Looks like the Oblivion remake also got rid of gendered armor
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I don't understand how gamers have such low impulse control that they continue to give money to companies that have repeatedly proven that they hate us, and consume this slop.
Never mind. I know why.
Because most of the consumer base now is normies/tourists who want to be part of an in group no matter how bad the product might be or how bad any of them are at the actual game. It's just a different slice of tribalism that's been part of history for centuries that until recently was far more frequently found in sports.
In the last 3 decades gaming went from a niche outcast hobby to one of the largest entertainment formats in the world and multiple sides of the industry pushed hard to not only normalise it but pander to an ideal low denominator of difficulty in order to maximise engagement and money generation. It's why later WoW expansions are not only easier in terms general approach, the bosses literally call out their attacks now so even those without DBM can know something is happening, but require fewer players. OG raiding was 20 and 40 man raid groups. TBC moved that to 10 and 25. Flex then did away with that even more. While there might be more going on in encounters now vs Vanilla, TBC, and Wrath the fights are still piss easy in comparison because classes are not as important, a single player can't fuck up everything except on the "harder" difficulties like mythic which are meant to still provide a challenge, and even if people don't bother with that they can still source gear from multiple other sources making what used to be the endgame of WoW redundant.
One of the worst parts is Blizz pushed for this. They literally chose to make their own game move away from one of the original appeals from 20 years ago, that's how braindead Blizz is as a company now. Another worse part is that the current playerbase wants this because they no longer have the attention spans or effort to do a dungeon that lasts more than 20 minutes or a raid that lasts more than an hour.
I don't understand either. Once I get a whiff of DEI or wokeness, it's natural and even easy for me to not buy or play it. Some friends I know will complain about those things and then will not change their buying habits at all. It's baffling to me.
Same
Ngl I really want to play this. I may have to visit the high seas and then mod the gay out
Just wait for Skyblivion. It's going to be a better game.
Just fucking play the original. There is nothing wrong with it.
I still play Morrowind for this reason!
There's the 2007-09 GOTY edition on Steam. Cheap. Works fine. No modern audience downgrades.
dont buy the original either because you'll give the company money. going the high seas is the answer
If you know why let me know, because my friends are the same way and I don't get it. They are pro Trump and anti-wokeness in general, but they absolutely must have the latest slop. I try to tell them the original Oblivion is still out there and you could have played it at any time BUT ITS UNREAL5E GRAPHICS BRO! They also complain about not having time to play games and consume media because they have to spend time working and mowing the lawn or shit.
A lot of the explanation was made in other replies, but it didn't touch on all of it.
As civilizations peak, relative abundance and safety make people weak. The hard won lessons and hardships their ancestors went through, at the peak of civilization, their progeny become accustomed to, take for granted, and demand more and more. The people become spoiled, selfish, and hedonistic. The economy begins to center around providing more and more excesses and pleasures to cater to people's pursuit of more and more dopamine hits. In that state, and in that environment (what we're currently in right now), it's very easy for people to become slaves to their desires. They become addicted. And, with the instant gratification of modern society, impulse control is at an all time low, as people can often get their dopamine hits almost immediately, or within 30 minutes, max.
Video gaming is no different than any other vice being offered in this highly hedonistic society we're currently living. If you've never seen any info on addiction, you should. It explains a lot, of how people act, how they rationalize their choices, and how it becomes an ingrained behavior and mental attitude, that is really easy to fall back into.
I was watching this from HeelvsBabyface and it shows how compromised western studios are.
Here they had the PERFECT excuse to not do this shit by just saying "it's a faithful remaster of an old game". No need to make these body type or removing gendered armour.
It just feels like a stain on what everyone is telling me a fun, good remaster. But because they CAN'T help themselves, Asia will continue to steal their lunch easily.
AZ is another good litmus test for whether your gamer friends are legit anti-woke or Asmongold level normies, assuming they watch YT at all. Even though he was obviously exaggerating a bit for humor, some people still think he went too far in his Starfield rant. The point he was making was spot on and if you disagree you ain't a True CHUD. He's not even that extreme either. Nowhere near Synthetic Man levels of based.
Woke vandalism.
They like to claim this Body Type 1 / 2 and removing female armors are ''improvments for Modern Audiences'', but the vast majority of people do NOT want that.
Guess it does save you some work, since you only need to add half amount of armor into the game, but if anyone has ever looked at any mod lists for basically any open world RPG, probably half of them are "sexy/skimpy/revealing/etc. armor/clothing for female characters."
And, in contrast to some of the comments in the steam discussion, yes, OG Oblivion most certainly had gendered armor
Yeah and the OG gendered armor wasn't even that "problematic". Armored skirts instead of leggings? The horror!
There was never a need for this game. There was never a fan outcry for this game. People are still, to this day, happily playing Oblivion modded and unmodded. There was a 150% chance they would "modernise" it with all kinds of bullshit, yet people are still buying and complaining.
Maybe we should be treated like cattle like their books say.
For better and worse they remade the wrong game from the series. Not that I want them going near Morrowind but the fact they choose to redo Oblivion instead is a strange one.
"Boromir woukd have brought me morrowind remastered" meme
Ah, you see, it isn't Male and Female armor, because there aren't Male and Female humanoids. There's only Type 1 and Type 2 humanoids.
Gendered armor goes back freaking ages. And is a good thing, as it makes characters feel more distinct.
Look at something like Diablo II. Each class wore the same armor items, but they each had their own distinct look. Quilted Armor on a Sorceress looked much different than on a Barbarian, for example.
Why remove options? We all know why.
$50 for a 2006 game. But now with more wrinkles and detail?
Just like the Diablo 2 remake, the women will be uglier and more mannish looking because fuck you, fuck your nostalgic memories, fuck your enjoyment of literally anything and just to make it clear FUCK YOU.
It might just be the lighting, but I find most of the armor sets to look like ass in the remake regardless of what sex they're for. The remake's more muted color scheme means they don't visually pop nearly as well as they did in the original. But others just have outright unneeded design changes that were for the worst
And what they did the Crusader Armor is a crime.
The digital DEI goy slop keeps getting churned out, and the only way to stop this is to stop buying.
They don't need our money because non-gamers will buy their slop now. We've been dispossessed of our own industry/hobby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DYiP49kbJc
It's really not THAT bad, but some were flattened. It's weirdly inconsistent. Some of the new versions got a chest flattening, while there's at least an instance where the older version was flatter (the Blackwood Armor). Overall, I think they look pretty good. Though it is an.... unusual decision to make the BLACKwood Armor silver.