The new tomb raider looked like it was going to finally give us a game with a strong female protagonist but that whole e3 demo was basically torture porn and I suspect it wont change in the final game >_>
So you want more female protagonists. But you want them to never be endangered, never want to have to overcome adversity and never want them to become stronger characters for it? It's not torture porn, it's a trial she has to overcome. You can't want a female protagonist AND want them to be treated like fragile weaklings because that IS sexism.
I never said that. Theirs nothing wrong with women being injured and hurt in a game within the context of whatever is happening. It is very much a big part of what the new tomb raider is about, I wouldn't buy their theme of survival for a second if she weren't being constantly hurt. The point I was making however is that she did not sound like she was being injured. Her voice actress did a terrible job of portraying someone in pain and it ended up ruining the illusion at best and sounding like torture porn at worst. I'm sorry you misunderstood, I should have clarified.
Ah ok, when you say the whole demo I naturally don't automatically assume you're just singling out the voice acting. I will agree the voice acting seemed meh at best but that could be said for a large percentage of games these days.
The new tomb raider looked like it was going to finally give us a game with a strong female protagonist but that whole e3 demo was basically torture porn and I suspect it wont change in the final game >_>
So you want more female protagonists. But you want them to never be endangered, never want to have to overcome adversity and never want them to become stronger characters for it? It's not torture porn, it's a trial she has to overcome.
You can't want a female protagonist AND want them to be treated like fragile weaklings because that IS sexism.
There's no correlation between a male protagonist and sexism. Zero. It's simply playing to the highest demographic, there are and always has been more male gamers. In an immersion based game, I don't want to play as a female because I can't relate to that, same as the vast majority of people that would be purchasing the game. It's not a big conspiracy to demean women and make them look like second class citizens, it's a business decision and a smart one at that.
Any grievances you have, air them right away. If you let ANYTHING fester it will ultimately blow up into a huge argument. You said you have good communication and that really is the key to living with someone you're in a relationship with.
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