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limaCAT posted:Star Roads are the best Mario Kart levels. this is actually true. all the rainbow roads are by far always the best track except for the n64 version which blows dick
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Borsche69 posted:this is actually true. all the rainbow roads are by far always the best track except for the n64 version which blows dick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuX5_OWObA0
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Borsche69 posted:do people actually want half life 3 at this point or is it just a funny meme people think they want half life 3
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Borsche69 posted:do people actually want half life 3 at this point or is it just a funny meme It is a meme.
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Borsche69 posted:this is actually true. all the rainbow roads are by far always the best track except for the n64 version which blows dick i liked the revamp in mk8, because not being able to (unintentionally) fall of the track sucks
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I enjoy video games, and I'm excited for future releases.
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Mild, tagged spoilers for one of last years "big" games (The Last of Us) follows. From the impressions, it seems like Far Cry 4's villain might be gay. Horribly stereotypical judgement, but he dresses, looks and sounds like a gay stereotype. And that worries me. As a member of the LGBT community myself, I long for better diversity and representation in today's games. Outside of games that let you choose your sexuality, there are very few - if any - examples of well written, likeable LGBT characters. Barring The Last of Us - and I applaud Druckmann for that. Yet, at the moment, LGBT characters are met with a lot of hostility. When it was revealed during the Left Behind DLC that Ellie was not straight, there was a lot of internet backlash, with many saying that they felt that they had been tricked, or that it somehow worsened Ellie as a character. Obviously there was also a lot of positivity, which was great, but it was soured by the fact that there was so much negativity too. When a character in Dragon Age II, who was male, would come onto your male character, many players complained that homosexuality was being "shoved down their throats" and that the unwanted attention made them "uncomfortable". All they had to do to stop his advances was say that they weren't interested, and that was it. Female characters would also come onto your character - to no issue. Yet the unwanted male attention led into enough of an issue on the internet that Bioware and EA had to address it, and thankfully they stuck to their ideals on representation and diversity. Every single article any gaming news site runs on LGBT representation in video games will be met with either homophobic remarks or "aggressive apathy" (i.e. I don't care about a character's sexuality, stop trying to talk to me about it - unless they're straight, because that fits the story). Obviously, as a member of the LGBT community myself, it makes me incredibly sad and uncomfortable to read the horrible reactions people have to such things. Which is why I'm worried about Far Cry 4. If the antagonist of Far Cry 4 is gay, I'm concerned that the "average gamer" - the target audience for FC4 - will just view the antagonist's sexuality as another reason to hate him. I don't think this is a great position to place a gay character, when even LGBT characters portrayed as "likeable" (i.e. protagonists or companions) are already met with a poo poo-ton of hostility. Hell, even in Watch Dogs, where the NPCs are just mindless polygons that wander about, there were videos and reports of people seeking out and killing minorities just for the hell of it. So I think that putting a gay character in a role where they are supposed to be hated anyway is a bad idea. Now this seems to run counter to my desire for better representation and diversity in AAA games. However, I just don't think that the wide gaming community will accept an LGBT villain if they won't accept LGBT protagonists or companions. I don't think it'll be like Skyfall, where an LGBT villain was accepted and regarded generally as a "good" villain, because the film industry has been around a lot longer than the gaming industry and as such has a much wider, much more diverse audience. Films are already well established as an artistic medium. The gaming industry meanwhile features a large percentage of younger boys/men and is not viewed by the general public as an artistic medium. Therefore it's harder for stuff like an LGBT villain to fly. To give an example, if you were watching a film from the 50s, and all of the "good guys" were white men and women, but the villain was a stereotypical black man, would you consider that racism? If you would, then by the same logic, if you're playing a game in 2014 and all of the "good guys" are straight men and women but the villain is a stereotypical gay man, then it should be considered homophobia. And judging by Far Cry 3, which had some of the most stereotypical characters and elements in recent years, I doubt Far Cry 4's characters would be written with the subtlety and care seen in the likes of the Last of Us. I would love to be proven wrong, but from here it looks like the villain is going to be a stereotype of a gay man. Into fashion and pink, dyes his hair blonde, is flamboyant etc. And that worries me, because instead of fleshing him out as a realistic character, I feel like it will become another reason for the "average gamer" to hate him. If he is gay, I can already bet that there will be a sequence where he uses his sexuality to make the player uncomfortable - which would never happen if the villain was straight. I feel like we need better diversity and representation in games but I think we need to start by having LGBT characters in likeable, or playable roles. That way the audience will get accustomed to them and start viewing that as less of a label and more of just a small facet of their personality, so that when a villain is gay they can be treated with the care and reception that a straight one would get.
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Everyone should feel good about themselves for posting on this terrific forum, especially Borsche who probably needs the morale boost more than any of us.
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Borsche69 posted:i just think its funny he picked hl1 and hl2 as some kind of holy grail instead of idk deus ex or stalker or system shock or civ4 Those games are also real bad.
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Jun 10, 2014 18:32
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Oh poo poo, I have been trolled by mods or IKs. Well played! 
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Something specific to these forums that (I think?) seems to be popular, saying fart all the time? I've only just noticed it in the past year, and don't really get it. I mean I know this site is dumb, but that just sounds... I don't know, dumber somehow.
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no wait I don't actually like anime half my posts just say gently caress anime. mods have done me a great injustice
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Jun 10, 2014 21:25
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I don't want my internet bffs to think im a nerd 
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Jun 10, 2014 21:26
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I have 108 Wii games. Paid under 5 bucks for most of them and I've got all the worthwhile games for the system except that one Kirby Return to Dreamland game
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welp laid
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I actually like video games
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SeXReX posted:I actually like video games :ralp:
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I have positive memories of Runescape.
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No Such Thing posted::ralp: lol
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Gamer confession : i have erotic dreams about the Quake 1 rocket launcher .... yeah ha ha sorry to make things awkward
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Ugh what is wrong with you guys It's all about UT's sexy-rear end flak cannon 
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ddrd is a good forum
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YourHeadaSplode414 posted:ddrd is a good forum
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the sexiest firearms in games are the stake gun in painkiller and the bayonet rifle in necrovision good poo poo
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YourHeadaSplode414 posted:ddrd is a good forum just funny loving people making funny loving posts... about video games 
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I think that invisible snipers and enemies that heal other enemies are the best kind of mobs in mmorpgs.
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i really liked the gex 3d platformers when i was 12-13 years old as well as the concept of a one-liner-cracking gecko
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Y-Hat posted:i really liked the gex 3d platformers when i was 12-13 years old as well as the concept of a one-liner-cracking gecko i still do
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Scyther posted:just funny loving people making funny loving posts... about video games funny posts and good games ... wahts' not to love 
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Y-Hat posted:i really liked the gex 3d platformers when i was 12-13 years old as well as the concept of a one-liner-cracking gecko The secret agent game was too risky and he lives out the rest of his days as an insurance spokesman
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I'm gay
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i had a crush on the protagonist from silent hill 3 when i was 13
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i don't like it when my pikmin die, it makes me sad
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I wish online gamers still talked in 1337speak
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I can't remember the last time I saw some bullshit like "t3h 3vil K1tt3h just pwn3d j00!!!!1!" pop up on a chat feed and that actually makes me kind of sad
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Lumpy the Cook posted:I can't remember the last time I saw some bullshit like "t3h 3vil K1tt3h just pwn3d j00!!!!1!" pop up on a chat feed and that actually makes me kind of sad what the point of txt spek when it's sloweir and more annoying than just hiting whatev butson you can
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one time I played some jrpg for 40 hours straight and I could hear the battle music after I turned the game off
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I'm not actually gay
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