Themes and topics that are explored in gaming these days tend to take on more serious meaning, and at the same time, powerful female leads have continued to arise.
The move away from written coverage of games is a problem for journalists and for the games industry.
What we need is a more honest games media. I'm sorry but if you're an outlet in bed with a publisher or getting goodies to attend preview/ review events then you can't be trusted to be objective. Very similar to the need for getting money out of politics.
Basically this. We've seen how the game media turned for the worse after the acceptance of advertising dollars during the 360 era from one particular company. How many websites were willing to sell out for Mountain Dew and Doritos. Accepting $800 Halo Swag bags and expensive Windows laptops to do blogging.
Video sites like game trailers that was willing to lie about PS3 graphics and sometimes, still had the wrong controller image at the bottom on the video. And, turned off comments it deleted them to keep the truth from being told.
That same company twisted certain gamers to a new level of fanboyism. This website was full of them when I arrived. Lying through their noses again and again. Then, that very company started lying or withholding information that showed the truth. That their competitors were selling more worldwide and had better graphics overall. But the damage to the media and a certain group of gamers was done. And, continues to this day. Even after hearing the truth that that company they serve is very destructive to the industry, developers and gamers.
Yeah, and one of that company's former executives OPENLY admitted that. And before anyone says I'm lying:
https://metro.co.uk/2022/07...
Also, yeah plenty of people that are here now don't remember when this place was a haven for xbox. You have people like "The Mart at Xbox Kings" push all sorts of propoganda on a daily. But people seem to want to forget stuff like that...
The whole Gamespot/Kane & Lynch thing is one of the best examples and that was 16 years ago.
Yeah, but with people and their short memories, I'm sure a good portion here forgot all about that
Most game journalists are pariahs and low level marketing drones. They got too greedy and cannibalized their respect and trust. Something they learned not to do in their journalism schools. This is why we might as well watch gameplay critics on You Tube. Don't get me wrong, I love reading, but for every genuine article there is a thousand game journalist trying to gloss over monetization schemes so they can sell the game to gamers in order to get free games to do their jobs. It gets old. Even this piece doesn't address the problem.
We need better media in all aspects of society, period. Everything from the gaming press, to MSM is all fueled by clickbait headlines, half truths and buzzword topics that don't give much meat or meaning for the reader to benefit from.
During the Game Developers Session (GDS) conference in Prague, we had the privilege of speaking with Rhianna Pratchett, an award-winning writer and narrative designer. Pratchett, who has penned some of the most memorable female protagonists like Nariko from Heavenly Sword, Faith from Mirror’s Edge, and Lara Croft from the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot, delves into the challenges and freedoms of writing for different media, AAA and indie games.
Complex? She literally made Lara Croft whine and have father issues for an entire trilogy
Groundbreaking...
"have father issues"
To be fair, that IS a complex... Just not the right kind, lol!
The dad stuff wasn’t entirely her fault.. She was given outlines she had to flesh out and not full freedom. from the article…:
“ And there were things that we kind of butted heads more on, particularly with Rise [of the Tomb Raider] because I wasn't a fan of the dad plot. I didn't really like her motivation being her father because it felt like that's often the motivation given to female characters and it's also motivation that's very prominent in the previous movies as well. And I would have rather it been about her own experiences in the first game and how that had changed during the second game. But sometimes you just have to do your job, you just have to find peace with it. And I kind of played around with my relationship with my father and kind of put some aspects of that and then that just made me feel better about it. And sometimes this is what you have to do.”
She never seemed that whiny to me given the circumstances.
If you’re a good writer you’d have been able to do that a little better but she didn’t
She was restricted sure but with what she had with an outline she didn’t do a good job
She’s not her father, she got work and into the industry a lot easier because her father was a great writer.
It’s nepotism basically
Female Commander Shepard is a way better female character then Lara Croft has been.
Meanwhile it seems that female characters across entertainment media are being dumb down. What they've done to the female characters in the Avatar adaptation is insulting.
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8K UUHD with path tracing at 5000 FPS is great, but what if you only have $300?
So the BG3 guys found an optimization for all other platforms by way of the little engine that could... interesting.
Read the article headline and think “this sound like a Microsoft own site “ click on it read windowscentral and almost spayed my boss with water 🤣
Now about the article I’m not going to read it🤷🏿
"[...]but what if you only have $300?"
Apparently you would have to keep saving money. LOL no seriously. The console they show for this article cost $350. The irony...
I didnt know you could spay using water. That's such a common procedure so maybe they can now?
But why your boss though?
A mid-mid-gen upgrade will never be called a new gen console, no matter how you put it or how many excuses you try to make up.
In this case why bother cause they could have started with XSX, which was out only 1 or 2 years..
We need proper experiences worthy of new gen of consoles. XSS is a laughable attempt..
Y'all can add Lords of the fallen to the list of titles that PS5 outperforms series x.
Yup. Way too much advanced asset management for the Xbox to handle with that one.
