Friday, December 24, 2010

Fan service - Milking every last drop of dignity from games!

There is one thing that I hate and its fan service. It does nothing to help the game except to attract horny 12 year olds to play the game. A lot of games I played did this shit. Like you're able to unlock maid uniforms, bondage outfits, revealing clothes for your 12 year old female characters. Remember Square-Enix? Remember Final Fantasy? Remember FFX-2? For those who never played or never heard of it, its a sequel of FFX. Yes a sequel to a Final Fantasy game. The games which has the same copy and paste boring storyline and characters. How the fuck do they make a sequel? Easy! You control the main female character along with the other female characters and play dress up! Yes you heard me, dress up. When you go into combat you can change your class using the "dress spheres" and your clothes disappear and then clothes pop onto you like Sailor Moon. Then you do a pose like going Berserker you turn into a cat girl and you go meow with your hands. The whole game you walk around doing stupid shit acting all girly-girly swinging arms around doing dog paddles.

To make things worse, it has one of the better combat systems in a FF game. But it isn't enough to keep me playing. But that wasn't the first time they milked a game for money. There was also a spinoff game called Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy 7. Thats the whole name. Its also about a character in the FF7 series who goes around shooting in a third person shooter. I heard the game was the biggest pile of shit ever shitted out by Square-Enix. Is square that out of ideas? Are they that broke from making shitty games? Hell they even tried to milk more money out of FF7 by making a movie. It was the biggest pile of shit ever made. Its made for closet homosexual fan boys who want to watch Sephiroth fight, then strip down and have hot naked sex with Cloud. Whats so special about Sephiroth anyways? Why is he so popular? Why is he so special? I never liked him. Then again I never liked FF7 that much. It was one of the first ps games I played and one of the first FF games that I touched so there was never much to compare it to. But I'm going off track. Now Square is milking another game, Parasite Eve. Its a post-apocalyptic survival-horror RPG. It has a sequel as well. Now many years after the game left off a new game appeared! Fans rejoice? No. Never. If theres anything you need to watch out for is sequels by Square-Enix. They fucked up Valkyrie Profile into a fucking fan service game. What do they do now? FUCKING FAN SERVICE OF COURSE.

You might be going, "it can't be that bad a little fan service isn't going to kill you." You're able to unlock costumes and wear stuff like a maid outfit. Thats not it. The game changed from a RPG into a post-apocalyptic survival-horror third person shooter. These genres are getting longer and longer to type. Now whenever you take damage your clothes start exploding and ripping off, kinda like Vindictus.

"Art Director Isaumu Kamikokuryo says that the game's costumes were designed by someone other than himself. However, he gave precise orders about the quality and color of Aya's base underwear. After trial and error, they determined that black underwear was best."

What the fuck? Now for a legendary quote.

"The best part of that quote is "trial and error."

Like Kamikokuryo (man, that's a mouthful) took a bunch of different portraits of Aya wearing different-colored underwear and went, "I will go to my office and evaluate these. I may be some time."

God, this game's going to be a trainwreck."

Is this really necessary? Clothes don't explode off people when you get smacked in the face by a giant mutated rat or something. Vindictus did the same shit. Jumping from a cliff would break your clothes from the damage taken. How does that even work? Imagine walking down the street and you bump into someone and then a suitcase falls onto your toe and your clothes explode from your body. And they say it like they're really proud of it. In fact they have stupid reason to justify all this retarded shit.

"Due to her special powers, she still has the body of a woman in her 20s, although in terms of age she should actually be 40 years old. Motomu Toriyama, the scenario director, feels that it is rare to be able to focus on a woman in her 30s in a game and is taking the opportunity to properly depict the thinking and lifestyle of a cool woman."

Yes taking the rare opportunity to properly depict a woman in her 30's by turning her into a 20 year old clothes exploding maid outfit wearing crybaby bitch. The game itself doesn't look too bad why do they need to do all this? I'd like it if the Japanese stopped making their characters look 12.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7B493uMog4

If I had to talk about every game that has fan service then I would never stop so I'm just going to talk about this one.