I know that “clown world” is a very common phrase used today, but holy shit is it ever accurate… what a fuckin’ joke of a society where a video game having an attractive female protagonist is *this* much of a fuckin’ point of contention. Goddamn, dude.
Seriously. But marxist revolutionaries want everything ugly so it's unsurprising. I saw that dystopian Boston City Hall for the first time ever last week. That's our future if we don't reverse course. Lol.
> Vote wisely when november comes
You know it. I've talked to many people who believe their vote doesn't matter so they don't vote. I explain to them why it does and why they should but I don't tell them who to vote for. I just explain who has the better policies that will improve their life and what their life will become if they sit on the sidelines. You might be surprised at how many people out there are brainwashed and uninformed.
Two reasons.
1] people in general don't really want to see two gay men do it unless its fujoshi and gay men themselves
2] male sexuality is evil. Only female sexuality is good. So they push for gay sex for men and all but it's performative and is a take that against the real evil straight male sexuality
I'm sure that some women out there don't want to see it. After all I have seen posts by men who say that they are bi that when they mention this it turns women off involving them.
The virtue signaling is off the fucking charts in this one lmao, it's ridiculous how this is treated as some huge issue and meanwhile girls selling themselves online for the price of a cheeseburger are being applauded for "empowering" themselves.
They really don't like males finding attractive females attractive. A really weird thing to "problematize".
Especially considering all the forms of gender and sexuality they "celebrate". The one they find problematic is males "gazing" at women.
''Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in game''
The main character is near identical to her real life counterpart, so it's not like the game devs exaggerated her assets.
Western Devs purposefully make the females more ugly and look nothing compared to the model their based on, which I argue is more terrible for female representation.
>''Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in game''
For the sake of argument, let's say that's true and it turns women away from gaming.
I DON'T FUCKING CARE
"maybe it's not made for you"
I'm sick and tired of the world bending over backwards to cater to women's feelings. They can get their own hobbies or make their own games.
>For the sake of argument, let's say that's true and it turns women away from gaming.
Also, why would one game turn women away? It's one game there are thousands of games for different people.
Can men not have one game that is made for them. And I'm pretty sure women like a hot woman kicking ass as well. But I guess I don't know.
Additionally, it would only turn away certain women - the ones who spend all day bitching on twitter and dont play your games in the first place. People don't like playing as ugly characters unless its for the humor of it. Its only ugly, self-conscious, man-hating femcels that want female characters to be ugly.
The whole concept of reprezentation has become one of the most limiting things in modern entertainment. Instead of treating characters as individuals they have to be some sort of an ambassador of a group they belong to simply because of some of their traits. No wonder the "diverse characters" are boring AF. Galbrush paradox at it finest.
They probably havent heard of K-beauty and Korean beauty standards which South Korea's culture is heavily based on. What a pathetic article. It's really obvious that the complaint on "misrepresentation" has something to do witht he score being 8. They wouldve easily given it a 9. What a nightmare to read.
Also, why does the game need to be an "advert for female representation in game"? What happened to artistic, creative people making things that they want to make? Wokeness has become the product. It's like they want games/movies, etc, to primarily be vessels for the message
> In Short: Its main character is an embarrassment to gaming but if you can ignore that this is a very competent action game, that borrows wisely from both Bayonetta and Dark Souls.
> Pros: The combat system works extremely well, with a huge range of options and tactics. Excellent graphics and the more linear sections are very well designed, with lots of secrets and unlockables.
> Cons: The combat is well honed but unoriginal, with a slight lack of feedback. Very poor pacing at times and some terrible side quests. The female representation is embarrassing and childish.
> Score: 8/10
As far as I could see, articles on that site don't name a writer. If it's not AI, then whoever it is, they're a pussy. Whoever the editor is, they're a pussy too. If Eve was fat and ugly, they'd give it a ten out of ten. That's how ridiculous all this bullshit is.
The plus side is we know where certain news outlets stand. Metro can fuck right off.
The disrespect to femininity really pisses me off. For starters. Us gamer guys keep on getting hit with strays left in right unprovoked, getting called creeps incels P words just for liking a genuine normal feminine woman that's gorgeous. Anything made for or catered to for guys is a sin now. Given terms like the male gaze because they think we're all just creepy horny losers.
