luck getting the game on any storefront beyond self publishing given the fate of super seducer.

 

[LecherousGranolaBar]

Mass Effect 2 had this character named Jack, who was every tomboy mean girl trait taken to eleven. She wears nothing but leather straps, has a shaved head, is covered in tattoos, is violent as fuck, swears constantly, etc. etc.

She's also straight as a rail and firmly rejects any romantic advances from women, because it's all just a facade she puts on until she finds a man she can feel safe with so she can be trad gf. I'll be very surprised if they don't change her sexuality for the remake.

I think every character in Mass Effect 2/3 was supposed to be bi. I know I've heard cut dialogue for Tali and Garrus that implies as much so it wouldn't be a far cry that Jack has lesbian lines on the cutting room floor somewhere. Miranda too probably. I don't know about Jacob though since nobody ever bothered romancing that fucking loser.

Which, gotta be honest even as a bisexual degenerate myself, I hate when characters in a game have playersexuality.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

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While I think parents actually did throw a fit over it, Nintendo and/or Rare I think would've gotten in much more trouble for having "hell" in the DK Rap, or at least wouldn't have even allowed it to be in the game. Why else did it change to "heck" for the Melee soundtrack?

Think if it wasn't for them being plastic, the Army Men game might not fly today, 'specially not with that tagline when a chick's a playable character (least for the multiplayer) and also more scantily-clad than the others.

Oh yeah, she's supposed to be a Barbie doll, and in the main storyline, she's practically the damsel in distress.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Tales Of Symphonia

Calling Collette an ironing board

Having Zelos hit on every female NPC to get 100%

Iirc this continues with characters like Anise (wishing she had big boobs), Eleanor, Estelle, and Rita?

Ditto Luke and Natalias arranged marriage when they're actually not cousins

 

[FunPosting101]

Mainly because the rockstar lifestyle is pretty much gone and the 17-25 group that wanna make games don't have the money or influence to convince some model to pose for their games.

I dunno about models, but Postal 4 has a pornstar as one of the game's characters. It's not money that's keeping sexy women out of a lot of western games right now, it's idiots taking twitter morons too seriously.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Think if it wasn't for them being plastic, the Army Men game might not fly today, 'specially not with that tagline when a chick's a playable character (least for the multiplayer) and also more scantily-clad than the others.

Oh yeah, she's supposed to be a Barbie doll, and in the main storyline, she's practically the damsel in distress.

Best part about this? She later got her own game, Portal Runner, in which she's even more scantily clad.


The fact this got an E rating makes it funnier.

 

[Ruin]

Best part about this? She later got her own game, Portal Runner, in which she's even more scantily clad.
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The fact this got an E rating makes it funnier.

Twitter loons have made the female form absurdly taboo in a way fundies could have only dreamed of.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Twitter loons have made the female form absurdly taboo in a way fundies could have only dreamed of.

Unless it's an actual woman doing it for money (and an agent/pimp takes a cut and arranges the bookings) then it's sex work and it's valid!

 

[John Titor]

Simpler made games published on physical media. A journo complained about how Octopath had sprites in current year. It feels like there's some rule that all modern games must be AAA tier 3D.

 

[Antarctic Hellbeast]

100% finished full games. with free demos. And the occasional patch to fix glaring game breaking code bugs that Cheaters use to exploit and inject their hacks during the natural life cycle of the game until the sequel, if there is one.

Not enough milking for all its worth. Not enough conspiring to fire becky by wiggers, niggers, faggots and troons too lazy to make a 3D model that month. an AAA game DEMANDS more drama than actual revenue from a finished product (according to the TROON GROOMERS AT BUNGO)

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[Agent Abe Caprine]

Best part about this? She later got her own game, Portal Runner, in which she's even more scantily clad.
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The fact this got an E rating makes it funnier.

This is the same ESRB that gave Shadow Hearts an M rating just because of the intro. Everything else barely crosses the T rating line.

 

[Borax Bozo]

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.

I'm pretty sure the one rereleased in Rare Replay is the censored version.

 

[Book Thief]

The Oregon Trail games.




An educational game about white settlers out to colonize virgin land? And they're portrayed positively? Absolutely unthinkable to the "Death to America" crowd.

 

[Coolio55]

Just had a flashback to this game when reading about some troon medical news article. Specifically to the ending but the entire game is relevant.
This is from the old "edgy" era of indie games. If you had gone back in time and told me it was gonna happen for real I would have called you crazy.

 

[BrokenWokenBespoken]

The Oregon Trail games.

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An educational game about white settlers out to colonize virgin land? And they're portrayed positively? Absolutely unthinkable to the "Death to America" crowd.

https://youtu.be/PxPgrZqwrgE

Colonized and monetized by the Frogs at Gameloft

 

[Book Thief]

https://youtu.be/PxPgrZqwrgE

Colonized and monetized by the Frogs at Gameloft

Watched only a couple minutes in before I said "Yeah, no. That wouldn't happen." Policy between Settlers and Indians was to keep interaction to bare minimum, especially since the Settlers could be tracking diseases that they were resistant to but the Indians had no defenses for, such as smallpox.

Skipped ahead to the party selection screen, where you can select from a pool of adventurers straight out of an Superbowl advert celebrating diversity, which we all know is exactly what America wasn't at this point in time. And I'm to believe the black guy is the banker? It's not entirely impossible, but highly unlikely given the circumstances at the time.

Look, I get that you wanna be ReSpEcTfUl to the Native Americans and other minorities, but you can do that without butchering history. Life back then wasn't about holding hands and singing cumbahyah. Your history game should reflect that. Not out of a sadistic fantasy to punish minorities in the realm of fiction, but to show how America has grown from its poor treatment of them in the real world.