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00:00I caught the bad guys, but by what you might want to bring a ladder
00:06Welcome to mojo plays and today
00:08We're looking at some of the dumbest times people got upset over video games
00:13Whether the controversies were stoked by players media outlets or other organizations. Thank you
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00:32Joking about adoption
00:34portal 2 and I
00:36Understand the story's drawing some criticism from the gaming community a lot of anger from the gaming community
00:42Maureen and Paul we've gotten a couple of dozen emails about the story
00:45We believe that portal 2 is one of the funniest most cleverly written games out there
00:51But this just goes to show that any type of joke can offend someone
00:55Somewhere in the game both GLaDOS and Wheatley make jokes about protagonist Chell being adopted
01:01of course
01:02They also make a lot of other jokes at her expense and try to kill her because you know, they're villains
01:14Staple was playing the game with his ten-year-old adopted daughter one father playing the game with his adoptive daughter took issue with the jokes
01:21However, and went straight to the local news with it in Charlotte, North Carolina
01:25The game was clearly not stating that kids should feel bad about being adopted
01:31But the pearl clutching report would have you believe otherwise
01:35Neil says they steer clear of that part of the game and hope their daughter never feels like she's any less because she's adopted
01:42No fingerless gloves Grand Theft Auto 4. What's the problem?
01:49What do you think?
01:51Anything Rockstar produces is sure to attract at least a few controversies
01:55But some are much much dumber than others in most of the promotional material for Grand Theft Auto 4 as well as its loading
02:04Screens protagonist Nico Bellic is seen wearing a pair of fingerless gloves
02:09Prior to release however Rockstar removed them from the game if you're thinking who cares
02:15That's an excellent point, but a surprisingly loud group of fans certainly did back in 2008
02:22What is this?
02:23What is this upset players took to forums declaring it as a sign that the game was somehow downgraded before release
02:30Which is ridiculous
02:32But hey, at least you can now find mods to add your precious gloves back in and he a regular-looking dude
02:39No, I mean Aloy's facial hair
02:42Horizon Forbidden West what makes this coming embassy so special not just like today. It is special because of the guest
02:51with the
02:52constant advancement in video game technology bringing more realistic graphics
02:57There's a certain sect of gamers who have gotten increasingly upset about women being portrayed as well
03:05Realistic this hit the apex of stupidity with Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West
03:10Guerrilla Games made a stunning sequel
03:13But for a brief time the only thing some players wanted to talk about was the protagonist
03:17Having a tiny bit of peach fuzz on her face. Have you been listening to a word?
03:22I said newsflash women also have body hair and it is completely natural
03:27You would have thought guerrilla and Sony committed the worst sin with how some people reacted
03:32Some even took it upon themselves to quote unquote fix Aloy
03:36Caking her face with makeup sure because that would definitely be on her list of priorities when saving her post-apocalyptic
03:43Hellscape of a home
03:46Mario's cultural appropriation Super Mario Odyssey
03:56The world is full of people getting offended on someone else's behalf and it isn't always necessary
04:02Case in point the original box art for Super Mario Odyssey when it was revealed
04:07It featured an image of Mario wearing a sombrero part of the outfit players can purchase in the Sand Kingdom
04:17Some players decried it as cultural appropriation of Hispanic culture when the game was rated
04:23Updated box art replaced the image Nintendo never stated the change was due to the backlash
04:29But it was still a rather silly thing for people to get upset over
04:33considering nothing about the Mexico inspired location was negative plus articles and forum discussions with
04:39Mexican players showed their reactions ranged from indifference to excitement that their culture was represented in a Mario game
04:54Dinkle bot destiny
05:00It's widely considered that Peter Dinklage's performance as the original ghost in destiny was a bit
05:06Lackluster and that the change to a seasoned voice actor of video games Nolan North was a good call or at least
05:13That's how most players felt the reason given by Bungie for the change was scheduling conflicts and that
05:20Rerecording his original lines was for seamlessness in a constantly evolving game
05:29A small but vocal part of the fanbase didn't actually like the decision though and started a petition to keep
05:35Dinklebot in the game some even demanded that Bungie include both as a way for players to decide which voice they wanted
05:43Do you know how much time and resources that would have taken? No, just no
