Dude, there's no evidence for any of that. Stop just repeating things you hear and when people do feed you these narratives, please ASK FOR EVIDENCE.
What you actually find is that in countries with more open portrayal of sexuality, women tend to be treated a lot better. That's not necessarily causal either. But it's fairly damning to the idea that any of this really has a negative effect. If it does it's tiny and is completely overshadowed by other cultural factors.
I wonder if it will explore the media's role in magnifying harassment by the way they've covered it and helped promote the victims of it as some kind of creepy reality stars who've got rich from doing absolutely nothing.
It is an obviously over-sexualised design, lets be honest. But look back at the rest of the series. They create some brilliant female characters and it's usually only ever 1 that's used to this effect. When the rest of the game is unveiled, it'll look completely trivial. As it is.
@ascendedcobra I think the expectations of what graphical level we should be getting has got a bit ridiculous. Yes, it doesn't really look any better than GTA5. But GTA5 was one of the best looking games on the PS3. This still looks incredible! It's just not better than the competition.
@jblp @garywood69 @DIGN Well 7 SHOULD be a good score. It's just that the entire scoring system has been ruined by an industry that does nothing in moderation and needs extreme views on everything. Everything has to be either brilliant or terrible. (as you just confirmed in your weird scoring system where the boundary between good and bad was somewhere around 7.5). If you think only games above 80% are worth your attention, you're going to miss out on a lot of worthwhile material!
@AdaptorLive @garywood69 @Gelugon_baat @Blade_Runner22 I disagree. It's just a simple fact that if something doesn't get a 10, there was something it was lacking. That's really not something you can disagree with, it's the plain fact that underlies the scoring system. Otherwise there'd be no difference between different scores.
@Gelugon_baat @garywood69 Well it's not arbitrary. You mean it's just based on a kind of vague feeling they have rather than a systematically calculated one. I actually think they're completely in the right to be doing that. Granted, some sites have their kind of proper marking system where they score various aspects. I have to say I think that's complete fiction. No human actually formulates opinions in that way. It's just a superficial appeal to professionalism. Opinions are entirely intuitive and emotional things. They're not rational at all.
@Gelugon_baat @Blade_Runner22 That's a perfectly reasonable complaint that Blade_Runner is raising. If you're going to have a positive and negatives box AND a score system, giving anything a non-perfect score suggests it has negatives. That's just inescapable fact.
Very weird article. Again and again you blame the game for not being a different kind of game. Well it's an action game. I feel that you need to meet a game on its own territory, not get angry that it doesn't make its way to yours (you really can't justify criticising an action/shooter game for rewarding killing. What else is it supposed to do?) Most action games just don't have good story-telling. Simple as that. They clearly focussed their energy on the gameplay mechanics- and did a brilliant job with it.
So by all means point out that the story isn't a strong point and the characters could've been better. But to my ear, writing a whole article pointing out that it wasn't a psychologically sophisticated story is a bit like writing a whole article about how bad the first person shooter segments were in The Walking Dead Season 1.
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