Games Chat Thread October: Thrill-Switch Engage

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Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

CJacobs posted:

Their argument is that you should care because it cheapens the movement to do it just to fill out a checkbox that says "~~2016~~ 2015 movie has minorities" and that the better way is to give minorities mostly roles of importance so that important minority roles becomes the norm instead of the checkbox thing. But I dunno if there's enough existing evidence to support that argument in modern film so

But that's a real dumb complaint because its not filling checkboxes. Star Wars has a diverse universe so its not some egregious thing to have a white woman, a black dude, and a Hispanic dude to be the main protagonists.

I liked the Plinkett reviews years back but its sounding like its becoming "Middle-aged white dudes whine about how the times are changing."

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Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Jay Bauman and Jack Packard are nice counterbalances to the embarrassing worldviews held by Mike Stoklasa and especially Rich Evans, who I assume is still complaining about the new Ghostbusters at this very moment.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:41

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Quest For Glory II posted:

i dont think there's any setting in western media where it makes sense for there only to be white people so i wont really ever get the 'forced diversity' argument

not writing minority characters poorly is a different story

if paper mario had black toads it'd increase the character design variety by 200%

Mention the no black people in The Witcher series thing in the Steam thread

# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:45

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

Sakurazuka posted:

Mention the no black people in The Witcher series thing in the Steam thread

is the witcher thread the one where the guy talked about the benefits of slavery

# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:47

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Quest For Glory II posted:

is the witcher thread the one where the guy talked about the benefits of slavery

Yup

# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:48

smuh: Feb 21, 2011

Quest For Glory II posted:

is the witcher thread the one where the guy talked about the benefits of slavery

I was going to correct you by saying that was the New Vegas thread, but I suppose there are multiple good and cool discussions about the positives of slavery to be found on the something awful forums

# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:53

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Accordion Man posted:

But that's a real dumb complaint because its not filling checkboxes. Star Wars has a diverse universe so its not some egregious thing to have a white woman, a black dude, and a Hispanic dude to be the main protagonists.

I liked the Plinkett reviews years back but its sounding like its becoming "Middle-aged white dudes whine about how the times are changing."

I guess to them it feels like it was done with "it's the popular thing to do nowadays" being the justification, and not because it's the right thing to do in general. To them it demonstrates an air of pushing the medium forward without actually doing it. I don't care enough about it to decide whether I agree with that or not because it's a complex issue and there's a lot to consider, I'm just explaining what I think their position on it is

# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:59

Looper: Mar 1, 2012

Love Stole the Day posted:

I agree that Trek is better than Wars but god dammit Rogue Squadron was the poo poo. Why does Star Wars always get the good games? I want TellTale to do TNG season 8. since everything is being rebooted nowadays why not

because nothing interesting happens in star trek

glam rock hamhock posted:

Well there was that time that Spike Lee complained that Eastwood WWII movie didn't have any black people in it when there was in fact no black people at the battle.

Then, on a lesser note, there's when people were complaining that Her had very few black people in it when Her is like the whitest movie and even if it had an all minority cast it would still be the whitest movie ever so the casting did work.

As I said, I don't think having a diverse cast tends to hurt anything but I think sometimes the complaints that a movie lacks it can get a bit silly because sometime it's just not taken in context and just used as a end all rule.

Spike Lee is an idiot tho

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:12

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Actually everything should have black people, women, lgbt people and every other minority in as much as possible.

Death to whitey

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:26

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Read Only Memories tried that and it fuckin sucked so I wouldn't go that far

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Scaly Haylie: Dec 25, 2004

i hate this

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:32

Red Bones: Aug 9, 2012; "I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

CJacobs posted:

Read Only Memories tried that and it fuckin sucked so I wouldn't go that far

ROM is hilarious for dreaming up a plot contrivance to put furries on the same level as actual real world persecuted groups. I like that the game has Hassy in it though, more games should have Hassy.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:36

bloodychill: May 8, 2004; And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life; Exciting Lemon

Lizard Wizard posted:

i hate this

Furry hate remains one of the uniting factors among all goons.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:38

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Speaking of terrible parenting, one of my ex's named her daughter "Aeris". Why would you impose that on a child. Why.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:45

bloodychill: May 8, 2004; And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life; Exciting Lemon

That is some terrible parenting. Should be Aerith obviously.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:46

Discount Viscount: Jul 9, 2010; FIND THE FISH!

Lurdiak posted:

Isn't it weird how we never got a Star Wars video game where you play as Luke and run around with a lightsaber.

Like yeah the old platformers on NES and SNES and whatever but all those Jedi Knight, Shadows of the Empire, Force Unleashed, Bioware RPGs, terrible prequel games, and I can't think of a single one where you play as The Guy From Star Wars.

Rebel Strike :madmax:

Actually, the other Rogue Squadrons at least technically have you playing as Luke most of the time, though Strike's the only one with running around with a lightsaber.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:50

chumbler: Mar 28, 2010

precision posted:

Speaking of terrible parenting, one of my ex's named her daughter "Aeris". Why would you impose that on a child. Why.

As far as video game/anime inspired names go, that's probably not even in the bottom half, honestly.

Clearly should've gone with Edge Maverick, though.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:50

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

CJacobs posted:

Read Only Memories tried that and it fuckin sucked so I wouldn't go that far

The ability to write and produce a good game tends to help

# ? Oct 4, 2016 08:06

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Discount Viscount posted:

Rebel Strike

Actually, the other Rogue Squadrons at least technically have you playing as Luke most of the time, though Strike's the only one with running around with a lightsaber.

Yeah I thought of the Rogue Squadron games but still, you're really playing an X-wing in those. Plus those ground missions in Rebel Strike were baaaaaaaaad. I mean I guess it still counts.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 08:12

Looper: Mar 1, 2012

precision posted:

Speaking of terrible parenting, one of my ex's named her daughter "Aeris". Why would you impose that on a child. Why.

Aeris is a pretty name outside of nerd contexts imo. Same with Zelda

# ? Oct 4, 2016 08:19

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

RIP Robin Williams

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Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Zelda is not even a nerdy name, considering that Zelda Fitzgerald was around decades before the 80's.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 08:29

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

Disney Infinity 3 is a recent Star Wars game wherein you can play as Han, Chewy, Leia, or even Luke with a lightsaber but I get why it's been left out. That said, that poo poo's on firesale at the moment, so it's cheap!

# ? Oct 4, 2016 08:36