• @slimerancher
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    2111 hours ago

    This is about an old game for PSP, somewhere between 2008-2010. Devs used the escape clause in the contract to leave it during early stage, so the game was never made.

  • Scrubbles
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    4014 hours ago

    God the entire point is that it shouldn’t matter. Executives forcing one thing or the other is what is making everyone hate both forces male and forced “woke” characters. Just let the freaking creatives do their job and stop having some committee decide for them. It makes the stories so freaking awkward.

    If the story makes sense, I don’t care. Let the creators make the characters they want and stop pushing agendas at all. If they want to make the queerest game let them. If they want a male protag, who cares. Executives are not creatives. (Neither are the panels of people they put in charge of market research either)

    • @[email protected]
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      1710 hours ago

      Just let the freaking creatives do their job and stop having some committee decide for them.

      Reminds me of a joke I heard about Concord.

      “Our marketing team was heavily involved in the making of our character designs”
      “I can tell”

    • @[email protected]
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      1813 hours ago

      it shouldn’t matter

      executives don’t give a fuck about anything except money. with a male hero you’re still getting the handful of girl gamers’ money, but with a woman hero you’re losing the wish-i-was-a-tough-guy boy gamers who are so insecure they literally can’t play a game as a woman character because their simple minds interpret that as “play woman character = i am literally a woman now = weak.”

      yea, it’s fucking stupid, but that’s what’s happening. it’s the same ridiculous nonsense with non-white, non-straight characters

      • @[email protected]
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        119 hours ago

        And with a male protagonist you lose all the “I don’t want to stare at a guy’s ass for an entire game” demographic.

        • Scrubbles
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          15 hours ago

          Man dudes don’t know what they’re missing do they. I love femshep in 3rd person, but oh dang Geralt

        • @Demdaru
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          First person: male

          Third person: female

          System: hacked

          Edit: Do it in one game and you also get trans inclusivity tag! ^^

  • @[email protected]
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    That definitely sounds like usual Ubisoft meddling. Hell, at that time Guillemot’s good friend Hascoet must have been in full directing power, shitting all over the Assassin’s Creed creative team’s decisions. While the company protected his sexual and moral harassment gig.

    I can’t care less about Ubisoft being sold to whoever. Guillemot and his asshole clique don’t deserve shit.

  • YerboutiB
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    113 hours ago

    Sounds like there’s plan of hot gay sex, count me in!

  • @RightHandOfIkaros
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    -113 hours ago

    Okay? Just make a good game, I dont think the main characters gender is really that important.

    Though to be fair, the market is flooded with female main characters right now and with upcoming games, so I do appreciate the variety. Still, its an Ubisoft game and I probably wasnt going to buy it anyway.