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Are videogames for children?

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Zaragoza said:
Just finished X Wing Alliance Upgrade a couple days back and I'm in the middle of doing Tie Fighter Total Conversion, these games are an absolute blast to play. I'm definitely going to try out Star Wars Squadron when I'm done with Tie Fighter but going forward in the realm of flying games, are there any other games like mentioned above?
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Freespace 2 has modernization fan patches too.
 
Slay, girlboss, slayyyy.
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Foolish Samurai Warrior said:
Lol, have you guys heard of a game called Snowbreak? It's a gacha game that just keeps getting controversies lol.
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Yeah, it apparently got mass-reported by fans of otome gacha slop like LADS and whatever other ones are popular (I dunno, my estrogen is not high enough to understand the appeal of otome games)

Gender wars in the 2010s west are gonna seem tame by next decade. People are really sleeping on how batshit insane East Asian social atomization and traditional gender role baggage is because it's currently hiding beneath the surface.
 
Cod of War said:
No but do enlighten me on how it's shitting the bed.
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Basically, Snowbreak was once of those dozens of gacha games that was struggling. It had an identity as a post apocalyptic shooter with girls... which is pretty generic. So they started upping the waifu factor by releasing lewd characters, and it worked! Except well, they decided that wasn't enough. They started removing male NPCs entirely, genderbending some supporting characters, and went full pandering to self inserts. But of course this turned off VAs who didn't want to do such lewd content. Both English and Chinese VAs had to be replaced at some point. Still, this made them a lot of money, so they were fine for a while. Even if the start of the game didn't vibe with the rest and wasn't rewritten.
China eventually took notice of some costumes and had them censored. This pissed off the community, and the devs tried to placate them with in-game currency. Didn't fully work
Then when hiring cosplayers to promote the game, the Chinese community found she had some "feminist" comments in her history, and demanded the devs fire her. They did, and didn't hire any more cosplayers for promotion.
During this one event, this one character named Yao acted "OOC", and distant from the self insert. She also got insulted by an NPC who had one stepped on a male soldier.
Boom, many in Chinese said this was feminism again, and the writers had to apologize, fire the people responsible, and rewrite the story.
Right now they're undergoing Indefinite Maintenance because of a partnership with China Post to release character-themed stamps. China Post is a state-owned enterprise, and the people who hate this game argued the game’s 18+ adult content was unsuitable for association with a state-owned entity.
The game's controversies never seem to stop.
 
Foolish Samurai Warrior said:
Lol, have you guys heard of a game called Snowbreak? It's a gacha game that just keeps getting controversies lol.
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I just think its funny as fuck they legit tried a gacha tactical third person shoot with girls in tactical cool gear and tried so hard to avoid the normal softcore porn games other gaches turn into. Its didn't work, and after a moderate successful summer swimsuit run dipped their toes into gooner bait.

And it saved the devs ass. The more they went in with the horny the more money they made to the point they could hire all new VA for the English cast (since the old ones left after refusing to be in a late night cinimax game). And now they are going to get shutdown a second time since they flew too close to the horny sun.
 
Niche Gamer: Good Games Group buys Humble Games from Ziff Davis, rebrands it to Balor Games (archive)
Good Games Group, a company formed by ex-Humble Games staff after the publisher was gutted back in 2024, have announced they’ve acquired Humble Games from Ziff Davis and have rebranded it to Balor Games.

The new Balor Games publishing label is being led by former Humble Games bosses Alan Patmore and Mark Nash, and the new purchase includes not only the brand name but also a catalog of over 60 games, some of which include: Slay the Spire, A Hat in Time, SIGNALIS, Forager, Coral Island, Monaco, and Wizard of Legend. The purchase also includes the catalog of Firestoke-published games.
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