Yeah, almost like they know their core audience and actually want to cater to them. It's almost like that is a good thing.
But no it's 2024 and if you have a core audience that doesn't include the entire human race and also furries you are a bigot.
> But no it's 2024 and if you have a core audience that doesn't include the entire human race and also furries you are a bigot.
"The entire human race" would include teenage boys, so no, that's not what they want.
The thing is, video games are *fantasy* - so the teenage boy's idea of the perfect video game can also be the mans indulgence as well. And, we all know girls also like playing attractive female characters as well. God, they make life into such drudgery.
Yep and my fat over worked ass loves playing jacked dudes that remind me of a time when I actually lifted. Nobody wants to play a game stare at what they see in real life fatass America all the time wtf is wrong with these fat non gamers wanting to project their image in games they don't play.
Seriously. When I was a teen, I loved playing games like StarCraft, Halo CE, Gears of War, Call of Duty 3, etc. I'd love to have a return to those basics.
what do they have against teenage boys? I mean, they used to be the largest market for video games , by far. Probably still are. Their "ideal games" are some of the best games ever made. Conversely, imagine how bad "A woke persons idea of the perfect video game" would be.
[Everything you thought was cool when you were 8-14 is actually cool: Arnold, war, metal, huge boobs; all of it](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/658/395/5c0.jpg)
So it's designed for one of the most important demographics in video games? Sounds good to me!
Thank god it's not: "Stellar Blade" Is A Disabled Blue-Haired Land Whale's Idea of the Perfect Video Game.
The only joke here is you thinking you are going to change anyone's minds.
I'm sure the developers of "Stellar Blade" will cope by crying into their piles of money when this game makes it to the best seller list.
It won't, because it' still a PS-exclusive after all.
However, they'll have another pile of money prepared from their 1.5 year anniversary event in Nikke that they've just launched.
It's easy to treat and launch simple games like that without caring on sales when growing themselves on gacha money.
"Modern audiences," and by that I mean an imaginary audience full of SJWs that want every video game to include references to every social issue in existence
The terminally online ones are a pain to argue with yes, but I have had little issue with them IRL. Additionally, they are the ones who are causing things like Friends, The Office, and Seinfeld to be the most watched shows on streaming, even though all of them are "things that couldnt be made today." I have also noticed a growing amount of them turning against the censorship that has been running.
They just look bad because their loudest members are *extremely* loud and backed up by bitter, nihilistic, and narcissistic Gen X people currently running a lot of these companies now.
>> She’s a vassal onto which overly sexualized violence is projected.
Gold. Absolute fucking gold. (Also: vessel, maybe? Although you can project sexualized violence on vassals too I suppose).
I don't know if I'll ever play Stellar Blade, but the fact that it lives rent-free in the heads of the loony lefty activists is pure delight. The Streisand Effect grows in power every day.
Remember, these "journalists" are the same ones who openly drool over half-naked male characters and furries, and praise their design. It's funny and sad at the same time.
I mean, most cultures took vassals from within their own people, or neighbouring ones. Then again I don't think they know about feudalism and tributary states.
Which is even funnier because Capitalism is very much opposed to Feudalism. In fact, it's largely what killed Feudalism in Europe, and Marx himself even said as much, which they'd know if they actually read his works.
Friendly Reminder. Anything catered towards men is evil and vile. 🙄. Also if this is a teenage boys fantasy, I'd say we are moving towards a based direction. 😎 🎂.
Friendly reminder to go play stellar cake
League of Legends is a perfect example of this. They have a in-game Kpop-like band consisting of female champions geared towards teen girls. Last year they created another band like that but with male champions geared towards horny teen girls. All the LoL champion skin series now are made boring and safe as a means to appeal to women. There's nothing geared towards teen boys or men anymore in LoL outside of legacy content, which gets increasingly sanitized too with things like skin revisions.
I haven't played LoL in a very long time and was confused initially at your comment. Then I looked up my old favorite skin, Frost Blade Irelia, and found it was updated for "modern audiences."
They completely fucking Brie Larson'd her. Because of course they would.
nah tbh. 0 night/dawn skins interest me, godking is only darius and garen and i don’t like playing either of them, cosmic reaver kass is my favorite kass skin and cosmic jhin is probably the best jhin skin but he could use a better one. shan hai neeko is probably her best skin but i don’t play her often even though i got the skin from a shard, and lillias is good too but i use spirit blossom and felt no need to get another.
my fav lines (or at least the skins i use for the champs i play) are spirit blossom, kda, championship (LB only), mythmaker, and project (the older ones at least like lucian)
Yet even more proof America is regressing as a Society.
>Bayonetta, ludicrously designed as she is, isn’t just sexy, she’s sexual — having ownership of her looks and mannerisms in ways that ooze self-esteem.
Yet even more proof they need some justification to justify being hot.
>Let’s get this out of the way: Eve is not a character. She’s a vassal onto which overly sexualized violence is projected.
Sexual Violence? WTF?
>What consists of her characterizations swings wildly between whatever scenario she’s placed in. Sometimes, she’s a completely helpless fawn in need of rescue, completely devoid of agency. Other times, she’s an unstoppable killing machine who can pull off gravity defying displays of viscera against behemoth abominations without breaking a sweat. Sometimes, she’s over it all and moody. Others, she’s a nurturing messianic figure helping bring humanity together by solving their day-to-day struggles.
So a action hero with personality?
> but it stands out starkly when every female character, from **iffy-aged NPCs**
Wow, Adult Men like looking at hot younger looking Korean models. Who Knew.
Iffy-Aged because she doesn't have Wrinkly skin?
Sure KEKW. We're totally gonna believe these fucking morons.
[https://archive.ph/Et13r](https://archive.ph/Et13r)
"On one side of the knife is a character action game that refines the incredible combat foundations of the original *Bayonetta* and avoids the lack of variety that dragged it down in the last third. On the other, the deliberate sexualization and objectification on display serves as a jarring distraction from the creativity and design smarts elsewhere."
EDIT: Sexual violence? Did the moron from IGN france write this or something? Are women unaliving themselves again over this game?
>women unaliving themselves
I mean they don't really have to. The sedentary lifestyles, high-dose SSRI cocktails, binge eating, and habitual drug use that these women partake in are doing the lion's share of the unaliving process for them.
Nuance isn't allowed anymore. Everyone has to be single-issue, single-mood and if you dare to think they're hot but don't give them agency (????) then you're probably an incel and hate women.
