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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 03:05 pm (UTC)Ah, I can see what you mean by that. Sure, I'd love to hear them whenever you have the chance to share them! ♥
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Date: 2020-11-19 05:49 pm (UTC)