The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Wolfshade]

The idea is that you don't have a neutral response,

[Gotthammer]

Personally I think needing a "don't care option" for those two questions reflects more poorly on you than the questionnaire itself.

[Psychosplodge]

but what if your response is neutral?

GTA san andreas Black gang member

GTA IV yugoslavian immigrant/black gang member/white biker

GTA V two old white dudes and a black gang member

None of it mattered. You know why? because the story was good.

Gta VI could be a revenge story of a trafficed asian prostitute and it wont matter as long as the story is still good.

[eldargal]

Except 90% of the time those good stories are about guys and 80% of the time it is white guys. 99.9% of the time straight. It's really easy to care only about the story when you are abundantly represented.

[Psychosplodge]

I played mass effect as fem shep
I played skyrim as a female, I play in 1st person view so it isn't to stare at their arse either.
I love games where you can spend hours tweaking your character options.
But at the end of the day as long as the gameplay and the story is good it just doesn't matter.
Though it is lazy of short games like assasins creed to not give you an option whereas they can manage it in skyrim.

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Except 90% of the time those good stories are about guys and 80% of the time it is white guys. 99.9% of the time straight. It's really easy to care only about the story when you are abundantly represented.

True.

[Path Walker]

I played mass effect as fem shep
I played skyrim as a female, I play in 1st person view so it isn't to stare at their arse either.
I love games where you can spend hours tweaking your character options.
But at the end of the day as long as the gameplay and the story is good it just doesn't matter.
Though it is lazy of short games like assasins creed to not give you an option whereas they can manage it in skyrim.

It doesn't matter to you. It matters to a lot of people, mostly women, who, in general, aren't being represented.

The examples of females you've given where they're treated as well as men come from games where they could be either, and even so, its not perfect.

[Wolfshade]

The difficulty I had is that I tend to play things like Civ, TW, EU, things where the concept of a character that you play is abit irrelevant as you play as the nation rather than a person in the nation, despite you being "named".

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah pathwalker I should have added "to me" to that line. I'm not sure that would change if I wasn't male though(I'm not sure it wouldn't either though) I just want to play my games...

Theres that too, Wolfie, I play spartans in Alpha Centuari, And England in the civ games, but the fact they have female characters doesn't affect gameplay.
And in totalwar don't they just represent your faction with a symbol/banner?

[Path Walker]

Real medival sims there isn't so much a problem as its trying to reflect the actual history, Civ, especially the later ones, have a smattering of female leaders, but their animations do make them pouty and childish more often than their male counterparts.

[Psychosplodge]

Personally I think needing a "don't care option" for those two questions reflects more poorly on you than the questionnaire itself.

fine
I gave them a four still think the questions are loaded.