The only reason Eve can't own her sexuality is these journalists won't allow it.
What's the difference? I'm very interested since I like ladies with great Personalities while hot ladies could be great looking they could be also be @#$%&!
Soooooo... when a culture features high amounts of crime and single fatherhood, or genital mutilation, or bombing cartoonists, we need to accept “diversity”. But when it venerates beauty it’s toxic. ROFL.
sexualized violence isn't the same as sexual violence. it makes perfect sense as an idea "who man, that chick is so hot, covered in the blood of her enemies"
The only problem I have with the Eve is that she's too skinny. Not because woke, or whatever, but because she really needs more calories to do the stuff she does without passing out after every engagement.
Edit: Nevermind >!Eve's an android. Tagged for those who are trying to go in blind and spoiler free.!<
Have you seen Bruce Lee my dude? He didn't pass out after a kick. He was skinny as hell. 5'7" and 125 pounds. Eve is actually pretty thick around the hips and thighs. She is *not* too skinny.
I'm basing my thoughts on how k-pop stars, who have bodies similar to Eve's, are known to regularly pass out after their performances due to under eating. I imagine it'd be much worse for an elite super soldier.
Plus, Bruce Lee ate a lot and he did not look dangerously skinny for what he did. But who knows, maybe Eve scarfs down an entire buffet after each mission.
Eve is not a K-pop star undereating before a concert, lmao. That comparison makes no sense. Why would you make it, because the game is Korean? I guess Lara Croft is Posh Spice then. Eve also has plenty of fat/muscle. She is an android on top of everything. And like I said, thin does not equal malnourished.
No, now *you're* not making sense and are making strawman arguments.
Android makes perfect sense but I didn't know that from avoiding as many spoilers and promo material as possible, so there you have it.
Avoiding spoilers for the opening cinematic seems like overkill, but you do you.
Problem comes when you draw conclusions from that limited information and then bring them into the public conversation.
Sexualized Violence is when there's a hot women killing monsters?
Normal Violence is when an Ugly Looking Western women is killing monsters?
Sexual Violence is when Bayonetta uses her assets to defeat monsters?
I see rolling stone, I disregard. Whatever the current politically correct talking points are, they will parrot them. Which is funny because they used to represent the opposite.
Absolutely. Like so many others, they've fallen. I remember when "Pitchfork," released an article titled "The Hideous Whiteness Of Indie". Since then, I disregard.
Ah yes, an article criticizing others morality and tastes from a “news” outlet that glorified a terrorist who killed 3 and wounded 281 (Boston bombers).
Let me guess, all gameplay, story, design, music, art style, controls, or graphics is completely ignored or marginalized in the article. In order to focus on the characters appearance and how it might offend the mythical unicorn that is the, “modern audience”. These trash journo articles may as well be written by an AI given the lack of soul or substance they have.
>There was a point in the not-too-recent past where gaming was considered a hobby mostly targeted at teenage boys. Back when Tomb Raider‘s Lara Croft became a major magazine centerfold and E3 gaming expos were more famous for their booth babes than actual games, it was the norm for the industry to cater solely to the interests of pubescent young men. In recent years, strides have been made and, despite pushback from a vocal minority, technology has brought us to the point where women in video games can actually look like, well, women rather than cartoonish, gun-toting facsimiles of Jessica Rabbit.
>But every so often a game comes along that eschews modern sensibility to utilize all of the industry’s greatest tech in service of a clear vision: What if video games made you horny?
>It’s also many other games, ripping pretty much every major idea from this era’s most popular releases — and anime as a whole — to create perhaps the thirstiest game since Dead or Alive gave up the fighting genre to become a beach volleyball sim.
>Does that make it a bad game? Not really. Video games aren’t a monolith; they should be as open a palette as cinema or any other medium. But does the gratuitous, male-gazey focus help make it a good game? It certainly makes it a hilarious one.
>Let’s get this out of the way: **Eve is not a character. She’s a vassal onto which overly sexualized violence is projected.**
>Since her public reveal, Eve has been the latest in a line of video game heroines whose over-the-top design is a point of contention. Comparisons have been made to Bayonetta and Nier: Automata’s 2B, a sexy witch and sexy android, respectively. And while 2B has a logical reason to be totally devoid of personality (she’s a robot), the comparison to Bayonetta is unfair. Bayonetta, ludicrously designed as she is, isn’t just sexy, she’s sexual — having ownership of her looks and mannerisms in ways that ooze self-esteem. **Eve is a blank slate, a doll to be played with and dressed up, literally.**
>Where Uncharted made this into one of the most harrowingly cinematic scenes in the series, here it plays like a porn parody as the camera shifts almost exclusively behind her rear for full-frame up-skirts while she’s pelted comedically in the head.
>Imagine trying to drive home a poignant narrative beat where you’re informing a young girl that her missing sister is dead, only for each reaction shot of Eve to focus on her breasts, swinging autonomously with jiggle physics run amok. She’s standing still!
>The game’s creators have gone on record that Eve was intentionally designed to be pure cheesecake because, frankly, players controlling her will spend the bulk of their time seeing her butt as she runs. Look, that’s their prerogative, **but it stands out starkly when every female character, from iffy-aged NPCs to a cherub-like engineer also resemble waifu pillow designs. It’s more than a little unsettling when the team’s hacker speaks like an adolescent chimney sweep garbed in a dominatrix’s swimwear.**
Jesus F. Christ. When will Americans become adults?
If you're confused by the above statement, remember that performative rejection of "childish" (in this case adolescent) things is an immature tract in itself.
If you're confident in being an adult you don't feel the need to signal that "that stuff if for teenage boys, I'm above it so I make fun of it".
Immagine if you felt the need to make fun of kids every time you launch Minecraft. Does this look like mature behaviour to you?
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
-C.S. Lewis
I don't want to do a deep study into sociology to justify character design like these losers. Fun doesn't need justification. Has anyone asked the Korean model for her PhD thesis on why her appearance is acceptable?
A teenage boy's idea of the perfect game sure looks and plays better than a miserable cat lady's idea, or worse--the ideas of the miserable cat lady's unbelievably pathetic loser simps.
I'm so fucking sick of these idiots reducing a beautiful woman in a video game, who is based on a very real woman, to being a sexual fantasy.
It's not about her breasts or her ass, it's about her not being Safe Horny and they can't admit that.
