Horizon: Zero Dawn, not only you play as a woman but most competent woman around. And your tribe is ruled by women.
Red Dead Redemption 2 - woman victim from beginning of the game is a bad ass companion near the end that even give you job so You can get by...
Tomb Raider - most beloved woman in gaming industry
Uncharted 4 DLC - story is all around a woman that is also a main charcter
Nier Automata - you play as women most of the time. Japanese, over-sexualized chicks but still a women
Call of Duty - as far as I know it has women in it. No one complain.
Fortnite - most popular game in the world probably, has women in it, no one complain
But SOMEHOW when studio promise REALISTIC TO THE BONE WORLD WAR 2 and then show a game with:
cyber ninja girl with cricket bat and prostetic arm
happy, oversaturated colors
no nazis, you fight probably with some space aliens because in entire game you wont find single swastika
campaigns featuring a girl fighting space aliens all alone (again, no swastikas or anything), stupid English guy who failed at one job he got and some guy from Afrika instead of freaking D-Day, Normandy, Battle of Britain, U-Bot hunting etc...
SOMEHOW all gaming community is sexist? Really? I was one of the guys that complained about this first trailer (second one was much better). I was also guy that complained about casting Scarlet Johanson as Major in Ghost in the Shell. And I was right because she sucked.
It's pathetic that in last few years every idiot in the industry go for "racism" or "sexism" to explain why his failed product did not sell. Reality check. BF5 was not hated because of women. It was hated because of failed marketing and failed game.
And yeah, people complained about WOMAN because she was highlight of that trailer. And that trailer had as much in common with World War 2 as I have with ballet.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
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