The General Pooter Games Thread.

[eldargal]

Yeah it isn't so much that I don't want them it's that I'd rather see something new first.

[Psychosplodge]

Say what you will about EA whoever tweets for them has a sense of humour.

Who said they were joking?

Also

[Charon]

I look forward to seeing Bloodbornes white, brown haired stubbly protagonist.

Oh and Ubisoft responded to criticism about lack of female characters by saying they were cut because they would 'double the resources' needed which is not only bull**** is is misogynist because they would never consider cutting male characters to include female characters. Women are optional and expendable, men are integral. It is the ****ing definition of misogyny and trying to hide it behind busciness decisions is just cowardly. You have the resources to produce four white guys and a massive supportive cast but you can't, you know, re-use ****ign animations from Assassins Creed Liberation and hire a female voice actor? We are expected to believe that Volition can afford 3-4 female voice actors and Bioware can have two female voice actors (in DAI) and motion capture etc. but Ubisoft can't? Bull****.

While this is a sad response it holds some truth. Its not all as easy as some people would like to think.
No, they would never consider cutting white male characters in favor of anything else. Thats actually a business decision. Their fanbase is mostly white males. If this hard fact changes, their business decision will change. But dont expect them to "donate" any money changing their customer base. If women would make a significant number of their cutomers you could be sure as hell that they would include female characters. Data today is quite good as programs like steam are huge data collectors.
4 white guys are super easy to do. Everything is already done and you just change the skin a bit and get maybe additional voiceactors (and not even this is a "must" as a single voicactor can do multiple voices).
You cant "just use the animations form another game" as they are not compatible in 99% of cases. It might not be obvious but its like saying "you can just take the animations from Streetfighter and put them into Mortal Kombat. Engine is different, coding is different, nearly everything is different.
So you just have to build it completely new. So yes, this would exactly double the cost of the white male. Maybe the can afford that but most likely they dont want to as it would cut their profits. If they would believe otherwise they would change it. Its really all about the money and not some conspiracy to subjugate women through video games. If their customer base would be largely made of black lesbian women you can be sure as hell that their main characters would resemble black lesbian women.

[Gotthammer]

Someone's comments on ubisoft's weaksauce reasoning:

I was going to buy far cry 4 but that is too much financial effort on my part you understand. Unfortunate reality of video game purchases.

[eldargal]

Lol, nice.

[Learn2Eel]

To answer your earlier question eldargal, you get to pick whether your character is male or female in Bloodborne. From [URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=835121&page=21"]Neogaf[/URL];

* No, Bloodborne will not leave Sony systems and is not coming to a Sony system other than the PS4 in the near future.
* Yes, it is an action RPG and not a pure action game.
* No, there is no fixed protagonist, male or female. You can create and customize your character like in previous games.
* Yes, there are other weapons besides the cleave-saw and the shotgun. In fact, marketing mentioned guns and cleave-saws plural.
* No, this is not Devil May Cry or a button masher. The gameplay is likened to Souls without a shield or magic and with guns that stagger foes.
* Yes, this is an interconnected world and there is no hub. Thank God.

It turns out there are demo kiosks for Bloodborne at E3 and pretty much all the reception has been overwhelmingly positive. I'm not sure I like this [URL="http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/bloodborne/preview-3665.html"]article[/URL] title though as there's no way the game can live up to it surely;

Bloodborne is Dark Souls meets Resident Evil 4

Sounds like this game will validate my purchase of a PS4 alone, an exclusive Souls game is to die for (haha!).

[eldargal]

Well that is good news. LEARN FROM THIS UBISOFT!

[Learn2Eel]

On the Ubisoft thing, I find it incredibly difficult to believe they couldn't put at least one female character in. Two males and two females would have been ideal, but not even one female? Even the business argument posted above fails to cover that a significantly higher proportion of gamers nowadays are female, and heck, even most males will be wondering why there are no females among the four main characters.

[eldargal]

It's a nonsense argument. Having a protagonist costs money, it doesn't cost more money having a female protagonist unless somehow you believe male protagonists spring form the ground fully coded, animated and voiced. I mean yes youl can re-use the mocap and animations and stuff for other male characters but you can do that for women characters too. The issue here is they feel it is a higher priority to give people another stubbly white guy indistinguishable from most other stubbly white protagonists rather than use a woman to tell a story.

[Learn2Eel]

That's perhaps the only thing I didn't like about Watch Dogs, Aiden Pearce was do darn generic with his only defining feature being a gravelly voice. I liked his family and the rest of the supporting cast but Aiden himself was really bland.