Just great. The straight males who will make up 70% of the players have the grand choice of....Vivienne and Cassandra.
I hope this stupid game is bought by all those social justice warriors who will never play it, because I'm going to wait until I can get it for £10 or less in a few years time. Don't cater to me, fine, but I won't buy your stupid game.
When there are ten people in the room, and you allocate 33% of the effort to one, 33% to an...
To be honest, my preference is for them to ditch the preset character and let you create your own assassin, male or female, black, white, asian or mixed-race, along with maybe a choice of short origins fitting whichever combination you choose; similar to how it is done in Mass Effect (with DA:O origins).
Perhaps even adding some moral choices would make the game a little less stale, to account for our different personal beliefs (maybe an end where you defect to the templars o...
You miss my point.
I was merely speaking from my perspective as a customer, and I'm sure that women and people of different ethnicities generally feel the same way. My individual wish is perfectly acceptable, as is theirs (in their desire to play characters like them).
What I was implying was that it comes down to potential customers and the data. If adding a choice of female character passes cost-benefit analysis then they should do it, but if it doesn&#...
The games business isn't about your concept of "rights". It is about pleasing gamers, which translates into boosting sales or making money.
You do not have a right to impose "rights" upon the speech (in video game format) of another. If you don't respect their freedom of speech, you should expect them to attempt to restrict yours.
So rather than fighting for moral supremacy, with two losers from the battle, why not just live and le...
Personally
I wouldn't.
I would rather all video game protagonists looked exactly like me, liked the same things I like, spoke in the same way I speak and were generally just me.
That's because I'm quite comfortable with myself, and I, like everyone else who is happy, don't feel the need to change anything about my character out of self-hatred; furthermore, playing as a hero who is like you can boost self-esteem for many. I ca...
I don't get it. I'm vociferously opposed to elephant poaching in real life, but don't see why it's an issue in this game.
People don't decide to shoot people just because they can do it in games. Similarly, I doubt they'll go and poach elephants because they can do it in a game.
I guess this is more kneeling to social justice pedants (of which PETA are a part) who frequent the net and ignoring people who take a more balanced, mature vi...
I couldn't tell if that article was satire, frustration or delusion.
Anyone who watched the trailer would clearly know that the villian is Asian. Furthermore, there's probably a rational, data-supported reason why we're playing as that same white guy we always do.
I wonder if someone's going to write an article next that the universe (or god for the religious) is racist because it made both the sun and the moon white.
Interesting article, and I'm glad it pointed out a question rather than providing an answer and demanding that more games channel through a specific type of moral propaganda (as many other articles do).
Still, it is clickbait as was pointed to above, and could have chosen a more appropriate headline.
All those children learning to hack...
XD
Fingers crossed for a sequel!
The mysterious recontact will be so much more fun than first contact, of which we already know a great deal (and the ending of course will still leave us waiting for some form of resolution).
Most people who play AAA games are men, so I would think it be natural that games are targeted at the innermost fantasies of the men who spend the most money on them.
I'm a sexist in a sense, but no misogynist. I treat the gender I'm attracted to different from the ones I'm not in social situations (not work, debate or sport, which must be purely meritocratic).
I want to play as a person of the same gender as myself because I can then for the most...
I suppose if people enjoy the discussion then it's fair enough.
However, we have a dangerous culture in our society at present where "racist", "sexist" and "fascist" are buzzwords which appeal to the lowest common denominator and detract from genuine moral critique.
Thus, there is a natural fear from people wishing to speak out in favour of certain forms of these, even if there is intellectual rigour behind an argument. Peopl...
And people disagree with this?
What, is it acceptable to instead believe "if I disagree with the content of a game, it is my duty to demonise it so it future iterations will conform to my world view"?
If we all spend our time writing articles against/in favour of certain "moral" themes, rather than making games or learning programming, we're going to be causing huge market inefficiencies.
I mean, morality is a very sub...
Taking it a little too far there.
If you don't agree with the content of the game, the solution is simply NOT TO BUY IT.
It isn't as there are still a large number of us who will only buy single-player focused products.
Once companies wake up to this, perhaps the current barrage of multiplayer-only games will end.
When an unpopular argument is shown, we jump to attack it. When we do this, it gets lots of hits and blows up, prompting other such articles.
Non-gamers on tumblr then start agreeing with the social justice argument and commenting in favour.
Companies seem to look at the media+tumblr and apologise rather than have the guts to stand strong and tell the vocal minorities to observe their place (as people who are often neither the target market, nor people who would ever consider ...
Lol the stalking is strong with this one XD
I don't understand? Surely this is like asking whether NES gamepads are dead?
Yes, they died, but they were replaced by much more ergonomically efficient, versatile alternatives.
Motion controllers were just the first stepping stone towards more immersive forms of input.
Why can't we have heroes who look more like me than anyone else?
At the end of the day, it's Ubisoft's decision, and lobbying only serves to distort the market. If we want to ensure fairness, we put our money where our mouths are and either buy games which have female leads at full price or invest in studios which provide female leads.