[quote name='blueshinra']Didn't Epic only publish that one? It was developed by someone else, right?
Anyway, Bulletstorm. I watched my husband play the demo of that the other day. It was... off-putting, for both of us. The teenage-boy version of machismo on display was just too much.
We have no problem with games appealing to the "bro" demographic, either; among other shooters, I play Halo and he plays CoD. It just seemed that Bulletstorm, at least in the demo, was trying too hard.
That laser lasso/whip weapon thing was pretty neat, though.
Sorry for the tangent
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I felt the same way with the full game, so don't feel bad. I enjoyed the gameplay, sort of, but it grew dull near the end. But the game was so reversed sexist that it sickened me to read the interview with the game producer at Epic games, Tanya Jessen.
She told a story in an interview about how she fought with the game designers over the boob size that Trishka had in the game. Trishka initially was a double D cup, but Tanya found that sexist and inappropriate, so she demanded that the cup size be lowered to be more reasonable. The fact that the only female character in the game can't be exaggerated in the game, but all of the male characters are either stereotypes or unlikeable and childish confuses me. She took offense to a woman being misrepresented, but had no problem with degrading men, with a power hungry war general who betrays his own men, a drunk who kills mercilessly and enjoys earning 'points' for it, and a loyal asian sidekick who naturally is made into a robot/cyborg, as it already compliments his personality.
There was definitely a lot wrong with that game, and the lack of success commercially supports it.