What does erk me about the game is no cute face options! they are all angry looking or aged. Why does Larian hate innocent looking characters! ;_; it's okay though, I still love everyone at Larian.
I definitely second this. One of the most important things for convincing my wife to play a game is that the characters should be beautiful -- at the very least, this should include the character she's playing. Stripperiffic or not isn't too important. But she's been playing fantasy RPGs for a long time. People new to the genre will likely have very different feelings about this.
Let me just point out your hypocrisy here.
Vulpes criticises the
stripperiffic woman that appears when you first start the game. You respond by rolling your eyes.
Earlier,
you criticised Bioware for creating "softcore porn". And now you say how proud you are that your girlfriend played through The Witcher.
I'm sorry. What exactly do you find so offensive about the Bioware games? Were you actually trying to complain that the sex scenes weren't hardcore enough? I'm genuinely confused.
You know what games are popular? Games that dont care about this sort of "Issue".
What RPG did realy well the last year? oh right that was the Witcher 3
The first two Witcher games had issues with how they depicted "women and sex". Marcin, CEO of CD Projekt openly acknowledged these issues and the third game is, for the most part, a great example of how sex and relationships can be depicted in a non-sexist way.
Previous games have been criticised for their depiction of women and sex. What has been learned from that and how does has it impacted The Witcher 3?The Witcher series definitely does show our evolution and learning path as a studio. The first game was a proving ground and we could have done a lot of things better including the depiction of sex. Having said that, take a look at The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and soon Wild Hunt, and you will see how we learn and develop.
From the very beginning our goal was to show the medieval world as it was. As previously mentioned, we are appealing to the mature audience and in terms of sex being part of mature world, we are not crossing any lines here, but rather trying to blend it with the story to make it more authentic and believable and show as a natural part of the world. If you look at Game of Thrones - both the books and the TV series - we are really not much different in the sexual aspect. What has changed in the last 10 years however is the way we present it, it is much more natural.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/witcher-3-interview-ceo-marcin-iwiski-sexism-free-dlc-game-thrones-1492540 I think it's telling that in Witcher 3, the loudest complaints about sexism were connected to the
setting. That's a pretty good sign that you've done everything else right. Most of these critics are arguing that a fantasy setting doesn't have to be realistic, so why is there a need to introduce real world sexism? Why are there no black people in this fantasy depiction of Polish mythology? It's an argument that echoes a lot of the arguments in these forums from people supporting the chainmail bikini.
"It's a fantasy setting. It has
teleporting crocodiles, and you want realism?" It's amazing how you can both make exactly the same flawed argument as your worst enemies.
The fact is that a fantasy setting presents an alternative version of reality. We still need to feel immersed.
Yes, fantasy armour and weapons are often designed with "rule of cool" rather than strict practicality. But look, I'm a simple man. I am not an expert on realistic medieval armour and weapons. If I see armour that looks like it works, then that's enough for me.
There's nothing about elven armour that
looks effective. Also, on reflection, I really think it looks terrible, and the elves generally look very unattractive.
(I never expected to be so fond of the lizardmen. They look pretty good.)
So if it was a 85% nude male it would be okay?
I do believe that the woman in sexualised armour makes a bad first impression mostly because there is an established history of sexism in the genre. You don't want people's first reaction to "okay, time to strap myself in for one of
those RPGs". So yes, if the first impression were a man in sexualised armour, it would be less of an issue.
Actually, I think you'll agree that the worst part of this is that Sebille succeeds at being both oversexualised and extremely unattractive. That's probably the worst possible combination.
Still, I think most people should be able to last long enough to click the button to try changing gender or race before they start frothing at the mouth.
