Culture Wars General - KiA Diet Coke Edition

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CheezzyMach said:
I mean Capcom already has Poison and that Granblue fighting game has one.

Otherwise you're spot on. The only reason the transtrend took off was because being gay became normie over the last decade and being "queer" is all about being a provocative rebel and pissing off the normies.

Once Transgendism becomes mundane these fucks will drop it like a bad habit in favor of the next "fuck you mom/dad" trend.
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The Granblue game is an oddity formed from 'localization' etc, as well as JP roles not mapping well to English.
The first one is the wrestler:
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ファスティバ (Fastiba)
In Japanese, they're an okama type - a man, but he's flaming. He uses extremely exaggerated feminine speech patterns eg "te choudai" instead of "te kudasai", the voice sounds like a flaming sterotype from an old British comedy stock character. The whole thing is played for a joke in comparison to his enormous frame (he's part of the Draph subspecies that has enomous burly men as standard). Unusually for an okama he's portrayed not as any sort of sex deviant, just a slight weirdo that's just a really nice person.
In English, they decided to change the name to Ladiva, all references now use "her" pronouns, etc. It's like the translation team just thought dealing with declaring them a transsexual was easier than putting in a flaming gay guy.

The other is the alchemist "girl"
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カリオストロ (Cagliostro)
This one's unusual, as in-story Cag was actually born as a boy. However they were horribly sick, and through the course of their studies created an entire new field of magic and became the founder of alchemy in the Granblue world. They transmuted themselves from a man into a not-quite-human immortal girl to never be sick again. The character deliberately plays at exaggerated cuteness, but it's clear over the series that they're mostly aware that it's an act too. She'll switch to extremely aggressive and arrogant male speech patterns (such as using "ore-sama") when under any sort of stress or when facing an enemy. At the current place in the story they speak in a male-ish fashion most of the time now, too - though not necessarily using the aggressive tone as much.
The preview trailer for the fighting game DLC captures the dynamic pretty well:
The localisation has no real idea how to handle the vocal pattern and pronoun switch and just sort of smooths over it.

I do wonder what would happen when more Very Online types discover Ange or the scientist siblings from the Robomi story. Ange in particular is basically a legally distinct clone of Tezuka's Princess Knight.
 
Cagliostro is what troons hate: the ultimate trans-erasure. He wanted to be a chick, he turned into one, and most egregiously, the matter was closed. That's what really sticks sideways for troons, not having something they can daily whine about for free asspats about how brave uwu they are. His identity isn't being trans, it's being a girl, unforgivable. It's funny how lots of troons are all kinds of uptight about transhumanism; in a future where people could swap bodies as easily as changing clothes, there would be nothing special about trooning out, which they can't stand.
 
Happy New Year, gaymers :drink:
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I still have to see how exactly Piker helps make anything a better place... And three black w0men are there for complaining about skin tones in Sims, totally not because BLM
 
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elzaw said:
I still have to see how exactly Piker helps make anything a better place... And three black w0men are there for complaining about skin tones in Sims, totally not because BLM
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Yet another completely stereotypical Cucktaku article that could have been generated by a bot.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Xbox Started it and Steam went further beyond and proceeded to enable it.

The PS3 version of Oblivion has zero achievements while the Xbox 360 version does.

And achievements are points. It's really nothing new, Sony changed their player levels to be more in line with the Xbox's Gamerscore. You're trying to have a higher score than the next guy.
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I think City of Heroes beat out Xbox in the achievement department (Sept 2004). They called them badges in that game though and there were like 10 or so Powers you can get by collecting certain badges, like if you got all the stat ones you could get +20% Max HP and +10 Endurance. It was a little nice but there were still a shitload of just there badges.
 
Apparently Galgun Returns has been thrown to the curb by Microsoft and Nintendo may be the next to follow.

Citing age of consent and trying to be lawyers to defend a bad game because the age of 13 is legal under very specific circumstances just proves that the Sex pests should have never been let out of their Computer Prison Platform.

Heisei Era Vales were right.
 
elzaw said:
I'm so sick of achievement whoring! Especially since in most games these days you can get an achievement for the stupidest shit like "Complete chapter 1" or "Use a heath item for the first time", not even for something that requires an actual effort. I swear, this shit is designed just so casuals could show off their platinum trophies.
Fucking normies!
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No, that's been a thing since achievements were invented. Games like King Kong and Avatar were popular simply because it they were an easy 1000 gamerscore.
Litterally tapping a button for a minute.

Hellboy had achievements you needed the DLC to get, but the DLC was never released so they were impossible to get. Condemned got a bit of flak for having less than 1000 points when you completed everything. Some games used achievements to troll, others as advanced tutorials. And of course, games that had multiplayer achievements but didn't sustain a play base.

Eventually, people figured out you maximise your gamerscore by rushing through as many games as possible and just getting the easy achievements.

