I am female. This discussion forces me to quote Neal Stephenson: "... nothing more than sexism, the espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists." The sexism is in the marketing and packaging. It might be in the game itself but I haven't played it. Maybe if we're lucky the game defeats the old hollywood sexist sterotypes where the lead female role always sucscums to somethign that the lead guy, or love intrest is immune to.
There was a time I would have thought testing games were cool. A good buddy of mine clued me in to centipede, and I wasted countless hours on tetris. But Lara Croft? Really now. Maybe if she would swap that I-wanna-look-like-bad-girl barbie push up bra for something more realistic. When I first saw the posters in one of the local gamer shop, a few years go, I thought: cool, a chick for a lead character. Until a few seconds later when I saw the rest of her profile. How crass, no hot shot sniper would dress like that. Her breasts would get in the way of shooting any large automatic weapon. Seeing impossibly, unrealistic breasts makes me think of when the aging character will have had numerous chemos, spinal taps, back surgery, and the last ditch effort mastectomy. Lets start the save Lara fund.
As far as the 14-18 range thinking back to when I was in that range: I didn't really have free time to devote to gaming, computing resources were scarse and I didn't have any extra money to pay for a computer games. If I had the time, and cool computer, I probably would have played doom after hearing about it from a friend.
Until a game can duplicate the fear/fun, release of addreninal factor of nearly getting myself killed cycling the GGB at night, in the dark, in heavy fog/rain, gusts of 30mi, I'm sticking with RL.
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I am female. This discussion forces me to quote Neal Stephenson: "... nothing more than sexism, the espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists." The sexism is in the marketing and packaging. It might be in the game itself but I haven't played it. Maybe if we're lucky the game defeats the old hollywood sexist sterotypes where the lead female role always sucscums to somethign that the lead guy, or love intrest is immune to.
There was a time I would have thought testing games were cool. A good buddy of mine clued me in to centipede, and I wasted countless hours on tetris. But Lara Croft? Really now. Maybe if she would swap that I-wanna-look-like-bad-girl barbie push up bra for something more realistic. When I first saw the posters in one of the local gamer shop, a few years go, I thought: cool, a chick for a lead character. Until a few seconds later when I saw the rest of her profile. How crass, no hot shot sniper would dress like that. Her breasts would get in the way of shooting any large automatic weapon. Seeing impossibly, unrealistic breasts makes me think of when the aging character will have had numerous chemos, spinal taps, back surgery, and the last ditch effort mastectomy. Lets start the save Lara fund.
As far as the 14-18 range thinking back to when I was in that range: I didn't really have free time to devote to gaming, computing resources were scarse and I didn't have any extra money to pay for a computer games. If I had the time, and cool computer, I probably would have played doom after hearing about it from a friend.
Until a game can duplicate the fear/fun, release of addreninal factor of nearly getting myself killed cycling the GGB at night, in the dark, in heavy fog/rain, gusts of 30mi, I'm sticking with RL.