darkpassenger2342 wrote...
@rebel raven
what games cant you play as a female as nowadays?
the ones where a guy is the main character?
what about
tomb raider
bayonetta
mass effect
dragon age
kingdoms of amalur
skyrim
street fighter
mortal kombat
metroid
final fantasy 13.
thats just popular games in the last 2 years.
im gonna run out of room here.
Alright, I'll pick at this a bit, but not too long coz It'll be a long post.
I'll kindly thank you to not talk about the most recent metroid.
KoA was fairly buggy. Not skyrim level buggy, though, but that's bethesda for you.
You mention a lot of RPGs and fighting games. Where's the shooters? Where, exactly, is the variety? Fighters, RPGs,and a few brawlers does not a variety make. I know you just made a short list, but the variety is bothersomely low.
Bayonetta's pushing that 2 year old mark. It came out in 2010.
Tomb raider's last entry was in 2k9, wasn't it? The Reboot isn't out yet.
Keep in mind just how spread out these games are, how many of those are fighting games, and how many of those are RPGs.
Honestly, it feels like eternities between releases of games with female protagonists, and the option to pick gender.
Cyonan wrote...
Rebel_Raven wrote...
No new powers among them (I do give points for inventive use of existing powers though), the performance isn't spectacular, no new appearances, a continued reliance on throwing powers at enemies.
I've played every female character on the roster to death, and back, and back again. They're all virtually identicle in durability which is annoying to an extreme coz they're almost all so flimsy because of it.
Almost none have weapon synergy which is annoying as HELL in a game where weapon damage is apparently the end all and be all. Throw power shoot during cool down, throw power, shoot during cooldown, pray those powers aren't dodged. I wanna do something else! I want a destroyer like character! Or a Krogard like character!
Where's the gun bunny aside from the default human female soldier? The woman that shouts "MOAR DAKKA!!!" as she guns down enemies with no need to worry about lobbing dodgeable powers?
Where's the female unit with really high barriers/shields? Considering the Asari are the biotic mistresses of the galaxy, why are their barriers so low in general? Human barriers are as strong!
Not gonna touch the gender war with a 10 foot space pole, but I do want to comment on the characters themselves:
Both of the new Asari are actually very potent casters. The Valkyrie being a more durable Fury and the Huntress having the best power damage in the game. I know you want a woman on the council of weapons masters, but claiming these two ladies have poor performance does you no credit, since they are very solid characters.
You mention the default Human Soldier, and if you aren't against using up your ammo consumables I would like to throw the Asari Justicar in there. Reave is undodgable and makes Warp Rounds deal massive damage that is nearly on par with Adrenaline Rush(in fact, anyone with a biotic primer can do this, and the Justicar is the best at doing it).
When specced for maximum defence, she can get also effective health that is only matched by a Krogan in rage because of her 80% damage reduction, and quickly regenerating shields.
The Human Vanguard is also one of the most durable characters in the game because of her immunity frames from Nova.
They aren't the Kroguard "doesn't die and goes where he pleases" durable, but they certainly are quite durable characters. If there is a way to tank with it, I guarantee you that I will find it.
You said it yourself. They're casters. I'm tired of casters on so many levels, and the bulk of the female roster are casters. Bioware just keeps adding more, and more casters, too.
I'm not really knocking their performance. Not intentionally. They're great at what they do, and I gave props on the inventive combination of old powers, though not so much on the edit of huntress' tac cloak which was made to correct a mistake, but there's a distinct lack of variety in what they do, I find.
I'm just tired of doing what they do, bluntly, coz it's about all I get to do in playing female characters. What they do, they do, arguably, better than other casters, but they're casters.
And most women are flimsy. Some are above normal in durability, but that oft requires a lot of power spam, close proximity to enemies that have shields, and in general relies on cooldowns, and so on.
I'm just not going to be happy until Bioware stops being hung up on giving us female casters, and offers up some variety.
You've nailed it on the head early, and late in your post. None of the women are on the council of weapon masters, nor are any of them Krogard tough. Long and short of it, that's what's going to bother me until Bioware stops relying on wmen being casters.
Their performance can certainly be up there, but there's too many conditions on them being up there for the most part.
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