Thrik

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  1. Far Cry 3

    Just another piece of sweet-ass body modification.
  2. BioShock Infinite

    Why did you link to it then?!?!?!!??!! I can resist, I've had enough game intros and stuff ruined for me by trailers so am not watching any more B:I footage. In fact I haven't watched any for ages and am largely in the dark about this game apart from knowing that it features tits and a flying city.
  3. BioShock Infinite

    The game ends with you giving her a good first-person shagging. Oh, wait...
  4. BioShock Infinite

    I'll say — it's the one that kicked off this conversation.
  5. BioShock Infinite

    The argument that Alyx was a nerd fantasy object just comes across as bizarre to me and doesn't gel with my experience of Half-Life 2 in the slightest. Alyx might have been somewhat fond of Gordon, so what? Is that not allowed now either? But I agree with the above poster, not once did it really feel like a romantic/sexual thing; more of a brother/sister thing than anything, and I suspect that was intentional. Valve was trying to create something of a bond between the two characters, so during the scenes where she faces serious peril it actually means something. It worked. I understand the notion that Alyx was dialled back so she wasn't too irritating, but that happens with any sidekick of any gender in any medium ever. Fiction is meant to be fun and enjoyable, not full of the grating arseholes we have to tolerate in real life. A writer has to find the right balance between a character having a little fire in their belly and being an annoying douche. To use the above example, being reminded that I've fucked up when I drive into something whether it's by an NPC or the game itself isn't something I appreciate or need and it's nothing to do with some kind of macho fantasy bollocks — it's just irritating. There've also been many times where NPCs have harassed me into hurrying up because I want to explore the area a little first or whatever, and that too pisses me off. Yes if I were adventuring with some dude or girl in real life while surrounded by hostiles I can imagine they would be a bit 'WTF?' if I wanted to spend a few minutes dicking around, but this is a game and it's not appreciated. I thought Valve accomplished something great with Alyx. She certainly was vulnerable at times, and there may have been hints that she had a thing for Gordon that I'm forgetting. But that is totally fine, there's nothing wrong with fictional characters being... well, human. If we start getting so obsessed with not playing to stereotypes or expectations that we actually eradicate what games have done right in terms of female characters too then we're going to end up in a pretty pointless place.
  6. BioShock Infinite

    In other news, did anyone ever try out the nude cheat in Max Payne 2? What a game.
  7. BioShock Infinite

    She looks a lot better now than in that early depiction IMO. She looked positively horrendous there, whereas now at least she looks somewhat cute. Smaller tits too, and covered up in at least one shot.
  8. BioShock Infinite

    BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth: Ken Levine on creating the best AI companion since Half-Life 2's Alyx Vance
  9. Far Cry 3

    I have to say, a lot of the descriptions are making it sound like they fell into exactly the same trap as Crysis: an amazing world and interactivity, but a story that's lacking at best. Just swap 'random military dude' for 'random dude' and 'psychopathic locals' for 'psychopathic Koreans' and the set-up is about the same. I'm yet to try the console version of Crysis so it'll be interesting to get the two games over Christmas and see how they compare technically, considering they feature exactly the same kinds of environments and the same origin engine.
  10. BioShock Infinite

    Yeah I'd like to see Elizabeth featured in the art, but don't you think the way she's depicted is a little overly sexualised and objectifies women?
  11. BioShock Infinite

    I wish I could formulate any opinions at all.
  12. BioShock Infinite

    But it's not based on real life in 1912. It's a completely fictional alternate universe based on the steampunk aesthetics and subculture. It's entirely reasonable to use how people depict themselves and their works of art in that arena as a reference. I think you're taking this too personally. I'm expressing my opinion concerning the matter at hand, not you. Is it really playing to the lowest common denominator to depict a woman with prominent breasts? What's so wrong with it? So long as the character is a solid, well-written one it doesn't really matter what they look like. Elena from Uncharted would still be the same brilliant character even if she dressed more like, say, her in-game rival Chloe. And on that note, Chloe is blatantly a more sexualised character but it totally works because she's such a strongly-written one. For example, so far everyone's been assuming Elizabeth is designed the way she is just for kicks. When I see her, I see someone who's undeniably dressed a little prostitute-esque. This makes me think she's probably there against her will and has recently been taken out of that situation, which fits exactly into what little about the story I know. What's to say she won't change outfit later on? Why is everyone assuming Irrational didn't think about why they were dressing her the way they did and that it's purely a cheap opportunity to show some breast? Maybe they're trying to say something about the character or their backstory with it, or trying to coerce assumptions out of people in preparation for some kind of twist? I don't know because I haven't played the damn thing. That's true, but the general rule is people like to see attractive people in their fiction. I've even come across women slating actresses because they're not pretty enough, etc and they feel it takes away from the role somehow. Like Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, I saw girls on Facebook expressing disappointment because she wasn't as hot and sexualised as the one from Burton's take on the character. Although I personally enjoyed a bit of Anne Hathaway.
  13. BioShock Infinite

