Whilst it's played for comedy, it's in no way played for parody.
Cringiest cutscene you have ever seen in a video game?
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"an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect."
They are certainly imitating certain anime tropes and exaggerating them trying to make them funny.
Some are even more specific parody, like the entirety of chapter 4. All that giant robot goofiness.
Literally the only ridiculous anime stuff played as a parody in Xenoblade 2 is chapter 4. If they really were going for the parody angle for the rest of the game then oof, they're bad at it.
Please protect glorious Nippon from this injustice.
I understand that, doesnt take away the absurdity of Rex purposefully grabbing Mythra and placing her head in his crotch as he looks to the sky 'philosophically'
This is the one I'd go with.
I'd never been that transfixed in horror by a mixture of cringe and disgust before.
He was cushioning her head the same way she did for him. That's not absurd. You're trying to make it sound like he had her held face down on his crotch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3St2PLtp8
Basically, this whole thing was just pure cheese and way too much for me to take. I just couldn't do it anymore. That video is most of it I think. Not sure.
Jesus, I mean I am all for some humor in games, but MGS4 is the biggest fucking mess of all time. And I have no idea why people didn't want Kojima fired from Konami. I think even Konami was like we want you to do better things lol. Seriously, anybody that wanted him to keep writing and making this horseshit is insane.
lmao Xenoblade 2 haters on this site say the weirdest, most hyperbolic shit
As bad as the Xenoblade 2 shit is, at least I went in knowing what it was gonna be like.
Nothing prepared me for Tatsu in Xenoblade X. And that creepy 13 year old.
POTATO GUYS, HA HA HA. TATSU FOOD JOKE, HA HA HA
Nothing prepared me for Tatsu in Xenoblade X. And that creepy 13 year old.
POTATO GUYS, HA HA HA. TATSU FOOD JOKE, HA HA HA
I can't help but think she's pulling off a visceral attack from Bloodborne with that sound effect
First is the blushy-crushy scene in Xenoblade 2. I've seen a lot of cringy stuff in video games, but that scene takes the cake.
Next would be the laughing scene in FFX. And you know what? I LOVED EVERY FUCKING SECOND OF IT. It was the best kind of cringe and had me belly laughing over the sheer absurdity of it all.
Next would be the laughing scene in FFX. And you know what? I LOVED EVERY FUCKING SECOND OF IT. It was the best kind of cringe and had me belly laughing over the sheer absurdity of it all.
If the shit makes you cringe to next week it sure as hell count.
Yeah. I like Xenoblade 2; I think it's a decent game with incredibly good combat, but damn are some of those cutscenes bad.
On top of the puddle scene in MGSV, this scene is fucking bad as well:
It feels so skeevy you can almost hear the sound of Kojima jerking it off in the background.
Otherwise it's always fun to see people with profile pics of 12 year old anime girls defending creepy anime BS lol
It feels so skeevy you can almost hear the sound of Kojima jerking it off in the background.
Otherwise it's always fun to see people with profile pics of 12 year old anime girls defending creepy anime BS lol
Theory is definitley sexualised.
This might be one of the worst character designs ive ever seen. Jesus christ
Xenoblade 1 was bad at times too.
They just didn't have tech/art to do as much
So they stuck jiggle everywhere in X1.
If something is bad on purpose, isn't it still bad?
It doesn't magically become good.
I have no idea. I've never played Star Ocean 4. Is it that bad?
"This toast tastes like shit!"
"Of course it does, I spread shit on it. It's intentional, so don't hate."
Make no mistake, this isn't hyperbole...The game is chock full of cringe and really offensive material that's been posted here. It's not only cringey but just wrong in all the ways. Being a woman it's extremely offensive in all manners how they objectify and determent consistently. I'm not even bothered by it, just...why. It's insulting and disgusting this form of imagery is allowed in gaming this day and age when we have progressive in all other forms of media...just gaming seems to still do "things" like these, more so Japanese gaming.
But honestly...for the most part I just laughed throughout most of my playthrough due to how ridiculous the writing was. Nothing ever bothered me, but that stands to say the material is pretty atrocious in all matters of speaking. I value anyone's viewpoint and it is clear to me it bothered many here if this topic is anything to go by. Anyone defending it, I have nothing to say towards them so I agree wholeheartedly with you. With that said, I am in no authority to judge anyone so to each their own.
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I would love to see anybody defend Mass Effect 2's Miranda romance scenes. Please, I am actually begging you to explain how meaningful it was, true to life, how it touched you in some positive way or something. Anything.
Trust me, that's a "tame" design compared to the rest of...what you can get from those crystals.
Xenoblade never went to the lengths the second one did, I believe. Even X was very reserved in how it applied to all this. XC2...I don't know what happened.
I had fun with it. Loads of content and fun battle system. It's just that the cutscenes and voice acting are subar.
I honestly can't blame you. I was completely shocked the first time I saw it, and couldn't believe it was in the game. There are other parts of the japanese script that the english localization needed to massage in order to make it palatable to north american audiences (see this video*** for more details), so I can only imagine what the original japanese text said. Yikes.
