Careful! The 2 girls on VGC are gonna come out and get you banned!

OH WAIT! No! There are no girls on VGC...

Thanks. Although, I'm not. 

Don't believe everything you read, this wasn't about GTAV, guy went to midnight launch and on his way back, got mugged. His more expensive Phone and watch were also taken, those bit however were left out of the story. The story this way is good for publicity and irony.

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.

BS, she can review it how she sees fit, and she does make valid points, not every review needs to toe the line. Ridiculous. She did review it as a game, of which the characters and story arer a part of. I certainly have some issues with it myself, it isn;t perfect, and the characters could have more depth, instead of relying on cliches and sterotyopes. Shouldn't gaming be trying to move forward in that regard?

People can try to spin it however they like, this is moronic, they are pissed because she gave it a 9, thats what I would give it too.

It's him, and please stop trying to force that politically correct bullshit down my throat. He is born as a biological male, just because he mutilated his reproductive organ doesnt make him a woman.

And if you find bad female characterisation and abuse of female characters non delsirabe, maybe you shouldnt play GTA? The series have always been that way , and to knock it down because of it would be unprofessional. ld be like knocking down Mario game because i dont like red suits and hats. This also explains why the reviews shouldnt be subjective.

And i already said i dont mind the score nor his opinion, and i never mentioned the specifc reasons he used to knock the game out , just that i know where they are coming from.

Yes, the game should be reviewed as whole. But if i review a game about strict driving physics and the game succeeds at having good physics and im knocking it down because i hate driving physics or prefer arcade style driving, then im being a douchebag. Reviewer should clarify if the game is playable and if it succeeds at doing what it aims to be, as well as the facts i mentioned before. Saying ''this game is/isn't fun, buy/don't buy it because i enjoyed/didn't enjoyed it'' is stupid

Same applies here. He reviewed a game where you can raid banks, steal cars, do drugs, vandalise the city, mass murder civilians, blow up buildings, pick up whores, torture NPCs and kill police and law enforcement, but being disrespectuf towards women is just WAAAY TOO FAR, right? 

She identifies herself as female, so I will call her as such due to respect/politeness, nothing to do with political correctness.

Also, I haven't even bought the game, I'm only defending someones review of a game. Subjective in a way to also appeal to users and highlight things some gamers might have an issue with, this includes female gamers and the games portrayal of women. Story/characterisation should be included in a review.

But the fact you keep saying a game review should be objective, well, here is my answer:

http://www.destructoid.com/100-objective-review-final-fantasy-xiii-179178.phtml

Gross. Using Sterling's trolling (that he gave in response to his awful FF13 review) as some sort of justification is just dumb. This whole argument is dumb, and the reviewer would have given better reasons for docking score, it wouldn't be an issue.

Dont want to get too far off topic so i will just post my opinion and not respond to anyone else concerning this. I had a black theology teacher. We had an excercise where he describe someones life. What they looked like how they self identified among 4 or so other qualifications. We did it just for race and just for black and white for simplicitly. But i dont think you can just say you are black when you look white, "act" white, live a white "life" (these were the qualifications) have white ancestry and then expect people to call you black. And yes, there was someone who would fall under the 5 of 6 categories as white but self identified as black.

In my opinion its a dude. Until he changes his genes and gets female reproductive organs

Her opinion which happens to shed light on a very blatant truth in today's gaming world. In an environment full of Call of Duties, Grand Theft Auto's and Saints Row style games the gaming community as a whole has stopped trying to make truly unique and imaginative games and has settled for giving every 15 year old boy a a rage boner with how much they can destroyed at any given time.

Grand Theft Auto has been shit since Vice City and everyone knows it. But as long as the dominate force behind the money are neglecting parents who buy these games for their teenage boys who then demand more of the same well, we're in a death cycle of imagination.

Except biology isn't that clear cut, as I've already demonstrated, but you are gleefully ignoring because I guess you just love sounding ignorant, rude and closed minded.

That's a sad fact that I accepted long ago. Because people who talk like this usually do so because they have no interest in expanding their world view.

Given that she identifies as a woman....the women's restroom, obviously.