1. Those "out of context" moments are called story.
2. Strive has a lot of issues, he just happens to get a lot of attention because of how nonsensical and externally influenced the retcon was, and how it was intentionally propped up to be a cultural fight.
3. Bridget is a boy.
Bridget discourse again man, half the people using examples from plus r or random out of context moments from arcade mode to say she’s a boy. None of them have more than 100 hours on any gear game
I like how all the people defending this nonsense in the replies can't decide to go with "Guilty Gear was always queer!" or "This is how it is now!".
This shit is unnatural, and the clashing between having nationality flags and these bizarre sexuality flags is a confused mess.
Street Fighter V launched in a pretty rough state, but I never once said to fans "SF isn't for you anymore go play the old games and stop complaining".
The idea that Strive is exempt from criticism and that all the old Guilty Gear fans should just fuck off is so strange to me.
Usually I just ignore it but idk Guilty Gear players gotta be some of the most entitled people in the FGC lol
I can’t think of any other fighting game series where 3 mainline titles are supported well after release and they still find a way to complain about Strive
Just about every conversation about issues in the FGC or the games they play can be boiled down to:
-"It's ok because more people"
-"It's ok because sales"
-"It's ok because all the complainers are bigots"
While completely ignoring or justifying any and all glaring problems.
American branch of a Japanese company posting jokes about the advent of weapons that were only ever used against the Japanese, represented by a Japanese character facing an explosion via a mechanic that was cut from the latest game in the series.
Very cool!
Little wild that everyone just kind of memory holed all the red flags from the last couple years.
-Dan Houser being afraid of launching the game during a Trump presidency
-R* getting a "restructuring" to be "kinder"
-Censoring the last two decades of GTA releases post launch
A new report states that Rockstar is taking care to not "punch down" with jokes about marginalized groups, which would be a change from past games that poked fun at all manner of people.
It's a bit disturbing that in the coming years we're going to have victims of the gender movement directly cite not just communities like the FGC but Guilty Gear and Bridget as the primary reasons for them making mistakes that led directly to unnecessary confusion/pain/suffering.
This "Uhm, if you speak out about something, you clearly never cared or played!" lie is getting old.
But it's by necessity, there's no validity or sense in what they champion, so they substitute it with constant pressure, gaslighting, and a complete chokehold on the community.
Honestly the people most vocal about Guilty Gear and all the discourse surrounding it are people who never have, nor never will, play it.
This was ESPECIALLY true for the Bridget discourse. 😅
People "swarmed" you because your priorities weren't "enjoyment of the game" but wanting it to align with FGC values, and when people reacted, you took the 'you are all weird, I've been here longer than you' position.
DOA should stay on ice if people like you are lurking about.
It seems I've become the Victor Donovan of the DOA Community. All it took was a simple "nerf tiddies" and y'all swarmed in like a pack of hungry wolves. DOA6 died due to MANY factors, not its sex appeal. What's more important? The $100 Season Pass or the ENJOYMENT of the game?
I understand the "stop playing" part, but not the complaining part.
If you enjoyed a game/series, and for whatever reason it gets worse or drastically shifts to something different, are you supposed to just forget about it?
It's not that hard to hold an opinion, and be vocal.
@CyberS0ul
Anyone can look at different translations and determine what is more accurate and faithful, official translations are more often than not vandalized by personal politics, and the "it wouldn't look right!" fallacy is just asinine. Translate properly or not at all, this isn't hard.
Das a boy homie.
Even if buy into the retcon, he's still a boy in two of those pictures, although he's still a boy in all four of those pictures.
I guess what I'm getting at is, he's a boy.
@PDakkadakka
I know contacts can get confusing, but how did he not realize that getting in bed directly with the company comes with restrictions? Even if he just blindly signed on, you'd imagine he'd at minimum understand that he likely can't share everything he saw prerelease.
@jchensor
@HiFightTH
@AndyOCR
If it wasn't about the main menu, why did you comment such a thing under someone talking about the main menu?
Male and Female characters have gotten plenty of revealing shots over the last 30 years, this is specifically about the main menu whenever he boots up the game.
"want worse fighting games"
"pretend we're something we aren't"
"hate what we play"
"follow current thing blindly"
"turn escapism and community into an overcompetitive den of cult-like false positivity"
"prefer influence and pandering over quality and legacy"
Take your pick.
@jchensor
@HiFightTH
@AndyOCR
But if you broaden the scope from outside the main menu, which is the only reason it got brought up, men are quite frequently in a position where they are shirtless. Your "long overdue" and "for a change" comments are just grandstanding bull, do better.
@CyberS0ul
Stop pretending like this is some hidden science, translate accurately or not at all. If you find this difficult find another occupation, or get used to some heat, and if you can't separate personal politics from something that was not written by you, you have issues.
I see a few people commenting that they'd love to see a new Darkstalkers.