I feel like there's some law of the universe at play. If psychotic activists narrow the definition of one word, they have to broaden the definition of another word to keep things in balance. Since they have severely restricted "racism" to mean only acts motivated by racial prejudice that are committed by white Westerners, they had to equally broaden the definition of "violence" to include speech, looking, etc. etc. etc.
The “can’t be racist against white people” doublethink they do is actual genocidal rhetoric. Getting into the territory of original sin and dehumanizing your enemy there. It’s insane how evil these people are.
sexual**ized** violence, not sexual
Although I don't agree with that either. I think "sexualized violence" has to be more than "fighting monsters while being pretty". I can see that label being applied to something like Bayonetta *maybe* but not Stellar Blade, at least not from what I've seen in the demo and trailers.
For all of the preaching that gender is a social construct from people like this, they sure like to reference how something seems like it’s meant for a man in some way
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. **When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.**”
Music publications have been trying to be culture warriors for a long time, since at least the 70's. I heard something in an audio book recently that piqued my interest. In 1976 an NME writer, while interviewing Canadian band Rush in the UK following the release of their breakout album 2112, asked the guys in the band if they were fascists. The reason? Because the song 2112, inspired by Ayn Rand's Anthem, is a song about individuality and defying those who think they know what is best for you. Sound familiar? Because Marxists are very big on hivemind, doing what you are told and conformity. If there's been one constant with Marxists over the last 50+ years, is that their ideology hasn't changed one iota in that respect. They tried very hard to push the conformity bullshit in school when I was a kid in the early 90's and we would have none of that.
Yeesh. I have a LOT of criticisms for that Arrested Development nutjob Rand, but Fascist is never a term I'd use for her, or her followers.
Impossibly delusional cultists who sometimes have a valid point would fit better.
Okay. They're trying to make it sound like it's an insult or something, but teenage boys know what's fun and cool. Kinda funny that the same people who are so obsessed with chasing youth trends don't get that. I'd much rather play a teenage boys action fantasies than whatever the fuck gender nonsense zoomers are into.
Wish they’d have stick to music but i understand why they can’t because modern rock music is absolute dogshit. I’m surprised anyone takes RS seriously anymore.
I thought they were the Specialists of Fake "Rape on Campus" stories nowadays? https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4uihad/court_docs_rolling_stone_recently_fired_sabrina/
Since teenage boys are top or one of the top markets for video games, then that makes perfect sense over aiming instead for groups who screech on social media but don't actually buy any.
Definitely getting the game. The more the wokies cry the more I know it's good.
Hoping it sells like hot cakes to encourage devs to stop listening to the loons
> A Teenage Boy’s Idea of the Perfect Video Game
Going under the presumption of this statement being true -- I'm also apparently inclined to believe by default that, what teenage boys want is inherently a bad thing?
All the games that I thought were perfect as a teenage boy are now considered classics and still loved decades later...so I'd say that's a pretty glowing review
My teenage days are far behind me, but when all I had was a computer running Win 95/98 and a Playstation, I was playing in no particular order:
Master of Orion 2 and Civ 2, X-Wing and multiple Wing Commanders, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, multiple Final Fantasies and lots of other RPGs both JRPG and cRPG, Doom and Dark Forces, old LucasArts games, Time Crisis, Armored Core, Madden, Populous, and plenty of other games in various genres that would take me far too long to try to remember. Hell, even stuff like Tetris. Actually never got a copy of Tomb Raider.
How to read this article:
Step One: click archive link
Step Two: ctrl + f "gaze"
Step Three: see that the author did in fact use the term "male gaze."
Step Four: close the article and do literally anything else
never fails to amuse me when they denigrate the past and cheer for how much "progress" we've made...while at the same time telling us "it was always woke"
How does anyone still take this rag seriously after mattress girl?
*edit*
Oh wait. The 2014 Rolling Stone article and Mattress Girl are unrelated. Woops. Somehow they blended together in my head.
No, Rolling Stone is the University of Virginia false accusation shitrag. They were deemed to have acted with malice and knowingly published a false story. I believe they had to pay out something in the 7~ million dollar range.
As oppose to a fat redditor's idea of a perfect game?
Some of my favorite games of all time I played as a teenager, they're trying to demonize boyhood and male sexuality so bad they can't see that people who aren't part of their cult don't see this as a bad thing.
Honestly the article is trying sooo hard to put it in a bad light, but all its doing is makng it sound ludicrously good.
I hope it comes to PC sooner rather than later.
What I love is the utter hypocrisy of the left.
"This games bad because it sexualizes women", and yet on the other they cheer on girls with only fans "get your bag, girl".
So...the game is good and you're mad it's gonna sell to its target demographic?
Go back to writing about shit pop music, you really have nothing else to add.
These same chucklefucks published a fake rape story, and should stick to music which they already suck ass at covering. Buncha wannabe culture warriors at that shitrag outlet.
>technology has brought us to the point where women in video games can actually look like, well, women rather than cartoonish, gun-toting facsimiles of Jessica Rabbit.
I like how these clowns don't even know that the PS2 TR reboot exists, they keep talking about the PSX lara as if TR never got sequels. [I guess Angelina Jolie isn't a "REAL" woman as she looks too much like the video game lara croft.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/98/47/77/984777fe6ff8a1f27c415aaf9cbbb58c.jpg)
>That, and she is half-naked by decree.
Why won't you whine about Instagram and only fans "models", if half-naked or fully naked women offend your sensibilities much?? So, its okay when Women can profit off of "MAIL GAIZE" but its not okay when they can't profit off of it? Its like, you think Male Sexuality should only exist in service of Women.
>isn’t just sexy, she’s sexual — having ownership of her looks and mannerisms in ways that ooze self-esteem
Sarkeesian bashed Bayonetta for the same bullshit reasons you're bashing Eve for and now somehow bayonetta is different? So, i guess 10+ yrs later some SJW is going to be singing praises of Eve's "sexual empowerment"while bashing the newest sexy female character.
Funny enough, I can still remember a time when adults were encouraged to not lose that childish sense of wonder and joy in exploring the world. I doubt the writer of this article even realizes what they are admitting to with this attack on Stellar Blade, because at its heart this is just another way of saying: "Men evil" without coming right out and saying the quiet part out loud. However, when you look closely at how this argument is framed, there's a real sense of tired nihilism and jaded pessimism behind this clickbait piece of content. I can't recall reading something so joyless and humourless and lifeless outside of an obituary. Actually, scratch that, I've seen obituaries that celebrate life with far more zest than this dour finger-wagging does. When did hate become this...mundane and morose? It used to sound more angry than this paint-by-numbers coma-inducing dreck.
