I honestly don’t play many games if there isn’t a female character. The exception is with very story centric single player campaigns. Red Dead II, Uncharted, many single player RPGs, etc.

And articles like this help me make an informed decision about which developers I support.

There you go. Perfect response to this. They, as the creator of the game have the right to add/remove whatever they want from it. We as the consumers have the right to decide if we want to spend our money on their game. Vote with your wallet. 

“The basic structure of River City Girls is far removed from 1990’s River City Ransom.”

The homophobic language in game is not what bugs me. That shit 100% would have existed in the game if it was made in the 90s. Hell in 2005 Hideo Kojima literally made a character in MGS3 whose entire reason for existing is essentially ‘Raiden is gay. lol!!!!1!’. Half of the jokes in Friends boil down to ‘chandler and…

Yep, people who say shit like this are NOT trying to “understand ... social justice stuff.” They’re just mad they can’t be fucking awful with impunity anymore.

No one is owed a spot on anyone else’s platform. If the PA guys don’t like their politics (and good for them if they don’t, honestly) then they don’t have to put them on stage.

On the other hand, completly antithetical to the design of the game. It would be shameful if anyone actually used this before finishing the game legitimately.

For all the greys, I know this will probably fall on deaf ears or be intentionally misunderstood, but there are those of us who think it is more patriotic to question and examine your country, that you can love something and still understant it can have serious flaws, and that we’re all in this together, so we should…

“Well if you don’t like it then you can git out” is exactly the opposite sentiment that this country was founded on. Also there’s those pesky free speech, right to protest, and free press things. Thanks for playing tho.

Alundra all the way. I think it was the last great 2d action rpg. Great story, combat, and art.

Having read the last 24 hours of Heidi’s tweets, it sounds like it was just a dead relationship that took too long to actually die. She mentions they split the relationship in February and he was ‘cheating’ last Fall... this is just a couple’s dirty laundry getting way too much publicity.  I think she is in the wrong…

or call Mike Pence a TERF for his role in bathroom bills, etc.,

To be fair, TERFS are not just allies with the worst of humanity, they are another branch of the worst of humanity

It’s a six month deal. Seriously if you’re disdain for loading a different program besides Steam is more intense than your love for the game you for some reason can’t play then I don’t know what to tell you. Like, I get it. We all have our hills we die on. But like, I just don’t get it. At all. You do you though. 

Good god look at all the Steam bros coming out whining all over the internet AGAIN. Jesus christ how can you have such ridiculous allegiance to some corporation that doesn’t give a crap about you?

I believe they also gave development reasons to also explain the gender-locking. It is true that supporting additional genders to races = additional development time, that much is clear to those who understand mmo game development.

You should be ashamed of yourself for this. Especially since Bear is a real person, who has always been of the female gender, and has felt the need to hide it for years and years before she finally felt brave enough to come out to those important to her, and then to us, the audience.

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Great writeup. I was in category of McPoors while going to University and pirated most of my stuff. (Actually found lots of joy in borrowing retail discs from someone or renting a game and then cracking it myself. Yeah copy protection was way easier to get around back then. Now that I have a career I buy everything I…