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Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

Malamert

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Because good looking women invite male gaze, so you will see less and less of attractive female characters in AAA Western games.

Just going to https://www.facesofgaming.com/mass-effect-2 you can see better looking femsheps then what "professionals" made.
Perfect!

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"It reduces her to an object, how offensive"

Anyone that knows anything about Miranda knows exactly why the shot framing her as a sex object works within the context of the game (and also as fan service but that's beside the point). She's literally designed to be the perfect woman. By her father no less.

That camera shot is deliberately chosen to put a certain idea into the player's mind. An idea which becomes extremely relevant later when Miranda explains to you that she is a test tube baby.

Attacking this deliberate aesthetic choice by saying 'lol just look at porn' is so beneath a person of Sawyer's intelligence that it's actually baffling. (And more than a little disappointing but disappointing his target audience seems to be Sawyer's raison d'etre lately so I guess it's par for the course)
 
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That's a good argument.
On the other hand, I have it on good authority that he was the lead designer on a game called "Pillows of Eternity" and a game called "Fallout New Vegas" which feature heavy misogynistic elements. Can we get a comment from Sawyer about allowing content such as cook-cook, caesar's legion, or Durance in games he was the lead designer on?
 

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Remember niggers one of the hookers in New vegas was voiced by a 13 year old girl :lol:

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Was she paid? Did her parent consent to do it? Did they knew what she's doing? All yes? Then what's problem?
Hypocrisy from a virtue-signaller? He’s morally uptight about digital butts, but not about 13 year olds voicing hookers...see the discrepancy?
 

purupuru

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Puzzles are not really games. There are right answers and wrong answers.
--Josh.E.Sawyer
WTF, I hate Sawyer now.
And it was a talk given 9 years ago, to think all this time I allowed myself to be fooled by his nerdy charms. Never again!
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Hypocrisy from a virtue-signaller? He’s morally uptight about digital butts, but not about 13 year olds voicing hookers...see the discrepancy?

Nah. Really. Agree with him, i only see bunch of horny people getting upset about shitty camera shot that ruins a scene tone lmao. I don't see how this is being uptight. If he talk more about how this reduces her character or it's bad because sexualization bad in other tweet after this one , then i agree with you
But as far i read, it's just him shitting on people upset over this, i'm in all for it.
 

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Josh using "G4m3r$" tells me everything about him when it comes to games. He sounds exactly like the typical games journo or Twitter participant. He should just quit honestly, before it turns him into a monster of bitterness like two thirds of the games journo-corp.
 
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Hypocrisy from a virtue-signaller? He’s morally uptight about digital butts, but not about 13 year olds voicing hookers...see the discrepancy?

Nah. Really. Agree with him, i only see bunch of horny people getting upset about shitty camera shot that ruins a scene tone lmao. I don't see how this is being uptight. If he talk more about how this reduces her character or it's bad because sexualization bad in other tweet after this one , then i agree with you
But as far i read, it's just him shitting on people upset over this, i'm in all for it.
here's the real problem with the change that you're completely missing:
They were part of the original design as envisioned by the people who created the game. Going in and changing it is fundamentally altering the vision of the original developers. It is, at its core, political censorship to please a certain class of people.

FNV would be gutted in a similar remaster, and Josh would probably cheer it on at this point. What a soulless husk of a former man.
 

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Bioware's a shambling corpse and I'm surprised EA haven't gunned them down yet like the rest of the studios they battered.
 

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They were part of the original design as envisioned by the people who created the game. Going in and changing it is fundamentally altering the vision of the original developers. It is, at its core, political censorship to please a certain class of people.

I understand the point that you're trying to make , i just can't say that i see that's what is actually happening. I always saw people complaning about this scenes with Miranda more because it's counter productive towards her character, background and tone of the game than anything,so to me this is just the devs hearing feedback and acting on it

Maybe it's matter perspective because i always thought the ass shots were a bit uncessary lmao.

FNV would be gutted in a similar remaster, and Josh would probably cheer it on at this point. What a soulless husk of a former man.

It's strange that say that because i literaly never saw anyone complain to Josh or devs to remove or censorship hookers, Caesar's legion ,etc. Actually people praise New Vegas having those elements. So i highly doubt that they would go out of their way to remove like that.
 
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It's strange that say that because i literaly never saw anyone complain to Josh or devs to remove or censorship hookers, Caesar's legion ,etc. Actually people praise New Vegas having those elements. So i highly doubt that they would go out of their way to remove like that.
It mostly flies under their radar, do you think it would continue to do so if it received a remaster and was actually being reviewed by people who currently work in the video game industry?
It would be like having modern hollywood remaster Porky's, it would be completely butchered.
 

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