Border House: "E3, the gaming convention and showcase for gaming professionals, wrapped up late last week. I was a bit busy elsewhere, so this is going up a lil late. So here are my reactions and thoughts to some of the games [and their representations of women] I saw in the coverage of the convention."
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
A new Partner Spotlight Sale is now live on the Switch eShop, including Skyrim, lowest price ever for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and more.
It's funny that a game like Dragon's Crown has to use T&A to get people talking about it, while Uncharted 3 garners much more attention by showing good gameplay and fun cutscenes.
People say sex sells. But a great game with interesting characters sells even better.
some feminists needs to chill out... not every woman in games need to be like/looks like "that writing feminist"
else there is much of rage from them...
i dislike extremists on every aspect not only feminists....
Dunno, what about playing the games and having fun with them instead of letting pseudo-silly-political-extremi st views ruin the enjoyment?
Some people really set themselves up for disappointment.
THAT PICTURE! I'm surprised her tits haven't fallen off. Forget a bra what she needs is an over the shoulder boulder holder.
In the next installment of Batman. Although I will enjoy the dialog and combat moves of Catwoman. I do not care for the unnecessary bare cleavage for Catwoman in the next installment of Batman. Being a guy, I still found it distracting and bothersome. Past depictions of Catwoman did not need this distraction of extra bare cleavage. To express her feminine side (not like a Prostitute mind you). But I am seeing a theme here. Last Batman game produced from Rocksteady. Poison Ivy had the same details of unnecessary cleavage. I will be most likely hitting the B button (Xbox version) to skip through the cut scenes for the second time through. But will just need to try to look the other way in the first play through. So I do not miss any important information in the dialog. Catwoman will be 10% part of the game, so this is not going to take away from the experience with personal editing during the second time through. :)