Given the option, I'll take games with easy, but doable achievements over games that have impossible or ridiculous achievements.
 
Judge Dredd said:
Given the option, I'll take games with easy, but doable achievements over games that have impossible or ridiculous achievements.
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Oh yes very much this, because games that require pinpoint precision are usually not coded to the extent where it's properly functioning.

Multiplayer achievements can eat a dick too because if the server goes offline you're fucked in 99% of instances.
 
Stasi said:
Some were bullshit even with an active community. GRAW on the 360 had a number of achievements requiring you to reach number 1 on multiplayer ladder for the different game types.
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One of the hardest ones to get was Brother in Arms. Play multiplayer at least once a day for x amount of days. Not so easy when Xbox Live would go down for maintenance.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Apparently Galgun Returns has been thrown to the curb by Microsoft and Nintendo may be the next to follow.

Citing age of consent and trying to be lawyers to defend a bad game because the age of 13 is legal under very specific circumstances just proves that the Sex pests should have never been let out of their Computer Prison Platform.

Heisei Era Vales were right.
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PQube being completely tone deaf and believing they can localize anything and if it fails just blame it on the puritans and watch as devoted weebs jump to attack. It's a wonder why they never go bankrupt
 
BrokenWokenBespoken said:
PQube being completely tone deaf and believing they can localize anything and if it fails just blame it on the puritans and watch as devoted weebs jump to attack. It's a wonder why they never go bankrupt
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Here's the thing though it's a Japanese first person shooter with rails and it controls like absolute ass.

Ideally it needs a lightgun but this is an era where lightgun controllers don't exist as a mainstream option. It's main selling point is fan service and the gameplay mechanics really are secondary.

Shooter games that don't require a gun are things like Panzer Dragoon or Space harrier but gal gun doesn't handle as smooth as those and both came out decades ago(or a year ago if you count the PD remake).
 
Marissa Moira said:
Here's the thing though it's a Japanese first person shooter with rails and it controls like absolute ass.

It needs a lightgun but this is an era where lightgun controllers don't exist as a mainstream option. It's main selling point is fan service and the gameplay mechanics really are secondary.

Shooter games that don't require a gun are things like Panzer Dragoon or Space harrier but gal gun doesn't handle as smooth as those and both came out decades ago(or a year ago if you count the PD remake).
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Weebs will pay $150 to get it from PlayAsia while non insane nerds will just play modded Skyrim or hit up Nhentai
 
Judge Dredd said:
Hellboy had achievements you needed the DLC to get, but the DLC was never released so they were impossible to get. Condemned got a bit of flak for having less than 1000 points when you completed everything. Some games used achievements to troll, others as advanced tutorials. And of course, games that had multiplayer achievements but didn't sustain a play base.
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I'm amused by some of the "Branded by Horny" achievements out there. There's the Nier and Lollipop Chainsaw achievements that you get for looking up the main character's skirt, or the achievement in Asura's Wrath where you stare at an attendant's breasts for too long.
 
Judge Dredd said:
No, that's been a thing since achievements were invented. Games like King Kong and Avatar were popular simply because it they were an easy 1000 gamerscore.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Cn_jgo4SvILitterally tapping a button for a minute.

Hellboy had achievements you needed the DLC to get, but the DLC was never released so they were impossible to get. Condemned got a bit of flak for having less than 1000 points when you completed everything. Some games used achievements to troll, others as advanced tutorials. And of course, games that had multiplayer achievements but didn't sustain a play base.

Eventually, people figured out you maximise your gamerscore by rushing through as many games as possible and just getting the easy achievements.

Given the option, I'll take games with easy, but doable achievements over games that have impossible or ridiculous achievements.
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just proving my point the achievement system (in most games) is terribly designed and has nothing to do with gaming. The whole thing is ridiculous
 
elzaw said:
Happy New Year, gaymers :drink:
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I still have to see how exactly Piker helps make anything a better place... And three black w0men are there for complaining about skin tones in Sims, totally not because BLM
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I'm not surprised that the Sims are overrepresented in this article: imagine being a Kotaku writer and playing a game with actual challenges instead of easy cheats and godlike power and control from the start. Just disappointed. At least the one who isn't into the sims holds actual events and creates stuff, providing back to her community. Good on her.

Also, what the fuck is wrong with him. There's a period there because he has an arabic name with good looks, popularity, and a fuckboy style, I know exactly what's wrong with him. His achievement isn't saying that white people deserve 911, surprisingly.

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Instead it's just giving more people AIDS cancer aka politics. I know the kotaku writers don't come out of their bubbles unless they can call someone problematic but this tard isn't the first streamer to bring politics into gaming, not even the first sjw to rather than icky right wingers. Honestly I'm guessing this is a covert award for the 911 comment. Can't wait for him to be called out for something because my side loves to eat its own.

I don't know what the kids think of politicians eho get into video games but as an adult manchild I think they're fucking embarrassing.
 
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