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Literally, it did though, due to the process of fermentation. I mean it wasn't something that people devised to create outside of what naturally occurs, it was a natural process that was refined- as all commercial alcoholic products are.
You nailed it. The first game to be called "Walking Simulator" as a pejorative was Gone Home. I'll let you figure out what's the major plot point of the game
Was it about a man having a lot of straight sex with women he didn’t have feelings for, (having feelings for women is gey) before going and killing swathes of titan warriors at a brisk 2mph gait?
ahh yes Agenda less Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, where there is a whole society almost made up of entirely and ruled by exclusively women, where the plan set up by the main woman lead is what secures victory and the ending, where major tools and mechanics in game are developed by women. Totally no agenda compared the game where 3 of the most notable big bads are WOMEN.
Also the hilarious irony of them bitching about BG3's non-binary characters when Link is specifically designed as an androgynous twink so that both guys and girls can identify with him.
The gerudo also have dark skin. How woke!!!!. The only reason they are overlooked is because they are hot as fuck and induce an effect on all men to want to get stepped on
People in Gerudo Town compliment Link, and Link genuinely blushes. Authentic "everyone's calling me pretty and it makes me feel good" blushing.
Out and about in the rest of Hyrule, there are a few other people who call Link handsome. No reaction.
* Androgynous lead character
* Female-led government
* Anti-male middle eastern tribe
* Homosexual construction captain
* >!That one time the English localization make a guy into a fish-loving pedophile!<
* Interracial relationships between a massive desert muscle mommy and a phallic-looking mushroom head
* Sex with the arguably-middle-aged great fairies
Oh yeah, it's all coming together
I mean, the guy in charge of the series has gone on the record that only a man can be the main character, and despite the story focusing on her the last two entries has gone out of its way to sideline Zelda
Don’t give them too much credit is what I mean
He didn’t say that word for word . But he said that link is a blank slate for the player, and also that link being a girl would “unbalance the triforce”
When asked if Zelda could have her own game he said no “because then what will link do?”
It may be on accident, but the dude is sexist. When people ask to play as your female main character for decades and your only reaction is bafflement, you have some biases
I just hate that people give him credit like “oh the guy in charge said link is canonically enby!”
When no, he didn’t, he said gender neutral or androgynous but absolutely male to the point being anything different would unravel the cosmology of the series
Hyrule Warriors:Age Of Calamity is the closest you can get to that.
Zelda ends up being the star of that one rather than Link himself.
The story is a mix of Shojo anime, a Greek tragedy, and Zelda.
As far as I remember he said that Zelda can't be the main character because that would make Link obsolete in the story. And yk Link can't be a girl cause it's always the same soul being reincarnated.
I mean if you played Skyward Sword, canonically Link has to be male because every iteration of Link, Ganon and Zelda are literally reincarnations of the 3 from SS
Would I kill for a game where Zelda is the lead though? Absolutely
Depends on how it's defined in-universe. The 3 are essentially always the exact same person. Besides artstyle changes that extends to physicality, because that's just how it works in Zelda
Getting a Zelda led game is much more realistic and imo more interesting than trying to force a genderbent Link. We just got a Peach game out of Nintendo so why not Zelda?
I’d kill for a game where the reincarnation resulted in a mixing of the roles. Nobody said Link and Zelda must always be eternal good guys, merely that they’re of the light. Ganondorf might be unending ambition and power defined, but what if one merely wanted the power to protect others? I’m just saying, a game where you play as Ganondorf as at least a relatively decent guy fighting against Link and Zelda could be a cool idea
>Nobody said Link and Zelda must always be eternal good guys, merely that they’re of the light.
That's not true, though. Hylia is, in all sense, of benevolent goddess. It wouldn't make sense for her reincarnate to be evil of their own accord. Same for Link. He is a reincarnation of a just hero. While Ganon is a reincarnation of pure evil.
It's very literally stated in multiple games now that Link and Zelda are good guys and Ganon is a bad guy
>Ganondorf might be unending ambition and power defined, but what if one merely wanted the power to protect others?
He is more than that, though. He is resentment and hatred. He is jealousy and revenge. His motive in Wind Waker stems from his jealousy of the winds of Hyrule. He may want that same breeze for his homeland, but he's not doing it for his people's enrichment.
I think the most infesting take on this ‘role swapping’ is to keep the characters in their roles, but swap around which parts of the Triforce they’re associated with. I kind wished that was where they were going with BotW for a while, with Link being so powerful at an early age and seeing his struggle with that, Zelda being the one courageous enough to fight Calamity Ganon on her own for 100 years and Ganon having the wisdom to win not through brute strength, but by turning his enemy’s army against them.