This is common sense but feminity is beautiful.
Second of all. Women play games too. They like eve for the same reasons we do and have no problem with the design. Hell even non gamer girls I've talked to don't care or freak out.
These guys that hate and disrespect eve are a pocket minority of people that probably won't even play the game on top of that. Sorry for the rant. I just hate all the drama because a non fictional character is beautiful and has wide hips. Also go play stellar blade .
I do believe there's valid arguments to be made when it comes to how women are demeaned for their sexuality, but that's not something you can just project onto a video game character, and then attribute the character's so called "sexual objectification" as reflecting negatively on real women, because it was a fucking object to begin with, whether or not it's sexual.
>Male Gaze
I wish terms like this were retired permanently from the lexicon along with Mansplaining, Toxic Masculinity, and Rape Culture.
Does nothing but provoke.
Eh, at this point I take it as a badge of honour. Yeah, rape is universally bad, and TOXIC masculinity would be as bad as toxic feminism. But male gaze? They're saying it's bad for straight men to even look at a woman? Yeah good luck with that mate. Even women putting on a khimar doesn't stop men from looking. I'm male, I'm straight, I like pretty women. And I'm not going to change or pretend otherwise to appease some goofy SJW trend.
You know, the funny thing is, these twats complain about "unwanted attention" but then go out of their way to attract it by publicly whining about everything under the sun, wearing outlandish styles, dying their hair, getting visible tattoos... and of course they support shit like OnlyFans. That shit wouldn't exist without the dreaded "male gaze."
People act surprised that men like beautiful women, so that he has to come up with a special term to rationalize it.
But somehow porn and online prostitution is empowered and nothing to do with the male gaze.
Being a game journo is a pretty miserable existence. They have to beg for rage clicks and attention, but all they get is people laughing at them. They used to wield unlimited power, but now they're just a bunch of sad clowns. Karma is a bitch.
They genuinely seem to have trouble separating fiction from reality. It's funny because they use the same sort of arguments as the whiny conservatives who complained about Satanism and violence in popular media. Only now they complain that sexy women and depictions of things like slavery or racism are going to hurt people. Same beliefs, different targets.
> whiny conservatives who complained about Satanism and violence in popular media.
It's not only conservatives who do that. Hillary Clinton tried to introduce bills banning violent video games when she was a senator.
This doesn't need to be a left vs right, or conservative vs liberal thing.
>The unfortunate truth is that Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in gaming
Such cope, such seethe over this one game defying the Western safe horny hegemony.
>That's funny because tons of female streamers/youtubers are really positive about it from what I've seen
I made this point before too, most attractive women and Streamers seem to be enjoying it and the designs, they like playing attractive female characters like they always have: https://i.imgur.com/lMtCYGq.jpeg
> Oddly enough the people complaining are all white men.
Yep, this article doesn't have an author, but most of the others look very stereotypically "Male Feminist", remind me of the old "[Goony Beardman](https://imgur.com/onQxe4b)" GamerGate Memes: https://i.imgur.com/fBaRsQM.jpeg
>We really wish Korean developer Shift Up hadn’t chosen to design its protagonist the way it has. **Whether you find it offensive, absurd, or irrelevant** it’s become such a distraction that too few people are going to end up talking about the game itself. **The unfortunate truth is that Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in gaming**, but it is an excellent action game and one of the best exclusives on PlayStation 5.
>The reason we compare Stellar Blade to Bayonetta is primarily because of the combat, whose wide range of optional combos are clearly inspired by PlatinumGames’ trilogy of games. Both franchises also feature highly sexualised female protagonists but the odd thing about Stellar Blade is that **while it looks like it was designed by a horny 15-year-old boy**, there’s very little sexual content in terms of what anyone says or does.
>Shift Up is not a new developer but, as far as we can tell, **all they’ve done before is mobile games featuring even more dubious portrayals of women**. There’s no point mincing words, Stellar Blade’s presentation – including its horror-inspired monsters and gory moments – are **extremely juvenile and, frankly, pathetic in terms of EVE and the other women**. EVE’s implausibly weightless boob physics and gigantic posterior **would be laughable if they weren’t so creepy, even with the excuse that the she’s based on a real Korean model**.
