Games that couldn't be made today / video game things that wouldn't be acceptable today

Dunno if it's already been said but I find that Grezzo 2: A Magical Adventure or any other game like it would probably not fly today.

The first tutorial is a school shooting with you as the shooter. The second teaches you the joys of vehicular manslaughter, and the first actual level has you fighting Jesus as a boss. And it just goes downhill from there. Killing racial stereotypes and a picture of Jesus getting raped by Hitler are two of the wonderful sights you will see in this game.

Pol.WAD and the  Moonman mod for Doom probably wouldnt fly today either.
 
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The First Fag said:
Dunno if it's already been said but I find that Grezzo 2: A Magical Adventure or any other game like it would probably not fly today.

The first tutorial is a school shooting with you as the shooter. The second teaches you the joys of vehicular manslaughter, and the first actual level has you fighting Jesus as a boss. And it just goes downhill from there. Killing racial stereotypes and a picture of Jesus getting raped by Hitler are two of the wonderful sights you will see in this game.

Pol.WAD and the  Moonman mod for Doom probably wouldnt fly today either.
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It won't fly if you're releasing it commercially, and even then you'd probably be able to get away with it if you sell it on your own website without using a platform like itch.io or steam. Grezzo 2 is a free game, AFAIK.
 
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The First Fag said:
Dunno if it's already been said but I find that Grezzo 2: A Magical Adventure or any other game like it would probably not fly today.

The first tutorial is a school shooting with you as the shooter. The second teaches you the joys of vehicular manslaughter, and the first actual level has you fighting Jesus as a boss. And it just goes downhill from there. Killing racial stereotypes and a picture of Jesus getting raped by Hitler are two of the wonderful sights you will see in this game.

Pol.WAD and the  Moonman mod for Doom probably wouldnt fly today either.
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There is no time in history where that game was "acceptable", be glad it got through.
 
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Circa 2015.
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You could walk around town / school, go prone, crawl, and take photos of girl's underwear. You're not supposed to, and you get in trouble if you get caught... ... ... but it can be done.
 
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Dandelion Eyes said:
It won't fly if you're releasing it commercially, and even then you'd probably be able to get away with it if you sell it on your own website without using a platform like itch.io or steam. Grezzo 2 is a free game, AFAIK.
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I know. I fucking love it because of how ridiculous it is. And part of me wished devs were more willing to get at least close to that level of ridiculousness.
whatever I feel like said:
There is no time in history where that game was "acceptable", be glad it got through.
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I understand what you're saying, and I agree. What I am thinking is is that regardless of how and where you were selling it, it especially wouldn't fly today. You'd have the journos, the perpetual cogs in the outrage machine that they are, find and use it to bash Trump supporters or some gay shit and call for more boycotts and whatnot. The usual journo song and dance.

I think the only reason they get away with existing today is that the outrage machine wasn't as all-reaching as it is today. Release it in like 2020 or even 2019 and shit would have been in the newscycle for a good while.
 
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Dandelion Eyes said:
It won't fly if you're releasing it commercially, and even then you'd probably be able to get away with it if you sell it on your own website without using a platform like itch.io or steam. Grezzo 2 is a free game, AFAIK.
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Forgot to mention that yes it is free.
 
beet644 said:
Also did any once else notice the decline of gore in games in recent years.
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This is speculation on my part, but I think the graphical arms race has something to do with that. Unless you're Mortal Kombat, very few games are going to want to put an obscene amount of detail in the dismemberment part.

Meanwhile, in much older titles, if your character model was segmented (that is, several models occupying the same space to make one bigger model) like in the PS1 and N64 days, then all you had to do is make the head invisible when the player got a headshot. It's much easier to create and is much lighter on the engine than fully modeling skin, bone, and muscle tissue being ripped by a speeding bullet.

To support my theory, I suggest taking a look at the Fatalities of older 3D Mortal Kombat games. If you pay attention, you'll notice that every time a dismemberment happens, it's always the head, arms, or legs, where-as everything else is just spawning a crap-ton of particle effects and extra models. This most-likely has to do with hardware limitations at the time, since doing fancier bisections of the more-recent games would be very hardware-intensive.

 
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As for gore games, I remember the unreleased "Thrill Kill," PS1 era, and something about it being too gory and so was shut down. There are some games, where I'm willing to bet the company and the ratings board have a backroom deal. Rockstar with both Manhunt games, but also EA/Visceral with Dante's Inferno. Not because DI was too gory, but you get full frontal Succubus Tits and Satan Penis nudity. I'm not saying it needed an X rating, but they were touching the line if not going over, and somehow didn't get hit.
 
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ESRB doesn't give a shit about full frontal nudity, a lot of games have cunts and cocks nowadays. They demanded rockstar to replace the hot coffee from San Andreas back then just to shut up the retards from the mainstream media.

I really like ESRB, they are not censor happy like the cancer that is the MPAA.
 
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Pretty much all of the old 3d fantasy era games have a certain design choice with women that is modernly frowned upon.

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There's also a Baldur's gate character who is female whose entire personality is being HORNY. However there is also a giga stacy whose entire personality is being based hating men so much so she will leave if any man joins the party. Both of these are super sneed worthy.

Also apparently Vice City made so many Hatians mad that Rockstar issues an apology. However in San Andreas there was a mission called "kill the cholos" lmao.

There was also a game called "border patrol" that was American
 
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Remothered Tormented Fathers is a horror game about how a little girl's life was ruined because her father forced her to transition and live as a man. It ruined her body, affected her mental state and made her addicted to drugs.
I can't believe somebody was stunning and brave enough to write that kind of story in 2018
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The remothered series kind of devolves into a lesbo love story so I wouldnt hold it that high
 
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The Jumping Dwarf said:
About half the characters in ClayFighter, including a Jamaican-accented shaman carrying a rubber chicken, a buck-toothed chink in a gi, and a trio of cannibalistic pygmies.

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They just don't make 'em like they used to.
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Don't forget about HoboCop. He was supposed to be a homeless vigilante type character who looked like a stereotypical wino/bum but he got cut from the game because Nintendo of America thought that character was too offensive, but they were totally fine with the chink with a bowlcut in a karate gi, the nigger with the rubber chicken and the cannibal pygmies.
 
A lot of this thread has covered most stuff; sexy women, fun, decent humour, but i see little mention of gore and violence.

In soldier of fortune I could blow people's limbs off. Why can't I do that anymore?

Carmaggeddon would never fly today.

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being able to discuss video games on a video game forum
Calling my single player character Nigger Fucker 3000
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
A lot of this thread has covered most stuff; sexy women, fun, decent humour, but i see little mention of gore and violence.

In soldier of fortune I could blow people's limbs off. Why can't I do that anymore?

Carmaggeddon would never fly today.

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being able to discuss video games on a video game forum
Calling my single player character Nigger Fucker 3000
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What are you talking about? Gore has probably gotten even more amplified since SoF, and GTA has roughly the same behavior as Carmageddon. The other points are roughly agreeable, but the NF3000 just feels like edgy bullshit which people stopped doing due to the rise in streaming.
 
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