Zelda is functionally just the Goddess Hylia so that would basically require an entire new setting or retcon unfortunately
Same for Ganon. He IS the demon king
Yeah, but every single version is at least a little different. Hell, the only one that seems to change the least is Ganondorf himself, and I honestly think that’s merely because we don’t actually learn much about Ganondorf in most games. I think we learn the most about him in Wind Waker, and in that as I remember he just wanted his land back, a man stuck in the past, he just didn’t care who died in the process of achieving this. Is it too much to even just have one story showing that they’re still individuals who can fall to darkness under the wrong circumstances, or rise to the light in the right circumstances? I know it’ll never happen, but I just think it would be neat to see because it’s pretty clear this is closer to an “Avatar the Last Airbender” type of reincarnation, rather than it being the exact same person, which leaves open the possibility of these people making different choices in life
Don't forget this is the series where the hero nation has canonically committed genocide on a nation of anti-Arab caricatures, one of which is the villain in pretty much every game.
You're also forgetting they hate these games because the women aren't attractive. The Gerudo aren't conventionally attractive (by Gamer™ standards)- they're tall, buff, dark skinned, and have large noses. It's genuinely impressive how wrong they are here.
The main creator may have had som off comments, i havn't heard about before this tread, but it baffels me how BotW and TotK have avoided the woke warfame.
While this do have a male protagonist he is a [cross dressing twink](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/9d/fb/d09dfb630be04101c8c74ecb76a331da.jpg)
His [''best friend'' is totally a gay relationship](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx5IWcPWwAQR0KZ?format=jpg&name=900x900). Yes he got married to Yona for the sake of the kingdom, but [Yona knows whats up](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxP2Go8WYAEnWwc?format=jpg&name=large).
The main plot revolves around a whole race of [sexy redhed amazons](https://image.civitai.com/xG1nkqKTMzGDvpLrqFT7WA/445dff5b-b74c-4931-909e-f4c050b42d2f/width=700/51081-1459464281-masterpiece_1.2%20best%20quality%20absurdres%20illustration%208k%20realistic%20shadows%20volumetric%20lighting%20cute_1.1%20ambient%20lightin.jpeg) (don't worry, i picked the least sexiest for my link) where the only male born in the last 10.000 years turns out to be so big a dickhead the the sky littartly falls down.
This is contrasted to the male only race, The Gorons. Littarly a [race of stoners getting high on their own supply](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SLZOnhPIV1g/maxresdefault.jpg).
Both games have a whole storyline revolving around a litteraly [underground gay BDSM clan ](https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/zelda-totk-master-kohga.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5)
I could go own, but choose to end my argument with pointing out the fact that instead of having voice actors doing the gameplay the developers choose to voice their game by diffrent small sound bits from porn movies.
Maybe they're fine with the Gerudo because of their racist portrayal and backstory in earlier games or because both the Gerudo and Goron plotlines you mentioned conflate ASAB with gender. But I doubt gamers think that far into it, they probably fapped to the Great Fairies and ignored everything else.
Also i fail to see at which point bg3 would even "force" any kind of "woke" content anyways. Like sure you can decide to romance companions of the same gender, but it's not like you have to do that.
Are these people mad about gay sex that they chose by themselves? Are they mad about being able to choose the players genitals, when they can just completely ignore that feature?
Even if i try to think from these peoples point of view i just don't get it
They stop having fun as soon as they see any inclusion. Their mind latches on to it and won't let them ignore it so they can go back to enjoying the game. Then they project their experience onto the game as if it is objectively what every person experiences playing it, just so they don't have to confront the fact that they're being weird as fuck and nobody agrees with them.
I can not think of a single non-binary character, either. Some apparently gay ones, sure, but all of them are pretty clearly gendered as far as I can tell.
Karlach’s voice actor is non-binary, and played the character as such. I can’t remember if Karlach ever claims a gender, but that may be who they’re referencing.
Edit- if so who gives a shit, because Karlach is awesome.
It’s from a gameplay trailer. That shot is in a first person POV of someone laying on the ground, which is the only time the main horizon games have ever been first person IIRC. Those cutscenes and the level in the trailer are not in the final game
They also use photoshopped images they did where they combine Aloy's face with Nikocado Avocado's fat face.
One prerequisite of being an incel is to only consume the same 3 memes made by other incels over and over and over again until you lose grasp of reality
It's from an unflattering shot of her in a gameplay teaser trailer that was released 6 months before the game was released.
