kotaku.com — When future generations of gamers look back on this period of growth and advancement in our medium, will they be able to tell one military shooter, space adventure or dungeon crawler from another? Probably not.
Aug 31, 2009 View in Crawl 4
redknightalexAug 31, 2009
"We regularly have white male generic space marine characters as protagonists."Reminds me of Mass Effect and the continued emphasis placed on the Male Shepard, so much so that some people forget that you can also play as a female Shepard. I for one would love to see more video games that offer a choice like this (especially in the FPSs genre). Women, and people of other ethnicities, also play video games and, guess what, sometimes we just don't want to be playing as a white male!
thehadestimesSep 9, 2009
Essentially, I've been frustrated with the narrowness of our culture and the way we repeat the same conversations over and over; the way we point vigorously to the same handful of titles to prove we're making progress, the sameness of blockbuster games -- and most frustrating of all, the virulent unwillingness so much of the core gaming audience seems to possess toward change.I've been frustrated with developers and publishers, too -- I have had enough Tolkien, Star Wars and comic book derivatives to last me my whole life. I see us living in an echo chamber, creating both products and a culture around those products that are of interest only to us, and that stand no chance of breaking out of the feedback loop of insularity that prevents games from getting the respect they deserve alongside other media. We're supposed to inherit the future, not remain a niche. So AWESOME! Please Leigh write more stuff like this! Its GOLD!