DaHeckIzDat wrote:I'm not so sure about that. What happens every time a Tomb Raider game comes out? What happened when Tracer got popular? What happened when Link was a boy in BotW instead of giving players the option to change genders? People threw fits.
There are people who will make a stink at any opportunity. No amount of righteously angry tweets from a few thousand idiots stopped any of those games from selling millions of copies. What happened? By any meaningful standard,
nothing.
DaHeckIzDat wrote:Look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens. People (very rightly) called Rey a Mary Sue, but their opinions got shot down because they were "sexist."
Anyone who thinks that Rey is a "Mary Sue" completely misses the point of the character. Aside from her lightsaber skill (which is set up in literally her first scene!), she is
not successful because she's just that good at everything. What she does is
submit to the Force instead of hot-headedly trying to control it like Luke did - which was the entire reason that his journey was so arduous. It is a very, very obvious thematic contrast, exactly the kind of idea that would come out of the challenge of writing a "female Luke" without being redundant, and it only flies over nerds' heads because of their ridiculous need to pick apart the surface details of media without actually engaging the text (this need is why we have TV Tropes, "Everything Wrong With..." videos, and all the other junk food that passes for "analysis" and "criticism" on the Internet).
DaHeckIzDat wrote:We were told that we were sexist if we didn't love the new Ghostbusters movie.
A masterful gambit by Sony, one that only worked because they relentlessly baited the issue from the beginning, had an easy target in the sexist nerds who had already gotten themselves plenty of press with Gamergate (not that they were remotely as pervasive as they had been painted to be, but they were high-profile and facile to conflate with those around them), and had the money to get the ball rolling. Depressing, but hardly a representative case.
DaHeckIzDat wrote:They whine when women have "bikini armor" when guys have been going into battle shirtless since the dawn of visual media.
Bikini armor is insulting because of the patronizing lie that it is armor at all. Conan never pretended to have anything but his saber. Until mighty-thewed men charge into the fray in "codpiece armor", this is a meaningless comparison.
DaHeckIzDat wrote:I have no doubt at all that "Galbrush" would be treated as an insult to all of womankind, or at least feministkind, if she were to have the same flaws as Guybrush.
Am I supposed to read the word "feministkind" and not see you knocking down a straw man?
DaHeckIzDat wrote:I just want to say though that the whole thing really doesn't matter to me.
Which, I'm guessing, is why you made this thread.
DaHeckIzDat wrote:The stance I take on video game diversity is the same one I take for movies and books: diversity is fine, but should never be a priority. When you stop focusing on telling a good story (or in this case, making a fun game) in order to satisfy the Minority Bingo players, the quality of the entire project goes down.
The problem is that women
aren't a minority. It's unreasonable that they should be treated like one.