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Discussion in 'Gaming' started by Hiro ✩, Aug 30, 2012.

  1. Peace and War Bianca, you minx!

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    And what is sexist writing to you? Is it writing a character to be sexist, writing about a sexist society in the past, writing a character who tries to create situation of sexism?

    You're saying that the intention of these games are to be sexist with sexist writing or lack thereof?
    That's the issue I have, since I've never played a game that's intention is sexist, at worse that's an minor involvement but not such a major factor compared to other parts of the game.

    And then the argument about what's eye candy or not, since attractiveness is subjective, if you think a game is eye candy it's because you see it as such. Heck, there are a number of varying feminists that I have known that are cool with stuff like eye candy people whilst others being militant and outraged. I find that people's opinions on what is sexist and isn't is all based on yourself, it's rarely a community and fully held belief by all.

    I never said it was alright, but it's not representative of real life, to say it is a delusion. No matter how you make a game, it's never so immersive that it's like real life. To see it as real life is unhealthy and similar to suffering schizophrenia.
    Whether characters are people are not is a separate discussion. Something I'm actually kind of studying at the moment with whether the author exists as well as the concept of God in literature. But basically, these characters are only as real as you believe them to be, not an empirical fact.
     
  2. Cloud3514 Kingdom Keeper

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    Wrong. It is rarely INTENDED to be sexist. Most of the time its ignorance.

    Yes, designing a character with unrealistic proportions and skimpy clothing is totally not trying to design a character to be eye candy, not at all.

    Do you even know how to write fiction? The characters are the PEOPLE in the story. They are the PEOPLE the events of the story affect. That is why it is so frustrating to see games, anime, movies, etc. portray the characters unrealistically. If the characters don't react realistically to their situations, regardless of how realistic those situations are, suspension of disbelief can be shattered.
     
  3. Splodge Twilight Town Denizen

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    What really annoys me is that Samus from Metroid was just a character who happened to be female, heck in metroid one every one thought she was a guy! The thing that pisses me off is that in Metroid other M Nintendo just made Samus into a cliche of female sterotypes. They did it for the sex appeal. Seriously though, There was a thread somewhere where a guy was saying that developers need to take sexism out of gaming. I don't mind if a character is hot and kickass, but being a pure sex symbol is really just trying to get the horny gamers into it.