In what way? You get 2 Designated Love Interests depending on your chosen gender - 1 for gay, 1 for not, and I suppose both for bi. And 1 non-relationship “fling” that I can remember. Seems pretty mild imo for a game that hypes up it’s own “hypersexuality” so much.
Also, side point, did anyone else find it super weird that the Designated Love Interests act exactly the same regardless of their designated compatability until “the moment” where they shut you down if you try anything? Found it pretty awkward when it felt like River was flirting with me the whole time, and he’s not even into dudes.
For a game that wasnt a “porn” game it was pretty graphic, even if your partner choices were pretty limited. I definitely watched my character do 200% more fucking than in every other game I’ve ever played.
I was annoyed that I didnt get enough interactions right to do the Kerry endings too, I’m not doing a completely new playthrough just so I can fuck a dude tho.
And yes, River was definitely flirting with another dude.
It’s certainly more than most games, but I was expecting less rigidity at the very least. It feels so checkboxy and limiting for a setting that’s meant to be so unrestricted.
From that very series: Walter White vs Skyler White. The public perception of both was quite disperate, considering one was a housewife and the other was a murderous, aspiring drug lord.
I wouldn’t say that’s a more apt comparison since Hank got much more of a redemption arc (though he admittedly wasn’t “bad” to start, just insufferable) than Skylar did. Walt willfully went all out in his bad choices while Skylar was mostly just left to react to his bs, but he is still viewed more favorably than she is.
Hank became an outright abusive piece of shit at one point during the series, constantly verbally berating his wife until he pushed her over the edge and triggered her kleptomania.
The worst Skylar ever did was sleep with someone outside of the marriage that Walter had already destroyed.
A lot of female characters all do he same thing; The protagonist men are getting up to shenanigans and their loved ones are telling them to stop it for the sake of love and / or responsibility. The thing is that as the audience we’re entirely there for the shenanigans because that’s there the action or tension takes place.
Suddenly you have a character that is telling the protagonist to refuse the call to adventure which results in delaying the excitement, it’s a recipe that’s makes the audience associate the character with boring parts of the show, especially in breaking bad where the relationship is depicted as an old marriage with no romance left, nobody is rooting for it.
I’m very aware of the trope. That doesn’t justify the level of disdain shown in comments like the one jackoneill so eloquently shared on this very thread.
I agree, I suppose the root of what I meant was that the hatred Skyler gets is half blatant misogyny and half because she’s written to be the fun police.
I remember when the TV show Arcane was coming out, there were lots of judgemental comments towards a character called Caitlin, but 3/4 of the main characters of that show are women and the others didn’t see similar hate, but it was Caitlin who often made the lawful and restrainted decisions.
Although I also agree that if the character of Caitlin was a man instead, they’d have gotten much less hate.
Considering the long, ongoing history of female characters (and real women, to be frank) being derided or dismissed for any number of “flaws” not held against their male counterparts, I don’t think that generous, context-less assumption is really worth merit.
Ummm…the majority of human history? Are you seriously expecting me to spoon-feed you a history lesson here? Just Google “Women’s rights” and see where that leads you, though I have the notion you’re not actually looking to learn much.
Dude, I literally started the thread with an example. Regardless, I’m not here to convince you of basic historical precedent, nor am I interested in falling into the trap of you quibbling over whatever other example I could mention to dismiss any and all context like you already exhibited you will do.
What do you mean? I thought Skyler was quite an empowered character. In all the moments were the traditional wife character would have fallen for her husband’s lies, she catches on pretty quick.
Of all the reasons to be a scumbag, attempting to force your way into a video game has to be one of the shallowest I’ve ever heard. Especially when he’s so obscenely rich that it would’ve been painless comparatively to buy his way in…
It boggles my mind that so many people don’t realise the entire GTA franchise is a satire of American culture, by the Scottish development studio. It’s always been liberal.
Quick googling tells me they don’t affect gameplay at all. Being said, I really liked both games and wouldn’t ever tell anyone not to get another run in
And Luke is not a Gary stu. He’s a Padawan who happened to have an emotional connection to the bad guy he could leverage. If you actually watch the OT you realize that Luke is straight bad at being a Jedi.
Rey is the most perfect person ever who don’t need no Jedi master to ruin her yass girl vibe.
I could write a thesis on why only people with brain rot compare the two.
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