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[hemo memo]

This article is so ridiculous that I don’t know where to begin!

 

[notjeffgoldblum]

 

[WitchHunter]

Jesus, people with their brain bugs are out of control. Hades was a pretty mediocre, pretty boring game that was hyped up, like all the other Supergiant products. Supergiant makes some visually pleasing, but otherwise very flat, dull and anemic games. They have perfect artists, but they need some good game designers. Stellar Blade has similar issues, plus they also ripped off everyone at arms length.

 

[lmimmfn]

So they're saying to avoid Hades 2 , got it, thanks for the heads up !!

 

[diffusionx]

Cool, never playing Hades 2, thanks Alyssa

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Fun thing is that people like Alyssa all think we're foaming at the mouth, afraid of what's to come.

Oh sweet irony! The perfect answer to all the brainfarts degenerates like her spout out?

And move on. Let them scream into the void. We as a group just shouldn't react. Let them sulk in their own pity.

 

[HarryKS]

It's just an article.

 

[Arsic]

The character on the left in the hades image is full blown butt ass naked with half her boob hanging out.

But no, stellar blade is too horny.

 

[Schmendrick]

Stop! Supporting! Stupid! Clickbait! By! Spreading! It! Here!

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Stop! Supporting! Stupid! Clickbait! By! Spreading! It! Here!

They! Are! Screenshots!
ffs
No-one is getting clicks in this. Calm yer tits.

 

[FoxMcChief]

At the end of the day, it’s stupid fucking video game polygons and sprites. Anyone getting offended is a fucking simp retard.

Jesus fucking Christ. Kids are starving on this fucking planet, and we got simps getting hurt about video game characters that people would rather fuck than some purple hair’d mongoloids.

If god is real, he made a mistake with the human race.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

They! Are! Screenshots!
ffs
No-one is getting clicks in this. Calm yer tits.

That's sexist. I'm telling Evilore!

 

[YCoCg]

AH ha, so it boils down to:

Sexy Woman = Exploitive, Male Gaze, Literally Killing Women
Sexy Woman (but gay) = Empowering, the RIGHT kind of Sexy, Owning their body, Step on me mommy

 

[LordCBH]

The character on the left in the hades image is full blown butt ass naked with half her boob hanging out.

But no, stellar blade is too horny.

No no you don’t understand. The Hades one is fine cause the fugly bridge-troll ass lookin lady says it is and the studio is diverse!


It’s all thinly veiled racism against Asian devs thats all it is. That’s all it’s ever been. They can’t control them like they can western devs, so they hate them and attack them.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I think those characters in Hades II are ugly as sin. Maybe it's not the characters themselves but a mix of their design and the overall "artstyle" the game's going for.

 

[Luipadre]

I think those characters in Hades II are ugly as sin. Maybe it's not the characters themselves but a mix of their design and the overall "artstyle" the game's going for.

yeah the overall art style in hades 2 is a step down from the first imo both character and UI art

 

[Chuck Berry]

Thanks Kotaku!

 

[FoxMcChief]

Thanks Kotaku!

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

That's sexist. I'm telling Evilore!

Wrong forum bro.....

 

[Boss Mog]

An Asian female isn't diverse enough now?

Not unless she's obese or ultra muscular and LGBTQ++++++ of course.

 

[Dacvak]

Stop giving these sites so much attention then. Why wouldn’t Kotaku write some dumb ragebait article when they know everyone on GAF will hate-click it and then talk about it for the next week?

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Not unless she's obese or ultra muscular and LGBTQ++++++ of course.

Fun thing is that they cry bodyshaming and whatnot.

What are they doing exactly?

Yeeeeeeeeeeeees

 

[Deerock71]

They! Are! Screenshots!
ffs
No-one is getting clicks in this. Calm yer tits.

 

[hemo memo]

Stop! Supporting! Stupid! Clickbait! By! Spreading! It! Here!

Clickbait can be annoying but it ends up giving the game more attention.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Tits and face are amazing. I prefer the bottom half curves more, as I’ve grown older. Hips and ass are my game now. I think tits are a young man’s game.

 

[Braag]

Another thread about some crap that idiot Alyssa Mercante wrote. Maybe stop giving her attention?

 

[Zheph]

She disrespected the goty

 

[Brigandier]

I don't have any words for these type of idiots anymore I'm so fucking sick of them

 

[GymWolf]

Imagine using the future goty 2025 to drive your shitty agenda.

Also, can we change the title of the topic? This bitch is as much of a journalist as i'm an expert in quantum theory.

 

[Aenima]

They follow a very simple formula:

If design is appealing to LGBT+ = Thats hot
If design is appealing mainly to Straight White Males = PrObLeMaTiccccc!!!!!11reeee

 

[Spukc]

the female body is disgustang


Quickly write another article!

