The Xbox One fiasco was under Ballmer. Another fiasco that happened under his watch (failed phones, failed pocket multimedia device) .
Nadella has been a subdued CEO. Didn't shake Microsoft much, but kept it steady, and didn't fall behind in the markets that make tons of money. Safe and steady. The wildest thing that happened under his watch was the surface line-up, but again, they are taking it very easy. 1st gen was insanely ambitious for the time, but then... that brand is really low priority for them, it seems.
My mistake, I got the timeline wrong, I though he came in sooner than 2014. Even without that fiasco I will say he has not done much to make the company expand in meaningful ways in my opinion. I do think its smart to buy up big companies under your umbrella especially profitable ones, I just think Microsoft has not done a ton of things in the last decade to make it stand out.
It can be designed and/or coded in a way that discourages people of a particular gender from playing it. For example, if women are represented in a game as nothing more than their sexual characteristics, most real women with this thing called a brain are going to be offended by that game and won't want to play it. Should be obvious...
The opposite is true as well, gamers like to play many times as ideals and should be allowed. Some people want to wear armor, some want to wear as little as possible. Not to mention alot of that is going the opposite direction.
You should really read a Jack Reacher novel sometimes - the protagonist is built like a brick shithouse yet frequently comes up against groups of bigger and stronger enemies, and he usually wins those brawls not via his own strength but by using his experience of street fighting to move quickly and decisively to take all his opponents out before they can ever hit him. Speed and skill are massive force multipliers, raw dumb muscle is only useful if you can land a blow on your opponent... if they've kicked your legs out from under you and stepped on your windpipe before you've managed to take a swing, no amount of muscle is gonna get you off the ground.
Bro is claiming to expect realism from a game about robot freaking dinosaurs. Are you even for real?
Also, LOL at "twig arms". Those are all muscle and just because Aloy hasn't been chowing down on steroids like the dude she's up against, in no way means she cannot easily beat his ass given her past experience in literally saving the world.
Meh, I think movies are more guilty of this than video games and I normally give games a pass since most worlds have different laws, physics, etc.
The simple reason for relatively few female warriors is mostly down to our patriarchal society that forced women to be little more than housewives and mothers, not because they are physically frail creatures who cannot lift a sword. There's also an open question around whether women are inherently more nurturing and cooperative, or whether millions of years of being forced to be nurturing and cooperative has cast a long shadow over human female behaviour that is only starting to be thrown off.
Thats taking a bit of a stretch. Women generally have less bone density, muscle, etc and that is just because of biology and not because they have been "forced" to be housewives. Women warriors exist and throughout history they could be some of the most deadly warriors, but on average they were not as strong and had to work significantly harder to keep up with similar men at the time. Just because Ronda Rousey could beat me into a pulp without breaking a sweat doesn't change the average. I also don't see any science that backs up that claim about being forced to be nurturing as even looking at other species shows us there is usually one parent more dominant in raising children at a young age, and in the overwhelming majority it is normally the birthing parent.
Games should allow people (Especially in games where you create your own character) to play as whatever they want to an extent. But to expect every little details of a persons life to be recreated in every game is getting ridiculous. It also depends on where the game is made as well as most companies generally tend to make games more based around things they know and have experienced in life even when working in the fantasy genre. This game we are playing where companies put that as a top priority is the issue, I also see a problem with genre's focusing on realism to try inserting these politics into the games as harming the industry as a whole.
