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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   2993 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 28, 2023

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If the game is good, why do you care if the badasses are women? You can always make multiple characters if you really want to have a sausage party.

Anyway, I haven’t played WotR. Kingmaker was fun enough, but I got tired in the third act or so. Didn’t find it very political.

There’s Tyranny, which avoids giving all the good roles to women, mostly because all the roles are horrible, awful people. Except for Daddy Tunon. But that game is way more political than Pathfinder.

Have you played some of the turn based RPGs like Underrail?

If the game is good, why do you care if the badasses are women?

I'm picky when it comes to games. I care a lot about story, characters, writing. If the developers make the game a vehicle for implementing their sexism and sneering at anyone who seethes at it, that bothers me. It also brings up associated frustrations, like thoughts about how, if it were a game where the males were all awesome smart leader types and the females useless morons, there would be a lot more uproar. I don't like seeing people get away with things they should be stopped from doing.

But I'm not saying Pathfinder WotR is getting away with anything categorically bad, I don't know, I just heard a rumor in that direction.

Well said.

If the game is good, why do you care if the badasses are women?

Some people care enough about a quality story that an annoying or boring story will put them off a mechanically fun game. It's never really come up for me, but I understand the idea in principle.

I understand how that could be the case.

I want to know what level of stealing the “good/strong roles” it takes to trigger that. Normally, when I see a game with a wildly female cast, it suggests a fanservice effect…

I've seen a lot of memes lately complaining about female characters in recent video games who are seemingly deliberately designed to have physically unattractive faces. So lots of female characters isn't necessarily indicative of fanservice.

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