Older games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.
I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, "why don't women look feminine aymore," "why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story," "Concord sucks lol."
Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy's facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.
She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.
talking points like, "why don't women look feminine aymore," "why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story," "Concord sucks lol."
They're fair observations. Convergent, homogenous graphic design plagues big-budget game production.
Ubi is the sort of mob that could put out a title set in Georgian England and offer a cast that includes among others a queer green-haired ship's captain, a Chinese bailiff and a Rastafarian archbishop. There's a place for getting whimsical with character creation, but done often enough (and across so many genres), it becomes self-satirizing.
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Agreed with your reasons, but she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations. I wanted to share a point of view that I think is rarely shared in gaming communities.
I don't follow YouTube drama much, so I don't know who Asmongold is.The reason I ended up there is because I recently started playing Oblivion, and saw her videos mentioned.
I rarely click on YouTube links. For some reason I gave this one a try. Turns out she's bigoted.
That'll teach me for clicking
At one point I was looking for some help with implementing something akin to UE's Metahumans but in Godot.
Somehow I stumbled across this one, single person on youtube who had a half decent implementation of what I was looking for...
... and after watching some other videos on her channel... yep, she's an open NeoNazi.
That was enough internet for me, that day.
Ok, I was not considering this point of view at all when I shared this. I was thinking that's a different point of view on patient gaming that I didn't have.
one of her reasons is "erasure of femininity in gaming" with a screen bemoaning "masculine features" of modern female characters, and her pinned comment says "you know things are bad when oblivion npcs are prettier than some of these new game characters" and also thanks asmongold for sending viewers her way.
so uh, how about no for this hateful garbage.
What here is hateful and if it is where is the hate aimed at?
I was surprised when she brought up Mortal Kombat as an example of over sexualized characters, and not, say, the entire Dead or Alive series. Especially Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. She does make some good points in her video, and I don't want to dismiss her point of view, but I feel she took the easy way out in addressing this point.
Games, and movies and tv, have treated women as sexual objects for a long time, and now the pendulum has swung the opposite way in reaction to that. It's going to take a while for games, and movies and tv, to allow for better perspectives on women. I think the indy scene is where we will find this happening before we ever see it in the major studios, since the latter has to worry about limiting risk and making investors happy. But hopefully the recent flops will be a shot across the bow and wake them up.
Except for that, this was a good video. She lays out her arguments well. I don't agree with every point, but I understand where she's coming from and can respect her point of view.
"NOTHING IS MORE BADASS THAN TREATING A WOMAN WITH RESPECT!"
-Mr. Torgue Flexington. Borderlands 2
I 100% agree here.
That said, I don't think this video has much to do with patient gaming. My understanding is that most are patient not because modern games aren't worth playing, but because they're not worth playing at launch.
So while the video has merit on its own as a critique of the weird AAA over-correction, it's not particularly relevant to patient gaming.
Thanks for the reasonable take. I almost lost hope for a second.
I don't need to fix her.
No.. No you don't. People like her need to be ignored
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