First off I am a sucker for open world games like this, and I have no problem playing a female character, hell if you are going to look at someone for 100 hours they might as well be cute. But the developers just can't keep their activism out of the game. Its a Matriachal Society, no problem there are many examples of this in real life. There are idiot men, well that's fine because there are many idiot men in real life. All women are stunning and brave....here we go. I had no problem for about the first 10 hours of the game, in fact the story was quite good. I was having a blast in the little safe starter area and spent probably more hours there than most just becasue I was having fun and exploring the systems. Then I get out into the first map and things slowly start to come to my attention. Almost all men are idiots, almost all quests involve saving an idiot man or are given by a cowardly man who is worried about his bad ass Sister or Mother. Look at the injured in the towns, they are all men. Comment after comment in the dialouge with any man talks about how they ran from this battle, of are too afraid to leave town or go to a forbidden area, but their Sister did. Quests revolve around saving icompetent men that lost thier supplies or could not defend themselves without your help etc. Everyone has heard about you and how amazing you are, you get told this almost ever time you talk to someone. Now I am over 20 hours into the game and I am still going to finish it and enjoy it, but there is no way I can give this 5 stars when I have to cringe through every converstation. Sure have some quests with idiot men but also have some save the women quests as well. Balance in all things. Sorry guys but your agenda is showing and it taints this awesome game. So glad I got this at half price.
