Speaking of sniper rifles, one can’t help but bring up the M24 in this conversation as well. While the power of this weapon might pale in comparison to the AWM, there’s no denying the fact that the M24 is still a useful weapon to have in a firefi
Then you have Bloodhound, the non-binary espionage expert. It’s a cool way to put a non-binary character in a AAA game, I feel, because whatever perceived “gendered” physical characteristics they might have are obscured by a gas mask and bulky clothing. Their appearance is calculated very deliberately to be genderless and ambiguous, which is a great artistic choice. Oh, and let’s talk for a second about Gibralter. Here’s this goofy and sweet beefcake who’s gay and doesn’t have some sort of sad backstory about it. He’s not cuckolded and sad like Soldier 76, whose story echoes literally every Hollywood movie ever written about gay men that’s not called Moonlight, or if he is, we don’t know about it. That’s rad as h
Realism is great and all, but the best kinds of games are the ones that say “screw it” and let you fly around without any fear of your ankles exploding. Fast-paced first-person shooters like the newer Doom games, multiplayer titles like apex E district map Legends , or superhero simulators like Marvel’s Spider-Man all feel amazing because you’re allowed to fling yourself into the air without worrying about how much damage you’ll take when your feet meet the concrete. In some cases, these games even give you a move that lets you collide with the Earth quicker to deliver a colossal ground pound. Any game that encourages you to fall even faster is an A+ in my boMany modern video games consider sensitivity issues when it comes to gender expression and identity. As the percentage of women and gender-nonconforming people in the gaming industry trends upward, it seems only natural to expect they would bring their diverse experiences to their craft.
Fall damage makes logical sense. After all, it’s possible to suffer an intense sprain or broken bone from something as simple as tripping on the sidewalk. Gravity can be one of reality’s greatest villains. So when a game is aiming to be as realistic and authentic as possible, having severe, painful consequences for a high fall is a perfectly reasonable design cho
The key to proper teamwork is learning and practising the ping system in a real battle, as it makes gameplay much more efficient and will lead to the fastest possible channel of information. Characters will call out enemies without the ping, but it busts open the limitations on unspoken informat_ Red Dead Online _ also lets players customize their characters. Instead of trying to turn my character into a cute cowgirl stereotype, I again wanted to create someone fun and unique. So, I made my character an elderly woman with rough skin and messy red hair. Again, she may not have been beautiful… but she’s certainly someone who looks like she has a story to tell.
Plus, the character designs across the board are very good. There’s no titty armor or weeaboo nonsense – every character’s outfit and physical appearance fits their role, has good glance value, follows the classic silhouette test rule , and has a cohesiveness to it that fits in the context of the universe. It’s a game that draws you into its world based on the way the characters look, instead of yanking you out of it. That’s a hard thing to accomplish, especially when it comes to a PVP free-to-play game. It takes a lot of extra effort to not just try and appeal to the lowest common denominator like certain other games that are MOBAs made by Riot Games or shooters made by Hi-Res. A
M249 is a light machine gun that players can find in the airdrops. Being an airdrop weapon, it is unique, mostly because of its insane firing rate and overall ammo-capacity. The gun carries 100 ammo in one magazBut frequently, while looking over the character selection menu, I’d encounter a small but gnawing internal conflict. As a young girl who played video games in a time when there was a dearth of female characters, I felt as though I “should” play as Princess Peach.
So developers, stop with the fall damage already. No one likes it, and even when it makes sense, it’s not something that people look forward to. And if you’re worried about players scoffing over your protagonist’s immersion-shattering gravity defiance, just add in a storyline reason for why they can land safely. Many games have come up with solid answers to this problem. In Portal , Chell wears special shoes that reduce impact. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution , Adam Jenson can acquire a special ability that creates an electromagnetic field that slows his desc
By itself, the UMP9 might not really be all that helpful a weapon, especially since it’s pretty much only useful in close quarters. However, players who pair off this long-range weapon will notice that pretty much all their bases in combat are cove
Then you have Bloodhound, the non-binary espionage expert. It’s a cool way to put a non-binary character in a AAA game, I feel, because whatever perceived “gendered” physical characteristics they might have are obscured by a gas mask and bulky clothing. Their appearance is calculated very deliberately to be genderless and ambiguous, which is a great artistic choice. Oh, and let’s talk for a second about Gibralter. Here’s this goofy and sweet beefcake who’s gay and doesn’t have some sort of sad backstory about it. He’s not cuckolded and sad like Soldier 76, whose story echoes literally every Hollywood movie ever written about gay men that’s not called Moonlight, or if he is, we don’t know about it. That’s rad as h
Realism is great and all, but the best kinds of games are the ones that say “screw it” and let you fly around without any fear of your ankles exploding. Fast-paced first-person shooters like the newer Doom games, multiplayer titles like apex E district map Legends , or superhero simulators like Marvel’s Spider-Man all feel amazing because you’re allowed to fling yourself into the air without worrying about how much damage you’ll take when your feet meet the concrete. In some cases, these games even give you a move that lets you collide with the Earth quicker to deliver a colossal ground pound. Any game that encourages you to fall even faster is an A+ in my boMany modern video games consider sensitivity issues when it comes to gender expression and identity. As the percentage of women and gender-nonconforming people in the gaming industry trends upward, it seems only natural to expect they would bring their diverse experiences to their craft.
Fall damage makes logical sense. After all, it’s possible to suffer an intense sprain or broken bone from something as simple as tripping on the sidewalk. Gravity can be one of reality’s greatest villains. So when a game is aiming to be as realistic and authentic as possible, having severe, painful consequences for a high fall is a perfectly reasonable design cho
The key to proper teamwork is learning and practising the ping system in a real battle, as it makes gameplay much more efficient and will lead to the fastest possible channel of information. Characters will call out enemies without the ping, but it busts open the limitations on unspoken informat_ Red Dead Online _ also lets players customize their characters. Instead of trying to turn my character into a cute cowgirl stereotype, I again wanted to create someone fun and unique. So, I made my character an elderly woman with rough skin and messy red hair. Again, she may not have been beautiful… but she’s certainly someone who looks like she has a story to tell.
Plus, the character designs across the board are very good. There’s no titty armor or weeaboo nonsense – every character’s outfit and physical appearance fits their role, has good glance value, follows the classic silhouette test rule , and has a cohesiveness to it that fits in the context of the universe. It’s a game that draws you into its world based on the way the characters look, instead of yanking you out of it. That’s a hard thing to accomplish, especially when it comes to a PVP free-to-play game. It takes a lot of extra effort to not just try and appeal to the lowest common denominator like certain other games that are MOBAs made by Riot Games or shooters made by Hi-Res. A
M249 is a light machine gun that players can find in the airdrops. Being an airdrop weapon, it is unique, mostly because of its insane firing rate and overall ammo-capacity. The gun carries 100 ammo in one magazBut frequently, while looking over the character selection menu, I’d encounter a small but gnawing internal conflict. As a young girl who played video games in a time when there was a dearth of female characters, I felt as though I “should” play as Princess Peach.
So developers, stop with the fall damage already. No one likes it, and even when it makes sense, it’s not something that people look forward to. And if you’re worried about players scoffing over your protagonist’s immersion-shattering gravity defiance, just add in a storyline reason for why they can land safely. Many games have come up with solid answers to this problem. In Portal , Chell wears special shoes that reduce impact. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution , Adam Jenson can acquire a special ability that creates an electromagnetic field that slows his desc
By itself, the UMP9 might not really be all that helpful a weapon, especially since it’s pretty much only useful in close quarters. However, players who pair off this long-range weapon will notice that pretty much all their bases in combat are cove