During Halo Reach we proposed occasionally seeing other Spartan NPC fighting, using the armor customization system to randomize their armor permutations.
We were told that this wasn't feasible b/c of memory (maybe true), but I suspect the real reason was that leadership wanted Noble team to feel "special" and seeing other Spartans in the game would diminish this.
One of my biggest "I wish we shipped that feature" for Reach.
Having women in the game is fine (e.g. Kat in Reach was well written). I've written women into my own games. The issue is artificial writing and lack of awareness.
It's clear that the devs needed to force more diversity into the story, so they made the new main character a girl, as if everything MUST be 50/50, evenly distributed against all logic.
Then they use the excuse of "lore" to make a poorly written character that immediately berates the player, even though it's contextually ridiculous.
The end result is a cliche girl boss telling the player how terrible they are, in a game where your (primarily) male audience is already very skeptical of forced social politics. But the devs/leads never stopped and said "Hmm, maybe the end result here is not achieving our goals of winning back our primary demographic."
It's tone deaf on top of being poorly executed. And this hurts branding, it hurts sales, and will destroy a studio's reputation (whatever's left of it anyway)
@EndymionYT no respect for trailblazers who made the road for them to follow,
no willpower to create their own thing and latch on to a IP that is already established,
highly opinionated due to same people from their safe space boosting up their ego to the stratosphere.
parasite.
@DJisForReal@EndymionYT who gives a FUCK that they put time into it? if i put 5000 hours into making a piece of shit, does that mean i should be praised and that i cant be criticized? idiot.
@stvisonfire Nah, I left the AAA shitshow for good back in 2015. Been doing indie/solo game dev ever since. Here's my latest game (coming soon) if you're interested:
https://t.co/WjvHyVRwaP