a taste of what's to come?
um how exactly?
I read them when I joined, but it turns out they're all wrong.
not even kinda an excuse
I was hoping for a ridickulous
Easily the most interesting shooter I can remember seeing, and one of the coolest looking E3 games
Maybe. You can always hold out hope for a better game next month, but the coins expire after 2 years
makes sense, but aren't ghosts cold?
That's true for both sexes though, like the tortured past thing you just mentioned. It kinda seems like there's just extra sensitivity when a trope is used with a female character, which is a problem because, well http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesAreTools I think that's why there's this impossible standard for a 'strong female character' people are terrified of the use of tropes, but persistent ones exist for both sides of this argument, and they're viewed as objectively bad. There's a level of scrutiny here that's honestly probably not helping. Rather than look at, say, Wyldstyle being the most competent character, having a solid character arc, having leadership skills or whatever other positive traits that might be good to share with a young girl, we look at "oh my god, she ends up with a man at the end, what a sexist character" Like my 5 year old niece loves Wyldstyle, she loves how she's strong and "has really pretty hair" :P it's an overall positive influence and because of characters like her she's not growing up thinking that action is just for boys, but at the sign of any tropes we have to throw up red flags and say it's all awful? that kinda went all over the place, I hope that actually made sense
Funny, I just watched the LEGO Movie last night, so with that part at least I can see this article is reaching. She's degraded to a constant nag? She's the first person to actually trust Emmett. She has no purpose to the story? She literally instigates a universe wide revolution. The joke about Emmett tuning her out? It's a joke about exposition dumps. Asking permission to dump her old boyfriend? What? No, she turns to him and says "Look babe, there's something I have to tell you" and Batman says he understands. I dunno about the award bit, honestly. I mean, if you want to frame it like that, then I guess. Kinda don't like the idea that two people getting together is a 'reward' for someone but eh Though the ending of the movie completely subverts anything you can say about it, since it changes everything.
That's the theory a lot of people are going with, but Ubisoft made no official statement. Basically the options are that they were trying to make the console versions look better (whether the reason was to boost console sales, make console gamers feel better, or a deal directly with Sony or someone) or that there's some sort of issue with the new graphics that nobody has been able to find yet (nobody has seen any loss of framerate or any other performance problems so far)
Square Enix is one of the worst examples though. The stuff they show is often so far removed from the game that it's actually not in the game at all, like the KH1.5 screenshots that removed the default face in favour of a fully animated one Every company loves their vertical slices and stuff, but Square Enix is the only company I know that tries to pass of prerendered screenshots off as ingame footage
but then you'd become an evaporated people
No it's not awesome, Ubisoft for whatever reason locked the E3 graphics out, whatever their reason, they intentionally downgraded their game
Demyx isn't a coward though. We see that clearly right before his last fight, it was all a facade
the screenshots always look great guys, Square Enix makes fake screens that sell the game as looking better than it actually does. You can only trust the trailers, and even then that's not 100%
uh how exactly do these go in hand with you seeing her as womanly, again?
I'm really glad I'm not the only person who immediately thought of this
[QUOTE="Misty, post: 4190754, member: 6" I'm sure you're not intending this but this statement is absolutely part of the problem. You're assuming that the main character is male and that the actress would be redoing all of the lines. Again, I'm sure this is unintentional, but it speaks a lot about the male normative with protagonists, particularly in video games. [/QUOTE] Actually, it was intentional. I originally had a a little bracket saying (or actor) but I removed it because I realized how unlikely that would be. A game written with a woman first has next to no chance of being treated interchangeable with a man. I'm talking about the present context, but in the future that'll probably be different... but not in the near future. Honestly it says less about the homogenized standard of male characters than it, as far as I'm concerned, shows that more care would be taken in creating a female star. This along with the current standard where you can take a guy and copy and paste it over to a gal and even if there's romantic plots going on whatever because it's lesbians and that's hot, but doing the reverse runs into the ew gross that's gay problem. Also, gonna agree with @DigitalAtlas on the tomboy thing. It's way easy to do that and get free praise. And hell, I'm definitely victim of it, a lot of my favourite female characters growing up were tomboys because they were the characetrs that were allowed to DO things outside the context of comedy (har look a princess in a DRESS beat the bad guy!? What's up with that?) I've got more nuanced taste now, but it's still an underlying theme, and it really shouldn't be. Though I've started to recognize some nice different varieties. I really like how Aerith is portrayed in Crisis Core FF7, for example, and I enjoyed the sisters in Frozen as well but yeah, the tomboy thing is an easy way out, and what's more NOT taking that route can often lead to people calling you sexist. If we're talking about shortcomings in writing female character sin general now though, one of my biggest pet peeves, especially in children's cartoons, is the unwillingness to give female characters flaws. It makes them really boring, and sends really weird messages to both young boys and girls
