"Games are being increasingly developed by men and women with children, approximately half of whom are girls, and it shows. What happened to a time when games were the exclusive domain of lonely nerds who only knew about women through comic books and fantasy novel covers drawn by Boris Vallejo? When did Julie Strain stop being the ideal model of femininity? When did so many people not even know who Julie Strain is? I think about this every day as I play Tomb Raider and Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite and Gone Home and other critically acclaimed games that continue to marginalize men by portraying us as if we were only one part of the human condition, and maybe not even the main part, and often the less interesting part."
A gorgeous real-world Miraidon from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has been created in Japan by the Toyota Engineering Society.
JDR thinks the gaming industry needs more licensed IPs. It's basically a cry for Firefly: The Game, and why not? JDR delves deeper into why more isn't adapted for the interactive screen.
Nah. Video games are their own thing they wouldn't be improved by leeching off Hollywood more.
Read the article and it gives no mention of the many problems prevalent with licensed IPs, such as games and dlc being delisted when their licenses expire, Adult Swim games being the most recent example.
Only if they're good, if its going to be a 2D sprite art game, you can get away with a small team and small budget. But if you're going to make it a 3D polygonal game, you're going to need a large team with a large budget, and often times these licensed games are quickly pushed out the door, unpolished, rough, boring, bland, snorefest at best, and downright broken at worst.
We have an Indiana Jones and James Bond game currently being developed by two veteran teams with I assume fairly sizeable budgets. Let's hope they turn out to be worthwhile.
A new Mad Max game to coincide with the upcoming film would have been awesome. I loved the first game, I'm guessing it didn't sell too well as they never bothered following it up.
"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.
Misandry is a real issue, just open your eyes and see.
Oh ffs give me a break. The moment women actually start to get some real results after centuries of patriarchal oppression and deeply ingrained sexist assumptions, some whiner comes along and acts like men are the victims. I'm not denying that men are abused by women, but such a thing is greatly outweighed by the opposite, and not just nowadays, but throughout the history of western civilization. This is just a gamer playing up his unwarranted sense of victimization.
He talks about MODERN games exclusively, not about the history of the representation of women in games, not to mention all forms of fiction and beyond. Does he really think there's some sort of really ubiquitous anti-male sentiment in culture? Two to three games that give women the spotlight does not an anti-male culture make. I mean ffs. The very moment women start to get treated with dignity and respect in videogames some guy calls it out as if it's been happening for years. He literally talks about games from like last year and this year. Argument is invalid.
The thing any of these works of fiction are trying to communicate is that women are just as competent as men, and that any one who says other wise is talking out their ass. Maybe these games with strong females in them subordinate men somewhat, but only to show how perfectly conceivable it is that shoe could be on the other foot. If anything, this should make men realize what so many women have had to endure and have been "broken in" by. You might argue that man-centric ficton communicates the virtues of men, and that would be fine if only male-centric fiction hadn't been maximally dominant for like the last few centuries. That clearly indicates an ideological bias, not any sentiments of equality or any wishes to achieve any kind of balance.
Not to mention he talks about the male experience as if it's an entirely victimized and innocent thing, which is the height of naivete and an ignorance of history.
Don't forget that most of the industry is populated BY males. So it's males who are making these stereotypical and dull characters. I shouldn't have to say this, but it's clear to anyone with a brain that such things are male standards imposed by patriarchy, so in a way, this guy isn't really critiquing what he thinks he's critiquing, which is women. Shame that once again the blame has been deflected from patriarcal institutions and back onto women.
I also don't doubt that this guy was one of those clowns who wanted his games separate from politics. Pure hypocrisy. Now suddenly politics are okay, just because he mistakenly percieves men being marginalized. I swear, just when I thought we were finally getting somewhere the ignorance flares up again. Why don't these people just really make an effort to understand this stuff. It's reactionary behaviour through and through.
All I can do is shake my head... The post and the comments...
Chin up ladies and gents we are all the same !! Now deal with that !!
did anybody read the whole article?
sense of humour failure in the comments.
to the author i say, well done, you made me laugh.
sadly so many others seem to have missed the point.