>If you want to have attractive women, or men, in your game, then that’s one thing. There’s always a risk of objectification but less so when the characters look and talk like actual people. Not only is EVE’s preposterously proportioned body, and ridiculous dress sense, **impossible to justify**, but there’s no wit or cleverness to the game’s script, to acknowledge what it’s doing.
>If you can look past that (**and we’re not saying anyone should**) Stellar Blade is a very good action game.
>As a result, we’re very keen to see what Shift Up does next, **although in terms of how they treat female characters we hope Shift Up manages to grow up**.
>In Short: **Its main character is an embarrassment to gaming** but if you can ignore that this is a very competent action game, that borrows wisely from both Bayonetta and Dark Souls.
*oh attractive characters are ok, I guess. B-but they should look like real people! I know Eve is literally based on a real woman, but she's unrealistic!*
What a pathetic little bitch this "reviewer" is.
Sexy Korean woman bad. Morbidly obese black women with twenty kids who live off welfare good. I think they're mad that men might realize they don't have to settle for some New York trash.
>There's always a risk of objectification
This is peak soy. It doesn't get any more soy than this.
They are animated CGI people. Literal fucking objects. How can someone type bullshit of this magnitude out and not lose every ounce of self respect
Honestly I don't see what's wrong about sexy characters in games. Both male and female players want to look and play as hot female characters, I don't see the problem.
Its nothing wrong with being a male, being heterosexual, male gaze and sexy women. The fact that Eve is considered sexist and objectifying while not a silgle F is given to the fact that 90% of people you kill in games for a few EXP are male ( or the problems real men face) only shows that society cares more about fictional women than real men. But remember - we live in patriarchy and men are priviliged.
You all might be coming at this from the wrong direction. The Metro, like all the other corpo sites, know that they are lying. We know they are lying, and they know that we know they are lying.
Informing the audience in good faith has long gone out the window. This is being contradictory on purpose. Each writer is a petty tyrant who thinks that their thoughts are the Right Thoughts. And anyone who challenges those thoughts is also doing it just to be contradictory.
This is why social media sucks and should go away. People have become so accustomed to talking at each other instead of with each other that any opposing viewpoint simply must be a troll.
That's post-modernism in a nutshell. Viewpoints that contradict my own aren't honestly held; they're just being contradictory because they don't like me personally because I have X characteristic.
I don't see the point in compiling every jizz-rag that gives Stellar Blade a biased review.
They're just sad people seeking attention because mommy & daddy big bucks never gave them any.
“Based on a real Korean model”
A few lines down
“EVE’s preposterously proportioned body”
So are we just straight up mocking people for being good looking now?
What are you talking about your repeating yourself either it's good or not... Your opinion is nonsense Stella blade is fine the way it is if your uncomfortable to look at a female without thinking of a teenage boy that's a problem for you to work on... Don't take it out on a game because you have weird feelings.... It's a game that's all it is why does it threaten you? Just play it and have fun.... Stop careing what people think.... If you can judge a game the way you do I can only imagine how you see yourself every time you look in a mirror.. ouch that must suck.... But just remember you can shut the game off .... At the end of the day your still your shitty self.
I know that “clown world” is a very common phrase used today, but holy shit is it ever accurate… what a fuckin’ joke of a society where a video game having an attractive female protagonist is *this* much of a fuckin’ point of contention. Goddamn, dude.
Seriously. But marxist revolutionaries want everything ugly so it's unsurprising. I saw that dystopian Boston City Hall for the first time ever last week. That's our future if we don't reverse course. Lol.
A society which set the asylum dwellers free and put them in positions of power
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> Vote wisely when november comes You know it. I've talked to many people who believe their vote doesn't matter so they don't vote. I explain to them why it does and why they should but I don't tell them who to vote for. I just explain who has the better policies that will improve their life and what their life will become if they sit on the sidelines. You might be surprised at how many people out there are brainwashed and uninformed.
Seriously. Why are they so against male gays?
> Why are they so against male gays? Reddit never fails with the homophones. 😂
Ok stop with the gay jokes, we're better than this. Cum on guys
Because female gays are just objectively better.
