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Videogame Update
Nov. 16th, 2012 03:16 pmI finished Portal 2 last night. Given how much everyone talks about the first game being short, I was expecting it to last longer. But it was good. GLaDOS <3. Chell <3. My main suprise was finding out - through accidentally nearly spoilering myself - that Vern Schillinger from Oz was in it. That was an odd moment. But largely, now I know where a bunch of quotes come from. And from early on I was slashing Chell and GLaDOS. I FEEL LIKE I WAS RIGHT TO DO SO.
Also I am playing Borderlands. I was put off at first because I thought it was just a multiplayer game, and then when I found out it had singleplayer mode, I was put off because the only female "character"/class you could play was called a 'Siren'. But it did still look fun, and everyone talks about it, so I decided to give it a go anyway. And as it turns out, the only female class you can play is indeed called a Siren - whose default name is Lilith - and her special skills involve magical teleportation and elemental attacks. And her combat style, according the game, is "trickery and deception". Also, she's waif-thin. The other - male - characters all have skills like long-range weapons or hand-to-hand combat, and as far as I can tell, none of them have magical powers. And it's annoying, because the magical stuff and the elemental attacks are all really fun to play, actually, and I'm even getting used to her high-pitched laugh whenever she makes a critical hit. But yeah. I'd probably be happier if they'd decided to make the sexy magial liar a male character. Or given ANY of those traits to one of the male characters. Or given you a female choice other than the Siren. But they didn't. But like I say, it is still pretty fun, and the graphics are amazing. I like guns, as it turns out. You should just trust me when I say I have saved you from MANY POSTS on my love of guns in videogames before. But suffice it to say, Borderlands massively caters to this love. Time will tell if that wears thin in the end.
A game I am genuinely suprised by though, which I am also playing, is Mercenaries 2. On the face of it, it's all about blowing things up, and it's also sort of designed to be a multiplayer game. But I looked it up and found out that of the three characters you can play, one is a woman, and you get the same storyline no matter who you choose. And not only is she female, I'm pretty sure she's Asian - she's obviously British, but her name's Jennifer Mui - so she's a female character of colour, and they seem to have made an effort to give her a proper personality. And a bunch of the supporting characters are female - her support operative she starts with is female, and over the course of the game you get three extra members of the team, and one's a female mechanic. And both of the Factions I'm in contact with so far, an oil company and a guerrilla army, are both run by women. And all three of the villain characters are male (so far). There is the fairly problematic fact that it's set in war-torn Venezuela and you get to blow pretty much everything up - because hey, Venezuela's always war-torn, and blowing up other countries' buildings is fun - but largely, I'm pretty impressed with how they're handling a lot of stuff so far. For a multiplayer game that's essentially about blowing things up.
Also I am playing Borderlands. I was put off at first because I thought it was just a multiplayer game, and then when I found out it had singleplayer mode, I was put off because the only female "character"/class you could play was called a 'Siren'. But it did still look fun, and everyone talks about it, so I decided to give it a go anyway. And as it turns out, the only female class you can play is indeed called a Siren - whose default name is Lilith - and her special skills involve magical teleportation and elemental attacks. And her combat style, according the game, is "trickery and deception". Also, she's waif-thin. The other - male - characters all have skills like long-range weapons or hand-to-hand combat, and as far as I can tell, none of them have magical powers. And it's annoying, because the magical stuff and the elemental attacks are all really fun to play, actually, and I'm even getting used to her high-pitched laugh whenever she makes a critical hit. But yeah. I'd probably be happier if they'd decided to make the sexy magial liar a male character. Or given ANY of those traits to one of the male characters. Or given you a female choice other than the Siren. But they didn't. But like I say, it is still pretty fun, and the graphics are amazing. I like guns, as it turns out. You should just trust me when I say I have saved you from MANY POSTS on my love of guns in videogames before. But suffice it to say, Borderlands massively caters to this love. Time will tell if that wears thin in the end.
A game I am genuinely suprised by though, which I am also playing, is Mercenaries 2. On the face of it, it's all about blowing things up, and it's also sort of designed to be a multiplayer game. But I looked it up and found out that of the three characters you can play, one is a woman, and you get the same storyline no matter who you choose. And not only is she female, I'm pretty sure she's Asian - she's obviously British, but her name's Jennifer Mui - so she's a female character of colour, and they seem to have made an effort to give her a proper personality. And a bunch of the supporting characters are female - her support operative she starts with is female, and over the course of the game you get three extra members of the team, and one's a female mechanic. And both of the Factions I'm in contact with so far, an oil company and a guerrilla army, are both run by women. And all three of the villain characters are male (so far). There is the fairly problematic fact that it's set in war-torn Venezuela and you get to blow pretty much everything up - because hey, Venezuela's always war-torn, and blowing up other countries' buildings is fun - but largely, I'm pretty impressed with how they're handling a lot of stuff so far. For a multiplayer game that's essentially about blowing things up.
