@WhiteBlackGrey @ArcherRO @Patohua1 @ProjektInsanity You can go all the way back to when you could have Mario running around dressed as a raccoon or something to see the outfit changing in games. It happens in the Last of Us, Uncharted, and many other games where you can collect things that change the look of characters. Saints Row has gotten really outrageous with it. Again, these are M rated games meant for a mature audience. If adults want to play a game with a woman running around in a bikini then whose business is it of anyone else? I personally wouldn’t do it but it wouldn’t be there if there wasn’t some people out there enjoying it.
@Patohua1 God of War, Witcher series, Mass Effect series, just off the top of my head. Innovation comes from trying new things and having diversity. Some things work and some things don’t but I don’t complain about people expressing themselves virtually in different ways. Don’t inhibit creativity by cramming things in a little box. “This is a game so it is limited to only being this.”
Nothing rated R, M, or whatever other rating that is meant to be seen by adults should ever get flak for objectification or over sexualizing. Have you ever seen some of the most popular adult novels, which are targeting the female audience? It is crazy. Then look at shows like True Blood or those Twilight movies (both of which started as books) where the woman is in some love triangle with guys fawning over them for their affection. Now a guy running back and forth between multiple women is a dog, but a woman running back and forth between two guys is romantic. It is garbage.
Entertainment is for entertainment purposes, it is not meant to direct the course of human life and behavior. If people find it entertaining then they will support it, if they don’t then people will stop making it.
I’m so tired of hearing about objectification. How often do we see fat slob coach potato as the cover star of video games? Portrayal of people in general that are in the public eye are usually sexualized to make the people appealing.
At the same time is whose place is it to say how others should feel about different things? Women or bashing other women over things like being in pageants or doing cosplay. Is it not these women’s right to be able to do things that they enjoy? There are tons of women buying things to appear more desirable, and yet we are to sit around and pretend that everyone looks the same. The day women stop modeling, stop doing pageants, and stop doing things that lead to objectification is the day I think other forms of media should stop imitating that aspect of life. Until then let art imitate life, and give people their freedom to vote with their dollar.
Don: What the heck are we going to do? We could lose our jobs behind this.
Phil: Call Bonnie and tell her to have the team throw together a bootleg Halo trailer, STAT! Doesn’t have to relate to the story in any way. We’ll figure all that out later. We’ll be really vague about the details to buy us some time. Then the pre-orders should start rolling in. (he says with a dickish smile)
They cut functionality out of the first Kinect to lower the price point, which also limited what it was able to do well. 2.0 seems to really be a slightly upgraded version of what the original was supposed to be (remember Milo scanning a image from a picture into the demo, never saw that reality once functions were removed).
Really it was a misstep on their part because it sold, but it lost core gamers by designers having to dumb down quality for it to function with Kinect. Tracking features were also hindered. Now that it is probably a capable device the core is jaded on it. MS doesn’t want to spend time at launch focusing on it because that would only further alienate the core. Next E3 they will be working on showing advantages of having that and bringing games to market to add value to it. That is when they will be looking to move units to a broader base and the core will have voted with their dollars. Right now isn’t the time to advertise to the mass market, they tried that with the reveal and have been paying for it ever since.
@deadkingdg Price is a huge factor. The PS3 didn't start selling for real until it dropped the price. Once the price dropped then there was value. At $600 there was little value.
Oh, that happened the moment a company realized it could be worth billions. Then it went from simply fun to multimillion dollar budgets to see how much exactly that fun is worth.
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