1) Players can't camp out in corners and kill-steal. It encourages them to get involved. 2) Killing enemy characters feels incredibly satisfying because it took a long time to GET to that one hit. On the flipside, missing with a super makes you cringe because it took so long to get there (so it's wonderful when you make an opponent miss with their supers). 3) Agreed. That lost sales for a ton of people I spoke to online. No secret characters, only one unlockable costume each, awful story mode (narration over stills and not even good narration) and a ton of lousy "titles" for online play. They treated single-player like a glorified tutorial, with a final boss that couldn't even kill you. 4) "A high ranking Super Bot employee"? You know these guys actually hired fighting game tournament players to help with balancing issues, right?
They had plenty of fighting game experience, making and playing. Annoyingly, that's one of the problems with the game. PSASBR is the game you get when you take what SHOULD be a fun, bright and appealing-to-all-ages kind of game and put it in the hands of a bunch of tournament players; an arseload of focus on the multiplayer and nothing else.
@Neo_Sarevok Agreed. There's room for adult movies in the film industry but that doesn't suddenly mean action, drama and romantic movies disappear. Why is the game industry so closed-minded towards them?
Frankly, the fact that adult games like Seduce Me are branching out into different genres, such as card games with RPG elements and dialogue choices, is a very good sign. Most adult games aren't anywhere near as high-quality as this seems to be. Not that I've played many but I've seen the screenshots ...
Yeah, video games affect people. Guns don't. I can take fifty bullets to the chest and not even need a bandage.
What an idiot. Nobody was ever killed by a video game. Please, US game developers, set up shop in a country where the government has a more sensible attitude towards video games.
@purpgo3 If that story was even close to true, you'd have sued them for gender discrimination. They'd probably have been sued for gender discrimination before, in fact.
See people, this is why anecdotal evidence doesn't work. "Small gaming company refused to hire me" sounds a LOT less convincing than "executive vice president at EA cites statistics to debunk sexism scapegoats".
Finally, someone with some common sense talking about sexism in the video game industry. It's great to see that there's a woman who doesn't buy into the #1ReasonWhy business from late last year. The simple truth of the matter is that there are fewer female employees at development companies because the industry appeals to men more than it appeals to women. It's that simple. It's like blaming women for the sexism in the beauty industry and not doing more to attract men ... but anyone with half a brain can see that it's an industry that is more attractive to one sex than the other.
So I have lots of praise for Gabrielle Toledano for this. Of course, if it was a male executive who had said this, how quickly do you think he would he be fired?
Trust me, I've no sympathy for sex offenders ... but this does make me raise an eyebrow. These people are on a sex offender's register, right? Or several? That's how the instigators of this scheme knew who to target. But surely the purposes of sex offenders being on those lists are for employers who need to know their identities to stop them from working in certain fields, such as with children. Punishing them in their personal lives by taking away their ability to play online games actually seems pretty immature and infringing upon a certain civil liberty or another. Their punishments are imprisonment, community service, fines and probably various other, more sensible, measures to keep from reoffending. Banning them from playing online games because they're on a register will be like punishing them after they've already received their punishment. It doesn't seem at all helpful.
And presumably, it's for life. You don't get removed from sex offenders registers, right?
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