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Venkman - 05 February 2015 09:58 PM

I’m talking about depicting sex and naked female bodies in a certain way.

Also know as The Shatner Effect

Venkman - 05 February 2015 07:49 PM

One of the problems with the way sex is portrayed almost everywhere, including Game of Thrones HBO, is that it’s almost entirely shot from a heterosexual male perspective (the “male gaze”). The sex and nudity is there for the heterosexual male audience to get off on, showing female breasts and butts prominently; it’s not there to serve the story and is not shot “authentically” as part of the world. Of course many times sex scenes are important for the audience to see, the issue is the way they’re shown.

I’ve always thought GoT shows sex very discriminantly. Sure, most of it is straight sex, but then again so it is in real world as well, but they don’t shy away from showing homosexual encounters either. I’d say it gives both sexes and all sexual preferences something to “oogle” about.

I’m not saying that TT should throw in sex just for the sake of it. They should if the story calls for it. And in any case devs should start using sexuality more in games in ways that isn’t objectificating characters like dressing female warriors in armor that is nothing more than a skintight paintjob in order to show cleveage.

The main problem with in-game sexuality at the moment is that is is designed to please the lowest common nominator, which is that small 12-years old boy in every man, that goes “nice” every time there’s tightly clothed, big breasted woman on the screen. The designers don’t try to go over that and it does kinda ruin even some games with more serious plotlines, when all the men are dirty and rugged, where as women look like they’re on a catwalk no matter what they wear.

They’ve just tweeted GoT episode 3 will be out this month too.
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They’re learning…

Just a quick question: Does GoT allow you to turn off the ridiculously stupid “(X will remember that”) - notifications? How about in Tales from the Borderlands? If not, I’ll just stay away from them until TellTale does something about it.

You could turn them off in TWD, but for some unreasonable reason you couldn’t in season 2! Now I’m trying to finish TWAU, but they can’t be turned off there either, and it’s annoying the crap out of me. I find them extremely immersive breaking, a reminder that I’m dealing with game mechanics and not actual reactions/emotions. They completely ruin the mood for me as well as rendering every choice that isn’t followed by a notification entirely meaningless.

I can’t fathom how a game series that takes pride in giving the player “choices” would remove such an option from their games. I can’t possibly be the only one who dislikes these notifications?

I don’t think you can turn turn them off. In borderlands, they’re actually quite witty, but I can see what you mean about more serious drama in games like GoT.

That’s too bad. According to the internet, there’s quite a few people who’s stopped buying TTG games because they removed the option to disable those notifications. I found a large number of threads about this exact issue, plenty of people finding themselves unable to enjoy their games because of it, but there’s seemingly no plan whatsoever from TTG to do anything about it.

Then I contacted their customer support. Based on several threads on the issue, I gave some pretty thorough examples of how and why it ruins the gaming experience for a lot of people. I added that I’d bought every single one of their games up to and including TWAU, but would only consider buying more of their games when said option gets reimplemented. I asked what could possibly be the reasoning behind removing such an option from games that are all about giving the player choices, and whether there was a chance we’d see it reimplemented any time soon.

I’m sure if you’ve had any experience with any kind of online support before, you can probably guess exactly what they answered. Well, here it is in all its glory: “that feature is no longer an option in our games, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you”.

I swear, this is the last time I’m contacting any kind of online “support” about anything anymore. It’s the same generic answer every time, no matter where you go… it’s becoming a pet peeve of mine. Oh well, there’s plenty of better games/developers out there to support.

Episode Three: https://youtu.be/Q6d2EYm6KJI

Release dates: 
PC/Mac - March 24th
PS4/PS3 NA - March 24th
PS4/PS3 EU - March 25th
Xbox One - March 25th
Xbox 360 - March 25th
Android - March 26th

wilco - 23 March 2015 03:07 PM

Tommorrow already? That was fast but priority goes to Life is Strange…

hmm…I wonder if that was deliberately done…

If they had this sort of pace going on every episode (even a little hit longer would be okay), I don’t think anyone or many could complain. I know I wouldn’t that’s for sure.