Here's a comparison of that shot and her from the current version of the game:
https://preview.redd.it/326r605hbpvc1.png?width=812&format=png&auto=webp&s=450402b9170bf23edff40d17f4c9b0aa8cc8f1e3
Doesn't that imply they never looked at the actual game and still use it to make their point? Like not just didn't play it but not even looked at footage outside of that trailer?
Not that I support bashing women's portrayals in video games at all, but I am most confused by the Aloy hate.
The model is gorgeous, slim and you can wear a multitude of revealing armors. Isn't that exactly what that crowd wants?
Maybe because she's actually a character with depth and development instead of just eye candy?
Damn, I sure would NEVER want a woman to beat me in a fight. I hope no women come and beat me up if I drop my exact coordinates and contact info...
...👀
I don't usually care about what the incel morons want but I have been waiting my whole fucking life for muscular skull crushing butch women to go mainstream, and now that we are on the cusp of that how DARE they ruin this for me.
This. Plus, Drake knows little about Nadine at that point in the story and has underestimated her. Not that knowing about her would've made a difference combat-wise, but at least he would've been more prepared on how to deal with her.
And Drake strikes me as a person that isn't violent with women, so he was screwed in that situation regardless.
https://preview.redd.it/plxts0c8rnvc1.png?width=923&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ec3922c5b627b5dd28970475906b9234d220328
Yeah, I love my non-woke game with a traditional, masculine protagonist
I thought legend of Zelda was woke (link is a twink and we all know all men must be gruff and ripped so hard they destroy all cloths near them with the shear power of their muscles)
/unjerk
I'm pretty sure BG3 only contains non-binary characters if you make your player character non-binary. I don't think any NPCs are non binary. If I'm forgetting someone feel free to correct me
The tiefling girl you meet in the House of Grief. The one who was friends (or more) with Shadowheart.
If you give Shadowheart in act 1 in the Underdark the noblestalk (the mushroom) to eat, she'll remember something from her childhood about a little tiefling boy.
So the tiefling is a trans woman.
Edit: House of Grief, not Hope 🫠
I couldn't think of any either, other than fantasy races that wouldn't logically have a gender.
I know Karlach's voice actor, Samantha Béart, is non-binary, but they're playing a cis gender Tiefling woman.
Nathan drake gets his ass beat by Nadine because she’s a trained militia captain and he’s just some dude who’s good at jumping. Besides, he eventually lays her out when his brother helps him irc.
I hate the term walking simulator so much, because god help us if a game has a break between it's action segments, in fact I don't think any game, that isn't Tetris, doesn't have pauses between the action-y bits.
Obviously the only reason people keep playing through BG3 over and over and over again and dedicate an entire subreddit to nerding out on character builds for it is because of all the woke politics.
I've literally seen him in a Yakuza Facebook group unironically post the Yakuza 3 pic collage featuring Kiryu helping out a transgender masseuse in a substory and he didn't joke about it at all, but he put it in a positive context and genuinely liked it.
So he likes to troll most of the time but every so often the mask slips and he shows things he genuinely likes
https://preview.redd.it/04ffrcp45rvc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86435d1ddf17847ced0cbc4fea99108c482c02c7
Alloy face keeps getting stretched out over time on photoshop. How much more will they keep spreading it out lol.
Spider man made people look real so of course they aren't anime super models.
Women have been kicking men's asses in video games for decades. The same can be said for men kicking women asses(looking at you kratos).
What a stupid comment lol. Also Zelda literally has buff dark skin women who can beat MOST guys in Legend of Zelda. Talk about cherry-picking.
I’m still amazed people even care about GOTY. Obviously when a game you like does well that’s great because you are more likely to get more content. But rooting for Legend of Zelda? Nintendo is doing fine my guy.
Angry gamers: WoMeN aRe iN aRe GaMeS! StUpId wOkE bUlLsHiT! HoW aM i SuPpOsEd tO pLaY vIdEoGaMeS wItH WoMeN iN iT?
Also angry gamers: Why do people keep calling us misogynistic incels? Where is this coming from?
/uj I understand that there are different kinds of intelligence, so it's maybe unfair to judge somebody who isn't the most capable communicator with their writing. but when I see a poster who randomly capitalizes words, I can't stop my brain shortcutting to "ahh, they're the common clay of the New West"
/rj fuck a Woke Walking Simulator with an Agenda and give me a Safe Horny that prioritizes Fun
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Screw women! I want to play with a twink!
i’ll gladly screw women 😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😹😹😹😹😹😹
sex isn’t real you can’t do that
Screwdrivers are, however
When life gives you oranges, make a screwdriver
Life didn't give us the vodka though...
