Japan have a higher age limit and tighter child marriage laws than a lot of the states in USA, so I am not sure what is more offensive.
The author is incorrect. The changes were communicated at a conference on April 10th and the new application files are listed here-
Im not excusing being a dick, prick. But if im playing and i say you need to practice to get under your skin in a competitive game thats not really being a dick. If you think so maybe go back to your safe space and mute me. Like i said going overboard and insulting people isnt cool. Being told toy suck against an opponemt isnt that big of a deal
I'm always left a little dumbfounded at dudes who defend or try to minimize the exploitative MTX in games. I can't help but imagine some neckbeard with loli posters in their room typing up these opinions Cuz it's the same guys you see at the game store making the same arguments.
There’s nothing more pathetic than frustrated straight men.
As I said, they have invested before and what did we get? Halo and gears getting diminishing returns, sea of thieves adding to the 'release with no content and spending years adding more' group, crackdown 3 and one truly successful franchise in forza. Is adding more devs a good thing? Of course, but people defending Microsoft with the excuse of 'they are investing in games' are ignoring that this has happened before and in the grand scheme of things nothing has changed since they still have the image of having no great exclusives and sold half as many consoles as last gen and o ly managing that by essentially having their console on sale or bundled heavily for 90% of its life. Again, I'm pleased they are investing more in games but even in the best case scenario they do bring out a tonne of high quality and greatly received games in 4-5 years, can you blame people for not having faith NOW since they would have spent 15 years being known as the company with no great exclusives other than forza?
Hahaha obtuse Joe here still at it. No it's an observation, and no conspiracy maybe collusion.
The way I'm seeing it is that Gears, Forza Horizon and Ori alone will make PS5 look like a successor of the Ouya.
The way I’m seeing it is that if the Anaconda is more powerful it won’t matter Sony’s first party games will make Anaconda look more like a garden snake....
Now make Ken her official boyfriend, you cowards.
Sony always best bc the next generation doesn't start till they say it does.
The Japanese people are imature in general.
damn all the SJWs are gonna have a field day with this thread.
Know a few people who worked with the author in question and based on their previous experience with the author this is par for the course. No reason to harass/go after someone of course, but it seems like the politics come before writing/truth once again. The worst part is this just gives more ammo for people against credible writers (even at Kotaku) like Schrier and (my personal favorite) Tim Rogers and the like. There are good people under the Kotaku banner that don't always get it right, but they usually handle it way better than doubling down, blaming their editor, and then fleeing the scene. Apparently they were told not to publically respond which makes sense, but still a shame this was so terribly handled and then the site just left the unaltered article up and just went "sorry guys we made the change promise but we need the clicks and can't get this damn edit button to go through" lol.
Eh I don't really think that was justified, I don't watch his stuff but just because of something he said in a PM doesn't make someone a racist even more so what just looks like a jokey hello to someone else. To me this whole thing kinda seems like a streamer getting a ban because they accidentally clicked on porn or gore. Just seems kinda pointless even more so since it seems like this is only a 4 day thing?
I'd say that's very relevant exactly because one is fiction and the other is reality. Now if the fiction had led to that reality, that would be an actual issue but I'd still lay that problem at the feet of the people who let fiction guide their reality. So I guess the question then is rather, what kind of real life consequences are there of these characters mentioned in the opening that would constitute a problem? Are girls trying to conform with this image? (aside from 'non-norm' comic-cons I guess) Are guys who regularly watch this getting excited when they see a little girl walk by irl? Is that the concern?
Seems redundant.Moderate your own fucking kid. Why should any of us care? That's YOUR job as a parent.
California Sony at work. I'll buy that it's only limited to underage anime girls when they stop censoring things like DMC5 for no reason.
2019 and the internet, ladies and gentlemans. so cringy
Good. I hate having to deal with that crap in public - would have to do so in the privacy of my own home
Finally another thread to shit on Days Gone. Wouldn't be Era without a new one every day.
Yup. Guess it all depends on if you believe people can change, or if we might as well just write him off for the rest of his life. Now I see why US prisons are built on punishment, while prisons here in the EU are built on the idea of rehabilitation.
While I don't defend him, isn't it a bit too much to end his whole career over that? Many people I know use the word in that way, and while it isn't good, they don't mean anything bad. I know that you easily can bash me for this comment, but if you have watched him for some time you know hes a good harmless guy. I hope he won't commit suicide...
Another lynch mob by Era. This gets really old now. Don't you guys have something better to do?
