garywood said:
I agree with the gist of your post though. Art is amoral, unless you go out of your way to explicitly make it moralising. We need to have a free market where people can happily enjoy whatever weird stuff they happen to like. And whenever someone comes along claiming that thing X is damaging, as they constantly do, we should make the burden of proof they have to meet in criticising thing X, very very high. Videos laced with cherry picking and vague assertions derived from unmentioned social theories are simply not enough. |
Games are art indeed but most of them must meet a few standards to look like a pseudo form of our reality. That's why it could be argued that it's not completley free. Games are also designed to sell to their demographics and each one dictates a set of of flexible standards. Gore, violence, sex and one dimensional token must-be-insanely-attractive female characters that are badly writen. This representation that mimics reality might not damage the male player psyche or his morals but it can bore and alainate female gamers.
I'm generalizing here maybe but that's what games, the thing I just called art, is doing as a whole. if you take these games individually you can see that they did their own thing with their characters but if you take them as whole then it's gonna feel like they're all following one guide book for approaching female characters.
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