| Mr Khan said: He's equating your attempts to gender-neutralize Samus with the broader movement to gender-neutralize society. Simply saying that she's better gender-neutral is an attempt at being politically correct, ignoring your argument altogether |
Yes, basically this.
By the way, voiceless is not the problem, it can be even better if voice acting isn't good enough, but even if it's good, spoken dialogues must have a good reason to be there (for example in Thief listening to them is a way to collect clues), we don't play games to listen to their characters blathering. And I don't even accuse genderless characters if they just came out that way for whatever other reason, but without the devs making them that way for political correctness purpose. But political correctness, be it by design, or applied by the gamer as a posteriori interpretation to justify the choice, just kills the fun.
And sex appeal of the PC can be built in the game on purpose without ruining it, if it's well blended in it, just think about Tomb Raider, Lara was one of the first sexy videogame women to reach WW success, but she was loved by both male and female gamers.
If voice and sex appeal don't work in the latest Samus, it's not because they are bad per se, but just because they aren't realised and blended well in the game.
