bikiniarmorbattledamage:

In a video that covers a few game mechanics, over-commercialization, verbal abuse in gameplay and the general state of games… what is the hot topic in the comments?

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Seems familiar. Anyone ever notice how the whole “If you don’t like it just shut up and make your own!” thing only ever applies to people who want progress… like why aren’t the people who want terrible stuff obligated to just shut up and make their own?

– wincenworks

This seemed a good post to bring back in the wake of E3 and bizarre combinations of people insisting that developers need to make parts of x games how they want, but better not adjust y parts of games for anyone else.

If your big concern in games is that feminism will ruin your games by making the female armor look more like armor or that critic blogs will be the ones making creative decisions – you’re probably not actually worried about video games but something much more personal.

– wincenworks

bikiniarmorbattledamage:

In a video that covers a few game mechanics, over-commercialization, verbal abuse in gameplay and the general state of games… what is the hot topic in the comments?

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Seems familiar. Anyone ever notice how the whole “If you don’t like it just shut up and make your own!” thing only ever applies to people who want progress… like why aren’t the people who want terrible stuff obligated to just shut up and make their own?

– wincenworks

This seemed a good post to bring back in the wake of E3 and bizarre combinations of people insisting that developers need to make parts of x games how they want, but better not adjust y parts of games for anyone else.

If your big concern in games is that feminism will ruin your games by making the female armor look more like armor or that critic blogs will be the ones making creative decisions – you’re probably not actually worried about video games but something much more personal.

– wincenworks

We’ve featured Duelyst before, so the quality of the designs isn’t the surprise – it’s them being praised like they’re something exceptional. In the interest of fairness, let me share the positive example from the article:

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And there are a couple that are not quite as terrible.

But seriously, if this is the best character art video games can produce we need to try switching them off and then back on again.

– wincenworks

On Sunday I featured a Bingo on Magic: The Gathering with some commentary that was a little confusing, so I’d like to take the time to clarify now.  As the bingo covered, this was a design from ten years ago:

It was compared to some more recent designs, which were quite practical, but some people were confused by my comment that Wizards of the Coast keeps going toward but never quite committing to real progress and failed to elaborate further.

See the images at the top of the post?  They’re all promo images from a recent campaign Shadows over Innistrad – the premise being that the “angels” (who are exclusively sexy ladies) have turned on the populace.

It was promoted in variety of places, including Twitch, and had a trailer which reaches it’s climax with the phrase “on bloodied wings…” and this image:

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If you look, you can see some blood on her wings… but that sure isn’t the focus of the picture.

Potentially so far… and yet we have to go back to sexy ladies with wings in ridiculous sexualized armor as our concept.

– wincenworks