Lost Planet 2 "The Final Episode" trailer

Um, holy shit.

Holy shit is right. From everything I'd read previously, you were just a four man team of NEVEC grunts. Now it turns out you're going to play as a team that will defect and lead all snow pirates against NEVEC and the Akrid. Damn.

It's Western and Japanese, fully melded at last.

One thing I hope is, Wayne and his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits must return in some capacity. If only just referenced by name without actually appearing, I want to know that they are still alive, fighting the good fight.

Lady Pirates. Seems like you do switch protagonists after all.

^They would have to do a hell of a lot to regain my interest in the game after that trailer.

Ugh.

What's wrong with it?

Completely kills any suspension of disbelief given the setting and is objectifying as all hell?

edited 25th Apr '10 9:58:04 AM by Miijhal

How do you know its objectifying? You desperately need to see the film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! before you define "objectify".

-facepalm-

That's not how it works. That really isn't. The entire video is about showing off scantily clad women to be eye candy for the male audience of the game. That is what is called 'objectifying'.

I'm not playing a game in which I feel like a bloody sex toy. I'm not playing a game in which my character is wank material.

edited 25th Apr '10 11:50:54 AM by Miijhal

Is it objectification if said women are untouchable and unachieveable? Feminists who decried Russ Meyer have discovered his films are female empowerment.

Take away all the jokes, the elaborate camera angles, the violence, the action and the sex, and what remains is the quintessential Russ Meyer image: a towering woman with enormous breasts, who dominates all the men around her, demands sexual satisfaction and casts off men in the same way that, in mainstream sexual fantasies, men cast aside women.

Meyer's extraordinary women are of course fascinating to those with breast fetishes, but look a little longer and you will notice that the breasts are not always presented as centers of desire.

Instead, they're weapons used to intimidate men. Tura Satana, who plays the lead in "Faster, Pussycat," is extraordinary in appearance: Her makeup, with its slashes of Kabuki-style eyebrows, looks terrifying. Her black costume seems suited to a motorcycle gang. She never smiles. And her abundant cleavage seems as firmly locked in place as a Ninja Turtle's breastplate. One cannot think of her as fondleable.

What deep recesses of the psyche do these images address? The feminist and lesbian film critic B. Ruby Rich, writing at length on "Pussycat" in a recent Village Voice, said she dismissed "Pussycat" 20 years ago as just a skin flick. Seeing it again during its revival at New York's Film Forum, she had a different reaction, viewing it now as female fantasy, its images of "empowerment" fascinating to her. Meyer, from the beginning of his career and almost without exception, has filmed only situations in which women wreak their will upon men.

I've never once bought the 'it's not objectification, it's empowerment' argument. Especially not in gaming.

This isn't meant to empower women. It's meant to be eyecandy for men to get off on. That's not empowerment. That's making women into objects for the sexual gratification of men. And it's not like that's not done enough in the gaming industry.

edited 25th Apr '10 4:10:24 PM by Miijhal

Mandatory install on the PS 3 version (4.62 GB)

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/05/07/lost-planet-2-has-a-mandatory-install-on-ps3/

I would say it's empowering if said scantily-clad babe just took down a forty meter tall monster.