Oh right of course. Germany is a totalitarian state which bans symbols it doesn't like, so this is hardly surprising.
In the short term I disagree. Movies about games spread IP awareness to non-gamers, drawing more people into the hobby and allowing for it to move further into the "socially acceptable" mainstream.
In the long term I agree somewhat for direct remakes as there is simply no need to remake a cinematic game into a movie.
However, film has plenty of supplementary potential for video games. Movies/TV series could sandwich between a game and its sequel, provide bac...
Oh. Seems the PC gaming master race will get their anal probing uncensored after all.
Sexuality and morality are VERY different. One is biological, the other is learned/chosen.
This.
But. I wouldn't expect to see many homosexual protagonists at all.
Assuming most of the population prefer to play "avatars" who look and act like them (or how they would like to), then as only around 2-5% of the population are homosexual, we shouldn't expect to see many gay protagonists (well none, except in Indie games), given the small market size.
As for other characters, it should fit the setting as has been said....
Well they can be, except when ignorant Ubisoft executives insist on censoring them in very liberal parts of the world.
Are they stupid, or are Canada responsible for craftily plotting this to bring the entire US game industry to their country?
It's a Europe AND Middle East release. Only Germany in Western Europe has draconian censorship along with the Middle East. It is entirely their fault for not caring enough to try and get the uncensored game to all whose countries would certainly allow it (UK for example).
Ubisoft are the blame, and it is them we need to punish with our wallets for this.
"Europe" is not a country, and i wish publishers would start taking this into account. And why is Europe, the most liberal region in the world in the same group as the Middle East, which is the least?
I will now be boycotting this game as I hope Ubisoft suffer for their lack of a shred of moral conviction about freedom from censorship.
The kind of people who are stupid enough to pay hundreds of dollars in microtransactions generally don't own PC's which can run anything more demanding than the Sims 3. Thus, the Sims 4 looks exactly the same because it is Sims 3.5 built to prop up EA's financial expectations.
While some studios try really hard to push games as an art-form, studios like EA seem intent on using games as a way to exploit psychological flaws in customers in order to extract more money.
Better yet, they can actually innovate and give us a choice to play as male or female. I don't want to play a female assassin, but people should have the choice to. If Mass Effect and Dragon Age can fully voice both then i don't see why Assassins' Creed can't.
Yes there will be some differences due to the historical setting, but they won't be too significant and it would be interesting to see how society changes its view of you in pre-20th century London/Wherever d...
Yeah I'm going to become broke once the 800 series is released XD
I'm not saying it's a good game, and a lot of the criticism seems to be justified. I just think I could probably play through it and have a relatively good time, which would warrant at least a 6/10.
I really hate Rome 2 for example, but I'd still give it 70% for the elements which it does get right. I can see the good elements here, but I know I won't enjoy them because I expected something else.
And if the site isn't looking to gain respect for it...
Seriously? 3/10? I have a hard time believing that this game is worse than Farming Simulator, which holds a 33/100 rating on metacritic.
I think this reviewer was just venting anger, which is the kind of approach which belongs in an Amazon.com comments section, not a review site trying to gain community respect.
The author makes a critical mistake.
Multiplayer RPG's can never match up to single-player, AI-based equivalents because players are just role-playing while artificial characters ARE what they are supposed to be.
For example when you watch a movie with friends, someone will always make a joke to hide emotion in the deep, hard-hitting scenes, and thus these scenes lose their power in multiplayer.
When a player-character in Rust dies, you k...
The problem is that because games are still seen as a "boy's" thing, neutral advertising is assumed to be aimed at young boys.
Thus, this is an attempt to actually try and persuade younger girls that these games are specifically targeted at them, and that it is socially acceptable for them to play them.
The end result should be that more younger girls play games and then in the long term, we see a more demographically representative player base among adu...
While it sounds like a good idea, I'm not sure it really is...
Gaming is a fast-moving, highly creative industry where major publishers are weaker than ever and indie studios are taking over. You can't "unionise" the members of several-person indie studios, and putting yet more pressure on the major publishers is only going to make them disgustingly uncompetitive.
Also, are we not going to inevitably suffer the anti-consumer antics of a union not dissimilar f...
I agree steam machines aren't going to tempt people away from the Xbox One or the PS4, and that their main market are those who were considering getting a gaming PC but were reluctant to make the leap.
I have a feeling that they might really take off towards the end of the console cycle, when newer, more refined models come out and console gamers want better hardware.
I don't see why the author goes on to say that they'd personally like to steer clear of them. I would stay clear of the AO games where violence, sexual content and taboos are used gratuitously, in such a way that they are the point of the game rather than the devices used to create a greater artistic product, but these are the elements which many great arthouse movies include.
If developers use thse factors in a mature way to create surreal and possibly eye-opening ex...
Very insightful post.