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one of the most popular games from my childhood was tomb raider where you were forced (at controllerpoint no less) to play as a woman
it was wildly popular
One of the biggest chuds in my own family was scared to play that game as a kid because playing as a feeemale would damage his mighty masculinity but he also jacked off endlessly to Lara Croft porn and bragged to strangers about liking porn that "put that (slur) in her place."
jesus tapdancing christ
He's also fine with Gambo being on TV when his small children are in the room (he's a father, unfortunately) but loudly raged (with them still in the room) about how a gay blowjob scene one time on the show was corrupting his children and that it should be a criminal act to have that where his kids could see it (they could see it because he argued they were "mature for their age" for everything else the show had going on in it until then).
I do wonder how Tomb Raider would be recieved if it was released today just as it was 1996, but with modern graphics.
Like on the one hand, forced to play as a woman. On the other hand though, if Lara had the design she had in 1996 would they not mind because she fits their traditional ideas of what "hot" is? Like modern Lara seems to piss them off I know that (even though she's still very much hot) but would old school Lara in modern graphics piss them off if it was a new franchise being released for the first time today? Makes me think.
Well you just brought to mind Last of Us 2 and the Horizon games. Both of which feature a female protagonist and both were subject of weird online chud tantrums.
They complained about the newer Tom Raider games too.
Yeah but those protags dont have big tiddy and an ass in short shorts you can stare at so im unsure.
I feel like it would suffer Seinfeld Syndrome and nobody would give a shit about it at all
i wonder how GTA San Andreas would be received today
. it already caused a stir that made some people not want to play as a black person back in the day
fr, I was also a Jill Valentine "main" in Resident Evil (admittedly some of that was because you got to hang out with the GOAT Barry Burton but still)
saaaaame
the master of unlocking > some dude called chris
She got a grenade launcher too