Recent content by MpSai

I did say a character who is weak and pitiable and acts like a battered housewife could work, I don't think judging from what I saw in the demo that she WAS working. They did change her after all, and it did work. It seems to me you're saying if you personally believe it's harmless then any...

I don't think that's why people usually like villains. People like villains that are compelling, or delightfully slimy, they don't necessary like them because the character thinks they're right. Although the hilarity of a villain like Handsome Jack from Borderlands plays on the idea that from...

I have a hard time believing EA didn't have at least some influence in the rush to be emulate COD in the final Earth mission (boy was the military jargon ramped up to 11 there) and every single female character, even the ship's computer, suddenly boasting double D's.

And gaming sites posting their developer diaries, showing screenshots, and other things related to development isn't? So if I'm understanding you correctly, if a game company decides they want to be more socially aware and more inclusive and representative of demographics besides 18-30 year...

Care to explain why in your world saying "Hey this PR firm was only going to focus test on men, we had to ask them not to do that, this type of thing could be problematic for the industry" is "shooting their mouths off"? Escapist also just posted one of their developer diaries, I'm unclear as to...

Bioshock Infinite managed it. In spades. Imagine, a game from 24 years ago wasn't very progressive. It would be nice if you'd elaborate as to why you believe it to be a "non-issue" in the first place. A character like that could work, if handled well, but let's face it game writing...

It still sends kind of a crappy message that to sell even really good and unique games the cover HAS to have a single guy with a gun on it, because the dudebros like COD and now conventional "wisdom" tells us this is the only imagery men will respond to. I didn't say that, I said there are...

Because the only reason a video game company would even think of their female audience, or potential female audience is for PR. Right? This couldn't possibly have been a genuine concern. You sound pretty paranoid there dude.

Ah yeah the bullshit of acknowledging that female gamers actually exist. Such terrible bullshit. Focus testers, pretty different. Focus testing is when you get a bunch of average Joes in a room to determine what the general public will think about your product. Since the marketing firm is...

Because a big, dangerous man physically intimidating a young female college student in an isolated, lawless place could never have those kinds of implications amirite? I seriously don't understand this game, or how the gameplay is going to work, it just seems like it's 8 hours of bizarre...

At least someone enjoyed the painfully hamfisted religious allegories that didn't fit the tone in this game?

God it sounds amazing.. though the tech tree changing will take some getting used to.

I like how he apologizes to Mike just because he "didn?t know how big" his site is or that he was the guy who runs PAX (and he evidently didn't realize PAX was tied to Penny Arcade.) So basically it's like "I'm sorry, if I knew you were a big deal I would have been a brown-nosing toadie instead!"

Bit rough, could be funny with some work. Needs better acting and less of the stammering douchey 20-something shtick.

I have to admit I got quite into my gay dude romance with Zevran in Dragon Age 1. I had actually made a male character with the intention of romancing Morrigan (since you can't get her as a female, and I usually go for my own gender/morals/reactions/proclivities with my first character in a game...