Sorry for posting roachman, but this guy using leftist speak to try and paint chuds as oppressed is the funniest shit to me.
Women have always been in the gaming industry, they were just ignored for the most part.
Video games were marketed as boys toys in the past, but even then girls played them and never had a problem playing as a male character.
If you can relate to a cartoon plumber that says mama mia and wahoo, but can’t relate to a women, I am deeply concerned for you. You don’t even have to relate to the main character to enjoy the game. I don’t relate to Kris Deltarune in the slightest, but I still enjoy the shit out of those games.
Really fucking funny that these people genuinely and truly believe that the reason people play Triple A Franchise is because of White Male Protagonist and not like you know the graphics or gameplay or story
@Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net shared a great little video the other day about tomb raider and why the fans loved it, it was for the levels, atmosphere and gameplay, not Lara, while the studios got it backwards and thought the people wanted Lara instead.
Tomb Raider is good game because big polygonal bazongas
Lara works on posters though :( Games are sold on aesthetics and hype not gameplay. You’d think streaming would change that but alas preorders are a huge portion of day 1 sales.
“How could you say that you don’t think gruff, male protagonist #5,673 was inspiring!”
the power fantasy is why all those guys look like that
The thing is I think the peak male power fantasy in gaming is actually Ezio Auditore
He’s strong, fast, a good fighter, witty, ambitious, good-looking, rich, a lady killer, a family man, and fights for what he believes in.
The fantasy is that he’s kind of like an ideal positive masculine figure who’s also just a well-written character
Even though he’s an It*lian
Idk Clive in FF16 is pretty good but I might be biased
If you ever need a shot to your ego. Remember there is a loud protest for all games to be the same generic slop. How do chuds not realize THEY’RE the reason everything is becoming unoriginal remakes? Because anything else might make people think, and if they think, they might….gasp entertain the idea they’re WRONG about things!
I notice as well that these CHUDs can only ever point to like 5 or 6 of the biggest AAA franchises in games, they can never talk about any fun little indie games they played, or any older or obscure games they picked up and enjoyed, they can only ever go on about the biggest and most easily identifiable gaming franchises, they’re so obviously tourists.
Maybe we need to be elitist against these chuds, “go back to call of duty tourist!”
But like unironically. Calling them a tourist shuts them up quicker than anything, treat them how they treat women who play games, demand encyclopedic knowledge from them and tell them that they’re not a real gamer, they’re just faking it for clout (because they are)
I sold retro games for a couple years at a pretty hype flea market booth. It was when rental stores were dying and I bought up stock from them, or used the fact thst I lived in the sticks at the time to get yard sale scoops. We sold modern at the time (wii, 360, ps3 era) but it was more about older stuff. This has meant just for testing purposes and so I would know enough about any game on sale I could talk to a customer about it, I have played fucking everything up to and including what was modern at the time. These people generally know jack shit about games and have watched more YouTube videos about them than played em. They’re just shallow people
Pure comedy gold is reminding chuds they have the same political beliefs DarkSydePhil did.
Unironically. I would love to make a squid games meets The Wizard style event for them. If they’re such hardcore true gamers. No Continue Ninja Gaiden 2, first round. Those who can’t fucking die. Round 2, S rank all the VR Missions in mgs2 in one go, beat super Mario bros in under 10 minutes, final 30 is an f zero gx Lan party. For some reason these people think their turf is the only thing video games are.
It’s the legend of ZELDA not the legend of PEACH smh
Lost in Blue my beloved. No one may know you but I will never forget you… Or helping me meet my wife lol.
I remember it (though I never played it)
Posting about “franchises built off the back of iconic male protagonists” and then posting The Last of Us (one game), Ghost of Tsushima (one game), and Uncharted (nobody gives a fuck about Nathan Drake lmao) is very funny.
Also very interesting to use Dad of War Kratos considering that AFAIK the first reboot had already mostly moved away from “I am so angry I am going to personally murder every figure in greek mythlogy” to the new more mature tone. Similar for Witcher 3; whatever criticisms I have of it, you’re not collecting trading cards by having sex with all the named female characters. Unless these guys are suggesting we retvrn to fucking horrendous click-based combat.
Unpopular opinion maybe: I hate how the original God of Wars success made a bunch of studios force devs to put qtes in their games during that era
Im pretty sure that’s a popular opinion. It was at the time that was happening at least. I think people liked it in god of war but didnt like it being used badly in every other game. Re4 is an example off the top of my head cause I recently scored the wii version at a pawn shop! Re4 on the wii is kinda the best cause it’s super super easy, the motion controls for aiming make it way faster than normal. You genuinely feel like Leon, a guy barely taking this seriously.
We can actually blame Shenmue 1 for creating QTEs (or at least coming up with the term specifically), and it came out a full 5 years earlier. GoW was just riding the trend imo; Resident Evil 4 came out the same year and already had QTEs, for instance.
