How else do you think the Castlevania reboot is gonna make Alucard? They must ruin ALL the characters, all of them I tell you! This is what reboots are for!
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he kills the father
lel whateverdrinks the mothers blood
RAPE RAPE RAPE THIS IS LITERALLY RAPE
God, gaming journalism is nothing but a joke now and articles/sites like these are the reason why you cant use "gaming" and "journalism" in same sentence seriously anymore. There isn't enough space on internet to properly convey how much i despise this shit. The disingenuousness. The victim complexes. The self-righteousness. The agendas. It's rotten to the core. The fact that anyone listens to these people for even a second is disgusting. Acknowledging these people's horrible opinions gives them hits and validates their creation
also trigger warning omg
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The same manipulation of popular culture that destroyed the mainstream media is now apparently infecting gaming media. Why am I not surprised?
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I'm with Xarabas on this one. How is killing the father, which is a smart move since he is more likely to try to kill you, and then drinking the blood of the mother rape? I swear to god people need a swift kick in the ass sometimes. I would suggest removing whatever stick lies wedged up their ass but they would probably scream rape at me
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I'm a girl and I think the guy was overreacting. Doesn't sound anything like rape to me. If he had his vampy wang out, maybe a different story. I'd be willing to bet the idea of rape being alluded to in that scene didn't even occur to whoever wrote it. Just another case of people trying to draw meaning that isn't there, reading too far into things.
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I bet he drinks the blood of his father off screen. Does that mean he raped his dad too?
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Didn't mean to sound quite so snobbish there; I'd be the first to express my annoyance at the morality police and I read it expecting the usual kind of nonsensical vitriolic ranting, but it wasn't really much of anything. She just bashed out an article based on how she played through that scene and the producer asked specifically if it made her uncomfortable and stated that was the intent, which somewhat mitigates the view that her reaction was wildly out of place (even if she did then take it off on an unnecessary and personal tangent).
I'd just shrug it off as being a pointless and ridiculous article (trivialisation of all manner of things happens in every form of entertainment, there's more to life than women's issues, deal with it) that was at least penned in a moderately reasonable way. People deciding to attack her and make a big deal out of it is more alarming to me... I don't want to feed the internet feminists, it makes them reproduce.
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As someone said before... probably strong imagination/overreacting.
In another note
"'This is not going to be a Twilight Vampire or a True Blood Vampire. This is going to be a vampire who is gritty, who does evil; you know, coming back to what vampires used to be -- scary, evil. "
YES! FINALLY! YES!!!! O/
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what annoys me is it trivializes actual rape which has got a truly awful conviction rate in the western world never mind less equality minded places, dracula's also the villain of the piece so even if he did something evil well hello he's evil
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The preview I read had no mention of rape. It also explained how originally the character attacked and sucked all three people's blood in first person, but Konami asked the devs to make the little girl die off-screen.
Also, this is a game about a vampire.
Eye of the beholder?
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So is there a video or anything of the scene in question? Reading the article with the writer's extremely vague description of the scene just leaves me thinking the writer is one of those people that trivializes rape by throwing allegations at things that make no sense.
Every video I can find on the matter is just a discussion on the matter.
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Sensationalized news stories = ad revenue = news that isn't news but simply talking points to incite heated opinions = what the fuck is wrong with us. Yay, chase that dollar
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Every day i lose a little more of hope for humanity. The hyper-sensibility is as bad as the absence of it.
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"I'm sitting in a roundtable interview with a handful of journalists after having just spent more than an hour playing Lords of Shadow 2, the scene in question being one in which a withered Dracula stumbled toward a family with his arms outstretched, the camera abruptly switching to a first-person perspective. He kills the father outright, then grabs the mother and sinks his fangs into her neck, draining her life energy to restore his.
sexualized imagery is nothing new in vampire fiction, but this scene is kind of stunning for how blatant it is with its allusions to rape. It's a scene that forcibly reminds me of the boxart from RapeLay, down to the woman protecting her child and the disembodied arms (your arms) reaching out from the camera. Regardless of the intentions in constructing the scene, the imagery is ghastly.
Yes, I told Cox. That scene did in fact make me uncomfortable. His reply is so swift that I can barely even get the word "yes" out of my mouth: "That's what we wanted. That's exactly what we wanted."
Source
What are your thoughts on this?
Mine? This is another example of someone who gets easily offenddend who shouldn't be playing M rated games in the first place let alone a vampire game since the writer said so herself "sexualized imagery is nothing new in vampire fiction".
There's nothing wrong with this. Dracula (or Lord of Shadow's version of Dracula) is a straight guy, and like all straight guys they interested in women. The only reason I can think of that a straight vampire would turn a guy into one of his own is because they're close in some way.
Not only that but according to other sites this isn't what happened at all, in fact Dracula fed on all three family members
It's shocking to see how easily people are offended by video game these days.
Sorry if this has been posted earlier.
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