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Nov. 16th, 2020 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyIt's PS5 week, and I'm - less excited? I don't know. Still happy it's happening, but also remembering that I'll have to go through some 'decontamination' of the thing when I get it back from the shop, and also clearing out (and cleaning) some of the drawers-top where I keep all my consoles - since the PS5 is apparently massive, and also has a tiny disc drive, so - I was planning to keep my PS4 for PS4 games, but I just don't know that I can tetris it. So also considering all the work that will go into it. Having to hook up my PSVR to a new device, having to remember what my PSN username and password are. Also I'm mostly looking forward to it to play games on, obviously, and Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed, so the only one left I was really excited for is Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, which is made by Ubisoft, who...have been very disappointing lately.
And specifically, with Valhalla...they apparently went through a long period of the 'culture' or management of the company not wanting any lead female characters (and commiting sexual harassment!). So they announced - before this came out - that you would always have a choice, a wonderful choice, about whether you wanted to play as a good man or a scum woman. Brilliant. No limitations to storytelling or character definition there. But the thing is, people still noticed they were mostly putting the male 'choice' on the box art of the games, and in all the marketing, and most of the merchandise. But they've come up with a solution to that! In the new game, you can choose to be a man or a woman, if you're boring, or you can let the magic force in the game decide for you, and switch between a man and woman throughout the game. Apparently - spoilers - this means barely switching at all, and sheds a lot of light on the story and mystery in the game, and the magic...but mostly it just feels like a way for Ubisoft to pretend they don't hate women, but still put the male character in all the adverts, because they are both canon! And I don't feel like I have the energy for their bullshit. So that has tempered my excitement for the game a bit. I will probably just play as the female character. Fuck them. Mostly I am interested in the horses. And to see if my home town is in the game. It's in the area - but did it exist yet? Mysteries.
(Spoiler: I have just googled it, it didn't. Maybe there will be a hill).
And specifically, with Valhalla...they apparently went through a long period of the 'culture' or management of the company not wanting any lead female characters (and commiting sexual harassment!). So they announced - before this came out - that you would always have a choice, a wonderful choice, about whether you wanted to play as a good man or a scum woman. Brilliant. No limitations to storytelling or character definition there. But the thing is, people still noticed they were mostly putting the male 'choice' on the box art of the games, and in all the marketing, and most of the merchandise. But they've come up with a solution to that! In the new game, you can choose to be a man or a woman, if you're boring, or you can let the magic force in the game decide for you, and switch between a man and woman throughout the game. Apparently - spoilers - this means barely switching at all, and sheds a lot of light on the story and mystery in the game, and the magic...but mostly it just feels like a way for Ubisoft to pretend they don't hate women, but still put the male character in all the adverts, because they are both canon! And I don't feel like I have the energy for their bullshit. So that has tempered my excitement for the game a bit. I will probably just play as the female character. Fuck them. Mostly I am interested in the horses. And to see if my home town is in the game. It's in the area - but did it exist yet? Mysteries.
(Spoiler: I have just googled it, it didn't. Maybe there will be a hill).
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Date: 2020-11-19 12:03 am (UTC)I had forgotten I needed that cable. Mostly I just meant because I have my visual output permanently routed through the PSVR processor - rather than hooking it up and taking it out all the time - so I have to remember I need to do that with the PS5 too. After dusting everything down. So much to consider!
The thing is that Cassandra is the canon character in Odyssey - like it says in the article I linked to, she was supposed to be the only character - so the female Eivor being canon literally doesn't seem any better. And while ever you only get female options/skins, you're never going to get a female character that's as defined and iconic as Nathan Drake, or Solid Snake, or even Geralt of Rivia or Arthur Morgan, despite how much you could 'customise' those characters. So I'm never going to be happy with it, because I do think it's weak bullshit from big corporations. And instead of admitting it or doing better, they just bend over backwards trying to make it 'logical'. I'll still play the female Eivor, it just makes me more aware of their previous shittiness, not less.
I was a little concerned about what I was going to do with all the games on the same day - after months of having nothing to play, I didn't fancy my chances of getting through Legion, Valhalla, Cyberpunk and Miles Morales without running into any spoilers. But I'd settled myself on playing Cyberpunk, just because I miss first-person action RPGs, and then it's delayed. Which is fine and reasonable, but now it's like...do I wait and play nothing until it's out, or just barely scratch the surface of Valhalla and then drop it for Cyberpunk, or resign myself to not playing Cyberpunk until next year? I don't tend to do well playing a bunch of big immersive games at once, so it's just a little frustrating. It didn't work out for me personally so it's obviously bad, is what I'm saying.
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