The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Kirsten]

after some unexpected money today, I bought a WiiU, which I was planning to get soon anyway using my hefty staff discount. but it is having a disk read error and we have no more in store so I have to wait a week while a replacement is ordered :'(

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Tempted to buy Payday 2, they say they are going to release a female PC but they have been saying that for like a year...

Which reminds me, i GTAV ever does that with DLC or something please let me know.

I doubt it, and you're seriously limiting yourself if you just play games with female protagonists.

[eldargal]

Yeah but I'm so over being forced to play as men. There are some exceptions I'm willing to make (Batman, Hitman and Thief if they ever get the old VA back).

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

You're hardly forced. Does someone have you at gunpoint demanding you to play it?

[eldargal]

Of course I'm forced. If 90% of AAA games don't let me play as a female my choices are be forced to play as a male or not play them at all.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

You must not play many games...

[eldargal]

Not as many as I used to. Not going to support an industry that treats 47% of it's demographic like we are worthless.

[YorkNecromancer]

You're hardly forced. Does someone have you at gunpoint demanding you to play it?

Ah, the cheerful sound of male privilege at its finest...

My favourite thing related to stuff like this in gaming that I discovered recently was the ratio of male to female police officers in 'LA Noire'. Almost the entire department is male, with the justification of 'REALISM! THERE WAS MORE SEXISM IN THE PAST!', until someone pointed out that the LA police force of the time was 37% female, what with WW2 making many otherwise eligible men into corpses, and thus unavailable for hire.

Because a lot of the time, reality is unrealistic...

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Not as many as I used to. Not going to support an industry that treats 47% of it's demographic like we are worthless.

Which is why Magic the Gathering is ace, it has males, females, things with no gender. It's just aimed at everyone.

*ignores YorkNecromancer trying to judge me*

[eldargal]

Ah, the cheerful sound of male privilege at its finest...

My favourite thing related to stuff like this in gaming that I discovered recently was the ratio of male to female police officers in 'LA Noire'. Almost the entire department is male, with the justification of 'REALISM! THERE WAS MORE SEXISM IN THE PAST!', until someone pointed out that the LA police force of the time was 37% female, what with WW2 making many otherwise eligible men into corpses, and thus unavailable for hire.

Because a lot of the time, reality is unrealistic...

Yup, that is another problem with realism, it usually isn't and the people talking about usually can't tell. People will accept costumes and equipment that are pure Hollywood pop culture historical gear without even blinking or all manner of concessions to the medium (that whole game balance thing) and yet you try and make it more inclusive and it erupts into nerdrage.