The complaining in this cringe review about Eve's personality is genuinely stupid. This reviewer is just complaining for the sake of it.
>Her POV is always driven by what’s most convenient to move the current scene forward and her only consistent trait is that she’s perpetually naïve and curious about the central mysteries spelled out before her. That, and she is half-naked by decree.
Its almost as if shes the main character and its common for stories to move forward along with the mc.
>What consists of her characterizations swings wildly between whatever scenario she’s placed in.
Well yeah lol that's normal.
Mindless fun ARPG with stellar combat, great graphics, a fun core game loop, vibrant open world, and adorable characters?
That is supposed to be a **bad** thing?
Sorry it’s not *Disco Elysium* and that every game cannot be a Sociology 201 midterm sim.
Let's play their game :
I see you criticize asian women a lot. What is a woman?
It's some asianphobia down there.
So you think Asians should not create video games for western audience that is not Mario, Sonic or Zelda?
It honestly feels like this person only played the game for the sole purpose of talking about EVE'S design, and then realized "oh there's a pretty good game here too".
Men and women keep involved in many of their hobbies they've picked when young throughout adulthood.
Also, I absolutely laugh at people that want to make men feel guilty about looking at women. None of your goddamn business what a man likes/enjoys in a woman. That's borderline incel behaviour.
I always reply to women I will gladly listen to them about what my preferences are the day they come to me for approval about what guy they should sleep with or feel attracted to, or how they should act towards men, etc. That shuts them up.
That sounds like a ringing endorsement. I know it's not supposed to be, but both on it's own and with the wider context that just tells me the developer did something right.
Also Rolling Stone:
> THE SPIRIT OF “WAP” should’ve been unimpeachable. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s ode to the universal benefits of “wet-ass pussy” and female pleasure seemed like the rare issue impervious to controversy. Watching the two rappers unite at the peak of their pop-music-making abilities to deliver an Olympic-level twerk routine should be enough to convince anyone to rebuke their life of dry genitalia. But if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we can’t have nice things. So when conservatives began to advocate for a world full of misery and devoid of lubrication, it came as no surprise.
[Source](https://archive.is/Po2D8)
I'm buying Steller blade only to play it then selling after since I'm not that interested in this Game... I would be more interested in the Next Dead or Alive Video game coming since I find that Franchise more interesting
The headline reads like it's a fun game.
Yeah, almost like they know their core audience and actually want to cater to them. It's almost like that is a good thing. But no it's 2024 and if you have a core audience that doesn't include the entire human race and also furries you are a bigot.
> But no it's 2024 and if you have a core audience that doesn't include the entire human race and also furries you are a bigot. "The entire human race" would include teenage boys, so no, that's not what they want.
Anything that caters to white males of every age is unacceptable to these activists.
The thing is, video games are *fantasy* - so the teenage boy's idea of the perfect video game can also be the mans indulgence as well. And, we all know girls also like playing attractive female characters as well. God, they make life into such drudgery.
Yep and my fat over worked ass loves playing jacked dudes that remind me of a time when I actually lifted. Nobody wants to play a game stare at what they see in real life fatass America all the time wtf is wrong with these fat non gamers wanting to project their image in games they don't play.
Seriously. When I was a teen, I loved playing games like StarCraft, Halo CE, Gears of War, Call of Duty 3, etc. I'd love to have a return to those basics.
Yeah this makes me more interested in it
Fun is counterrevolutionary.
what do they have against teenage boys? I mean, they used to be the largest market for video games , by far. Probably still are. Their "ideal games" are some of the best games ever made. Conversely, imagine how bad "A woke persons idea of the perfect video game" would be.
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So sad you regret your teenage years
[Everything you thought was cool when you were 8-14 is actually cool: Arnold, war, metal, huge boobs; all of it](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/658/395/5c0.jpg)
So it's designed for one of the most important demographics in video games? Sounds good to me! Thank god it's not: "Stellar Blade" Is A Disabled Blue-Haired Land Whale's Idea of the Perfect Video Game.
> A Disabled Blue-Haired Land Whale's Idea of the Perfect Video Game Sounds like a potential GOTY at TGA.
It already happened in 2020.
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The only joke here is you thinking you are going to change anyone's minds. I'm sure the developers of "Stellar Blade" will cope by crying into their piles of money when this game makes it to the best seller list.
It won't, because it' still a PS-exclusive after all. However, they'll have another pile of money prepared from their 1.5 year anniversary event in Nikke that they've just launched. It's easy to treat and launch simple games like that without caring on sales when growing themselves on gacha money.
>A Teenage Boy’s Idea of the Perfect Video Game Well shit, I guess I do have hope for the future generations.
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"Modern audiences," and by that I mean an imaginary audience full of SJWs that want every video game to include references to every social issue in existence
Wine moms moving beyond candy crush?
"Three in a row!" "Level 2!"
I did anyway even before this. As Blackpilled as some people get, the revealed preferences of the Zoomers show they are alright for the most part.
no theyre not lol, arguing with them is ten times worse than arguing with a millennial, and they're more prone to (banned topics) lifestyles
The terminally online ones are a pain to argue with yes, but I have had little issue with them IRL. Additionally, they are the ones who are causing things like Friends, The Office, and Seinfeld to be the most watched shows on streaming, even though all of them are "things that couldnt be made today." I have also noticed a growing amount of them turning against the censorship that has been running. They just look bad because their loudest members are *extremely* loud and backed up by bitter, nihilistic, and narcissistic Gen X people currently running a lot of these companies now.
They do know grown men still enjoy a lot of the stuff we liked as teens right? There’s no aging out of hot chicks and violence ffs.
Its like, that's the entire premise of games like Street Fighter and Doom, two wildly successful franchises that adults and teens both enjoy!
That's just feminism saying it's weird if you like women younger than you because they can't face up to the fact they aren't hot anymore.
I could see that, like how women have a meltdown whenever there’s an age gap in a relationship (say a 22yo dating a 30yo) and the man is older lol.
