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fr33kSh0w2012: Yes I Genuinely Have Asperger's Syndrome I was Diagnosed by Professor Kenneth Nunn (ret) of the Autistic Assoc in Sydney Australia
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Elmofongo: Was this recent, you diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, because all my time here on GOG I never seen you snap before until now?
No this was NOT recent this was when I was very young about 9 or earlier I can't remember properly due to head Injuries when I was 13 and then again at around the 21 22 age mark.

I only snap when :

A.) I'm in agonising physical pain
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B.) I call someone Out and then get criticized for it.
Post edited May 29, 2013 by fr33kSh0w2012
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langurmonkey: Putting money into something without looking at data first is retarded. You can't just invest with your beliefs unless you enjoy losing money. I doubt these people are that retarded. So the fact that so many of these big budget games are used in tropes VS women = majority of gamers, straight males.
Looking into incomplete data is also retarded. Looking at data without a proper analysis of said data is retarded as well. Assuming that because something follows a trend, the trend is true is also retarded.

For more than 3 decades, game companies have copied successful concepts, because those were the ones that were selling. Once mario came, mario clones came aplenty. Same for Doom, Diablo, Street Fighter, DOTA, Counter Strike and so on. Games with different concepts will usually not sell well.. See Sacrifice, Psychonauts, Chaos Overlords, Mirror's Edge.
A few times (and it is few), the new concept will be a hit. Recent example, Minecraft. Once it becomes commercially successful, imitators/copycats appear.
So, you have concept A of a saturated market, which has an 80% projection of raking in twice its budget, and you have concept B in a new market, which has a 10% projection of raking in 20 times its budget. Which one will you fund, the low-risk safe investment or the high risk high reward one?

As for the part that the majority is straight males, why can't straight males enjoy other kind of games? What if I like sport games, gambling games, farming games, deep strategy games, or racing over pedestrians? All of those are valid choices for the straight male, and quite nice choices for the other groups. Yet still, the game types that are developed are few. Why?

I'm not going to call the publishers retarded. I'm going to say that they prefer a safe investment over a risky one.
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langurmonkey: A one of a kind formula that caters to both male and female players but there can only be one Sims.

It doesn't matter unless a large percentage of paying gamers are female. And obviously, female gamers are not a large percentage of paying gamers. From my observations, most of them play free Flash games.
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HMDK: How is that obvious, and how does it even matter? Besides that, you seem to be convinced that a straight male gamer would never want to play a game as a female hero. Which is wrong on so many levels.
I know it's wrong for me, I really like playing Female characters and actually prefer it since it gives a fresh view but I don't have much faith in others when only 18% chose FemShep despite having a far superior voice actress to MaleShep's utterly bland voice actor.

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ET3D: This really isn't substantiated any more than the connection between playing violent video games and being violent in real life is substantiated. Which is why it's cheap commentary. It's her speculation, and she passes it on as if it were fact.
Given that she has many more episodes to go I don't think each video needs to be like a tv sitcom where everything is wrapped up by the end. Laying one's groundwork takes time.
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langurmonkey: It is not wrong on so many levels. It makes perfect sense. It is difficult to imagine yourself as someone completely different. If you can pull it off, good for you. And when gamers play games, a lot of them like to imagine they are in the game. I could never get into a game, if I have to imagine, I have boobs, an attractive female body and a boyfriend. I have no interest in such games because I wont be able to get into them so they wont be so fun for me. I know some guys like playing female characters so they can stare at nice digital ass all day but that is not the majority.
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Adzeth: You're saying that you wouldn't play a game that's directed at the other gender, but making a game for women is a bad idea because they're not buying games that are directed at the other gender. So, if all the games were made for women, they shouldn't make a game for men because you aren't buying the games for women.
It's the infinity-loop of insipid idiocy.
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langurmonkey: No. It is more profitable to sell games for straight males at this point in time. It's really simple.
I asked that if it was more profitable to sell to women, should they stop making games for men. I take that as a yes.
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TheEnigmaticT: If I'm walking with someone, regardless of gender, I'll hold the door for them and / or help them with heavy packages. Actually, most anyone in the office does. So I guess we're pretty egalitarian here.
While I was at university, I once got sternly scolded by my female schoolmate because I dared to open doors for her and her friend. I never dared to do it again.
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amok: Short answer - yes. which is why we need people like this to highlight the dis-balance.
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langurmonkey: So all these professional business people are retarded to a point, they don't collect data on gamers and just guess, the majority of their customers are straight males who want to be powerful and important knights in shining armor? Then put lots of $$$ into a game, hoping they gets lots of $$$ back? LOL no way.
It is because there is no choice. My partner, who is female (Yes they do exist) is a gamer, and for the last year she has not bought a single AAA game as there is nothing there for her, she has bought nothing but small casual games for her fix... She did buy me a couple, and she tried them, but the comment most times are in the line of "God, why did they have to do that" and "this really put me off that game".

She sometimes have to swallow really big chunks of narrative she do not like, it takes her out of the game, ruin emersion and so on. But if she want to play she has no other options. And she really likes to play games, so she does, but do you think this is really fair?
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Adzeth: You're saying that you wouldn't play a game that's directed at the other gender, but making a game for women is a bad idea because they're not buying games that are directed at the other gender. So, if all the games were made for women, they shouldn't make a game for men because you aren't buying the games for women.
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langurmonkey: No. It is more profitable to sell games for straight males at this point in time. It's really simple.
Actually, it's most profitable to target and sell to each demographic.
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langurmonkey: It is not wrong on so many levels. It makes perfect sense. It is difficult to imagine yourself as someone completely different. If you can pull it off, good for you. And when gamers play games, a lot of them like to imagine they are in the game. I could never get into a game, if I have to imagine, I have boobs, an attractive female body and a boyfriend. I have no interest in such games because I wont be able to get into them so they wont be so fun for me. I know some guys like playing female characters so they can stare at nice digital ass all day but that is not the majority.

