IGN bring us the worst "Top" article ever

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blaydcor said:

Khuutra said:
.....Strong women characters are destroying gaming?

Jesus Christ.

I mean. I don't know what to say.

This whole article is deplorable but that one in particular, my God.

You ever take any reading comprehension tests back in middle school? I'm guessing not.

The article says "Strong female leads= Edgy, clever, and desirable"

what the writer is lamenting is that "strong" female characters are now always made: clever, edgy, but, ultimately, nothing more than eye-candy for sex-starved male gamers. Basically, in lieu of actually attempting a real, deep, developed character, female leads are simply created as leather-clad babes who are nevertheless always ready with a witty one-liner or smarmy non sequitor.

And (though I don't like the article overall, at all), I agree. Female protaganists are as cookie-cutter predictable as any other penultimate videogame archetype (like the grizzled space marine or quiet-and-young-but-determined-and-so-on-blah-blah-blah JRPG hero).

 

wow.  Someone actually read the article.  Congrats.