faetal on 20/2/2014 at 14:19

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My comment was mainly just a wry dig at the juxtaposition of a playable pig being on the cards because they've already featured a playable woman. Just the way it was written made that sound like it was some kind of ground-breaking feature.

LoLion on 20/2/2014 at 15:01

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I know! My original post was written as tongue-in-the-cheek comment and was supposed to come off that way.

As for the playable female character being introduced it actually is kind of a ground breaking feature when seen in the perspective of the KC:D´s development. I am a backer and I followed the kickstarter discussions quite closely from the start – Dan Vávra originally made it very clear that there will not be a playable female protagonist due to realism being a priority.

However lots of people (mainly from the US I would imagine) started to make an issue out of that, even making silly arguments like “B-but there was Joan of Arc! How can you say there were no female knights in medieval?????” or just yelling “I am not gonna buy this coz OMG SEXISM!!!!” Vávra eventually gave in to the pressure and introduced a playable female character for the tutorial as stretch goal to kind of appease this vocal minority.

Hence I thought that if people bitch loudly enough and pour in sufficient amount of money they could possibly get a playable pig in the same way. After all there will be a possibility to hunt wild animals including boars, so I guess that having some kind of a mini game/mod where you play as a pig/boar/dear/other animal and try to escape a group of hunters would not be as unreasonable as it may sound at the first glance.

LoLion on 20/2/2014 at 15:12

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Actually she is going to be a peasant woman with massive cleavage who will be completely harmless against acutall fighters and hence will rely on stealth... definitely adorable though :thumb:

You can see her in the 1 hour long gameplay video right at the start - the one sitting on the bad that the main protagonist wakes up on.

DDL on 20/2/2014 at 16:45

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I always quite liked M&B's approach.

"Yes, you can play a female character, but it's still a man's world coz REALISM so...fucking deal with it, I guess."


Sort of...unapologetically sexist, but still giving you the option to play female characters so you can actually experience the sexism in person, rather than simply whitewashing it all away as a non-issue.

Hence all the bits where you say you wish to become ruler of a nation and they respond with (paraphrasing)

"HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA o god. No but seriously, you're not bad with a sword, so perhaps you'd consider helping this man over here become king?"

EvaUnit02 on 20/2/2014 at 22:27

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*dethtoll cancels pre-order*
"mafia game director? maybe. even more senior mafia developers? straw that broke the camel's back"