Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

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.

"Almost set in stone" my ass. Every single one of them has multiple "No, I'm not interested" chances. If you see a sex scene in BG3, except I suppose the bugbear fucking the ogress, it's because you chose to.

Hell, I was put off for good when the first thing I heard about Baldur's Gate 3 was " 1707603870807.png YOU CAN FUCK A BEAR!!! 1707603870807.png".

Two playthroughs so far. Haven't seen it. Haven't even seen where it would come up. I'm not saying the content isn't in the game, but it's way over-blown by people on the internet.

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.

Ehhh. Things have been shifting for a while, but games have been able to get away with nudity if you undress a character for a while now. I can't remember the first game I encountered it on... No, wait, I think I can, I think it was Conan: Exiles.

Whatever. If you wanna get incensed because someone could be pathetic enough to pause the game and zoom in real close on some weird looking sub-Poser-porn digital danglies and jerk off, instead of, well, literally any other way of getting porn ever, well, I guess, whatever.

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.

... Oh c'mon now. You're verging into tin foil hat territory here. "If we acknowledge that people have sex, other people will make rule34 porn on the internet of them, muahaha, our cunning plan is coming together!".

Because people haven't been making rule34 porn until now. We had to wait until sex scenes in games for that.

Odin's eyesocket, there are times this place really gets to me. Some of y'all are so paranoid about being labeled a "coomer" or "degenerate" or whatever that you've gone past neo-Victorian into some weird bizzarro world that denies reality.
 
"Almost set in stone" my ass. Every single one of them has multiple "No, I'm not interested" chances. If you see a sex scene in BG3, except I suppose the bugbear fucking the ogress, it's because you chose to.
It's a video game. I'm inclined to not press "no, stop this" because I might miss out on a Legendary Sword of Light that the big ogress could give me if I go through with the scene. I wouldn't choose to go through with the sex scene because I wanna see some monsters getting it on, I choose to suffer through it so I don't wind up getting stuck on a boss because I'm fighting with a tree branch and a loincloth.

A good way they could have dealt with it is by having a switch in the options that turns romance stuff off, that also guarantees you won't miss any items or skills or whatever you'll gain from going through with them. Even if the game already doesn't have missables like that, they should really let the player know.
 
... Oh c'mon now. You're verging into tin foil hat territory here. "If we acknowledge that people have sex, other people will make rule34 porn on the internet of them, muahaha, our cunning plan is coming together!".
I mean you have to be pretty dumb not to see it, considering it's not even a little subtle. This sort of viral marketing has been prevalent for quite a few years now, like all those horror games copying Five Nights at Freddy's with the cutesy animal characters so they can market merch towards children, and games targeting the shipper "community" has been happening at least since Dragon Age 2. That's not to say it's the only reason anybody plays BG3, but it's obviously an enormous component of the marketing strategy behind the game and all you have to do is google "Baldur's Gate 3 fanart" if you need to see it for yourself.

There's a reason the character design in BG3 and the characters in the "SJW Art and Extremes" thread are so similar. They add all those cultural markers like the dyed hair and the piercings and the Hot Topic wardrobes for the same reasons Ivy in Soul Calibur has big tits and hits people with a whip. Different audience, same intention.
 
It's a video game. I'm inclined to not press "no, stop this" because I might miss out on a Legendary Sword of Light that the big ogress could give me if I go through with the scene. I wouldn't choose to go through with the sex scene because I wanna see some monsters getting it on, I choose to suffer through it so I don't wind up getting stuck on a boss because I'm fighting with a tree branch and a loincloth.
I remember the later SWTOR DLCs did it right by having a pop-up that says ''if you choose this dialogue option, you'll get locked into a romance'', and they ask you if you want to go through with it.

Odin's eyesocket, there are times this place really gets to me. Some of y'all are so paranoid about being labeled a "coomer" or "degenerate" or whatever that you've gone past neo-Victorian into some weird bizzarro world that denies reality.
We don't hate cheesecake for cheesecake's sake. Hell, I'm a big fan of both the DOA and Soulcalibur series. Both game series lather tits and ass on almost every woman in their games. But trying to deny the fact that BG3 is appealing to the sexual degenerates on the left-leaning DnD side is like trying to deny that Team Ninja appeals to gamers who play games with one hand.
 
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It's a video game. I'm inclined to not press "no, stop this" because I might miss out on a Legendary Sword of Light that the big ogress could give me if I go through with the scene. I wouldn't choose to go through with the sex scene because I wanna see some monsters getting it on, I choose to suffer through it so I don't wind up getting stuck on a boss because I'm fighting with a tree branch and a loincloth.

A good way they could have dealt with it is by having a switch in the options that turns romance stuff off, that also guarantees you won't miss any items or skills or whatever you'll gain from going through with them. Even if the game already doesn't have missables like that, they should really let the player know.