05:50You're quiet today. Yeah
05:53Zelda the Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker
05:59Oh
06:03Maybe Nintendo shouldn't have shown off a more mature looking Zelda tech demo prior to the launch of the GameCube
06:10but to outright boycott Wind Waker over its art style was
06:15Ridiculous when the game was revealed some players despised the cell shaded art style so much
06:21They derogatorily dubbed it Zelda and refused to play it
06:30One show me a game from 2003 whose visuals have aged better than Wind Waker's and I'll eat my hat
06:37to the soul of Zelda was still there projecting wonder and adventure and
06:43Three while this reaction led to lower sales and the creation of Twilight Princess
06:48Elements of this type of art direction remained in later games. It's the reason Breath of the Wild looks like a freaking Ghibli movie
07:00Ah
07:04Stubbs celebrates cannibalism Stubbs the zombie in rebel without a pulse
07:16If you had to guess what type of mechanics do you think a game where you play as a zombie would include if you guessed
07:24eating brains
07:25Congratulations on pointing out the obvious yet Stubbs the zombie faced a bit of backlash upon release for doing just that
07:39There were some people including Senator Joe Lieberman who condemned the game for promoting cannibalism
07:46Lieberman also denounced it for sending that harmful message to children
07:51Ignoring the fact that Stubbs is rated M for mature and kids shouldn't be playing it
07:56Anyway, never can blame the parents. Can we you are clearly in control of a zombie not a cannibal
08:04Despite this multiple news outlets still ran the story stirring the pot of outrage
08:18But gate overwatch
08:21Oh
08:28This one seems so simple compared to everything else that would happen with overwatch
08:33But there's no denying that it's still very dumb a few weeks before the game's official launch
08:39Some players got up in arms about a victory pose for tracer
08:43It focused on her backside very prominent in skin-tight pants, which they found objectifying
08:52A
08:53Blizzard apologized for this and removed the pose which was reportedly already being considered before the backlash
08:59However, the new pose still had her facing away from the camera
09:03So the change wasn't even that significant the outrage died down relatively quickly making the controversy rather pointless
09:12Stopping slavery is bad. Apparently mortal kombat 11. All I wanted was to fix my life
09:21Now I have the power to fix history
09:23Like many fighting games mortal kombat 11 features an ending for each of its characters when playing the single-player mode
09:30For Jax, he uses his newfound power to control time to go back and stop slavery by killing everyone
09:37He uses his newfound power to control time to go back and stop slavery before it happens
09:42It takes him a few tries to get it right, but his eventual success caused some players to get
09:49Unreasonably upset and I'm not waiting centuries for people to get woken when I've got the power to speed things up
09:55They declared it as reverse racism with the most extreme reactions accusing nether realm of promoting white
10:03Genocide this is all non-canonical by the way as most character endings in mortal kombat are
10:09Not only is it dumb to get riled up by a scene that has no bearing on the series or overall story
10:15But your pro-slavery stance is very telling turns out you can have everything
10:23Anyone who says you can't?
10:25Needs to dream bigger the Lindsay Lohan lawsuit
10:30Grand Theft Auto 5 they're crazy. What the hell did you do?
10:39Not long after
10:40GTA 5 was released actress and singer Lindsay Lohan sued publisher take two for
10:47Supposedly using her likeness without her permission the character in question was Lacey Jonas who Lohan claimed was influenced by her
10:55appearance voice and fashion line
10:59Hello take another look
11:01And I'm trying to drive the lawsuit dragged on for several years before finally coming to a close in
11:082018 when it was ruled that the character was more parody than portrait and therefore didn't constitute Lohan's invasion of privacy claim
11:16More so that Jonas's appearance resembled any number of modern young women with her own career past its prime
11:23It seemed Lohan just wanted some GTA money
11:26But all she managed to do was waste her own as well as the time of everyone else involved
11:35Open your legs. Let's go from page Lacey reused animations God of War Ragnarok
11:48When the first footage for God of War Ragnarok was revealed most of us were
11:52Extremely excited but in this day and age
11:55It seems less and less likely we can have anything nice without someone playing the contrarian
12:01You see one player noticed that the animation for when Kratos and son get into a boat was the same as it was in its
12:08predecessor calling the game a clone and
12:10Signifying that it wasn't worth our time
12:15Because we shut down the rig
12:18Maybe we should look for those bones of all the things to complain about that is the dumbest thing to take issue with
12:27Why would the team spend time and money on?
