(July 24, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: One thing that really gets me about Gamergate is how they act like killing a woman in a game is the only fucked up thing that happens in video games...
When there are like 100 men being killed to every 1 woman you kill.
This and the fact that some critics (*cough* Anita Sarkeesian *cough*) flat out lied and misrepresented how women are treated in video games. Case in point, there is a mission in one of the Hitman games where you are in a strip club, and Anita shows how the character can kill and drag around the scantily clad strippers. She complained that the ability to do this encourages people to treat women as objects in real life. The only problem is that in the actual game, if you even so much as punch one of the girls, you would lose a ridiculous amount of points and have to restart the mission. If there's anything that mission teaches people, it's that strip clubs exist, and touching the girls will get you attacked by the security guys...
(July 24, 2015 at 5:56 pm)Dystopia Wrote: you can also conceal all your guns inside your jacket and you'll always be released from fail even if you've committed the worst civilian massacre ever. #JustVideoGamesRealism
For equality, they should put gay prostitutes in there too.
To be honest, a completely realistic GTA game would be annoying.
(July 24, 2015 at 6:03 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Why not just make the characters customizable? It seems to me that part of the allure of video games is the escape from reality, your able to immerse your self in a world where you can look better, run faster, and jump higher, why would you want your fantasy character to be just as plain as you?
Most role playing games do this, but this doesn't work for most games, and gamers are notoriously bad at designing good characters, compared to actual character designers.
(July 24, 2015 at 9:20 pm)Dystopia Wrote: What about Harry Potter? Are you telling me it's wrong to think Harry Potter teaches kids to be moral and good to others?
I think Harry Potter teaches children that if you skip your entire last year of school to run around in the countryside, you'll still get a cushy government job at the end.
