Damn straight. I already knew something was off to begin with. This all but officially confirms it. I was right about the lies.
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Because of course she is. Never mind she was kind of into Erond in the first game. Never mind she's shown herself as rather asexual in Forbidden West.
At this point it's just better to assume every character is gay until shown otherwise. No wonder I prefer Japanese media these days.
Well....at least Aloy has good taste in women.
Honestly, I don't care and don't see the big deal. I "get it", but Japan can have the opposite problem at times. Or constantly play the ambiguously gay angle. No media is perfect. The reactionaries would do their usual thing, and then forget about it within the next week. Moving on.
The problem is that its just so predictable at this point, "strong" female character = lesbian. And its kinda sexist too in its own way, it just place female character in very narrow role.
And games like Streets of Rage 4, River City Girls 1 & 2, Bot Vice, Celeste, Bayonetta, Dandara, and Parasite Eve prove you don't need a "strong" female character to be lesbian or bi. Honestly, this problem dates back to Legend of Korra when KorraXAsami became a thing without much build or explanation. Yeah, they bonded and eased into friendship, but not enough for that. Even then, they couldn't show them kissing (due to Nick's TV practices at time). Mike and Bryan were looking for diversity points with no effort. It pains to say that a lot. Plus, LoK always had a huge problem with focusing too much on pairings and shipping at the expense of the plot. Don't even get me started on that awful "love triangle" in the first two season. They made Twilight and Inuyasha look like Shakespeare by comparison.
Um, by what metric?
"Strong female character" is a nonsensical term that shouldn't exist, but I doubt I could even name 10 lesbian characters in games, period, and certainly not 20. The idea that "strong female character" = lesbian isn't borne out by statistics as far as I can tell.
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Also, homosexual=lesbian. Super progressive and yet also acceptable because men (the producers and the target audience) find it sexy. You won't see that trend with male homosexuals any time soon.
You also usually see acceptance of women by the lesbian character, but no explicit rejection of males. In the eyes of the male public and producers, the lesbian is still "available", so no biggie. The real taboo isn't breached.
Bodycam first-person shooter game Unrecord sparks controversy
Graphics of a new first-person videogame are so realistic and people are in an uproar because they feel it glorifies violence and police brutality in a nation that is plagued with mass shootings.
Police Bodycam Game Explodes, But Not Without Doubt And Controversy
Unrecord is a hyper-realistic-looking first-person shooter that stars a cop
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I don't trust Atari, and why would you idiots buy Bubsy of all things?
Atari Just Bought a Ton of Classic 80s and 90s Video Game IP - IGN
Atari continues to bolster its library of retro video game IP with the acquisition of Bubsy, Hardball, and 100 other games from the '80s and '90s.
Not interested, and will be paying attention to other games.
Xbox is working on a mystery sequel that it says could take 10 years to make | VGC
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Fuck off Sony.
PlayStation has significantly increased Steam game prices in some countries | VGC
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Dunkey's first video game spotlighted at Nintendo's Indie World Showcase - Tubefilter
Nintendo's latest indie games showcase featured a familiar face: YouTube game reviewer turned game publisher Dunkey, with a teaser for his company's In the presentation, Basso said he's been developing Animal Well for the past five years. Dunkey's game publishing company Bigmode (launched with...
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I wouldnt take the word of Microsofts VP of marketing as gospel on such topics. Greenberg has a rep for 'enhancing' the truth. I dont think Microsoft publishes quarterly results tho, that would be more reliable.
Scalpers are struggling to sell PlayStation 5 consoles as supplies return to normal
Getting a PlayStation 5 for its suggested retail price was a near impossibility in 2020 and 2021. Scalpers and scalping companies unapologetically bought the consoles in their...
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As I've said before, I will always laugh in the faces of these scalpers. They deserve every bit of profit loss
Scalpers are struggling to sell PlayStation 5 consoles as supplies return to normal
Getting a PlayStation 5 for its suggested retail price was a near impossibility in 2020 and 2021. Scalpers and scalping companies unapologetically bought the consoles in their...
As I've said before, I will always laugh in the faces of these scalpers. They deserve every bit of profit loss
Sony may be forced to lower PSVR 2's price after slow launch
Research firm IDC (via Bloomberg) estimates that Sony will likely sell about 270,000 units of the PSVR2, which launched on February 22, by the end of March.
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They also made it only available online so of course it is going to sell slowly. Put it in stores dummies.Sony may be forced to lower PSVR 2's price after slow launch
Research firm IDC (via Bloomberg) estimates that Sony will likely sell about 270,000 units of the PSVR2, which launched on February 22, by the end of March.
Atari has learned absolutely nothing, and if they had the power over the market today that they did back in the '80s then we'd be looking at a second gaming crash.I don't trust Atari, and why would you idiots buy Bubsy of all things?
Atari Just Bought a Ton of Classic 80s and 90s Video Game IP - IGN
Atari continues to bolster its library of retro video game IP with the acquisition of Bubsy, Hardball, and 100 other games from the '80s and '90s.www.ign.com
Also, at no point was Bubsy ever good. I rented the first game once and found it to be annoying and derivative, a desperate attempt to force a new mascot into popularity, and everything I've heard about it since then tells me that it only ever got worse.
A friend of mine gave the second game to me for free. I sold it at some point.
In the words of the great Nelson Muntz: HA HA.Scalpers are struggling to sell PlayStation 5 consoles as supplies return to normal
Getting a PlayStation 5 for its suggested retail price was a near impossibility in 2020 and 2021. Scalpers and scalping companies unapologetically bought the consoles in their...
As I've said before, I will always laugh in the faces of these scalpers. They deserve every bit of profit loss
Suck it, Scaplers.
Hmm, were there any scalpers for PSVR2? Because this would mean they would have to lower their price for this as well!Sony may be forced to lower PSVR 2's price after slow launch
Research firm IDC (via Bloomberg) estimates that Sony will likely sell about 270,000 units of the PSVR2, which launched on February 22, by the end of March.
Anyways,
Atari is just a name that's passed around nowadays, the company behind it now is not the company that was behind it back in the 80s. And I don't mean that employees walked out and new ones came in.
What's wrong with characters being gay? And what's better about characters being default straight?
Aloy, nor any other character in "Japanese media" is going to jump out of the screen and suck you off.
Uh, no she wasn't. He flirts with her the first time they meet to which she has pretty much no real response. That's it. Also, it's optional. You could also optionally reciprocate Avad's feelings at the start of Forbidden West. Soooo...
Yeah, because japanese media certainly has none of that. Unlike the west they don't have entire genre's named for their gay content.
Also, important to note the vast majority of characters in fiction are still straight, but one or two videogame characters come out and it's all 'geez, why is everyone gay now'.
