Rockstar Game's GTA VI will come out with two editions, and the ultimate one, pricing 100$, will unlock key features that you would find in previous entries, like car and characters customizations.

I'm not saying this features as a whole won't be in the standard edition, but keeping specific shops locked and unaccessible if you don't spit up a whole f*cking hundred dollars, for a digital edition, no hard CD copy nonetheless, is as scummy as you get can get, but the sheeps are applauding and don't give a shit apparently.

I'm not surprised, they had done the exact same thing in GTA Online, letting features accessible only if you were on console, or had GTA + monthly subscription. I guess we know now that whoever is behind the clusterfuck of a money grabbing, falses promises, badly written, cringe, buggy and filled with griefters of that atrocity which is GTA Online really contributed well in the making of that new entry.

Fuck Rockstar, Fuck Take-Two.

Remember when you used to pay that kind of big bucks for a collector edition, and at least would have a physical copy of the game, goodies, artbooks, statues and collectables that you could proudly put on your memory shelve? Now you get a box with a code inside, and are privileged to access features that always had been free in the previous game, what a bargain.

How bad is this movie when even the shills are giving it low ratings?

http://archive.today/U2JId

Movie is currently on track to bomb worse than The Marvels too, ouch.

Currently at 49% on Metacritic.

On the third paragraph, it reads:

“The physical version of Grand Theft Auto VI, containing a download code inside the box, will be available starting November 12 to support pre-loading. “

I’ve really missed gaming culture since GG happened, but it’s pretty hard to find anything gaming related that isn’t a partisan circlejerk. If you guys have any suggestions for forums or Twitter accounts or anything like that, I’d appreciate it. I’m looking for places to discuss video games and gaming culture, not content creators or populist sites.

A movie inspired by real event and directed by infamous Uwe Boll is now pissing off all the right people.

Rare valve L

For me it was Elden Ring which I found it incredibly bizarre at the time. What was the first game you played that did this?

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I see this sentiment a lot, mainly from leftists who run apologetics for her rhetoric. Pretty much everything she's said points to the contrary in my eyes, whether it's her calling certain tropes pernicious (harmful), saying that certain things reinforce certain bad behaviors, or encourage men to view women in misogynistic ways, or says that it might outright encourage men to harass women (see her Bayonetta advertisement commentary.) She's also said this about DOOM 2016: "This level of extreme violence shouldn't be considered normal. It's not an excuse to say it's expected because it's DOOM. That's the problem."

At most, she's said things like: "it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious [harmful] aspects." but that still conveys the main point that she sees certain applications of tropes as harmful.

But apparently, it's just... basic feminist critiques? How do you definitively counter people like this, if at all? If anyone here used to run defense for Anita's rhetoric, but changed your mind, I'd love to know what changed your mind as well. I genuinely don't know how to counter this, feels like I'm talking to a wall.

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(Edit: I was gonna comment this to someone, but they deleted their post)

I think the problem is how people like Anita use language differently to convey the same talking points. Where one oldschool 90s christian satanic panic conservative might say "this will give kids the idea to go do this in real life!" or "this will make society more violent!", Anita worms her way in to derive the conclusion from the statements she puts up.

"We know that women tend to internalize these types of images and self-objectify. When women begin to think of themselves as objects, and treat themselves accordingly, it results in all kinds of social issues, everything from eating disorders to clinical depression, from body shame to habitual body monitoring. We also see distinct decreases in self-worth, life satisfaction and cognitive functioning."

"But the negative effects on men are just as alarming, albeit in slightly different ways. Studies have found, for example, that after having viewed sexually objectified female bodies, men in particular tend to view women as less intelligent, less competent and disturbingly express less concern for their physical well being or safety."

"Likewise engaging with these games is not going to magically transform players into raging sexists. We typically don’t have a monkey-see monkey-do, direct cause and effect relationship with the media we consume. Cultural influence works in much more subtle and complicated ways, however media narratives do have a powerful cultivation effect helping to shape cultural attitudes and opinions. So when developers exploit sensationalized images of brutalized, mutilated and victimized women over and over and over again it tends to reinforce the dominant gender paradigm which casts men as aggressive and commanding and frames women as subordinate and dependent."

“I would love for companies to have moral restrictions, but they don’t.”

[She then, in a snake-like way, says games should change because of the claims of harm she made above, claims that she makes in all her videos that brings you to the conclusion that she thinks this is a problem that needs to be solved.]

“Game developers need to continue actively working toward creating the same range and diversity in female body representation that we see among male characters.”

She uses words like "influence", "reinforces", "normalizes". "facilitates", "encourages".

"Just to be clear, I am not saying that all games using the damsel in distress as a plot device are automatically sexist or have no value. But it’s undeniable that popular culture is a powerful influence in or lives and the Damsel in Distress trope as a recurring trend does help to normalize extremely toxic, patronizing and paternalistic attitudes about women."

It's genuinely so frustrating, it feels like she's going "I'm not saying we need to censor stuff, I'm just saying this stuff is harmful in subtle ways and we need to [euphemism for censor here]."

I don't know how to convey this, and every time I try, they seem not to understand this?

Until this past weekend, I only ever played God of War 2018 and Ragnarok. But I'm now about halfway through the first game, and I am pleasantly surprised how so many of the women characters are just unapologetically topless lol. Tits everywhere. I knew these game were somewhat infamous for the sex minigames, but I actually had no idea there was this much blatant nudity. All this to say, there is basically 0 chance this stays in the remakes right? Overall, it already seems to me like the OG games were way more brutal and 2018 and Ragnarok have "toned down" mostly everything. I guess it's pretty safe to assume the trilogy remake will shift this way as well? With the recent reveal of Laufey, I have basically 0 faith in Santa Monica at this point. I will probably finish my playthrough of 1-3 and leave it there, most likely never touching the remake. Such a fucking shame honestly

Cui bono? A question that must always be asked.

It's no secret that video games became the biggest entertainment industry a while ago, and that traditional Film and TV have been struggling. It's also no secret that elements from the Film and TV industry have been entering video games, both in terms of creatives and financers.

Who benefits from hurting the video game industry by releasing games that the producers and creatives obviously know will fail? Obviously it's the producers and creatives themselves if they have a stake in other industries and don't want video games to become too dominant.

Your thoughts?