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The first mistake was going to GameSpot in the first place...

Also, Kotaku was right.  Assigning arbitrary numbers to games is completely meaningless and makes no sense.  Just read the review.  The number at the bottom is just a number.  It doesn't represent anything else of significance.  It certainly shouldn't inspire people to troll a LBGT person.

I stopped going to GameSpot for reviews when the dude who reviewed Skyward Sword knocked the game for control issues, because he thought it used the IR function, when it fact Skyward Sword didn't.  It only used motion plus, there was no function with the sensor bar.  You could have it unplugged if you wanted.  Upon hearing that feedback, the dude still "stuck by" his review, saying that minor detail didn't change his opinion of the game.  Okay, right.  Let's pretend we're an expert on video games, and then make false claims about said game, and then not make it right upon being corrected.  Really professional organization over there!



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Kyuu said:

The so called "Mature" GTAV audience aren't so mature after all. It makes you wonder how many reviewers score it THAT high to avoid such rebellions LOL.

I think that comes with the new internet generation and how we can communicate world wide in an instance, mainly our disapproval. I mean if Edge reviewed FFX now, their 6 they gave it would be rediculed and hated. Yet at the time, people just accepted it... (or is it that no one cared as they trusted reviewers? Eitherway.)



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nuckles87 said:

This is incredibly ignorant. Sexuality is not nearly a clean cut as you like to think. Transexuality is not caused by people playing pretend: these people physically and mentally IDENTIFY as another sex, just as you identify yourself as a heterosexual man. There is a lot of mystery surrounding human sexuality, and a lot of scientific evidence pointing towards biological causes for it, while any theories or papers advocating psychological reasons ranging from questionable to completely unfounded.

Though, either way, NO ONE in the scientific community is advocating what you are: that they are just faking it. Which, again, is incredibly ignorant and disrespectful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexualism

Like it or not, Carolyn is a woman, and you calling her otherwise would be tantamount to some ignorant stranger calling you a woman.

Unfortunately, if your looking to make an intelligent remark that requires people to respond in kind on these threads, you are in for a long wait.  The more time or thought that you put into your response, the less likely that the person you are commenting to will respond in kind.  Not always the case, but more often than not.  Especially when you take up a social issue.



nuckles87 said:
killerzX said:
nuckles87 said:

It's episodes like this that bring out the worst in the game community.

She's a transexual. So if she says she's a she, then she's a she. Calling her a "he" is just being grossly disrespectful. Sexual identity is more then just black and white.

It's ironic seeing the gaming community actually react to a review's substance for a change..only for it to react to it in the most immature way imaginable. Misogyny IS a problem in gaming. In the community, in the industry, in the product. No, it isn't a universal truth and it can certainly be overblown by the feminists, but it IS an issue nonetheless, and it would not surprise in the least if GTA5 has that problem. She isn't saying it's a bad game because of it, but if she thinks that is a problem, she has every right to address it.

WagnerPaiva said:
I already pre-ordered the game, but, well, I respect her opinion, I don´t agree, but respect. If we start this kind of argument, every "save the princess" game is misoginistic. That is just dumb, it is a video game, it suposed to be fun, nothing more.

For reviewers who do this for a living, video games are more then that. They are art. Complaining about misogyny in a game's story comes hand in hand with treating it like art. What you advocate is that we treat video games as toys. If you want to, that's fine, but I think that ignores all the work video game makers put into their product.

if i say im the queen of england, will you call me that, or if a consider myself a "zer" or a tree or Blue. will you be disrespectful.

This is incredibly ignorant. Sexuality is not nearly a clean cut as you like to think. Transexuality is not caused by people playing pretend: these people physically and mentally IDENTIFY as another sex, just as you identify yourself as a heterosexual man. There is a lot of mystery surrounding human sexuality, and a lot of scientific evidence pointing towards biological causes for it, while any theories or papers advocating psychological reasons ranging from questionable to completely unfounded.

Though, either way, NO ONE in the scientific community is advocating what you are: that they are just faking it. Which, again, is incredibly ignorant and disrespectful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexualism

Like it or not, Carolyn is a woman, and you calling her otherwise would be tantamount to some ignorant stranger calling you a woman.

Sorry for being off topic, but what restrooms would she be allowed to use?



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Mythmaker1 said:

I wouldn't go that far. For all I know, she is fully justified in addressing these subjects within the review, and I think that sort of criticism is subjective, but still valid.

However, her stated reasoning was amateurish, and demonstrates a lack of appropriate perspective that undermines her conclusions.

The end result is that she comes off as shallow, and fails to maturely address the issues. If she couldn't discuss the subject properly, she shouldn't have even brought it up.

As I answered to STAGE - I don't have a problem when reviewers are telling their readers/viewers if there's something in the game that some people might find offensive and not PC - what I have problem with is when they neg the game just for that reason, like she did (look under The Bad in Gamespot's review).



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HoloDust said:
Mythmaker1 said:

I wouldn't go that far. For all I know, she is fully justified in addressing these subjects within the review, and I think that sort of criticism is subjective, but still valid.

However, her stated reasoning was amateurish, and demonstrates a lack of appropriate perspective that undermines her conclusions.

The end result is that she comes off as shallow, and fails to maturely address the issues. If she couldn't discuss the subject properly, she shouldn't have even brought it up.

As I answered to STAGE - I don't have a problem when reviewers are telling their readers/viewers if there's something in the game that some people might find offensive and not PC - what I have problem with is when they neg the game just for that reason, like she did (look under The Bad in Gamespot's review).

The way it was presented, those aren't justified, but that doesn't mean they couldn't be. Those kind of issues, could easily damage the player's engagement, making it a valid criticism.

I have no issue with those points being listed as negative, or even affecting the review score, as long as they are justified.



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fighter said:

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