what the hell does that even mean? Women are unapproachable???
What?
“…Even the presence of one female in the group will change their behaviour, so that they’ll act differently. So to give the most natural feeling, to make them feel sincere and honest, having them all the same gender made sense in that way,”
‘journey will have the cast adopting what he dubs a “boys will be boys” type demeanor’
“The world might be ready to see the curtain lifted on what boys do when girls aren’t around, when they come out of the tent all prim and proper. That’s kind of the idea behind it… we think, male or female player, that everyone will feel a certain connection and bond with the four characters.”
idk why anyone else forgot to mention the rest of it, because it got more cringe worthy as it went on.
Burn this game
I mentioned this on VG247, but I find that I quickly lose interest in or completely avoid games that don’t have female protagonists in them these days. There’s been way too much of emphasizing male characters and ignore or downplaying female ones, and that gets real boring.
Originally, I wasn’t going to say anything about the “boys’ club” thing with Final Fantasy XV because it actually looks like a Final Fantasy game again after all the non-Final Fantasy stuff that was the FF13 games, but I don’t think I can do that anymore. Backing I know how idiotic Squeenix is, and if FFXV is a success, they’ll interpret it as “We need to keep women out of our games except as sexed up side characters like female Cid” and do that.
I’ve also noticed that we haven’t seen Stella at all in a year. She was being touted as the main female character of the game alongside the main male character, and yet since 2014 (or even before that, since FF wikia is saying the one shown at E3 last year is possibly a different character), she’s been nowhere to be seen. And then we have this woman whose name we still don’t know.
Before all this, I was cautiously hopeful that FFXV might turn out to fix what FF13 ruined. Now, I think if it succeeds, it’ll be fixing one problem just to create an even bigger one. And I think it’s fairly safe to blame this on Tabata’s changes with Nomura no longer working on FF15.
And I’m not going to believe Tabata’s lies if he suddenly comes back and says he “misspoke” or that future Final Fantasy games will have more female representation if FFXV is successful. Squeenix has a culture of lying out the ass when they do something wrong. Case in point, Kitase lied about the game mechanic for “Aya Brea” in 3rd Birthday (note: 3rd Birthday shouldn’t even exist) where clothes rip off with damage by claiming it was about “realism.” You can see how much he lied about that just by looking at how much they tried to sex up “Aya Brea,” and it was even clearer during promo time in Japan. I’ve actually written huge rants (yes, plural) about how sexist and insulting 3rd Birthday is. Likewise, Motomu Toriyama claimed HD towns were too hard to do for FF13 due to too much work, and that the linear design of FF13 was all for story-telling purposes.
Probably because they can’t simply admit they’re all hacks and Hironobu Sakaguchi was the only person that knew how to create an actual Final Fantasy game that doesn’t suck ass. Before Squeenix very likely forced his resignation after The Spirits Within, that is.
I think it’s become exceedingly clear that Squeenix doesn’t know how to make games in their best franchises anymore. They let Motomu Toriyama utterly ruin Parasite Eve, FFX and I hear Front Mission. They horribly botched The After Years. They did an incredibly lazy job with the Chrono Trigger DS port, expected to rake in money for it, and decided to essentially punish fans for not doing so by saying they wouldn’t make a Chrono series sequel unless CTDS sold more. I find there are serious problems with the forced “Tomb Raider” “reboot,” but I’ll refrain for the sake of the rest of this.
Squeenix sucks. Aside from the rare good game they publish from an outside developer (e.g. Nier, what I’ve heard about Life is Strange), or perhaps Kingdom Hearts (I make this disclaimer since I stopped playing with KH1), they’re a bad company. There’s nothing left in it of what made Squaresoft so great.
salarta 