Love me some Darkstalkers, love me some Lilith.
I don't want a Darkstalkers in current year, and you shouldn't either if you know or care about the series on a level deeper than enjoying a quirky mod.
Also, I don't particularly care for the playtime nonsense, for multiple reasons, mainly how it's applied and how it's meant to be easily dismissed.
I've been playing GG for over 20 years, multiple titles on multiple consoles, my steam hours make up maybe a fifth of that.
Das a boy homie.
Even if buy into the retcon, he's still a boy in two of those pictures, although he's still a boy in all four of those pictures.
I guess what I'm getting at is, he's a boy.
@kenshirotism
Kevin's Batman is in the game, and datamines have shown they've been working on The Joker since before he died.
Not that I'm holding him to his word or anything, he just didn't violate it here.
Can't believe we're still dragging this guy.
1. He was right, he just didn't know to say "inguinal crease" instead of "vagina bones".
2. TMS was altered in multiple ways outside of this one example.
3. Censorship is bad, regardless of how, when, or what it censors.
@Linkcrossing
Multiple, but that doesn't matter to you, or at all really.
I could list off any game/event/year/placement, and it would have nothing to do with the observations/conversations at play, and at the same time you'd write off whatever game, tourney, or placement I tell you about.
@NiceBoy_555
Few reasons:
-This kind of stuff is hitting the boiling point for some people
-GG being "big for lgbt" is seen as forced and retroactive
-Normalizing your sexuality being on display next to you handle at a fighting game tournament is seen as strange and ideologically driven
So is it just a Sony mandate that any first party or purchased exclusive need to have their characters/models grafted to memes in an extremely unfunny manner?
Why is it that the people behind wiki/gimmick/fan accounts always have distain and embarrassment for what they cover?
They always seem to hate the designs/stories/content, and always want them changed/watered down, all while pretending to be authorities on the topics.
It's impossible to have a conversation about it because when it's pointed out as happening, morons like this guy says "obviously happening thing is not happening", and when we get direct confirmation they say "it's a good thing that obviously happening thing is happening".
The vitriol in the replies is hilarious. This post is the most “Well yeah, obviously” shit ever and they're treating it like a supervillain reveal. It's impossible to have a serious discussion about actual problems in localization when the convo is dominated by culture war freaks
Naotos story is one the kind that gender activists hate and want either forgotten or retconned.
Happier paths for gender troubled people that aren't related to some kind of transition are immensely threatening them, and Naoto turning down the possibility is done very directly.
Seeing all the familiar replies to comments like this:
-"not reading that"
-"why do you care?"
-"the creator(s) said it, let it go"
Is this what hobbies and entertainment are now? Mobs of morons cheering on nonsensical/unnatural pandering changes to media they never cared about?
Have to say this is an exceptionally bad way of establishing this change.
I was giving ya'll the benefit of the doubt up until this point, but come on this is probably the single worst way to reply to that question.
There's chunks of text in Codices that outright say it's the
Ignoring the continued pandering fueled marketing moves for a minute, there's a humorous joke to be made about a grooming victim being one of the few characters they choose to push onto VRChat of all things.
I don't really feel like finding or telling it, but it's there.
-Industry has hemorrhaged talent for 10-13 years
-Companies have been hiring based on everything but merit
-Everything from assets to story are outsourced
-eSports is throttling at least four different genres
-The traditional history/fans of games are villainized constantly
No.
@AGramuglia
@VOMS_Project
Every time you pop up in my feed you are defending villains, lying through your teeth, or gaslighting others.
Have you ever held an honest position in your entire life?
@Linkcrossing
No, you're not curious. You're fishing for info.
I could be a passerby that saw a tournament once, or I could have multiple EVOs under my belt, none of that has anything to do with what I, and many others have pointed out.
The Modern FGC is deranged, this kind of aggressive and unhinged behavior is not only common but accepted, only time it's ever addressed is after constant public exposure, and even then there is no accountability.
After days of deliberating, I've decided to go public with this statement.
This is a detailed account of the harassment and physical intimidation I experienced in the UNI Suite from Tabby Nickel @ Frosty Faustings 2024.
@icyfiregames
Your average effeminate boy or any kid that didn't follow gender norms 10-20 years ago, would kill for a parent like that who is willing to "do his best" for them.
That boy is another twisted example of what the current culture can push out when it gets its hands on people.
Otokonoko has meant one very specific thing from the second everyone heard it up until about 5 minutes ago.
Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you or doesn't understand it themselves, and both people are helping the infiltration of the term for invasive fringe interests.
@liddle_lefty
It's tiresome to run into kids around these topics, but I guess it's unsurprising, a lot of companies and communities target them.
The noisy ones are great shields against dissenting opinions around things they weren't there for.
