I agree that the innacuracies were nitpicky, and very possible for any conscientious person to move past to grasp the finer points being made. But it is a nitpicky space. Gamers love to nitpick. So you really would need to keep that in mind when producing content that speaks on/to them. But from my point of view it…

Its a complicated and readically diverse space filled with many different kinds of people. Which is probably why critique of it is often so fraught.

Yeah it did. The strippers weren’t treated any differently to any of the other collateral human being in that game. Controller-alt-delete’s criticism of my reply actually brought in much better criticism for that particular game regarding how it treats and values women.

So your first paragraph, absolutely spot on. And a much better critique that really should have been in her video regarding Hitman Absolution, rather than what was included. It is more on point than what she lifted.

As for your second paragraph, I just always remember this clip:

Oh, so they are not allowed to choose to do that kind of level. Yeah that makes sense.

The Series S really isn’t the bug bear its always made out to be. You will see that all the complaints really only come from smaller studios with limited resources. As long as low spec pc gaming exists the Series S really doesn’t present a challenge that is unfamiliar or unique to videogame development.

In this…

I don’t think its horrible optimisation from the devs. Earlier someone mentioned they are a smaller team. I havn’t read any of their press releases as trying to make MS the scapegoat as Bigburito has posited. Its just them stating the facts. This feature must be there to ship and right now they can’t get it there in a…

To add on to what Tanzel said, I have no doubt in my mind that the Series S is fully capable of running in splitscreen. But Larian seems to be taking a lot more pride in their work than some of the bigger studios these days. They don’t just want it running on the S, they want it running well and they are prepared to…

Its probably got more to do with the EU pushing right to repair.

For any of the criticism I have of her work, I can whole heartedly agree with everything you just wrote.

Nope. You again are reenforcing the inaccuracy through ignorance. The strippers do not have any unique death animations or other incentive from any other NPCs in that scene that are also killable. They are set dressing just the same as the random gardeners or butlers or other staff in a different location. In a scene…

This I agree with a lot. I actually like the quote Ovy pulled as a framework for how I watched her videos themselves. I would love to see a redux of Tropes v Women that is actually done by women from the gaming world. I think it would be much more nuanced, and a reflection on how much might have changed... or not, in…

I think at the time, and maybe it speaks to the immaturity of the gamer space in general, several innacuracies and misrepresentations of games muddied the points. Especially when it would be fairly obvious to most gamers that there were better games to make the points about rather than stretching the contexts of…

I think part of it, as some one who was very welcoming of the pitch for Tropes v Women, is how many innacuracies there are there. It became very clear early on that we were dealing with someone who was not from our space trying to have an outsized impact on it. I can’t speak to the rest of her work and how positive a…

Oh from a business point of view its genius. I’ll give you that.

I really enjoyed this game for a while but fell off because of a game breaking glitch about 7 hours in where a boss in the main mission line would not spawn. My friends and I tried again a few months later and the bug was still present, at least from our saves. Seemed like restarting the campaign was the only way to…

The way you can just scroll on past the ads to the section you want with zero friction as if they don’t exist, it pretty much feels like a non issue.

Yeah but it is not as intergrated and instantanious as MS allows on PC. The day one launches, access to Xbox achievements, native play on subscription, all the little things add up.

Nah, thats not really a douchey move. Its just an alternate and viable path to being part of the Xbox community that Microsoft have made available. It’s a perfectly reasonable position to have.

Its not a hold over though. In this context the reason for it is to comply with GDPR not to save space in a database. There is no insentive to fool people to log in either. The I forgot to log in for four years to I make a new purchase on forgotten ecosystem pipeline is non-existent.