blackichigo

I found The Moontide Quartet to be pretty cool. Lots of fun, flawed characters and factions. My only criticisms is that they're are way too many pointless sex scenes peppered throughout it.

@acharlie1377: I'm not trying to change the world anything man. I'm just giving my opinion. That is genuinely how I view fictional characters. I can't really argue with you on that.

I don't really understand where you draw the line on what's okay for one person and was okay for another person to enjoy. There's a huge difference between a person that wants to play Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash and Agony. 90% of the world would agree that both of those games are kind of gross and shouldn't be played by anyone, but there are groups of people on the internet that would die on their sword defend their ability to play them.

If it makes you feel any better public opinion do change over time. There was a point in time where people would travel for miles just to watch a real execution live. I'm sure, around the world, there are people that still do that. But we mostly look at people that would go to one as a psychopath these days.

You mentioned Birth of a Nation and I truly believe that that is one of the most important films to ever be released. It's not because of its really despicable content, but because of that is something that was considered acceptable by audiences at the time. I find that whole situation fascinating. It gives us a window into the mind of people that would make such a thing. I feel that most people, at least publicly, would agree that that film is despicable.

Sometimes bad things need to happen for us to learn lessons from them. If someone didn't find women in the games mentioned in this thread offensive we would never have this conversation. I find it absolutely fascinating that something like Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash, might one day be in important talking piece on why we shouldn't objectify women in video games but for right now, I'm happy just saying it ain't for me.

I'm about to go on a rambling tangent here, so sorry ahead of time.

I can't really imagine how boring and bland the world would be if every single piece of media was safe and assessable to everyone. I don't really think everything should be loved by all potential audiences. I know it's a bit odd to say but alienation kind of makes things special in a weird way.

I remember not knowing a damn thing about Twilight and going to watch it with a friend of mine because I heard it was a cool vampire movie. I remember thinking that movie was awful and horrendously boring but the friend I went with absolutely loved it. I find that to be kind of cool how two people can watch the same thing and get a totally different feeling and emotion out of it. It's very fun when I pick up a piece of media that I instantly feel like this is made for me. I don't particularly like playing video games with girls with ginormous boobs and absurd jiggle physics but I am extremely happy it exists for the people that want that.

Some people might view that as objectifying women but I never really understood that opinion, because I've always viewed fictional characters in stories as human shaped objects that moves the writers plot along. Take a horror movie for example. If all of the actors in the movie were actually being murdered, it would be for lack of a better word, horrifying to watch. Knowing it isn't real makes it entertaining.

In video games where you create a character I never really viewed it as making a person. I always saw it as an Avatar to project my actions into. They aren't real people because it would be horrendous to work a real man like a puppet.

Part of the reason why I like to read and play video games it is an escape from real things and real people. The same lonely dude who oggle's some polygonal woman in the privacy of his own living room probably wouldn't do that to an actual woman at the supermarket. For some people that's all they have. I don't want to take that from them. And if that alienates a few people, so be it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is objectifying human-like things don't really devalue the genuine article but I definitely understand an actual woman being put off by media like this. I realize that not all media can be for me and that's okay.

It sucks the OP is letting a great game like Octopath go unplayed because he or she probably read some clickbaity article on a site like Kotaku. I'm having trouble even trying to remember anything particularly sexist in that game. The only thing that come to mind is Primrose. Her path is almost like a Grind-house revenge story. She is a woman in a shitty situation that may as well be stripper/prostitute. Its a story that kind of makes you feel gross, because I feel that is what the writers were going for. It makes it feel that much more cathartic when she does get her revenge.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2, one the other hand, no big loss there. It has nothing to do with the bodacious female lead. The horrendous voice acting and slow, boring combat made me quit that game 30 hours in.

Tradition.

Come on OP chill. People trying new things isn't some affront to you.

I'm currently playing through hollowknight right now on the switch. And I'm finding it to be kind of a bummer. Don't get me wrong the game itself is a five-star game but the performance issues I'm having with it on the back half of the game is kind of inexcusable. When there are a bunch of enemies on screen and your character is giving off some sort of constant fart gas, the game just shits the bed. The frame rate drops to somewhere below 15 to 10 sometimes. I'll find myself going from full health, to having a single mask, to dead and have no idea how it even happened. It's gotten so bad in certain areas that I have debated losing my 40-hour save and just starting over on the PC even though I'm near the end of the game.

I think it's a decent game that goes on way too long. At times it felt less like a tactical RPG and more like a puzzle game, which I found to be pretty cool. But once I got to the third world I had very little desire to actually pick that game up and play it again. It's not that it was bad or anything. It was just hella repetitive.

Honestly every time I played it I ended up thinking, "Man, I should play Xcom again."

I'm in no rush to get it. I've gotten the last two games on sale and felt okay about it, but I bounced off the second one pretty hard. If it's just more of what the last two games were I don't think I'll get it anytime soon.