Recent content by Garen Truscott

Yeah, this is the point that should have been clearly made, but the article messes up the argument by bringing in irrelevancies about the treatment of the female characters in the game. If I was a journalist writing about the issue I would not have made the argument in reference to The Last Of...

Criticizing The Last of Us for not having a female main character is like criticising Lord of the Rings for not having enough kick-ass women in it. Technically correct, but Jesus, how many more "I am no man" scenes do you really need?! Ellie is the most kick ass 14 year old in gaming (male or...

Also makes me wonder what they would have written if the Last of Us was composed entirely of female characters: "The Last of Us de-feminizes women by making the female gender the default male gender; by removing the binary genders it makes all females part of the default male..."

There is a time and place and vehicle to make a stand for female protagonists... The Last of Us is not the right vehicle for these criticisms. To take something like The Last of Us and accuse it of being masculine focussed (apart from being just incorrect in places) is a weird criticism when...

I'm not being forced to buy it so I can spend my money on PC upgrades.

"We've looked within you past the Nazi regalia and seen that you are a man with terrible judgement."

A bloatfly from Fallout 3. Not bad, it was almost a Yao Guai or a Deathclaw. You know, I'm not trained in martial arts or skilled in any art of combat... I still think I could take it. Mind you it's pretty much the only thing from the fallout universe I could take on.

How about the Spartans (the real ones from Sparta) if you are going to get historical.