*ahem*

A writer saw an interesting thing in a game and pitched a discussion piece about it. This is something that’s always been in the games; it’s acknowledged among fans (myself included) and worth writing about.

Oh, come on. The writer loves the series, dislikes this aspect of it, writes a piece that explains what happens in the games and what might be behind it.

No, it’s like saying “baseball is great, but every time I play it, someone calls me a misogynistic slur.”

Noclip put together a fantastic documentary about the release of XIV 1.0 to A Ream Reborn, and it features significant interviews with Michael Christopher Koji Fox (as well as Yoshida, and even SE’s CFO!)

Anyone who actually believe the sexiness wont come back and that the gane is gonna be super serious this time doesnt remember when they pulled this exact same shit back when DOA5 was first released

I’m just gonna put this out there:

Price may have “gone overboard” in a single comment, but we are not privy to the amount of shit she’s had to field from entitled fans who assume they know better than she how to write the material she is paid to create.

I generally enjoy getting feedback on my work from my friends—but…

It may not have been deliberately condescending, but it did seem to imply that he believed he knew better than her, which women have to deal with ALL THE TIME.

“Why can’t you deal with all this abuse?”, asks the person who faces no abuse whatsoever.

It’s true, Gamergate and their fashy friends on /pol/ freak out anytime they think ess jay dubs are ruining their games, like when they brigaded the Wolfenstein 2 trailer for saying “Nazis are bad.”

What you’re missing is that games like COD are already explicitly political, they just don’t admit it. They are functionally a part of the military-industrial complex, they are produced in partnership with consultants from those organizations and they are selling a particular narrative about the armed forces, combat,…

...I got better.

A newt?

She turned me into a newt!

The issue is context. The context of a sexy dating-sim demands sexiness, titillation, and (possibly) objectification. Players are there for sexy men, women, demons, whatever. When you buy or play a sexy dating-sim, that’s what you’re after, and that’s what you get. It’s totally appropriate for that context. Also,…

I played this game a couple years ago with exactly the same expectations! I did a couple different routes for that promised seducing, but wasted so many hours. There’s an otome game that came out on the Switch recently that I’ve thought about buying, but I keep having flashbacks to this game haha

I think it’s really more of a reference to the beginning section of the game, where the ‘enemy’ is generic mostly-non-white men in hoodies. Yes, some of the audio logs you find are about criminal gangs, others are about desperate people. Sure, when you come around a corner and there’s a guy beating on someone with a…

I hate when creators say “this isn’t political.” It’s such a cop-out.