This is poop. They're breaking that cultural immersion the series has known for. All previous protagonists have had their name inspired by the word "eagle". Is Edward related to eagle? I mean, they have the syllable count and starting consonant, but that's it.
@jagcivtec @EmphaZima Not all pirates are like that. they could have done a cool spin and been corsairs, like Barbarossa in the Ottoman Empire where they basically kicked ass and took names and scared the crap out of Christians.
Unfortunately, we've... skipped that time period as the Ottomans were in Revelations. But I'm still wondering why they're going -backwards- and not -forwards-. This is the first AC they're doing that. what's up?
It honestly comes down to the writing. Writing in games, in general, needs a bit of a revamp. Or improvement.
We love to play games because they're fun, mechanically, but the narrative of games is what we remember the most. Better writing in games will in turn make more fleshed out female characters, right? .. I hope.
I really don't understand this article. I don't quite get how having a female protagonist = "if we'd made these women more feminine and more stereotypical it wouldn't have been so nice." That doesn't make any sense. I don't understand.
@FighterforJC He does sort of have a point kind of. Steam was crap for a long time. Then it got better! Now it's the best(ish). Now everyone is trying to be like Steam. What's hilarious is that PCs were being used as multimedia + gaming devices long, long, long before consoles. A PC is like a hare, the console is a tortoise- except the tortoise never actually wins.
We'd have no problems with Blizzard for D3's disappointment, if they just didn't take so goddamn long to make a game. When it's been over a decade since D2, you expect results. Regardless of who likes or dislikes a game, I think there is a strong consensus it could have been "better".
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