(12-13-2024, 12:02 PM)PogiJones wrote:(12-13-2024, 04:26 AM)Boredfrom wrote: You know why Star Lord worked in Guardians? Because he was a manchild mercenary loser that was kidnapped by space pirates as a kid, his pop music mix tape connected him with her mother and the father he never met until that point. He becomes sympathetic because he team ups with other sympathetic weirdos and losers.
Yeah, and also, I'm gonna say something crazy here: Men and women are generally different. Some things that are attractive for one are not attractive for the other. Boobs are attractive on women; they are not attractive on men. Huge, square shoulders are attractive on men; they're not attractive on women. This extends beyond just physical traits, as it's true for personality traits as well. Men like Han Solo can act like dicks and still have charisma, which both men and women like. That's a lot harder for women. OTOH, women can act soft even while being assertive, which again is endearing to both men and women; for a man, acting soft often comes off as weak and limp-dicked.
I know it's fashionable to pretend all differences are cultural (which is obviously not true), but even if they are, that's still a description of our current reality. Men and women are different, and women acting like dicks just does not get as much endearment as when it's a charismatic man, and likewise, a soft man doesn't get as much love as a soft woman. People can complain about reality all they want, but that is reality.
re-conceptualizing this game from the ground up, keeping this idea in mind:
the girl should essentially be kaylee from firefly who literally everyone loves. the ship is run by a boisterous, loudmouthed, obnoxious crew, mix of zapp brannigan and guardians of the galaxy. the girl is just the long-suffering, abused janitor, we see her covered in grease stains and performing the sci-fi equivalent of sweeping with a broom. cinderella story.
trailer starts with this crew being all "captains log: we've run into some bad motherfuckers but it's nothing we can't handle," and they're joking and laughing. sweeping girl bumps something, says "oops," gets yelled at, they call her a drag and tell her to get out of the way. we get a whole scene where we THINK these idiots are the Concord protagonists...but then an alien entity beams aboard and vaporizes all of them into a pile of ash. janitor girl who was shunted to the back of the ship narrowly avoids this, and when the alien leaves she's like "ohgodohgod what do I dooo," she runs to the front and starts punching buttons, and takes off into hyperspace, now on her own with her own ship, free to do whatever adventure is demanded of her
or hell, maybe the alien finds her but doesn't kill her because he needs someone to operate the ship for him, and the two slowly manage to bond over the course of the game (the idiot crew he killed were jerks anyway, we find out she was a child slave sold to them, so better off with a murderous alien with a secret heart of gold than them)
just spitballing here