***Side note regarding the video I mentioned above: there are very minor spoilers related to Poppi, so if you are reading this and are very sensitive to spoilers, do not watch the video until you have completed the game. Again, nothing major, but if you want to play through XBC2 completely fresh, I would suggest avoiding it. If you want to see some examples without spoilers, you can click here for a link with a timestamp passed them***
I feel like when playing this game, if you are playing it in a place other people might see it, you may need to come up with an excuse ahead of time to explain what you're doing. Just in case someone asks and you need to use it. If the designs hadn't been so sexualized, this would not have been as big of an issue, but here we are.
Again, I stress that the cringe scenes I mentioned are very rare, but what isn't unfortunately are the sexualized designs and pandering camera angles, which do appear more regularly.
If you find your tolerance for the things I mentioned in my post is quite low, I would not bother proceeding. If you are able to look past the flaws in the game, the high points in the game are very high. Unfortunately, the low points are quite low as well.
The Torna DLC is much better in all regards when it comes to this sort of thing, but as some of the blades from the first game carry over, their sexualized designs do as well. Additionally, I don't recommend playing Torna before XBC2, as it spoils some scenes from the main game, and other scenes will have less impact without the context the XBC2 provides.
I'm very conflicted with this game. On one hand, XBC2 and the Torna DLC gave me some of my favorite emotional story moments in gaming. On the other hand, I can't wholeheartedly recommend the games to everyone, unlike my favorite JRPG games, the Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky trilogy, which have much better dialogue (the best I've seen in a JRPG), and lean much less heavily on anime tropes.
Although I haven't played XBC1 or XBX, I just recently started watching a let's play of XBC1 to flesh out the story connections I was missing by only having played XBC2, and I can see why fans of the previous games might not be happy about the new direction. XBC1 is basically a sci-fi game with slight anime undertones, and the character's behavior is less over the top than XBC2. Not sure which of the 2 games I prefer more at this time, as I am withholding judgement until I finish seeing XBC1 through, but they are definitely different. XBC1 seems like a much more mature story overall so far, and I'm looking forward to see it all the way through.
If you really want to know more, check here and here.
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Fuck you that's the best. I legitimately love that scene and how heavily they lay into the cheesiness. Unlike:
there we go, that's some quality cringe right there...
I haven't read anything in this thread so I don't know if it has been posted, but Bioshock Inifinite had a scene that had you "press A to console" Elizabeth. That point was where I stopped playing, and never returned.
eh, All 3 have serious issues imo.
X2 is probably the worst offender, but I'm not about to give a gold star to a game in which I avoided better equipments because of the bad designs.
And we all remember XCX's issues.
Is this how men think women shower?
Holy fuck this is gross.
too true
Theory is definitley sexualised.
If the theoretical third game is this bad or worse for the sexualized design, I, with a very heavy heart, would have to sit it out.
I can't in good conscious keep supporting a series that sees my sex in such a simple-minded and harmful way.
And I fucking love, almost literally, everything else about these games.
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That's less cringe and more uncontrollable laughter.
Holy shit this is bad
OH WOW THAT WAS BAD.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch all of the cutscenes now.
This. I don't touch any of that anime shit and then this.
Whoooooooo?!
Hideous Kojima
I don't think there is any appropriate defense for the cringe and designs in the game. Just inexcusable, and hopefully further games from Monolithsoft are better in this regard, as from what I've seen of XBC1 and heard of XBX, this was not a big issue in those games (aside from certain equipment you can choose not to equip).
It's too bad these things had to appear in what is otherwise a well designed game with a very imaginative story that in my case, I felt was worth playing; Assuming of course you can ignore some of its problems.
It has been a while since I played through the game, so maybe I've forgotten some of the "cringe" moments, but the two I mentioned in my post were by far the worst by my recollection. Maybe I've become too desensitized to the type of crap JRPGs typically pull on this front, but the sooner japanese developers drop those bad habits, the better. As I've said previously, the sexualized designs and pandering camera angles regularly on display are really off-putting, and the game would be much better if they were gone. Assuming one can overlook some of its issues, there is quality content there, in my opinion. Although, I agree - the writing is not XBC2's strong point.
I would like to be able to enjoy it without feeling guilty of inadvertently supporting this type of behavior, but I can't recommend it in good conscience without a heavy disclaimer about its problems.
WTF! I don't remember that in F-Zero GX. Are all the profiles as cringe or, is this one special?
My bad - I missed that part of your post.
You weren't joking; these are something else, haha
I don't remember any of these being in the game. How do you access them, I wonder?
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Oh hey look another dude telling me I'm over-reacting to seeing fellow women dressed up like space strippers, especially in a game where the men are generally 90%+ covered up and experience no ridiculous pervy anime situations or ass/bust shots. It's totally unfair and completely unbalanced; the design choices are damned obvious in their intention.
But by all means, tell me how we're being hyperbolic because I really want to know what the other lot isn't seeing.
(such a shame, there;s a lot of outstanding design ideas here, but clearly showing girls off with incredibly exposed "combat gear" was more important)
Here's the one dude that could get bragging rights for being a bit sexualized. So yay, a crumb of man-service
But naw this game is cool and we're all just being hyperbol--
I always cringe in the "perv spying the girls in the hot Sprigs" scene, it's so unnecesary and awkward..
I think k the problem is it is so embarrassingly creepy and filled with cringe that it's hard to even enjoy the game. Especially if you're constantly looking over your shoulder hoping no one walks in while you're playing.