I don't understand the brigading, if we were in the mid 90s with Capcom character designers doing copious amounts of Chu-Hi and sleeping in cubicles to create perfect coomer bait to attract kids to arcades I'd get it but c'mon it's been 30 years of this shit. Nobody cares anymore. You can find all sorts of vile shit and it's one google search away. What are you gonna do? If you have a kid okay keep them out of the web keep them out of the games but eh, they're gonna find out about it someday.
Hell, it's not just Capcom. A lot of game designers, East and West, did what they could to put hot chicks in video games during the 90s and 2000s. Even something like Command and Conquer, where the objective of the game is to slaughter your enemies in large army battles, the live-action cutscenes look like they were shot for an 80s porno and all the women in them are drop-dead sexy. Even their FPS spinoff Renegade had the main character "Havoc" macking on a hot Japanese chick with whom he had a love-hate relationship with. (He even tries to snipe some Nod dude who pats her on the ass.)
So I don't get this sudden turn towards anti-coomer that Razor and Melanie decided to go for. It's like they forgot the past 35 years of video games. Gaming has always appealed to coomers and the kind of people who like sexy chicks, even as far back as the 90s and early 2000s. The moment they could make reasonably attractive video game models, and the moment they were able to put full-motion video in these games, they've always done what they could to attract male gamers with attractive women.
Something like Stellar Blade or First Descendant wouldn't look that out of place in the golden age of gaming, which was the 2000s-early 2010s.
I was directed to this thread because I'm old enough to have lived through conservative Christians calling everything immoral and Satanic in the late '80s and into the '90s, and demanding censorship of everything hey didn't like. Bible thumping hall monitor type shit. Extremely loathsome people.
As someone who has studied the Bible with clergy who have studied religious matters for decades, these moral majority/religious censorship types have always disgusted me. Their theology is usually a mess, they typically don't know or accept what Jesus Christ preached, it'd be a miracle if they understood the concept of the Holy Trinity, and yet they speak with such authority when they accuse something else of being demonic.
I always get the feeling of "who the fuck are they" whenever I see these idiots talk, especially when they themselves would be considered the soldiers of hell by religious authorities that are far older than them. To the point where half these moral arbiters would probably get burned at the stake by the Inquisition for believing the wrong thing about God and Jesus Christ. Hell, falsely accusing someone of being demonic can probably land you in an Inquisitorial jail, which is where most of these puritanical moral-fags belong.
Video games, like all things, are part of creation. The Bible tells us that creation is good, for God saw what He had made, and He saw that it was good. Video games usually bring joy to children and adults alike, and the stories they tell are no weirder than any fantasy novel or movie that came before. Meaning that they would technically not be evil or demonic in the least.
Hell, many of the early video games had very basic stories. Mario vs. Bowser is literally the shining knight saving the princess from the evil dragon scenario, except they swapped out the knight with a blue-collar plumber. Samus is Ellen Ripley from Aliens mixed with Boba Fett from Star Wars, and her mission is rather basic; killing the shit out of aliens 99% of the time. If we're to condemn video games like Ultima or Doom for featuring demons, we'd also have to condemn Lord of the Rings for having demonic Balrogs and fallen angels like Sauron and Saruman running about in the story. And we all know how the Religious Right would feel about THAT, considering that they idolize Tolkien.
The fact that Razorfist wants to deny this shit ever happened, just because he wants to get into the panties of the modern Right, goes to show that he has no credibility. It was the one time when the so-called "Religious Right" committed one of the worst missteps in culture, aside from tolerating clergy who were diddling kids and parents who were abusing their kids in the name of Jesus. It was basically the reason why so many nerds, especially DnD/RPG nerds, were either ambivalent about religion or openly hostile to it. And as someone who is religious, that's just saddening to me, that these poor souls close off their hearts to something that could make their life better, just because some prick who barely understands the faith calls them demoniacs for daring to play a video game or a board game. As a man of faith, that shit just pisses me off. And the fact that Razorfist is siding with these people goes to show that his faith is naught but a plastic facade.