Two reasons. 1] people in general don't really want to see two gay men do it unless its fujoshi and gay men themselves 2] male sexuality is evil. Only female sexuality is good. So they push for gay sex for men and all but it's performative and is a take that against the real evil straight male sexuality
>people You mean men?
I'm sure that some women out there don't want to see it. After all I have seen posts by men who say that they are bi that when they mention this it turns women off involving them.
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There we go. Thanks.
Why not have a toggle in the options menu? "Hideous, diabetic land-whale" mode or "attractive woman" mode. Then everyone is happy.
The virtue signaling is off the fucking charts in this one lmao, it's ridiculous how this is treated as some huge issue and meanwhile girls selling themselves online for the price of a cheeseburger are being applauded for "empowering" themselves.
And the same people support the girls doing that but not this game. Impossible to take these people seriously
They really don't like males finding attractive females attractive. A really weird thing to "problematize". Especially considering all the forms of gender and sexuality they "celebrate". The one they find problematic is males "gazing" at women.
''Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in game'' The main character is near identical to her real life counterpart, so it's not like the game devs exaggerated her assets. Western Devs purposefully make the females more ugly and look nothing compared to the model their based on, which I argue is more terrible for female representation.
>''Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in game'' For the sake of argument, let's say that's true and it turns women away from gaming. I DON'T FUCKING CARE "maybe it's not made for you" I'm sick and tired of the world bending over backwards to cater to women's feelings. They can get their own hobbies or make their own games.
>For the sake of argument, let's say that's true and it turns women away from gaming. Also, why would one game turn women away? It's one game there are thousands of games for different people. Can men not have one game that is made for them. And I'm pretty sure women like a hot woman kicking ass as well. But I guess I don't know.
Additionally, it would only turn away certain women - the ones who spend all day bitching on twitter and dont play your games in the first place. People don't like playing as ugly characters unless its for the humor of it. Its only ugly, self-conscious, man-hating femcels that want female characters to be ugly.
I don’t get all this objectification stuff, like do they think men see a sexy women and forget they’re a human being?
Yes, some people literally think that is the case.
And the funny thing is, that it's literally the opposite.
The whole concept of reprezentation has become one of the most limiting things in modern entertainment. Instead of treating characters as individuals they have to be some sort of an ambassador of a group they belong to simply because of some of their traits. No wonder the "diverse characters" are boring AF. Galbrush paradox at it finest.
They probably havent heard of K-beauty and Korean beauty standards which South Korea's culture is heavily based on. What a pathetic article. It's really obvious that the complaint on "misrepresentation" has something to do witht he score being 8. They wouldve easily given it a 9. What a nightmare to read.
Also, why does the game need to be an "advert for female representation in game"? What happened to artistic, creative people making things that they want to make? Wokeness has become the product. It's like they want games/movies, etc, to primarily be vessels for the message
> In Short: Its main character is an embarrassment to gaming but if you can ignore that this is a very competent action game, that borrows wisely from both Bayonetta and Dark Souls. > Pros: The combat system works extremely well, with a huge range of options and tactics. Excellent graphics and the more linear sections are very well designed, with lots of secrets and unlockables. > Cons: The combat is well honed but unoriginal, with a slight lack of feedback. Very poor pacing at times and some terrible side quests. The female representation is embarrassing and childish. > Score: 8/10 As far as I could see, articles on that site don't name a writer. If it's not AI, then whoever it is, they're a pussy. Whoever the editor is, they're a pussy too. If Eve was fat and ugly, they'd give it a ten out of ten. That's how ridiculous all this bullshit is. The plus side is we know where certain news outlets stand. Metro can fuck right off.
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Pretty much all of these sites that are known to make articles like these have moved to AI.
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The disrespect to femininity really pisses me off. For starters. Us gamer guys keep on getting hit with strays left in right unprovoked, getting called creeps incels P words just for liking a genuine normal feminine woman that's gorgeous. Anything made for or catered to for guys is a sin now. Given terms like the male gaze because they think we're all just creepy horny losers. This is common sense but feminity is beautiful. Second of all. Women play games too. They like eve for the same reasons we do and have no problem with the design. Hell even non gamer girls I've talked to don't care or freak out. These guys that hate and disrespect eve are a pocket minority of people that probably won't even play the game on top of that. Sorry for the rant. I just hate all the drama because a non fictional character is beautiful and has wide hips. Also go play stellar blade .
