Sorry for posting roachman, but this guy using leftist speak to try and paint chuds as oppressed is the funniest shit to me.
Women have always been in the gaming industry, they were just ignored for the most part.
Video games were marketed as boys toys in the past, but even then girls played them and never had a problem playing as a male character.
If you can relate to a cartoon plumber that says mama mia and wahoo, but can’t relate to a women, I am deeply concerned for you. You don’t even have to relate to the main character to enjoy the game. I don’t relate to Kris Deltarune in the slightest, but I still enjoy the shit out of those games.
We can actually blame Shenmue 1 for creating QTEs (or at least coming up with the term specifically), and it came out a full 5 years earlier. GoW was just riding the trend imo; Resident Evil 4 came out the same year and already had QTEs, for instance.
Huh, I never knew that. Would you say GoW popularized it though?
Don’t know, it’s hard to say. We could look at stuff like sales numbers (it did okay but not in the top 10 for 2005 going by wikipedia) but that doesn’t say much about how other game devs were being influenced by it.
I think it’s most likely that it helped perpetuate the trend but it didn’t start it, nor was it the main driving factor.
Absolutely. Shenmue was a lot less popular. It sold, but not god of war level