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Framing, Agency, and AAA Female Protagonists | Semi-Ramblomatic (www.youtube.com)
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Yahtzee talks about how writers for AAA games don't seem to know how to write complex and nuanced female characters and instead resort to brutalising and victimising their female protagonists to give them depth and how the violence they're subjected to is framed differently compared to violence that's done to male characters

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I fully expected to cringe through this one, was pained to hear a snarky pretentious 40something cisgender man make a series of great points madeline-sadeline

(I have been following trilby man religiously for over a decade)

The tortureporn shit is so eyerolling. When the first Tombraider reboot dropped I figured that was that, and the torment would result in Lara becoming the relentless murder lady. Sike, two more games of torture porn.

Also I want my 35 hours back from The Last Of Us II thonk-cri

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

But Tomb Raider, a series about a lady who dualwields pistols while doing backflips, must be a serious Prestige Game!

Where you also want to protect her or whatever the producer guy was saying in 2012

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Every time I think about TR being ✨ prestigious ✨ I always picture the magazine cover, the one with Duke Nukem copping a feel.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

There's an Easter Egg in one of the PS1/N64 Duke Nukem games where what is intended to be a horny Lara Croft calls Duke Nukem to ask him to come and bone her. In another Easter Egg Duke finds Lara's discarded tank top at a strip club and says only a huge skank would wear something like that

The 90s were very classy

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

agony-deep

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I forgot the funniest part being that those third-person PS1 Duke Nukem games are huge Tomb Raider ripoffs, shamelessly copying the control scheme and gameplay

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