The reason that the insistence on female warrior characters is so anachronistic, is because it defies the way things function in the real world, which a setting is trying to adhere to.
Fantasy elements need to adhere to their own rules, and the conceit of games with historical fantasy is that they are a a reasonable representation of our understanding of a setting, only with fantasy elements.
So while something anachronistic in a fantasy setting doesn't unravel the fictional world, breaking the rules of the fundamental "real world" aspect does. I.E: if there was a medieval setting, but everyone had cell phones, it would break the rules of its setting, and would appear as nonsense.
This being said, women throughout history have been warriors in such few insistences, that they are statistically non existent. Throughout all of human history, the capacity in which women have been combatants is negligible, and when you fill your setting with female warriors, you fundamentally contradict the rules of the world you are emulating--you undermine the realistic pretense you are trying to present.
Furthermore, the top female athletes in the world perform at the average male level, and the average man can physically dominate 90% of all women. The implication that in history there were female warriors who were able to stand toe to toe with men, and even overpower them in a combat scenario, is completely anachronistic and destroys the pretense of your setting.
The reason that the insistence on female warrior characters is so anachronistic...
As soon as one AC thread dies, another one takes its place. Curious that is.
i am a girl and i am happy to be able to play as a girl. now shut the fuck you you mouth breather
Tits or shut the fuck up, hole
why? you aren't worth proving anything to you
>y-you can't just make a fictional story take place in a historical setting and sacrifice accuracy for entertainment value
fuck you in my homebrew german halflings build steampunk mechs powered by moonstones that they harvest with magical lasers
You know the rules.
Someone has problems with reading comprehension i see.
The fantasy aspect of a setting is beholden to separate rules from the grounded aspect.
Dragons in medieval times are different then knights who are astronauts.
Do you understand? If a setting is historical fantasy, the rules of the historic setting are what make it the setting. It's not just "random" or "anything goes"
Writing so much shit to say absultely fucking nothing.
You must be new here.
The rules are
>tits or GTFO
Are you enjoying your visit to this taiwanese crochet forum?
>This being said, women throughout history have been warriors in such few insistences, that they are statistically non existent. Throughout all of human history, the capacity in which women have been combatants is negligible
But then by that standard wouldn't it be OK to have one or two female warriors in a historical setting as then they would just be representations of a statistically negligible anomaly that did from time to time happen. I mean having like a 50/50 men and women is an egregious mistake. But a few scattered about throughout a series of games or couple as lead protagonist here and there shouldn't cause a problem, right?
You get into sketchy territory when women operate In the same capacity as men.
They should be hiding their genders, like anne bonnie, or they should be combatants in the capacity of a last stand, ora desperate measure.
If, in like ACO every other enemy is a woman, and if every game has a historic female bad ass who dominates the battlefield, you're getting into anachronistic territory.
Aren't the armies still all-male?
Its only the bandits/wildfolk, mercenaries and cultists that have females in the mix at least.
>if every game has a historic female bad ass who dominates the battlefield, you're getting into anachronistic territory.
Fair but in terms of Assassins Creed games, while yea they absolutely use historical settings as a back drop they also have shit like alien technology and the quest to acquire it guiding, influencing historical events. So in the setting of these particular games isn't history already anachronistic enough that the inclusion of female warriors is non consequential.
no i am not new here;)
im more of a fan of polynesian fishing to be quite honest
>REEEE WHY ISN'T MY SCIENCE FICTION GAME HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!?!?!?!
Female warriors make my peepee tingle
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO A FEMALE CHARACTER IN MY VIDYA ABOUT A FICTIONAL PAST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>female
>being a godlike warrior who parkours like a monkey and forest gumps their way into famous historical people and events is fine but being a woman is crossing the line of believability
Stop pussyfooting with bullshit rationalization and just say you don't want women in your game.
I get you OP, I'm ok with female warriors in fiction but people need to accept that it is a fantasy because you know a lot of the same people will argue about bikini armor being unrealistic
Don't be such a little bitch, I don't think anyone around here would be afraid of saying they don't want women in video games if that's how they felt.
Except people like OP who pretend they're worried about historical accuracy.
NOOOOOO NOT THE HISTY HISTERINO NOOOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN POOR GOODWROT NONFICTIRINO
>reading comprehension
That's not how it works, an actor in Game of Thrones tried to justify his character still being a fat fuck despite it not making sense with "there's magic in the setting" but magic was in the background, other than that the series tried to present the human aspect as realistic, there was no feed me spell in Game of Thrones. If Assassins Creed has some tech or magic that lets people ignore biological limits then I guess female warriors are fair
I noticed you're still talking, and i haven't seen any tits.
Tell you what, I'd accept a picture like this, but just this once.
Bikini armor is also really stupid in a historic fantasy setting
The problem is, its not done for any other reason then the developers feel obligated to do it. It doesn't enhance the game, and it doesn't do anything to support the setting--In fact it works against it.
female warriors were something cool because it was rare and most of the time well written. Modern days "female" warriors in media are a fucking joke and most of the time they look like dyke feminists.
You could of just said vikings are shit and overrated warriors and that would of made more sense.
There's like 12 girls that actually enjoy video games. There's no point in shoe horning in something stupid just so 12 people will get a kick out of it.
>viking
>braids, belts, fur
Fuck ubisoft