Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games
drspod@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Older games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.
I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”
Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy’s facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.
She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.
Man I don’t even care about any of that, personally.
I don’t buy modern games because of the cornucopia of shady bullshit they keep throwing at gamers. Invasive DRM, anti-cheat, 3rd party launchers, account linking, changing the ToU after the fact, releasing completely broken games, pop-up ads for DLC and MTX in game, etc. etc.
talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”
They’re fair observations. Convergent, homogenous graphic design plagues vid-budget video game production.
Ubi is the sort of mob that could put out a title set in Georgian England and offer a cast that includes among others a queer ship’s captain, a Chinese bailiff and a Rastafarian archbishop. There’s a place for this, but done often enough and across so many genres, it becomes self-satirizing.
oce@jlai.lu 3 months ago
Agreed with your reasons, but she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations. I wanted to share a point of view that I think is rarely shared in gaming communities.
I don’t follow YouTube drama much, so I don’t know who Asmongold is.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
These are very common talking points of gamer gate bigots. It’s a giant red flag, because the people who talk about it are bigots
weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Pretty prejudiced take. Like in the literal sense of the word.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I’d say it’s pretty spot on as a red flag.
oce@jlai.lu 3 months ago
I think you may have a a specific experience that makes this very common for you. I personally don’t interact with those subjects much, so I didn’t know. Thank you for sharing your view.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Gamergate is not a very specific circumstance. It was a widespread harassment campaign involving the entire industry. This is a follow on from that movement, and any game that releases a female protagonist that isn’t soft and demure gets active push back from this group.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 months ago
Can you describe some of those aspects that have been disappearing?
telllos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reminds me that time gamer discovered girls have body hair because of Aloy.
weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
She as a woman of course also has no idea what femininity is and that women have body hair.
oce@jlai.lu 3 months ago
I think it’s better to check the source by yourself since it appears to be more sensitive than I expected.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 months ago
Idk, it’s sounds like you agreed with this point and I’m curious what your opinion was about it.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I didn’t watch the video and probably never will, simply because I’ve watched too many and I hate that topic so much I spend the time I used to watch YouTube now on playing games.
I have played a particular western made game for the first time and finished it about a week ago. Without spoilering the massive thing that happens, I try to be as generic as possible: I have not played a single western made game in the last 5 years where the hero physically saves a girl, only to be saved by her emotionally.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I think that was too vague. Also, I’m not real clear if that’s good or bad.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 3 months ago
I’m trying to think of any game I played that was like that. You have some examples (western or not, old or not) on your mind?