E3 2016 DAY ZERO (EA & Bethesda): The Sports Within

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

yeah. their big 'in' to western gamers is that they're the parent company of from software, so there might be some dark souls 3 DLC info during their block.

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According to its announcement, which has been translated from Japanese by Gematsu, the company will offer new information on "Demon Gaze 2, God Wars: Beyond Time, Root Letter, and so on."

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Dehry posted:

I think the actual press release could have been written better:

lol

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 17:00

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So do you think any of the gaming company executives are nervously tugging at their collars about all the violent shooting man games that they are going to hype up tonight considering what happened earlier today?

how likely is it that they shoehorn random gay characters of no importance to the plot into their violent shooting man games

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 18:35

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

my issue with bioware gay stuff is that it's all pretty much written like an afterschool special about how gay people are cool and normal, and not actually written with gay people in mind

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:21

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

i mean, define 'literal fanfiction writers' because if you wrote fanfiction when you were a teenager i dont think that really reflects on you as an adult anymore than my decade old myspace page about how good yellowcard is reflects on me

RottenK posted:

well you can't deny that that's a good fit for the maturity level of the target audience

also for what it's worth i am gay and i often read discussions in glbt online communities that are related to videogames and bioware characters are usually well recieved

meanwhile the people who complain that those characters are poorly written pandering have a ~40-50% chance to then try to tell me about ethics in bideogam jurnalisms

im a gay too, dude, and in the online community that exists inside my head bioware is pretty garbage

I think a lot of the good reception is just how hard up people, especially people who only play AAA western games, are for any sort of representation.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:26

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Andrast posted:

I'd bet a large portion of writers of anything were fanfiction writers at some point.

yeah ive never even understood that burn since people were writing fanfiction from the dawn of man. Mythology is just a collection of poorly edited fanfiction. there were even arguments about who should be loving who.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:29

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Phi230 posted:

bioware minority characters are mainly insulting because they're clearly tokens. And tokenism is bad because it basically feeds into "oh x character is a gay but he's one of the good ones" kind of poo poo

tokenism is also bad because it doesn't make the distinction that minorities are normal people

The thing about tokenism is that the solution isn't really 'don't put these characters into your games,' it's 'put in more.' You have a space opera with like, 150 characters with at least a few dialogue trees, you can have more than 3 gay dudes and a lesbian. Even if a character's not that well written they don't really feel like a token attempt to appear progressive if there's seven other gay dudes in the same game.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:35

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

RottenK posted:

actually if you make a game with 150 characters and make 8 of them glbt idiots will cry at you about cultural marxism and give your game bad reviews on steam and metacritic

then do it anyway bioware is one of the biggest companies in the world they can handle reddit getting mad

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:42

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Sakurazuka posted:

Gay characters are only good if they never mention being gay or any gay stuff.

honestly idk about these other dudes who im not even sure if they agree with me or not but my argument is that there should be way more gay stuff and it should be way more in your face. like that ff15 quote about explosions, only with girls making out.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:44

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

HMS Boromir posted:

there is no such thing as a sex scene with artistic and narrative merit

actually, in neon genesis evangelion,

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:51

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Steve2911 posted:

My memory is a bit fuzzy but isn't a big part of her story that she was genetically engineered to be sexy as gently caress, and her story is based around escaping from and killing the creepy bastard that designed her?

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 19:53

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Dred Cosmonaut posted:

seriously quit loving crying about gay people and get hype for video games :woot:

gay people make me hype for video games

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 20:30

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

WE ARE GAMERS

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 21:46

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

he sounds like he's about to burst into tears

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 21:47

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

seven different studios

# ¿ Jun 12, 2016 21:51

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

old republic is still getting expacks?

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