Hm, doesn’t really sound like my thing. Not that I’m particullary offended by any o that, but I like to explore and have free reign over what I do - things like Fallout and Elder Scrolls. The historical basis sounds interesting (I tried my first modern FPS, Battlefield 1, just because I was going through a WW1 phase and I loved it- looking super forward to Battlefield V now), but I thought the same thing about the first two Assassin’s Creed games and I lost interest in those pretty quick.
It seems to me every other game these days is trying to be the same generic sort of action/adventure game, and I’ve really come to hate that genre because honestly, you played one, you’ve played them all. It’s what ruined RE6 and made them have to reboot it into RE7 (which looks horrifying, yes, but I miss the RE/SH puzzle horror games of yore where the real boss was a piano or a statue you had to clip together). Modern hardware no longer has the limitations that devs had to deal with decades ago, and as a result most games have morphed into the same sort of flashy hours long multistage adventures, which honestly look amazing and have some great art direction and graphics, but are ultimately boring and very interchangeable.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not some sort of purist who insists on the supremacy of Morrowind or anything, and I find a lot of the old turn-based PC games impossible to enjoy, mechanics-wise, but the industry seems to have a major lack of imagination at present. Note this is only for console games, as I don’t use a PC for various reasons. I know there’s some great stuff on Steam, and I’ve to see more of that influence on console games.
Good game if you don’t mind the weird boners.
Not a problem for me, I’m a woman
In all seriousness that stuff gets my goat way more than violence, if only because it’s such a blatant attempt at pandering to the ‘traditional’ teenage male audience. It’s just such lazy design. “How can we get this game better? Oh, let’s throw some boobs in there!”
Puh-lease. It was a novelty for Duke Nukem and it should have stayed there. It’s just more of the non-stop objectification of women that is literally everywhere and in many forms (not even sexual form, but anything that demotes women to ‘other’ status). It’s just something that reminds me that being despite half of the human population, women are still seen by marketing/authority organizations/decision makers as outsiders. Your assumption that I was man (although I take no offense at it, don’t worry) proves that male is the default form of human and, as such, is the one that is marketed to, unless it’s a product that is specifically for women.
Like I said, overt female objectification in video games bothers me not because seeing naked women is offensive to me personally, but because it’s just another way of reinforcing that this game was not made with me in mind. Which makes me think of the fact that a lot of modern society was not made with my sex in mind, and that’s a pretty harsh way to be pulled out of escapist immersion.
Not sure how that would translate to a game…
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. Is it any good? I’ve never played it. Based on the summary though it sounds kinda like Dark Souls, at least plot wise.