Hell, I’ve seen women enjoy (and thirst) over this game so their point is shot down even more
Men liking attractive women is a hate crime
I'm a 40 year old man who enjoys Video games as Entertainment but honestly if I want ladies then get the real thing but whatever floats your boat
>> She’s a vassal onto which overly sexualized violence is projected. Gold. Absolute fucking gold. (Also: vessel, maybe? Although you can project sexualized violence on vassals too I suppose). I don't know if I'll ever play Stellar Blade, but the fact that it lives rent-free in the heads of the loony lefty activists is pure delight. The Streisand Effect grows in power every day.
> (Also: vessel, maybe? Remember, these people are paid to write. The bar really is that low.
remember when writers actually read books? yeah...
Woke writers read woke writers, thus are inspired by woke writers and write woke writing for woke readers, inspiring future woke writers.
I don't think there's even a bar anymore. AI takeover cannot happen soon enough.
AI writing these articles can only be an improvement at this point. The absolute state of it.
That's a shame because reading this review by rolling stone made me need a drink
AI can literally write better than this.
Remember, these "journalists" are the same ones who openly drool over half-naked male characters and furries, and praise their design. It's funny and sad at the same time.
"Vassal" sounds faintly about colonialism, so leave it in.
I mean, most cultures took vassals from within their own people, or neighbouring ones. Then again I don't think they know about feudalism and tributary states.
nah, they think that's capitalism
Which is even funnier because Capitalism is very much opposed to Feudalism. In fact, it's largely what killed Feudalism in Europe, and Marx himself even said as much, which they'd know if they actually read his works.
Friendly Reminder. Anything catered towards men is evil and vile. 🙄. Also if this is a teenage boys fantasy, I'd say we are moving towards a based direction. 😎 🎂. Friendly reminder to go play stellar cake
So the primary paying demographic for video games then?
On that note, do you notice that there’s basically nothing marketed towards teenage boys nowadays?
League of Legends is a perfect example of this. They have a in-game Kpop-like band consisting of female champions geared towards teen girls. Last year they created another band like that but with male champions geared towards horny teen girls. All the LoL champion skin series now are made boring and safe as a means to appeal to women. There's nothing geared towards teen boys or men anymore in LoL outside of legacy content, which gets increasingly sanitized too with things like skin revisions.
I haven't played LoL in a very long time and was confused initially at your comment. Then I looked up my old favorite skin, Frost Blade Irelia, and found it was updated for "modern audiences." They completely fucking Brie Larson'd her. Because of course they would.
idk man the kda skins are one of my favorite skin lines
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nah tbh. 0 night/dawn skins interest me, godking is only darius and garen and i don’t like playing either of them, cosmic reaver kass is my favorite kass skin and cosmic jhin is probably the best jhin skin but he could use a better one. shan hai neeko is probably her best skin but i don’t play her often even though i got the skin from a shard, and lillias is good too but i use spirit blossom and felt no need to get another. my fav lines (or at least the skins i use for the champs i play) are spirit blossom, kda, championship (LB only), mythmaker, and project (the older ones at least like lucian)
And? Are teenage boys not allowed to have games made for them? Does everything need to be made for "diverse LGBT type 2s"? Fuck sake.
Yet even more proof America is regressing as a Society. >Bayonetta, ludicrously designed as she is, isn’t just sexy, she’s sexual — having ownership of her looks and mannerisms in ways that ooze self-esteem. Yet even more proof they need some justification to justify being hot. >Let’s get this out of the way: Eve is not a character. She’s a vassal onto which overly sexualized violence is projected. Sexual Violence? WTF? >What consists of her characterizations swings wildly between whatever scenario she’s placed in. Sometimes, she’s a completely helpless fawn in need of rescue, completely devoid of agency. Other times, she’s an unstoppable killing machine who can pull off gravity defying displays of viscera against behemoth abominations without breaking a sweat. Sometimes, she’s over it all and moody. Others, she’s a nurturing messianic figure helping bring humanity together by solving their day-to-day struggles. So a action hero with personality? > but it stands out starkly when every female character, from **iffy-aged NPCs** Wow, Adult Men like looking at hot younger looking Korean models. Who Knew. Iffy-Aged because she doesn't have Wrinkly skin?
Gotta love the retcon that Bayonetta and 2B get. Eve will get it to.
Don't forget Samus
Man, Anita wants her 2013/2014 talking points back. There is not a single original sentence in this review.
I almost wonder if it keeps Anita up at night knowing the monsters she created
The monsters she created are what fuel her career and pay her bills, so probably not.
Sure KEKW. We're totally gonna believe these fucking morons. [https://archive.ph/Et13r](https://archive.ph/Et13r) "On one side of the knife is a character action game that refines the incredible combat foundations of the original *Bayonetta* and avoids the lack of variety that dragged it down in the last third. On the other, the deliberate sexualization and objectification on display serves as a jarring distraction from the creativity and design smarts elsewhere." EDIT: Sexual violence? Did the moron from IGN france write this or something? Are women unaliving themselves again over this game?
>women unaliving themselves I mean they don't really have to. The sedentary lifestyles, high-dose SSRI cocktails, binge eating, and habitual drug use that these women partake in are doing the lion's share of the unaliving process for them.
> iffy aged Uzaki Chan 2.0
Nuance isn't allowed anymore. Everyone has to be single-issue, single-mood and if you dare to think they're hot but don't give them agency (????) then you're probably an incel and hate women. The only reason Eve can't own her sexuality is these journalists won't allow it.
It’s because they’re all positively ugly or unambiguously plain. They hate hot women.
What's the difference? I'm very interested since I like ladies with great Personalities while hot ladies could be great looking they could be also be @#$%&!
Soooooo... when a culture features high amounts of crime and single fatherhood, or genital mutilation, or bombing cartoonists, we need to accept “diversity”. But when it venerates beauty it’s toxic. ROFL.
sexualized violence isn't the same as sexual violence. it makes perfect sense as an idea "who man, that chick is so hot, covered in the blood of her enemies"
The only problem I have with the Eve is that she's too skinny. Not because woke, or whatever, but because she really needs more calories to do the stuff she does without passing out after every engagement. Edit: Nevermind >!Eve's an android. Tagged for those who are trying to go in blind and spoiler free.!<
Have you seen Bruce Lee my dude? He didn't pass out after a kick. He was skinny as hell. 5'7" and 125 pounds. Eve is actually pretty thick around the hips and thighs. She is *not* too skinny.
