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Lawlight on 22 October 2015
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Puppyroach said:
Lawlight said:
Puppyroach said:

Well, if there is mysandry in games, of course I am not for it. It is always a matter of context though, just like with misogony.

You think there is plenty of diversity in games, I think there could be more. I like that we are getting more and more diversity since it makes many games more interesting and a lot more enjoyable. It has become better and better, just looking back 30 years and seeing how gamers reacted to Samus Aran being a woman, compared to how we find it more natural that half of the spartan are male and half female, are good signs. But we can always be better.

I mean not just in games. GG was just as much a hate campaign against men as it was the other way round.

I don't see how diversity would make, for example, Uncharted a better game if we replace Nathan Drake. Mind explaining that to me?

Precisely my point. The reason I am not a feminist is because it is a one-sided view of the world, where feminists generalizes about men. I oppose those views, but the moment I, as a critic to those view, starts to harass or being sexist towards those people, I am the one to blame (you know, two wrongs don´t make a right :)).

Diversity is about game developers chalennging themselves, and not be lazy. A very good, classic example of this, is Metroid. The fact that Miyamoto made the main character a woman, broke many people´s classic view of who the hero is and helped the game make a huge impact.

I ma not saying Uncharted would be a better game if it was more diverse, but would it be a worse game? Are the game developers so lazy, that they cannot even challenge themselves artistically and create new and unexpected situations and concepts regarding games? It feels wrong to mention Naughty Dog in this regard since I think that they ARE a developer that can take games in new directions and challenge the gamer in fascinating ways, yet still make amazing games.


I think the challenge when making a game isn't the character's skin colour but the character itself. It's easy to make a character of a certain ethnicity but making a character good is challenging regardless of the ethnicity.