Original Gamer: "News came out earlier this week that upcoming game Deep Down would not have any female playable characters due to the game’s storyline. As you may have guessed, many people lost their proverbial shit over this reveal and demanded a change to the story. See, for some people, artistic freedom ends where they say it ends."
Helldivers 2 now boasts twice as many PC players as PS5, emphasizing PC gaming’s increasing appeal.
After the whole fiasco with Sony and Helldivers 2 Community has neded, players report that they are unable to delete their PSN accounts.
can't delete account due to security reasons o_O
That sounds about right lol
Inb4 people mention it explicitly states it somewhere in the EULA, next up everybody pull out ya wands and make the unbreakable vow for eternal corporate servitude.
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lol, no offense but it was the same with The Hobbit. There were no female major characters in the book, however they felt the need to augment the story to help appeal to female moviegoers. Thus they created a completely fictional character and gave her some importance in the second movie.
Who cares what those people think? Let them lose their minds and complain. There is no need to shoehorn things into your vision just because people don't like it when they can't get what they want.
so should us guys be complaining that we can only play as a girl in tomb raider. should we start whining and moaning till they make a new story for a guy as well?
some people just like to whine to feel important.
I sense something missing from this story. People getting in an uproar over this clearly had a reason to assume the option would be there. Its not like people are freaking out at every release that has a solo male/female protagonist. I've never heard of the game so I'm not sure.
I still think that fiasco over Remember Me was manufactured to a certain extent for publicity reasons. It seemed every article leading up to the release was about the devs/game being victimized for one thing or another.
The reality is, "artistic freedom" is determined by the budget. You can be as free as you want, as long as people buy your stuff.
I hate politically correct pandering and I am sure Deep down will be fun but come on, let's not pretend there's gonna be any singular artistic vision behind it at all. Artistic vision is just about extinct in modern mainstream gaming. Of course there are a few obvious exceptions to the rule (woof woof) but just about everything in modern gaming is now conceived and developed from the get go by focus groups and market research. I don't think one more concession to the unwashed masses is gonna make much difference.
If you're really trying to tell an important story about the human condition that really requires your lead character be a white male, go for it. If you're just trying to throw together a disposable entertainment product based on market research why not just add the option to personalise your character a little?