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Promotional art for the 1997 PlayStation Ghost In The Shell game (thelemmy.club)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/gameart@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It too me wayyyy too long to understand what direction her body was facing.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I am 2 minutes in and still don't understand what kind of position the right leg is in.
Also, is that big red thing, some kind of corpse of a weird enemy monster thingy?

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It looks like a reject AI gen, impressive.

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[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Well, it was the 90s, so Rob Liefeld probably consulted. Which would explain the weird body positions and lack of feet.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

Artists are allowed their creative liberties ya philistines... Is what I would say if I knew where her right leg went but it is genuinely confusing for no reason

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[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Looks like it goes behind the closest segment of what I'm half assuming is a red tachikoma

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 9 points 8 months ago*

tachikoma

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[–] cliffracer_cloaka@piefed.social 24 points 8 months ago

It was a PS1 game though, PS2 released in 2000.

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

I had that game! It was tough, but really good. Looked and played great. My dumb ass sold it off at some point, and I regret that.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 8 months ago*

Still have my copy. But not spun it up in years.

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

That is so ridiculously sexist. But in 97, I was a kid... and I remember very well any feliminine figure being sexualized, on magazine covers and such. Tomb Raider, Heavy Metal...

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[+] krolden@lemmy.ml -10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

What is sexist it's an android

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Give one good reason why an android is wearing a thong.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Higher range of motion

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

Because she wants to

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[–] Soulg@ani.social 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

But... That's not sexist?

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Seems like if you come at this from the perspective that the artists are only treating straight men as their target demo, that's what makes it "sexist" imo.

Hypersexualised depictions can be great fun, but if you're only doing it for one type of person, across almost an entire industry (which was the case back then) that's pretty arguably sexist.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Deny this is sexy, you can't

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Who could deny the raw animal sex of a mass murderer with lats like grapefruit

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[–] Starski@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

By this logic, straight porn, and any advertisement for it, is sexist. Not everything needs to be for everybody, and regardless of that a drawing of an attractive woman on a cover shouldn't detract the experience for anybody anymore than an attractive man or any other potential gender you'd like to portray.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Slippery slope, and not what I was driving at. Refer back to when I said the fact that an entire industry doing it is the sexist bit. If all porn was for straight men, that would be sexist. Individual works aren't what I'm talking about.

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[–] Starski@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

I get that, but the point I'm trying to make is that it shouldn't matter, I don't get upset whenever I see a hunky man on a poster. I understand that a large part of the industry at that specific time where males were a vast majority of the gaming market were producing a lot of advertisement targeted towards their main audience, I just think that it's a severe overreaction to call that sexist, and I especially think it's an overstatement to suggest the "entire industry" was doing that unless you have specific statistics to back that up. If a women(or whoever) can't enjoy the female(or whatever) figure, then that's their personal problem, and would be tantamount to me complaining that the makeup industry is sexist because they don't advertise towards men as often as towards women.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Feels like you might have another person's comment in mind, then. I didn't say anything about what you're talking about.

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[–] Starski@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago

This is where you said it, also a bit in your comment before that, but moreso I was trying to make an whole point so I did overextend a bit compared to what you had specifically mentioned.

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[+] organ@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

Bonk

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[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Never knew there was a Ghost in Shell game.

I wonder if you can play it on PC with an emulator using M+KB?

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It'll be tough. If I recall correctly, it didn't use the analog controls. You used L1 and R1 to turn, and vertical aiming was done doom style (i.e. the game did it for you).

This is a game that needs a modern remake, and we will never get one. This game is why the fuchikomas disappeared and we see tachikomas now. Legal bullshit.

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

This is a game that needs a modern remake, and we will never get one. This game is why the fuchikomas disappeared and we see tachikomas now. Legal bullshit.

what what? guess I'm just a casual because I never knew this. what's the difference, and was it like, production company changes or what?

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[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

I don't remember the specifics, but the production circumstances of this game are why the mechas changed, and I think someone still owns some of the IP associated with this game. And they're just... sitting on it.

But they changed from the spider bots (fuchikoma) to octopus bots (tachikoma) as a result of the legal drama. Real talk, not much difference aside from what they call them, and the color. And in stand alone complex the octopus bots had a sticky web they shoot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

as a result of the legal drama.

sounds like carl macek shit.

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[–] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

There are multiple. I played the one on an Emulator where you controlle tachikoma and it's a nice short experience (if you use quick saves for the bosses like me)

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

Of course you can remap the controlls. I don't think there's an emulator that doesn't have keybinds. I recommend duckstation for ps1 games.

Vimms lair probably has the game info.

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[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Cheers!

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 point 8 months ago

Have fun :)

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Even the Fuchikoma has a huge ass.

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[–] ICCrawler@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

While the artist is just genuinely crap here, the sexy look is actually on brand for the series. Masamune Shiro, the illustrator and writer of the original Ghost in The Shell Manga, was also a pin-up artist and had his own (rather fucked up) hentai mangas. Actual GitS comic issues had pin-up art.