Oh yeah, that is another one of my pet peeves and it pretty much just shows up with female characters. Where a character is supposed to be pretty damn strong but they still look waifish. That bugs me endlessly, we are starting to get better about it, but its still really common to just not give women any muscle mass or definition at all.
Been wondering the same thing too. Surely it can't be that rare? Maybe Nolan has a long and cosy/reliable relationship with a lot of big publishers so they consider him a safe bet. But playing Divinity 2 recently has shown various convincing examples of the accent. Then again, i'm sure the Irish probably have to deal with similar annoyances on a far more regular basis in the world of popular impersonation.
Yeah, the gameplay and story segregation can get really obnoxious. Especially the "You beat this difficult boss but then he runs away so you have to fight him again later", partially because your character is often too stupid to just fucking end him right there. FFX irked the fuck out of me on this, considering you have the fight the same boss like 4 different times because he just won't stay dead(and Yuna fucks up a couple valuable chances to just get rid of him early). AC2 has a couple blantent ones, mostly when you trap Rodrigo in Venice and then just let him waddle off when you clearly had him dead to rights. The only reason you can't kill them there is because he's meant to be pope and you're supposed to face him later.
Never played SR 2, but I did play 3, and there was a moment that I felt was odd and disjointed near the end. At one point, you are given a choice of 2 badguys to deal with, and one of them is the Luchadorian wrestler dude. He's escaping and your motivation for going after him is to "break him, make him suffer." Which...makes no sense...because not 30 minutes prior, you do a fight where you literally wrestle him in the ring, with the goal of unmasking him, which is the Ultimate Disgrace to a Luchadorian wrestler. And I did that....he was broken, humiliated, brought low by my wrestling/fighting prowess....why should I care if he goes slinking away, when the other option has someone FAR more important to the main character. His empire in the city was crushed, his resources and assets were mine, he was finished.
SR2 is in some ways the best game but it's buggy as hell in places and it does show it's age a bit at times. It does have some of the best mini-games and the arc from "Come out a coma and immediately bust out of prison" to "I own the city. Kneel before me, bitches" along with the Bosses completely unapologetic villian arc(the Boss doesn't even pretend to be doing it for a good cause) is kinda awesome though makes for some very dark comedy when it isn't jiust being dark. Unlike the other games, it also allows you to tackle the 3 gang mission arcs in any order you want(as in, you can pick and choose which gang you're going after for any given mission or you can finish off each arc in turn before going to the next).
Where do you sell all the crap around your house you don't need if not on Facebook? Everywhere else charges fees and craigslist is full of serial killers.
You pawn your junk you don't want off on your friends? HAHAHA! I don't think I would be that mean to them to give that possessed popcorn maker.. or the entire closet full of * thoughtful* past unopened Christmas gifts given to me by family members like that lovely sweater that breaks me out in rashes or that bra dryer or chocolate fountain or the snowman knickknacks.. Yea I just couldn't bring myself to be that cruel. XD
That's because female characters in computer games (and before them, comics) have always been envisaged in substantial part as wank fantasies for adolescent males. Let's not pretend there's any other reason. Sure, the creators let female characters be fighters so they could be useful, but they were damned if they were going to let that get in the way of them being hot.
Witcher 3 was full of this nonsense. It doesn't really matter that much because it usually ends in the same snarky response.
Yeah I wish they did what Deus Ex: HR/MD did and have it ACTUALLY be what you say. No ambiguity. It's the words you speak.
I think its actually a combination of that and also just being lazy. Like I feel like doing female characters for things like moba's pretty much lets the devs just use the same body/rig and just change outfits, hair and boob size. Really if you want to see something that I'm sure is all about wank fantasy then look at how anime tends to do beast guys and girls, generally the guys will be full werewolf looking while the girls will just have tails and weird ears, sometimes big paws and feet too.
And Leone is a rip-off of a Yang from RWBY. At least Yang had some muscle on her and more personality. Akame ga Kill is one of the most boring, generic, dark edgelord anime/manga to come out in the 2010s. This is I why I appreciate games like Street Fighter and King of Fighters/Fatal Fury. Most of the women have the appropriate muscle on them. Or have the appropriate athletic build, like Ibuki for example. They have muscle without going over board. This is especially true with III, IV, & V. There is still some exaggeration, but it is more realistic, than say something you would get in DOA or Tekken ironically enough. The latter was praised for having martial moves more realistic than SF or most 2D fighting games at that time.
I actually thought it was ok, not the best but not bad and not really edgelord at all. The death game animes tend to be much more edgelord.
The story of Fireforce is pretty meh, but the characters are decent and I really like the aesthetic they have going on. But, at best I would just call it an ok anime.
Knew it. I'll just stick with Promare when it comes in the mail this week. It has a similar premise like Fireforce, but does its own thing.
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