Darksiders 3 has a female protagonist.
That's it; gaming is on life support now.
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And apparently, she is not even wearing just a chainmail bikini!!1
Why do Gamergaters seem to think that computer games are played exclusively by incel nazis?
Back in the early days of gaming, there were plenty of girl/women gamers. Not as many as men, but enough that most of the game software companies had to make sure things weren't too female-unfriendly. They kind of wanted it that way anyhow - more potential gamers means more profits.
And then when gaming became a very profitable industry, the newer companies were mostly founded by middle-class white dudebro geeks who mostly hired their equally middle-class white dudebro geek friends. The market became flooded with stuff that mostly appealed to that type, driving away a lot of potential gamers.
It became a paradox - female-friendly (and for that matter, nonwhite-friendly) games were niche because the audience mostly wasn't there anymore, and the audience mostly wasn't there anymore because the games mostly weren't being made. It wasn't until, thanks to the internet, small independent developers showed that such things were actually a viable source of profit that the big companies started to take chances.
Now the white dudebro geeks are mad that "their" "special thing" is no longer just "theirs" or a "special thing" anymore. Sorry boys, that's just how things go sometimes.
Aliens had Ripley. Movies are on life support since 1986.
The Pretenders had Chrissie Hynde. Music on life support since 1978.
Jane Eyre... fucking 1847. How has literature even stayed alive on life support for 170 years?
You know what? I'll design a game for you. It's where you play as a burly man going to rescue an even burlier man, who was kidnapped by a yet even more burly man. There's no dialogue or deep story until the very end, just men grunting and beating the snot out of each other across several levels of a ruined city overflowing with garbage and heaps of undone laundry. They regain health by flexing or finding beer pickups. But there is a twist at the end! The reason the big bad and his army of manly men kidnapped the manliest man? They wanted to have a chance with women and blamed him as he was the last man seen with one. They though it was because his was so manly that all women are his and have been hidden away, which incidentally caused the city to become one big garbage heap since cleaning was a woman's task and a catastrophic sandwich shortage ensued which is why they're the rare health expanding game item. The kidnapped man calls that crazy, and says nobody has seen a woman in ages, not even he, the last man seen speaking to a woman before they disappeared. Then the player character turns to the screen and tells us it wasn't the fault of anyone you've seen in the game that their world has become an absolute sausage fest filled with sweaty men in dirty clothes... IT'S YOURS!
Oh for fucks...
Let's just say this guy probably isn't a fan of the series to start with. Each game so far has featured a different member of the Four Horsemen, and in this fictional universe they have ALWAYS been three men and one woman.
In this one you get to play as the girl, but it could just as easily have been Darksiders 4. You'd be a very weird person if you didn't want to play as all four members of the FOUR HORSEMEN!
Also, be happy there's going to be a Darksiders 3 to begin with. When THQ went belly up the entire series could have died with it.
Now if we could just get another good Destroy All Humans game...
You're an idiot. Female protagonists have existed in games for nearly as long as games themselves have existed. As mentioned by others, Samus Aran is a particularly badass example, having foiled multiple nefarious plots and destroyed several planets. Single-handedly.
Compared to her, you and your precious macho Horsemen are nothing.
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