I'm a huge supporter of seeing more female leads and averting old cliched and stereotypes. But the way he talked about not writing men or women, but writing characters, just felt right.
I'm so tired of these politicians using the "video games makes you violent and/or a murderer" argument. Countless studies later and we have yet to find a viable connection other than a very slight increase in aggression. A slight increase in aggression does automatically make someone a deranged killer! What's annoying me though is that these politicians seem to think they understand the first thing about how the criminal mind works and they don't. They aren't psychologists or neurologists. They aren't the scientists who spend their lives studying why people go bad, if some were ever good, and observing the individual factors case by case.
By the way, before the invention of video games, what did politicians like to blame murder on instead?
@hassanem Sadly, I'm not seeing much chance of Shao Jun getting a console game at this point. Perhaps we'll at least see a vita game or a novel. It just seems like such waste to introduce her and this whole back story for the brotherhood in Imperial China and leave it at that. I hope Ubisoft will at least give us some sort of closure to her story.
Glad to see it get such a great score. I must say, I'm looking forward to playing this game. I haven't seen such fast paced over-the-top action since Vanquish.
@Jarek011 @parrot_of_adun @petsodon I'd be very interested in seeing a link to support the negative results you are speaking of. I'd like to see the effects of what was implemented.
@EmphaZima @Amity6 I think there are a bit more female game protagonists then one is often led to believe, much more when gender options are introduced. But there's still room for improvement. Male protagonists still far outnumber those female. I don't think anyone here is asking all games to involve female leads. What myself and many others would like, is more balance.
@freefadi7 What a terrible concept, equality. God forbid a woman be treated as equal to a man. Surely, the pursuit of such a thing was the downfall of the human race.
@ronan32 @Serenity138 For me, I tend to play whatever I feel like, so both male and female characters. But I find female protagonists often refreshing, plus I'm honestly a fan of strong female characters.
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