The casual brutal homophobia on JRPGs that is never, ever, covered by even this media, and I am looking at some writers here who were supposed to be very concerned about representation...

But the average you’ll get from the factories is what the Film Industry has been pulling forever...Token black...token gay...token trans...check, check, check down the list.

Side note: one of my favorite levels of all time!

If you’ve ever played games with romance options, features characters in relationships, or presents characters in a sexualized way, congrats, you’ve played a game that addresses gender and sexuality.

In addition to representation in major plot points and arcs, I think it is equally important to have plenty of characters that are incidentally LGBT+. The fact of diversity in gender and sexuality should be normalized in games, both as a main plot thrust, but also just people inhabiting the world. Just NPCs holding…

So what you’re saying is that context is key, and absent context, you’re just spitting numbers out that have no meaning?

Japanese fetishization?

“there’s a percentage of the gaming population–like queer and trans players–which is already playing despite being essentially uninvited, and the industry sees us as “gravy”—a nice extra but not a group worth catering to directly.”

In regards to that last embedded tweet: You know how many games I’ve played where the ladders WEREN’T climbable?

On top of that, red is a terrible color to draw attention to things when around 4% of people are colorblind.

People are noticing that they are upset about noticing that the method of making things noticeable is working, they don’t notice how upset they’d be if they couldn’t notice something because it wasn’t noticeable.

For a good example of why Yellow Paint may be necessary, watch a Streamer play the We Sing level of Alan Wake 2.

Same. The jokes just didn’t land the same way as when they had to convey the entirety of the joke visually. They felt like they became lazier (the joke itself), and the execution itself definitely was lazier.

Ha, great comment.

That dude put words in your mouth, he was going to argue that point (?) regardless of what you were saying. Another person upset that a game they liked (or were “fine” with) gets a less than stellar review. They were invested in defending the game they bought because that somehow reflects on their ego or sense of…

PS5 works just fine without an internet connection. Xbox One’s problem was TV TV Sports TV but no games. They handed that E3 to Sony and that’s a pretty big fumble. Still waiting in fact on so many games. They’ve had to buy whole publishers with games in the works just to keep a steady release of “first” party titles.

MS absolutely did fumble the ball. They charged an extra $100 so they could include the Kinect which nobody wanted. They declared that both digital and physical games would have DRM that required online connections, limited resale and would prevent games from launching if you were offline for more than a day. They…

It really depends on what you want from the console. I’m the opposite of you specifically because Gamepass lets me play Xbox exclusives and other titles on PC without needing a Series X/S. I also prefer the Playstation controller, particularly when it comes to fighting games.

SE anticipated selling 45 million copies of Foamstars

Yeah, I don’t expect anyone actually expected modern Squeenix to be able to make a game anywhere near as good as Splatoon?  Nintendo may be behind the curve on some technical things, but has always been top of the pack at game design.