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Help Im Alive posted:I haven't played it, is that the twist at the end people talk about Yup, and it's one of the funniest things i've ever witnessed in a game.
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Nina posted:It really comes down to just having decent writers who are capable of writing multidimensional characters to begin with They should go all the way to hyperdimensional characters.
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There's already plenty of Nep games
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The Colonel posted:man i've really dug some people's interpretations of arcade ganon by being bad at reading characters in fallout: new vegas when i was 16 Anyone else remember the "Confirmed Bachelor" discussion on these forums
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corn in the bible posted:Jc3 wasn't fixed on any platform for anyone and never will be God I try not to get overly bent out of shape about video games but man, Just Cause 3 gets my blood boiling a little.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Anyone else remember the "Confirmed Bachelor" discussion on these forums I remember people picking it without knowing what it meant and then getting mad And lolling
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anyway it's funny to me that pokemon has now historically handled having a trans character better than mass effect andromeda if only because despite them being a really minor trainer in xy, they get more personality in their two lines of dialog than the character in andromeda gets in their entire spontaneous infodump
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The Colonel posted:anyway it's funny to me that pokemon has now historically handled having a trans character better than mass effect andromeda if only because despite them being a really minor trainer in xy, they get more personality in their two lines of dialog than the character in andromeda gets in their entire spontaneous infodump At the same time though, DA: Inquisition has pretty much the only bit of tasteful trans representation I've seen in games. Because it doesn't even come up unless you play your character as being an rear end about it.
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Nina posted:At the same time though, DA: Inquisition has pretty much the only bit of tasteful trans representation I've seen in games. Because it doesn't even come up unless you play your character as being an rear end about it. I remember accidentally picking that dialogue option because it's just like "how long have you known" or something like that and I didn't even realize the character was trans so I had no idea what I was asking about
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Nina posted:At the same time though, DA: Inquisition has pretty much the only bit of tasteful trans representation I've seen in games. Because it doesn't even come up unless you play your character as being an rear end about it. There's a trans character in Horizon that's handled in a lowkey cool way, I thought.
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cheetah7071 posted:I remember accidentally picking that dialogue option because it's just like "how long have you known" or something like that and I didn't even realize the character was trans so I had no idea what I was asking about I gotta say Inquisition really has a problem with conveying what the dialogue choices are actually gonna be like coming from the mouth of your character
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glam rock hamhock posted:Possible minor effort post about NitW with spoiler incoming That’s awesome I need to play this game
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i'm trying to think of games with strong female villains
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precision posted:i'm trying to think of games with strong female villains KOTOR2 is the only game that immediately pops into mind for me
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^^ dammit!precision posted:i'm trying to think of games with strong female villains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZExeoT_jZHA
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Does Dead Cells have a non early access release date? The steam page says 8-12 months of early access, but no indication of when they was written, so..
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Someone apparently posted a brief promotional clip of that new Amazon MMO on reddit: https://cf-b2.streamablevideo.com/video/mp4/702mv.mp4?token=1515270321-Z0XRSHlOZR1CsfEDdq8pDErC7QNN2BHRVdGWeAM0jqM%3D it doesn't show much but as far as I know this is the first we've seen of the actual game
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So bought Titanfall 2 right after launch sometime and played the multiplayer for 20ish hours. Today I figured I'd try the singleplayer. Played from beginning to end in one sitting. What a [drat fine campaign! Might be one of my fav shooter campaigns now. 
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Flavahbeast posted:Someone apparently posted a brief promotional clip of that new Amazon MMO on reddit: Tag yourself, I'm the single-digit framerate.
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glam rock hamhock posted:It's funny that even when games have strong female protagonists, they are unwilling to give them romantic subplots. I think as progressive as Horizon is in many ways, I think it falls in this trend of not giving it's main character any sexuality because there's this (unfortunately at least partially correct) idea that male gamers will feel really uncomfortable playing a character that has romantic feeling towards a dude, even if within the game it's a heterosexual relationship. I also feel that, as cool as it is to having Lesbian representation in game, that that's used to sort of cheat it at times. It lets you be progressive without asking the hetero male audience to play out a relationship with a guy. In Horizon it's weird because Alloy just seems really baffled with any pass made at her or any romance happening in any of the stories she stumbles across, and while part of it in the game is her just not having time for that poo poo, that excuse is pretty easy to dismiss when the developer wants to insert that stuff. Aloy being kind of weird about romance makes sense in the first game, but it would be disappointing if she never got a romantic interest in future titles. Making her bisexual seems like the easiest way to please everybody, but that also sort of makes the whole thing feel tawdry -- and if you made her gay, then you're sort of playing the risk of being seen as either pandering to males anyway or else alienating straight women or making Aloy into a lesbian stereotype, neither of which seem good either. As a male gamer, I'd be happy if there were heteroromantic relationships available for Aloy to pursue and I think the talk that men are somehow made insecure by this is surely overblown -- and if it isn't, then it's more important than ever to include such a thing, because that sort of insecurity is stupid and should not be a major factor for determining a character's sexuality.