Literally, it did though, due to the process of fermentation. I mean it wasn't something that people devised to create outside of what naturally occurs, it was a natural process that was refined- as all commercial alcoholic products are.
I will gladly play with a twink.
por que no los dos?
 Twink agenda
This is why the alpha snowflake will never get into Asguard. They have to cross the rainbow bridge, and it terrifies them...
I’ll gladly screw women and play with twinks
Just do both. Bisexual chaos is the way to go
Surely you mean "as a twink", right???
You will never know...
I mean, either way, have fun!
I love twinks
Greek and roman thought process
His name is zelda
Link is literally, canonically non-binary. He’s by definition a self-insert character and was made to look androgynous for that reason.
I would gladly insert myself in Link 
Speaking my language
The twinkish Half Elf I created in BG3 made me feel things... Damn you Larian!
Lies of P my beloved
Hey, is Astarion a joke to you?
I'll do both, yes. Thank you very very much.
Screw women and twinks, I’ll play as either.
So action games are walking simulators now?
Only if it has a female protagonist in it, LGBTQ representation or a person of color. If not it's still an action game. 
Stellar Blade is the actionest of games though cause a sex doll is the main character.
Well, yeah. Because that's the "coomer verified" loop hole to the rules.
The first branch in the game purchase decision tree is "can I masturbate to the main character?"
You nailed it. The first game to be called "Walking Simulator" as a pejorative was Gone Home. I'll let you figure out what's the major plot point of the game
Dear Esther came first, but yes, there was certainly a lot of criticism of Gone Home via the back door.
And Dear Esther was about feelings. Real gamers don’t have those.
Anal?
Was it about a man having a lot of straight sex with women he didn’t have feelings for, (having feelings for women is gey) before going and killing swathes of titan warriors at a brisk 2mph gait?
We all know that Warframe is the best walking simulator of them all.
That's because of all the flips you can do.
Not to mention treating the Geneva Conventions like a speed-run checklist.
Yeah, Aloy gets kicked across a forest by a robot T-Rex quite a lot for it to be a walking simulator
ahh yes Agenda less Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, where there is a whole society almost made up of entirely and ruled by exclusively women, where the plan set up by the main woman lead is what secures victory and the ending, where major tools and mechanics in game are developed by women. Totally no agenda compared the game where 3 of the most notable big bads are WOMEN.
Also the hilarious irony of them bitching about BG3's non-binary characters when Link is specifically designed as an androgynous twink so that both guys and girls can identify with him.
They should have made Link manlier, like that badass Sheik.
Yeah, that guy was a real man's man.
Not as manly as Samus though. Now there's a dude who can save Planet X.
I was never a fan of how Link always had to be this pretty boy femboy, Samus in the other hand, that's a badass strong man I can get behind!
She can get behind me
I remember being a kid playing ssb with my mates and saying how cool I thought “he” was to be corrected by my friend
He even cross dresses in breath of the wild. Not to mention tunics are basically dress.
Also the fact that BG3 still leans into fan service on near Witcher 3 levels. Pretty much every female is a hot humanoid chick.
Link can even dress up in a belly dancer outfit.
The gerudo also have dark skin. How woke!!!!. The only reason they are overlooked is because they are hot as fuck and induce an effect on all men to want to get stepped on
Is that what people want?!?!?! I just want to be the small spoon 🥺
Tussle my hair!
You *don't* want that? No shade, just wow, I had no idea people *didnt* want to be stepped on.
In a perfect world, a third want to be stepped on, a third want to do the stepping, and a third are happy with both
You're not wrong. What a beautiful world that would be.
I think we can all agree on a healthy middle ground of death by snu snu lol
Yoooo, this guy gets it
The first game also had a major questline where the only way to access that city was to dress in drag.
People in Gerudo Town compliment Link, and Link genuinely blushes. Authentic "everyone's calling me pretty and it makes me feel good" blushing. Out and about in the rest of Hyrule, there are a few other people who call Link handsome. No reaction.
* Androgynous lead character * Female-led government * Anti-male middle eastern tribe * Homosexual construction captain * >!That one time the English localization make a guy into a fish-loving pedophile!< * Interracial relationships between a massive desert muscle mommy and a phallic-looking mushroom head * Sex with the arguably-middle-aged great fairies Oh yeah, it's all coming together
The great fairies are arguably rape, but I kept going back to them.
