More slamming the brakes on the industry's hot takes, from Scrivonaut and Norayla on Splash Damage:
The developer of Lost Ark has added less-revealing outfits to the game after complaints the female outfits are too sexy, but this hasn’t stopped GameDevelopment.com from demanding the game go farther and cater Lost Ark only to Western audiences. We discuss this puritanical argument along with GameSpot’s old article about bra sizes, Elden Ring’s tendency to not hold players’ hands, awful takes on race in Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series, and more.
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Standard disclaimer - I'm not Scrivonaut and I'm not associated with the podcast, I'm just reposting from Reddit as a signal boost.
I've long been a fan of Journalist Bait in games - stuff like the music getting better in relation to your play style, or having the ending of the game be different in Easy Mode playthroughs. That way we know immediately that they're full of shit and didn't actually play the game if they call it out in their review.