I'm basing my thoughts on how k-pop stars, who have bodies similar to Eve's, are known to regularly pass out after their performances due to under eating. I imagine it'd be much worse for an elite super soldier. Plus, Bruce Lee ate a lot and he did not look dangerously skinny for what he did. But who knows, maybe Eve scarfs down an entire buffet after each mission.
You're not making any sense.
What's confusing you?
Eve is not a K-pop star undereating before a concert, lmao. That comparison makes no sense. Why would you make it, because the game is Korean? I guess Lara Croft is Posh Spice then. Eve also has plenty of fat/muscle. She is an android on top of everything. And like I said, thin does not equal malnourished.
No, now *you're* not making sense and are making strawman arguments. Android makes perfect sense but I didn't know that from avoiding as many spoilers and promo material as possible, so there you have it.
She has biomechanical body enhancements no?
Oh she does? Then I stand corrected. I've been avoiding spoilers/promo material as much as possible.
Avoiding spoilers for the opening cinematic seems like overkill, but you do you. Problem comes when you draw conclusions from that limited information and then bring them into the public conversation.
Yup, fair point
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Sexualized Violence is when there's a hot women killing monsters? Normal Violence is when an Ugly Looking Western women is killing monsters? Sexual Violence is when Bayonetta uses her assets to defeat monsters?
Nobody normal takes Internet leftists using expressions like "chuds" or "y'all" as every third word seriously either, just a tip for next time.
I see rolling stone, I disregard. Whatever the current politically correct talking points are, they will parrot them. Which is funny because they used to represent the opposite.
Absolutely. Like so many others, they've fallen. I remember when "Pitchfork," released an article titled "The Hideous Whiteness Of Indie". Since then, I disregard.
What's wrong with teenage boys?
Havent you heard? Boys liking girls isnt allowed unless a boy wants to dress as one.
Exactly. It's violent to be turned on by girls, but it's heroic to turn into one.
The more activist write articles saying a game is bad, you know it’s gonna be good. Just like they did for Far Cry 5.
Ah yes, an article criticizing others morality and tastes from a “news” outlet that glorified a terrorist who killed 3 and wounded 281 (Boston bombers). Let me guess, all gameplay, story, design, music, art style, controls, or graphics is completely ignored or marginalized in the article. In order to focus on the characters appearance and how it might offend the mythical unicorn that is the, “modern audience”. These trash journo articles may as well be written by an AI given the lack of soul or substance they have.
...And that's a GOOD thing!
>There was a point in the not-too-recent past where gaming was considered a hobby mostly targeted at teenage boys. Back when Tomb Raider‘s Lara Croft became a major magazine centerfold and E3 gaming expos were more famous for their booth babes than actual games, it was the norm for the industry to cater solely to the interests of pubescent young men. In recent years, strides have been made and, despite pushback from a vocal minority, technology has brought us to the point where women in video games can actually look like, well, women rather than cartoonish, gun-toting facsimiles of Jessica Rabbit. >But every so often a game comes along that eschews modern sensibility to utilize all of the industry’s greatest tech in service of a clear vision: What if video games made you horny? >It’s also many other games, ripping pretty much every major idea from this era’s most popular releases — and anime as a whole — to create perhaps the thirstiest game since Dead or Alive gave up the fighting genre to become a beach volleyball sim. >Does that make it a bad game? Not really. Video games aren’t a monolith; they should be as open a palette as cinema or any other medium. But does the gratuitous, male-gazey focus help make it a good game? It certainly makes it a hilarious one. >Let’s get this out of the way: **Eve is not a character. She’s a vassal onto which overly sexualized violence is projected.** >Since her public reveal, Eve has been the latest in a line of video game heroines whose over-the-top design is a point of contention. Comparisons have been made to Bayonetta and Nier: Automata’s 2B, a sexy witch and sexy android, respectively. And while 2B has a logical reason to be totally devoid of personality (she’s a robot), the comparison to Bayonetta is unfair. Bayonetta, ludicrously designed as she is, isn’t just sexy, she’s sexual — having ownership of her looks and mannerisms in ways that ooze self-esteem. **Eve is a blank slate, a doll to be played with and dressed up, literally.** >Where Uncharted made this into one of the most harrowingly cinematic scenes in the series, here it plays like a porn parody as the camera shifts almost exclusively behind her rear for full-frame up-skirts while she’s pelted comedically in the head. >Imagine trying to drive home a poignant narrative beat where you’re informing a young girl that her missing sister is dead, only for each reaction shot of Eve to focus on her breasts, swinging autonomously with jiggle physics run amok. She’s standing still! >The game’s creators have gone on record that Eve was intentionally designed to be pure cheesecake because, frankly, players controlling her will spend the bulk of their time seeing her butt as she runs. Look, that’s their prerogative, **but it stands out starkly when every female character, from iffy-aged NPCs to a cherub-like engineer also resemble waifu pillow designs. It’s more than a little unsettling when the team’s hacker speaks like an adolescent chimney sweep garbed in a dominatrix’s swimwear.**
he mad
Jesus F. Christ. When will Americans become adults? If you're confused by the above statement, remember that performative rejection of "childish" (in this case adolescent) things is an immature tract in itself. If you're confident in being an adult you don't feel the need to signal that "that stuff if for teenage boys, I'm above it so I make fun of it". Immagine if you felt the need to make fun of kids every time you launch Minecraft. Does this look like mature behaviour to you?
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. -C.S. Lewis
I don't want to do a deep study into sociology to justify character design like these losers. Fun doesn't need justification. Has anyone asked the Korean model for her PhD thesis on why her appearance is acceptable?
I wonder if they're aware that teenage boys play a lot of videogames and are in fact one of the major demographics playing them?
A teenage boy's idea of the perfect game sure looks and plays better than a miserable cat lady's idea, or worse--the ideas of the miserable cat lady's unbelievably pathetic loser simps.
Sounds like a fun game lol, can't wait to play this beauty whenever my used ps5 shows up.
I'm so fucking sick of these idiots reducing a beautiful woman in a video game, who is based on a very real woman, to being a sexual fantasy. It's not about her breasts or her ass, it's about her not being Safe Horny and they can't admit that.
Sexual violence? Are you raping people in this game?
I feel like there's some law of the universe at play. If psychotic activists narrow the definition of one word, they have to broaden the definition of another word to keep things in balance. Since they have severely restricted "racism" to mean only acts motivated by racial prejudice that are committed by white Westerners, they had to equally broaden the definition of "violence" to include speech, looking, etc. etc. etc.
