Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Is it? I heard early on that the game was woke with it's character designs and the bear sex scene. Though fans inform me that people at the company that tried to add wokeshit got the boot. I don't know which is true.

Not really.

Yes, technically you can undress your party members. Ooooo, some badly-textured nipples and a silly jiggle-physics cock. you're not going to run around like that, and even back in camp, the most you can do is... uh... stand there? I honestly don't even know why they included it as a feature, it's irrelevent, except for the stupid token woke inclusion of being able to make a chick with a dick.

There are a handful of sex scenes. Despite my complaints about the NPCs being incredibly easy to get attracted to you, in two playthroughs I've seen one sex scene. It was... surprisingly tasteful, and lasted about 30 seconds. I tried sleeping with a prostitute and it was just a fade-to-black.

I did one time walk in on a bugbear fucking an ogress, which was actually kind of hilarious, and they were actually clothed anyways - I don't think either model even has a "naked" version.

There's some woke here and there. The aforementioned ability to make a chick with a dick, for example, and there are a few gay NPCs, although honestly nowhere near the amount you would think there is from all the outcry. And the much-mocked ability to select "non-binary" as a gender option.

The one upshot of this? If you wanted to go full Tolkien-dwarf, you could use the male player model, a male voice, and still say your dwarf was female.

But no, despite the braying, it's not a "porn game". At the very worst, it's a game with a very few adult scenes, most of which would be tame by HBO standards 10 years ago.

 

[Asian tech support]

Is it? I heard early on that the game was woke with it's character designs and the bear sex scene. Though fans inform me that people at the company that tried to add wokeshit got the boot. I don't know which is true.

It's a game that's tailor made for coomers

I just figured that a handful of Larian deviants snuck their fetish crap into the game and the current year dictates that be oh so important.

 

[Pissmaster]

However, Stardew Valley is a really good game in it's own right,

Oh, goodness... That game was like a perfect showcase of every single obnoxious stereotype of white lefties from the 2010s. It's like a game for people that could watch Portlandia and not see the humor in it at all.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Oh, goodness... That game was like a perfect showcase of every single obnoxious stereotype of white lefties from the 2010s. It's like a game for people that could watch Portlandia and not see the humor in it at all.

I mean, one of the female NPCs is literally a dangerhair, but honestly I really love the game all the same.

 

[Pissmaster]

I mean, one of the female NPCs is literally a dangerhair, but honestly I really love the game all the same.

Yeah, and one of the couples is interracial, and at least two of the guys look like they work at some local vegan coffee shop. All of the portraits look placid and dull. It's literally just Harvest Moon with a baizuo theme. I'd rather have the anime theme, had I not burned out completely on Harvest Moon when I was a kid.

I've never seen a more soulless game than Stardew Valley in my life.

 

[el bandito loco]

If there's a guy whose gaming peaked with the 2001 Harry Potter game, DM me, I'd just like to know you exist too.

you're not alone. weirdly enough the first harry potter had tons of different games. which one are you talking? at my grandma's I had the regular and LEGO PC games and at home the ps1 game. on the GBC it was a JRPG, GBA had a Zelda clone, and a few years later a whole other game for PS2, Xbox & Gamecube came out based on the first book/movie. there are 6 distinctly different games made for the first Harry Potter. the second one also had 6 different games but I am only familiar with the PS1, PS2 & LEGO Creator versions of it but for the first one I think I have played through every single one at some point.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

But no, despite the braying, it's not a "porn game". At the very worst, it's a game with a very few adult scenes, most of which would be tame by HBO standards 10 years ago.

Stop being so defensive. It's a game that explores sexuality, so what? We had tons of games back then that had sexy chicks, so having a game that appeals to the sexual tastes of shippers and furries isn't anything new. BG3 does for those people what DOA and Soul Calibur did for fighting game fanatics who liked seeing jiggling boobs with their female fighters.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

It's a game that explores sexuality, so what?

"Explores sexuality". You make it sound like it's some Sex-ed special.

It has a few (very mild, barely-above-PG) sex scenes, if you choose to see them. They wouldn't hardly make a virgin blush, and in any given play through might comprise a minute or two of a potentially 60+ hour play through.

That's not a "porn game". By that logic, any movie that has even a brief sex scene is a "porn movie". Any book that includes a sex scene is a "porn book". No matter how incidental. And unlike a movie or book, the scenes are even optional, since it's dependent on your choices.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Way too much thought was put into fucking even if it isn't actually shown.

Baldurs Gate 3 may not be a porn game, but it really goes to show just how pathetic Larian must view their players if they had to make it so unavoidable/easy to fuck the characters.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Way too much thought was put into fucking even if it isn't actually shown.

Baldurs Gate 3 may not be a porn game, but it really goes to show just how pathetic Larian must view their players if they had to make it so unavoidable/easy to fuck the characters.

Larian has never really done "romances" before. Hell, they've barely done fleshed-out NPC companions before - in Divinity 2, the companions were... I mean they had a story? But you would barely know it. You would occasionally get brief dialog with them, but nothing like BG3.

Frankly, I think they just dropped the ball on that point.

It's not unavoidable, though. Not even remotely. It's just almost impossible to avoid them starting the romance path. You absolutely don't have to take it to any sort of conclusion.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

It's not unavoidable, though. Not even remotely. It's just almost impossible

Nigga please

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Nigga please

Nice job cutting off the rest of that sentence.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Nice job cutting off the rest of that sentence.

Are you really this dumb or just pretending?