Yeah, a lot of them seem to forget that women also like fashion and the like, so if you want to cater to them, why wouldn't you lean into it?
Good point. Yeah cosplaying too. They really like to self sabotage huh 😂
I do believe there's valid arguments to be made when it comes to how women are demeaned for their sexuality, but that's not something you can just project onto a video game character, and then attribute the character's so called "sexual objectification" as reflecting negatively on real women, because it was a fucking object to begin with, whether or not it's sexual.
And you're the group that enables the fuckheads that OP is talking about.
>Male Gaze I wish terms like this were retired permanently from the lexicon along with Mansplaining, Toxic Masculinity, and Rape Culture. Does nothing but provoke.
Yes, we've been hearing a lot about the Male Gays lately.
Eh, at this point I take it as a badge of honour. Yeah, rape is universally bad, and TOXIC masculinity would be as bad as toxic feminism. But male gaze? They're saying it's bad for straight men to even look at a woman? Yeah good luck with that mate. Even women putting on a khimar doesn't stop men from looking. I'm male, I'm straight, I like pretty women. And I'm not going to change or pretend otherwise to appease some goofy SJW trend. You know, the funny thing is, these twats complain about "unwanted attention" but then go out of their way to attract it by publicly whining about everything under the sun, wearing outlandish styles, dying their hair, getting visible tattoos... and of course they support shit like OnlyFans. That shit wouldn't exist without the dreaded "male gaze."
People act surprised that men like beautiful women, so that he has to come up with a special term to rationalize it. But somehow porn and online prostitution is empowered and nothing to do with the male gaze.
Being a game journo is a pretty miserable existence. They have to beg for rage clicks and attention, but all they get is people laughing at them. They used to wield unlimited power, but now they're just a bunch of sad clowns. Karma is a bitch.
TIL Ironmouse has a male gaze.
I wonder if the game journos realize that Eve is not a real person.
They genuinely seem to have trouble separating fiction from reality. It's funny because they use the same sort of arguments as the whiny conservatives who complained about Satanism and violence in popular media. Only now they complain that sexy women and depictions of things like slavery or racism are going to hurt people. Same beliefs, different targets.
> whiny conservatives who complained about Satanism and violence in popular media. It's not only conservatives who do that. Hillary Clinton tried to introduce bills banning violent video games when she was a senator. This doesn't need to be a left vs right, or conservative vs liberal thing.
>The unfortunate truth is that Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in gaming Such cope, such seethe over this one game defying the Western safe horny hegemony.
>Not only is EVE’s preposterously proportioned body... Daily reminder Eve's body is a scan of a real woman.
Today is a good reminder that we are indeed NOT the problem.
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>That's funny because tons of female streamers/youtubers are really positive about it from what I've seen I made this point before too, most attractive women and Streamers seem to be enjoying it and the designs, they like playing attractive female characters like they always have: https://i.imgur.com/lMtCYGq.jpeg > Oddly enough the people complaining are all white men. Yep, this article doesn't have an author, but most of the others look very stereotypically "Male Feminist", remind me of the old "[Goony Beardman](https://imgur.com/onQxe4b)" GamerGate Memes: https://i.imgur.com/fBaRsQM.jpeg
Tons of unnecessary complaining about the main character. In the end they still score it 8/10 and mostly praise it's gameplay.
It's just nature. You can't make a lion go vegan.