I don't need to remind you of anything as that has nothing to do with my point that Valve is getting lazy and has been lazy for some time simply because they do not feel threatened in their king of the hill position. I never said that another store is better, my point was that Valve could evolve Steam a lot more if they had real competition (But I do not think EGS is that competition yet)
I was waiting for someone to make this "they called us pirates" argument. You seem to take that bit personally as a PC gamer yourself, but you wouldn't verify or read on how that comment/story originated. Please find some articles from back in the day and try to get some context on who said what. There were two people who made the note about piracy and one of them was Cliff Blezinski who people on this forum to dismiss and not take seriously. But somehow his words are now the word of God in this matter and describes whole of Epic's stance "Epic called us pirates and then left". As for Epic abandoning PC gaming, may I ask where exactly did they do that? Gears not being on PC was due to Microsoft's involvement. Every other game they made was/has launched on PC...except for the mobile title Infinity Blade. Epic also helped the indie game development and on PC none the less a TON with Unreal Engine 3...back at a time when developers were struggling to even just start production due to technical issues. They also went above and beyond to provide extra featureset for UE3 that one could only benefit from if they had a PC. The engine UE3 i.e. was originally designed simultaneously with Gears of War 1 so much of the engine was centred around making 30FPS games for Xbox 360..this was long before the pirate comment by Cliff btw..this was back when UT2004 was hit shit and people loved Epic. They could've just left it at that but they made the engine suitable for a PC environment as well despite its original design. These stories usually circulate because somewhere someone read something written by someone else who read it off an article with clickbaity paraphrased headline. And somehow they become the accepted truth even when it isn't.
Oh my... you're telling me this two decades old game have a controversial pun in it ? In something like 5000 of dialogues ? I can't believe it. How shitty must be your life that you have nothing else to do but searching for shit like this in old games nobody gave a fuck back then ? It's Persona, not Horizon Zero Yawn or any other wannabe progressist bullshit game, it's meant to be controversial and it's perfect that way. The only fact that it's triggering some of you is the proof that it should stay the way it is for the upcoming games. Persona became popular because it tackles controversial subject in a controversial way. It's not meant to respect your "safe space". Fuck this forum.
I agree with you, but not accepting sides because, they just dont want to be involved in this situation, it not bigotry, being anti-trans is, keeping it even between both sides, is right way to go about it, if the situation was reversed, and the stage that went down was anti-trans you would be applauding Nintendo, when Nintendo would put it down on the same category of offenses, but no one would be asking this question and Nintendo will come out as the Hero of Trans community and so forth, and let's say this situation happened a week later where they took down the trans flag stage? would you be as pissed off ?
Nintendo whole approach to digital and online has been something out of the dark ages
I dont see an issue in them making an effort to be entirely neutral. It's probably easier to take down content like that then let other users start being prejudiced against it by doing good knows what. If you allow a particular "politial" flag in, be expected to see as many maps disgracing that flag. It's easier to just not allow any flags in.
Nintendo doing what Nintendo does. We need protection from these things gang. I’ll be the first to thank them.
Persona 5 is literally a dating sim for adults who want to date children
You do know that you don’t have to play these games? If they are al the rage in Japan and perfectly legal there who are you to say that they should be banned or changed. Now if an English port breaks your local laws you are in your rights to take any action you see fit to get it of the shelves but who are you to decide what is appropriate for another culture. If their society has problems it’s for them to work it out. In the mean time don’t buy the ported games. Maybe buy a wholesome western RPG with females in bikini armor that are well above the age of consent. Nothing wrong with that right? Or maybe a shooter or open world game that lets you murder countless people because we are quite comfortable with that. I think as gamers we can agree that shooters don’t turn us into mass murderers. What are the chances that these JRPGs will turn us into child molesters?
You stop pedophilia by making Ellie look as realistic as possible to a real girl. She looks too stylized and "anime" in the first game. Stop making her look cute and make her look more brutal and a "monster". I think her TLOU2 look is much improved.
Well, the question is what is more creepy, sexualized content with teenage characters meant for teenage consumers or said content being consumed by people way too old for it. I mean, who over 22 is still "reading" Teen VOGUE, right?
Yeah, I don't agree with the Futaba example. She's only a year younger than Joker, and she isn't really treated as a kid, just a socially repressed person. I should know, as an autistic individual who related strongly to Futaba's story and attempts to learn how to act more like an adult. Also lol @ westerners in this thread acting like they are so above Japan. Pedophilia is woven deeply into all cultures. Why do you think women are socially mandated to shave their body hair? Or you can look at two of the most famous movie directors ever, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, talk about how Indiana Jones having an underage relationship is so exciting and enticing:
As the debate about the characters included in the OP demonstrates. What constitutes young looking character artwork is incredibly subjective. Unless conclusive scientific evidence comes out linking a certain type of art style to real sexual abuse, Westerners should chill and stop trying to be the worldwide arbiters of what is okay for people to draw.
I'm not defending anything here, but if you're going to judge other cultures out of your own cultures point of view - you're going to have a bad time.
Japanese games tend to go for less mature story and setting, and aim at less mature audience. So yeah, the characters are younger, big fucking surprise. Also, Konami is the company that made Love Plus and Tokimeki Memorial series. Sounds like you don't know your Japanese games very well.
Lol. He is right when he saidbut it's hilarious you think it's anti competitive. They are basically acting as a publisher, by giving money upfront to select developers in exchange of a deal for the game publishing rights. That's literally what publishers do. So, following that logic... being a publisher is bad for pc gaming?