Has a game (if any) actually offended you?
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I guess it's possible that I'm ascribing more thought to it than Running With Scissors did, but I've always thought the Postal games were smarter than that. I think the Postal games have always gone for biting Satire than to try to be funny. Might just be that's how I've always taken them though.The Root Beer Guy said:
At any rate, I'd have to choose Postal 2 as well. Not that I was actually offended but because that game has the only thing I've ever just not been able to make myself do. I just could not make myself use cats as silencers. I appreciated the the choice was there, but I opted out.
I don't think I have been offended by a game...
Infact a lot of the time offensive things are done for laughs, like a lot of commedy is. I think there's two types of people: those who get offended (idiots), and those who know not to take it seriously.
Example:
I go into a store in RDR and the shopkeeper says "You won't find anything Jewish-made in this establishment, sir."
And I go "what the hell lol" with a =o face.
Infact a lot of the time offensive things are done for laughs, like a lot of commedy is. I think there's two types of people: those who get offended (idiots), and those who know not to take it seriously.
Example:
I go into a store in RDR and the shopkeeper says "You won't find anything Jewish-made in this establishment, sir."
And I go "what the hell lol" with a =o face.
I don't think that ANYTHING that wasn't directly aimed at me specifically has ever offended me, games included. I'm pretty laid back when it comes to that sort of thing.
Really? Wow, I'm a male who (judging by what I've heard refuses to even consider playing that game) thinks that game is simply in bad taste. I mean, fantasy is one thing but (to my understanding) the characters in that game are not playing out a fantasy. (I understand that playing the game is playing out a fantasy but not between those characters...if that makes sense). Maybe I'm just sensitive to the subject matter because I've witnessed how horrible rape is (walked in on it happening) and counselled those who have suffered through it.likalaruku said:
The mission is called that because it's a play on the "An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman" jokes, the same as how most of the mission titles are plays on words or references and aren't supposed to be takes so literally.UndeadGamerNinja187 said:
It's not actually saying that those characters are from those countries per say, but that's what their heritage is, hence being called by the nicknames 'Welsh', 'French' and 'Irish'. They're probably 1st generation Americans whose parents were immigrants.
The character 'Welsh' sounded Welsh to me (albeit with a strange dialect), and he was played by a guy from Swansea so at least one Welsh person sounds like that.
I think 'French' was supposed to be Cajun, or of French descent, not actually a man from France, which explains why he doesn't sound like a French person from France. It doesn't matter that he didn't have a French accent, his ancestors were from France which is enough for him to be given the nickname 'French'.
I was offended at how bad Star Ocean 4 was in comparison to the other three(Didn't play Blue Sphere because i don't have a Japanese cell phone for some reason), reminded me of the last season of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law where you could tell the writers were trying to get out of having to ever write it again for whatever reason so they turned an awesome show into an awful piece of crap. That or they all went brain dead at the same time for some unexplained reason.
Lol i think he's talking about Red Dead Redemption, not an actual store.swolf said:
I can't be offended by video games, they are just meant to entertain and are in no way a reflection of the real world. Unless . . . OH NO, IT CAN'T BE AN ELITE! SAVE M . . .
I just found it quite weird a girl would play a game about what must be the most horrific thing to happen to a girl and seemingly have high expectations of it.Aylaine said:To each their own then.omega 616 said:
Also, as for my profile picture and avatar, it's intentional. The avatar was especially made for me.
Ah, I get ya. Should have had one of those little hats put on it aswell ... always wanted one of them, alas I am not American so I will never have to opportunity.
Sorry if my grammar and stuff is a little messed up, I have been awakened at 2:30 am by heavy metal. And here I was being polite by turning my bass volume down to an almost non existent level, well not any more!
Red Steel 2
it degraded me
made me feel like a jackass even in the game i was flailing around trying to figure out a way to comfortable do these ridiculous gestures
i fefuse to stand up when playing a game and Red Steel 2 didnt even reward my effort it just kept training me more and more stuff that i wouldnt understand if they made me do it a million times and never the less even use
it made me realize just how uncoordinated i really am and laughed at me in the form of training me as a child
if i didnt rent the game i would burn that disc
it degraded me
made me feel like a jackass even in the game i was flailing around trying to figure out a way to comfortable do these ridiculous gestures
i fefuse to stand up when playing a game and Red Steel 2 didnt even reward my effort it just kept training me more and more stuff that i wouldnt understand if they made me do it a million times and never the less even use
it made me realize just how uncoordinated i really am and laughed at me in the form of training me as a child
if i didnt rent the game i would burn that disc
I was strangely offended by one of God of War 3's boss fights. Sure, pull out that cyclops' eye, kick dogs, eye-gouge a god, whatever, but did I really have to see that boss' intestines and pull off his fingernail? Egghhh.
If you're angry about that you should be angry about Dutch not being Dutch. It doesn't really matter anyway - the other two guys get killed in the cutscene and you never have to worry about them again.UndeadGamerNinja187 said:
The absurd proportions of female videogame characters has always bugged me, not because they're degrading to woman, but because it shows that developers think I'm so stupid that they can get me to buy games just by slapping tits on them (though unfortunatly they're clearly right, as this apparently works well enough for them to keep doing it).
what's offended me in the past, minor spoilers
dragon age, when the king is fighting the darkspawn, he sends his hounds out first, while the troops wait for the order and watch as all those doggies were butchered.
I was offended, and wanted the bastard to die after that.
what else? the scene in mother 3 where the 12 year old protagonist gets a "massage" from a 40 year old tranny in a hot tub to acquire psychic powers(I shit you not).
the final boss in ff10...god how anti-climactic.
Paying 60 bucks for The Force Unleashed, then seeing the damn credits roll 5-6 hours after I put the disc into my console. THAT was offensive.
Oh, and every damn game has weak female leads. I mean EVERY time, the female lead(s) is/are always weaker and less useful in any portion of the game save the kitchen than any male character. This is bullshit.
Some of the best engineers, writers and soldiers on the planet are women.
And yet somehow, when it comes to saving the world, only the women who are less able in all areas show up to the party? that is offensive to me.
dragon age, when the king is fighting the darkspawn, he sends his hounds out first, while the troops wait for the order and watch as all those doggies were butchered.
I was offended, and wanted the bastard to die after that.
what else? the scene in mother 3 where the 12 year old protagonist gets a "massage" from a 40 year old tranny in a hot tub to acquire psychic powers(I shit you not).
the final boss in ff10...god how anti-climactic.
Paying 60 bucks for The Force Unleashed, then seeing the damn credits roll 5-6 hours after I put the disc into my console. THAT was offensive.
Oh, and every damn game has weak female leads. I mean EVERY time, the female lead(s) is/are always weaker and less useful in any portion of the game save the kitchen than any male character. This is bullshit.
Some of the best engineers, writers and soldiers on the planet are women.
And yet somehow, when it comes to saving the world, only the women who are less able in all areas show up to the party? that is offensive to me.