    Yeah but that's just how entertainment works. How many ugly, fat bastards do you see playing leading men in films? People have a general preference for attractive if not sexy characters when it concerns the magical world of fiction, and that goes for women too — there's no shortage of eye candy for them. Just look how buff and unnecessarily naked that Kratos dude is! If I have to put up with my girlfriend visibly creaming herself when characters like Bane get their muscles out and any number of other chiseled blokes in films (and games, actually), it seems fair game for some boobage to follow. Like I say though, as long as the actual character of the woman is sound then it's all good. If a woman is completely objectified and turned into nothing more than titilation then that's a separate and indeed unacceptable issue, but how they're dressed is a fairly small factor IMO apart from the extreme examples that need no introduction.
  14. BioShock Infinite

    I don't understand how it's not relevant. Developers use reality as a reference in most cases, so surely how women choose to dress in real life is completely relevant? They didn't completely make these dresses up, after all. ... OK, maybe the Soul Calibre dudes did. But again, Irrational's depiction with at least one cross-genre and real-life depiction of steampunk women in general and that seems fine to me. There's probably a wider issue at play but some of the comments in this thread make me think their authors won't be happy until female game characters are flat-chested munters dressed in overalls. Some sexualisation really isn't a bad thing IMO, it's a secondary issue to the actual roles women in games often have.
  15. BioShock Infinite

    For what it's worth, I know some serious steampunk fans — girls who dress up for conventions and the lot — and what they choose to wear is pretty much exactly along the lines of how BioShock's character is depicted. Me? I just don't see the problem. Are lots of girls up in arms about this or something? I'm surprised it's even spawned so much discussion in a world where sexualising women in entertainment is kind of normal and not particularly resented by actual women from what I can tell. Lots of women actually like looking sexy and aren't offended because some tit is on show. Yes there are some retarded examples like that fighting game posted earlier but you get that kind of shit in literally every other medium too.
  16. Hitman: Absolution

    So, any of these oldies likely to hold up particularly well graphically?
  17. Curiosity – What's Inside the Cube?

    The 'about game' button says that the number is undetermined, so presumably they can just flick a 'next layer is final' switch once they feel it's the right time. Or it could just be infinite — what a troll.
  18. Planetside 2: When trees attack!

    I am so looking forward to sprucing my PC up and sinking lots of time into this. I actually completely missed the fact it'd released, please tell me it's actually getting a decent player base and won't be dead when I get to it in a few months.
  19. Curiosity – What's Inside the Cube?

    Yeah I gave the tapfest another go today and it is nicer now they're showing other taps. They definitely seem real (patterns, etc) but it is very abstracted as you zoom out — when viewing the whole cube relatively large segments of it have god rays flashing from them. It looks cool and makes it feel less like a weird solitary experience. Of course it's still as boring as a sewn-up axe wound after about five minutes of play. I wonder what the player time investment stats are like.
  20. The Hobbit...

    Cineworld only tend to flesh out their times relatively close to the actual day so it could just be they haven't put all those showings up yet.
  21. Lost progress

    Ugh, a reply above reminded me of the time I'd played through Banjo-Kazooie for a second time so I could unlock everything. Now, anyone who's played Banjo-Kazooie should know that there's a fucking lot of shit to collect. After spending literally an entire millennium getting to about 98% of everything unlocked, I was confident that I could put the whole following evening aside to thoroughly enjoy collecting the last items and hopefully receive some kind of reward for my viciously time-consuming mission. I'd gotten unreasonably obsessed with completing every last portion of this game (anyone who mentions Stop 'n' Swop will be shot) and couldn't get totally finishing one of the best games I'd ever played out of my head. Then I got home and found that my sister had deleted my save game while trying to access her own.
  22. BioShock Infinite

    :tup: :tup:
  23. BioShock Infinite

    You should read the last several posts.