Those "vices" are heavily regulated when they can affect other people, smoking for example is not allowed in workplaces anymore, Drugs/alcohol aren't allowed when driving, alcohol has strict times when it can be sold, all of them are heavily taxed, the majority of drugs are prohitbited by law, and most governments/ health service have heavily funded campaigns to get people to stop using them. No ones just shrugging their shoulder at them, going it's their choice at all.
Should a 100 people suffer second-hand smoke because of the 5 who refuse to smoke in private?
Alcohol is regulated to who can buy it, when they can buy it, and they aren't allowed to buy more if they already consumed too much. And no one here has suggested banning sexualised designs either, they just want them in titles specifically designed for that, which is what you don't want, as you want them in mainstream titles, regardless if it makes sense or suits the title or not. No one here has talked about regulation either. No one here has talked about censoring existing designs either. They are talking about future games. This isn't a censorship issue, this is people advocating for designs that don't treat them like second class citizens. You are just worried developers will heed them instead of you.
Alot of women would like to enjoy those things too, but can't cus they've included objectified designs it in. I think you would be able to enjoy those games without that content, as the gameplay , nice production levels and top end graphics would still be there, a lot of women currently can't. You want what you want, why can't other people advocate for what they want? Specially when you admit that the content you like negatively affects other people.
Think about the other side of that, of wanting to play things you enjoy like MGSV because you like the gameplay and design or the productions levels and you have to put up with objectification being the norm in them whenever there are female characters involved.
Yep, pretty much no one would say "where are my tits, Kojima??" if he hadn't included Quiet at all to begin with.
Then again would you expect a game from kojima to not include sexualized objectification? I mean i like the games but damn did was it bad for MGS 4/ Peace walker (4 for that sexy pose with the BB units and mgs PW for box of love)
Hideo Kojima is constantly praised as one of the best developers in the industry, other devs have learnt and improved in this area, I don't really see why I can't expect him to though?
Which is hilarious because Kojima's best works were by far when he DID have an editor around to reign him in on his nonsense. If not for that, we'd have Laughing-Tit as the supposed "one of the greatest female characters evar!!!".
this makes me so depressed I actually flipped around to angryYou go from
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and turn shipping into a game mechanic.
probably because it wasnt as over the top as FE conquest/birthright was. I mean if you compare echoes to awakening/B&C its different enough to people whom havent played any FE outside the 3ds 2.
I'm sure they were more plot-relevant, too? Whereas Awakening/Fate always seemed more "LOOK AT MY CHARACTER QUIRK! I HAVE A QUIRK! LOOK AT IT!!!"
It's been quite a while since I played them but I believe so. I think I remember some conversations being locked until certain chapters because the characters were remarking about an event that happened, or a certain character, or they would talk about the themes of the game such as racism towards the Laguz.
You go from
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It's on Kojima if you've come to expect things from him that you wouldn't miss.
I will criticize the armor (or well, "armor") designs all day, but, I must disagree on the latter point.
TBF the thing I remember most about the Radiance supports was that it was only through them that you learned Soren was the bad guy's son. Unless I'm completely misremembering, of course.
Maybe it's just a matter of us only remembering the bad in what we're down on then and not remembering the good, because now that you brought that up... shit you're right that is pretty big. And yeah I'm pretty sure that it's only in the support you find that out. And again, I agree some of the characters in the newer ones don't have much about them (what were they thinking with Sumia???? Felicia is clumsy but it doesn't define her? Like... what was IS thinking with Sumia?), but I think overall the quality is higher. I remember more good supports than bad, anyway.
Even outside of "otaku" designs... I can see the artstyle contributing to the game being better received as I personally never was super fond of the artstyle in FE6-8. It's kinda very... bleh. 9 and 10 were better in regard to artstyle but God if I could't find 9 and I gave up on 10 because I was a weeny baby who couldn't take losing units right before a stage ended, so I just watched them. But the whole reason I even got Awakening was because of seeing designs like Lucina and Libra and Sully and such and being like "yo, these are some sick looking characters! And they're not gonna die if I fuck up? Awesome!"
This instantly makes Fire Emblem less interesting though. The real worry about characters dying gave the Fire Emblem series stakes and made battles mean something aside from just intervening in the visual novel that is the actual game.
I mean, I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this. I am incredibly hesitant to play through any of the older Fire Emblems I actually have played again because I don't really cherish the thought of having one of my units die because my pea brain made a false step. It'd be like if, in Dark Souls, you got killed by a boss and pushed back to the start of an area with all the bonfires turned off. Not fun. I like challenges but they need to be encouraging- I don't find having to reset after a single mistake very encouraging at all.
In my experience the support convos in Awakening and Fates were mostly just
You don't have to reset if you lose a unit.
It also assured I'd never pick up a Fire Emblem. The option to turn off perma-death was the biggest factor in me finally getting into this series.
I like that they took perma death out actually, a lot of the time I felt cheaped out in situations and the casual mode made it a lot less stressful. As long as they keep it as an option I dont see a problem in keeping around for those who want it