Huh, I never knew that. Would you say GoW popularized it though?
Don’t know, it’s hard to say. We could look at stuff like sales numbers (it did okay but not in the top 10 for 2005 going by wikipedia) but that doesn’t say much about how other game devs were being influenced by it.
I think it’s most likely that it helped perpetuate the trend but it didn’t start it, nor was it the main driving factor.
Absolutely. Shenmue was a lot less popular. It sold, but not god of war level
nah i remember that complaint being a thing a while back
I know the hate wasn’t that strong, but didn’t some chuds hate that the God of War soft reboot had a more mature tone? Also isn’t the new game just a spinoff anyway? So its not like she’s taking over the mainline.
Yeah, a lot of them complained about them “ruining” Kratos in Dad of Boy (but what they were actually mad about was the fact that women were now interested in playing the game, since Kratos was actually a character and not just a sexist rage monster)
Afaik the new God Of War is not a spin off, it is being treated and developed as a main series entry, not that it matters to these chud tourists anyway
Oh probably, frankly I think that the stories in both games are equally uninteresting because I just can’t care about Kratos struggling with being a single parent after he killed every living being in GoW 3.
nathan drake is just discount genderflipped lara croft anyway
Who was a discount gender flipped Indiana Jones, who was a discount amalgam of various 1930s era comics, which were usually cheap copies of nineteenth century penny dreadfuls, which were themselves cheap rip-offs of older renaissance and mediaeval tales, which were rehashes of ancient Roman stories, that were rip-offs from the Greeks, who copied the Egyptians, who mimicked the ancient Mesopotamians, who probably got it all from cave paintings.
TIL - Stick fight was just a return to the original source
If you can relate to a cartoon plumber that says mama mia and wahoo, but can’t relate to a women, I am deeply concerned for you.
How dare you suggest I could relate to an Italian monarchist
A proletarian class traitor!
Mario is actually in on it with bowser to shake down peach and redistribute coins.
Think about it: nobody ever harms each other, mario never spends the coins he collects, nothing is ever done to stop abduction, bowser somehow has huge amounts of funding for zany schemes (work guarantees).
How many goombas must be stomped? How many koopas evicted from their homes? How many Yoshis must fall to their death just for Mario to reach the next castle?
So now hexbear sanctions kinkshaming huh?
LinKKK is a lib, and has probably made NAFO memes. SSamus is a cop. Donkey KKKong is a filthy kulak.
Comrade Mewtwo is the true hero of Nintendo.
I know you secretly love the monarchy you can’t fool me
Bowser’s a monarchist. And possible misogynist. Critical support for reformist Peach.
like building a datacenter on a sacred burial ground
As if these chucklefucks ever gave a shit about indigenous people or their rights
Behind every gamer chud is a failed jock from high school. They missed out and cope by going online to be the bullies they failed to be.
Heard this guy thought water and chipotle tasted disgusting only to find out it was the taste of his rotting teeth
he also said he was against political violence both before and after he explicitly advocated for the most vulgar political violence on multiple occassions
He certainly tweets like an extremist.
Yeah I support genocide, chud genocide.
All those games suck anyway. Both versions. Including the ones I havent played. Which is all of them.
I only play like, 10 video games anymore and they’re all high score based and last less than an 2 hours. Most games that try to have stories shouldn’t
Yeah of course no stories. But ten whole games? I juggle between just five games at once and they’re all purely abstracted symbols and numbers floating in a void without any setting or characters. Even the numbers are meaningless and generated at random to help avoid the possibility of emergent narratives due to human pattern seeking.
I play video games once every few months
A woman made the game Centipede you chucklefuck. Women have been in gaming twelve thousand generations before your quintillionth grandpaparoach.
“Don’t bring politics in my games”
“Gaming is for conservatives ONLY and I only want to play with All-Americans!”
PICK. ONE.
Asmongold’s on record saying he can’t play girls in games at all, he doesn’t like doing it, he hates it and it makes games unplayable for him.
So we should make every protagonist a woman.
Screaming and crying and launching my Nintendo Entertainment System™ into the nearest brick wall when I beat Metroid and there’s a woke bikini woman on screen instead of a cool (heterosexual) robot
Gamers have been oppressed yet again.
If you can relate to a cartoon plumber that says mama mia and wahoo
Nah this brand of chud would never play Mario. It’s not about the incredible burden of being serious and masculine.
When Nintendo fans are chuds it’s much more about gatekeeping who can play the games than the games themselves.
grunting-core games transition into ouchie-core games, this is very important
If it wasn’t asmongold saying that id think it was a funny satire
but i like playing as a woman in my vidya games since I can’t be one in real life
Of course you can. I’m still trying to figure out how to do that but I know others have unlocked the secret.
Same reason I like playing any game that allows me to be a giant monster 😢
same reason i like any game where i can be the spirit of a country
Whelp, time to bring out the injection rifle and the estradiol darts again.
