Crash 1 suffered the most from the new jumping mechanics. Crash 2 and 3 felt fine to me but 1 was definitely harder on some particular levels due to this change. I still enjoyed the heck out of the trilogy but the PS1 C1 will stay as the superior game to play for me.
@Vexx234 Well, I agree with you. It's quite saddening to see the extremism when it comes to sexualized things, like you explained with the examples. Making nude mods and stuff like that, I've never understood the appeal. It is also frustrating to see bodies of women (fictional and real) being so heavily critized. Like I said, I feel extremely mixed about these kinds of situations. I'm not gonna sit here and tell people that I don't like fanservice and stuff like that. Absolutely, I love it. For both women and men. I've used mods in some Japanese PC games to remove sexual censorship from some games.. And nope, I'm not bisexual, I'm just comfortable with my sexuality that I don't need to hide my eyes when it comes to sexualized men. Hell, I've always loved androgynous men in JRPG's, for example. I prefer them over the stereotypical masculine men.
But indeed, sex sells. And I want to see it in my games. For both genders. It does suck how extreme people get over these things. I try to understand everyone, even though it takes effort lol.
When will these companies learn that doing changes like this will never go fine with the fanbase? It's even worse since this was in the initial release of the game and now it's gone. This is also super tame as well. The puritanism is out of control. There's no excuse for this. It doesn't matter that it's not gameplay related, it's still part of the visual experience. I would've chuckled seeing this in the game, truly a blast from the past. I guess I'm going to wait if they see the overall disappointment over this and patch them back in. Sex and sexuality is supposed to be a natural thing, not something to hide away. And yes, I would be disappointed about this even if it was posters of a sexualized male character. But let's be honest, they wouldn't remove them. It's a double standard, for sure.
I tend to feel very mixed about these kind of situations. I personally can live with some dialogue changes in the recent remasters we've had (Baten Kaitos and Chrono Cross) 'cause it's outdated dialogue from the past. Usually what's changed is the demeaning dialogue against women. Like in Chrono Cross, the lad in the village telling you to make your childhood friend/his sister to "act more ladylike." I totally get the change there. What does it even mean at this point? I can think of some things I'm not going to say here lol. But this is the stuff I can accept. Get this though; I don't like it, I actually hate these kind of changes. I'd rather keep them as they are, relics from the past. The difference is that I understand why and can live with it. I'm still buying these remasters 'cause of the amazing QoL additions we get. I'm enjoying my replay of CC a TON more with fast-forwarding available from the start and auto-play for the occasional random encounter. I also want to support the developers, as it's not their fault these changes happen. And I'm also happy more people get to play these old games.
But this is what we get when we bring back old games. There's also the new ratings system here in the west and Japan. Cid in FF7 Rebirth not smoking anymore 'cause of Japan's rating system, not wanting young people to see smoking as 'cool'. Censorship? If you want to call it that, yeah. It sucks, but it is what it is. I'm glad people speak against these things.
I really don't think Jirard is able to make a comeback after this. It would be a miracle at this point. He got rightfully exposed. This wouldn't have happened if he made a video the moment he learned that the money hadn't gone anywhere. Transparency is everything when it comes to stuff like this. There has to be something going on behind the scenes that we're not aware of. And there's a chance we'll never learn why. But yeah, definitely a shame. I used to watch his videos quite a bit in the past.
It seems I'm in the minority here, I'm happy that I get to play Peachette lol. I like Peach in general so that might have something to do with it. Honestly, all the characters we're getting are great so it's a win all around.
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Re: Crash Bandicoot Co-Creator Believes The Remakes "Botched" The Jump Mechanics
Crash 1 suffered the most from the new jumping mechanics. Crash 2 and 3 felt fine to me but 1 was definitely harder on some particular levels due to this change. I still enjoyed the heck out of the trilogy but the PS1 C1 will stay as the superior game to play for me.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Announces Limited-Time "Mario Kart World Special Campaign"
Sounds like I'm going back to Tour, at least for a while. Nice of Nintendo to still support it, I did like it quite a bit when I still played daily.
Re: Lara Croft's Pinup Posters Go Missing In Tomb Raider I-III Remastered
@Vexx234 Well, I agree with you. It's quite saddening to see the extremism when it comes to sexualized things, like you explained with the examples. Making nude mods and stuff like that, I've never understood the appeal. It is also frustrating to see bodies of women (fictional and real) being so heavily critized. Like I said, I feel extremely mixed about these kinds of situations. I'm not gonna sit here and tell people that I don't like fanservice and stuff like that. Absolutely, I love it. For both women and men. I've used mods in some Japanese PC games to remove sexual censorship from some games.. And nope, I'm not bisexual, I'm just comfortable with my sexuality that I don't need to hide my eyes when it comes to sexualized men. Hell, I've always loved androgynous men in JRPG's, for example. I prefer them over the stereotypical masculine men.
But indeed, sex sells. And I want to see it in my games. For both genders. It does suck how extreme people get over these things. I try to understand everyone, even though it takes effort lol.
Re: Lara Croft's Pinup Posters Go Missing In Tomb Raider I-III Remastered
When will these companies learn that doing changes like this will never go fine with the fanbase? It's even worse since this was in the initial release of the game and now it's gone. This is also super tame as well. The puritanism is out of control. There's no excuse for this. It doesn't matter that it's not gameplay related, it's still part of the visual experience. I would've chuckled seeing this in the game, truly a blast from the past. I guess I'm going to wait if they see the overall disappointment over this and patch them back in. Sex and sexuality is supposed to be a natural thing, not something to hide away. And yes, I would be disappointed about this even if it was posters of a sexualized male character. But let's be honest, they wouldn't remove them. It's a double standard, for sure.
I tend to feel very mixed about these kind of situations. I personally can live with some dialogue changes in the recent remasters we've had (Baten Kaitos and Chrono Cross) 'cause it's outdated dialogue from the past. Usually what's changed is the demeaning dialogue against women. Like in Chrono Cross, the lad in the village telling you to make your childhood friend/his sister to "act more ladylike." I totally get the change there. What does it even mean at this point? I can think of some things I'm not going to say here lol.
But this is the stuff I can accept. Get this though; I don't like it, I actually hate these kind of changes. I'd rather keep them as they are, relics from the past. The difference is that I understand why and can live with it. I'm still buying these remasters 'cause of the amazing QoL additions we get. I'm enjoying my replay of CC a TON more with fast-forwarding available from the start and auto-play for the occasional random encounter. I also want to support the developers, as it's not their fault these changes happen. And I'm also happy more people get to play these old games.
But this is what we get when we bring back old games. There's also the new ratings system here in the west and Japan. Cid in FF7 Rebirth not smoking anymore 'cause of Japan's rating system, not wanting young people to see smoking as 'cool'. Censorship? If you want to call it that, yeah. It sucks, but it is what it is. I'm glad people speak against these things.
Re: Sea Of Stars Developer Sabotage Replacing 'The Completionist' NPC
I really don't think Jirard is able to make a comeback after this. It would be a miracle at this point. He got rightfully exposed. This wouldn't have happened if he made a video the moment he learned that the money hadn't gone anywhere. Transparency is everything when it comes to stuff like this. There has to be something going on behind the scenes that we're not aware of. And there's a chance we'll never learn why. But yeah, definitely a shame. I used to watch his videos quite a bit in the past.
Re: Poll: What Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Wave 6 DLC Racer Are You Most Excited About?
It seems I'm in the minority here, I'm happy that I get to play Peachette lol. I like Peach in general so that might have something to do with it. Honestly, all the characters we're getting are great so it's a win all around.