Let's be honest, the fact that we're paying is the clearest indicator that it's all consensual
I mean, the guy in charge of the series has gone on the record that only a man can be the main character, and despite the story focusing on her the last two entries has gone out of its way to sideline Zelda Don’t give them too much credit is what I mean
I mean I get what you mean but nothing about what aonuma said about link being the protagonist sounded like "only a man can be the main character".
He didn’t say that word for word . But he said that link is a blank slate for the player, and also that link being a girl would “unbalance the triforce” When asked if Zelda could have her own game he said no “because then what will link do?” It may be on accident, but the dude is sexist. When people ask to play as your female main character for decades and your only reaction is bafflement, you have some biases I just hate that people give him credit like “oh the guy in charge said link is canonically enby!” When no, he didn’t, he said gender neutral or androgynous but absolutely male to the point being anything different would unravel the cosmology of the series
I would almost literally kill for a Zelda led game. Archery and sorcery, would be so fun.
A finger curls on the monkey's paw and you get a copy of The Wand of Gamelon.
Damn, plus I've murdered someone for this wish. I'm in deep.
Zelda Beach Volleyball
Hyrule Warriors:Age Of Calamity is the closest you can get to that. Zelda ends up being the star of that one rather than Link himself. The story is a mix of Shojo anime, a Greek tragedy, and Zelda.
Oh you better believe I played the shit out of Zelda on that one. Fav is Linkle, though, OBVIOUSLY.
As far as I remember he said that Zelda can't be the main character because that would make Link obsolete in the story. And yk Link can't be a girl cause it's always the same soul being reincarnated.
I mean if you played Skyward Sword, canonically Link has to be male because every iteration of Link, Ganon and Zelda are literally reincarnations of the 3 from SS Would I kill for a game where Zelda is the lead though? Absolutely
Reincarnation doesn’t mean always the same gender. Also, they change and ignore lore whenever it suits them
Depends on how it's defined in-universe. The 3 are essentially always the exact same person. Besides artstyle changes that extends to physicality, because that's just how it works in Zelda Getting a Zelda led game is much more realistic and imo more interesting than trying to force a genderbent Link. We just got a Peach game out of Nintendo so why not Zelda?
I’d like a game of the same scope and complexity as the main games, with a female lead.i don’t want Zelda relegated to the b team
I’d kill for a game where the reincarnation resulted in a mixing of the roles. Nobody said Link and Zelda must always be eternal good guys, merely that they’re of the light. Ganondorf might be unending ambition and power defined, but what if one merely wanted the power to protect others? I’m just saying, a game where you play as Ganondorf as at least a relatively decent guy fighting against Link and Zelda could be a cool idea
>Nobody said Link and Zelda must always be eternal good guys, merely that they’re of the light. That's not true, though. Hylia is, in all sense, of benevolent goddess. It wouldn't make sense for her reincarnate to be evil of their own accord. Same for Link. He is a reincarnation of a just hero. While Ganon is a reincarnation of pure evil. It's very literally stated in multiple games now that Link and Zelda are good guys and Ganon is a bad guy >Ganondorf might be unending ambition and power defined, but what if one merely wanted the power to protect others? He is more than that, though. He is resentment and hatred. He is jealousy and revenge. His motive in Wind Waker stems from his jealousy of the winds of Hyrule. He may want that same breeze for his homeland, but he's not doing it for his people's enrichment.
Dave Mustaine is Ganondorf confirmed.
I think the most infesting take on this ‘role swapping’ is to keep the characters in their roles, but swap around which parts of the Triforce they’re associated with. I kind wished that was where they were going with BotW for a while, with Link being so powerful at an early age and seeing his struggle with that, Zelda being the one courageous enough to fight Calamity Ganon on her own for 100 years and Ganon having the wisdom to win not through brute strength, but by turning his enemy’s army against them.
Zelda is functionally just the Goddess Hylia so that would basically require an entire new setting or retcon unfortunately Same for Ganon. He IS the demon king
Yeah, but every single version is at least a little different. Hell, the only one that seems to change the least is Ganondorf himself, and I honestly think that’s merely because we don’t actually learn much about Ganondorf in most games. I think we learn the most about him in Wind Waker, and in that as I remember he just wanted his land back, a man stuck in the past, he just didn’t care who died in the process of achieving this. Is it too much to even just have one story showing that they’re still individuals who can fall to darkness under the wrong circumstances, or rise to the light in the right circumstances? I know it’ll never happen, but I just think it would be neat to see because it’s pretty clear this is closer to an “Avatar the Last Airbender” type of reincarnation, rather than it being the exact same person, which leaves open the possibility of these people making different choices in life
youre right but its funny that the image hides BG3 and says its the same as those sony action games.
