ManWhoJaped
Keeper of the Watch
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That's why games are so simple now, they just don't do any programming, alrik.
I think a hostile reaction is warranted, just not on such a personal basis. You can't hunt someone down and cook and eat them over a video game.
But if there were more titles they'd just ignore bioware and play the next game. But they really can't, which is the only reason that sites and magazines which covered games like gold box series would cover the new stuff.
And they know it and capitalize off it. Like I said before, honesty. Don't sit there and BS me that this is how RPGs always were, what they were about. And don't tell me any fans who don't like it are misogynists because they want a game that's not aimed at juveniles and pedos.
I bought everything they pumped out before DA, people like me made it so they can have jobs in video games in the first place. All I've got in the last 10 years from them is a daily dose of some jackass telling me what a bad person I am for not loving their new games.
By contrast Bethesda is pretty unpretentious and hard as it is to believe, a lot more honest. They are still capitalizing on the name of fallout and their old titles but not pretending to cater to serious rpg fans!
In short they are like boyfriend caught cheating who not only won't admit it but is always bitching about how jealous his stupid girlfriend is.
But again why does everything have to be watered down crap? Games used to be for nerds, and if there's anyone I would like to punch in the face it's whoever made it about emotional attachment to characters. Just like scifi has been completely ruined, it's even worse for games, and the same cheap melodrama has crept into almost every movie and tv show regardless of genre. At least I can believe a romance in a scifi movie even though it's usually a bit tacked on and lame, but it's just painful to see RPGs turn into girlfriend simulators.
To my mind, e.g Game of Thrones surely has a story, even one that I quite like when I can make meta-strory commentaries with friends, but quite certainly written in a context of a target group of youthful male audience. I dare say almost any female that has done sports can state that the barbarian no-hardware dancing scenes are rather silly for such a practical race.
While Ms Hepler possibly might have suffered the brunt of a culmination of an era of RPG low, to my mind this should have had nothing to do with DOA:2 that was still a pretty decent title.
Dragon Age Origin set aside, what was there anyhow after Baldur's Gate series, Torment, Morrowind or Neverwinternights 2 inbetween? In view of sorry state of RPG story telling in general, why should she have merited a hostile reaction?
I think a hostile reaction is warranted, just not on such a personal basis. You can't hunt someone down and cook and eat them over a video game.
But if there were more titles they'd just ignore bioware and play the next game. But they really can't, which is the only reason that sites and magazines which covered games like gold box series would cover the new stuff.
And they know it and capitalize off it. Like I said before, honesty. Don't sit there and BS me that this is how RPGs always were, what they were about. And don't tell me any fans who don't like it are misogynists because they want a game that's not aimed at juveniles and pedos.
I bought everything they pumped out before DA, people like me made it so they can have jobs in video games in the first place. All I've got in the last 10 years from them is a daily dose of some jackass telling me what a bad person I am for not loving their new games.
By contrast Bethesda is pretty unpretentious and hard as it is to believe, a lot more honest. They are still capitalizing on the name of fallout and their old titles but not pretending to cater to serious rpg fans!
In short they are like boyfriend caught cheating who not only won't admit it but is always bitching about how jealous his stupid girlfriend is.
I would say that only The Witcher has been that interesting addition, yet assuming that female gamers shall take the "barbarian titty-dancing" humorously, as I do with Game of Thrones.
This said, I could no longer like the sequel TW2 due to attitudes portrayed in the gameworld (besides what I thought was a poorly console-port gameplay), and I cannot say there are so many titles that almost anyone can resonate to with an equal mesure be they a boy, a girl, a hetero or a gay.
Most often, these are Stories for Boys, really. And looking at BG:2 - a good story requires a lot of writing effort that needs craft besides money, IMO. The way Jaheira was inter-weaved into a lot of time or encounter triggered content in context of carefully written lore and dynamic to the lead player and party members… this has not been replicated, really - and is money the only obstacle there?
But again why does everything have to be watered down crap? Games used to be for nerds, and if there's anyone I would like to punch in the face it's whoever made it about emotional attachment to characters. Just like scifi has been completely ruined, it's even worse for games, and the same cheap melodrama has crept into almost every movie and tv show regardless of genre. At least I can believe a romance in a scifi movie even though it's usually a bit tacked on and lame, but it's just painful to see RPGs turn into girlfriend simulators.
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