Nintendo could do more with its female cast. For both representation and creativity, it's time for Nintendo's heroines to get the spotlight.
Talha Amjad writes: "There are a couple of video game characters that seemed fine back in the day but would be too controversial if they were introduced today. Here are a few."
If duke nukem was made today, the femi-nazi would be all over it
Most of these have been introduced in modern times lmao. Dhalsim? He’s in street fighter 5. Cortana? Really? Shadow warrior 2 just released a few years ago. Duke Nukem and lo wang are guests in the game rad Rodgers. Duke Nukem is an add on for bulletstorm. This article is so full of shit it’s laughable.
This is just more proof how out of touch gaming journalists are but at least they put their list on one page unlike other cheapskates.
Double question this time around.
If you could be a video game character, who would you choose?
Which system is the best?
Do you agree, what would be your choice?
Girly and feminine games sometimes get heat for being sexist or marketed towards females. Plus, the ongoing cry for stronger female protagonists keeps getting louder and louder, will the tough girl slowly replace these game types and characters I hold dear?
You're on the losing end of this spectrum.
See, here's the thing. Male gamers don't care what kind of games come out, so long as the casualization of gaming doesn't become an epidemic. Male gamers typically want games with some kind of challenge, a victory or defeat condition that requires skill to accomplish, and yeah even flashy stuff because we're very visual creatures. So long as we get our challenging games, it doesn't matter to us if frilly games marketed towards the more feminine women get made and sold (so long as they don't take over of course).
Your enemy is the Anita Sarkeesians, the Carolyne Petits, the Katherine Cross(es?) of the world. They are oblivious to the facts that, in their self-imposed crusade to nag gaming development and make changes no one asked for, they silence and/or ignore those gamers who actually LIKE the themes and styles that the SJWs don't like.
Say what you will about C.S. Lewis' involvement with religion, but he did make an incredibly good point.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
People who talk for you, who insist that they know what's best for you better than you do, who believe their narrative is the correct one, will suck the enjoyment of life out of everyone. These people are psychologically damaged and don't want you to be able to play the girly games. Not because it's bad for you, or bad for women, but because it's bad for them and what they think is appropriate.
If you want the girly games to stay, best way is to keep buying them.