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Part 2 of the tropes vs. women in video games is up, for people who are interested but haven't been subscribed or antyhing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toa_vH6xGqs


Part one is over here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q

sweet

i hope she doesn't take 3 months between every video

I'm finding Game Boy Colour's Link's Awakening really engaging on my 3DS (and now finding the Xbox 360 and upcoming Xbox One a bit tired). The Nintendo 3DS is turning out better than I expected, though I wonder what the next DS variant will be like (a high powered Nintendo tablet that could connect to the TV if the Wii U turns out to be a comparative failure after the current console war peaks?).

So I started playing Max Payne 3 the other day. And while the monologuing and tone remain about the same, could they have made it any more clunkier?

Max just sort of saunters about the place at a snails pace and they've introduced those banes of modern games. use of cover and max only being able to carry a 'realistic amount of weapons' to whit to handguns and shotgun/rifle.

Bullshit. I don't wamt to have to hit next to something and pop awy at random using the autoaim. I want to be able to run at a group of enemies leap in slow mo and drench them in buckshot please.

then play more aggressively

Do it then, the game allows for it.

the number of time i've dropped dead already trying kinda speak otherwise, at least for me.

l2p noob

Well... yeah, basically.

You can play low and slow as much as you like, or guns blazing if you've got good awareness and you aren't dumb about it.

MP1 and 2 punished you constantly for just leaping into a crossfire, and MP3 is no different in that regard.

so any advice beyond 'be better'?

Be less worse ?

why did i not think of that?

Happy to be of service.

(I've never played any Max Payne game)

Crazedwraith wrote: why did i not think of that?

because your brain is stupid

Don't leap into crossfires

check your corners

Don't shoot unless you're sure you're gonna hit

Aim to land behind cover from a dive, you're most vulnerable when you're standing up

Keep something big and flat behind you so it's harder to get flanked

Scour every nook and cranny for painkillers

Trade guns often, finding ammo for your favorite kit is gonna be frustrating

you forgot the most important piece of advice when it comes to max payne:

make sure you're always listening to Late Goodbye

http://youtube.com/watch?v=atKv1JyQgV8

HEALTH is acceptable as well. There's a music cue near the end of the game that made me go from huddling and conserving ammo to storming down the corridors in constant leaping-flight.

Really Microsoft? Really?

It may be because I have a hard actually understanding what they're saying, but... what's the rape joke here ?

Yeah that's a shit quality video. What happened was at their E3 demonstration, Microsoft brought 2 people out to demonstrate the new Killer Instinct game. One was a man, the other a woman. The woman was doing poorly, because you know women creatures can't play games and all that, and at one point when the Man is winning, he says "Shh, just let it happen. It'll be over soon."

That's what I guessed.

I'm... not sure about that one. Chalk that one up on English not being my native language, but does that really sound like a rape joke ? I thought it was more of a "death will soon release you of your misery" kind of joke.

It's the "let it happen" that seals it. If it were just "it'll be over soon" that might be ambiguous, though the tone seems to lean towards the other way, but that first bit combined with the common use of "to rape" for "to defeat soundly" lets its real meaning show.

It's ambiguous that the guy's probably gonna get off with an apology that we misinterpreted him and were offended, and it's going to be defended against the obviously overreacting internet feminists who are probably on their periods am i right lol, but it's pretty clear.

I honestly don't think you're going to see anyone defending it just because he said it to an actual woman. If it were just two dudes talking shit to each other it'd be no different than any other multiplayer gaming session ever. Shit you should've heard some of the crap we were yelling at each other at the LAN I went to last Sunday.

But I think even the douchiest gamer would agree that making a rape joke to a woman, especially one who's obviously not well-versed in "gamer" culture, is crossing the fucking line.

Well if it hadn't be for the title 'e3 rape joke' on the video i probably wouldn't have caught that at all and even have i had my mind would have jumped to 'that was some unfortunately phrasing' rather than 'intentional rape joke'

But if rape jokes are actually a thing in 'gamer culture' then... urgh.

Well, if you followed it a while back,

when Stark, Ando, Aaron and others talked about Battlefield's multiplayer, the expression "chopper rape" came back often.

Until someone (I don't remember who) pointed out the problem and the expression ceased to be used.

But yeah, anyway, apparently rape jokes are extremely common in the context of multiplayer gaming.