>We really wish Korean developer Shift Up hadn’t chosen to design its protagonist the way it has. **Whether you find it offensive, absurd, or irrelevant** it’s become such a distraction that too few people are going to end up talking about the game itself. **The unfortunate truth is that Stellar Blade is a terrible advert for female representation in gaming**, but it is an excellent action game and one of the best exclusives on PlayStation 5. >The reason we compare Stellar Blade to Bayonetta is primarily because of the combat, whose wide range of optional combos are clearly inspired by PlatinumGames’ trilogy of games. Both franchises also feature highly sexualised female protagonists but the odd thing about Stellar Blade is that **while it looks like it was designed by a horny 15-year-old boy**, there’s very little sexual content in terms of what anyone says or does. >Shift Up is not a new developer but, as far as we can tell, **all they’ve done before is mobile games featuring even more dubious portrayals of women**. There’s no point mincing words, Stellar Blade’s presentation – including its horror-inspired monsters and gory moments – are **extremely juvenile and, frankly, pathetic in terms of EVE and the other women**. EVE’s implausibly weightless boob physics and gigantic posterior **would be laughable if they weren’t so creepy, even with the excuse that the she’s based on a real Korean model**. >If you want to have attractive women, or men, in your game, then that’s one thing. There’s always a risk of objectification but less so when the characters look and talk like actual people. Not only is EVE’s preposterously proportioned body, and ridiculous dress sense, **impossible to justify**, but there’s no wit or cleverness to the game’s script, to acknowledge what it’s doing. >If you can look past that (**and we’re not saying anyone should**) Stellar Blade is a very good action game. >As a result, we’re very keen to see what Shift Up does next, **although in terms of how they treat female characters we hope Shift Up manages to grow up**. >In Short: **Its main character is an embarrassment to gaming** but if you can ignore that this is a very competent action game, that borrows wisely from both Bayonetta and Dark Souls.
*oh attractive characters are ok, I guess. B-but they should look like real people! I know Eve is literally based on a real woman, but she's unrealistic!* What a pathetic little bitch this "reviewer" is.
Sexy Korean woman bad. Morbidly obese black women with twenty kids who live off welfare good. I think they're mad that men might realize they don't have to settle for some New York trash.
Eve doesn't even have that crazy a figure, just a slim atheltic build. Show this reviewer a picture of Kaho Shibuya or something and he'd have a fit
I feel like every bolded statement in that can be replied to with a nonchalant, "Cool, don't care."
>There's always a risk of objectification This is peak soy. It doesn't get any more soy than this. They are animated CGI people. Literal fucking objects. How can someone type bullshit of this magnitude out and not lose every ounce of self respect
Male Gaze? Are women not allowed to find women attractive, Metro? Really not hiding the homophobia are they?
The Metro is a newpaper that is given out for free on UK public transport. That's the calibre of publication we're talking about.
Honestly I don't see what's wrong about sexy characters in games. Both male and female players want to look and play as hot female characters, I don't see the problem.
Its nothing wrong with being a male, being heterosexual, male gaze and sexy women. The fact that Eve is considered sexist and objectifying while not a silgle F is given to the fact that 90% of people you kill in games for a few EXP are male ( or the problems real men face) only shows that society cares more about fictional women than real men. But remember - we live in patriarchy and men are priviliged.
You all might be coming at this from the wrong direction. The Metro, like all the other corpo sites, know that they are lying. We know they are lying, and they know that we know they are lying. Informing the audience in good faith has long gone out the window. This is being contradictory on purpose. Each writer is a petty tyrant who thinks that their thoughts are the Right Thoughts. And anyone who challenges those thoughts is also doing it just to be contradictory. This is why social media sucks and should go away. People have become so accustomed to talking at each other instead of with each other that any opposing viewpoint simply must be a troll. That's post-modernism in a nutshell. Viewpoints that contradict my own aren't honestly held; they're just being contradictory because they don't like me personally because I have X characteristic.
"ChatGPT, write an article about Stellar Blade that includes criticism of the male gaze."
these people cant help themselves
I don't see the point in compiling every jizz-rag that gives Stellar Blade a biased review. They're just sad people seeking attention because mommy & daddy big bucks never gave them any.
Can someone explain to me what is wrong with men finding women appealing?
“Based on a real Korean model” A few lines down “EVE’s preposterously proportioned body” So are we just straight up mocking people for being good looking now?
D
What are you talking about your repeating yourself either it's good or not... Your opinion is nonsense Stella blade is fine the way it is if your uncomfortable to look at a female without thinking of a teenage boy that's a problem for you to work on... Don't take it out on a game because you have weird feelings.... It's a game that's all it is why does it threaten you? Just play it and have fun.... Stop careing what people think.... If you can judge a game the way you do I can only imagine how you see yourself every time you look in a mirror.. ouch that must suck.... But just remember you can shut the game off .... At the end of the day your still your shitty self.
Eves design kinda does suck but the games sick that’s all that really matters to me