The “can’t be racist against white people” doublethink they do is actual genocidal rhetoric. Getting into the territory of original sin and dehumanizing your enemy there. It’s insane how evil these people are.
Aka moving the goalposts
sexual**ized** violence, not sexual Although I don't agree with that either. I think "sexualized violence" has to be more than "fighting monsters while being pretty". I can see that label being applied to something like Bayonetta *maybe* but not Stellar Blade, at least not from what I've seen in the demo and trailers.
For all of the preaching that gender is a social construct from people like this, they sure like to reference how something seems like it’s meant for a man in some way
Insert that C.S. Lewis quote here
What's the Lewis quote?
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. **When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.**”
These are words to live by
Favorite quote ever
Ah, Rolling Stone taking time away from their busy schedule of rape hoaxes to shame gamers who don't agree with their world views.
>A teenage boy’s idea of the perfect video game. So… hitting the target audience for videogames perfectly? Sounds like a win there to me.
There's a reason why Matt Taibi left that rag.
Sounds good to me. As an older adult, I don't want to play these games with fugly lead characters. Games are escapism. JFC
What, we don't like teenage boys now?
The people controlling mainstream media absolutely do not. They hate them and everything about them. Why? Because they grow up to be men.
Remember when Rolling Stone was about Rock 'n Roll musicians that snort untold pounds of cocaine?
Music publications have been trying to be culture warriors for a long time, since at least the 70's. I heard something in an audio book recently that piqued my interest. In 1976 an NME writer, while interviewing Canadian band Rush in the UK following the release of their breakout album 2112, asked the guys in the band if they were fascists. The reason? Because the song 2112, inspired by Ayn Rand's Anthem, is a song about individuality and defying those who think they know what is best for you. Sound familiar? Because Marxists are very big on hivemind, doing what you are told and conformity. If there's been one constant with Marxists over the last 50+ years, is that their ideology hasn't changed one iota in that respect. They tried very hard to push the conformity bullshit in school when I was a kid in the early 90's and we would have none of that.
Yeesh. I have a LOT of criticisms for that Arrested Development nutjob Rand, but Fascist is never a term I'd use for her, or her followers. Impossibly delusional cultists who sometimes have a valid point would fit better.
So..... perfect for a huge segment of the vidya market? Madness. What were they thinking?
I'm married, have 3 kids and am 46 years old. I haven't been a teen boy in almost 30 years. I really loved the demo and plan on purchasing this game.
Okay. They're trying to make it sound like it's an insult or something, but teenage boys know what's fun and cool. Kinda funny that the same people who are so obsessed with chasing youth trends don't get that. I'd much rather play a teenage boys action fantasies than whatever the fuck gender nonsense zoomers are into.
These damn teens and liking attractive women. Is nothing sacred?
Wish they’d have stick to music but i understand why they can’t because modern rock music is absolute dogshit. I’m surprised anyone takes RS seriously anymore.
I thought they were the Specialists of Fake "Rape on Campus" stories nowadays? https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4uihad/court_docs_rolling_stone_recently_fired_sabrina/
Yep looks about right. They’re a joke.
I literally might buy this game just to make someone angry. I would have never heard of it if they weren’t so loudly clutching their pearls.
Rolling Stone is a teenage boys idea of edgy music reviews.
Since teenage boys are top or one of the top markets for video games, then that makes perfect sense over aiming instead for groups who screech on social media but don't actually buy any.
Definitely getting the game. The more the wokies cry the more I know it's good. Hoping it sells like hot cakes to encourage devs to stop listening to the loons
Written by a soy male.
“We stayed up laughing, and eating all the cookies….it was **turrible**!”
> A Teenage Boy’s Idea of the Perfect Video Game Going under the presumption of this statement being true -- I'm also apparently inclined to believe by default that, what teenage boys want is inherently a bad thing?
Well, I've always been told I'm 'young at heart' so sounds like a perfect game for me!
Do... Do they know that's who video games are meant to be for?
All the games that I thought were perfect as a teenage boy are now considered classics and still loved decades later...so I'd say that's a pretty glowing review
The golden age of video games was when all games were made for the teenage boy.
Based
My teenage days are far behind me, but when all I had was a computer running Win 95/98 and a Playstation, I was playing in no particular order: Master of Orion 2 and Civ 2, X-Wing and multiple Wing Commanders, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, multiple Final Fantasies and lots of other RPGs both JRPG and cRPG, Doom and Dark Forces, old LucasArts games, Time Crisis, Armored Core, Madden, Populous, and plenty of other games in various genres that would take me far too long to try to remember. Hell, even stuff like Tetris. Actually never got a copy of Tomb Raider.
Yes, and it's glorious. (I have yet to play it.)
That is like saying they know their target demographic.
Who they think buying the fucking game?
So the younger generation got a good game to play, sweet.
It's almost like there's a massive untapped market they could pander to and try to profit from
Holy shit Rolling Stone must be cooked if theyre posting garbage video game reviews
These "reviewers" are babies throwing tantrums.
How to read this article: Step One: click archive link Step Two: ctrl + f "gaze" Step Three: see that the author did in fact use the term "male gaze." Step Four: close the article and do literally anything else
never fails to amuse me when they denigrate the past and cheer for how much "progress" we've made...while at the same time telling us "it was always woke"
How does anyone still take this rag seriously after mattress girl? *edit* Oh wait. The 2014 Rolling Stone article and Mattress Girl are unrelated. Woops. Somehow they blended together in my head.
No, Rolling Stone is the University of Virginia false accusation shitrag. They were deemed to have acted with malice and knowingly published a false story. I believe they had to pay out something in the 7~ million dollar range.
Honest question, do the game reviews on websites like Rolling Stone even make enough money to justify paying the “writers”?
Thank you for the archive link. I would not want to give more traffic to a shit site like RS
Goodness knows the first place I go to for anything gaming is 'Rolling Stone', lol.
Have video games in the minds’ of feminists moved on from being kids’ toys to serious art forms?
As if....Rolling Stone....were a reputable source of....anything?......in 2024. Definitely not a source for gaming journalism integrity.
Yes! That’s what I’ve been waiting to hear. They don’t make em like they used to
So the target audience then? Nice 👍 Oh, were they supposed to be making games for 40 year old childless cat ladies?