12:30Redoing something that already worked genuinely who cares if they get in a boat the same way
12:38Rewrite your own past make different decisions journey through time is more trouble than it is worth
12:44Costume censorship stellar blade
12:54Prior to release stellar blade was championed by some players as a response to the woke agenda taking over games
13:02Honestly, it does not matter what a character looks like so long as the gameplay and story don't suffer
13:09But when the game did release and came with a day one patch some of those players turned on it here friend
13:23The patch toned down a bit of violence replaced some questionable graffiti and made very slight
13:30Alterations to a couple of Eve's costumes in the West
13:34It's that last part that some latched on to even though the before-and-after versions are nearly identical
13:41allegations of censorship from Sony began floating around which developer shift up denied people were so upset that a
13:49Petition was started which actually worked to get the costumes back in so hooray all in all
13:55It's a strangely small thing to get upset about within the overall topic of censorship
14:01It's all right, but now means we can help each other dead rats battlefield 3
14:16PETA has a tendency to get unsettled about some odd things and the organization has had several
14:23Controversial responses to those things over the years at one point in battlefield 3 the player is given a quick
14:30Time event to kill a rat gnawing at your hand with a knife
14:41Well PETA wasn't having any of that in a press release
14:44They called it sadistic treatment of animals and that it would have a brutalizing effect on its young male audience
14:51Among all the false claims that violent video games cause violence and players that is one of the silliest
14:59players have killed thousands of rat enemies in
15:03Thousands of games and besides this is a game about war PETA. It isn't exactly meant to be pleasant
15:18Mario kills Tanuki Super Mario 3d land
15:29Within days of going after battlefield 3 because I don't know
15:33I guess they just felt like picking fights that week PETA aimed their sights at Mario
15:38Mario of all things with the release of Super Mario 3d land and the prominent use of the Tanuki suit PETA got their feathers
15:46All riled up. They criticized the mascot for sending a pro firm message as real Tanuki
15:53Japanese raccoon dogs are hunted for their fur
15:56They went one giant step further
16:00Creating Mario kills Tanuki a violent flash game about a Tanuki trying to get his fur back from Mario
16:11Listen any animal being hunted for its fur is messed up
16:15But if you think Nintendo was in any way in support of that act, you're completely out of your gourd
16:23I
16:28Promoting bullying and
16:30Bisexuality bully give up the tough guy act pal. Hey, man, what's your problem?
16:35Well ADD primarily but also life the word bully has been a hot-button term for years and
16:42Rockstar releasing a game with that as its title was bound to let in a wave of misinformed
16:49Nonsense before the game's release. There was a swarm of parents teachers and
16:55Organizations who berated Rockstar for making light of or even promoting bullying
17:00Of course if they had waited until the game actually released
17:04They would have realized you spend most of the game fighting against the bullies
17:09That
17:16Controversy was quickly swept to the side
17:18However, as it was discovered that Jimmy can kiss girls and boys in the story and this in a teen game as well
17:28scandalous
17:29Do I make myself clear very clear sir. You want me to kill Darby Harrington?
17:35Yeah, I'll get right on that
17:37Reactions to Abby the last of us part 2
17:47Listen you can hate Abby or the story direction of the game all you want
17:51We are talking about a very specific set of critiquers here
17:56Some players probably the same who review bombed it for having the audacity to include
18:01LGBT characters took issue with Abby having muscles
18:06Are you serious?
