Post videogame things that wouldn't be acceptable today. -

[sasazuka]

Cigarette advertising in some racing games. For example, if I remember correctly, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal in Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit on the Sega CD had advertising for Players cigarettes, and (Ferrari) F355 Challenge on the Dreamcast and Playstation 2 had a Marlboro Racing billboard on the Motegi oval (it doesn't say "Marlboro" but it has a racing car under the red and white Marlboro chevron) and there was also a textless but still easily identifiable Lucky Strike logo on a billboard on the Aida (Okayama) circuit.

Spoiler: F355 Challenge - Dreamcast, Motegi Circuit (4 Marlboro Racing logos at the end of the smaller curve)

 

[BlazikenLover]

Resident Evil 5. Yes, the whole game.

I recall there was some controversy because of "oh no, white guy killing africans!" Yet almost everyone laughed it off and dismissed the concerns.
Crazy to think that was a little over a decade ago.

 

[Dom Cruise]

- every female character design in the Jak series. It’s all big booba and exposed midriffs

I miss that kind of casual sexiness from back in the 2000s, the Jak games were ostensibly kid's games (even if they made the sequels more mature) but that didn't stop the female characters from having big booba and exposed midriffs.

Sexy women was just such a central part of the entire aesthetic of the 2000s that we all took it for granted.

 

[The Last Stand]

Custer's Revenge.

Enough said.

 

[REMEMBERMKULTRA]

Custer's Revenge.

Enough said.

Someone should make George's Revenge, where you play as George Floyd and chase white women.

 

[Dysnomia]

Leisure Suit Larry 3: One of the deaths is getting raped by a pig.

TBH: anything in the LSL series.

I think the witch doctor would be "problematic" too.

Mario as a character
Characters like Princess Peach
Having a Pokémon named Porygon
Jynx was fully censored by the early 2000s, I’m surprised some idiot has never tried to claim that Whimsicott is racist
Sex appeal woman characters in general

I've seen Whimsicott fanart on tumblr where it's drawn as a chubby black girl with an afro. Someone also got riled uop about a pale skinned human Whimsicott and started a "she's one of the few chubby black girls in Pokemon can't we have anything without white people stealing it" rant.

I played this NES game called Ghost Lion. It's about a Great White Saviorette trying to rescue her parents. She has a magic spear that lets her summon a black man. She has other summons as well. But I can see this being an issue in the current year despite Moja looking pretty normal with no big lips or step and fetch it personality.

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I find it innocuous. But it's 2021 and a blonde white girl who can summon a black man to fight monsters for her is likely to ruffle some feathers.

Another NES game that might cause an upset if they pulled this sort of thing now is Faria. You play a girl who has been tasked with rescuing a princess. I'll spoiler the whole issue in case anyone wants to play it themselves to find out.
So as it turns out no lesbo romance for you. Because there's no way in hell that would be happening on an NES in 1989. Turns out the cute heroine you are playing is really a guy turned into a girl by magic. This plot twist is kind of ruined by the fact that the Japanese cover art shows a cute girl in aerobics inspired armor. But the US version shows a generic full armored knight for some reason.

So yeah. Kind of strange and would cause some REEEing for sure.

 

[Dr. Sexbot]

Ballz

ballz ballz ballz ballz lol

Snatcher

 

[JektheDumbass]

Licensed video games that have nothing to do with the licensed properties. Yes, that means you LJN!

 

[DumbassRecords]

Being a slave isn't actually so bad in the game.

They should include this as an review quote.

Postal 2. Enough said.

Well we have Postal 4 now. Its janky but i don't see any articles on it...yet.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

I recall there was some controversy because of "oh no, white guy killing africans!" Yet almost everyone laughed it off and dismissed the concerns.
Crazy to think that was a little over a decade ago.

I think Sheva's alternate tribal dress would cause an even bigger uproar by itself than the whole "Kijuju Killer" thing.

 

[John Titor]

Fallout 2's humor. You can literally get raped by a super mutant.
Sex appeal or anything that is physically impractical. It honestly did not occur to me how common women dressed as dominatrices (see Ivy from Soul Calibur) were. You do that now, you're expected to give an explanation. Look what they did to the Dark Queen in the Battletoads reboot.

