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It's the boy-meets-girl (sort of) trope mixed in with the coming of age trope mixed with Romeo and Juliet-style forbidden love trope. You can see this sort of plot line in all manners of movies and drama/family television shows. Maybe it's a first for video games, but it's still essentially a...

I definitely say I have mixed feelings about this game. I don't really care whether or not you can truly call this a game, doesn't matter to me. My review below probably contains spoilers, so be warned. It just doesn't feel like a $20 game. Maybe $10. Probably better off at $5. (I...

Like I said earlier, it's not the definition I have a problem with, but more than not a number of faulty or dogmatic implementations... just like with countless "isms" over the centuries. Like it or not, there comes a time when the methods are as associated with a name as the idea, even when...

I agree. Too many games/shows seem to have this idea that strong female lead must be defined in the first 5 minutes of the games by having some kind of obligatory "beat up the sexist misogynists to show how truly independent you are!" kind of scene... as others have pointed out before me...

I would disagree that they are so different. Even fantasy races often have degrees of parallels to human ones. In the Elder Scrolls series, Redguards are pretty much the most easily identified ones in terms of human history. Imperials = Romans, Nords = vikings, Khajit = Gypsies... Of course...

Again, I'm not saying all fantasy games HAVE to. My argument is that in SOME universes it DOES fit and DOES enhance the story. You quote Skyrim as being a good game, but what if you were to remove the racism inherent in that, in which every character acted and treated every other character...

And as a result, I personally feel as though the Elder Scrolls universe is far less interesting or immersive than George RR. Martin's. Even Nehrim, the German total conversion to Oblivion that creates a now full-sized map and well-written 50-hour campaign, brings on a sense of depth and...

And what happens when this fantasy universe isn't meant to be this jolly old place where everyone is born into equal opportunity? If you have read Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire, do you honestly think characters like Cersei would be the same if they didn't have to continually fight...

Agreed, it's stupid. History has multiple examples of female warriors, some mythic and some real--Joan of Arc, Boudicca, Shieldwives, Valkyries, Celtic women-warriors, Amazons, camp followers who enter the fray... you'd have to be an idiot to think that no woman could ever defeat a man in any...

Sorry, but how many posters here have ACTUALLY said that NO woman could beat them in a fight? You're contributing to the casual sexism too.

I agree with essentially everything you wrote above, but I'd like to point this out: Medieval battlefields were not just a bunch of 1 on 1 fights. A solid charge often relied on just sheer weight until one side gave out. We also see this in shield walls. Pit 500 "average" trained men...

I rebought a good number of games from Steam that I own on CD or DVD: Sim City 4 FEAR (though with the other two games as part of a bundle) DOOM 3 Fable: TLC (but again as part of a bundle) Medieval 2 Total War Rome Total War Railroad Tycoon 2 (as part of a bundle) Red Faction 2 (as...

I wonder, though, what actually is the casualty rate among archers? A classical tactic is to send cavalry to hit the rear and flanks--archers become prime targets because they are typically lightly (if at all) armored. Dagger versus a lance... my bet is on the lance. Historically swords...

Portal is also highly unique because the "enemies"--not just the big evil overlord boss--are portrayed as being feminine. There are many games with strong female protagonists and antagonists, but it's quite hard to think of any games in which they also make up the disposable rank-and-file.

I almost always like a game/book/movie in a series when it is the first one I watch/play/read. But even though I played Saints Row 2 after 3, and though it is older and dated, I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more. It had a good mix of realistic crime gameplay and goofiness... Saint's Row 3 just...