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I am...completely floored by this Let's Try/Let's Play to the point where I am nearly in tears of frustration.

You're requesting to skip scenes during your first/second playthrough of a plot-focused game. And despite the fact the game does want you to read the text, because it's a role playing game with a plot focus, you didn't do that, and some how managed to entirely miss several really important points.

You have a flashlight. It is in your Key Items. You are literally told by Levi to turn on your flashlight before entering the darker area of the game. You skipped this text.
You are told entering the last room where you died repeatedly to avoid the encounters. Turn off your flashlight so they can't see you. The torch is mentioned in that dialogue. And you are told to avoid them. That is why it is hard. You are not supposed to be fighting those enemies.

Somehow you died and still managed to miss both these indicators in your effort to rush through the game. The ATB is at a speed where its is at least 4x faster than the average beginning of a Final Fantasy game, as is the movement speed, and you're requesting I speed things up. Along with multiple instances of your critique being entirely personal preference.

If you are going to play a game and give it critique in an effort to get makerscore play the game properly. This is an RPG. If you are going to skip over texts during a section that is effectively a tutorial and an introduction to the plot you deserved to die repeatedly. I'm not making a game to cater to speedrushing through initial playthroughs nor am I making a game to cater to your personal wants in an RPG.

Play the game properly or don't play it at all.

And before I get told off for not taking critique well- I take good critique well. Majority of your complaints in this playthrough were either personal or based on the fact you were rushing through the game and not bothering to read the text in an effort to finish as fast as possible. This is not good critique because it's effectively baseless. I have nothing to work from here and I have a Media submission asking me to fix something that isn't broken.

wah fuck really?

*checks demo*

god fuckin-- i forgot the battlebacks.

yes, totally a hate movement, because the feminist movement was created to harass gamergaters and men in general and not from the fact that women couldn't vote at one point along with the copious other rights violations that women have suffered over the course of human history and not just in the 21st century

yep
feminism is a hate movement

(and i am now exiting this thread)

I was attempting to address this thread as a whole, but-

it is relevant in that the women contributing to the discussion are receiving death and rape threats. Over what is supposed to be an issue of game's journalism, and the argument that feminism is a non-issue.

You can't argue that women aren't raised differently to men, or a majority aren't. Deriding the statement as untrue may be related to your experiences, but I am certain beyond belief my life would have been very different if I was a boy and not a girl. My issues, wants, and needs were seen as less important than my brother's. There is legitimate studies into the way we are conditioned that proves that teachers will give more time to the males to speak, even when deliberately trying to give even amounts of attention. It is an ingrained class structure.

The point I was making in regards to the difference in development is that if, god forbid, you look at the comments of any of those studies, people are still stating games is men's territory, women don't want to make games. The reality contradicts this. My degree was an even 50/50 split. I know that games is an equal territory. But movements like GamerGate are stating that feminism has no place, when feminism is the concept that would bring to light the difference in pay and how women are deliberately not hired for certain jobs, especially programming.

And yes, I do feel my fear is necessary. I live in Australia, which is by all standards 'first world'. As I said, when I was walking home alone I was stopped by a van. I have been cat called, leered at, touched inappropriately, and I am a reclusive person who does not go out clubbing or dress provocatively. It is much, much worse for people like my sister, or her friends, who are much more inclined to want a night out. Stating that rape culture is not a real thing does not mean it is not a real thing in the western world. It is not an open, obvious thing. It is an insidious, read-between-the-lines culture, whereas arguing that a person was dressed in a way that inspired them to commit the crime is considered a defense, not a confession and that women are taught don't get raped rather than men being taught not to do so. The 'don't get raped' means that someone else will. A girl who was a bit more drunk, a bit less careful, had a few less friends.

But getting this far into it is off-topic, but in that sense this movement comes from the idea that the journalism discussing feminism is not a real issue. It's something called Lewis's law. "Comments on any article about feminism justify feminism."
The comments on any article discussing the place of women in the game's industry pretty much proves that feminism needs to be discussed within the commentary on said industry, and GamerGate trying to put a halt to that is going to continue creating a toxic environment for women who would otherwise want to be a part of games.

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