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[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I don't know what is, nor do I want to. lol

 

[RagnarokIV]

 

[Wastelander92]

Tetris blocks are all in a polyamorous relationship.

 

[diffusionx]

Duke Nukem goes to the strip club, tries to give money to a woman on stage wearing a respectable pantsuit, she kicks him in the balls, takes his guns, says "men let the aliens in, it's our turn now" while he grimaces in pain and then she takes over as the MC the rest of the game.

 

[MostlyPeaceful]

 

[Hookshot]

C&C Red Alert, instead of Einstein going back in time to erase Hitler and causing a different timeline, you have to kill Nazi's and it becomes just another of the countless WW2 games that exist.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

That's the Modern Audience, alright. I feel left out.

 

[cireza]

It's a mobile game with paid random shit that will end service in a few years.

 

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[cireza]

Looks like an hairdresser has half-assed his job.

 

[Martin701]

In the next Zelda installment Links pronouns would be "huh/ha"

 

[simpatico]

Elden Ring gets teenage urban voiceovers, a HUD designed by UbiSoft including multiple quest markers on screen at all times. 3 hour tutorial and a hip hop soundtrack. Yellow paint on every ledge that can be jumped on and every ladder

 

[Nydius]

Your favorite game is now made for Modern Audiences, what changes?

You can only pick FemShep in the character creator and all of her facial presets are masculine. You can only romance female characters but that doesn’t matter anyway because all male characters are now completely gay anyway.

In the first game, after rescuing Ashley Williams and discovering she hates aliens, you berate her for being a racist MAGA (make the alliance great again) xenophobe and blast her out the airlock.

… you know the more I type the more I realize that the entire Mass Effect trilogy was pretty “woke” for the time but they did it in such a way that it didn’t feel forced or contrived. And that’s the difference between a good game and a ham-fisted attempt at pandering to the modern audience.

 

[hemo memo]

Spider-non-Binary

 

[Kotaro]

oh boy even BlackRock is having troubles finding dAh mYtHiCaL mOdeRn aUdIEnCEs

 

[ReBurn]

You can only pick FemShep in the character creator and all of her facial presets are masculine. You can only romance female characters but that doesn’t matter anyway because all male characters are now completely gay anyway.

In the first game, after rescuing Ashley Williams and discovering she hates aliens, you berate her for being a racist MAGA (make the alliance great again) xenophobe and blast her out the airlock.

… you know the more I type the more I realize that the entire Mass Effect trilogy was pretty “woke” for the time but they did it in such a way that it didn’t feel forced or contrived. And that’s the difference between a good game and a ham-fisted attempt at pandering to the modern audience.

Forced is the operative word. Mass Effect didn't force you to go one way or another and characters didn't give in to romance options if they weren't down for it. You could pretty much ignore romance options by choosing to not get to know other characters better. That's how it should always be. Players shouldn't have to care about the gender identity or sexual preferences of characters.

A game for modern audiences would constantly throw the sexual/gender identity of characters in your face, ie. pronouns on character bio screens. Even when it makes no difference at all in the outcomes. Even when you couldn't care less and just want to shoot something.

 

[mitch1971]

Your favorite game is now made for Modern Audiences, what changes?

Smash Bros Meele now has rollback netcode, flawless online and is now a proper live service game.

 

[RoboFu]

Already happened... FF16 and it sucked...

 

[intbal]

Could've been worse, I guess.

Apologies to all the colorblind people who miss half the joke.