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Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

where you can change pronouns of your main character

As if choosing your player character's gender hasn't been a common thing in video games for decades

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dark Souls 2 has a mechanic to swap your character's gender whenever you want to. From is already okay with genderfluid protagonists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

You have to fight a bunch of ogres about it though, so business as usual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There was an outrage about that either back when Dark Souls 2 came out, or when they added that to the game - I vaguely remember there not being anything worth note just after the game came out. Either way, "some people" freaked out about it, and the controversy got some wind in the sails due to the gamergate culture war being a thing back then.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Terminally online"

Now look, half of Lemmy is terminally online, those people you talk about are simply racists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Fair point :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Probably more than half, let's be honest here!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Elden Ring already has gender fluidity, a strong female POC, people with physical and mental disabilities, and homosexual implications. "Wokeness" should be the least of their concerns about what Sony could do to From.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Elden ring already has body A body B customization. These chodes have never played elden ring and may be Russian.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not even hiding the racism and homophobia.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

The very idea of having a choice feels threatening to their tiny minds. Like, just choose to be a white cis man if it’s really all that important to you.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

Not to mention everybody will have pronouns now! Previously we were just referring to the individuals by the individuals' names, of course.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why would they? Actors, politicians, etc openly show hate and there're no meaningful consequences. It's accepted now...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

guess it's time to be as aggressively anti-bigot when they are being aggressively racist/homophobic 🤷🏻

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure everyone will have pronouns as well

Like they don't already?

[–] parpol 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I'm more concerned with having to get a Sony PSN account to play my steam game.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

And the possibility of it turning into a Playstation exclusive once again. Or at the very least a game developed for Playstation with a terrible PC port.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yep, the main thing I worry about. But the parent company that the Sony is considering buying owns only like 65% of From Software. So maybe from software will have some leeway and they can put their foot down and say they don't want to use PSN. Maybe? Hopefully? Otherwise, elden ring will be the last game that I bought from them.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Black people and homosexuals? Omg, can you imagine trying to play a game when the NPCs have a different race or sexuality than you do? It must be impossible.

Do I need the /s?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I don't want no gay darkies in my fantasy game where I fight wizard fish people and British jars /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

At least there won't be any black homosexuals.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity.

It was obnoxious enough with pineapple pizza hate and clown fear.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

God when did racism, homophobia, and misogyny become the new opinions you can hold instead of developing an identity

Honestly? Maybe sometime around mid-late 2015 after Donald announced his first run for president.

The moment he was taken seriously, it emboldened all the chuds.

Upon further thought, I believe that year also marked the start of what led to Brexit as the UK Conservative Party won a majority. Not a great year.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

when a black woman becomes the next sekiro

..... Sounds cool?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

non white people? in my Asian-themed fantasy game?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Right? If I want historical accuracy I'll watch a documentary

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Any time sometime terrible happens, the worse people will try and claim it as a victory. Sony buying From Software is terrible, but not because of some imagined spector called DEI.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What if from software makes a character that's biologically male, but gets raised as a woman because of his moon powers? That would be so woke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

What if From Software made a chracter who can swap sexes at will but struggles with two mutually antagonizing personalities and made them the main boss of their next game? That would be so woke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That'd be dope Sailor Moon fan fiction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's the Sailor Stars arc.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't go to YouTube comments. Tis a silly place.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

The jerk store called and they're out of YouTube comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Can't wait to play a woke game ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) but Fuck Sony. Sony should be last option ( ; ω ; ).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, I get it - as a gamer myself, when buying a new title I don't really care about things like if the game is fun or good or has a healthy community/playerbase, these things don't matter. How many non-straight characters are there, now that's much more important - in fact, if you feature too many it might bring the end of the western world or something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sometimes characters in my games have pronouns and I still play those games, but I'm always weirded out by it. Why do people need to talk about them and not use only their name?

Oh no, now I am using pronouns! The woke people have corrupted my mind!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

sybilvane means sybilvane* uses pronouns. rational people such as sunbather and sybilvane would never use pronouns, lest those wokies defea.. wait..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Bruh, just....bruh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Sony are actually the people who dictate that Spiderman remain straight and white though. It's in all of his license agreements. Doesn't have sex under the age of 16, doesn't have sex with anyone under the age of 16, is white, is hetero, doesn't swear over pg-13, symbiote is not peters design, lived/raised in queens, gains powers during high school, and a bunch of other things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So how did they reconcile Miles Morales?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wiki says he's an "Alternate Spiderman". Alter Egos have an exception from what I understand. He's from another universe according to Marvel. He's not Peter Parker. It's specifically Peter Parker who must be all these things.

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[–] RandomVideos 3 points 1 day ago

My games only include women and non-binary characters

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I need REALISM in my sci-fi fantasy game!!!1

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

and by realism, they mean "Everyone is white and all women meet their standards of what is attractive", because of course, white men and supermodels are the vast majority of the human population in real life /s

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