True! The point I was trying to make is that I don’t typically go into a non-pornographic game, story or film looking to be aroused. And as a Westerner it’s hard to see the outfit as anything other than a way to arouse the player. It doesn’t enhance the experience; it cheapens it. It’s like giving Mia Fey prominent…

Sex and adulthood aren’t the same thing. Hell, in a lot of cases being an adult means consuming media that isn’t focussed on sex.

I never said boobs are evil. But neither does that mean we need to see them everywhere. If you like this outfit because it’s titillating, that’s absolutely fine. But at least have the balls to be honest about it, and respect it when people don’t like titillation in games where it isn’t needed.

If you’re a preteen boy, then sure. But as an adult, I think it’s pretty cringeworthy. It’s a costume that exists solely to titillate and doesn’t seem to reflect her character or her conflicts. And the fact you can change the costume a short way into the game just reinforces the idea that it’s a cheap piece of…

There’s actually a pretty strong case to be made for Michelangelo.

It’s a fair point that you can change her outfit, but it’s not like the existence of the skimpy version was preordained. This is a piece of fiction; everything in it exists because the creator puts it there. It’s not like they’re making some historical recreation of something that happened in real life; they’re…

Then I guess it’s just a cultural difference, because I really don’t want to look at this when I’m playing a game. It adds nothing to the gameplay experience and assumes I have the mental age of a13 year old boy.

Both of them, to be honest. I don’t really like that cross-pollination in my media; if I want skimpy outfits, I can browse some porn. It certainly soured Warrior Within for me; I didn’t go into Prince of Persia to be greeted by a woman wearing what appears to be half a dozen strings of liquorice.

Sorry, but that outfit just ensures I’m not going near this game.

The bit where she gets dogpiled by Nobodies is one of the most unintentionally hilarious moments in the entire series. I’m a sucker for the whole ‘villain and hero join forces’ subplot, however.

It only gets really good if you have a crapton of money to play with. In that sense it’s probably one of the more realistic MMOs on the market.

The problem with Kingdom Hearts (one of them, anyway) is that they needlessly rake over their own settings and characters as a kind of dog-whistle substitute for coherence. We’ve visited Wonderland on four separate occasions, (and that orange was basically wrung out the first time) seen 3 different Rikus, 2-3…

In retrospect I don’t really get what it was or what purpose it served. But given how convoluted Dream Drop Distance turned out to be I’ve pretty much written Kingdom Hearts off from a story perspective.

I don’t know, fighting the giant meat spaceship at the end of Kingdom Hearts 1 was a formative experience for me.

That’s probably true; alas, we’ll never be able to leapfrog games development like that and know for sure. It’d certainly be interesting.

The difference between Shovel Knight and Black Tiger is that the former is intentionally capturing the look of a certain era, and has great gameplay and music to accompany it. The latter just looks unintentionally bad and doesn’t have any redeeming features.

It doesn’t. Don’t post furry porn in the comments. It adds nothing to the discussion.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say nobody wanted to see this.

But hardly any of the bricks in that picture are new. The vast majority have appeared in many other sets untouched before now, while the new ones will almost certainly see use elsewhere. And Friends isn’t a ‘special set.’ It’s a theme that’s four years old at this point. Licensed sets either have a higher cost to…

Actually, Lego DO have a limit on the number of different parts they can make. According to one of their own books, Lego can only mould so many individual bricks at any one time, and if it’s a choice between a basic tile with a new texture or a whole new piece that might serve a practical function, then it’s kind of a…