(There's been multiple threads on the forums in the past, saying/implying this exact thing).Ĭall me crazy, but I thought this was a gag by Ubisoft when I first read it. I was actually thinking of complaints against BioWare when I made my "dudebro" comment in the other thread - straight male gamer, complaining about having LGBT options "rammed down their throats", and wanting to just play a dude who gets off with women. In my opinion, BioWare catches heat because a lot of what they do is badly written, lacking finesse or subtlety. Change is hard, but worthwhile.Įven Bioware catches heat. Certainly you might be correct on the first point - there's a certain damned-if-you-do, damed-if-you-don't implication to all this - but that doesn't mean devs/pubs should ignore the issue, or "no comment" to the press. It's not a battle you can win as a developer so it's best to ignore the issue entirely. You don't know.Įvery single person who is complaining now would be complaining then too.īut about a different thing, surely? Complaining about the "masculinity" of an animation might be tangentially related to the points being raised here, but it would be hard to complain quite so vociferously when the developer/publisher has actually included a woman. It's not always so simple though as just "oh, if they can do this, then doing that should be no problem," sometimes it's a problem, and deserves to be respected as such. then they should probably give consideration to gender and racial variety. If they go out of their way to create multiple bespoke characters with unique models, skeletons, animation sets, etc. If the avatar options they give you are just the basic NPCs, and the NPCs served a purpose in the solo campaign and perform the same tasks in MP, then it stands to reason that the selection will be just what the NPCs already exist, and that may not always be a representative batch. and kinda sends the message that those who are not are less important. Even Bioware catches heat.Īrguing about the gender choice of the first is absolutely silly, but for the second there actually is a point: by reducing the variety of available avatars you're limiting the number of players that feel properly represented in online game. I honestly think the positives ("woman as possible co-op character")Įvery single person who is complaining now would be complaining then too. Genuine question: Would anyone have cared? Okay, it would look a bit jarring, but. Yeah, but Uncharted doesn't sell as well as Tomb Raider, so clearly they're doing it wrong.
Heh, that would kind of be what Uncharted is, Paul. But on the other hand we managed to get more of the other story characters to be women."įar Cry 4 is shipping on November 18 for current-gen and next-gen consoles and PC.
We had very strong voices on the team pushing for that and I really wanted to do it, we just couldn't squeeze it in in time.
As we get better technology and we plan for it in advance and we don't have a history on one rig and all this sort of stuff. It's a similar explanation to the one given by Ubisoft technical director James Therien, who said that adding a female character to the new Assassin's Creed would "double the work" and that "it was a question of focus and a question of production."įor its part, Ubisoft did comment that "We look forward to introducing you to some of the strong female characters in Assassin's Creed Unity," even though they won't be playable, and Hutchinson, too, promised, "I can guarantee you that in the future, moving forward, this sort of stuff will go away. "And so it was this weird issue where you could have a female model that walked and talked and jumped like a dude." And it was purely a workload issue because we don't have a female reading for the character, we don't have all the animations," he explained.
we were inches away from having you be able to select a girl or a guy as your co-op buddy when you invite someone in. "It's really depressing because we almost. Far Cry 4 director Alex Hutchinson told Polygon that his team was only "inches away" from being able to include a selectable co-op female character. While many in the industry continue to discuss the unfortunate exclusion of a playable female character in Assassin's Creed Unity, it's now been revealed that another hotly anticipated Ubisoft game will also miss out on having a playable female character.