Back in the day when the internet was new there were a handful of flash games that did that, each part completed would reveal a photo of a woman with one less item if clothing until they were naked. That was fine by me at the time. Not much internet porn around then, most pictures on naked women were only available via newsgroups on email. Probably before you time to remember that. But you subscribe to the newsgroup and tick all the messages you wanted to download that had attachments and then wait hours for them to download, no instant gratification back then, you had to work for your porn 😂
I think it was just one of those very nineties things. It would be ridiculous today, but you have to remember that back when that was common, porn wasn't nearly so accessible. Before the internet, all teenage boys had to jerk off to were pictures in "lad's mags" like FHM, Maxim, Loaded, etc (as if anyone read the articles!). Before that, it was the lingerie section of your mum's fashion catalogues and gratuitous but highly-pixelated nudity in video games. Before that, it was probably scantily clad elves and succubi from Dungeons & Dragons. And before that, who knows? Maybe a nice Modigliani...
😂😂😂 oh my the irony! I think of the amount of very attractive real women who strip down in front of their video game addicted partners to get attention… and get completely ignored btw… all because he wants to see a picture of a pretend hot woman take off pretend clothes.
This is gold!
So that's why gamers look confused when my clothes don't fall off
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This doesn't seem to be a reward. But imho if it was designed as a reward, it influences the genre. If you have a very adult violent game full of immoral things on screen and there are a few semi-naked scenes, it would be hard to complain. Or if it is a main mechanic somehow, officially a part of the story.
But a normal mainstream game with 0 spicy content with suddenly a bikini reward at the end, that sounds like a bad idea. It's not worth any amount of complaints from players to keep that thing in just because.
Back in those days, most of game was more for boys and especially in Japan (till today, games are for boys and girls... does not mean only specific sex can play it, but you understand...), so naturally they maybe added something. Also, given the time and age, nobody really cared. Nowadays, people do not even play those game, never completed it and nag about "objectifying"... yeah fuck off. It is made up BADASS character, that till the Metroid Dread did not even said much... it gives her some kind of humanity.
Isn't this really just a Metroid thing, and even then, only included in the first place because it was inspired by the ending of Alien and Aliens?
As for what Dread substituted it with, I don't necessarily mind replacing it with homages of previous games, I am a sucker for that kind of sentimentality, but it is a series tradition, and I can't help but wonder if it was changed for the current cultural zeitgeist.
I don't even have a problem with series tradition being broken if there's a good reason. For example, getting Morph Ball so late was justified because you could slide through crevices now. That shook things up a bit. But "Samus can't look sexy because REEEEE male gaze!" Yeah, that's not a good reason.
Should it be the norm? No. Is it fine? Sure. It is sort of used in a lot of games. Do X, bunch of extra stuff, pay attention to dialogue and you get the romance options and progression. Often accumulating in some little cutscene with said character exposed. It is a reasonable reward that most everyone likes.
Naturally there are classy and less classy ways to do it.
I can see how presenting a person being sexy *as a reward* could be problematic.
It sets a flawed expectation, because in almost no circumstance should that be the case irl (the exceptions being... some party games? I can't think of any others really).
There must be plenty of ways to put sexiness in a video game without making it a reward.
I don't see anything wrong with it, and there's nothing wrong with a little fan service. The fact that Samus is still one of gaming's strongest female protagonist speaks volumes to the franchise. If she wants to remove her arm or after a hard-fought battle cool.
I remember that! Refresh my memory. Didn't she have a one piece then if you finished in a quicker time she had the bikini. I seemed to remember it that way. Because I kept playing trying to finish the game faster to see if she'd shed a little more. Oh Jr. High and the things we would do just to see some pixelated boob.
I think many will take this topic out of context. Completing metroid under 2 hours to reveal the fact that there was a woman in that armour all the time. It's a piece of the lore and isn't anything sexual. So how can it be inappropriate? Today it's common knowledge that she is a bad ass bounty hunter. So there is a female hero from the time video games was seen as a boys toy.
The purpose of it was to be a shock and reveal that it wasn’t a man battling an alien horde and being badass and saving humanity. Etc..
removing the reveal makes some sense as Samus has become an already widely known character. 🤷♀️ In my opinion it’s neither good or bad that they removed it.
For some is it bad.
Some other's something to make them finish the game.
You also have those that doesn't care since finishing is their reward.
It's an old technique to target male geeks to play the game. more specific buying the game.
Rarely has to do with the game in itself. just a added gimmick to sell.
Zero suit Samus was awesome, also my Super Smash Bros favourite.
I don't see the problem, the target audience is guys 16-30, this target audience likes hot girls. Why would it be wrong to play into this?
It was actually very awesome when it was revealed that the main character was a woman, if anything they were ahead of their time with that.
Having a real girlfriend do that for me is 1000000000000000 times better 😀
Conversation:
"I beat Doom Eternal"
"Good job my love ❤️, wanna see my boobs as your reward?"
"YES 😍"
s If it's a just a character from a game I see no problem. However if it was a real woman, it wouldn't sound right to me.
As long as the bit depth doesn't get reduced along with the clothing.
Yes it's insulting thats the reward you get when you can go on your browser and see far more variety and better without having to earn it lol
Is bad? No, not really.
Personally though, I don’t care.
Unless it's specifically an adult video game that seems pretty inappropriate/gross
It wouldn't fly now in the current culture of being fashionably offended, but when I was a young male child, it was definitely an incentive for me to play it.
Isn't that the premise of virtually every waifu game?
Kinda, I'd like some Overpowered weapon or skill to totally dominate the level
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