All-Star Games Industry Panel Cancelled at Last Hour For Not Including Women

[mcveteran81]

It seems like a lot of women simply cannot handle the fact that men just might be better at some things then women. Instead of admitting this fact, they cry misogyny and try to shut men down.

/looks around first before posting. Cool wife is out of sight.

Sounds like you just described modern marriage.

 

[milliniar]

Jade Raymond and Amy Hennig only females I can name that could be loosely labeled as legends.

Edit after a better look they would be legends more than most of those guys a and involved in more mainstream AAA games....

 

[Rod1]

 

[dr_hellno]

Some poor secretary is surely drinking Jack by the quart right now after performing the miracle of managing to secure & fly in those guys to be in the same room together... only to see it flushed down the shitter hours out due to a Harper/Quinn brigade (TM).

I hope none of them agrees to be on the "rescheduled" panel.

If it's of any encouragement, both the male AND female USC students are going apeshit.

 

[jemimaman]

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[LucasWithLidOff]

Roberta Williams, creator of King's Quest, is the only one who comes to mind.... But that's pretty old school.

Hell yeah! Her games were a huge part of my elementary school years. I preferred that over Nintendo.

 

[superpunch]

Isnt the video games industry like 10:1 male:female? How the fuck did they get their games program 50:50?

 

[ehtheist]

I'm sure graduating students 200k in the hole are frothing at the bit to bring Roberta Williams coffee while she sets up a Kickstarter to remaster King's Quest 5.

Edit: Hah, Rex kinda beat me to the punch.

To be fair, the question was concerning "legends of the game industry" and she is without a doubt that. So really, your response to me isn't really dealing with the question I was answering. Hell, as is evidenced by this thread, a good number of people here were probably playing her games alongside gold box D&D and being eaten by Grues. Maybe, just maybe, she's a legend and therefore she's worth bringing up when asked about legends?

Besides, I have a friend in his 30's who is actually in the game industry and the guy would pay good money to spend time listening to George Broussard talk about gaming and that guy isn't *that* much less dated than Williams. I think you might be surprised at how many young game makers to be might be interested in hearing some of the old legends of the gaming industry talk...

And yeah, @Rex Kwon Do , I was big into Kings Quest as a kid. Though, I was more starting at the time of games like Eye of the Beholder, Darklands, Shadows of Yserbius... King's Quest 5 was the first I played and then I went back to play them all. Actually kind of idolized Williams when I was little.

 

[superpunch]

So, these people could get MLK and Malcolm X into a Legends of Civil Rights conference, and this college would shut it down for sexism and diversity?

Or would that could be cool because black people are also a protected diversity class with more rights than Asian and white males? Lol

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

And yeah, @Rex Kwon Do , I was big into Kings Quest as a kid. Though, I was more starting at the time of games like Eye of the Beholder, Darklands, Shadows of Yserbius... King's Quest 5 was the first I played and then I went back to play them all. Actually kind of idolized Williams when I was little.

That's cool. The first game I really played for PC was QFG1/HQ1, though it was already dated by the time I was playing it. I was just a kid and that was the only game we had on the crappy PC my dad snagged second-hand from somewhere. I loved it, though I didn't actually play any KQ games until a few years later when I came across KQ7 (which was also a few years old by that point), which thoroughly impressed me. After that I went back and played the old games starting with KQ1.

Now I want to play KQ7 for the nostalgia. Such a memorable game.

 

[dr_hellno]

To be fair, the question was concerning "legends of the game industry" and she is without a doubt that. So really, your response to me isn't really dealing with the question I was answering. Hell, as is evidenced by this thread, a good number of people here were probably playing her games alongside gold box D&D and being eaten by Grues. Maybe, just maybe, she's a legend and therefore she's worth bringing up when asked about legends?.

No no, I'm with you - I'd much prefer to listen to Roberta & Ken Williams wax nostalgic & inspirational for hours than some VP talking about how they intend to market the next Black Ops. I was referring to the fact that this panel was also being positioned as a career opportunity for students to showcase their work and that's likelier to be more fruitful with a Blizzard/Infinity Ward dude.

 

[ehtheist]

No no, I'm with you - I'd much prefer to listen to Roberta & Ken Williams wax nostalgic & inspirational for hours than some VP talking about how they intend to market the next Black Ops. I was referring to the fact that this panel was also being positioned as a career opportunity for students to showcase their work and that's likelier to be more fruitful with a Blizzard/Infinity Ward dude.

Ah, fair enough. That makes sense.

In a general sense though, gamers are a nostalgic bunch. If you could get one of the greats from the 80's or 90's to come to some conference, people would line up for it. I'm pretty sure that if guys like Shigeru Miyamoto or Sid Meier ever need money, someone will pay them to talk. Doesn't matter if it's now or thirty years down the road.

 

[Thunderflash500]

SJW's (backed by wealthy corporations, think tanks) are trying to tear society apart over every possible issue they can. Black and white. Rich and poor. Man and woman. Democrat, Republican. Educated, non educated. It's all meant to break us down. Keep us confused, angry and weak.

Imagine our power if we united. The truth is these people are far weaker than the media pretends. Turn on the lights and cockroaches scatter. That's what these people are. Cockroaches. But good people try being accommodating to others. Unfortunately SJW's thrive on taking advantage of kindness.