Absolutely! (Destiny)

by Quirel, Monday, September 28, 2015, 05:09 (3389 days ago) @ narcogen

Let's see here, how does the quote system work?

Not necessarily. However what harm would have there have been in making two out of three of them female instead of the other way around?

"We at Bungie would like to apologize to our fans. Our recent conduct has been blatantly unprofessional and unfair to the people who have supported us for twenty plus years. We promise to do better. In the future, the gender of our characters will be determined by a random number generator. We hope that this will prove sufficiently fair, or something like that."

It is important, but not sufficient. Bungie is far, far from the worst in this category. That doesn't make everything about Destiny's portrayals good, or make them immune from any and all criticism.

If that's the way you feel, go make your own game and show us how it's done. Or go direct a movie, or write a book, or scribe a comic.

Numbers do matter. If we had no or few capable or influential female characters in Destiny it might be time to take a closeer look at why. But we do have them. Several in fact. So yes, there appears to be a few less named female characters in Destiny, but not so few as to be a serious concern, in my opinon. But their treatment? Their portrayal? The things that I would submit are far more important that an exact balance of numbers? I think Bungie is doing just fine.

Bungie is doing better than most, but again, that doesn't mean that no criticisms are valid.

Doesn't mean that your criticism is valid either.