Alrik Fassbauer
Sounds like a good post, wish I had seen it.
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Everything has to balance out somewhere, even though it's stated as a prison for men, most of the men whom aren't fighting the Orcs are in prison then Khornsis and Vanguard wouldn't have any men, but of course we don't (I don't) hold PB to such I high standard that their stories have to be perfect.
They have twice now had problems with including women first in G1 and secondly in G3 due to graphic issues.
The whole "it's a male world" is a complete misnomer, though it's obviously related to having shitty assed male role models through history, women have always been equal as humans.
It may have been proven before and I am forgetting but during wars often times women are out of necessity required to do the same jobs men did.
In the US for example women did so well that they basically created the middle class.
It's the result of each society that perpetrates the subjugated roles, run by men, men so frail they encourage the mistreatment of women and see women as a threat.
Most guilty of this are religions and governments have tried to suppress women through out history but that doesn’t make it acceptable or that all men treated women this way.
Secondly often the stories you hear of strong women meeting bad ends is that is was a male version of the story.
I am not saying they have to include a female propagandist but only it would have been a better game for it.
Sure it's ok to make a game about male power and egos, it's one of the best games I have ever played but it certainly has room for improvement, which they did a masterful job of in G2.
Here's the thing that really pushes me on this female issue in G1, there were 200 men (guessing) and 3 women belonging to 1 guy, for years.
Gomez would have had to ask for more women just to stem revolt if he would have wanted to keep the men working mining the ore.
Technically a female protagonist could have been done with little or no impact.