I recall there was some controversy because of "oh no, white guy killing africans!" Yet almost everyone laughed it off and dismissed the concerns.
Crazy to think that was a little over a decade ago.

Would you believe there was once an academic who defended the game because he bothered to research it?

 

[Absolutetense]

Oh boy there were so many examples already. I definetly agree with a lot examples given here.
How about a teaser that would definetly not be made, if it did it would not be released
NSFW tits and ass

Spoiler

 

[Clarence]

Mario as a character
Characters like Princess Peach
Having a Pokémon named Porygon
Jynx was fully censored by the early 2000s, I’m surprised some idiot has never tried to claim that Whimsicott is racist
Sex appeal woman characters in general

Why is porygon bad? Is that some weird racial slur i never heard of?

 

[Dom Cruise]

Sex appeal or anything that is physically impractical. It honestly did not occur to me how common women dressed as dominatrices (see Ivy from Soul Calibur) were. You do that now, you're expected to give an explanation. Look what they did to the Dark Queen in the Battletoads reboot.

I fucking hate that so much, sometimes "because it's cool/sexy" is a good enough answer, it's fantasy for fucks sake, who cares if it's "realistic"?

SJWs not only hate sex appeal but they also have this weird desire to bring everything down to a banal reality instead of just allowing things to be fun and cool.

In the case of Soul Calibur, first of all this is a world where people hit each with blades but it doesn't cut them, but you're telling me the fact that a lady fights in dominatrix gear is what shatters the realism for you?

And secondly, with a character like Ivy, it's much like Conan The Barbarian fighting dudes in a loin cloth or Rambo gunning down dudes while shirtless, fighting while wearing little clothing is badass, Ivy sending the message of "I'm such a badass I don't need big bulky armor, I can beat you in a thong" is empowering, it's badass, it's not a sign of weakness.

In fact this goes back to the whole femme fatale archetype, once upon a time a female character being flagrantly sexual was a sign of strength, not weakness, it implied danger, not vulnerability.

It's such fucking bullshit that people have gotten it in their heads that sexy always = sexist or sexy always = weakness.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Why is porygon bad? Is that some weird racial slur i never heard of?

I didn't notice this pun until it was brought up just now somehow despite knowing about porygon for porygon's entire fucking existence but his name is literally just polygon with an r in typical l/r mixup fashion. Though it's a real thing that happens when translating from asian languages to english sometimes some people view that sort of thing as racist to asians, probably because of foreigner stereotype caricatures utilizing this shit to it's fullest for years now.

 

[JamFlowMan]

Keeping with the Yakuza theme there is a tranny who lives under a bridge in 5.

 

[Kane Lives]

I didn't notice this pun until it was brought up just now somehow despite knowing about porygon for porygon's entire fucking existence but his name is literally just polygon with an r in typical l/r mixup fashion. Though it's a real thing that happens when translating from asian languages to english sometimes some people view that sort of thing as racist to asians, probably because of foreigner stereotype caricatures utilizing this shit to it's fullest for years now.

I honestly don't get how anyone could be offended by this, and I speak this as an Asian. Then again, I'm on Kiwifarms, and not on Tumblr.

 

[elzaw]

if any of you remember Fear Effect

also Rule of Rose... probably the only game about how toxic female dominated communities can be.
The game was already controversial back in the day because game journalists completely missed the point about things like this:

 

[Punished “Venom” pH]

I like how everyone is posting contemporary games as if they’re so far out of the zeitgeist as to be ancient history.

Unlike real things that would never happen again, like being able to microwave a hamster and give it back to its owner in the Nintendo port of Maniac Mansion. I remember the last game I played with jiggle, I have only played one cooked hamster game.

 

[Desu Mountain]

Why is porygon bad? Is that some weird racial slur i never heard of?

Porygon is not verboten because of the name. It's because of an incident that occurred when the anime first started airing where the episode introducing Porygon gave 700 people epileptic seizures because the animators were fucking retards and decided to have a couple of scenes where the entire screen strobed red and blue. Nintendo got pissed and fucking nuked that shit.