Because "It's not unavoidable, it's just impossible to avoid starting it." seems like a really stupid cope to their shitty romance system and also makes it seem like you don't know what the fuck "unavoidable" means.

Like you don't have to fuck them, but the path is almost set in stone. You're being obtuse to try and minimize the problem.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

I have been watching some videos about STALKER Anomaly. I keep hearing the term save scumming being used. When did saving your game become a thing? That's the whole point of being able to save your game. So if you screw up or the game fucks you over you can go back to a previous save. It's not just there for you to save your game so you can comeback and play later. That's kind of an obvious use for the ability to save. I don't remember a time when a game in the past or a manual for a game didn't tell you to save often.

The STALKER games especially are ones where you should be saving a lot, particularly "fan games" like Anomaly/Dark Signal/GAMMA. Death can be sudden after huge stretches of progress, and can often be unfair or totally unforseeable. Not hitting quicksave every couple of minutes out of habit is just asking for frustration.

In other games sometimes It's just a necessity. I'm one of those people with depressingly terrible dice roll luck, like having the Karmic Dice option enabled in BG3 and still failing the first 9 or 10 checks in the game, even ones I had advantage on. Not being able to save scum means I wouldn't see beyond the first fight in a given CRPG most of the time.

 

[Pissmaster]

Baldurs Gate 3 may not be a porn game, but it really goes to show just how pathetic Larian must view their players if they had to make it so unavoidable/easy to fuck the characters.

Hell, I was put off for good when the first thing I heard about Baldur's Gate 3 was " YOU CAN FUCK A BEAR!!! ".

I... really don't want to play a game with beastiality as a selling point. The absolute state of Western RPGs, man. You know what? I know how to solve this problem.


There we go!

 

[The Ugly One]

Yes, technically you can undress your party members. Ooooo, some badly-textured nipples and a silly jiggle-physics cock. you're not going to run around like that, and even back in camp, the most you can do is... uh... stand there?

Showing a dick used to mean an immediate AO rating, and it seems like the only reason that changed is because you can plunge it into another dude's asshole. Once homosexuality & troonism, i.e. completely coom-centered "identities", got normalized, games can be saturated with sex, and it's fine.

 

[cia-log]

I'm shocked anybody on kiwifarms could somehow not notice the pattern of writing characters as sexual wish fulfillment even without explicit sexual content. You'd think after seeing this many weirdos you'd learn to spot fetishes and sexual fantasies haphazardly crammed into whatever media.

Larian doesn't have to put any actual sex scenes in their game except to briskly confirm that the characters do have sex so that their fans can go off and make rule 34 content and this all helps boost sales of the game. People groan and roll their eyes whenever they see some goth-demonette-gf-with-a-voracious-sexual-appetite character because they already know the only reason that's there is for the character to go "wow [player] you're so good at whatever you do it makes me soo horny" so the player can either alt-tab to some porn or write some fanfic or talk about their waifu depending on their age or gender.

This is literally just HuniePop for people who majored in journalism instead of computer science. If you can overlook that stuff then good on you, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.

 

[Calandrino]

Any game can be a porn game, it's entirely in your hands (so to speak)

 

[Fag Albert]

Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter are superior games to League of Legends and DoTA 2 because black people send funnier hate mail than white people. Some guy going "REALLY?" or spamming question marks will never truly compare to a melanated king calling me lil bro fourty times and making up a whole fanfiction about me because i picked a guy he didn't like

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

That's not a "porn game". By that logic, any movie that has even a brief sex scene is a "porn movie". Any book that includes a sex scene is a "porn book". No matter how incidental. And unlike a movie or book, the scenes are even optional, since it's dependent on your choices.

Just because a game explores sexuality doesn't mean it's a porn game. I mean, DOA and Soulcalibur are not porn games, even if they throw cake and boobs in your face like there's no tomorrow; those games are still fighting games, just as BG3 is still an RPG. But again, it just shows that BG3 does for furries, shippers, and DnD players what DOA and Soulcalibur did for fighting game fans.

Larian doesn't have to put any actual sex scenes in their game except to briskly confirm that the characters do have sex so that their fans can go off and make rule 34 content and this all helps boost sales of the game. People groan and roll their eyes whenever they see some goth-demonette-gf-with-a-voracious-sexual-appetite character because they already know the only reason that's there is for the character to go "wow [player] you're so good at whatever you do it makes me soo horny" so the player can either alt-tab to some porn or write some fanfic or talk about their waifu depending on their age or gender.

Well, always leave something for the imagination. I mean, if it works for horror movies, it works for smut fanfiction, as well.

Showing a dick used to mean an immediate AO rating, and it seems like the only reason that changed is because you can plunge it into another dude's asshole. Once homosexuality & troonism, i.e. completely coom-centered "identities", got normalized, games can be saturated with sex, and it's fine.

Remember the world we live in. It's OK to talk about gays and trannies to little kids at school. Put your smut under that umbrella, and all of a sudden, it's acceptable behavior. Meanwhile, if you render a hot Korean woman in modern graphics, you're accused of being a pedophile.

I... really don't want to play a game with beastiality as a selling point. The absolute state of Western RPGs, man. You know what? I know how to solve this problem.

Well, this is years after shipping and smutty romances became the norm for RPG players. It used to be revolutionary that Mass Effect gave you a sex scene with your beloved, now, that's not enough.

Any game can be a porn game, it's entirely in your hands (so to speak)

I mean, that's probably half the reason SFM exists.