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Red vs Blue Roleplay?

Sure, I can get into something like this.

So as with any RP I find in the General section though I need to ask, RP level?
Free, Causal, Advanced?

feminist roleplaying

idlehands said
In the Middle Ages they were expected to resist sexual advances by anyone other than their husbands. I don't think being called a prude was something to worry about but the opposite. If they were open about their sexuality they could end up being labeled a loose woman all the way up to being forced into a priory or even called a witch.

Yes, but this is the same time era where the pillage of towns and the rape of woman were fully acceptable act's culturally.
It's not hard to imagine a man may act entitled to a woman's body.

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My roommate: Let's call her "Henry"

Kaga said She can't be. She shops at them too much, from what I've heard... :/

Maybe she plans to get you a gift then.

Kaga said Also, remember this? She also uses the term "AK-47" as slang for "penis" and "grenade" to mean "vagina". ...Does say that?

CoD Players?

Zoe Quinn.

Sable said Part of this is the interactive aspect to it. A movie is something you experience, a game is usually something you win, or for which there are victory conditions and points and so on and so forth.

Have you ever played To The Moon? The Walking Dead?

Those are not games with things to 'win'. The closest you got is...

To The Moon: Fulfilling a dying mans dream to experience landing on the moon before dying, while repairing his love life.
The Walking Dead: To protect a young girl named Clementine and watch her grow up, see the horrors of survival come out the other side stronger for it, but hopefully still caring and compassionate.

Sable said It's not the content, it's the fact that the medium is a video game, something you play.

A more accurate term would be "Interact".
You Interact with the world, you interact with the environment, you interact with the characters.

You experience it, you make choices. That's the power that Video Games have that Movies and Books don't, interaction.

Sable said On top of that, it's called a video game. A game. Does the Holocaust sound like a fun game to you? No, and the public would be outraged. Don't act like it's some sort of injustice that the industry's name makes it sound trivial.

And this is exactly the "Not respected as an art form" thing I was referring to. You're choosing to downplay it as a game, rather than see it as an art form.
As a result you are getting offended by the topic being in a Video Game, rather than being able to enjoy it like a movie based on the same topic.

For example, let's look at TV Shows. Keyword: Show.

Does the Holocaust sound like a fun show to you? No, and the public would be outraged. Don't act like it's some sort of injustice that the industry's name makes it sound trivial.

feminist roleplaying

Depends on the definition of feminism.

-If you mean third-wave, as in the belief/idea that women are always discriminated against, men suck *yadda yadda probably the shit you said you didn't want to debate about*.
I simply don't mention it. I have enough anger/frustration dealing with such people in the real world, I don't want such things also infecting the Fantasy escape I have.

-If you mean the goal of Gender Equality (Basically 1st wave feminism), I normally don't address it. In most worlds/RP's I'm in men and women are already seen as equals, no judgements made so it just doesn't become an issue. So no woman character of mine ever goes around acting like they need to 'prove' anything against men. Men are people, women are people, we're all people.

The only time the topic of feminism may come up is if say I'm writing a Villain and to get across he's a villain I may give him a trait such as "Claims young women as his own property to 'play' with as he wills". Usually it's not a sex specific trait, but some characteristic seen as cruel/evil to help get across that this is an evil dude.

That or it's to fit the setting, such as say a Medieval land. Women are still expected to stay in the house, provide for their husbands, if they resist sexual advances they're called a prude etc.
Mainly as a literary device to get across that this is not a nice world.

Zoe Quinn.

Sable said As for more freedoms for the industry, you're pulling that out of your misinformed ass.

Actually no.

Let's look at a topic or theme such as say... The Holocaust.
A horrid event where millions of people were systematically rounded up, worked and killed simply for their race, religion, sexuality or mental disorder.

We have people alive today who are survivors of such an event, it is a sensitive topic to many people. But we have many books and movies based on it, books and movies are allowed to be made about such topics because they are respected as forms of art. But what would happen if a Video Game tried? People would outrage, they'd attack the field for claiming it's making a 'game' or joke out of a seriously matter. Trivializing it to joysticks, and button presses.

But if Video Games were seen and respected as another art form then it wouldn't have such scrutiny, it could tackle those sensitive topics the the same way Movies and Books could.

My roommate: Let's call her "Henry"

Is she scared of Thrift stores? :/

10 Favourite Games?

Interesting picks. Though it dawns on me I probably should have also done a list based on how game's personally affected me.
My OP list was simply based on how fun I found them to be as games, and how strong a narrative they may have had. In other words, trying to take personal bias of "It did this for me, therefore I think it's one of the best games".

Anyways, list if the criteria is how it affected me personally.

10. Phantasy Star Universe

Why

This was the first Console MMO I ever touched that I stayed on for more than a few minutes.
It's a word where I oddly have little words to say, but a lot of feeling as to why it's good. It just all played... right.
You had your player home to customize, your appearance was never dictated by your gear or loot drops.
It was very user friendly so meeting friends, socializing, making groups etc. was incredibly easy.
It had no kind of grinding feature that took you away from the game, while most MMO's you may go "I need to do this for a few hours for this loot" you don't get that.
There is no easy sink, your fastest way to level and progress is simply to play the game naturally over time. And all the dungeons have low level and high level versions, so you never had to grind to X level before being to do Y mission.

