I’m in a similar boat as this comment. I have 2 daughters (9 & 6), and they absolutely notice gender representation. I’ve had multiple requests for me to restart playing Rise of the Tomb Raider because they enjoyed watching a girl run around on the screen doing Assassin’s Creed-like stuff. They were both really…

Yes but because you would have preferred it doesn’t mean that a father/daughter relationship is not important. Not everything has to resonate with you on a deeply personal level. You don’t have to see yourself in the every nook and cranny of the media you consume to appreciate it’s importance/ugliness/beauty. Despite…

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“1> Sarkeesian’s a con artist and sexist. One may argue she’s something of a cult leader too now.”

The ironic, and *really* annoying, thing is... five years ago, I’ll bet that guy wouldn’t have stormed out of the testing site. Heck, *three* years ago, he wouldn’t have cared. However, right now - in 2016 -he’s been trained (brainwashed, maybe...) to see every single “diverse” choice as an example that “Those Darn…

Good question. Now imagine asking that question and thinking as someone who would be designing Cassie.

LOL. I used to work as a FG moderator in the industry and this topic never failed to elicit a response. I never had to ask someone to leave for these types of comments but video game consumers are such a passionate group something super intense is bound to come out at some point.

This reminds me of a great blog post from the creator of BoJack Horseman talking about gender in comedy that speaks directly to the “what if it’s a woman?” question. its a must-read. http://boringoldraphael.tumblr.com/post/107481385…

From the interview, it sounds like Sarkeesian directly influenced the game designers. So maybe her work helped bring Nadine and Cassie into existence.

This is way awesome. Father of two girls here. I am so appreciative of any creative team who does this sort of biases check, whether it be TV, games or whatever. It’s making a real difference, and I can attest that my daughters notice and appreciate it too.

Writing my own comics, I always enjoyed hearing suggestions and requests to put in more diversity - race, gender, age, orientation, social status, religious beliefs, political affiliation, body shapes. Often I would get suggestions or ideas I never even considered. It’s a good thing to break out of the “default white…

Agreed. I grew up having no relationship with my father that is worth repeating or retelling. Therefore I could not possibly relate positively to a father/son dynamic in the style of Leave it to Beaver. Having it be a daughter, however, can give me hope for a future relationship with any daughter I might have who…

Maybe Nate wasn’t happy about having a daughter either. Maybe the Next few Uncharted games that come out in a few years will feature the daughter struggling with identity issues because Nate really wanted a boy, and Nate can go on a rant like the reviewer about how he’s the great Nathan Drake and he wanted a son, not…

In referral to point 1. Only if you are crazy, stupid, misogynistic, a gator, or a combination of the 4 (though really being a gator includes the other 3).

It never ceases to amaze me how upset some people get about female characters. Like I cannot for the life of me imagine how you can operate in life when you can play the epilogue and come away pissed that their child was a girl. As far as I am concerned the child’s gender has zero impact on the real impact of just the…

A lot of it is indoctrinated into young men. While we should expect people to move past their programming, some people simply aren’t capable of doing that. As a fairly open minded male I still have to stop myself often and question if something I was about to say is how I feel or how I’m expected to feel.

Different stories will resonate with different people, of course, but to me the idea of Nathan and Elena having a precocious daughter who wants to be just like her dad is way more interesting than any sort of father/son relationship they could have done.

As a young father with a 6 year old daughter and a 2 year old son I’m constantly asking myself that question both ways (what if he was a girl, what if she was a boy) with how I treat them and deem what is appropriate. I think the creative lead is an incredibly smart woman and hope that she asks her team to ask the…

It really bums me out that people get so upset by women being represented. As if women being capable of great skill or importance is somehow a surprise, and not simple reality. It bums me out because it is an opinion people use to try and cause actual harm to others, but also because it is a shame that capable women…

I kind of hope the DLC is about the other Cassie. U4 explained a lot about Nathan and Sam’s past, but now the mystery is about their parents. How’d she die? Why did their dad abandon them? Why are notebooks with white covers the favorite of archaeologists? Wouldn’t they get dirty too easily at digs? So many questions.