RoadHazard
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I guess being a man is not modern. We're outdated, guys!
(I know what he meant, it's just a dumb way to say it.)
(I know what he meant, it's just a dumb way to say it.)
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Does he sound worried?She's still basically doing the same thing as a male protagonist and the games are primarily aimed at men so I don't really see the value in the distinction.
Make a good game first and worry about the gender of the protagonist second.
Assuming you're talking about Gears, The fifth game that I recently finished didn't have a female lead.Well it can't get any worse than having a female lead in a series famous and popular for being dudebro games... it can't, right?
Pandering virtue signal.
Females are not having harder lives over video games being mostly designed with males in mind.
Just make a good game anyone can enjoy.
It’s based in one of the most liberal pats of the US. So not surprising.And someone just commented in the other post about MS was not woke.
There’s nothing wrong with games for different demographics. Unfortunately the demographic a lot are aiming for all vote the same way politically. And since there is no more politics here I’ll will leave it at that.It's not pandering. It's smart business to serve an underserved demographic and making something that would appeal to them more. Basic business. If the game gets popular you have sequels, merchandising opportunities, women and girls cosplaying the character, etc.
pan·der /ˈpandər/verb
gerund or present participle: pandering
To gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).
"newspapers are pandering to people's baser instincts"
She could be a black, trans-gendered, cybernetic, ugly, muscular, gay whatever you want. Just make the fuckin' game good.
Does that mean Kameo is finally coming back? Because she was female…… on Xbox…… 10 years ago….
Once again, there is no ethical imperative or even human benefit behind "widen the gamer demographic" -- it's just marketing, and amounts to wanting a larger, less demanding install base who can more easily be targeted with lowest-denominator content
To all these companies:
Just make your fucking game and let it speak for itself, stop waterboarding us with woke statements and articles in the years leading up to release.
Once again, there is no ethical imperative or even human benefit behind "widen the gamer demographic" -- it's just marketing, and amounts to wanting a larger, less demanding install base who can more easily be targeted with lowest-denominator content
FREEZE! Take your hand of that doughnut Elvis…
You are staying an opinion masqueraded as a fact.
Here is my opinion: If in 90% of games the protagonist was a black woman with a strong black male love interest you could romance to your little hearts content you would be squirming in your god damn chair begging for representation. Have some god damn empathy folks.
I wouldn't, I'm not stupid I feel represented by people with the same ideas and mindset as me, not by the same skin color.
skin color is a stupid distinction to make in the first place. a blonde blue eyed man is about as genetically different to a black man as he is to a white man wit dark hair and brown eyes... why don't we differentiate between those as well? because our dumb monkey brains see dark skin and think OH this dude must be different... it's literally just prehistoric primal behavior that makes us think that a black guy is distant to us yet the guy with the different hair color next to you is totally not.
Joanna Darknesses. You know what to do, MS!
It's a good thing that he didn't say it would then.1 game will not change a thing! perception doesn’t change like that!
I think the "modern" thing was kinda like old Lara vs new Lara in Tomb Raider. Just a reimagining of the character. It's the same person, but a different lens due to it being 20+ years later.I agree with him. It is a cool character, cool IP and having a female character in the line up is a correct step to get more female gamers and developers in.
I myself like having female protagonists as well.
The thing about modern topics is the one thing that sounds a bit more weird. I men she already existed in the past and already was a cool character.
Fyi here is the timestamp of the question and Phil's answer if you'd like the full interview context instead of spitting out hot takes based on a clickbait article title only
You are staying an opinion masqueraded as a fact.
Here is my opinion: If in 90% of games the protagonist was a black woman with a strong black male love interest you could romance to your little hearts content you would be squirming in your god damn chair begging for representation. Have some god damn empathy folks.
Yeah but people are already angry… can’t wait for the “she looks fat”It's a good thing that he didn't say it would then.
Yeah but people are already angry… can’t wait for the “she looks fat”
"If you took an entertainment genre that was entirely brought into existence by the technological interests & work of young men and then inverted all the characters, they wouldn't be so happy" - um, great insight?
Again, there is no ethical imperative or even gain whatsoever to "more people should play core video games." It's just a particular set of products whose every trope, novel idea, and genre flowed directly from the niche of consumers around whom it grew into being.
This notion that it somehow benefits young women to play in men's fantasy worlds is a stupid as trying to convince the world that girls reading dumb superhero comic books would be a net gain or empowerment for them. Again, who cares? There are genres that organically appeal to women (take Mario Kart, which has always been universal, and which I also adore), but this isn't even about that--this is about the nonsense where companies try to convince you that it would make the world a better place if more women played Doom or whatever. An absolutely trite and meaningless goal, which only dumbs down and waters down what is distinctive about different genres, which always derives from the peculiar interests of their unique base of consumers.