The reason for all the nonsense in this game, woman on front covers, female screams everywhere etc is down to one thing.
Development teams have their product reviewed by 5/6 of the largest “gaming review” company on the market, they are marked up against a META score.
Now this metascore has very little to do with gameplay but everything to do with their values. Now all of these companies swing drastically to the left so these values that I talk about are everything to do with what’s relevant in the current makeup. of the world today.
Now if I game speaks to their core values, agendas the game will score very highly, if not. It won’t.
Now lastly the reason development teams have no choice but to abide by this metascore is simple.
They are bonused on how well their game strikes home with super liberalism views held by these major companies, IGN, Gamespot as examples.
If you want to understand more look it up
Review scores are for how well your game hits home with current affair agendas, nothing to do with gameplay
All that aside! I separate myself from that BS and try just enjoy the product I have
The woman that shows up as the first screen when I press button to launch game just bothers me for some reason.
I’m not a sexest person either. It’s so out of place. I don’t even care when I see them in the game. It’s just that menu. It doesn’t motivate me to play the game.lol
Sounds like a conspiracy theory or fake news, to me anyway.
A dev actually stated that females are in the game because females play video games and want to play as females. “If you don’t like it then don’t buy it” E A Guy.
It’s completely reasonable. If you watch Twitch you will see that there is much more diversity amongst the younger player-base especially.
Cool, can you post a few links to females playing BFV, I would love to see how they do and if they feel the game is feeling inclusive for them, do they relate to the game and how they feel about females replacing males in the war stories - would love to get their perspective.
I mean, upsetting the player base to this degree must have created a lot of new female fans, right?
Regarding the metacritic thing, this has been recently documented in a video with some hard facts including a $1 million bonus not being paid as the metacritic score was 1 point below the threshold.
Interesting. As a man having Lara Croft on the front of Tomb Raider didn’t put me off buying it. Nor the millions of other males who bought the game. Where is the option to play that as a male character? Nowhere. And I couldn’t care less. To think that women are swayed by the gender of playable characters in a game I think does them a disservice. I would imagine they couldn’t care less. It’s all created such a load of unnecessary chat and waffle and bad feeling. Presumably from what you’ve said to purely sway a review system.
I saw that video but i think it also has something to do with the country that DICE is located. I am pretty sure I read somewhere they are trying to be more about equality or something and businesses have to adhere to this. I might be wrong and if I am then my apologies but i did want to look more into it.
Twitch isn’t an accurate representation of your typical gamer. Twitch’s main streamer base is people out to exploit “gaming” for money. You’re telling me most gamers have a Patreon account where they sell nudes for hundreds of dollars? LMFAO
Well said. I’d like to hear what the ladies think too
I think that that’s different to some tho because when you play Tomb Raider you play as Lara Croft, whereas some users want their avatar in Battlefield to be them and take it pretty seriously. Just take a look at the thread complaining about how you can’t play as a Male pilot.
To them, when you play as Lara Croft, you’re role playing.
To them, when you play as ‘you’ in Battlefield, you’re playing as yourself.
I find it weird how some people want to ‘be’ the character in the game somehow. When quite young and reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings I wondered what it would be like to be the characters and quite readily appreciated it would be horrific most of the time hehe.
When I play a game it’s not me firing a gun or swinging a sword, I’m controlling a character. I might well identify with them, and the more the better for immersions sake, but, like watching a film or reading a book, it’s not me. You do get ‘sucked in’ and the excitement and fear becomes somewhat ‘real’ and that’s good, but do we really pretend we are somehow there? That we are that character?
When I identify with a character in media (books, films, games, whatever) I may imagine what it would be like, but almost without exception, if we were ‘there’ it would be terrifying and we would die from whatever peril is befalling the hero at the first encounter. I find it hard to pretend the character is me because I would simply not be capable of almost anything that character is doing right in front of my eyes.
In role-playing games you get players who call you weird for having a female character. They say “why do you want to be a girl?” and depending on their maturity level will impune your manhood (assuming you are a man playing a female). I usually respond with “you’re the one that prefers watching a greased up man hunk warrior all night. I like looking at women”. Not that there’s anything wrong with a man enjoying looking at men, but the implication is usually intended as derogatory.
I call it the Lara Croft syndrome. I would much rather direct and observe the actions of a confident, sassy, fit, attractive woman. I find female heros much more interesting and, yes, attractive. I don’t want to be the character I see on screen. I want to ‘enjoy’ the character I see on screen (No, not in that way. Well, maybe, but not primarily).
There are almost certainly academic studies out there on the types of ‘role-playing’ people choose.
My thoughts here haven’t been terribly coherent, but hopefully you get my drift.
Either way, this whole “wimmin in muh battlefield!” hysteria (word usage intentional - look up the etymology for ironic laughs) is hilarious, but sad. As is the conspiracy stuff. People are becoming more diverse and inclusive. It’s not a bad thing. It’s not a secret. Perhaps it’s the people complaining it’s somehow a problem are the ones that have the problem.