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If I had a dollar for every gender I'd probably be in prison for money laundering.
Because I'd have two dollars and a shitload of counterfeits.
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Because I'd have two dollars and a shitload of counterfeits.
Breath of Fire II, presented without comment.
So, the Hive level from Duke Nukem Forever?
Remember when Ryu had to eat "desserts" made from worms and bugs and then vomited in front of everyone?Oh shit I'd forgotten about that
BoF2 was a pretty weird game
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The casualness in which they used to almost always give female characters big hooters, even in Sony games, really is amazing today.
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Dela Delon is best girl
Characters were designed by filling out their tops until the developers got erections. Fighting games: 12-year-old me would begin by picking the woman with the biggest boobs, then move down the boob tier list 'til I found someone I could cheese.
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Both campions of norrath and brandish were bad games though.View attachment 2273893
Dela Delon is best girl
Characters were designed by filling out their tops until the developers got erections. Fighting games: 12-year-old me would begin by picking the woman with the biggest boobs, then move down the boob tier list 'til I found someone I could cheese.
I would say any chance for a Bully 2 or a similar type of game taking place in a school or university.
The title, Bully, was enough to stir such an uproar that PAL regions wanted it changed to Canis Canem Edit. Even before its release, people hauled it as a "Columbine simulator" because of its open ended nature to roam a school. Supposedly, it would even enforce bullying towards schoolchildren.
Oh, and you could kiss a boy and do a panty raid. Imagine something like this in today's political climate with school shootings and the LGBT+ community.
The title, Bully, was enough to stir such an uproar that PAL regions wanted it changed to Canis Canem Edit. Even before its release, people hauled it as a "Columbine simulator" because of its open ended nature to roam a school. Supposedly, it would even enforce bullying towards schoolchildren.
Oh, and you could kiss a boy and do a panty raid. Imagine something like this in today's political climate with school shootings and the LGBT+ community.
Wouldn't it be more likely to be made now?
Also, Gary dresses up as an S.S. officer for Halloween. Just spin it as topical and no one will pay attention to the hooligan stuff.
The quest "Brygid the Stylist Returns" in Final Fantasy XI. In fact, I'm not really sure why it was considered acceptable back then, either. She wants you to kill some undead and bring back a certain "subligar" that they drop (there are thirteen different ones). Despite the name, they actually look like panties when your character wears them, hence back in the day people would get together groups for a "panty raid". When she gets it, she comments enthusiastically about its qualities, including the aroma (!!!). What makes this unacceptable, though, is the fact that Brygid is a little girl.
2000s era video game magazines are a sea of shit that wouldn't fly today, it's completely hilarious.
Same energy with the girl's expression.
And how about both sexism and homophobia!?
I guess it's no surprise that eventually there was a big ass fucking backlash to all of this shit, since everything in American culture is just a backlash to a backlash to a backlash to a backlash tracing back decades, but it sure was fun while it lasted.
Same energy with the girl's expression.
And how about both sexism and homophobia!?
I guess it's no surprise that eventually there was a big ass fucking backlash to all of this shit, since everything in American culture is just a backlash to a backlash to a backlash to a backlash tracing back decades, but it sure was fun while it lasted.
I wager the nineties were worse, in the sense that gaming mags killed Earthbound stone dead.
I'll never forget one Dreamcast ad, though. The official magazine had a two-page spread for Chu Chu Rocket, and one of the co-op players is a frowning, Uncle Remus type called "Peaches" who writes I'm nude in the chat.
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Ethnic Cleansing is an obvious one.
Oh my god it's so bad lol
I have less experience with 90s era magazines, but in looking at scans honestly it seems like they had a more neutral tone and doubled down on the "teenage boy" vibe in the 2000s, with PSM being an exception though, which is what those scans are from (albeit from 2002), PSM were putting cheesecake comic book illustrations of video game girls on the cover of their magazines since the 90s.
I said "shit" as in "stuff" because I love old video game magazines, however they weren't perfect, they were often overly critical of games, some of my favorite games of all time got bad reviews, gaming journalism has even at the best of times been something you needed to take with a grain of salt.
Heck, I remember a critic in OPM giving the original Drakengard a bad review solely because he found something in the game's storyline offensive, which anticipates the modern Kotaku style of gaming journalism, but that was in 2004.
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Found a big stack of my old magazines not too long ago and it was fun to flip through. Forgot PSM would do a swimsuit issue which would never fly but would also be totally unnecessary today. Also to bring up OPM reviews that missed the mark they gave Jak 2 something like a 3.5 out of 5. Sometimes they get it right too though. Would have never picked up Ghost Hunters if PSM didn't give it a 9 out of 10.
Jak 2 is another infamous review that sticks out in my memory, they gave Gary Steinman, who was the resident JRPG geek, an action platformer to review and he really struggled with it, giving it a meh review simply because he found it too hard.
Jak 2 certainly had some tough moments but I never found the game hard enough to knock points off it's score for, dumb review.
Ghost Hunter is another game I was thinking of, OPM trashed it, but I found it interesting enough to actually buy the game and I loved it, your instincts were always better trusted than critics.
It's cool that PSM liked the game though, but I was never a regular reader of them unlike OPM, I would only get PSM on occasion, so I must have missed their review.
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