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a dmc delorean posted:I didn't really have internet access at the time so I genuinely don't know, but did people also freak out about Stevie Case having an input on Daikatana because I believe it was all focused on Romero. I can't remember hearing about her involvement in that game at all.
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a dmc delorean posted:I didn't really have internet access at the time so I genuinely don't know, but did people also freak out about Stevie Case having an input on Daikatana because
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Dr. Quarex posted:I believe it was quite literally assumed at the time that any women working in gaming in the 1990s were just girlfriends or wives of the game designers, so that was the "input so utterly marginalized due to their sex that they were ignored" phase. Though I also have no doubt the hatred was brewing as more women actually became visible There were a couple exceptions like Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, who were hated for different, far more valid reasons.
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I mean the ad didn't say "Stevie Case is about to make you her bitch" so that might have been part of why it was more directed towards Romero.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I mean the ad didn't say "Stevie Case is about to make you her bitch" so that might have been part of why it was more directed towards Romero. From what I remember Stevie Case was pretty much the least of things people complained about regarding Daikatana.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:There were a couple exceptions like Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, who were hated for different, far more valid reasons. I don’t know who Jane Jensen is but Roberta Williams… https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/374.html
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Stevie Case did a Playboy spread so that’s a good question. Did the gamer ogres treat her better or worse?
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a dmc delorean posted:I didn't really have internet access at the time so I genuinely don't know, but did people also freak out about Stevie Case having an input on Daikatana because I definitely remember bile directed at Stevie Case. Mostly people saying how she only had a job because just Romero's girlfriend. But yeah, Romero was so front and center 90% of the attention and mockery went to him. I dont know fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Why do people dislike Roberta Roberts?
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Why do people dislike Roberta Roberts? Do you mean Roberta Williams? I have no idea who Roberta Roberts is. Edit: Oh, nvm, didn't see the post a few above. Tarkus fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Why do people dislike Roberta Roberts?
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mind the walrus posted:Reading that troglodyte website linked by Scratch Monkey it seems to be mostly tied to the fact that she had a successful career with multiple homes? There's whining that she's learning Spanish for living in Texas, slams on her creativity for reusing the "Heir" pun on multiple King's Quest game titles, deliberately invoking Charles Bukowski's style (which was trendy af in the late 90s/early 00s) to try and justify the invective... it all would read as satire if not for the fact that it all seems way too laser-focused and ends with a rattling of vintage porn magazines which is clearly a reference to something I'm not getting. you're a loving dork
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Cubone posted:you're a loving dork
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mind the walrus posted:Reading that troglodyte website linked by Scratch Monkey it seems to be mostly tied to the fact that she had a successful career with multiple homes? There's whining that she's learning Spanish for living in Texas, slams on her creativity for reusing the "Heir" pun on multiple King's Quest game titles, deliberately invoking Charles Bukowski's style (which was trendy af in the late 90s/early 00s) to try and justify the invective... it all would read as satire if not for the fact that it all seems way too laser-focused and ends with a rattling of vintage porn magazines which is clearly a reference to something I'm not getting. While this is a very nice fantasy you've concocted, the actual story is this: Roberta Williams was a head writer/producer at Sierra and worked on their point and click adventure games, which are still remembered for being full of absolute bullshit puzzles that required you to phone their paid help line to solve. Watch the Retsupurae video about King's Quest 5 to see exactly the sort of bullshit I'm talking about it. Jane Jensen also worked for Sierra and created perhaps the most bullshit adventure game puzzle ever, where you had to steal some dude's ID card and make yourself a fake mustache using stolen maple syrup packets and hair torn from the back of a cat, despite the person you're impersonating NOT HAVING A MUSTACHE. Writing something like that is a justified reason to hate someone.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Writing something like that is a justified reason to hate someone. (gently caress Tim Schafer and his carnival barker self-promotion getting people to forget Ron Gilbert was the real deal)
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mind the walrus posted:Reading that troglodyte website linked by Scratch Monkey it seems to be mostly tied to the fact that she had a successful career with multiple homes? There's whining that she's learning Spanish for living in Texas, slams on her creativity for reusing the "Heir" pun on multiple King's Quest game titles, deliberately invoking Charles Bukowski's style (which was trendy af in the late 90s/early 00s) to try and justify the invective... it all would read as satire if not for the fact that it all seems way too laser-focused and ends with a rattling of vintage porn magazines which is clearly a reference to something I'm not getting. that's oldmanmurray lmao
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sebmojo posted:that's oldmanmurray lmao
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Jane Jensen also worked for Sierra and created perhaps the most bullshit adventure game puzzle ever, where you had to steal some dude's ID card and make yourself a fake mustache using stolen maple syrup packets and hair torn from the back of a cat, despite the person you're impersonating NOT HAVING A MUSTACHE. The Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned cat mustache puzzle is absolutely amazing and I won't tolerate a word against it. It is a true piece of art, the influence of which stays with us all even now, years after we left the game behind and forgotten the game's actual Jesus-was-intentionally-bred-by-a-secret-society-that-was-trying-to-make-a-living-god-but-then-got-usurped-by-vampires-who-want-to-drink-Jesus plot.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Yes but every adventure game made before about 2010 was an absolute piece of poo poo designed to make you hate playing adventure games, with the exception of our Lord and Savior Ron Gilbert's Holy Monkey Island. Focusing on the women being bad is, well, you can guess. Oh, absolutely. I'm just pointing out why people hated Roberta Williams in particular.
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The lucasarts adventure games are all great but 100% on the writing and art. The gameplay is still complete bullshit try every item in you inventory on every clickable object until progress and repeat. I don't think any of them besides Fate of Atlantis have a single puzzle that you can "solve" by applying a logical progress.
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hard counter posted:if you want to gaze further into the abomination, many gamers at the time felt the comic's content was justified, claiming that the marketing campaign for assassin's creed shamelessly, continuously took advantage of jade raymond's 'marginal sex appeal' as a PR stunt to drive up sales I remember that whole shitshow well and the only extent to which they 'continuously took advantage' of her femininity was that she did a couple of talking head interviews because she was one of the key people involved in making the game, and was clearly good at talking to camera/press, which a lot of people in game development are not bc they're too awkward. it was literally just because she's a photogenic woman in games development who had the media training required to do public facing interviews that idiot gamers decided this was some kind of sexual gambit on the part of ubisoft. edit: but obviously the reason the video game community behaved and continues to behave like this is the product of decades upon decades of big publishers marketing games as being exclusively for horny dudes, so yeah 
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"For boomers and beyond" lmao
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Bad Purchase posted:seeing this image again awakened my seventh chakra *Freeze-frame record scratch* "So, you're probably wondering how The Icy Hot Stuntaz got my local school district embroiled in a federal lawsuit..." https://www.aclu.org/cases/anderson...school-district
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Unpopular opinion: One of the few things I actually found to be funny from Lowtax were his messages where he pretends to be a lawyer. The over-the-top lawyer-speak stills get a good chuckle out of me. I guess, for me, that means   Was this from that old thread where Burger King had a build your own burger app and everyone shared their absurd burger creations? 
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I never played the king's quest games but I assume they are in the same vein as the Space Quest games also by Sierra? I actually love those games. Not sure why I never gave king's a try. Content  
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pseudorandom posted:
I still laugh occasionally about the plain mustard smear
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nunsexmonkrock posted:I never played the king's quest games but I assume they are in the same vein as the Space Quest games also by Sierra? I actually love those games. Not sure why I never gave king's a try. God I love asparagus.
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