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Who is the coolest, raddest demon lady in all the land?
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Bowsette 62 17.22%
Bowsette 40 11.11%
Bowsette 44 12.22%
Bowsette 39 10.83%
Bowsette 47 13.06%
128 35.56%
Total: 195 votes
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Convex
Aug 19, 2010

Waffleman_ posted:

It is explicitly only XIV. It'll be the announcement of the newest expansion and information on the next major content patch.

Also the game is 50% off on the Squenix store today I think

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NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

I said come in! posted:

So if Bioware is going back and redoing a lot of it, that is a good thing.

Removing the soft core porn from the soft core porn game isn't actually smart.


Like literally, almost any other game this would make sense, but this isn't Fallout. This is a hornier Persona game

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

NutritiousSnack posted:

Removing the soft core porn from the soft core porn game isn't actually smart.


Like literally, almost any other game this would make sense, but this isn't Fallout. This is a hornier Persona game

Lmao

StoryTime
Feb 26, 2010

Now listen to me children and I'll tell you of the legend of the Ninja

NutritiousSnack posted:

Removing the soft core porn from the soft core porn game isn't actually smart.


Like literally, almost any other game this would make sense, but this isn't Fallout. This is a hornier Persona game

Oh come on now. It's the Bioware take on 90's space operas, that's all that Mass Effect is. Those shows had a LOT of weird and unfortunate alien sex stuff in them, Bioware just brought their own mix into the party. Cleaning up sexism is good, and the games and the shows had more to offer than that.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

StoryTime posted:

Those shows had a LOT of weird and unfortunate alien sex stuff in them,

And that's part of how they sold themselves.

Now they aren't totally or even mostly removing it, but come on. They anime dating sims, before anime dating sim JRPGs were a thing in the West.



I mean, they're editing it off camera

NutritiousSnack fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Feb 5, 2021

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



homeless snail posted:

they would normally be having fanfest right about now to talk about the next expansion, but, The Plague

I was planning on attending this one live... long ago, before the Umbral Calamity... wanted to be in a room like this for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_2lcESDSzE

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

NutritiousSnack posted:

And that's part of how they sold themselves.

Now they aren't totally or even mostly removing it, but come on. They anime dating sims, before anime dating sim JRPGs were a thing in the West.


I mean, they're editing it off camera

We'll bang OK?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

NutritiousSnack posted:

Removing the soft core porn from the soft core porn game isn't actually smart.


Like literally, almost any other game this would make sense, but this isn't Fallout. This is a hornier Persona game

Thank you for standing up for boner culture

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

NutritiousSnack posted:

They anime dating sims, before anime dating sim JRPGs were a thing in the West.

??

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge
May 8, 2006

"My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"
Taking rear end close ups out of rear end effect is like taking Christ out of the last supper! It's an affront to art and human expression! Why can't you people see that this EXACTLY the same as censorship by authoritarian governments?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



At least you can still take a skeleton on a date in Undertale.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite shot on the citadel

grieving for Gandalf
Apr 22, 2008

a lot of the reason anyone thinks about Mass Effect anymore is the trashy elements of it (and then the good multiplayer)

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox
I'm going to take EDI to get boba and play darts.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
Considering the kind of audience ME1 attracted back in the day, I almost can't blame people for calling it softcore porn. Those sex scenes got a disproportionate amount of attention at the time, for all that they're practically not even there.

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox
Thinking back on the amount of effort I put into getting the harem scene in Jade Empire back in the day.

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



lol at the reveal this year that BioWare got scared and cut out the same-sex relationships out of ME2 because of the Fox News scare segments on ME1... but the straight ones were ok to keep

Hunt11
Jul 24, 2013

Grimey Drawer

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

lol at the reveal this year that BioWare got scared and cut out the same-sex relationships out of ME2 because of the Fox News scare segments on ME1... but the straight ones were ok to keep

That is so loving stupid.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
Now that Trump is finally gone they might put them back in.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
Akchually Miranda's dad engineered her DNA to have that rear end and therefore it's very important to the lore and furthermore,

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

Saint Freak posted:

Akchually Miranda's dad engineered her DNA to have that rear end and therefore it's very important to the lore and furthermore,

It's very important to cut it out, because the teenagers who bought Mass Effect to see sex scenes without their parents finding out they were watching porn, are now adults who live at home with their parents and don't want their parents to know they are watching porn


Rarity posted:

Thank you for standing up for boner culture


My name is Commander Shepard, and ha-ha girl, I'm following you because of your posts and not because of the photo you took in a bikini

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox
How did the horny space-opera hurt you?

