Agree. I don't know how many women were on the development team for TR, but I recall the one of the official responses came from one of their female producers when they tried to smooth it over. Coincidence that they chose her? I don't recall when the game comes out, or if taken in the context of the whole game, the scene plays better, but I think what disturbed me the most was that the folks presenting the clip seemed to be promoting the rape interpretation.charlottecorday wrote...
R2s Muse wrote...
It reminds me of the bruhaha surrounding the new Lara Croft game and the rape-like overtones that only some of the trailer viewers were seeing. :shudder:
I thought of that too. Their arguments that she "needed to be hardened by life experiences" and those creepy fans that said they really wanted to see her raped. I think that incident said a lot about sexism in game development and the community at large, not to mention highlights the necessity of feminine input and experiences that Gaider was talking about.
Ugh. On a cheerier note, I read a cool article recently about a coder dad who hacked his old Legend of Zelda game and turned Link into a girl for his daughter to play it.
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