TB writes: Any notion that we don't live in an overly litigious age went out the car-door window when that Albuquerque granny spilled McDonald's coffee all over her aging pubic mound in 1994 and thought, "Gee, I think I have hundreds of thousands of dollars coming to me... also, ow, my pubic mound." We love to get pissed off about the trivial and ideally grab headlines in the process.
Nowhere is this more evident, perhaps, than in the world of videogaming. Over the years there have been plenty of games boycotted and whined about for somewhat legitimate reasons like excessive and wanton sexuality and running really fast with really really sharp scissors. But these aren't those games. These are games that were boycotted and bitched about for the dumbest, goofiest reasons anyone could imagine.
Trevor Walker said: Fighting games have always been able to simultaneously experiment and innovate while staying true to their roots in the best of ways. Mechanics change, crossovers take place, and evolution occurs. One of the best examples of all three can be seen in the coveted guest character.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
The fighting genre is full of mini-games, from Street Fighter's car destruction to Tekken Ball. Here's the best Mortal Kombat mini games.
I was going to boycott the new Hitman game because David Bateson (47s voice actor) and Jesper Kyd (composer) got dropped
But after seeing loads of gameplay i kinda changed my mind, im not that petty
Im Still pissed there not in it though
Haha, type in Sambo on Scribblenauts and a watermelon appears. Intentional or not, that is funny.
LittleBigPlanet wasn't boycotted by any Muslim I know, I even have one of the copies that is unpatched. Get your info right next time.
I've decided to never buy another EA/Bioware game since the ME3 debacle. Voting with your wallet is the only way that companies will stop their immoral practice.
I thought the stupid Left for Dead 2 boycott would be on here.
If you look at pretty much any one of the 17000 members of the L4D2 Boycott group on Steam, you will see that most went ahead and bought the game anyway. Well done lads. Great victory.