I think it's a good thing to keep games interesting. I'm incredibly bored of the basic male, white protagonists in most games. I almost always play women if i can. playing commander shepard as a female was so much better than as a male.
Oh for fuck sake. Sarkeesian is a nut job. She does not speak for all women, most of whom I'm sure also wish she would do one. What, you genuninely think that the industry /is/ dumbing down games so women can play them? As if women are incapable of playing games unless they're "dumbed down"?Genocidicles said:How is dumbing games down so that more women can play them a good thing exactly?
Reaper195 said:Do you want to play the exact same character in every single game? Becasue that's how you get the exact same character in every single game.
I don't care if a character is white, black, Spanish, female or gay. But I'm incredibly bored of the brown haired guy that saves everyone and bangs the woman. I'm in the minority that has never played a Mass Effect game as male Sheppard, and prefer Jennifer Hale's voice over Meers'.
trunkage said:I totally agree. She was so much better than Meer. If you haven't tried at lest play ME2 and 3 with her voicing. Its great.Reaper195 said:-snip-
Yikes, is there really need for the hostility? OP never mentioned Anita or any of the death threats. I realize it's a bad thing and all, but there's no need to bring it up then imply that OP is one of those sending death & rape threats.snowfi6916 said:That thread title is basically saying "I am an entitled gamer who thinks that because I was born on the privileged side of society that I am always right and that any change should be met with violent death and rape threats. I dare you to change my mind."
Sorry, but I don't deal with hopeless cases. If you can't see that gamers sending rape and death threats to the point that Anita Sarkeesian had to LEAVE HER OWN HOME out of fear is a bad thing, then I would be wasting my breath to try and explain it further.
The actions of gamers these past couple of weeks has assured me that I don't want to BE friends with any gamers. So no big loss there.Inglorious891 said:Yikes, is there really need for the hostility? OP never mentioned Anita or any of the death threats. I realize it's a bad thing and all, but there's no need to bring it up then imply that OP is one of those sending death & rape threats.snowfi6916 said:That thread title is basically saying "I am an entitled gamer who thinks that because I was born on the privileged side of society that I am always right and that any change should be met with violent death and rape threats. I dare you to change my mind."
Sorry, but I don't deal with hopeless cases. If you can't see that gamers sending rape and death threats to the point that Anita Sarkeesian had to LEAVE HER OWN HOME out of fear is a bad thing, then I would be wasting my breath to try and explain it further.
OP's question isn't something all that uncommon; I'm sure if you asked most gamers if they care about diversity in gaming, their response is going to be "I really don't really care, I just want to play some games". If your response to this was to call them entitled shits who enable death threat senders you aren't gonna be a lot of friends, bud.
Same as I was thinking. Truly is a really stupid/ignorant question.UmberHulk said:This is pretty obviously a thread created to get angry responses I honestly doubt that the OP really cares about diversity in games or is unaware of the benefits that diversity can bring, I think this is just a troll thread.
The most extreme conclusions are almost never the right answer. The fact that this thread was even made is a good indication that it's not.Fenrox Jackson said:That, that right there. It couldn't possibly be that all these people are small minded could it? Lets keep excusing and rationalizing things. Ducks most certainly aren't always ducks right? Yes, please continue with the infinite patience.Pinuyasha said:I'm going to take a guess that the OP isn't too good with expressing what his actual problem is with all the diversity stuff and it came out as him saying he doesn't like the diversity movement. I'm going to try to put your thoughts in better words, OP, so tell me if I'm right.
The problem isn't the diversity in itself. After all, it doesn't make a lot of sense why you would be against having some protagonists that don't look like they came out of CoD, unless you really are just small minded.