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I'm robosexual and want to romance a Thunderjaw.
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Mordja posted:Tag yourself, I'm the single-digit framerate. I'm the token MMO list of features being read out.
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Hello, I hope everybody is having a good saturday. I finished Strife: Veteran Edition last night, got the best ending. Too bad about the Proving Grounds map though. That area was just annoying as hell because I could never seem to figure out which switch changed what part of the map and I ended up having to follow a guide to retrace my steps to get to the part where I could make progress.
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Oxx your readings of stuff are so complicated.cheetah7071 posted:I remember accidentally picking that dialogue option because it's just like "how long have you known" or something like that and I didn't even realize the character was trans so I had no idea what I was asking about I also didn't realize that captain Kidd was a girl until she was pregnant in black flag, so maybe I'm just genderblind in games
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Grapplejack posted:Oxx your readings of stuff are so complicated. i'm hoping this is sarcasm because i'm not doing anything more than just reading into what's in the game itself i am not BotL
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Romance in openworld games is always really bad. Or really any game where it's in a weird optional space disconnected from the rest of the writing and character interactions
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Motto posted:Romance in
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Accordion Man posted:Lost Planet 3 is the only other game I can think of like that off the type of my head. LP3 has a funny moment where the hot as hell obvious love interest scientist lady hits on space dad and he's just like, sorry, but I'm married. and they never bring it up again
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Grapplejack posted:Oxx your readings of stuff are so complicated. Did you completely miss the mission where she comes out to Kenway, not even in a subtle way, the mission who just happens to be called "Unmanned" cause that's pretty drat blind. 8-Bit Scholar posted:Aloy being kind of weird about romance makes sense in the first game, but it would be disappointing if she never got a romantic interest in future titles. Making her bisexual seems like the easiest way to please everybody, but that also sort of makes the whole thing feel tawdry -- and if you made her gay, then you're sort of playing the risk of being seen as either pandering to males anyway or else alienating straight women or making Aloy into a lesbian stereotype, neither of which seem good either. I was very glad there was no romance in Horizon because they are always terrible or a wish-fulfillment fantasy which I think wouldn't mesh very well with the rest of the game. Not that things not being reasonable ever stopped gaming developers from shoving them in tho.
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Eh, I think there are games with fine romance stuff as either part of the actual plot or at least a major side component with decent character bits like some of the HM games. And even what I said earlier isn't axiomatic, but it's weird when I'm playing something like persona 5 and literally every s.link with a girl contains an awkward romance hook that then barely changes like, 3 scenes afterwards.
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corn in the bible posted:LP3 has a funny moment where the hot as hell obvious love interest scientist lady hits on space dad and he's just like, sorry, but I'm married. and they never bring it up again Sounds like a pretty professional and adult way to handle it.
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I think being able to pick your character's romance option is cool enough that I'm willing to put up with the lovely writing that inevitably follows
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precision posted:i'm trying to think of games with strong female villains That's actually a hard question. Would they need to be the main villain or any kind? I can think of some that aren't the final boss.
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Samuringa posted:Did you completely miss the mission where she comes out to Kenway, not even in a subtle way, the mission who just happens to be called "Unmanned" I went back and looked and I think I accidentally skipped the last cutscene in that mission, so that explains it 
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The Colonel posted:anyway it's funny to me that pokemon has now historically handled having a trans character better than mass effect andromeda if only because despite them being a really minor trainer in xy, they get more personality in their two lines of dialog than the character in andromeda gets in their entire spontaneous infodump Who’s the one in XY? Or are you talking about the daycare worker from one of the BW games?
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chumbler posted:Sounds like a pretty professional and adult way to handle it. Yes! Lost Planet 3 starts off very good with fun characters. Sadly, by the end it's just you and a bunch of bad combat for hours and hours...
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Scrap Dragon posted:Who’s the one in XY? Or are you talking about the daycare worker from one of the BW games?  the original jp line is literally something like "i used to be a karate king. isn't modern medical science a wonder?" which is a bit more explicit about it but barring the name change from karate king to black belt in the us games, the us line just reads as them saying "i'm a woman now. it's pretty badass" which owns imo
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