Because female resistance fighters were more frequent than soldiers. And I don't think the actual inclusion of female characters is the issue here, but rather the  occurence and frequency of including them as a token focus character in every game (or at least putting them in the spotlight like Battlefield).

I  won't go out of the way to not buy the game for that - let the devs do what they want. It doesn't change my gameplay experience - but it does seem unnecessary. Especially since people on the other side of the spectrum complain if there isn't a certain type of people in a game (see Kingdom Come: Deliverance), even though the representation is strong in numerous other games.

I think I will be getting the next BF instead of the next COD but I can understand where a few comments come from. It’s Memorial Day tomorrow and it’s a day to remember all of the soldiers that died throughout our history. Most of the games and even COD have entered that arena with respect. Trying to tell these real stories in new interactive ways. Cod WW2 has wild colorful things in MP but the campaign tried to respect that history and honor those fights. A French resistance fighter that’s a women, why not? The wild costumes and hairdos in BFV aren’t stopping me from buying the game but I can understand why some BF players would be confused. Why not just make a WW3 game? You can put whatever you want in that lol.

I think the reason it's such a problem now is their intention and the fact that World War II is a sensitive subject. Bastardizing horrifying historical events to pander to extreme groups and for moral grandstanding is disgraceful.

With all the other ridiculous shit that was seen in the trailer, they really need to distance themselves from realism and actual historical events for it to remain tasteful. Valkyria Chronicles did a great job of this.

And that's only the tip of the iceberg. What bothers me is that A: These are soldiers in Battlefield V's trailer - not resistance fighters, so why the fucking are they wearing blue war paint on their faces? B: On top of regulation for female military combat the enlistment in the 1940's, she wouldn't  be able to enlist with a severed arm either. The fact that she has a metal prosthetic hand and uses it in combat is beyond ludicrous... As well as the soldier who has a Japanese Katana sword on his back.

How the fuck did he obtain that? How did a European gain access to a Japanese sword that, in real life - would have never been allowed to use in combat.

Battlefield V is all kinds of fucking stupid, no matter how you look at it... 

They probably were trying to break some type of record of how lame they could make it.

It appears as they did it just to draw attention to the female character. The missing limb, the face paint, the lack of a helmet, getting shot and respawning, using a cricket bat as a weapon and just standing there making small talk when there's a firefight going on. If only they portrayed them like actual soldiers instead.

The like-dislike ratio on the trailer is already in favour of the negative side at 270K:300K, but hey, it might be a good game after all.

It's just good old far right ideals at work. If you can marginalize people in real life, the entertainment they watch should reflect it as well. That's why there's this huge culture war in pop culture now. When movies like The Force Awakens and Black Panther became giant hits, alarms got set off, leading a certain group of people to think they were being replaced and put themselves in panic mode. In actuality, entertainment has been diverse in some form for years. I mean, even a show like Star Trek was made with diversity and social justice in mind.

You just have more people feeling comfortable with pushing back toward this form of segregation, which is too bad. It's particular nasty in geek circles who really have no tolerance for encountering people who don't reflect themselves. It's becoming this angry wave of people who can no longer enjoy anything due to seeing everything as tainted and it's only going to get worse. With social media, the mobs that have grown out of the movements to remarginalize people have destroyed a lot of good will between people. But I guess that's the point.

If you can get enough people being angry at people on television for not looking a certain way or having different lifestyle, then they hope that idea will reflect in the real world as well.

Not accuracy. Coherence.

Inside the story what was the technology that would allow a prostetic woman to fight in the war? Or were did a Katana wielding soldier came to on a shooting conflict?

Pretty surprised this thread is still going on tbh. I mean the Battlefield trailer probably revived it. But there's like 50 different topics now so oh well.

This is true. Nature vs Nurture is a rather classic sociological debate and the answer is somewhere in the middle. But discounting the absolutely massive influence socialization has is pretty premature, to put it lightly.

Yes suspension of disbelief is together with it becoming a trend (it wasn't always like that) allow for we to ignore those aspects. GoW basically ignores this and even though you have healing magic your health won't regenerate with time (at least not in the difficult I played).

But please explain to me what does a katana do in a battlefield against RPG launchers?