Pretty much confirmed all of our suspicions.
This also explains why she steals footage from Let's Plays instead of playing the games herself.
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28 RepliesSo? Why does she need to play the games to critique the female roles in them? She can be shown the video, or simply watch another play and still get the experience necessary to write her pieces. You know what? She's right. Games DO have the tropes she talks about. The industry has relied on male empowerment for so long that it doesn't know another way of writing. Given that kids play these games, they contribute to what these kids will grow up thinking their role is. On top of that, its lazy writing. We need more Skyrims, more Halo's, more Mass Effects and such. These games are different because they broke the trope mold. They created new tropes for other games to follow. Thank you Bungie for doing this. Too bad not every Dev has writers that can...