Yahtzee talks about how writers for AAA games don't seem to know how to write complex and nuanced female characters and instead resort to brutalising and victimising their female protagonists to give them depth and how the violence they're subjected to is framed differently compared to violence that's done to male characters

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    Every time I think about TR being ✨ prestigious ✨ I always picture the magazine cover, the one with Duke Nukem copping a feel.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      There's an Easter Egg in one of the PS1/N64 Duke Nukem games where what is intended to be a horny Lara Croft calls Duke Nukem to ask him to come and bone her. In another Easter Egg Duke finds Lara's discarded tank top at a strip club and says only a huge skank would wear something like that

      The 90s were very classy

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          5 months ago

          I forgot the funniest part being that those third-person PS1 Duke Nukem games are huge Tomb Raider ripoffs, shamelessly copying the control scheme and gameplay