What is it like hating yourself everyday for having balls and a penis? OR did you cut those things off a long time ago?

You are wrong. Dead Space 3 failed because it wasn't horror enough... The market demanded a horror game but instead received a Gears Of Wars type game.
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HMDK: Ahahahah... so, because I'm born with an active imagination and that I actually see women as people instead of toys and I don't feel emasculated by women in power or hero roles, that must mean I've castrated myself. You DO know that you make not just nonsense, but negative sense.
I have an active imagination(sure not as active as yours)and I see women as people so nice try. The reason I think maybe you castrated yourself is because your past words seem to express a hatred for men.
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HMDK: How is that obvious, and how does it even matter? Besides that, you seem to be convinced that a straight male gamer would never want to play a game as a female hero. Which is wrong on so many levels.
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roninnogitsune: I know it's wrong for me, I really like playing Female characters and actually prefer it since it gives a fresh view but I don't have much faith in others when only 18% chose FemShep despite having a far superior voice actress to MaleShep's utterly bland voice actor.

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It's not wrong. It just means you have an extremely powerful imagination. I do not have such an imagination. OR it could mean something else but don't feel like going into that right now.
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langurmonkey: No. It is more profitable to sell games for straight males at this point in time. It's really simple.
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HMDK: Actually, it's most profitable to target and sell to each demographic.
Not when it comes to PC and console games, shit for brains.
Post edited May 29, 2013 by langurmonkey
In all honesty, I don't mid her videos that much. As long as you bear in mind that it's a specifically feminist rather than a more general analysis of the games, they're decent enough for what they are. Don't get me wrong, it's no Extra Credits, but at the same time Anita is hardly the second coming of Roger Ebert that many rather insecure gamers seem to think she is. Really now, people need to seriously chill the fuck out.

Anyway, I didn't mind her recent video so much. Though her rather sever misinterpretation of the plot of GTAIII did give me some rather severe nerd rage. The whole motivation for that game was getting revenge on Catalina. Claude had no interest in Maria, she was just useful in leading him to her. Not to mention, the reason he shot her right before the end credits isn't because she's such a stereotypically vapid mob trophy wife, but because she lied to Salvatore about fucking him, which meant that instead of being a made man with the Leone family, he had them trying to kill him along with the Colombians. Really now, she's no love interest or anything of the sort, and the only reason she wasn't killed sooner is because she was his in with the Yakuza. She was not a love interest or even desired by Claude in any sense of the word.

Glad that's out of my system. But yeah, all of this sheer hatred is utterly ridiculous. People really need to calm their tits.
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HMDK: Ahahahah... so, because I'm born with an active imagination and that I actually see women as people instead of toys and I don't feel emasculated by women in power or hero roles, that must mean I've castrated myself. You DO know that you make not just nonsense, but negative sense.
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langurmonkey: I have an active imagination(sure not as active as yours)and I see women as people so nice try. The reason I think maybe you castrated yourself is because your past words seem to express a hatred for men.
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roninnogitsune: I know it's wrong for me, I really like playing Female characters and actually prefer it since it gives a fresh view but I don't have much faith in others when only 18% chose FemShep despite having a far superior voice actress to MaleShep's utterly bland voice actor.

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langurmonkey: It's not wrong. It just means you have an extremely powerful imagination. I do not have such an imagination. OR it could mean something else but don't feel like going into that right now.
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HMDK: Actually, it's most profitable to target and sell to each demographic.
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langurmonkey: Not when it comes to PC and console games, shit for brains.
Yeah, would you mind pointing out how I hate men? It should be easy, according to your weird meltdown?
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TheEnigmaticT: If I'm walking with someone, regardless of gender, I'll hold the door for them and / or help them with heavy packages. Actually, most anyone in the office does. So I guess we're pretty egalitarian here.
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Vitek: While I was at university, I once got sternly scolded by my female schoolmate because I dared to open doors for her and her friend. I never dared to do it again.
Some people are unpleasant. As a general rule, i don't worry about them. ;)
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langurmonkey: They do know they cater to straight males. The example above proves EA didn't know most Dead Space fans wanted more horror, less action. Makes sense considering it is much easier to collect data that reveals gender and sexual orientation of customers then what exactly customers are expecting from a game.
They do know that there is a bigger demand for action shooter than horror games (i.e. sales). By your theory, Gear of Wars fans would have surged up. You're contradicting yourself.

And by the way, have you ever heard of faking your ID details? It's quite popular among female players who don't want to be harassed on Xbox Live, for example.
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langurmonkey: So all these professional business people are retarded to a point, they don't collect data on gamers and just guess, the majority of their customers are straight males who want to be powerful and important knights in shining armor? Then put lots of $$$ into a game, hoping they gets lots of $$$ back? LOL no way.
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amok: It is because there is no choice. My partner, who is female (Yes they do exist) is a gamer, and for the last year she has not bought a single AAA game as there is nothing there for her, she has bought nothing but small casual games for her fix... She did buy me a couple, and she tried them, but the comment most times are in the line of "God, why did they have to do that" and "this really put me off that game".

She sometimes have to swallow really big chunks of narrative she do not like, it takes her out of the game, ruin emersion and so on. But if she want to play she has no other options. And she really likes to play games, so she does, but do you think this is really fair?
No it's not fair. And I feel for her, really. I think everyone should have access to lots of entertainment that they can enjoy but capitalism says no... She is a minority. Not many people out there in this world like her and spending massive amounts of money making games women like her would love, is not the ferengi <- star trek... aka capitalist way.
Post edited May 29, 2013 by langurmonkey