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ps3-sales! said:
Holy fuck I hate feminists. And the fact that she disables comments on her videos tells me many others do as well.

She didn't even talk about the quality of the game IE visuals, gameplay, replay value, performance ect.

Worst review ever.

There's nothing wrong with being a femininist, that's not Anita's problem. She is annoying, obsessive and ignorant, those are her problems. 



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Dante9 said:
That's feminism in a nutshell. Females need to be first, otherwise they will piss in everybody's cereal. Equal rights for all? Bullshit.
Instead of whining and messing with the mainstream gaming industry, why don't these SJWs make their OWN games and have their way in them? Make them anything you like. See if anyone buys them. That's how it works. Don't screw the rest of us over because you don't like the same content that we do. Don't even dare to try and dictate to other people what they SHOULD like and SHOULD want.
Make your own stuff. See if it sticks. It will get what it deserves, nothing more, nothing less.

As I said, feminism is not the problem, it's certain femininists personalities that are.



VGPolyglot said:
ps3-sales! said:
Holy fuck I hate feminists. And the fact that she disables comments on her videos tells me many others do as well.

She didn't even talk about the quality of the game IE visuals, gameplay, replay value, performance ect.

Worst review ever.

There's nothing wrong with being a femininist, that's not Anita's problem. She is annoying, obsessive and ignorant, those are her problems. 


But how so? I've watched her vidoes and I haven't seen any evidence of this. I don't necessarily agree with all her viewpoints but she articulates them well. She is not disrespectful and she doesn't come off as militant or angry.

I must be watching a different Anita Sarkesian because everything I've seen from her is completely harmless. I cannot for the life of me understand what all the hype is about. She even praised the game quite a bit in this review, but everybody is just ignoring that and selectively choosing things to gripe about that aren't even a reflection of what is in the video.



a "feminazi" review? I suppose she should love the game considering the female character.



I just watched the whole video and... well I agree with her on so many levels. I don't think she's trying to review the game like other reviewers do though and we shouldn't see her reviews with the same eye we see other reviews like the ones from IGN, Gamespot etc.

You can moan all you want about feminist always dissing games but there's a time to look past your ego and realize they are right at some point.

Someone asked why is it so important to people who they are playing as in a game. Well let me tell you one thing. It's all about immersion, why some games offer character creation? Because it allows the player to create a character they want and one they can relate to if they want. Games like Mass Effect or Fallout are great examples. To many it's important, as important as who is the lead actor in movies...

Games will be more realistic, but it's like the mindset behind portraying societies hasn't advanced much. I may not like her but she got a point on that review. I hope we see more people noticing these design choices that will lead game developers grow a pair and diversify their characters behavior, representation and design.



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CWegzz said:
OttoniBastos said:


Tell me that at least she reviewed things like gameplay mechanics,performance,story and didn't gave score based solely on "women representation"?!

She talked about glitches for a few seconds, but otherwise not really.  She complained about how there weren't enough people of color in Victorian London and also about how the female main character isn't represented as much as the male main character.  Probably 90% of the video was about women representation.

Sounds like an analysis or maybe a review of a specific portion of the game, but definitely not like a full review of the game. Or you can interprete it as a full review that weighs one portion very heavily, which in my opinion is a useless review. So yeah, no merit as a game review, but other merits may exist.

Of course I should watch the video myself to be sure, but I don't really want to. So I may be wrong and if I am, I apologize for my comment. Seems like a reasonable comment though.



Jazz2K said:
I just watched the whole video and... well I agree with her on so many levels. I don't think she's trying to review the game like other reviewers do though and we shouldn't see her reviews with the same eye we see other reviews like the ones from IGN, Gamespot etc.

You can moan all you want about feminist always dissing games but there's a time to look past your ego and realize they are right at some point.

Someone asked why is it so important to people who they are playing as in a game. Well let me tell you one thing. It's all about immersion, why some games offer character creation? Because it allows the player to create a character they want and one they can relate to if they want. Games like Mass Effect or Fallout are great examples. To many it's important, as important as who is the lead actor in movies...

Games will be more realistic, but it's like the mindset behind portraying societies hasn't advanced much. I may not like her but she got a point on that review. I hope we see more people noticing these design choices that will lead game developers grow a pair and diversify their characters behavior, representation and design.

I just watched the whole video and... well I agree with her on so many levels. I don't think she's trying to review the game like other reviewers do though and we shouldn't see her reviews with the same eye we see other reviews like the ones from IGN, Gamespot etc.

If people want reviews that dont focus the majority of the time on gender discussion then they should voice their opinion and if anita wants to discuss gender issues in Assassin's Creed Syndicate she should not simply call it a review.

You can moan all you want about feminist always dissing games but there's a time to look past your ego and realize they are right at some point. 

Feminist are right on many things and wrong on many others, bunching all feminist together like you have is actually quite absurd as they are hardly a united group. Maybe you need to look past your ego and realize they can be wrong at some point.

Someone asked why is it so important to people who they are playing as in a game. Well let me tell you one thing. It's all about immersion, why some games offer character creation? Because it allows the player to create a character they want and one they can relate to if they want. Games like Mass Effect or Fallout are great examples. To many it's important, as important as who is the lead actor in movies...

Having character creators in games is great some of the time and others times having a well written character is best. I can honestly enjoy games dis-regardless of the gender of the protagonist. However if women want more female character leads more of them will have to get into game development to make it happen. Not every problem that women have stems from men.

Games will be more realistic, but it's like the mindset behind portraying societies hasn't advanced much. I may not like her but she got a point on that review. I hope we see more people noticing these design choices that will lead game developers grow a pair and diversify their characters behavior, representation and design.

Anita Sarkeesian does not want realism in games as evidenced by her complaint about the lack of black people in Victorian London which was actually quite realistic for the time. Also developers bowing down to haters like Anita are the ones that need to grow a pair. Developers are artist, and they should make the games they want to make, and not people like Anita who will find a way to hate on them no matter what. 



This is the Game of Thrones

Where you either win

or you DIE

I am not going to give her a view. Just wanted to say that. She is no one of importance to me.



wilco said:
VGPolyglot said:

There's nothing wrong with being a femininist, that's not Anita's problem. She is annoying, obsessive and ignorant, those are her problems. 


But how so? I've watched her vidoes and I haven't seen any evidence of this. I don't necessarily agree with all her viewpoints but she articulates them well. She is not disrespectful and she doesn't come off as militant or angry.

I must be watching a different Anita Sarkesian because everything I've seen from her is completely harmless. I cannot for the life of me understand what all the hype is about. She even praised the game quite a bit in this review, but everybody is just ignoring that and selectively choosing things to gripe about that aren't even a reflection of what is in the video.


Have to say thats been my expiriance from all I've heard if her. Not that ive bothered keeping track of all the internet fuss. I think the internets full of angry twelve year olds looking to be offended by something and some have chosen to be offended by her and they rant about her at every opertunity. Then they complain that due to all their ranting they've boosted ber profile and then call her a publisity whore. 

Anyway the review was ok. The bulk was about representaions of gender in the game and thats a perfectly fine thing for her to focus on in her review as thats what people will likely be tuning in to her channel to see.



She calls that a Review?

I always knew that she's dumb.