please fire everyone in the PR team because this is just diabolical πππ
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So, the only people I've had ask me to play Overcooked 2 have been women.
I think the game might just be popular with women, as unfortunate as the optics are. That being said, it is a very fun video game that I would have overlooked had multiple people not recommended it to me.
Honestly, it's not really a cooking game, it's about trying to reign in the inherent chaos that you and your friends are naturally capable of.
You're describing cooking with friends
I think the term is friendslop, and I'm 100% all for it. Let me dick around with my friends. (For what it's worth I actually think it's a well made game.)
Yeah, my understanding of "friendslop" is that it's a crappily-made game, which becomes fun with friends. I would not count Overcooked into that...
It's not that they're ever crappy games, but for some reason some people see them that way because they think the only reason people play the game or have fun playing it is due to the friends they play it with and that's it. It's a bit of a reductive genre description in my opinion because I've yet to see that be the case. The poster children of "friendslop"; PEAK and REPO, both have good solo speed running communities for example.
So I don't know enough about Overcooked to say it's a poorly made game, however it is very simple and kind of only fun because of friends.
At least, that's my opinion β there might be some gamers that genuinely play it by themselves. More power to them.
Well, how crappy it is, is quite essential here. π
A non-crappy game, which is significantly more fun with friends, is what I would simply refer to as a "multiplayer game".
Particularly simple games might also be deemed good "party games" (because you can simply chuck someone a controller and they can participate). But Overcooked also has a campaign mode, so I'd say it's somewhere in between.
Well, and it doesn't use stock textures/models, it doesn't have funky/funny physics bugs etc., so I wouldn't say Overcooked is crappy, which is why I personally would not deem it "friendslop" at all...
Well, there's still a huge difference between individual women deciding they want to play a cooking game (or even want to conform to a traditional role model) vs. a celebration on the day associated with the fight for women's rights framing women in a setting where they traditionally did not have rights.
I mean, I do assume this isn't the only game and it isn't as bad as this singular social post looks, but they could've easily steered clear of that whole problem entirely by picking virtually any other video game.
And if the decision was made entirely by women because they think the game is fun?
Sexism, clearly.
I've had men who wanted to play it, but yeah it's definitely more popular with women. Great game
That is fair, it is very fun from what I've seen people play it, if not a bit frustrating to the point of people screaming at each other (all in good fun tho) and that CAN make for excellent content. Definitely agree on the optics being absolute dogwater tho π
I mean, that's half the fun of it β Overcooked 2 is just haphazard chaos sometimes.
it could just coincidence that a very fun coop game that happens to be about cooking was choosen, I wouldn't assume bad intention
Overcooked is great, they have good tastes.
I'm too old to get this? ELI 50?
An event for women playing a game about cooking.
I mean if it was intended that way, it's pretty nasty, but a game is a game, and Overcooked is a ton of fun and chaotic, so it's entertaining to watch as well.
Ah damn, completely woooosh moment. I know the game, but didn't associated it with "women in the kitchen". Maybe because I do the cooking π.
Progress through completely not getting misogynistic jokes I guess?
It's a cooking game
Grow up.