Blarghagh

That's very strange. Seems like the problem is on your end, though. I've had similar problems because of antivirus or adobe plugins like adobe air. That's the next place I would look.

Have you tried using a different browser? Still not having any issues.

What game is that?

I haven't seen any issues. Did father's day stuff for most of the day, first the in-law and then my own.

Animation, sure. But for everything else with related to project management and their cycle with an eye to their timelines, eh, not sure he's an authority on that (that and him not being motivated by an agenda). Perhaps not, but as far as I remember, the representative said that they started making female avatars, but they stopped because it would take 8000 extra animations. That what it said in the OP article, anyway. The main problem was the animation, but that doesn't make sense. Male and female MoCap isn't all that different. Since the male MoCap was cleaned and optimized anyway, all they would really need to do is to alter their male rig for female character models and boom, all your MoCap works for female characters with some minor tweaking.

Are those wings on top of your helmet, or a giant moustache?

I made something for you. Feel free to use it. :D It's your new avatar. And if that's too much orange for you, here is a toned down version: Haha, thanks but no thanks.

Yeah, the problem is that Ubisoft's representatives were just complete idiots and they made this situation much worse for themselves. That former Ubisoft animator works for Naughty Dog, they have some of the highest animation standards outside of film, so I don't doubt his statement either. So Ubisoft pretty much brought this on themselves by being dishonest.

Judging from what people tell me (like I said before, I haven't played Assassins Creed so that's all I have to go on), I don't understand why it would bother people in this game since you play a specific character. It's like saying "Ripley is a woman in Aliens? Well, I want my own version of the movie where Ripley is a man!" even though it destroys the characterisation and theming. On the other hand, I clearly remember a few years ago when my girlfriend and another female friend both refused to play the original Fable because you could not play a female character. What's the point of "BE the hero!" if you can't even be your own gender? Power fantasies sorta fall flat if you can't identify with them. That's generally my rule of thumb now when it comes to whether a game should have both genders as an option. The Last Of Us, at it's thematic core, is the story of Joel and his unresolved fatherhood issues. It's the story of a character. Same for the latest Tomb Raider, it is Lara Croft's story (though I felt it was badly done). Again, the story of a specific character. However, your sandbox games, power fantasies where you're supposed to live an adventure through your customized character, etc. are simply failures by default if they don't allow both genders.

Like Elerond says, personal experience doesn't very often translate to statistical truth. Personally, I know more women gamers than men. Which bodes well for the future of gaming, since a large portion of those are game design students. On the other hand, some of them aren't, including my girlfriend (playing Diablo on her laptop next to me as we speak), my sister-in-law (who routinely wins money in DotA 2 tournaments) and my mother (who has been playing games since before I was born).

How about Uncharted? I think that series comes closer to being Tomb Raider with a male protagonist. I've never played Assassin's Creed, how important is the identity and personality of the lead? Assassin's Creed doesn't look like it is all about customization. How story and theme based is it? I think that is the key factor.

It may be hard not to get swept up into the renewed Oranje fever that swept up the country - everyone was expecting the worst but now the orange decorations have come out in full force. But I don't want to be a fair weather fan, so I'm going to continue to expect they'll choke horribly and start ninja kicking people again in desperation, just like last time.

Don't worry, I haven't been wrong so far:

Huh, I think Spain lost morale or something. They started out so well. Oranje is playing much better than I thought they would.

We're getting Mr Sinister?

I'm not sure if the rules of evolution apply in a world with gods.

You mean catnip?

Not really. Maybe this years selection is more sportsmanlike than the incarnation of Oranje in the last European Championship, but I'm not holding my breath. Still haven't decided whether or not I'm actually going to watch it.

Sounds like the referees are working hard to lobby for video support.

That's one example and does not constitute a rule, I would think. Like stated before, games like Minecraft thrived solely on word of mouth. I agree that when an AAA game is already positively anticipated, negative word of mouth tends to do little. But that does not mean word of mouth is inherently weaker than advertising. I think for a game that is focused on good gameplay rather than impressive visuals (I find PoE plenty beautiful so far, but isometric games do not lend themselves well to dramatic camera angles) good word of mouth will do a lot more than a trailer at E3. Plus, negative word of mouth these days is idle chatter. I think many people are developing a type of ad-blindness towards negativity on the internet because it's getting to the point where 90% of all comment sections anywhere are hate. Positive word of mouth becomes all the more powerful by contrast. Just my two cents, you're welcome to prove me wrong if you have more examples.

I guess its time to close the thread Are all suggestions, ideas and thoughts pointless now that the development cycle has been feature locked? It's not unheard of for developers to go back and change things if playtesting determines something doesn't play exactly right, or even after launch. If anything, this thread can still work for the beta and for ideas for the sequel or expansion, and I'm not convinced that ideas that can't be implemented right now are inherently pointless if they stand a chance to be helpful later. At the same time, many ideas posted in this thread were surface ideas, polish and graphical tweaks - not exactly full features, so feature lock doesn't really affect all of them. As such, this thread is currently remaining open.

I think this discussion has lost its original purpose since E3 is almost over with. I'm going to close it before it moves even further away from PoE discussion. If you wish to discuss the post-count system, please do so in Way Off-Topic.

I chuckled a few times, but I'm concerned that this time around everyone else seems as wacky as Harry & Lloyd. In the first movie, everyone else got caught up in their storm of idiocy and that's what made it entertaining.

Turns out I'm wrong and my contribution is an amphibian, not a reptile. My bad! My honor dictates I learn about a similarily phallic reptile now. Anyone got any ideas?

This thread thus far lacks the sexy. Therefore, here's a real snake (limbless reptile, technically) that is almost too inappropriate to post. I give you Atretochoana eiseltiis.