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I was actually kinda wary of watching it, Corpsey shared a Jimquisition video on my facebook and it was pretty much just tone policing people upset about misogyny in games, but this one was better.
You know the funny thing about the point about Remember Me is the main protagonist is supposed to be a black woman, and I can name only one other game for sure with a black woman protagonist (an Assassin's Creed game on the PSP? Possibly Jade from Beyond Good And Evil. Storm is a playable character in various X-Men games but I don't think ever a lead) and in some of the concept art she looks radically different from what she looks like now, like now she has way lighter skin, narrow nose, basically making her like a white woman dipped in tea as Yahtzee once referred to the design of the sidekick in RE5.
And you know its leaving money on the table, they just don't want to do it. When you write women as sex objects, of course its going to be a bad game when you don't even see women as full humans. They look embarassing enough that a lot of women don't want to play it (on a comics rant I know a lot of women who don't want to read Wonder Woman because she looks ridiculous, and I really had to get past her costume too when I first started reading). Its not that people won't buy shit just because its a female lead. Marvel NOW's X-Men #1 is an all woman team led by Storm and it apparently was the best selling comic in May. It wasn't even released until the last week of May! That's amazing. Women characters can do it and be appealing to most people and not cater exclusively to white male boners ages 18-34.
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