A greatly dramatized version of Ubisoft’s super-fun development choices.
It’s 2014, y’all. I can create robot ladies in Destiny. You can wear both genders’ clothing in the Saints Row games. Y’all had playable female characters in your multiplayer and you’re telling me now it’s too much work? For the protagonist of your story? On your dev team of several hundreds of people with nine studios working on it?
Ok. Sure, man.
Ok but please don’t put blame on the animators for this. All they do is animate what they’re told to. If they went back to their superior saying “this is too hard I don’t wanna”, they’ll be fired for sure. This comic should instead be about the top dogs at the studios. They’re the ones that ultimately determine what will be in the game.
Animators are so soooo far down the pipeline their opinion on girls would never matter in the grand scheme of a game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin’s_Creed_III:_Liberation
(I’ve actually bookmarked this link because I’ve had to use is so often)