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Cavelcade
Dec 9, 2015

I'm actually a boy!



Nina posted:

I'd honestly describe the guys in XV as almost Tolkienesque in how comfortable they're portrayed in showing affection for each other but there's not a tinge of "queerbaiting" about it. It's really refreshing.

Tolkien ain't got queerbaiting either, that's Jackson you're thinking of.

bloodychill posted:

Musicals suck, which is weird. Music is great and plays are great. Fruit is great and cake is great. Stuff mis if and plays together and you get the fruitcake of entertainment.

Them's fighting words, though, cause fruitcake is delicious.

Here is a good tip for making it even better - don't ice it, just butter your slices!

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Nina
Oct 9, 2016

Invisible werewolf (entirely visible, not actually a wolf)

Cavelcade posted:

Tolkien ain't got queerbaiting either, that's Jackson you're thinking of.


Oops didn't mean to imply that. I meant to say XV cast is more Tolkien and less mainstream Japanese media featuring predominantly young attractive male characters in its presentation of the relationships of the cast.

I have no other recent game in mind where a male character says "I love you" in reference to other male characters and it's entirely genuine and non-sexual

Terper
Jun 26, 2012


Levantine
Feb 14, 2005

GUNDAM!!!

Nina posted:

Oops didn't mean to imply that. I meant to say XV cast is more Tolkien and less mainstream Japanese media featuring predominantly young attractive male characters in its presentation of the relationships of the cast.

I have no other recent game in mind where a male character says "I love you" in reference to other male characters and it's entirely genuine and non-sexual

I'm surprised how far they took it, to be honest. It's not something you see in a lot of media, period. Despite the problems the game has, character stuff between the four main dudes is incredibly well done.

some bust on that guy
Jan 21, 2006

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

ImpAtom posted:

One character who is engaged to be married and another who literally spends his time taking pictures of women's tits and arguing over which one he wants to date: totally gay.

You didn't say who he's marrying.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord

some guy on the bus posted:

You didn't say who he's marrying.

Moonlady Night Flower

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
He's marrying Iris like he should've been all along

Shoren
Apr 6, 2011

victoria concordia crescit
While I was running around and grinding out Gladio's survival ability, a conversation started up where Prompto asked if Cindy was single. It eventually took a turn to talking about how she puts up a tough front at which point Gladio is asked what he thought because he's a ladies' man. Gladio replies that he's interesting in trying to drop her guard, but they have more important things to do (like fishing, obviously).

Another time when Gladio was absent, Prompto asked what Noctis thought Gladio was up to. Noctis replied "Probably picking up girls" to which Prompto exclaimed "Son of a bitch!" I got a good laugh out of that. These guys clearly aren't gay, but of course talking about women do much in the company of your closest guy friends means you totally want to play grabass with each other.

Soul Glo
Aug 27, 2003

Just let it shine through
I wish the dudes in ffxv were gay and they would gently caress each other every time you went camping and who you paired up who with gave different bonuses for the next day a la cooking just to annoy every idiot on the internet who whines how gay these four video game characters are

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

ImpAtom posted:

Yeah but according to the internet all straight men are gay, all straight women are gay, all gay women are bisexual and all bisexual men don't exist.

i wish this was true, only partially bc i wouldn't exist

Cape Cod Crab Chip
Feb 20, 2011

Now you don't have to suck meat from an exoskeleton!

ImpAtom posted:

Yeah but according to the internet all straight men are gay, all straight women are gay, all gay women are bisexual and all bisexual men don't exist.

Wait, so this means MY SEXUALITY WAS TURNED INTO A MEME BY I miss the word filters guys.

Attitude Indicator
Apr 3, 2009

Every final fantasy game made me gayer than the one before. Im fifteen times gayer than that one dude in modern family now. Ill gently caress your rear end and tell you all about random status effects. Truly the final fantasy.

gigglefeimer
Mar 16, 2007

NikkolasKing posted:

I know it's brought up a lot when "there's no womz!" is criticized in XV but did anyone say X-2 was gay for being about three women?

That was something I always found funny about X-2. A lot of guys found it too girly while the actual girls thought it was cheap boner-fuel for boys.

The truth, of course, is that X-2 is neither of those things. It's all in good fun, which is something that boys and girls alike hate.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Randallteal posted:

Well, there was at least that 360 RPG about Chopin fhat didn't seem too hot, and Ephemeral Fantasia, the worst JRPG I've ever played.

Eternal Sonata is the best RPG ever made about the death of Chopin.

