There. It's highly effective, that's all it takes. It's a horror game.
see, this is where you and i are in opposing categories. i am actually way more repulsed to what was done with jen than with the party girl. party girl is creepy, yeah but the player gets to choose if they are going to buy in on being part of the problem; with jen she straight up tells you that YOU are there to sexualize her with her dialogues and we are offered little recourse. why do we have to look *up* at her and fully ogle her breasts when trying buy/sell? well, you tell me player? jen certainly thinks you are here to do more than just unload a stack of leather so maybe you don't have to tell anyone; it is a foregone conclusion.
It depends on what they do with the story. People call these mummies and yetis, but that doesn't mean that's what they really are. It's pretty clear there were experiments going on with people. The "yeti" could just be some testing with extreme levels of testosterone, which would increase hair growth and strength. Obviously, there would be more to it than just that, but it is certainly a possible scenario. The "mummy" could have also been some kind of test. The only thing I'd see as weird are the flies. But that's been a thing with this kind of enemy for a very long time, and TFP likes to take things from shows and stuff and add it to the game, so it doesn't bother me.
Um... it's a zombie game. Gore makes sense. Besides, just look at the various crashes and collapsed buildings. Being cut in half isn't even remotely unlikely. Keep in mind that this end of world event probably happened VERY quickly. And since it is a zombie game, you're going to see them "alive" when they should be dead. You aren't going to convince many people that the level of gore in this game is too much. If it's too much for you, then this is probably not the best game for you to play. It's actually very mild for what it could be.
Because statistics. Most people who play games are men and most men are straight. Most straight men like attractive women. This is why a lot of games "sexualize" women, and men to be fair lest you think Conan the Barbarian is standard male physique. The general principle is that it is better to look at and more appealing than the alternative. I am sure there is a whole psychology example one could give with endorphins, etc as to why people gravitate towards attractive people, but either way people who don't like these things have their own games such as Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
If you decide to quote statistics -- which you're not, but rather are parroting political propaganda, perhaps to try and get a rise out of someone -- you probably want to check the statistics first.
" probably isn't going to be winning any awards anytime soon, anyway.
Again, its not just "the gore is too much" its that the gore doesn't serve any actual purpose. Like what someone else mentioned...
If there was a car accident pinning a corpse to a wall, and gore was involved, that's 100% fine. The gore, in that case, serves a purpose - environmental storytelling. However, the gore in this case serves no purpose whatsoever, its just there for the sake of it. If it were actually there for a reason, I'd put up with it, but it isn't. I don't enjoy gore by itself, but I can enjoy what it does by consequence of it being there. If you enjoy gore by itself, you really need to seek therapy. And does it make more sense to have hundreds or thousands of these guys spawn by the time you're done with your save, or to have them be unable to walk for absolutely any reason other being cut in half?
I almost went off on an actual tangent about this, so let me summarize it.
I feel the same way about seeing a corpse in skimpy clothing as I would about seeing an 80 year-old in skimpy clothing. My life could've done nothing but improve if I didn't have to see it, it brings me nothing of value and it makes me want to vomit in the corner. I'm probably going to have to stop participating in this discussion after this, because talking about it makes me feel physically ill. There aren't very many topics which actually make me nauseous just by way of bringing them up, but you found one.As for you getting hot and bothered by a corpse, don't worry; she's still quite live-like, it doesn't make you a necro. Couple of the other ladies often end up in awesome poses, emphasizing the thiccc - and their whole clothing masks the deadness of their state, so it can get tempting in a lonely apocalypse... Just as bad. Just as funny..
That's not been my experience and that's what I tend to decry about both statistics and politics. Neither are in accord with real life experience, yet people are coming to verbal throws and even physical violence over them, slapping faction labels that very likely don't fit onto the foreheads of everyone else they come across.
person could go to a subreddit made for people to post, and he or she could assume that people are everywhere, when they're really ~1-2% of the total population. The PC gaming space being dominated by men is not political, it just is. It may be influenced by political/social reasons (again, women dominate cozy games... like how women once baked in the kitchen for their husbands, while men dominate more action-orientated titles... like men going out into the world to hunt for food, or in modern days, work in the workplace... call these cultural artifacts that still drive the minds of the many, you could say). But I digress.
It servers the purpose of being gore in a game that is kind of a horror parody. That is all the purpose it needs. And it certainly isn't going to change.
I mean, I think I'd have trouble walking if I was cut in half... Bottom hal^H^H^H line is, you don't see a point in it, AND you don't like it. Fair enough; but merely a single opinion from a player. It's a game, there's not much point to anything in it. This one irks you, because it .. irks you. Physically. The outhanging guts of the soldiers seem fine, thou?
The gender split in the workforce is about half and half as well. But we can't seem to get women to work as plumbers, or men at nail salons. One might think there can exist games "for plumbers" as much as games "for nail technicians"; appealing to a specific demographic, whether biological or political isn't wrong. Trying to appeal to Everyone doesn't seem to work At all.
Mmhmm. As I said earlier, women dominate the mobile and Switch spaces (with very specific types of titles... cozy games, your average mobile game, etc.), while men dominate the other consoles and PC, or at least the latter, and it's not even close. Action-orientated titles, like 7 Days To Die, are dominated by straight men. This is like how women dominate the watch time of reality dramas, while men do so for various other genres, especially if it's action-focused.
46 years later I don't see anything wrong with that
You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you? "Very few in history have understood what the issue with late modernity actually is." It's that to which we're largely blind as a species, as I see it, looking at shadows on the wall as in Plato's cave and playing out the story of the blind men and the elephant. And I should know because I spent a great deal of my extensive years on this planet doing just that myself. We can quote statistics (or none in Kyoji's case) and try to pass legislation in perpetuity and still not resolve..."the problem" of human consciousness. We're passing through a chrysalis stage, as I understand it, in the natural process of mutating from what Jean Gebser termed "the mental-rational consciousness structure" to "integral consciousness," a process that may be aborted. I'd highly recommend Jean Gebser and Eugen Rosentock-Huessy, et alia, to anyone who has -- usually in their early youth -- had an epiphany of sorts, thinking to themselves, "There's something not quite right with the world," but just couldn't seem to put their finger on what that is, usually lashing out at others instead of looking deeply within themselves. In my assessment, authors like these put their fingers directly on what it is.
Of course, that doesn't apply universally and the pink and blue thing actually began as a marketing ploy for baby products.