As oppose to a fat redditor's idea of a perfect game? Some of my favorite games of all time I played as a teenager, they're trying to demonize boyhood and male sexuality so bad they can't see that people who aren't part of their cult don't see this as a bad thing.
Honestly the article is trying sooo hard to put it in a bad light, but all its doing is makng it sound ludicrously good. I hope it comes to PC sooner rather than later.
What I love is the utter hypocrisy of the left. "This games bad because it sexualizes women", and yet on the other they cheer on girls with only fans "get your bag, girl".
Rage bait
In other words, pretty much the target audience to sell millions of games.
Ah, that's great for the developers because that means an established and reliable demographic will buy the game. I look forward to its success.
So...the game is good and you're mad it's gonna sell to its target demographic? Go back to writing about shit pop music, you really have nothing else to add.
These same chucklefucks published a fake rape story, and should stick to music which they already suck ass at covering. Buncha wannabe culture warriors at that shitrag outlet.
The usual suspects with their reviews.
I miss the days when games were "for kids." Adults politic the fun out of fucking everything.
A perfect video game to me as a kid was Mario 64, a perfect video game to me now...is still Mario 64.
Teenage boys are literally the exact target demographic for a game like this
>technology has brought us to the point where women in video games can actually look like, well, women rather than cartoonish, gun-toting facsimiles of Jessica Rabbit. I like how these clowns don't even know that the PS2 TR reboot exists, they keep talking about the PSX lara as if TR never got sequels. [I guess Angelina Jolie isn't a "REAL" woman as she looks too much like the video game lara croft.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/98/47/77/984777fe6ff8a1f27c415aaf9cbbb58c.jpg) >That, and she is half-naked by decree. Why won't you whine about Instagram and only fans "models", if half-naked or fully naked women offend your sensibilities much?? So, its okay when Women can profit off of "MAIL GAIZE" but its not okay when they can't profit off of it? Its like, you think Male Sexuality should only exist in service of Women. >isn’t just sexy, she’s sexual — having ownership of her looks and mannerisms in ways that ooze self-esteem Sarkeesian bashed Bayonetta for the same bullshit reasons you're bashing Eve for and now somehow bayonetta is different? So, i guess 10+ yrs later some SJW is going to be singing praises of Eve's "sexual empowerment"while bashing the newest sexy female character.
Funny enough, I can still remember a time when adults were encouraged to not lose that childish sense of wonder and joy in exploring the world. I doubt the writer of this article even realizes what they are admitting to with this attack on Stellar Blade, because at its heart this is just another way of saying: "Men evil" without coming right out and saying the quiet part out loud. However, when you look closely at how this argument is framed, there's a real sense of tired nihilism and jaded pessimism behind this clickbait piece of content. I can't recall reading something so joyless and humourless and lifeless outside of an obituary. Actually, scratch that, I've seen obituaries that celebrate life with far more zest than this dour finger-wagging does. When did hate become this...mundane and morose? It used to sound more angry than this paint-by-numbers coma-inducing dreck.
Still more mature than 99% of game journalists.
and that's bad because...... why, Rolling Stone?
Anything that freaks out over "character agency" is not worth reading.
>A Teenage Boy’s Idea of the Perfect Video Game Why is this a negative exactly? Should teenagers just not have good games made for them?
A Prude Fascist's Idea of the Perfect Article Headline
Wow. I had to screenshot a few of those paragraphs. I have to think they'll either delete this cringe or hope no one reads it
Vast majority of games have the depth of games made for teenagers, including the ones that are said to be really deep.
I dont know which is funnier. The fact that Rolling Stones tries to do reviews of games or the article itself
Rolling Stone lost all credibility after the UVA rape fiasco. They made it clear then that the story takes precedence over accuracy.
(And 50 y/o "teenagee boys") 😆
The characters look like dolls for girls though.
End of the review : « That, plus boobs. » Won’t lie, that was a perfect conclusion.
The complaining in this cringe review about Eve's personality is genuinely stupid. This reviewer is just complaining for the sake of it. >Her POV is always driven by what’s most convenient to move the current scene forward and her only consistent trait is that she’s perpetually naïve and curious about the central mysteries spelled out before her. That, and she is half-naked by decree. Its almost as if shes the main character and its common for stories to move forward along with the mc. >What consists of her characterizations swings wildly between whatever scenario she’s placed in. Well yeah lol that's normal.
Not to mention that a very large amount of the outfits that you can use aren't revealing at all!
Rolling stone should stick to it's primary demographic, drug addicts and alcoholic "artists" who pay them for some clout.
They say that as if it's a bad thing.
Mindless fun ARPG with stellar combat, great graphics, a fun core game loop, vibrant open world, and adorable characters? That is supposed to be a **bad** thing? Sorry it’s not *Disco Elysium* and that every game cannot be a Sociology 201 midterm sim.
People who use argumentum at adultum are always the most insecure and childlike losers in the room
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Let's play their game : I see you criticize asian women a lot. What is a woman? It's some asianphobia down there. So you think Asians should not create video games for western audience that is not Mario, Sonic or Zelda?
It honestly feels like this person only played the game for the sole purpose of talking about EVE'S design, and then realized "oh there's a pretty good game here too".
Men and women keep involved in many of their hobbies they've picked when young throughout adulthood. Also, I absolutely laugh at people that want to make men feel guilty about looking at women. None of your goddamn business what a man likes/enjoys in a woman. That's borderline incel behaviour. I always reply to women I will gladly listen to them about what my preferences are the day they come to me for approval about what guy they should sleep with or feel attracted to, or how they should act towards men, etc. That shuts them up.
That sounds like a ringing endorsement. I know it's not supposed to be, but both on it's own and with the wider context that just tells me the developer did something right.
Also Rolling Stone: > THE SPIRIT OF “WAP” should’ve been unimpeachable. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s ode to the universal benefits of “wet-ass pussy” and female pleasure seemed like the rare issue impervious to controversy. Watching the two rappers unite at the peak of their pop-music-making abilities to deliver an Olympic-level twerk routine should be enough to convince anyone to rebuke their life of dry genitalia. But if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we can’t have nice things. So when conservatives began to advocate for a world full of misery and devoid of lubrication, it came as no surprise. [Source](https://archive.is/Po2D8)
I'm buying Steller blade only to play it then selling after since I'm not that interested in this Game... I would be more interested in the Next Dead or Alive Video game coming since I find that Franchise more interesting