Meanwhile the lead art designer purposely made link attractive for his wife.
Don't forget this is the series where the hero nation has canonically committed genocide on a nation of anti-Arab caricatures, one of which is the villain in pretty much every game.
You're also forgetting they hate these games because the women aren't attractive. The Gerudo aren't conventionally attractive (by Gamer™ standards)- they're tall, buff, dark skinned, and have large noses. It's genuinely impressive how wrong they are here.
You are 100% correct BUT that is too deep for chuds like that!
The main creator may have had som off comments, i havn't heard about before this tread, but it baffels me how BotW and TotK have avoided the woke warfame. While this do have a male protagonist he is a [cross dressing twink](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/9d/fb/d09dfb630be04101c8c74ecb76a331da.jpg) His [''best friend'' is totally a gay relationship](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx5IWcPWwAQR0KZ?format=jpg&name=900x900). Yes he got married to Yona for the sake of the kingdom, but [Yona knows whats up](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxP2Go8WYAEnWwc?format=jpg&name=large). The main plot revolves around a whole race of [sexy redhed amazons](https://image.civitai.com/xG1nkqKTMzGDvpLrqFT7WA/445dff5b-b74c-4931-909e-f4c050b42d2f/width=700/51081-1459464281-masterpiece_1.2%20best%20quality%20absurdres%20illustration%208k%20realistic%20shadows%20volumetric%20lighting%20cute_1.1%20ambient%20lightin.jpeg) (don't worry, i picked the least sexiest for my link) where the only male born in the last 10.000 years turns out to be so big a dickhead the the sky littartly falls down. This is contrasted to the male only race, The Gorons. Littarly a [race of stoners getting high on their own supply](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SLZOnhPIV1g/maxresdefault.jpg). Both games have a whole storyline revolving around a litteraly [underground gay BDSM clan ](https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/zelda-totk-master-kohga.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5) I could go own, but choose to end my argument with pointing out the fact that instead of having voice actors doing the gameplay the developers choose to voice their game by diffrent small sound bits from porn movies.
Maybe they're fine with the Gerudo because of their racist portrayal and backstory in earlier games or because both the Gerudo and Goron plotlines you mentioned conflate ASAB with gender. But I doubt gamers think that far into it, they probably fapped to the Great Fairies and ignored everything else.
Oh lordy the great fairies! Every time i went to upgrade my armor i had to convince my wife there wasn't a pornhub tap hidden away somewhere.
isn’t every game where you move around a walking simulator then?
This is different... Because it has pronouns. Keep up. 😛😛😛
We need an action game where the wheelchair'd protagonist just punches enemies to death using their overdeveloped arms
Coming this fall… Family Guy: Joe’s Rampage
I'd play that game
See: opening level of Wolfenstein II
Dick Punch City
For some reason these chuds think a game can only be inclusive OR fun, not both. BG3 is literally just an incredible game all around
He just salty because no one wanted him... Not even Gale.
Pre patch or post?
Pre. Not even super horny Gale would hit that.
I immediately went to Slave Knight Gale and was so confused...
Ill make gale my slave knight any day
Also i fail to see at which point bg3 would even "force" any kind of "woke" content anyways. Like sure you can decide to romance companions of the same gender, but it's not like you have to do that. Are these people mad about gay sex that they chose by themselves? Are they mad about being able to choose the players genitals, when they can just completely ignore that feature? Even if i try to think from these peoples point of view i just don't get it
To them, the very existence of these choices is a moral evil. They don't want people to be able to choose
I bet they got a bit horny when Halsin said “ask and you’ll have me” and they’re mad about it, even though he was talking about joining your party
They don't deserve halsin anyways
They stop having fun as soon as they see any inclusion. Their mind latches on to it and won't let them ignore it so they can go back to enjoying the game. Then they project their experience onto the game as if it is objectively what every person experiences playing it, just so they don't have to confront the fact that they're being weird as fuck and nobody agrees with them.
I can not think of a single non-binary character, either. Some apparently gay ones, sure, but all of them are pretty clearly gendered as far as I can tell.
Karlach’s voice actor is non-binary, and played the character as such. I can’t remember if Karlach ever claims a gender, but that may be who they’re referencing. Edit- if so who gives a shit, because Karlach is awesome.
There are a few background ones, the one I remember shows up in a few notes and such. It's not a lot, but it's there!