The only real issue I have is the dungeons never seemed to encourage any strong tactics or inner party play, it was fairly easy to just stream through. But then again, that may have been on purpose. Cause if they truly were that challenging you'd get tons of players waiting around for 30+ minutes waiting for the right class mix up to show up... and that wouldn't of ended well.

9. Spore

Why

Now, this was a game where my initial playthrough is "OMG this is so cool!" but every future one is "Meh, eh... This kinda sucks".

It became a huge let down at space stage, hell creature stage is my favourite so I drag that shit on as long as possible. What puts it on the list is quite simply it gave me something new. It let me customize so many things, I could let my imagination pretty much run wild. And I know the obvious answer to this is going to be "Minecraft!", which is true. But Spore also gave me a feeling of leading an entire race and civilization while customizing everything in it. Minecraft doesn't give me that sense of power, I'm simply a super steve who punches tree's and makes giant forts.

8. Fallout 3

Why

My first real open world experience that could really keep me engaged. I loved the theme, the wasteland, the guns, the plot.

This was a game I sank so many hours into, it basically was my version of Skyrim as a kid.
Now as I got older New Vegas came out, and I personally find it to have a better world and mechanics (hence in OP list it's ranked higher), but it was Fallout 3 that first threw me into that type of game and gave me a real taste for it.

7. Dark Souls

Why

Challenge!

Anger, pain and challenge! Dark Souls was the first game I played that wasn't simply hard for the sake of being hard. It was hard but fair, and at the same time provided some realism so shit isn't 100% fair. Such as magic is ultimately going to be more powerful than a sword with the right training, players with more initiative and cleverness will get better items than you earlier, and their hard work is reflected in that gear. But ever change those players got, you get too so it's not a one sided system for veterans.

It's a game where once you know what you're doing it's not that much harder than any other game... But if you're not that sure... Then you're in shit, and the game doesn't show mercy. It was the first legit challenging game I touched (Other than XCOM) that actually felt fair and reasonable about it.

6. Wolfenstein 3D

Why

This one's damn easy, it was my first game. Ever.
That's it, as a five year old my Dad thought it was a good idea to have me shooting Nazis.
So I was introduced to video games, as a five year old, shooting Nazis.

5. XCOM Enemy Unknown

Why

This was my true first taste into a challenging game, but in a different sense than Dark Souls.
Dark Souls was always hard at the moment, but XCOM was always fairly easy and forgiving... Until your mistakes add up...

Then it takes off it's innocent front and delivers alien cruelty onto you.
Made a mis-call with where to place your guy? Dead.
Didn't focus on weapon research... Well you couldn't kill that Beserker in time.
Focused on too few soldiers? Oh look, here's a bad mission, enjoy your campaign reset.

Needless to say, this game is meant to be played with Ironman on.
I just wish it wasn't so cruel as to warrant say a complete restart after one really bad mission.
Which, the Long War mod helps address... but it makes up for it with far more challenges.

4. The Walking Dead Series

Why

Quite simply it's a narrative masterpiece.
The ending of season 2 truly sent it home, this is a game that was able to engage me completely on it's story.
And it's almost complete lack of gameplay never felt like a burden.

3. Halo 3

Why

It's story, passable, but enjoyable.
It's Multiplayer? Custom Games + Forge = Social Godsend.

This was the game that got me exposed to the online community, that turned my gaming hobby from being a solo hobby to a group hobby.
If not for this game, I wouldn't have been nearly as eager to enter the Xbox LIVE community, and ultimately the gaming online community as a whole.
And to this day it carries great memories that I joke about with friends who were there.

2. Kotor 1

Why

My first exposure to a video game that held a strong compelling Narrative.

This was the game that turned my gaming hobby from a minor pass time into almost a full-time investment.
It's also the game I attribute to me being such a big Star Wars fan, the movies were always good. But the narrative? Eh.

Kotor is what really grabbed me and dragged me into the Star Wars Universe. Really got me invested in the lore, and got me invested into Games.
Because now games weren't just a simple pass time, games had proven themselves to be narrative masterpieces.

Fun Fact: It was my strong interest in Star Wars that start a chaining of events ultimately leading me to the RP Guild. If not for Kotor I may have never joined the Guild.

1. Mass Effect Trilogy

Why

This was a game I picked up on the fly as a 12 year old, because it was advertised to me as a mix of my two favourite games at the time. Halo and Kotor.
What I got far surpassed them both.

Although today I admit Walking Dead has an even stronger narrative, it was Mass Effects narrative that drew me in to such an extreme point that Kotor didn't compare.
If Kotor is what got me heavily invested in gaming, Mass Effect was what kept me stuck to gaming... for life.

It is also here because the trilogy slowly released from when I was 12 to 18. It was the my #1 video game for all of my teenage years basically, never had a competitor until Walking Dead.
Mass Effect, and Mass Effect alone is what stood as the prime example of gaming and narrative to me growing up. In that sense, it has impacted me more than any other game has ever done.