18:08Afraid so
18:10They decided the only way that could be possible was if she were transgender and that theory began to spread online
18:17Sure, because there's no way a person who lived in a militaristic
18:21Combine and ate slept and breathed only vengeance for four years could ever gain any muscle mass if they were born a woman
18:30Even worse than these moronic outcries were the ones that were actively harmful
18:34Laura Bailey received several death threats for playing the character, which is just shameful
18:40You probably stay if you ask I'd rather not sit around if I don't have to
18:45sex bombs
18:46Mass Effect and this must be your protege commander Shepard the one who let the beacon get destroyed
18:54When Mass Effect was released it was criticized by a few conservative outlets namely Fox News
19:00They ran a hit piece on the game titled sex box claiming that it allowed players to experience full graphic sex and oh
19:08Think of the children mentality granted
19:11They did have Jeff Keighley on to defend the game
19:14But the message of the overall piece was clear and you can actually fall in love in this game
19:18And it's the it's just like modeling your life. And I think that's much more powerful form of media
19:23No one other than Keighley had actually played or even seen most of the game instead
19:29They were reacting to cutscenes which only show minor nudity mind you and can't be reached unless following a long
19:37Romantic path with that character, but they would have had you believe that Microsoft and Bioware were selling digital pornography to your children
19:46And that's why I hate politicians. Yasuke
19:49Assassin's Creed shadows
19:54You are still a frog in a well who knows nothing of the sea
19:59Unfortunately, there's a very loud group of players upset over the choice of historical figure
20:04Yasuke as the lead in Assassin's Creed shadows
20:07They claim it should focus on a Japanese character instead seeing Yasuke as pandering to the woke crowd
20:13Of course, this argument completely ignores the second playable character the Japanese shinobi now a
20:21Don't worry. I won't be alone. Oh, right, but she's a woman
20:25My guess that's pandering to these fans then switched up the argument in defense of historical accuracy
20:32Claiming Yasuke wasn't a real samurai only a retainer
20:36Which is a kind of samurai and yes Assassin's Creed is set in real historical eras
20:42But it also deals with an ancient all-powerful pre-human race and lets you fight actual gods
20:48Pretty sure we left historical accuracy behind a long time ago
20:52Plus there are many samurai games with Japanese protagonists and focusing on Yasuke at least sets this one apart
21:00What people should be upset about is Ubisoft releasing yet another bloated title with tiered versions
21:07Locking content behind higher paywalls, but here we are
21:16Going to court night trap
21:22To
21:26Be honest a rating system for video games did need to be implemented at some point
21:32But the treatment of night trap in the court proceedings that led to the ESRB was ludicrous
21:38the US Senate held a hearing in
21:401993 where the Sega release along with Mortal Kombat was subjected to
21:45accusations of promoting violence through video games
21:48However, unlike the fighter night trap isn't actually all that violent not nearly as much as was suggested
21:55We all have our own very special cravings
22:00Senators claimed it encouraged sexual violence against women despite the fact that the whole game
22:06You're trying to protect the women from said violence
22:10Which is in no way sexual the device the attackers used to drain blood is also over
22:16Exaggerated on purpose to make it unrealistic
22:19But all the logic in the world couldn't stop the game's sales and reputation from being hurt
22:33Puddlegate
22:34Marvel's spider-man Yuri. I'm here. What do you see?
22:39Find the rest boss wasn't dead
22:42Insomniac's first entry in their spider-man series was quickly touted as one of the best superhero games of all time
22:50Even leading up to it. We knew we were going to get something special
22:54But some of us just could not be happy about in comparing pre-release marketing with the final game showing the same scene
23:01Some players noticed and complained loudly about the size of puddles. I'm here
23:09What do you see?
23:10Find the rest boss wasn't dead
23:12they believed that because the puddles were smaller that meant a graphical downgrade for the final version insomniac had to respond stating it was
23:21Just made smaller and not downgraded in any way. It was the tiniest most
23:27Insignificant element to get upset over and was thankfully dismissed by most as an utterly ridiculous claim
23:34What gaming controversy made you roll your eyes over its stupidity
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23:47That's what it says a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that
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