Oh CD Project Red
I'm glad instead of Cyberpunk
I started HRT instead
(But he also rips into China about censorship and Xi's insecurity, so I assume he's cancelled around these parts)
Oh CD Project Red
I'm glad instead of Cyberpunk
I started HRT instead
(But he also rips into China about censorship and Xi's insecurity, so I assume he's cancelled around these parts)
So this is probably a good spot to talk about the transphobia, right?
Cos I'm maybe not super far in the game but I've seen only one trans-coded character (edit: maybe not trans but certainly gender non-conforming) in the game so far and holy shit (transphobia ahead). The character looks like this and the game goes out of its way to try and make you think they are the very worst person you come across (in a game where everybody is irredeemably shit, it's notable that they go so out of their way on this one). And they really play up their (unspecified) sexual deviancy as a motive for their actions. And your character and your colleague are constantly calling them "freak" - at one point you ask them what someone looks like and they say "just like some guy, like you and me" and your character responds "probably doesn't look like you, freak". Then at the end your character is given the default dialogue option to punch them to death - the only character I've seen where you get this option.
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Yes I think you're probably right, I've edited the post. For a game that was touted as being very LGBTQ+ positive, it's astonishing to me that this sequence made it to the final version. I'm sure the g*mers will say "ack-tually it's not homophobia because the character sexually assaults women, haha checkmate sjws"
UUuhhhh holy shit I did not realize it was that bad. In a world where everybody replaces their arms with lightsaber-knife-things and their brain with silicon how could people think somehow the trans folks are the "freaks"?! Not only is it transphobic as fuck, it's bad writing and world building. Imagine living in a world devoted to body modification and still giving a fuck about "gender" lol
Right? Like there's all these ads for porno with a woman who modified herself with three mouths so she could suck off three people at once, but some gender ambiguity is where your character draws the line?
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I was surprised the clubs were so vanilla, I mean minimally you'd expect people to conspicuously display modifications to signal social status.
I’m nearly 100% positive that he’s called a freak and ripped into so hard because he does shitty botch jobs on desperate women, and glorifies the pain and suffering he inflicts on his clientele. He’s definitely gay coded, and there can be implication, but I will say I interpreted it as more of a serial killer type freaky than a ew efiminite gay man type “freak”. It’s definitely not good, but it’s not nearly as egregious as the poster is making it out to be.
HAS ANYONE ELSE ACTUALLY PLAYED THIS DAMN GAME?
He literally rapes and sells a character to people who kill people and scavenge body parts while also taking advantage of other sex workers in need of help, THAT is the reason they give you the option to beat the shit out of him, don't think killing him is even an option.
They even made him sell one of the best upgrades in the game later that YOU CANT GET if you punch him, making you choose if playing nice with the asshole is worth getting it later on.
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I did that mission fairly early on, and it felt intense and I went "wow, that was intense and fucked up, can't wait to see whatever weird ass shit I do in terms of threating to beat people to death" and uh.. that was it. Nothing came close to that again.
The game doesn't even have a heart to be in the right place. Johnny is a Piece of shit, V can be okay, Judy is cool and is not important to the plot, the only good people involved in the plot are the Nomads. Hard to root for anyone really.
what the actual fuck
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jeeeeeez
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Is that John Waters?
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