Current Events > What has been the dumbest controversy from gamers this generation?

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- Tifa's boobs being restricted
- Mortal Kombat characters not dressed revealing enough
- Spider-Man having less puddles in the final trailer
- Aloy in Horizon: Zero Dawn not being hot enough

What else? I don't think there's been a review score controversy for a while so that's something.
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The loli in Xenogears X not being able to wear the bikini.
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Spider Man puddles because that is such a dumb thing overall.
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"It's just $20 - get a job!"

The Xbox One continuing to receive hate after the DRM policies were reversed and the team responsible for it were ousted.

Like, there were legitimately millions of people only a couple years ago who didn't know they reversed all of the controversial stuff before it even launched.

No idea how you left out Jax's ending in MK11 being "SJW bullshit"

The lack of pet your waifu simulator in Fire Emblem games
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Turbam posted...

The loli in Xenogears X not being able to wear the bikini.

People were more upset you couldn't change your character's boob size, or so I thought. I know there were some weirdos out there concerned with the loli, though.
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The current censorship outrage.
Games have been censored by governments, developers, publishers and console manufacturers since at least the 80's. You'd maybe hear a few dozen or hundred disgruntled people even a few years ago.
Now you have thousands foaming at the mouth for polygonal/pixilated tits...
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"Don't you have phones?"

Dumbest in terms of the developers, not the gamers though.
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_Squirtle_ posted...

"Don't you have phones"

Dumbest in terms of the developers, not the gamers though.

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AC Unity not having a female option for co-op.

There were no options. You always saw yourself as the main guy.
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fusespliff posted...

Games have been censored by governments, developers, publishers and console manufacturers since at least the 80's. You'd maybe hear a few dozen or hundred disgruntled people even a few years ago

And Nintendo backed off when Mortal Kombat 2 sold about seventeen copies on SNES.
Wait for "get woke go broke" to work its magic, or maybe you're not the primary market anymore.

Questionmarktarius posted...

fusespliff posted...

Games have been censored by governments, developers, publishers and console manufacturers since at least the 80's. You'd maybe hear a few dozen or hundred disgruntled people even a few years ago

And Nintendo backed off when Mortal Kombat 2 sold about seventeen copies on SNES.
Wait for "get woke go broke" to work its magic, or maybe you're not the primary market anymore.

Games from across the globe had to be censored due to 9/11 and remain censored. A little more egregious than anime titties imo.
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Gamergate
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It's not a huge controversy but it sucked when a lot of people were down on Hitman 2016 because it released in episodes and people blamed it for the game bombing so they stopped doing it for Hitman 2 and the game still bombed.
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M_Live posted...

Turbam posted...

The loli in Xenogears X not being able to wear the bikini.

Any variation of this sort of "controversy"

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

fusespliff posted...

Games have been censored by governments, developers, publishers and console manufacturers since at least the 80's. You'd maybe hear a few dozen or hundred disgruntled people even a few years ago

And Nintendo backed off when Mortal Kombat 2 sold about seventeen copies on SNES.
Wait for "get woke go broke" to work its magic, or maybe you're not the primary market anymore.

Games from across the globe had to be censored due to 9/11 and remain censored. A little more egregious than anime titties imo.

Then we have SF V who announces rashid on 9/11 then his stage is a plane flying through a city. Which me as ana american who was alive and aware during 9/11 thought was hilarious. Hilarious just on the grounds capcom is painfully oblivious or had balls of steel.
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Idk if it's the dumbest, but i'm pretty much fed up hearing about microtransaction bitching. The point is well and beyond exhausted by now, people still persist every day.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

fusespliff posted...

Games have been censored by governments, developers, publishers and console manufacturers since at least the 80's. You'd maybe hear a few dozen or hundred disgruntled people even a few years ago

And Nintendo backed off when Mortal Kombat 2 sold about seventeen copies on SNES.
Wait for "get woke go broke" to work its magic, or maybe you're not the primary market anymore.

Oh no, a single case of censorship being undone due to monetary gain. I guess that discounts the 3-4 decades and dozens upon dozens of examples of what I was saying.
But hey, I'll play the "single anecdotal evidence game" and even add the difficulty of using the very same company.

Dragon Quest VIII sold very well on 3DS and is routinely recommended as the definitive version despite me disagreeing with that notion due to the removal of Jessica's cheesecake outfits.
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People wanting easy modes in games without difficulty options
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LightningAce11 posted...

Spider Man puddles because that is such a dumb thing overall.

Supporting lootboxes with all the money
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Darmik posted...

- Aloy in Horizon: Zero Dawn not being hot enough

Aloy is hot af; she bae bae
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Turbam posted...

The loli in Xenogears X not being able to wear the bikini.

Please don't remind of that or the waifu petting in Fates.

I really don't like remembering the feeling I had as I watched two of my bedrock game series as a child give into otaku-pandering bullshit.
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