No. I meant I played the intro to the game 3 times, which is why I remember it more so than any other part of the game.

I got it. It's Brink 2, everyone!

I really disliked Amalur. Schilling still sees it as a viable setting for a continuing franchise? Money and legal issues aside, it still wouldn't happen, and I'll tell you why I think that is.

I just went into a Best Buy earlier today and saw the Vita right beside the PS4. The advertising slogan for it called it something along the lines of the 'ultimate PS4 accessory'.

I really doubt DOA units are the result of over-heating, since they haven't been turned on by the consumer yet.

I traded mine for Overpower cards. Where is Overpower now? Exactly.

I just noticed Europa Universalis IV is 50% off as well.

" You can watch here as he plays Call of Duty: Ghosts, Madden NFL 25 and NBA 2K14."

Maybe I wasn't being clear on what I meant when I said the default character is male. To use a different phrasing, I think when the game industry in general creates a character for a game, they automatically make it male unless they specifically are trying to make it female.

The above quote is generally meaning 'romantic/sexual' relationship. That's the problem. Of course there should be important relationships between characters.

I totally and completely agree. Just the fact that we're having these conversations is already such an improvement.

I can appreciate that this stuff is really difficult. I just think some of these developers and publishers should let their beliefs be challenged a little sometimes. You don't have to just throw in token female characters, but, for example, when you've got an all-male line-up of characters you should at least take a…

Is there a reason you think Kotaku shouldn't be covering this?

Uh... no. It's fine that they sleep together. I have no issue with that on its own. I am not calling her a slut at all, nor am I shaming her for her sexual activity.

Chloe sleeps with Drake right after we're introduced to her, that's what I'm getting at.

I never said we should condemn them.

That's not the entirety of their being, no. But if asked to quickly describe them, would you not early on in their descriptions state their romantic connections to Drake?

What about it how? It's one of the few games with a well-done female protagonist in recent memory. This is the problem. We need more like it.

I'm not saying she's a hollow character. And yes, both characters grow quite a lot because of each other.

I haven't watched the video yet (youtube links not watchable at work), but I would say the modern equivalents are no longer the exact copies (a la Ms. Pacman), but more in the vein of the second part of the description: " because female characters then tend to be either defined by their relationship to the male…