Comment by UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net on So watching my nephew play apple arcade games on his tv has been harrowing.

The spongebob game wasnt so bad. It had like a login bonus but it didnt seem to be too bad But once we got into the lego star wars game the f2p bullshit started. And oh god. This game clearly designed for kids had all the f2p bullshit. Login bonuses. Gridnyness. Multiple in game currencies. The daily/weekly ect missions. The unlockables

But god the racing game was even worse. 100000 things to unlock and basically nothing is by default basically. Sooooooooooo absurdly grindy. And most harrowing of all… i swear to god… 5 seperate in game currencies.

I want to reach out and scream to him “games werent always like this maaaaan”

That’s fine. That was a personal taste rant there, entirely subjective.

It doesn’t help that I found previous Blizzard waifu characters grating… especially what they did with Kerrigan over time.

I feel like more people should get made fun of for blizzards idea that shooting lazers at women make them sexy and evil.

Agreed. But Blizzard was a cultural monolith that was almost impossible to directly criticize, even for storytelling cliches, until a relatively recent tidal shift where all the sex pestery and general assholery in those offices came to light.

Yeah agreed that the waifuification of Kerrigan sucks.

She was always kind of a cliche, but a fun cliche, in the earlier Starcraft game/expansion. Blizzard really, really, likes its “corrupted waifu” cliches and has pushed that button many times since, especially in World of Warcraft.

Kerrigan was basically destroyed by waifuication in Starcraft II.

I could rant for hours about a similar waifuication of Cortana in the Halo series (yes, even when trying to kill Master Chef in a horny way that counts as waifuication)

Kerrigan was basically destroyed by waifuication in Starcraft II.

I don’t think that’s the issue with Kerrigan in SC2. SC2 was ruined by Amon and Kerrigan’s character was collateral damage. Honestly, in Wings of Liberty she was more of an archetypal dommy mommy waifu than in Heart of the Swarm onwards where she just became a dull, incoherent mess of a character.

I don’t think that’s the issue with Kerrigan in SC2. SC2 was ruined by Amon and Kerrigan’s character was collateral damage. Honestly, in Wings of Liberty she was more of an archetypal dommy mommy waifu than in Heart of the Swarm onwards where she just became a dull, incoherent mess of a character.

Subjectively, I hated both post-Brood War portrayals.

She was really one-dimensional in WoL. Problem was that they tried to give her the same treatment as Sylvanas, where they go “Oh actually she was just evil because she was under the control of the super-mega-satan villain” and try to sell her back to us as a good person, which is more marvel-fication than waifu-fication if you ask me.

Amon killed the story so hard it’s genuinely depressing. An evil so great that it leaves 0 room for any individual motivations or interesting personal conflict between the other characters, we must leave all our differences (and everything else that might make us interesting) aside to unite against this existence-ending threat. An evil so great that, once again, the only reason anyone might be on his side is fucking mind control. An evil so great that he was actually behind everything bad that happened up until this point, retroactively taking away agency and character depth from characters before his name was ever mentioned.

No room for conflict between Kerrigan and any of the Protoss or Terrans whose loved ones she killed, after all, we can’t waste time squabbling amongst ourselves while Amon is preparing to kill us all! No room for intrigue between any characters, this is not the time for personal motivations, we all need to follow the exact same goal, doing anything else would be suicide.

I really hate Amon. Like I said, Kerrigan was collateral damage of Amon blocking any character in the story from having depth.

which is more marvel-fication than waifu-fication if you ask me.

I consider Marvel-fication to be a form of waifu-fication so I put them under the same category but we could get to an impasse there if we both held firm.

Amon killed the story so hard it’s genuinely depressing. An evil so great that it leaves 0 room for any individual motivations or interesting personal conflict between the other characters, we must leave all our differences (and everything else that might make us interesting) aside to unite against this existence-ending threat.

I admit I checked out of Blizzard slop by that time but it sounds a lot like the bullshit Wish.com-version-of-Lovecraft that World of Warcraft was plagued with for a while, where every character was just a recipient of “corruption” until the knockoff-Cthulu was sort of yeeted away in a single patch, from what I hear.

Halo CE original sassy tomboy Cortana is still the best Cortana. Halo 4 Cortana’s characterization and story was good but they ’d her too much and then completely shit the bed with the plot after that. Don’t even get me started on The Weapon or the creepy Oedipal subtext of Chief/Cortana/Weapon and Halsey/Keyes’s relationships too

My favorite bit of Halo lore is that the character of Cortana was created by a guy who paid for college by winning a He-Man character contest as a kid, and people found this out through a blog post on x-entertainment.com.

Something I wish there was more useful information stored in my brain.

lolwtf, I know a ton of useless Halo lore and behind the scenes shit and somehow never heard of that

Halo CE original sassy tomboy Cortana is still the best Cortana.

That’s what pissed me off. The character used to be fine. I still liked Durandal a lot more from the Marathon series, but oh well.

I wasn’t old enough to get into Marathon when it was new, but picked up on a lot of it through references from being a Halo nerd since that series started. I should give it a look sometime but I always got the impression it was “Doom, but with a ton of lore for nerds” and that might be unfair but also might make me like it more

So much of Marathon is in text logs and completely optional/skippable, except that at one point you’re caught in an endless loop without an ending if you don’t pick up those text logs and figure out how to escape the cycle.

Here, this’ll explain some of it. Eventually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rMu1XYB98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQaNQ_uePFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vurgeAkIxY

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