 

[Bartski]

Understanding Hades’ hotness​

Hades characters’ sexiness is woven into their personalities, as much a part of them as their wants, needs, and emotions—and their bodies, however scantily clad or salacious, are not in motion, they cannot be manipulated or posed or peered at from different angles. Instead, it’s like you’re looking at statues or paintings of these gods and their eternal, infinite sexiness. There is desire here, sure, but there is also power and reclamation, there is longing because you only get a tiny little taste of their beauty. The concept of “look, but don’t touch” is incredibly sexy—it’s part of why strip clubs, many of which have strict rules on touching the performers, are so lucrative.

Conversely, as Issy Van Der Velde writes for Inverse, a character like Stellar Blade’s Eve (like Lara Croft before her) is hot, but she doesn’t seem to be aware of it: “she’s sexy but doesn’t know it; she’s athletic and acrobatic but entirely controllable.” She is a blank slate, a poseable sex doll, her bountiful chest heaving during idle animations. Unlike Bayonetta, whose sexiness is folded into her personality and fighting style, Eve is just blandly attractive. Eve is the object of desire, not the owner of it.

 

[mckmas8808]

More PR for Stellar blade and not a negative one despite their "hard" effort. They dont know yet, but its gonna sell even more Stellar Blade copies. Thanks Kotaku for free ad

Totally agree! Can't wait to support Stellar Blade even more now with my money.

Oh

So now hotness is about diversity

I'm one of the most "pro-diversity" guys you'll ever meet and even I think these people are crazy and a bunch of idiots. Do they think the main character in Stellar Blade is white?

 

[Arsic]

Tits and face are amazing. I prefer the bottom half curves more, as I’ve grown older. Hips and ass are my game now. I think tits are a young man’s game.

36. Still love tits.

 

[BbMajor7th]

Translation: Middle-class, white-collar Californians are morally superior.

A more interesting and inclusive take would be to celebrate the fact that gaming can accommodate all kinds of representation for all types of people. It doesn't have to cater solely to T&A or queer or bishi anime boys, or grizzled cowboy dudes - there's room for everything and everyone gets to play the things they like. Isn't that awesome? Isn't that the utopia we all strived for? No. It turns out that tolerance and inclusivity were a red herring and - in truth - meant intolerance and exclusion.

 

[saintjules]

It's just an article.

Right?

 

[mckmas8808]

There is a level of derangement from the "left" that has developed over the past 10 years which is astonishing to behold in it's sheer stupidity and hysteria. Hogwarts part 2 here we come, give it more attention losers, Shift Up and Sony looking like

Stop making this political. It's NOT! No politics about this. It's not left or right.

 

[The Pleasure]

Is that an anime evo tournament?

 

[Dr. Suchong]

I'm bracing myself for how Edge magazine are going to spin how Bayonetta is empowering but Stellar is shameless, sexist, exploitation, in their review (assuming of course they don't chicken out and neatly side step it like they did with Hogwarts legacy)
It's guaranteed to be White knight piffle that'll have me screaming into a pillow.

 

[BbMajor7th]

Stop making this political. It's NOT! No politics about this. It's not left or right.

It's centrist.

 

[rofif]

Stupid idiots....
Back to dragons dogma 2 then.
Not only that, my Mage name is "Aertyts" and she serves me well.

Bonus urlika

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

So unrealistic......... (DAYUM dem boobies!!)

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Uhm why can’t we have both. Thats truly diverse….

I think that's what the article might be saying?

Any mention of Stellar Blade seems to trigger people though (on both sides).

 

[Putonahappyface]

Delicious.

 

[mckmas8808]

I think that's what the article might be saying?

Any mention of Stellar Blade seems to trigger people though (on both sides).

Is it saying that? Because I'm not seeing that.

 

[tusharngf]

 

[MagiusNecros]

All I got from that blurb is Eve is full of life and those Hades characters are just lifeless objects. Uno Reverse Card.

 

[Mistake]

I don't know what's funnier. A god in a wheelchair, or the fact he tried to fix his legs and is still in a wheelchair

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Steller Blade shows that characters can be diverse and even hotter . . .

They just quietly admitted they consider Asians as White. Last I checked, Korean is diverse.

 

[Aenima]

I think that's what the article might be saying?

Any mention of Stellar Blade seems to trigger people though (on both sides).

What the article saying is this:

Naked Aphrodite from Hades good cuz (insert mental gymnsatics) Thers DEI characters in it, so its an "Ally".
Fully clothed EVE from Stellar Blade bad cuz (Insert mental gymnastics) It appeals to the male gaze. Must fight the patriarchy.

Reminder that these ppl are not journalists, they are activists writting blog posts on gaming websites but hate gamers and gaming culture.