True, but you cannot simply turn any plot around to fit gender equality ideas. Especially if you try to go for a historic setting. Female soldiers in WW1 trenches are most likely going to ruffle some feathers with those that enjoy their games historically accurate.
Fantasy settings are more adaptable, but even there it usually takes quite a bit of suspense of disbelieve to see the princess rescue the knight as a valid scenario unless you first somehow manage to establish a narrative that makes it credible.
So I guess what makes or breaks a game is whether it does tell a compelling story, if it's a story driven game, and whether the characters are responsive if it's a fighting game and nobody really gives a flying fuck about "agency"? Could it be?
And they think they accomplish this by alienating gamers? Because one thing's sure, there WILL be a patch for the PC version (if it's censored there altogether), so people will think twice whether to buy a PS5 or a PC instead.
Then I'd guess they're making the wrong kind of game. Because one thing's certain, nobody who has an alternative will get DMC5 on a Sony console now. And DMC games aren't exactly the "family friendly" kind of game series, ya know...
Cute. You really think just 'cause they find a new way to milk you that you could get something else cheaper.
Did the tickets get cheaper when they stopped serving drinks for free? Or when the seats got stacked so tightly that the average midget can no longer sit without getting thrombosis?
What people, at least those using Twitter to broadcast, want is publicity. They want to be heard. They want followers who read their stuff, retweet it and make them feel important. What people want is that their opinion matters. If you have a million followers, everything you say will be taken in by a million brains and they will probably believe it. If, and only if, it supports their already pre-formed notion of what is "true".
Because that's how people work.
Now, of course you could achieve this also by providing insightful information. You could inform the world about flaws in software you discover, you could have the (actual) news before the local outlet brings them. But this is hard. What's way easier is is to provide some conspiracy-laced fringe theories that find some fertile grounds with those that feel slighted by "the system" or somehow disadvantaged, which is a pretty big hunting ground in the western world today.
What people forget is that kids have WAY more time to figure out how to cheat and manipulate those things than they have to set them up. Not to mention that the average 8 year old knows more about mobile devices than his parents.
And through the ages kids have spent half their wits and smarts (and that of their friends) to escape parental supervision. The other half was spent cheating on school tests.
That's how the school system works. Students also spend 90% of their time on the 10% of subjects they're bad at, while the workplace reality would require you to do the opposite. Nobody wants to hire someone that's mediocre at everything, what I want is someone who excels at the one thing I need him for, while I don't give a shit about how he fares in the things I'm not interested in.
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True, but you cannot simply turn any plot around to fit gender equality ideas. Especially if you try to go for a historic setting. Female soldiers in WW1 trenches are most likely going to ruffle some feathers with those that enjoy their games historically accurate.
Fantasy settings are more adaptable, but even there it usually takes quite a bit of suspense of disbelieve to see the princess rescue the knight as a valid scenario unless you first somehow manage to establish a narrative that makes it credible.
So I guess what makes or breaks a game is whether it does tell a compelling story, if it's a story driven game, and whether the characters are responsive if it's a fighting game and nobody really gives a flying fuck about "agency"? Could it be?
Could you possibly have told me that 30 years ago?
Tits ain't for kids! When will the people finally get that!
And also totally in character to repeat past mistakes.
Sony is a company that somehow enjoys reaching for hot stoves and burning hands repeatedly.
If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.
– Jack Nicholson
So ... Japan is in Europe now?
The US school system is worse than even I could imagine.
You don't want your kid to see it, great. It's your kid. Not mine. You get to deal with it.
Why? What shame, anyway?
And they think they accomplish this by alienating gamers? Because one thing's sure, there WILL be a patch for the PC version (if it's censored there altogether), so people will think twice whether to buy a PS5 or a PC instead.
That's the punchline here. It's not the religious right that gets worked up over tits, it's the alleged liberal left that is.
Please stop the world, I want to get off.
Then I'd guess they're making the wrong kind of game. Because one thing's certain, nobody who has an alternative will get DMC5 on a Sony console now. And DMC games aren't exactly the "family friendly" kind of game series, ya know...
Yeah. One make a fuss and one let me wank in peace.
Hey, hey, hey, over here in Europe you can let your tits swing freely, man or woman!
To be fair, if you only want a mediocre experience you can just start the game and play on a PC, too.
The sound you hear is a Playboy magazine moving past you overhead.
I have an idea. Just put a credit card verification in and all those pesky teens that wanted to pay for their porn can't get it anymore.
Case closed. Let's get back to bashing each other's head in in an attempt to find out how to get out of the EU without leaving it.
You're old if you remember that.
You're ancient if you managed to actually answer the questions.
Not much later, any kind of personal entertainment system gets banned (for security reasons of course) so you can't escape it.
Cute. You really think just 'cause they find a new way to milk you that you could get something else cheaper.
Did the tickets get cheaper when they stopped serving drinks for free? Or when the seats got stacked so tightly that the average midget can no longer sit without getting thrombosis?
Are we still doing sacrifices to the volcano gods?
And if not, this would be a good reason to restart this ancient tradition.
What people, at least those using Twitter to broadcast, want is publicity. They want to be heard. They want followers who read their stuff, retweet it and make them feel important. What people want is that their opinion matters. If you have a million followers, everything you say will be taken in by a million brains and they will probably believe it. If, and only if, it supports their already pre-formed notion of what is "true".
Because that's how people work.
Now, of course you could achieve this also by providing insightful information. You could inform the world about flaws in software you discover, you could have the (actual) news before the local outlet brings them. But this is hard. What's way easier is is to provide some conspiracy-laced fringe theories that find some fertile grounds with those that feel slighted by "the system" or somehow disadvantaged, which is a pretty big hunting ground in the western world today.
What people forget is that kids have WAY more time to figure out how to cheat and manipulate those things than they have to set them up. Not to mention that the average 8 year old knows more about mobile devices than his parents.
And through the ages kids have spent half their wits and smarts (and that of their friends) to escape parental supervision. The other half was spent cheating on school tests.
Womens Studies? Is that the new politically correct term for the courses where you learn how to be a good homemaker?
That's how the school system works. Students also spend 90% of their time on the 10% of subjects they're bad at, while the workplace reality would require you to do the opposite. Nobody wants to hire someone that's mediocre at everything, what I want is someone who excels at the one thing I need him for, while I don't give a shit about how he fares in the things I'm not interested in.