It also had a 45ish minute long cutscene where some secondary character nobody cares about dies in addition to the exceptionally bad English voice acting for, well, everyone.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008


Please tell me this is real and where i can find it

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Her hair is all wrong. :flaccid:

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Fister Roboto posted:

Please tell me this is real and where i can find it

It is in fact real and should not be hard to find

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Schwartzcough posted:

Her hair is all wrong. :flaccid:

For a porn thats been in the works for 10 years its really janky.

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness
Final Fantasy has finally made the mainstream :allears:

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
I'd hope they kept it in theme with the game and made the script like 20 minutes of 70's style cheesy sex metaphors and puns, all "you can work my engine's piston any time you want!" and "come in the garage and take a look at my muffler" but I'm sure it's all as low effort as her hair.

Randallteal
May 7, 2006

The tears of time
The porn parody costume is actually a bit more conservative.

ApplesandOranges
Jun 22, 2012

Thankee kindly.
FFXV being such a mainstream game is baffling. Where was all this attention for the past 14 games?

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007

ApplesandOranges posted:

FFXV being such a mainstream game is baffling. Where was all this attention for the past 14 games?

I know it's been a while, but all the FF titles have been high-profile.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

ApplesandOranges posted:

FFXV being such a mainstream game is baffling. Where was all this attention for the past 14 games?

I'm not sure what you mean. The mainline games have been for the most part as mainstream as they can be.

I'm not sure how a porn parody is proof of that.

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

ApplesandOranges posted:

FFXV being such a mainstream game is baffling. Where was all this attention for the past 14 games?

Define 'mainstream'? Because it looks about as big as I remember a few other mainline games being. VII and X particularly, but others had that going too. EDIT: If you're talking about the porn parody, that's totally getting off the ground not because 'Final Fantasy is mainstream now', but because this one includes a really easy, non-niche porn costume.


Unrelated: I was just watching videos of the arcade Dissidia, and just realized that Lightning's arena is a corridor.

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

ApplesandOranges posted:

FFXV being such a mainstream game is baffling. Where was all this attention for the past 14 games?

did you just not exist when 7 came out or what

Mordiceius
Nov 10, 2007

If you think calling me names is gonna get a rise out me, think again. I like my life as an idiot!

Oxxidation posted:

I know it's been a while, but all the FF titles have been high-profile.

I remember seeing commercials on TV for FF8.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

My first exposure to Final Fantasy was VI and I saw commercials for that on TV.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Final Fantasy has been a really big franchise since 7. It's just that it's been a while since we got a new mainline game. Even 6 got television commercials and stuff tho'.

CeallaSo
May 3, 2013

Wisdom from a Fool

Cleretic posted:

If you're talking about the porn parody, that's totally getting off the ground not because 'Final Fantasy is mainstream now', but because this one includes a really easy, non-niche porn costume.

I dunno, "black suspender miniskirt with a white tee" and "pink sundress with a small red coat" are pretty easy to pull off on a budget. The variety of non-professional Tifa and Aerith cosplay porn should be testament to that.

Though admittedly those two are far and away the easiest Final Fantasy characters to do that for.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcnGxPV50k

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012





Kinda wish I could have found images of an actual 12 pack with the advertising but these'll do.

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!


I think we just found definitive proof that IX is the better game.

E: VV That's :thejoke:, yes, Coke > Pepsi

AlphaKretin fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Dec 18, 2016

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

AlphaKretin posted:

I think we just found definitive proof that IX is the better game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsFFlyC4i64

ApplesandOranges
Jun 22, 2012

Thankee kindly.
More like 'I don't remember the Simpsons making a parody of this'. I know things like FFVIII were in movies and such but I don't remember FFs being huge in mainstream media that wasn't gaming news after that.

Onmi
Jul 12, 2013

If someone says it one more time I'm having Florina show up as a corpse. I'm not even kidding, I was pissed off with people doing that shit back in 2010, and I'm not dealing with it now in 2016.
It's a really poor looking porn Parody. After the Marvel parodies I guess I expect more than "Bald man." and "Person in costume"

...

Ya know in theory.

ROFL Octopus
Jun 20, 2014

LET ME EXPLAIN

ApplesandOranges posted:

More like 'I don't remember the Simpsons making a parody of this'. I know things like FFVIII were in movies and such but I don't remember FFs being huge in mainstream media that wasn't gaming news after that.

Budget doesn't mean everything (Shenmue is on the list and that sure as poo poo isn't mainstream) but Final Fantasy games definitely have AAA, mainstream-level budgets and Square-Enix wouldn't keep doing this if the games didn't sell like gangbusters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop

Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Phantasium posted:





Kinda wish I could have found images of an actual 12 pack with the advertising but these'll do.

Can I buy this cup on eBay

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Captain Baal
Oct 23, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Yes I can

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