Fayceless said:
... But in the male-dominated sub-culture of gaming, it would appear that feminine-biased opinons are utterly unacceptable. I find that to be unacceptable. It's fine to disagree, but this outcry is ridiculous and appalling. |
I don't find their opinions utterly unacceptable, but taking a game like GTA V and saying it disrespects women makes no sense. We're talking about GTA. If for example you take a game like Mario and if a reviewer found a certain situation where the main character raped a female character just for fun or something it would make perfect sense to decrease it's score based on the GTA V's reviewer argument.
I mean, I might be wrong, but I was sure the Game Trailers' review of GTA V was done by a woman, and I don't think she criticized the way the women are portrayed in the game and thus decreasing the game's score (I'll need to check that later, actually).
Her bias was as bad as for example me (a PS3 fanboy) saying "Hey, Halo is only for XBox and I don't really like that particular console, so it's going to get a 90". For a reviewer like her it's unprofessional and something I didn't really expect from Gamespot. Probably from IGN lol.
Do note that I do think 90 is a really great score and all the backlash she's getting is just wrong. But please, her argument was biased and unprofessional, but still not something that one should be fired for doing once, that's for sure.
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