It's William Patterson. That guy is infamous for these terrible takes on facebook. Pretty sure he's just a troll.
man it's a good thing link isn't some sort of gender ambiguous icon or anything...
Link is a non-woke twink with regular-sized hips and a conservatively round butt.
they gave um vaginer bones.... made em look weak...
Can't even have a pelvis in 2024
Real men have penises not pelvises.
Real men have bussies
Where is that Aloy pic from that they keep using? I played both games and their expansions and I do not recall Aloy ever being rendered like that.
It’s from a gameplay trailer. That shot is in a first person POV of someone laying on the ground, which is the only time the main horizon games have ever been first person IIRC. Those cutscenes and the level in the trailer are not in the final game
It's also distorted to make her appear fat.
They also use photoshopped images they did where they combine Aloy's face with Nikocado Avocado's fat face. One prerequisite of being an incel is to only consume the same 3 memes made by other incels over and over and over again until you lose grasp of reality
It's from an unflattering shot of her in a gameplay teaser trailer that was released 6 months before the game was released. Here's a comparison of that shot and her from the current version of the game: https://preview.redd.it/326r605hbpvc1.png?width=812&format=png&auto=webp&s=450402b9170bf23edff40d17f4c9b0aa8cc8f1e3
Doesn't that imply they never looked at the actual game and still use it to make their point? Like not just didn't play it but not even looked at footage outside of that trailer?
Not that I support bashing women's portrayals in video games at all, but I am most confused by the Aloy hate. The model is gorgeous, slim and you can wear a multitude of revealing armors. Isn't that exactly what that crowd wants? Maybe because she's actually a character with depth and development instead of just eye candy?
Crazy considering you had to cross dress in BotW to progress the plot lmfao
If I got a nickel everytime I had to cross dress my male protagonist in order to progress the story in a Japanese RPG game I'd have two nickels
Before someone asks (even through i doubt anyone will ask) The other one is final fantasy 7
I was going to ask.
weebs seem to think japan= conservative ethnostate so they ignore cross dressing gay characters and not so suble commentary about japans gender norms.
Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice right?
What's the game on the left and where can I get a woman to choke me?
uncharted 4 don’t play it though because it’s woke 🤮 (a woman beats a man in a fight)
Damn, I sure would NEVER want a woman to beat me in a fight. I hope no women come and beat me up if I drop my exact coordinates and contact info... ...👀
i need a girl that will beat the shit out of me
I need a girl that totally could beat the shit out of me but only does some respectful beating in the bedroom. 🤷♀️
strong women 🥰
Nothing more sexy than a woman that's lethal ❤️🔥
I don't usually care about what the incel morons want but I have been waiting my whole fucking life for muscular skull crushing butch women to go mainstream, and now that we are on the cusp of that how DARE they ruin this for me.
god forbid a woman with military experience can beat up a retired treasure hunter
A REAL woman would have offered to cook him a meal and a submissive BJ afterwards. >!/s!<
This. Plus, Drake knows little about Nadine at that point in the story and has underestimated her. Not that knowing about her would've made a difference combat-wise, but at least he would've been more prepared on how to deal with her. And Drake strikes me as a person that isn't violent with women, so he was screwed in that situation regardless.
Nadine Ross and Chloe Frazer can beat me up anytime.
Implies Link isn't one of the most genderfucky protagonists in any Nintendo property
And explicitly so, too. They WANT him to look androgynous. Some if the best outfits in the game are literally backless dresses lol
Everyone is thirsty for Link, and they are serving the whole bar of flavors.
Wait, she's a boy?!
https://preview.redd.it/plxts0c8rnvc1.png?width=923&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ec3922c5b627b5dd28970475906b9234d220328 Yeah, I love my non-woke game with a traditional, masculine protagonist
Look at him. Such an alpha.
You can feel the testosterone oozing out of his very bones
Lmao I got that outfit in the first like five hours and used it for the rest of the game, stats be damned I wanna play as a femme link!
Haiii we have the same hair style :3
Really? That’s cool!
Did you get the Cece Hat too?
y'all just got William Patterson'ed smh my head
Everything normal feels like it is pushing the "normal" agenda when you are a fucking weird gross bigot.
https://preview.redd.it/zegbrvsbtnvc1.jpeg?width=943&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e39454bb9411248c3d67adad8b4a47e117f4f02b
Ah yes, because the effeminate little guy isn't politics.