Okay, wait, hold on. Are we talking sex/porn, or romance options in general? Because romance options in games in general aren't new. Not by the vaugest definition of that term. So if that's what you're upset about, well... I guess you're very upset. I don't know what to tell you.

I guess I would be more inclined to assume you don't get important rewards from boning characters in game, because I don't think I've ever encountered that. Although I guess Cyberpunk put a so-so suit of armor as a reward for one romance option in a later patch.

I mean you have to be pretty dumb not to see it, considering it's not even a little subtle. This sort of viral marketing has been prevalent for quite a few years now, like all those horror games copying Five Nights at Freddy's with the cutesy animal characters so they can market merch towards children, and games targeting the shipper "community" has been happening at least since Dragon Age 2. That's not to say it's the only reason anybody plays BG3, but it's obviously an enormous component of the marketing strategy behind the game and all you have to do is google "Baldur's Gate 3 fanart" if you need to see it for yourself.

That's the internet for you. I get that when I search for fan art for most character-heavy games.

Beyond that, like... okay, that's marketing? I really don't care. Yeah, they try to make the game appeal to people. Shocking.

There's a reason the character design in BG3 and the characters in the "SJW Art and Extremes" thread are so similar. They add all those cultural markers like the dyed hair and the piercings and the Hot Topic wardrobes for the same reasons Ivy in Soul Calibur has big tits and hits people with a whip. Different audience, same intention.

... None of the BG3 companions have dyed hair. None of them have egregious piercings (not counting ear rings, because no, I'm not going to count ear rings), and the only one of them that I would say has a "hot topic wardrobe" is Karlach. Nor do most of the NPCs. I'm not going to say there aren't any characters who's appearance rubs me the wrong way... Isobel's "sad emo" makeup just looks stupid and pathetic. But you're really blowing the situation out of proportion.

We don't hate cheesecake for cheesecake's sake.

It's fine when we do it.

Hell, I'm a big fan of both the DOA and Soulcalibur series. Both game series lather tits and ass on almost every woman in their games. But trying to deny the fact that BG3 is appealing to the sexual degenerates on the left-leaning DnD side is like trying to deny that Team Ninja appeals to gamers who play games with one hand.

... I mean, it's obviously trying to appeal to D&D players, yes. Being that its a D&D game, and all. But you're imagining far more degeneracy than actually exists. And again, the repeated "it's a porn game" bullshit? Not helping your argument look saner.
 
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Since Stardrew Valley was brought up, I'll take this opportunity to throw in my unpopular opinion. As someone who grew up playing Harvest Moon and now Story of Seasons I picked up SV several years ago. I completely played through it, donated all of the items to the community center, got hitched, and made dead grandpa proud. After that is when I started not liking it as much.

The farming part of the game felt really lacking to me. Besides needing certain products for donating, I don't remember a reason to have them. No festivals to compete in where you yell at your chicken to scare the opposition out of the ring. No horse racing where you can bet and win prizes. I also found it strange that the deluxe barns/coops had automatic feeders. So less of a reason to interact with your animals, and when I play a game like this I want to take care of my animals.

The combat is basic and unnecessary. Why is it even there.

I hate hate hate 95% of the bachelor designs. I'm a hetero lady, and when I'm playing as a woman character I want to have a husband. The only guy that stood out to me was the long haired man (Elliot?), but he was a wannabe writer who lived in a shack on the beach. I don't have much to say about the other characters except that I hardly remember any of them.

The music was very repetitive. I don't even remember the soundtrack changing for each season, something that you would expect in these types of games.

Earning money felt way too easy. Also the cost of seeds, bag upgrades, and animals seemed cheap. Whatever you wanted you could get in hardly any time.

The only positive thing I would say is that the fishing is really good.

These are obviously my own grievances, so I won't be starting a ten page argument with anyone who does enjoy SV.
 
I hate hate hate 95% of the bachelor designs. I'm a hetero lady, and when I'm playing as a woman character I want to have a husband. The only guy that stood out to me was the long haired man (Elliot?), but he was a wannabe writer who lived in a shack on the beach. I don't have much to say about the other characters except that I hardly remember any of them.
i'm sure some guys who play as girls fell in love with his starving artist ass
 
Not sure if it's been stated, but the Lego games were a lot better when they weren't all just liscenced collectathons.
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
Mobas are just boring in general.
 
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Not sure if it's been stated, but the Lego games were a lot better when they weren't all just liscenced collectathons.
LOL when was that? Lego Island? Lego Racer?

I haven't played Lego Star Wars since I was a kid, but after giving up on Lego City: Undercover, I can say that I think it was a mistake for them to have started voicing characters in their games. I watched a bit of gameplay of some of the newer stuff and it's all bad. The old stuff was a silent movie, silly pantomime and farce that was amusing for all ages. Now it's just ruined.
 
