And why up until this version it's always been comfortably male.
Oh I believe I'm getting it just fine. The point of the protagonist is to try and expand the player base with more females in a male dominated market. The emasculating men in the process is more just a social trend.
No... games that are story driven use different protagonists to tell a story. Sometimes that means Russian immigrant, sometimes it means female, sometimes it means meth head. The usage of Ciri in TW3 was not to emasculate anybody, it was to move along an intriguing story.
As much as you like to think you're being clever at the end of the day, money drives all decision. Making all stories have the potential being interesting and a satirical twist on Bonnie and Clyde isn't what drove the decision to have a female protagonist. It was money driven. And at the end of the day Rockstar like Disney is trying to expand their player base into being more inclusive of females because if they can expand their player base, that's 50% of the market they're trying to tap into now.
I'm not trying to be clever. I'm stating what is happening and yeah money drives all decisions. Rockstar knows their bread and butter here is making a satirical game about American culture with a compelling crime story. This will be typical Rockstar satire. Whether or not it lands in society is yet to be determined.
Ok...well. I guess we can agree to disagree. They first said "need a story with a female lead" The second decisions was what the plot could be.
Maybe save the incel talk for 4chan, big guyI'm not a chick. I kind of like my video game protagonists to be an extension of me.
The closest person who looks like me in this game is being talked down too by the chick.
Never seen that before!
I'd pay a lot of money to see his response to his wife asking for help with the dishes or to change a diaper lmao
I absolutely agree and I grew up with the first generation of games. I will say this though, when WoW and Guild Wars came out, that MMORPG experience for the first time, could absolutely take over someone's life. The wife and I got seriously into it for awhile but eventually we both just realized how much time we were sinking into it and decided we needed to devote more time to hobbies that grow and nurture ourselves.
Oh yeah, you can absolutely get absorbed into games and they can take over way too much of your life. I'm just saying this idea that games are hyper realistic and everything has to match your own self projection just isn't the reality of the industry or how games are made. Can you imagine a game where you just sit and type on HF all day?!
Yeah, totally with you. Whipping around town was the best part in Spider-Man 2 on PS2.
I can't wait to play that. Loser Simulator. A real Inception situation.Oh yeah, you can absolutely get absorbed into games and they can take over way too much of your life. I'm just saying this idea that games are hyper realistic and everything has to match your own self projection just isn't the reality of the industry or how games are made. Can you imagine a game where you just sit and type on HF all day?!
Sounds an awful lot like work to me.Oh yeah, you can absolutely get absorbed into games and they can take over way too much of your life. I'm just saying this idea that games are hyper realistic and everything has to match your own self projection just isn't the reality of the industry or how games are made. Can you imagine a game where you just sit and type on HF all day?!
Oh yeah, you can absolutely get absorbed into games and they can take over way too much of your life. I'm just saying this idea that games are hyper realistic and everything has to match your own self projection just isn't the reality of the industry or how games are made. Can you imagine a game where you just sit and type on HF all day?!
When I studied for the MCAT, I had a CARS passage about whether video games were an art. Didn't understand most of it, but because you're able to use your main character in a 3D sphere as you find in real life, the author proclaimed that it is. Omfg I hated that section.
Animal Crossing?Can you imagine a game where you just sit and type on HF all day?!
I had only "beaten" the game once up until very recently when I finally broke through with the Watcher, finishing a vanilla run and Ascension 1 b2b. Definitely looking forward to A2 and whatever else comes after that.
If you beat the game (Act III, i.e. normal victory) with the original three characters (Ironclad, Silent, and Defect), something in the game changes that will allow you to access Act IV on future runs. So it's not based on total damage to the heart, you just need a normal victory with the three original characters. I'm being a bit cryptic to avoid potential spoilers, but happy to expand on this. As a side note, you can play Act IV on any Ascension level, but it's recommended to try it in the base game first.
I bought this the other day. 2033 was great, Last Light felt like it was made by people who loved 2033 but didn't understand a thing about it.
Exodus is great overall, but it really shines in closed off spaces like the Metro. But I think Exodus is "open-world" done right. No fetch quests, but big enough to explore a little and not have a total linear plot like the others.
