Framing, Agency, and AAA Female Protagonists | Semi-Ramblomatic
Framing, Agency, and AAA Female Protagonists | Semi-Ramblomatic
Yahtzee talks about how writers for AAA games don't seem to know how to write complex and nuanced female characters and instead resort to brutalising and victimising their female protagonists to give them depth and how the violence they're subjected to is framed differently compared to violence that's done to male characters
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I fully expected to cringe through this one, was pained to hear a snarky pretentious 40something cisgender man make a series of great points
(I have been following trilby man religiously for over a decade)
The tortureporn shit is so eyerolling. When the first Tombraider reboot dropped I figured that was that, and the torment would result in Lara becoming the relentless murder lady. Sike, two more games of torture porn.
Also I want my 35 hours back from The Last Of Us II
But Tomb Raider, a series about a lady who dualwields pistols while doing backflips, must be a serious Prestige Game!
Where you also want to protect her or whatever the producer guy was saying in 2012
Every time I think about TR being ✨ prestigious ✨ I always picture the magazine cover, the one with Duke Nukem copping a feel.
There's an Easter Egg in one of the PS1/N64 Duke Nukem games where what is intended to be a horny Lara Croft calls Duke Nukem to ask him to come and bone her. In another Easter Egg Duke finds Lara's discarded tank top at a strip club and says only a huge skank would wear something like that
The 90s were very classy
I forgot the funniest part being that those third-person PS1 Duke Nukem games are huge Tomb Raider ripoffs, shamelessly copying the control scheme and gameplay
The author of the video tends to be pretty good on politics. I don't think Yahtzee has done something notably bad in the last couple years. Just uhhh, don't look at his old stuff.