The typical "it's holding us back" argument aside, from a sales perspective, the S is selling way more than the X (wasn't it like 75% of total?), so you could make the case that if it wasn't for the S, Xbox would have like 25% of the sales they have now...
Not necessarily. If the S wasn’t there, maybe the X would have sold more units as there was no option?
In the end it’s anybody’s guess with the “if’s” and “but’s” imo.
Crazy that they're only around 5 million Series Xs out there compared to PS5's 40 million.
Xbox has shown they couldn't give a shit about hardware, which is a shame and one of the reasons I feel like if you own a PC there is 0 point in having an Xbox. They want game pass on everyone's phone, PC, TV, fridge, you name it. They are a software company first and foremost.
Eventually the end goal will be game pass on Playstation and they can sack off consoles altogether, whether Sony would be up for that, highly doubt it, but that's their end game in my opinion.
Yah highly doubt playstation would ever allow that. It's like Mcdonalds allowing their big macs to be sold at burger king. Kind of like their intent to buy nintendo, nice thought but never going to happen.
Exactly why i didn't get a series console, it was time for a new pc i just needed a reason to bite the bullet. Im always putting off buying a new pc and just upgrade and upgrade but it was time and GPU came with gamepass so win win i guess. I was going to get a series x but ps5 seemed like a better option when i considered my pc.
I seriously doubt we will see gamepass on PS5. Things have been getting crazy lately so its not a definite but i just cant compute Sony going along with the idea.
I personally think CoD is the start.. they'll buy up IP to back Sony into a corner and give them no choice. Want Call of duty and Elder scrolls on your platform? Along side Halo, gears Forza and all the other shit tonne of IP we own? Brill, we will leave the console business, but you put game pass on Playstation like you've done with EA play.
Makes perfect business sense to me. I wouldn't want that to happen, I'd rather they focus on making games that compete with Sony, but Phil already said they will never outsell Sony, similar to how they'll never outsell Apple when it comes to hardware. They'll go down the windows route and get all of their software on any available platform. Steam Deck, playstation, switch 2, whatever.
Mark my words that shits coming.
From now on then that's what I'll see it as...just an option.
In other words ..all mainline PS5 consoles are much more powerful than the mainline Xbox series console...
So yet again PlayStation holds the most powerful console and gamer share.
Wait, how does that make PS5 more powerful than Series X? Please explain that logic?
I have both systems, but that makes zero sense
@GamerRN
No point trying to reason with fanboy logic. By extension, they're implying that the Switch was the most powerful console last gen.
This is what happens when you have people jumping the gun for some quick doom and gloom headlines. Not to mention getting opinions from devs that were possibly frustrated that they would have to do some extra tinkering for the S. And to an extent, rightly so. But the optimization and trades are there to make a game play on the S. It's a budget console and it should be treated as such.
But I have to laugh at the rest of the crowd who actually told people that the S was holding back this gen and pretended to be shocked that the S wouldn't have the bells and whistles that the X or PS5 would.
It's almost as if they were reaching, hard.
@attilayavuzer
they look a lot better while having a weaker console than the X, that alone should tell you everything
Did you forget the original pr blurbs for the s? What about the original announce video that ms then privated after launch? You know ms over promised on the s and it has caused problems, too many devs have claimed it for it to be a lie.
https://youtu.be/u6ftY7t8bJ...
"This means that the xbox series s delivers the same next gen experiance and features as series x, just at a reduced resolution"
All you need is a handful of games to do that for the statement to be true. It's like sony putting 8k on their box.
@Hole "All you need is a handful of games to do that for the statement to be true". Bullshit....it should ve EVERY game because that's what was promised.
Seriously fox? How many times have we seen the series s version with more than just a resolution cut? Almost every single release has way more than that done to it.
Isn't 8k printed on the xbox chip and it's box? hasn't had a single 8k piece of content though has it? So it's more like that, no 🤔
The S means there will never be a current gen. game built specifically for the SX. Most devs and publishers don't have the talent to optimize like BG3.
BTW, I only game at 30,000 fps...This article is a stupid take. The only thing good about the S is that it kept MSXbox way below 2nd place.
She's strong and, I must say, the sexiest female game character.
Why not just be a strong character? Pratchett says it herself, they're interesting characters, and interesting denotes strong characters. Even if they aren't strong physically, even if they're mentally unstable, they can be interesting, which only leads to an interesting story if put to good use.
I mean with Heath Ledgers Joker, did we say he was a strong crazy character? No, we said he was an interesting character. Because that's what it's all about.
There are examples of strong female characters out there, but to make your character a strong female character instead of a strong character in general, is only looking at the superficial aspect of that character being a female...which more often than not just means they aren't likely to be an interesting character, because being female does not make one interesting. What that character does is what makes them interesting.
That being said, I don't really find the new Lara Croft that interesting, and don't feel she's a good representation of a "strong female character".
They really did suck all the life and character out of lara crofts personality, completely boring, drab character with mental issues that contradicts her motivation on going on just 1 more perilous and dangerous adventure.