Squilookle said:
Ryotknife said:
The whole thing is like WW2 meets Borderlands, as such im fine with female soldier with prosthetic (and all of the other wacky people/stuff). Every movie/game will take SOME liberties in a WW2 setting, so long as said liberty are not too jarring. If that female soldier appeared in Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan, yea it would break immersion and ruin the film for me. If she appeared in Captain America 1 or Inglorious Bastards on the other hand, it would be neat.
It seems like the media is very quick to assume the criticism is all leveled at there being a woman in the game- but I get the feeling it's got far more to do with V continuing 1's fast and loose portrayal of a real conflict. After all, the reveal trailer for BF1 had a woman and a black guy in it, and you didn't see the same backlash about them, did you?
As someone that remembers the reveal for BF1, yeah you did have a lot of the same backlash, not to the same extent as far as YouTube dislikes go as most of the ire was being directed at COD infinite?s trailer at the time, but I remember multiple topics spanning hundreds of replies and dozens of pages accross YouTube, GameFAQS, Reddit, etc with people complaining about the Black guy in the trailer, which usually descended into an argument about the Harlem Hellfighters, then complaints about the Black German soldiers later on which then brought in complaints about the British Indian soldiers and Black American soldiers fighting on maps in locations they shouldn?t have been present in. Complaints about the female in the trailer were there and after release a lot of those same people moved on to complaining about the campaign she was featured in.
BF V doesn?t have COD infinite to deflect criticism, and has the added layer of the reveal trailer focusing on goofy multiplayer gameplay and cosmetics rather than BF 1 which had a much more serious tone showing off primarily single player cutscene stuff, so you?ve got a lot more people complaining about things like tone and cosmetics, but the Black guy and woman got backlash in both teasers.