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Fat Princess has garnered a lot of attention when it debuted at E3. The startlingly violent PSN multiplayer ...
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Fat Princess has garnered a lot of attention when it debuted at E3. The startlingly violent PSN multiplayer game got accolades from gamers and critics alike for its unique premise and appealing gameplay. However, not everyone is happy with Fat Princess.
Shakesville notes that the title furthers inappropriate gender stereotypes and continues the culture of ridicule that many overweight individuals must suffer through. "Anyway, congrats on your awesome new game, Sony. I'm positively thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative assholes. It's not often I have the opportunity to congratulate a cutting-edge tech company on such splendiferous retrofuck jackholery. Way to go! The Fat Princess of Shakes Manor salutes you."
Feminist gamers has a suggestion: they want the game to avoid making the princess become fat with cake. Instead, there are other non-"cute" ways of going about this, in terms of gameplay: "So how about layering, Karamari-style, a bunch of random shit on top of the chest, like shrubbery, rocks, bison, etc, that would also weight it down. That could be cute, and silly, and not reinforce nasty stereotypes about women and the obese."
It's a fucking game for godsakes! This is why I dislike every organization groups that wants to screw everything up.
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oh jesus christ... i swear to god, people not to stop worrying about little things like this in video games and fucking worry about drugs, murderers and shit liek that, i swear to god, i wanna kill all these fucks
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Remember when they took away "Ho, ho, ho" from the mall Santas? They weren't even calling the women ho's, they're just so self-loathing about actually being a ho that they wanted someone else to be miserable like them. And now, if you don't want dudes hating fat bitches, lay off the Fig Newtons.
These bitches are destroying everything the universe has been built on!
>_>
/prays for uber-rant
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“Sometimes you have to tell your agent that I’m happy here, and you work for me.” - Tim Hudson after signing a new three-year deal with the Braves.
Shown for the first time at E3, Sony and Titan Studios' upcoming PSN title, Fat Princess, grabbed us with its classic Zelda-like presentation, 32-player online, and off-color infusion of blood & guts for such an otherwise cutesy title. We also figured there would more than a few folks none too pleased by its title.
It's not just the title that's angering the folks behind sites Feminist Gamers and Shakesville, female-run gaming blogs who are already voicing their displeasure to Sony. It's also the concept that players must feed the titular princess – who starts out slim – in order to make her fat, and thus harder to capture.
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville writes: "Congrats on your awesome new game, Sony. I'm positively thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative assholes," while Feminist Gamer's "Mighty Ponygirl" suggests a simple gameplay switcheroo would solve the problem (and change the title). "Instead of running out into the forest to find cake to fatten up the princess with, why not go out and find gold (which is a lot heavier than cake) to stuff into a treasure chest," she says, adding, "The more gold in the chest, the heavier it would be, and the harder it would be to carry."
Despite the (still limited) fury being directed at Sony, we suspect that there's a fat chance either the title or gameplay will change.
[Update: Titan Studios' art director, James Green, emailed in to say: "Does it make it better or worse that the concept artist (who designed the look, characters, everything) is a girl?"]
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