McIntosh’s tweets about the game, and about protagonist Geralt of Rivia, read like someone who has never played a Witcher game before, including The Witcher 3, or like someone all too eager to justify their own assumptions.
He describes Geralt as “emotionally deficient in the extreme. Never cries or laughs. Never expresses grief, fear, sadness or vulnerability.” Which is, you know, patently untrue. Not a matter of opinion, but utterly untrue to the point where I do question whether McIntosh has actually played these games, or is just watching the trailers. (Hey, plenty of critics wrote angry things about American Sniper without watching the film first.)
It creates things like this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...-frequency-is-dead-wrong-about-the-witcher-3/
Witcher wiki said:It is a common belief, even among Witchers themselves, that they have no capacity for emotion. This may be debatable - and rather relative, considering the rigors of their training and the dangers they face as a matter of course. Perhaps they have simply never had the time (or exposure to society) to develop or recognize the reactions to mundane experiences that most take for granted.
Last I heard people were free to air their opinions on whatever they please.
Still waiting for evidence that developers are cowering in fear of feminazi mobs and hastily scrubbing out male characters.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Do you know what those words mean?
Just because there is a lack of evidence to back up my claim, doesn't imply there is no problem.
Just because there is a lack of evidence to back up my claim, doesn't imply there is no problem.
It sort of does...
Oh ok, I'm sure a development company would come out and say "Yeah, sorry we delayed the game for xyz, a feminist wanted us to include more realistic female interaction"
It would be PR suicide.
As a white male... I'm bottom of the chain right now. If it isn't racism, it's sexism... There is always something the white British male does wrong.
There ain't a white man in this room that would change places with me. None of you. None of you would change places with me, and I'm rich!
Females ARE under represented. That's a fact. It's now making business sense to realise that. The fact that you're typing out this nonsense is astounding... are you married? Do you have a girlfriend? I'm sure she'd love to her your opinions on feminism being an ideology.