Spoilered for a longer explanation that I'm guessing a lot of people don't want to read.
Ex got pissed at his girlfriend.
Posted a huge diatribe that, among other things, insinuated she slept with five game journalists while dating him.
Extremely toxic online communities galvanized around this as an opportunity to take down the woman, who is an outspoken feminist designer of "not" videogames, and start referring to it as "Five Guys" in reference to the burger chain. i.e. "Not even Five Guys can satisfy (her)"
Eventually they realize they can get more people on board with the harassment campaign by trying to make it about "Ethics in Journalism" by saying she slept with game journalists for better reviews. (Reviews of her FREE game, mind you.) and then it turns out that none of her alleged affairs actually reviewed the game anyway; but the dickheads didn't care by that point. TV's Adam Baldwin coined the phrase "Gamergate" and that's how a shitty harassment campaign disguised as a movement was born!
Honestly, there have been so many friggin' "father figure goes on video game adventure with child figure" games. Daughter figures especially popular in the child figure department.
Where are all the games with the bad ass mom figures? Nothing is more terrifying than mamma bear rage. Where is the game where a dude picks on a kid and out of nowhere the kid's mom punches through a wall and snaps the bully in half like a slim jim and then continues punching his corpse for a while just out of sheer spite?
Like dads are cool and everything, but why are moms just there to feed the kids breakfast?
A kick ass mom game could be pretty rad, in the hands of the right people.
The answer to this question is very similar to the answer of why so many protagonists in general are dudes.
The people who made those early games were all teenage/young adult men, and now they've grown up and started families. And storylines are partially shifting to reflect what is sometimes jokingly referred to the "dadification" of videogames.
But this same shift doesn't apply to moms, because, well, the games industry is still dominated by men/dads.
Honestly, there have been so many friggin' "father figure goes on video game adventure with child figure" games. Daughter figures especially popular in the child figure department.
Where are all the games with the bad ass mom figures? Nothing is more terrifying than mamma bear rage. Where is the game where a dude picks on a kid and out of nowhere the kid's mom punches through a wall and snaps the bully in half like a slim jim and then continues punching his corpse for a while just out of sheer spite?
Like dads are cool and everything, but why are moms just there to feed the kids breakfast?
A kick ass mom game could be pretty rad, in the hands of the right people.
Undertale?
Not saying that they do exist, just the only example I can think of that has a truly badass mom character.
Honestly, there have been so many friggin' "father figure goes on video game adventure with child figure" games. Daughter figures especially popular in the child figure department.
Where are all the games with the bad ass mom figures? Nothing is more terrifying than mamma bear rage. Where is the game where a dude picks on a kid and out of nowhere the kid's mom punches through a wall and snaps the bully in half like a slim jim and then continues punching his corpse for a while just out of sheer spite?
Like dads are cool and everything, but why are moms just there to feed the kids breakfast?
A kick ass mom game could be pretty rad, in the hands of the right people.
The answer to this question is very similar to the answer of why so many protagonists in general are dudes.
The people who made those early games were all teenage/young adult men, and now they've grown up and started families. And storylines are partially shifting to reflect what is sometimes jokingly referred to the "dadification" of videogames.
But this same shift doesn't apply to moms, because, well, the games industry is still dominated by men/dads.
see also penny arcade's comic strips following the classic newspaper comic author aging arc of changing from teenage male jokes to young adult male jokes to adult dad jokes to middle aged dad "I don't understand the kids these days" rants
Fallout 4 has many problems but one of the main ones is that you can't be in a relationship with one of your side characters and also be a lone wolf when out shooting things in the wasteland.
What're those moms up to all day now that their young children have left?
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I watched a couple videos of The Best Friends playing through Other M and they were counting the amount of times Samus said, "The Baby" but I don't know where the final total ended. Was it more or less than the "fucks" in The Big Lebowski?
I just wanna play a mom character who goes pissed off Molly Weasley. One second she's hunting for groceries cuz she's gotta make these kids some lunch, and the next second she notices a dark wizard looking at her kids all wrong and so she starts droppin' muhfuckas.
I guess Jade was kinda sorta like that in the beginning of Beyond Good & Evil, what with the lighthouse orphanage getting attacked and so on. But all of that was over pretty quickly.
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Spoilered for a longer explanation that I'm guessing a lot of people don't want to read.
Posted a huge diatribe that, among other things, insinuated she slept with five game journalists while dating him.
Extremely toxic online communities galvanized around this as an opportunity to take down the woman, who is an outspoken feminist designer of "not" videogames, and start referring to it as "Five Guys" in reference to the burger chain. i.e. "Not even Five Guys can satisfy (her)"
Eventually they realize they can get more people on board with the harassment campaign by trying to make it about "Ethics in Journalism" by saying she slept with game journalists for better reviews. (Reviews of her FREE game, mind you.) and then it turns out that none of her alleged affairs actually reviewed the game anyway; but the dickheads didn't care by that point. TV's Adam Baldwin coined the phrase "Gamergate" and that's how a shitty harassment campaign disguised as a movement was born!
The answer to this question is very similar to the answer of why so many protagonists in general are dudes.
The people who made those early games were all teenage/young adult men, and now they've grown up and started families. And storylines are partially shifting to reflect what is sometimes jokingly referred to the "dadification" of videogames.
But this same shift doesn't apply to moms, because, well, the games industry is still dominated by men/dads.
Undertale?
Not saying that they do exist, just the only example I can think of that has a truly badass mom character.
see also penny arcade's comic strips following the classic newspaper comic author aging arc of changing from teenage male jokes to young adult male jokes to adult dad jokes to middle aged dad "I don't understand the kids these days" rants
And then uh
Yeah
"Look I'll get to my kid whenever, it's really important I help out this robot private detective"
Shit
This is so true
well, i did ask for bad moms, so it fits.
Military grade duct tape
Accept no substitutes
That said I also set up a farm specifically for making adhesive
I was sadder about losing my Video Game Ryan Gosling Husbando than the kid in Fallout 4
I spent an hour crafting him, whereas I stopped thinking about the baby as soon as it went off-screen
Am I....am I the bad video game mom??
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Yes
Wow, that's not true at all. Have you heard the female protag mocking the swattah salesman in Diamond City?
Because I mean, THE BABY
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it's not a game with a bad mom, it's a bad game
Motherbrain is the original video game mom
What're those moms up to all day now that their young children have left?
The original metroid had Mother Brain, the worst mom.
Motherbrain informed a young me on what to look for in a partner, a shining example of a wonderful mother.
Holey moley!
In the anime, Ash would sometimes call his mom (at her house) and Professor Oak just happened to be there
Don't worry about failing to remember
Not like she's going to be more disappointed in you
I guess Jade was kinda sorta like that in the beginning of Beyond Good & Evil, what with the lighthouse orphanage getting attacked and so on. But all of that was over pretty quickly.
That stuff is pretty dang overt for a kids game too.
to be fair if the player character was like 7 years older, they'd be in the same boat as mom.
I never cared for the series before
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THAT GAME
fuck that
EDIT: dogg if they have kratos mopin around because a mean ol lady wronged him i am OUT
Steelbook case, soundtrack CD, hardcover artbook and a bag?
$90 for all of that is insanity
$76 after the Prime discount, too
I was praising the price!
It's insane that they would do that!