• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        Oof. This gets complicated real quick.

        ‘To gender games’ can be broken down into several components:

        a) It’s bad when people say only one gender can or only one gender cannot play a game, a type or genre of games or games in general.

        b) It’s bad when people assume only one gender plays or one gender doesn’t play a game, a type or genre of games or games in general.

        c) It’s bad when people question a gender identity because a person plays or does not play according to the norms of a) and b) (unless specifically wanted (see GNC people))

        Play the fuq you want.

        Zombies don’t need to be male-coded, cottagecore doesn’t need to be fem-coded.


        Personally I’m not huge of fan of supposedly overt satire due to Poe’s Law, but yes, anyone should be able to play Broforce and Broforce could’ve made it’s point with less gendering of the subject.

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          8 months ago

          I saw it as poking fun at the hypermasculinity of 80s action movies, not anything about who should or shouldn’t play the game. If that’s what “gendering” a game means, then no, no game should be gendered.

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        8 months ago

        There are female “Bros” in that game. Ellen Ripbro, Cherry Broling, The Brode, Tank Bro, Xebro, and Broffy

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          8 months ago

          There are! I was mostly making a joke because of the name. Maybe I should have said Ms. Pac-Man instead.

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      8 months ago

      It was a literal RPG in the Xbox 360 version of Sims 3, with direct control of your Sims and everything. You could swap back to the classic overhead view and let them do their own thing at any time, or walk around and live their daily life yourself. Even had split-screen co-op, which rocked.

      It kind of ruined the series for me because it was so much better with direct control yet they never revisited the feature outside of that single console port, and that game was one of the few with major backwards compatibility issues that AFAIK never got fixed so you can’t even play it anymore.

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    8 months ago

    Said by literally nobody, since even the most incel of incels appreciates Harvest Moon.

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      8 months ago

      Would have thought that incels would of loved the Sims, or can’t they get their Sims to get any as well.

  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We all like what we like.

    I’m sure yall aren’t into studying dwarf fortress for 6 month in order to know how to play it.

    Protip: download DFhack and make the game play itself

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      7 months ago

      PSA: DF does not require study to simply enjoy the game though. It is a very deep game, but there’s plenty of fun to be had on the surface level too.

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        8 months ago

        Unless you’re playing with the antidote mod, which honestly is kinda surprising something like that isn’t in the vanilla game. Lore-wise, I don’t see where the problem with that could be, especially when they knew what the outcome was before they caused the zombification outbreak.

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          8 months ago

          You can also just turn off zombie virus infection in the sandbox options, or set it to only happen when bitten.


          Personally, I like to set it to bites only, with a mod that makes the zombie infection give you increasingly worse fevers. If you’re not stocked up on meds with a secure base to hole up in, infection is deadly. If you’re well stocked and have a good safehouse, you can lose a few days out-medicating it the first time. Second time puts you out for a week, if you’re very well stocked up, but is far worse and much easier to die to if you don’t watch your health like a hawk. Third time is always fatal.

          I feel it adds a little wiggle room to prevent a single minor mistake or bullshit situation ruining your hard work, while still not turning you into superman.

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            I like this a lot, it’s a like a penalty to stay inside and recoup for awhile as well as a check to see if you can survive with the resources you’ve saved but 3rd times the charm to seal the deal. What’s the mod name?

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          It goes completely against the design intent of the game.

          The devs themselves wrote a whole thing about this in regards to people asking about various things like an antidote and some way to “win” (escape the quarantine zone, military comes in and saves survivors, etc.) and you should check it out because it’s much better worded than what I can write paraphrasing it from memory.

          Basically, the game is based on old-school zombie horror movies where death is just one bite away and an inevitability, whether it comes tragically or stupidly from you getting overconfident. It’s why the game starts with that cutscene saying that there were no survivors and this is the story of how you died. Being able to cure the infection takes away a major part of the pressure that the game places on you, and I think it goes against the narrative of the game? I thought the lore was that outside the quarantine zone, the rest of the world had died to the infection.

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    8 months ago

    If you can’t complete a fromsoft game without being hit or leveling up are you even a gamer? /s

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      8 months ago

      Also, yes, the Grass Crest shield is cheating. And so are summons. Also you have to beat it blindfolded with the volume muted and DK Bongo drums for a controller.

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    8 months ago

    Look, it’s only a real game if it can make me shit myself.

    No that time with Stardew doesn’t count! I had Taco Bell!