why, why should not having females be required? By whose standards? Is inclusiveness -really- that detrimental to your immersion but having an enemy unload on you and not kill you or being healed by a health pack isn't?
Who wins in this situation? Is a game really unplayable if there's no female US soldiers - which is accurate to history? I don't see the point of changing things just to 'include' people when the reality was quite different. You can't just pretend that the situations didn't exist by trying to edit history.
you're not editing history. It's a video game, it's not real life or a historical account.
Like I said, not every game HAS to have females, but the excuse that it is not historically accurate is a flimsy one. There's a lot more blatant problems with these games that I would call out before I would question a female being on the American side and what have you.
It is a videogame based on a historical period. You cannot dictate how realistic it can or cannot be.
No, I can't dictate anything to game designers. I am not their boss. But I don't see how that's relevant. Urist has as much of a right to dictate as I do, neither of us has that power. We can express our opinions on the matter however.
Yes but lets just say it this way. You are saying that because it is a videogame it isn't beholden to any sort of realism it injects into its universe because it ultimately is just a game.
It is basically saying that the artistic intent of videogames is pointless.
how is me saying this any different from Urist saying the opposite?
You guys need to step back and consider that you are holding my end to a expectation you do not hold to the other end.
Snarky comments by some men in this thread have been met with indifference, but if I respond back sarcastically, I get chastised.
Saying a game can't be realistic if it includes women versus saying including women isn't a crime against realism, both are "dictatorial" of the games, but that expression is somewhat hyperbolic. I have no control over what game designers do. Expressing my opinion is not dictating anything.
It's like saying because I am criticizing a game I am "censoring" it. That is not how it works.