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Controversial gaming opinion: video games are good.
Okay, but like.At the same time, you should be able to look at people condemning skeevy shit, look behind the skeevy shit and see the general prejudice, where they're only using the skeevy shit as an excuse to condemn the entire thing as a whole rather than just this particular skeevy thing.
And that, at the very least, what those posts feel like to me. Hiding behind "Yeah it's very horny and there's some skeey shit in it!" to condemn horny as a whole rather than the skeevy shit.
No. Last I checked Rimworld neither makes jokes about nor does it allow the rape of children. Or anyone. Nor does it explicitly sexualize children.
Sexualizing minors? Sure. Rape? When it comes to the fetish scene sexualizing rape is borderline vanilla. It's a very common fantasy, both in terms of doing it and in terms of receiving it, and it always astonishes me just how out of touch people are when it comes to how sexuality is like beyond the "missionary in the dark under covers" stuff, with how I'd have thought that the internet would've cured it a long time ago.No. Last I checked Rimworld neither makes jokes about nor does it allow the rape of children. Or anyone. Nor does it explicitly sexualize children.
Also like... I wasn't aware there was much contention about sexualizing minors and rape being pretty fucking bad.
To put it in slightly weird, but hopefully obvious terms:Okay, but like.
It still has skeevy shit in it.
It doesn't need to be something you look past and accuse people of having puritanical hatred of, the fact is someone is perfectly capable of not liking it because of the "legal loli" stuff or whatever and having no further issue with it. And like, yeah, if it has that it should be condemned! It's a bad idea to stand up in defense of it because you feel like it's just a crusade against people being horny!
Okay but we're not talking about CNC here. We're just talking about rape. No ambiguity about it. No 'wink wink, nudge nudge'. Just plain old sexual assault and rape. Y'know, the thing where one person engages in sexual acts with an unwilling person who does not want to be have sex with them.Sexualizing minors? Sure. Rape? When it comes to the fetish scene sexualizing rape is borderline vanilla. It's a very common fantasy, both in terms of doing it and in terms of receiving it
It's a fantasy or rape. A fiction of it. The same thing people who do the "wink wing nudge nudge" thing fantasize about and pretend they're doing.Okay but we're not talking about CNC here. We're just talking about rape. No ambiguity about it. No 'wink wink, nudge nudge'. Just plain old sexual assault and rape. Y'know, the thing where one person engages in sexual acts with an unwilling person who does not want to be have sex with them.
Get off the 'PURITANS !' horse. It's Safe, Sane and Consensual for a fucking reason.
It's so goddamn disappointing that Princess Maker 2 is still the best in the genre despite being almost as old as I am.
In what way? I didn't think it looked all that interesting when it was recommended to me by the algorithm.
I can't believe of these are real games
You're given a straightforward task and directional markers of where to go, but Elden Ring is an open world game that includes at least one Funny Prank on the player to let them know that following the markers isn't the only thing they should be doing, and that they can just go explore and should do so to power up before fighting bosses.Sup y'all. How y'all do-
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Oh.
I never actually played elden ring, though I did know that it was very popular, given I have seen fan art of the characters that people drew of. It is really a good game? Does it have a campaign that is straight forward? Such as going from location A to location B?
Ah, so like, optional side missions?You're given a straightforward task and directional markers of where to go, but Elden Ring is an open world game that includes at least one Funny Prank on the player to let them know that following the markers isn't the only thing they should be doing, and that they can just go explore and should do so to power up before fighting bosses.
Open world and main quest are fairly straight forward.
But there is ton of missable little things, and side quests with little to no guidance.
Open world and main quest are fairly straight forward.
But there is ton of missable little things, and side quests with little to no guidance.
To some extent I kinda like that about the game- that there's so many things that they just put in there and if you find it you find it and if you don't you don't. That they don't feel the need to throw a glowing icon over everything just to make sure nobody could possibly pass it by.It's a thing that frustrates me to no end. I love fromsoft and Elden Ring, but I don't have the time to replay a game multiple times to find all the stuff I missed the first time. I hate missing things, but I want to play a game on my own merit, not check guides every fifteen seconds.
I think Elden Ring was just too big. Honestly, most of it was fine, my main issue was the quests, like mentioned above. I don't mind missing a small dungeon or two, but when I have to find a guy in three different locations with no direction beyond *guestures vaguely*, I'm grabbing a guide.
I missed some guy who was a major part of a quest, and didn't even know he existed until I was looking up a different thing and went "who the fuck is that guy?" And I'd played too many story triggers along and he was locked out and I couldn't find him.
And I missed a legendary weapon in the big glowey city because I triggered the second phase of the city, not knowing that was a thing, and you can't go to that place later. Which I get, but it was annoying.
FromSofts vague direction works when there's only like 2-4 quests, but with how complicated Elden Rings stuff got, I think it was too vague. Fine when there are five corridors to go down, not so much when you can go literally anywhere.
A different thing I disliked about Elden Ring was that it assumes you're using all the relevant stat boost items. I hate fiddling with those, so I usually just hit things with a sword my first play through. Almost not doable for Elden Ring.