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RolStoppable said:

Metroid: Other M is a mixed bag and not what most longtime fans of the series had hoped for, but there is no denying that it did one thing well: Portray a woman the way a woman has to be. Obedient, insecure and lost without a strong man around who tells her what to do.

For many years hardcore gamers complained that Nintendo refused to catch up to the rest of the gaming industry in terms of story telling and character development. Metroid: Other M is a big step in the right direction and perhaps even makes Nintendo cool again. The designers of the game did their best to bring Samus Aran's breast size to an adequate level, comparable with most modern games. The director of the cutscenes showed talent in finding the right camera angles, so that the player always gets the best possible view on the action.

As a huge fan of the Fire Emblem series I am hoping that Nintendo puts similar changes into the next game. Women aren't strong, tough, intelligent or most ridiculously, equal to men. In the history of mankind, women always had one simple purpose: to be beautiful objects that obey and serve men. While now someone might point out that there have been women that were more than that, like Madame Curie, let me say that this just isn't true. The only reason why she is also credited with discovering the radium is because her husband didn't lock the door to his lab.

All females in video games should follow men's orders, because that's their natural role. Metroid: Other M resonated so well with the audience precisely because it showed how Samus Aran really is: weak, fragile and hot. All games should strive to be like this, because it makes female characters more authentic.

 

 

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You can't be serious?



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oldschoolfool said:
RolStoppable said:

Metroid: Other M is a mixed bag and not what most longtime fans of the series had hoped for, but there is no denying that it did one thing well: Portray a woman the way a woman has to be. Obedient, insecure and lost without a strong man around who tells her what to do.

For many years hardcore gamers complained that Nintendo refused to catch up to the rest of the gaming industry in terms of story telling and character development. Metroid: Other M is a big step in the right direction and perhaps even makes Nintendo cool again. The designers of the game did their best to bring Samus Aran's breast size to an adequate level, comparable with most modern games. The director of the cutscenes showed talent in finding the right camera angles, so that the player always gets the best possible view on the action.

As a huge fan of the Fire Emblem series I am hoping that Nintendo puts similar changes into the next game. Women aren't strong, tough, intelligent or most ridiculously, equal to men. In the history of mankind, women always had one simple purpose: to be beautiful objects that obey and serve men. While now someone might point out that there have been women that were more than that, like Madame Curie, let me say that this just isn't true. The only reason why she is also credited with discovering the radium is because her husband didn't lock the door to his lab.

All females in video games should follow men's orders, because that's their natural role. Metroid: Other M resonated so well with the audience precisely because it showed how Samus Aran really is: weak, fragile and hot. All games should strive to be like this, because it makes female characters more authentic.

 

 

Everyone who wants to show their support for this credo should use this avatar:


You can't be serious?


Pwnt?



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

Khuutra said:
hatmoza said:

Okay this went from being a non-sequitur to kind of hilarious in its misogyny

I laughed, even if I shouldn't have

I will choose to treat this as a commentary on women in the medium

I actually had to look non-sequitur up >.>



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axumblade said:

This explains exactly why games like Heavenly Sword, Wet and Velvet Assassin failed in the market. Those games had a strong female lead when they should have been support at the most. It also explains why Lara Croft and Beyond Good & Evil (featuring main character Jade) are moving to a downloadable format.

Interestingly enough, this does strike an interesting point....The highest selling game to feature a woman character is Cooking Mama. In fact, it's outsold all of the Metroid and Tomb Raider games....x.o

Cooking Mama teaches women that their place is in the kitchen, rather than in ancient tombs and spaceships, so I guess that's fine.



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Khuutra said:
forest-spirit said:
Khuutra said:

It, uh. It's the latter. She waits for Adam to give explicit orders and never makes a request herself.

...

And the reason for giving Samus a voice was...?

The planned reason was probably for the explicit establishment of her as a character. Sakamoto has said that eveyr player had a different idea of Samus, and that's something that he wanted to dispel with a unified vision of the character.

She talks mostly during internal monologues.


Well, he dispelled my view of Samus being an intellectual being! Mission accomplished!



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I have taken profile information from every user here giving support to this horrendous cause and I have written and submitted a report to the women's rights activists.

 

If they're anything like the global warming activists, you guys are screwed. http://www.infowars.com/climate-film-depicts-children-assassinated-for-not-reducing-carbon-footprint/



hatmoza said:
Khuutra said:
hatmoza said:

Okay this went from being a non-sequitur to kind of hilarious in its misogyny

I laughed, even if I shouldn't have

I will choose to treat this as a commentary on women in the medium

I actually had to look non-sequitur up >.>

I can't stop watching!

This is why we need GIF avatars.



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axumblade said:

Interestingly enough, this does strike an interesting point....The highest selling game to feature a woman character is Cooking Mama. In fact, it's outsold all of the Metroid and Tomb Raider games....x.o


Holy shit. Though, not if you count Pokémon.



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wfz said:

I have taken profile information from every user here giving support to this horrendous cause and I have written and submitted a report to the women's rights activists.

 

If they're anything like the global warming activists, you guys are screwed. http://www.infowars.com/climate-film-depicts-children-assassinated-for-not-reducing-carbon-footprint/

It's cool, they can't do anything about it unless their husbands tell them to.



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Icyedge said:
RolStoppable said:
Icyedge said:

The ancient Egyptians viewed men and women, including people from all social classes except slaves, as essentially equal under the law, and even the lowliest peasant was entitled to petition the vizier and his court for redress.Both men and women had the right to own and sell property, make contracts, marry and divorce, receive inheritance, and pursue legal disputes in court.

No wonder the ancient Egyptian culture went down.

They went down because of the roman domination. I know you wasnt serious though.


That's what they want you to think.



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