evdk
comrade troglodyte :M
Also Infinitron is a scumbag News poster & Brofists harvesting machine, not a Mod. Get your facts straight.
Fixed.Also Infinitron is a scumbag.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Don't believe the anti-hype. This is a decent game.
Shadowrun Returns
The first half of the game is bad and the second half is OK.
Female protagonist?
Judging by the game's cover, the game features a female protagonist. Am I correct?
If so, then I'd like to know why. I'm not personally against it, mind you; in fact, I think it's a neat idea. I'm just curious, that's all.
dphrygian [developer]
Let me start by saying: This is a sensitive subject to many people, and I will not hesitate to close this thread if discussion gets out of hand.
Yes, the main character in Eldritch is a non-sexualized woman of color. In game, Eldritch lets you customize your character. Customization makes no real difference in the game, but it's important to me. It was also important to me that the default character was not exactly like me (i.e., a cisgender heterosexual white man).
The representation of women (as well as minorities and marginalized people of all kinds) in games has been and continues to be a problematic part of our medium.
Eldritch is a very "video game-y" video game, for lack of a better term, and is neither intended nor well suited to address social politics. And, frankly, I'm not the person for that job. But in an industry where marketing teams remove women from box covers because market research says games will move more units that way, I can't do nothing. Honestly, making the protagonist of Eldritch a woman feels insubstantial and insignificant compared to the meaningful work being done by my peers, but I need to do at least this small bit to improve a problematic aspect of video games.
Someone send a helicopter, there's a man drowning in a endless ocean of white guilt.dphrygian [developer]It was also important to me that the default character was not exactly like me (i.e., a cisgender heterosexual white man).
It was also important to me that the default character was not exactly like me (i.e., a cisgender heterosexual white man).
But in an industry where marketing teams remove women from box
But we also have black slaves ancestry, white guilt shall never touch me!Latinos have plenty of white ancestry considering they're the result of interbreeding between the native peoples and the white imperialists who conquered them.
The SJW thing has definitely crossed the line from amusing to creepy. The dude sounds brainwashed.
It was also important to me that the default character was not exactly like me (i.e., a cisgender heterosexual white man).
NOBODY TALKS LIKE THIS YOU MANIAC
Fun game: mentally exchange WoC for WotC whenever you see it mentioned.
You can never understand what WotC go through!Fun game: mentally exchange WoC for WotC whenever you see it mentioned.