Women In Gaming - A very revealing podcast.

[blackmagicwolf]

wfz: they're not saying they aren't in it. They're saying that a lot of them aren't be treated with equality.

pokoko: Yeah they did make good points. Your absolutely right, people can't say "this game can't be made" because that's unfair to both sides of the gaming community. I'm glad they pointed that out.

Mr. Khan: On the surface I will agree that there's nothing wrong with games like DOA and Bayonetta (I would've liked to hear them go into more details on that) but as that one person said it's the question of "who are you trying to appeal to by making the characters this way?" It's like they think the outfits are more important than the fighters or characters themselves. It's an issue that can be talked about for days with no resolution, that's for sure.

xxain: Actually there are articles that talk about men in gaming. They only touched on it in the podcast but there are stereotypes of men that get overexaggreated and played up because they think it's "right." Both men and women have unfavorable characteristics in regards to video games, it just appears that the men get the better end of the stick. As for this being just an "in industry" issue I disagree. This topic is relevant outside of it as well. We've taken leaps and bounds in the games industry to stop sterotyping races (though not completely gone) and ethnicites to a certain extent. And yet women in games just don't seem to advance. They talk about Quiet in MGSV, what was the point of her other than Kojima saying "I want an erotic character?"