| LuccaCardoso1 said: I've heard a lot of people complaining about BFV's inclusion of playable female characters saying that we should boycott the game because women "didn't fight in the war", and because that's "historically inaccurate". First of all, women did fight in the war (yes, mostly for the USSR, but it would be stupid to only allow female characters when you're playing in one specific team). |
It wouldn't be stupid if the goal was to achieve historical accuracy.
I'd love to see woman snipers on the Soviet side, it's historically accurate and pulls me in even more into a setting.
| LuccaCardoso1 said: Second of all, Battlefield 1 was also very historically inaccurate, and I didn't see anyone boycotting it because of that. |
Indeed it was but I think there's a threshold that should not be crossed. BF5 made the mistake of constantly featuring a soldier who was not only a woman but also had a prosthetic limb: two highly unlikely sights expected on a WW2 battlefield. Also, there was a British soldier with a katana on his back.
These things just pull me out of a trailer. Also, BF5's trailer was loud and obnoxious with things falling all over the place that seemed horribly cartoony to me while BF1's trailer transitioned between different WW1 arenas that seemed more grounded in reality.
| LuccaCardoso1 said: I've also seen people complaining about TLoU 2 and Horizon ZD for the same reasons, just because they feature women |
I don't recall any of that for HZD. The YT trailer reactions seem overwhelmingly positive.
| LuccaCardoso1 said: and, in the first case, a lesbian kiss in one of the trailers. |
When I first saw that, the first thing I started wondering was: "has there ever been a game trailer that featured a heterosexual couple being this open about their affection"?
| LuccaCardoso1 said: What is an "SJW agenda"? Is having diverse characters an "SJW thing"? Because, you know, the world is not just made of white cis hetero males, so it's just natural that games would not just have white cis hetero males. If you think that TLoU 2 and Horizon ZD promote an "SJW agenda", give me some examples of games with diverse characters that don't "appeal to the SJW crowd". I'll just ask you not to cite Tomb Raider (as Lara Croft was [and still is a bit] hyper-sexualized) and Metroid (since most people didn't even know that Samus was a girl before the internet). I'm genuinely intrigued. |
Fortnite. Overwatch. Many fighting games.
I think one key thing is BF5 devs started to talk too much on social media and they said things that only made things worse rather than just shutting up and letting things die out. Maybe cool things down with a new trailer that seemed more historically accurate.
Last edited by KLAMarine - on 26 August 2018
