DoctaMario

You're right, but the people writing these pieces are overwhelmingly English major/ perpetually online types whose heads have been filled by pseudo-feminist BS who are mining power for themselves by being able to dictate to everyone else, on their terms, the difference between the characters that are "problematic" and the one that are "safe."
 
Bayonetta is beloved by gays, therefore she's safe. Eve is a character that, at least at this point, straight (and particularly white) guys like, so she's "problematic." Anything straight men like is a problem to these types of people, although if the same design appeals to gays or women, then it's fine. The whole thing looks like a big journalistic power grab from where I'm sitting. They're all just saying "it's only a problem if we say it's a problem."

I recently found there's alternate "star moves" in Streets of Rage 4 that are unlocked in that brilliant Survival mode... I got Shiva's and someone else so far; usually Shiva is one of my regular picks so that is more fresh on my mind at the moment... his alternate is that cool move he does as a boss character, where he summons 1 or 2 ghost clones of himself as backup....and of course this gets extra crazy in Survival since there's a powerup you can get where your star move also summons missiles from the sky.
 
Yeah, randomized "Survival" mode in beatemups should just be a standard thing from now on.... it is one of the greatest new ideas anyone has added to the genre.  
Random vid I just searched that has some good info/commentary about the greatness (and features the legendary main man Shiva)
ohhh I didn't realize "Fly Kick" was THAT damn good.... oh yeah that's getting picked next time for sure...

I haven't played DS3, but I wouldn't say ER is worse than Sekiro. Two completely different games and I love them both,  but if I had to give one of them the edge it would probably be Sekiro.

He was. Also if you watch interviews for the show, Henry is in tons of them, WITH Anya and Freya. He's in a few with Joey as well so wtf is she talking about?

Oh wow...we trying to put propaganda on Henry Cavill now?  For real?  Dunno how that's gonna play out cause I feel like most believe he was the best part of the show.

I am on my first playthrough of Elden Ring. This game is worse than DS3 and Sekiro. AMA.

Two words. Hogwart's Legacy. Stellar Blade sales would not be what they are if the gaming media didn't crazy about Eve's appearance. They galvanized people that would have not bought the game to buy it.

Because people think they're being smart or clever or being "tastemakers" by creating fake nuance. The hilarious part is that the people creating fake nuance are usually frame one bookmarking hentai on twitter.
 
Stellar Blade, from all I've seen, is a game for adults. Hades invariably is a themed as a game for adults. It may not seem like it on the surface, but its kind of the same convo that  is being had about kid trans shows. Which is that we really, really, really stop letting kids into places or things that are for adults.
 
There's a great case to be made for representation, not having every female character looked have her ass hanging out etc. Trust me I get it. Female designs in SF6? Daughter loved all of them. Having the choice in outfits so you can get younger players in? Great move too. Stellar Blade or Hades? Not for her really. Same with a bunch of other games. And if you're a responsible parent, you can monitor that shit with minimal effort.
 
So its essentially goofy pearl clutching. Because it isn't like we're in some weird hentai world. There have been a lot of great female characters that are dressed. There's also a hilairously amount of questionable dressed characters that are beloved. WE gonna pretend we don't live in a post Bayonetta/Kill La Kill/w/e fucking armor broads were wearing in WoW? If you don't want fanservice in games, there are a lot of fucking alternatives out there.
 
So since gaming has moved to where there is a lot of choice in female characters, you can't fucking complain about fanservice anymore.
 
Peeps who like horny got a character? Great for them. You can go play somethign else or stop being hypocrite.

I don't get "safe" horny especially they are gonna try to drag Dragon's Crown's Sorceress and Amazon into this conversation.  Muscle mommy's are not as bad while tits having their own zip code are horrible...makes no sense to me.  You're either getting suffocated or death by snu snu.   And again this is a such a subjective thing cause there's people out there who might just be rejecting of both of them and find the elf more attractive than those 2.
 
This kinda reminds me of a post that showed up on my feed regarding Rhea Ripley.  Someone drew her and did modify some of her features in their drawing and apparently people jumped on the artist.  The changes weren't really egregious imo, just made her slightly thiccer and gave her a bit more bust but retained all the buffness and people went nuts...only for Rhea Ripley to fucking retweet the drawing lol. 
 
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so apparently Dig Dug is 42 years old today... I always loved that game
of course games were way more simple in design back in those ancient times.  I had it on the Atari 2600....the again and again on certain "Namco Classics" compilations I bought over the years.  

What the fuck is "Safe Horny"? For fuck's sake, if you like fanservice be upfront about it. Don't try to pretend that you're better than others because somehow your fanservice is classier. Nothing about the Vanillware games was "safe horny" that shit was just normal horny for Japan.
 
God the people losing their shit over Stellar Blade are the worst. Gotta randomly see people seething over a fake ass. If fan service is not for you, its not for you.  It isnt' for me. I'm not going to go out of my way to play Stellar Blade for the same reason i'm not playing MK games or DoA: fanservice isn't what draws me to games.
 
But don't split hairs about it. Fake horny cunts. Could never be as chill as Juri and her Friends were in 97. Those were cool peeps.
 
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@AriesWarlockThe Hades 2 thing doesn't surprise me at all. It's hypocrites being hypocritical. As for the "safe horny" term. It's just a bull shit term that they use to try and hand wave away their obvious hypocrisy. Kind of how they are dismissive of women that disagree with them on anything and say they have "internalized misogny". I still chuckle at the thought of mentioning "internalized misogny" to one of my best friends and him being in disbelief thinking I was fucking with him.

Nowdays people just call anything skill issue.
 
Like, if you say that lets say, Charlotta is ass on GBFVR due how atrocious her hitboxes are, you will have idiots citing that since X player manages to do fine with her in some tournaments she is competitive viable and you are just playing her wrong.
 
Like common mate, all her normals and specials have sfv like hitboxes where the hitbox is shorter than the animation with hurtboxes reaching way beyond her hitboxes on a game eith most of the cast with parge  disjointed hitboxes due their weapons being quite big on the screen and you are here pretending that 2 or 3 players doing barely ok with her makes her good.
 
Get real son.
 
Her tools are useless to play the neutral, her rewards for counterhits are meager, the fatal counters are tied to useless normals, her specials put her at risk most of the time, specially of being fataled if you do her 22 + attack, yet she is good, lmao

The safe horny is new to me.
 

Speaking of chess lol
 
 
 
 
 
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Went down the youtube rabbit hole. This shit's wild:
 
 

Not just a business,  is being exploited. Fucking disgusting. 

its crazy that homelessness is a business. just like jail.