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Cosplayers Poke Fun at the Idea That Women Are "Too Hard To Render" in Games

Pair of cosplayers at this weekend's GaymerX2 conference dress up to make a point about Ubisoft's decision to not include playable female characters in Assassin's Creed: Unity.

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christian hour3573d ago (Edited 3573d ago )

Gotta love people with a sense of humour.

Gotta hate Anita Sarkeesian for using this as more fuel to her black and white , politically correct gone mad, agenda.

Singling out Ubisoft is silly, considering they're a huge corporation based all over the world with staff hailing from all walks of life. In fact it's ironic in a way to see the community blindly rally against ubisofts decision to not have a female option in Unity, when you think back to how the community treated Jade Raymond back when Assassins Creed was first being shown off.

Seriously does anyone remember the amount of abuse and outright deplorable shit she had to endure just for being a female spokesperson for a games company? And now these same people (I realise I'm kinda generalising here, but this is aimed at the culprits, not everyone, of course) are bemoaning ubisoft for failing to include a playable female character in Unity, despite them having had strong female leads and secondary characters in a tonne of their games.

Back on topic, now that I've had my little rant. These two women are heroes for making these costumes, I know we get a lot of Cosplay submissions that don't get approved around here (and a lot that do) but this one is definitely deserving of an approval.

Especially because of the giant googly eyes.

GhostofHorizon3573d ago

I really don't get why everyone is so hung up on the whole Assassin's Creed thing.
Last 5 Assassin's Creed games have had a singe main character and it's going to stay like that for their upcoming game.
They clearly explained why the co-op has all the male characters. It's because everyone is playing as the main character and they just swap the face so you can still show off your gear.

Even if you wanted your character to look like a girl, you would not see it because you're playing with the main character.

I have no idea why Ubisoft keeps on being attacked over this issue.
As far as their comments go towards this issue I don't agree with all of them and they could have handled the issue a bit better.

I could care less if the character is male or female. As long as the game is good and what I have come to expect.

The whole white knights journalism concerning the females in gaming is in my opinion just annoying and in some cases sexist in itself.

While I appreciate that the particular cosplayers are standing up for something they are passionate about I don't actually find the costumes funny and I know it's supposed to be so bad that it's good but I don't get that out of it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I saw this at a convention I would think it's dumb and wouldn't give it another second, I'm sure they could have figured out something more attention grabbing.

Don't even get me starter on Anita Sackeesian. She's a manipulative and scamming piece of trash.

JackOfAllBlades3573d ago

It's so hard to program those jiggle physics!

LightDiego3573d ago

Well, the false geek girls need to stay relevant with topics like that.
I'm not saying about the women that are real gamers

lizard812883573d ago

Oddly enough, Nintendo is showing the ladies love, between Hyrule Warriors and Smash Bros

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Ubisoft's Recent Antics Have Me Fearful For The Sands of Time Remake

Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."

thorstein8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.

*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*

Chocoburger8d ago

At this point, only dummies have any hope left for Ubi-junk games.

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Disney adds Blizzard and Ubisoft veterans to its games leadership team

Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…

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Behind XDefiant's Toxic Work Culture, Crunch, and Years of Delays

Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.

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just_looken28d ago

Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
https://www.theverge.com/20...

This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.

jznrpg28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Every industry has these issues

Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.