To me, the idea that they’ll watch a movie based on a Japanese anime, but draw the line at a Japanese main character is patently ridiculous.

I’m honestly kind of insulted, as a fan of the original, that they’re showing so much contempt for the source material. I mean, rather than cast a Japanese actress, they’re changing the main character to this “Shmotoko Shusanagi” character.

I hope this comes out more like Resident Evil. I’m all cool with it shaking things up, but I just don’t want Resident Evil to be another generic horror game, or to completely lose itself trying to copy PT.

Hypothetically, if someone has an imaginary friend into adulthood (or, as in this case, goes on a date with a love doll), and it genuinely improves their quality of life without hurting them or others, how could you possibly rationalizing interfering in that as ‘help’?

Someone’s salty.

Recommended for Black Books.

In case you weren’t aware (I’m not being snarky, I didn’t realize this at first either, because of the way their buy page defaults to the Origins edition), but the standard edition of Overwatch, which... frankly doesn’t miss out on anything special, is only $40.

The problem with that comparison is that there’s more Japanese actors in America than white actors in Japan.

I... honestly can’t see that being a problem. If he would raise his daughter a certain way, they can depict that, and I don’t see the problem. If she’s a tomboy or whatever, so what? Who cares? Tomboys exist. I’ve known plenty of them.

I would honestly argue that a character doesn’t have to be “better” as something other than a white straight male in order to be something else. I get where you’re coming from but that’s actually the exact sort of ‘male default’ mindset that question is supposed to help you break free of.

You realize that this is being done during the process of making the character, right? It’s not like they’re taking fully realized characters and just adding boobs on them.

Shenmue and a handful of other games have done them right. When they’re done right, they add to the immersion and cinematic of the game by allowing you to interact with and perhaps even change the flow of a cutscene.

Mother of God...

MK: Annihilation was so bad it made the first Mortal Kombat look good in comparison.

I really enjoyed the system, but it does start to show its limitations fairly quickly. Personally, I’d love to see a sequel, or another game that takes the same concept and expands upon it.

Designed transformations for Frieza-race would also go hand-in-hand with letting saiyan characters change their hairstyles when they go super saiyan. I hated how my character transforming into a super saiyan didn’t change her hair at all besides making it blonde.

I could be wrong, but I actually read that as saying we might have to help the bad guys win at certain points (specifically, making sure that Frieza destroys Planet Vegeta, and making sure that the Future Androids kill Gohan), in order to preserve the timeline. Since, obviously, if Planet Vegeta was never destroyed, a…

I kind of agree. In single-player games, you can use the ‘if you don’t like it, don’t get it/use it’ excuse, but with an MMO, my immersion is going to be broken either way when everyone else is running around with some blatantly licensed, lore-breaking cosmetic item.

Where are you planning to get the ketchup from?”

Trust me, you wouldn’t. Humans are built to need some degree of human interaction. When we are completely cut off from others, plenty of unpleasant things start to kick in, like severe depression, anxiety, and eventually worse.