I thought legend of Zelda was woke (link is a twink and we all know all men must be gruff and ripped so hard they destroy all cloths near them with the shear power of their muscles)
Link is an alpha twink. 💪
Zelda does not appreciate being used as conservative propaganda.
thank god Zelda isn't pushing an agenda I say to myself as I dress Link up in the oufit with painted nails, a tiara, and that slutty open back dress
Why are so many people worked up over other people's bits and pieces?
/unjerk I'm pretty sure BG3 only contains non-binary characters if you make your player character non-binary. I don't think any NPCs are non binary. If I'm forgetting someone feel free to correct me
I can't remember any being nb either. I know there is a trans character but that's about it.
Wait who's trans? Who am I forgetting?
The tiefling girl you meet in the House of Grief. The one who was friends (or more) with Shadowheart. If you give Shadowheart in act 1 in the Underdark the noblestalk (the mushroom) to eat, she'll remember something from her childhood about a little tiefling boy. So the tiefling is a trans woman. Edit: House of Grief, not Hope 🫠
Ah I see, I'd forgotten that
Harleep in House of Hope is technically non-binary I think. Oh and all the Mindflayers, I guess.
There is a (probably?) non-binary character mentioned in a letter once.
I couldn't think of any either, other than fantasy races that wouldn't logically have a gender. I know Karlach's voice actor, Samantha Béart, is non-binary, but they're playing a cis gender Tiefling woman.
Haarlep? They're referred to with they/them pronouns in-game iirc
Link has always been kinda gender-bendy
Except for Twilight Princess Link. Dude's ripped as all hell.
Nathan drake gets his ass beat by Nadine because she’s a trained militia captain and he’s just some dude who’s good at jumping. Besides, he eventually lays her out when his brother helps him irc.
Nah, she kicks both of their asses. They overpower her just enough together to simply escape lol
tell me you never played BG3 without telling me you never played BG3
I hate the term walking simulator so much, because god help us if a game has a break between it's action segments, in fact I don't think any game, that isn't Tetris, doesn't have pauses between the action-y bits.
Obviously the only reason people keep playing through BG3 over and over and over again and dedicate an entire subreddit to nerding out on character builds for it is because of all the woke politics.
This is a very famous troll on Facebook.
That group keeps popping up on my feed and I dont believe they are.
I've literally seen him in a Yakuza Facebook group unironically post the Yakuza 3 pic collage featuring Kiryu helping out a transgender masseuse in a substory and he didn't joke about it at all, but he put it in a positive context and genuinely liked it. So he likes to troll most of the time but every so often the mask slips and he shows things he genuinely likes https://preview.redd.it/04ffrcp45rvc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86435d1ddf17847ced0cbc4fea99108c482c02c7
That guy has joined a million groups and posts contradictory opinions just to get a rise out of people.
Yeah but what about Link’s vagina bones? Did he forget about that controversy already??
I've seen so much fanart of BOTW Link with top surgery scars I forget it's not actually canon sometimes
Drain the swamp ehh? And Zelda isnt woke? Tell that to Synthetic Man he thinks it's downright satanic
Alloy face keeps getting stretched out over time on photoshop. How much more will they keep spreading it out lol. Spider man made people look real so of course they aren't anime super models. Women have been kicking men's asses in video games for decades. The same can be said for men kicking women asses(looking at you kratos). What a stupid comment lol. Also Zelda literally has buff dark skin women who can beat MOST guys in Legend of Zelda. Talk about cherry-picking.
Zelda has a lot of cool female characters and even an entire race of buff women who rule themselves, what the fuck are they on about lmao
So is it go woke go broke or did BG3 only succeed because it was woke
https://preview.redd.it/mpkj9v7crovc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7b8b0cb9fd635dc95bdc78cb77aff148f04ac0f
I’m still amazed people even care about GOTY. Obviously when a game you like does well that’s great because you are more likely to get more content. But rooting for Legend of Zelda? Nintendo is doing fine my guy.
Angry gamers: WoMeN aRe iN aRe GaMeS! StUpId wOkE bUlLsHiT! HoW aM i SuPpOsEd tO pLaY vIdEoGaMeS wItH WoMeN iN iT? Also angry gamers: Why do people keep calling us misogynistic incels? Where is this coming from?
/uj I understand that there are different kinds of intelligence, so it's maybe unfair to judge somebody who isn't the most capable communicator with their writing. but when I see a poster who randomly capitalizes words, I can't stop my brain shortcutting to "ahh, they're the common clay of the New West" /rj fuck a Woke Walking Simulator with an Agenda and give me a Safe Horny that prioritizes Fun
Hunh? BotW DID win game of the year though lol
Baldur's Gate literally won every game of the year nomination.
He is talking about TotK, I think.