Actually surprised people are saying this means it's fake, I just think it's the trademark copy and pasting ArcSys has done a lot of in Strive. Most of the men use the same muscular frame, most of the women(and one man) use the same body and/or face.
May -> Bridget -> Elphelt
What is it with the FGC and only accepting attraction to older/burlier men? The only girls they seem to be open to are actually men, like Bridget and Poison.
This exclusive to online voices obviously, any of the normal fighters still out there are fine with normal attraction.
@ZakkuRye
If that community you grew is a sensitive as you, and carries the same distaste for the game they play, we're probably better off you and your contributions.
The FGC is a disaster and it's primarily because of unhinged people like this flooding the scene, ones who rant and rave and bully people because believe they are always in the right and can't get through an insincere forced apology without trying to justify their actions.
Lunar at the end of the day I do not like you one bit, however I acted way out of line that night and couldn't control my emotions and I do apologize. I had told the hosts of the room I didn't want to see you there earlier in the night and I let the anger issues I have take over.
@MofuMofuDraws
Reminder that this line of thinking is the norm with anyone prominent in that sphere.
I'd call it a self-fulfilling prophecy but it's just going to end up crushing acceptance and hard resetting a lot of things in ways people aren't expecting.
FGC shit is cancer, the clip is of training a basic setup+combo in response to a claim of not being able to, and all the responses are glossary filled spergouts.
If she liked Strive and posted about that, they'd be cheering and simping hard, they already do so for much less.
There are no 'egg jokes', it has always been them saying the quiet part out loud, they see young/vulnerable/confused people as something to manipulate. It's always been about grooming, they play it off as a joke to muddy the waters and get defenders.
This isn't hard to grasp.
i, despite what you may think, have never really bean a fan of egg_irl, but there is no non transphobic reason to be mad at this art. who does this hurt? How does this misunderstand the character? theres nothing sexual about so the sex negative people shouldnt be mad either
@momiji_doa
I'm not playing the "both sides" game. It's been years of one dominant extreme position absolutely crushing entertainment, a slow rise of these opinions doesn't compare.
I don't agree with it, but I'm not going to blame them after being poked, prodded, and tricked for a decade.
@liddle_lefty
@nichegamer
The wording is a bit off but that's what the article is referring to, botting of the opinion "Bridget is trans bigot" in the replies to a post stating "Bridget is male".
@notCursedE
The "transgender umbrella" freely expands and contracts based on the whims of activists within the group. Most notably, the movement freely discards and actively attacks femboys and tomboys whenever it isn't using them to inflate their numbers, or ride on the preexisting acceptan
On top of that, he's wrong, Strive and its successes are propped up by happenstance, it literally had the most opportune launch in the history of the genre, it then took that opportunity and chased every bad trend it could while completely destroying the series' foundation.
I think GG has a lot of potential.
and since I want GG to become more popular, I suggested to Arc System works that they make us the publisher for Strive.
As a result, we are now publishing in all areas except Japan and the US. Also, we have no say in the creative process (the
I don't care if you were the first person to play every game, I don't care if you're the loudest fan on the planet, if you want to change any part of the experience because you find it "icky", or because of some modern sensibilities bullshit, your history means nothing.
A "community" that:
-Spent decades inviting and elevating shitty people
-Frequently ignores predators/bullies
-Begs for games to be worse
-Inundated with the worst parts of modern culture
-Ostracizes and bans anyone who rubs the "right" people the "wrong" way
It's all a joke.
I honestly can't imagine relying on the community for enjoyment, the FGC has sucked for awhile.
Best way to play and improve is a close friend at or near your skill level, having a small pool of friends that like fighting games is nice too, just for fun.
Having both is nirvana.
I predict it having choppy action and a weak story with terrible pacing wrapped together into a bad adaptation that people who don't care about the series will eat up and then promptly forget.
Just like Castlevania.
@FE_Heroes_JP
For the love of god, ignore vocal minorities, the game has been around for over five years, the series over thirty, you know what works already.
頼むから声高なマイノリティは無視してくれ、ゲームは5年以上、シリーズは30年以上の歴史があるんだから、もう何が有効かわかるだろ。
@FemboyIdeas
Even unhealthier when you consider they seemingly got exactly what they wanted, they were directly pandered to, using a character they saw as problematic long before the modern trans movement even existed, yet they consistently fly into hysterics at the sight of a single "he".
Seeing the handful of "muh sales, muh player numbers" in response to criticism over the direction of the series is unsurprising, but frustrating.
We're discussing the quality of the game, the actions of the developers, and the integrity of decisions. Stop with the nonsense.
Effeminate men are pressured to transition from overwhelming social pressure, constantly:
-Arrogant clout chasers making it seem like the norm(it's not btw)
-Predators/fetishists that get off on it
-Activists and interested parties pushing it
-Media pandering
Ignorant and Evil.
