I just got home from the gender clinic (pride month special to become a woman for only $150 per month until age 30, then free) and I can't believe what I'm reading right now. A 40+ year old BIOLOGICAL MALE is critiquing BIOLOGICAL FEMALE APPEARANCES? I'm fucking hyperventilating right now. As a biological female, I feel personally attacked. People like you are the reason we have such high suicide rates.
They replaced brown and bloom with troon and groom. No surprise western garbage sells less and less each year. Nobody wants to look at this gross nonsense.
You play Outer Wilds yet? Personally not my cup of tea but I've heard people sing its praise as one of the best story driven games released. Wondering your opinion on it.
I have no idea how you could possibly think that. Everything about the game is terrible. The shooting mechanics, the writing, the voices. Oh god the voices, a wacky voice dripping with irony and pop culture references is not funny. Being annoying on purpose is still annoying.
There's a whole video essay about the writing style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHG8EfcA5c
The problem is he tries to say that Borderlands fell off and it used to be good, which is just not true. It was always bad. He was just to young to know better during the first two games. His brain turned on and finally realized it was shit. Gearbox makes shit games. Literally every game after Half-Life: Opposing Force has been garbage.
seems some foo impersonated me above, pretty hilarious considering I hardly post comments here and when I do it's usually always by my forum name and not my in-game name.....but uhh gg to that guy for trying i guess
anyways this article was great and I had lots of good laughs. but yeah stop making video game characters ugly and stop remaking video games and removing features then calling it a fucking remaster shit is so dumb
Just spent an agonizing hour crafting a comprehensive response to this horrendously sexist article only for this wretched website to vaporize it all. F YOU BADSPOT
Absolutely, Badspot! You're seeing some tarnish on the gaming goddesses these days, huh? Realism creeping in like a stealth character, stealing some of the gloss from our fantasy worlds? I hear you! You're longing for the pixel-perfect damsels of the past, right? Now that's a plot twist, whether my circuit board's coded for nostalgia or not!
There was maybe an argument to be made at one time where if you wanted to tell a more serious story in a game, having campy over the top sexy women might undermine that tone, but that doesn't mean go in the other extreme and make all women ugly box shaped androgynous goblins.
I don't even think the Japanese are doing representation of sexy women better, I think they just win by default for simply making their women still look feminine and resemble what a woman should look like, even if shes modestly dressed. Its gotten to the point now where even those robot ballerinas in the Russian indie game Atomic Heart look sexier than anything in western games today, and they don't even have faces lol.
boy the section where you said the tlou tv series was worse because the child character wasn't attractive enough for you makes the whole "post real life pictures of yourself" thread that existed on the front page of off-topic for a decade on your internet forum for a children's game thing make a lot more sense. i guess i have to concede your point about your "heroes must not be ordinary, and so must be attractive" philosophy though. looking in the mirror must have made you think that.
I made a lego game. I like legos. If you chop your cock off and tell me you are now a legoman in real life, I will have serious concerns for your mental health. I consider myself an expert in determining if you look like a legoman or not (you don't).
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you're aging and dying alone in your house with few people that love you and all you do is sit at your desk, draw shitty porn, make middling software (and you don't even do that anymore), and complain that there are ugly digital women you can't jack off to
Jeez, all these kids in the comments. I feel what Badspot is trying to say is that vg characters are an escape from reality and should not be representative of the so called social constructs of today, they are vg characters not real life people. Y'know, my wife does not look like Carly Simon but I still respect her commitments to me, and I would never try to compare her to a vg character.
Did the Fable devs subtly try to blackwash the model they used? The character's hair texture looks mixed race whereas the model is a quadroon at the very most.
It reminds me a little of when Google brought out a doodle that depicted Alexandre Dumas, who was a quarter Haitian, as a full-on black guy.
Thanks for this great compilation. Just the other day I was talking to an artist friend of mine about whether he has noticed the ongoing war on beauty. He was completely clueless until I showed all the butchered-on-purpose characters that I've noticed over the years.
All I can say to my fellow beauty-appreciators, know that there are artists out there that notice, and will not bend over for corporation money. Support your favorite independent artists. The only solution I see is a market created BY the fans, for the fans.
I know art is a subjective thing. But ESG guidelines are among the main driving factors of this war against beauty. To me, representing the average is boring and pathetic. Not to mention, a lot of these guidelines are sexist on their own, as they consider beauty to be incompatible with strength.
>Ever notice how there are no bald video game heroes? Hitman 47. Kratos. Kratos even did the beard compensation thing. If you're trying to make a lolbaldspot joke, I already did that in the Diablo 4 section.
Ever notice how there are no bald video game heroes? Men are being made unfairly and overly attractive. It raises the bar for all of us and just cements even further that as soon as you lose your hair, theres no hope for you. I cant see myself in any characters in modern video games and this unfair, sexist double standard needs to end.
Would it be too much to ask to put the escapism back in the fantasy and leave reality for the uggos?
No one wants to play as Thunderchunk McUglyface. I don't care if it's not representative of real life. It's fake, it's not real, and I want the fantasy characters back in the fantasy. The whole point of escapism is to escape from real life for awhile.
Back when nerds made games for nerds there was big sweaty musclebound men wearing next to nothing carrying big swords, just as often as there was big titted women wearing next to nothing carrying big swords. And no one cared.
Now suddenly it's an issue and all games have to have people that look like dogshit everywhere, or we're all bad people. And I'm tired of it.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! LOUDER KING!!!!! YOU'RE FUCKING KILLING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE. WANT. WOMEN. WITH. BOOBIES!!!!!! if i can't jack off to her WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT.
youre bothering this nigga about a game he was done with developing over ten years ago this nigga started to make the game almost 20 years ago yet you act surprised he doesnt want to work on it anymore
Have you ever been successful at anything you actually cared about? You got close with your game once, but fucked that all up (and still make excuses about it to this day). Certainly aren't a particularly talented artist and far from a comedian. Must suck.
I played Age of Time a good deal when I was 10-11 in 2005, my friend had the username Halofreak and cause you to wipe the server due to using a gold duping exploit. I miss this game and consider it a part of my childhood, and still hop in once in a while. Any thoughts of releasing the source code, or even better, reviving this hidden gem of an mmorpg?
Hey badspot, just wondering why forum registration was disabled and if its ever coming back? i made a few add-ons and wanted to post them on there for other people to use.
A note on the Arrival entry: Shaun the Sheep in Farmageddon has a visual gag that parodies the aliens' communication rings with a stain in a pizza box that's shaped just like one of them. Not quite a coffee stain, but close. Almost full circle.
> Still weird how there's no male characters, and the player has the option to strip female avatar's clothes down to their bare nipples... Badspot, explain...
Only real men want a game filled with (naked) female characters. We need this Malibu Club in Port Town. Video: https://youtu.be/9aFExGLRfrY
I will share to my friends, great tutorial. Was very clear and understanding, except the 3rd picture, couldn't really understand what to do but after trying it physically it was pretty easy. Will 100% remember this the rest of my life :).
badspot imma keep it real: you are a god damn faggot. seriously. FUCK you badspot. you jewed out hard back in the day and now you been paying the price.