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


to me those sorts of relationship/sex scenes/mechanics/etc were always just intensely uncomfortable

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

PantsBandit posted:

How did the horny space-opera hurt you?

I like boobs and asses, so it didn't


Ciaphas posted:

to me those sorts of relationship/sex scenes/mechanics/etc were always just intensely uncomfortable

That's always been the common refrain on here, but it's what got this poo poo sold back in the day

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

NutritiousSnack posted:

the teenagers who bought Mass Effect to see sex scenes without their parents finding out they were watching porn, are now adults who live at home with their parents and don't want their parents to know they are watching porn
College is expensive enough already, alright!?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

PantsBandit posted:

How did the horny space-opera hurt you?

Failed the Miranda romance arc, apparently

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

Has anyone said Massless Effect yet?

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006


Oh no, where can I find jerkoff material of Mass Effect characters now that the pg rated butt shot has been censored?

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

Cardiovorax posted:

College is expensive enough already, alright!?

I'm not judging the economics, just the fact people on here are posting like they are still 14.


It's fine if you don't like Boob Games or whatever, and in fact good and cool, but the false pretense of "~The GAMERS are at it again~" over the poo poo that would most obviously cause some backlash given it's a booby game

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

Oh no, where can I find jerkoff material of Mass Effect characters now that the pg rated butt shot has been censored?

See, I don't buy the feminism or even the logic in the "Well just go onto PornHub and go to the Stepdaughter category" rebuttal. Plenty of people want to see digital rear end without wanting to see pictures of Giantess Miranda crashing Shepard to death with her massive rear end cheeks

NutritiousSnack fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 5, 2021

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



I think a big part of why I loved Mass Effect back in the day was that they made an effort to pretend the nonsense space travel technology could be scientifically possible. It felt grounded in a way that most sci fi games don't bother to. The first game was also just the right amount of jank and broken to be charming as hell. Also film grain. :swoon:

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

NutritiousSnack posted:

I'm not judging the economics, just the fact people on here are posting like they are still 14.

It's fine if you don't like Boob Games or whatever, and in fact good and cool, but the false pretense of "~The GAMERS are at it again~" over the poo poo that would most obviously cause some backlash given it's a booby game
I was honestly just joking. I agree that Mass Effect is a boobie game. I mean, it literally has a species of Blue-Skinned Space Babes. Captain Kirk would take to this setting like a fish to water.

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"
I hosed Jack in ME2 so good it cured her mental illness because the writing in the ME series is fuckin traaaaaaaash.

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


NutritiousSnack posted:

That's always been the common refrain on here, but it's what got this poo poo sold back in the day

i've never really given much thought on why i dislike them so much - lord knows teen-me was as horny as anyone else, but even with absolutely no one around i'd find myself skipping through the dialogue out of sheer embarrassment

little odd, thinking back

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

Propaganda Hour posted:

I hosed Jack in ME2 so good it cured her mental illness because the writing in the ME series is fuckin traaaaaaaash.

I mean, yeah. The entire Mass Effect Trilogy is just Sci-Fi Persona. It's there so you you can quip Joss Whedon one-liners and do Shipping bullshit

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


for me mass effect's entire attraction was "wow cool scifi!!!" and at least for 1 and 2 i got everything I wanted

PantsBandit
Oct 26, 2007

it is both a monkey and a boombox

NutritiousSnack posted:

I mean, yeah. The entire Mass Effect Trilogy is just Sci-Fi Persona. It's there so you you can quip Joss Whedon one-liners and do Shipping bullshit

You're silly my man

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



It was weird learning that Joss Whedon has a new tv show in 2021

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

It was weird learning that Joss Whedon has a new tv show in 2021

What

Who is still paying him

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bideojames
Aug 29, 2004

>:3

NutritiousSnack posted:

It's fine if you don't like Boob Games or whatever, and in fact good and cool, but the false pretense of "~The GAMERS are at it again~" over the poo poo that would most obviously cause some backlash given it's a booby game

100% of your posts in this thread are both from today and about miranda’s rear end, so perhaps we can just say “you’re at it again” and call it a day.

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