"weird aura"
What? people thought you phoned it in and expected better of you, I have no idea why. But there's no nefarious reasoning here, just disappointment.
There's a very weird aura about this game right now. People are acting strange AF. If you can't handle casual banter as we're exposed to game elements, it 100% seems like you've already pained a picture in your head.
Here's HOW I ACTUALLY FELT from what I played.
Translation is not a creative field and should be automated as soon as possible.
Obviously there will be stumbling and issues, but we can't get that sorted until we kick this off and start crippling the localization industry, the smaller that gets, the better things will get.
A Manga AI Localization Start-Up Company named Orange Inc. has raised around 19 million US dollars to translate up to 500 new manga volumes PER MONTH into english and launch their own e-book store 'emaqi' in the USA in Summer 2024!
Their goal is to fight piracy and increase the
@ArcSystemWorksU
I'm curious to see if in the future we'll learn how many of the posts like these were made to blatantly grab the attention of the vacuous modern mob, and how many were made with malice from individual western employees.
@KwispyDwagon
Yeah it sucks, he's nothing but a trophy to these people, and you're more likely to see him pop up attached to really shitty or nefarious people/opinions(most commonly grooming) rather than things that are gameplay related or just fun.
Even if it were true, if Strive was a game that pleased everyone, wasn't riding the hype of one of the largest anime IPs, being sold during a period where the world was forced to stay at home, during one of the biggest slumps in the genre, what would it have been in service of?
"Guys did you know about 'Pro Jumper! Guilty Gear Tangent!?', I bet you feel silly calling Strive the worst GG now, haha!"
People need to stop pretending that the series was some unknown element that people literally never played before, it was a joke, it's getting old now.
@blumspew
@EndWokeness
@theproudfamily
Terrible [position Steve, been sad to watch you fall down this woke rabbit hole, whether it was a heartful buy in or necessary bend of the knee, really sad and really weak.
Most people aren't going to take their opinions, especially on things as egregious and toxic as Strive/the Bridget retcon, and just leave.
I know I'm not going anywhere, I spent 20+ years with the series positively, I'm willing to repeat that negatively if things don't change.
I'm gonna say it once more, then never again.
Fuck this oldhead ass behavior, fuck the discourse, fuck the people perpetuating the discourse, and fuck the so-called "GG Fans" for this tirade against Bridget for no reason.
It's been 2 fucking years. Move on you pathetic cunts.
@KoTKoharu1
Throwing a fit. Whenever I see images like this, I immediately just see someone seething, alternatively I see someone with no real will or original thoughts.
@YggyVT
How are you lot still playing the victim? You don't get to cause/support/condone community wide harassment and then dodge the backlash by hiding behind protected identities. People are waking up to your nonsense, and you're only making things worse by doubling down.
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The "ft10 bro" mentality was always an annoying caveman thing, but it's even more asinine when it's used in response anything outside of personal beefs.
We're talking about community nonsense around a crap game, stow the "fight me bro" attitude.
Some wonderful human beings seem to believe I should just get better at the game and that'll make things better.
1. I'm not paying for a game I don't wanna play.
2. Even if I did, and I started winning tourneys, I've seen the measures you'll take to destroy me. I'm not stupid.
@KoTKoharu1
Nah, it's not ridiculous. After years of pushing and prodding, a nasty culture wormed its way into something nice, and then a bunch of people who never really cared decided to pander to nasty and evil people, who then proceeded to use it to be nasty and evil wherever possible.
It's not "thinking" that something is censorship, it's acknowledging something was removed in a censorious manner, making it censorship.
If you want to be pro censorship, just own it, there are plenty of useful idiots to back you up, no need to hide it.
The fact that the newest Stellar Blade talking point is that the usual crowd thinks removing the MC's cameltoe is censorship, should REALLY tell you what their fixation has always been about.
Something to note about a lot of these situations with Nintendo, and the industry as a whole with these kinds of characters, is that it's part of a long devious process in subverting media wherever possible.
So in
@NintendoAmerica
's recently released Splatoon 3 DLC, they introduced a non-binary character named Acht who uses "they/them" pronouns.
This game is aimed at children. Nintedo has gone woke.
Parents beware!
Not for the whole "they have worse!" line, I think they should freely keep up whatever, but hosting nude mods for Animal Crossing, lewd mods for Genshin, and various fetish tier mods, while deleting accurate translations and slight body mods, forfeits the "moral" high ground.
@PC_Focus_
The mod violated our rules on indecent content because the character is known to be a minor (see specific rule in red). In the author's own words "This mod changes Yukari's body to make her look more... corpulent, more stuffed where the eyes can't escape."
1. No one has had this conversation, at least not with it ending that way.
2. A man is still gay if he sexually or romantically attracted to a trans"girl".
3. Bridget is a boy.
4. Being desperate enough to post shit like this is more pathetic than any femboy Bridget poster.