... I mean, it's obviously trying to appeal to D&D players, yes. Being that its a D&D game, and all. But you're imagining far more degeneracy than actually exists.
I'm pretty sure a game where you can fuck a bear is a game is more lewd than what came previously. I mean, the world shat its collective pants when Mass Effect had a tame hetero romance between humans and humanoid aliens. Beastiality is taking it to the next level, optional or not. Even if the beast is a dude who transforms into one.

I mean, when was the last time a DOA game or a Soulcalibur game had sex? Even those games, made with erotica in mind, filled with babes and dudes who are at the peak of sexual attractiveness, kept it to pure fighting, while Mass Effect's romance options were mostly humans or aliens that look like humans. And the romance in ME was heavily censored. Just a bit of kissing, maybe a second of bare ass, at most. Tali's sex scene for instance, is just her removing the mask and pouncing on male Shepard, kissing him while she's on top, with both of them still fully clothed. Garrus and Female Shepard just hug.

Hell, KOTOR was super-strict with that; you can only romance Carth or Bastila, both humans, and Bastila is the only one that gets a romance scene. It just fades to black as the male player character kisses her. Same thing goes for Fallout New Vegas; when you fuck someone, it just fades to black as your sexual partner moans in pleasure or says something funny. I remember killing Benny that way the first time and laughing my ass off for 5 minutes. His corny-ass romance lines, punctuated by his sudden death, was gaming comedy at its finest in 2010.

So yes, BG3 is a tad bit more degenerate than what came before. Other games with sexual content either had heavily censored romance scenes, or no fucking at all, just sexy babes that you can't slog, only smack around like a bitch who owes you money. Admitting it isn't anything bad; being so defensive over it will just end with more people picking on it.

I haven't played Lego Star Wars since I was a kid, but after giving up on Lego City: Undercover, I can say that I think it was a mistake for them to have started voicing characters in their games. I watched a bit of gameplay of some of the newer stuff and it's all bad. The old stuff was a silent movie, silly pantomime and farce that was amusing for all ages. Now it's just ruined.
I loved how funny it looked when Vader had to tell Luke that he was his father without saying a word, by using a picture and pointing to it.
 
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.
I couldn't comprehend how popular it got. Even if you overlook the ideological trash, it's like you said, soulless. I get bored just looking at it. It's like an AI prompt in game form.

But you're imagining far more degeneracy than actually exists.
You're really going to bat for this horny homo game huh
 
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.
That's been a thing since Tomb Raider at least, possibly sooner.

There's nothing wrong with sexy characters, fanservice, or sex scenes.

The problem with the lefties is when they either don't know when to say enough is enough, they do it deliberately to disgust and offend the player base, or both. Then the left and the right start jumping at shadows, wanting to be the first to point fingers to avoid having them pointed back. These days you can't even have a game with furries in it or people will accuse the game of being porn aimed at kids. That means games like Star Fox or Banjo Kazooie can't exist now.


This sort of viral marketing has been prevalent for quite a few years now, like all those horror games copying Five Nights at Freddy's with the cutesy animal characters so they can market merch towards children, and games targeting the shipper "community" has been happening at least since Dragon Age 2.
And it hasn't worked since then either. Was it Battleborn where it turned out the lead dev set up a porn reddit in an attempt to revive the player base?

I hate hate hate 95% of the bachelor designs. I'm a hetero lady, and when I'm playing as a woman character I want to have a husband.
For what it's worth, most of the women are kind of bland too. There's the one gamer woman with danger hair that likes rocks. She's the meme choice, but she's also the only one who's not taken that seems likeable as a romance partner. Though I've not played the games multiple times to check. Maybe I'm just picky, I don't know.
 
Is it? I heard early on that the game was woke with it's character designs and the bear sex scene.

Yeah I've done this joke before but... I almost said "fuck it" but that would be a bad choice of words right now.
Any game can be a porn game, it's entirely in your hands (so to speak)
I was going to challenge you to describe how Gran Turismo or Fantasy Zone can be pornographic, but then I realized you might actually succeed.
For what it's worth, most of the women are kind of bland too.
And everyone's face looks like they got stung by a million bees.

Like, the main saving grace to me is the art somehow reminds me of games I used to play on PCs in the 1990s, like Realms of Chaos or other Apogee or Epic Megagames releases (and if you're too young to remember those people, might I suggest councilling?) So there's a weird nostalgia appeal in a weird roundabout way.... but I think I would almost rather have any of the girls from Asterix the Gaul's village, and I imagine girls feel the same way about the men.

And yes Epic Megagames is the company that is just called "Epic Games" now, they're no longer "Mega."
 
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I'm pretty sure a game where you can fuck a bear is a game is more lewd than what came previously. I mean, the world shat its collective pants when Mass Effect had a tame hetero romance between humans and humanoid aliens. Beastiality is taking it to the next level, optional or not. Even if the beast is a dude who transforms into one.

