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Prior to like 2011, every female NPC in every Western-developed game was dressed like this (hexbear.net)
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I've been watching a Youtuber do short gameplay videos of random old games from the PS1 and PS2 eras and it's amazing how almost every female side character just has enormous knockers that look like they're out to spill out of their tops.

It'd be one thing if these were all doing the Duke Nukem thing where every woman is written as a horny bimbo but it just feels wildly out of place in otherwise fairly straight-laced games and often is at odds with how the characters are written.

I know people here like to make fun of video games for being dumb and horny but you don't get how far especially Western games have come in the past decade and a half

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

VTMB is one of my all time favorite games but its such a hard recommend because the depictions of the strip club and sex workers are so fucking cringeworthy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I guess vampires have always been depicted as sexual in nature is how I try defending that game, but you're right. It's full of mid 00s edgy attitude, but that's kind of what I like about it. It's kind of a time capsule.

Heather though. The ghoul you can have in your hideout. She's entirely there because the devs were horny and wanted the player to have a horny servant woman. You can magically force her to be bound to you, follow your every command, and make her think she likes it. You can make her walk around the apartment in her underwear and there aren't any negative gameplay repercussions for doing this. You don't lose humanity for binding Heather to you. In fact, she gives you money and even catches a guy for you to drain ( or she catches a fish if you're cool enough to be a Malk)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I played the game I wasn't sure if half the interactions with her weren't weird additions from the fan-made restoration patch

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only thing the fan patch changed is you can tell her to stay inside at the ending and she'll give you a set of body armor that's not in the vanilla game. She normally gets killed by assassins and you can't prevent that. Yes, the patch rewards you even more for never releasing her.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, it's an accurate depiction of what being a magic mind-control slave owner is like in that universe. That is to say, it's great and has basically no downsides. Unless you object to it morally.

Vampires are fucking freaky. Most of the ones who get anywhere have ghouls.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I guess I would have preferred if keeping Heather around gave you regular loss in humanity, or at least something. The unpatched version has her get killed by vampire assassins if you keep her around, but by that point she might as well just be the player's furniture.