Did anyone ever play these games? They always looked bad. Two major thoughts:
Why spend so much money to make a female main character who is not attractive?
Why are all these games presenting women as warrior badasses? If you've got anything resembling a realistic artstyle it's kind of ludicrous to show women slicing through guys that tower over them and have 2x muscle mass
I liked the first Hellblade. It’s an interesting love story. The combat sucks but I liked the binaural audio gimmick. The game is short enough that the repetitive combat isn’t a deal breaker. I didn’t think it needed a sequel let alone a third game so I never played the second game not to mention the lack of subtlety in modern games…
Yeah I mean games can do different things. The protagonist isn't even ugly either, but she's deliberately presented in unattractive ways... Not always a dealbreaker but in the past 10y too difficult to ignore this trend to give devs any benefit of the doubt.
Did anyone ever play these games? They always looked bad. Two major thoughts:
The game proudly features mental illness as a gameplay mechanic. Whether this is a self-insert is unclear but it would explain a lot.
Nope. I don't play games with ugly female protagonists. I'm done with girlbosses.
They're a humiliation ritual to demoralise straight White men.
I liked the first Hellblade. It’s an interesting love story. The combat sucks but I liked the binaural audio gimmick. The game is short enough that the repetitive combat isn’t a deal breaker. I didn’t think it needed a sequel let alone a third game so I never played the second game not to mention the lack of subtlety in modern games…
Yeah I mean games can do different things. The protagonist isn't even ugly either, but she's deliberately presented in unattractive ways... Not always a dealbreaker but in the past 10y too difficult to ignore this trend to give devs any benefit of the doubt.