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Blonde bad bitch with big shoulders rule (lemmy.world)

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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Honestly I think this is a bad example. Guys are generally happy to play games with attractive bad-ass female leads. See Metroid/Tomb Raider/Bayonetta/Nier/etc

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 3 months ago

I actually think this is a fantastic example for this reason. Gamers back in the day were PISSED when they found out Samus Aran was a fEmOiD

[-] thomas@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but fort that you had to finish the game. That was HARD as hell back in the days. I believe neither I nor anyone in my elementary school knew Samus was a girl because nobody managed to finish the game.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

You had to finish the game within a certain time limit too. For super Metroid, you didn't get the full perfect ending unless you did it in 3 hours.

Which is impossible for a normal mortal..

[-] fishbone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know this is coming off as tooting my own horn, but the reality is that I'm just very excited about it, because it was a big part of my younger years.

This is a very cool compliment to see, as someone who regularly tried to hit the sub 1 hour clear mark for Super Metroid.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Guess you didn't go to school with Justin Bailey.

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Did some googling. Apparently the Justin Bailey cheat code, which lets you play as Zero Suit Samus, was described in many publications as "it turns Samus from a cyborg into a woman". It seems people couldn't wrap their heads around Samus being a woman the whole time, and didn't know what to make of the ending even if they got to see it. Some things never change, I guess. My googling suggests that this confusion was still prominent when Metroid 2 was released in 92 but was mostly dealt with by the time Super Metroid was released in 94