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Yahtzee talks about how writers for AAA games don't seem to know how to write complex and nuanced female characters and instead resort to brutalising and victimising their female protagonists to give them depth and how the violence they're subjected to is framed differently compared to violence that's done to male characters

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[โ€“] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I forgot the funniest part being that those third-person PS1 Duke Nukem games are huge Tomb Raider ripoffs, shamelessly copying the control scheme and gameplay