I'm not going to defend that scene, only say that, again, it's something that I suspect most players are never going to encounter - it requires going down the romance path for the most boring and useless character in the game, who is also the last of the "main" companions you get.

I mean, when was the last time a DOA game or a Soulcalibur game had sex? Even those games, made with erotica in mind, filled with babes and dudes who are at the peak of sexual attractiveness, kept it to pure fighting, while Mass Effect's romance options were mostly humans or aliens that look like humans. And the romance in ME was heavily censored. Just a bit of kissing, maybe a second of bare ass, at most. Tali's sex scene for instance, is just her removing the mask and pouncing on male Shepard, kissing him while she's on top, with both of them still fully clothed. Garrus and Female Shepard just hug.

But sex conceptually fits in a roleplaying game. It can be part of character development and plot progression. That's not applicable for fighting games and such. Not quite apples and oranges, they're both video games, but... apples and apple sauce?

... That wasn't a great analogy. Give me a day or two, I'll come up with a better one.

Hell, KOTOR was super-strict with that; you can only romance Carth or Bastila, both humans, and Bastila is the only one that gets a romance scene. It just fades to black as the male player character kisses her. Same thing goes for Fallout New Vegas; when you fuck someone, it just fades to black as your sexual partner moans in pleasure or says something funny. I remember killing Benny that way the first time and laughing my ass off for 5 minutes. His corny-ass romance lines, punctuated by his sudden death, was gaming comedy at its finest in 2010.

... For all you fanboy about KOTOR, there are three romances, and one is not human. Juhani.

So yes, BG3 is a tad bit more degenerate than what came before. Other games with sexual content either had heavily censored romance scenes, or no fucking at all, just sexy babes that you can't slog, only smack around like a bitch who owes you money. Admitting it isn't anything bad; being so defensive over it will just end with more people picking on it.

Witcher 3.
Cyberpunk 2077.
Hell, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, one of the most based games of the past decade, had full on sex scenes six years ago.


You're really going to bat for this horny homo game huh

I didn't play the game for months because of listening to the incessant drone of shit exactly like that there. Didn't play it until someone gave me the game and I figured I might as well try it out. I've got 90 hours into the game between two playthroughs so far, I'm having a hell of a lot of fun with the game, have seen a grand total of two sex scenes (including the bugbear fucking the ogress), haven't had any agenda or woke bullshit forced down my through beyond the... very versatile... character creator, and I'm annoyed at myself for letting nonsense like that dissuade me from giving the game an honest chance.

So yeah, I'll defend it. It's not what the braying detractors like to make it out to be.

For what it's worth, most of the women are kind of bland too. There's the one gamer woman with danger hair that likes rocks. She's the meme choice, but she's also the only one who's not taken that seems likeable as a romance partner. Though I've not played the games multiple times to check. Maybe I'm just picky, I don't know.

I like the artist lady who lives by the river, of the female options. Or maybe the teacher. They both seem nice.
 
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The problem with the lefties is when they either don't know when to say enough is enough, they do it deliberately to disgust and offend the player base, or both. Then the left and the right start jumping at shadows, wanting to be the first to point fingers to avoid having them pointed back. These days you can't even have a game with furries in it or people will accuse the game of being porn aimed at kids. That means games like Star Fox or Banjo Kazooie can't exist now.
I'm a little confused about what you're trying to say here.

And it hasn't worked since then either. Was it Battleborn where it turned out the lead dev set up a porn reddit in an attempt to revive the player base?
I don't see how you could say it hasn't worked, if Battleborn couldn't be kept afloat with porn it's only because the market for Overwatch porn totally eclipses it.
 
For what it's worth, most of the women are kind of bland too. There's the one gamer woman with danger hair that likes rocks. She's the meme choice, but she's also the only one who's not taken that seems likeable as a romance partner. Though I've not played the games multiple times to check. Maybe I'm just picky, I don't know.
Looking at the line up for the marriage candidates and I see what you mean. The only lady that looks nice just based on design is Leah, the red head with a braid. Why do people like these characters? I don't understand how this game became so popular.

Also Abigail is giving me Zoe Quinn vibes...

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Star fox Assault is an underrated but flawed decent game and was ultimately the perfect direction for the series and had they stuck with the formula then the series could of been something truly special and great
especially the multiplayer while i've never played, i've heard nothing but good things about it
 
I don't understand how this game became so popular.

The game is very good at... For lack of a better way of explaining it, tugging at the same heartstrings that some Ghibli movies tug at, like Kiki's Adventure. It's cozy and charming and makes you feel good. It's essentially a digital drug, but instead of playing off gambling addictions or something like some games do, it just continually tries to make you feel little twinges of happiness.
 
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