‘Realistic’ Game Environments Don’t Acknowledge Disabled People

[Ly Erg]

Give me a game where the main character is on a wheelchair but with miniguns, Rocket launchers and turbo boosts like in Dead Rising 2 and we will talk.

EDIT: I just realised what I just described was a Tank.

 

[CWCissey]

Fine, I'll start shooting people in the spine in GTA.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Sweetie, anyone with a physical disability is going to be fucking dead in the apocalypse.

Unless they find a giant retard to ride.

EMBARGO ON!

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

I can see where he’s coming from, but so everyone benefits let’s have retards in games so we can laugh and he can feel better.

Also so we can hold them down and record their screams,

 

[Safir]

Well, they don't acknowledge regular bodily functions like pissing, shitting, farting, sweating, sneezing, and coughing either.
And none of them have realistic showering, shoelace tying, dressing, teeth brushing, or whatever dumb mechanics either.

You know why? Because that wouldn't be fun at all. Similar to how playing a cripple would work in an RPG or a narrative-driven game, but not for the best-selling genre: action games.

There's The Sims. And Kenshi.

 

[Dark Edea]

"Errol Kerr"

This is the name you get when the attending nurse punches the keyboard.

 

[KingCoelacanth]

I’ve been searching for myself in video games recently

The very first sentence of the "article"
Journalists are jokes

 

[Meat Target]

The very first sentence of the "article"
Journalists are jokes

Maybe he could mod games to have disabled characters. But that would require him to learn to code.

 

[NerdShamer]

What's this wheelchair guy whining about?

He wants more people like Lester in video games.

Oh, and they have to be the main character.

 

[CobraPlissken]

The author:

( ) Autistic
( ) LGBTQ
( ) Pronouns in bio
( ) Makes being a cripple his entire identity
( ) Not actually a cripple (just uses a cane)

 

[LargeChoonger]

They had to remove feminists from RDR2 because people kept beating them up. Imagine what would happen to cripples in GTA VI

 

[Coldgrip]

That's okay, I don't acknowledge them in real life either.

 

[The Demon]

The doom guy wouldn't get far if he was in an iron lung

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

"Errol Kerr" sounds like what a severely mentally disabled person replies when asked how they are doing.

 

[Koby_Fish]

I'ma go out on a limb and posit that the author of the article never played the original Final Fantasy VII
(yes I know it's fantasy but STILL)

 

[Anja Din]

Do people really want to play disabled characters if they’re disabled irl? I mean, i thought most people picked characters that didn’t have the same flaws or whatever.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Ok, so let me get this straight. Video games are escapist fantasies where you don't have to be ugly, unattractive, disabled, weak and bullied. They allow you to escape into worlds where you can be what you want to be.

And yet, you choose to be disabled. Why? What the fuck is wrong with you? You're a guy who would play an immersive VRMMO and then play as a cripple and then whine its too hard, while everyone is running around and flying and having a blast.

You are so invested in your shitty identity that you can't escape, you have to constantly feel sorry for yourself. Its the same shit. If I had a button to give you that would instantly make you not disabled, you'd fucking press it. Same for everyone who is fat. You would press the button unless you were fucking insane. And then after you didn't press the button, you'd whine at how they're genociding the disabled and its not fair everyone is treating you like a lunatic.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Where are the real tard games

 

[NerdShamer]

Ok, so let me get this straight. Video games are escapist fantasies where you don't have to be ugly, unattractive, disabled, weak and bullied. They allow you to escape into worlds where you can be what you want to be.

And yet, you choose to be disabled. Why? What the fuck is wrong with you? You're a guy who would play an immersive VRMMO and then play as a cripple and then whine its too hard, while everyone is running around and flying and having a blast.

You are so invested in your shitty identity that you can't escape, you have to constantly feel sorry for yourself. Its the same shit. If I had a button to give you that would instantly make you not disabled, you'd fucking press it. Same for everyone who is fat. You would press the button unless you were fucking insane. And then after you didn't press the button, you'd whine at how they're genociding the disabled and its not fair everyone is treating you like a lunatic.

It might work if you were suddenly amputated from stepping on a landmine in a FPS or another Call of Duty clone...But then we can also laugh at the guy for being to tunnel-visioned to notice the mine.

Seems legit.

 

[ZehnBoat]

in my dreams i can run, and fly
aw shit, better stop dreaming, that's triggering me