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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Video games ARE sexist, claims Uncharted 4 star Nolan 'Nathan Drake' North

 

Do you think videogames are sexist?

Yes 17 8.81%
 
Yes and thank god for that! 22 11.40%
 
No 45 23.32%
 
Some of them 39 20.21%
 
Everything is sexist nowadays 70 36.27%
 
Total:193
mornelithe on 23 September 2015
generic-user-1 said:
mornelithe said:

Sure you can, Stallone did it.  Like it or not, the new Rambo was actually pretty warmly received and there's certainly some evidence to suggest that one of Stallone's lines in the movie became a rallying cry for some in Myanmar, to effect change.  Like them or not, the Expendables movies entertained some.  Did they set the charts on fire?  No.  But, that's Stallone and the studios problem.  He wanted to make them, and he did.  The system works.


the new rambo was good, but he had alot less direct violence than the others. (the violence is used  way better, its more like a real war movie in alot of parts and not like a 80s action movie, and i like it) and the expendables were modern action movies.

do you realy think they could get away with something like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9l9wxGFl4k

today?

I would say the newer Rambo was without a doubt, far, far more bloody, than the older Rambos.  You can't even begin to argue that point.  Torture, implied rape of multiple women, murdering children...I mean, yeah it was pretty blatantly violent.  Punisher Warzone (directed by a woman, btw), was also this way.  Made the original Lundgren Punisher, look like a family flick.


View on YouTube

Yeah, I think they could quite easily get away with it.

Again, let me emphasize, I don't just want movies like this.  I want a wide variety, just like I do in gaming, literature etc...  what I do not want, and will refuse to ever support is the idea we can just go ahead and censor what people create.  That's what reviews/previews are for.  To know whether we'll like something, then it's up to us to buy it.



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RPGFan1 on 23 September 2015
mornelithe said:

I would say the newer Rambo was without a doubt, far, far more bloody, than the older Rambos.  You can't even begin to argue that point.  Torture, implied rape of multiple women, murdering children...I mean, yeah it was pretty blatantly violent.  Punisher Warzone (directed by a woman, btw), was also this way.  Made the original Lundgren Punisher, look like a family flick.

^This.

Same with horror movies back in the day like Friday the 13th.  Modern horror movies look like softcore porn in comparison.



Zackasaurus-rex on 23 September 2015

Well, he is objectively correct. He is also statino the obvious.

But it is nonetheless good that he is saying it.



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bouzane on 23 September 2015
AbbathTheGrim said:

- Nolan North who voices lots of characters in videogames but is better known for voicing Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series said in an exclusive interview for Mirror Online the following about videogames being sexist:

"For a long time, games were just, you could call it, sexist," said the father-of-two.

"It was just business, because what happens when teenage boys are your main audience?"

"You design big, badass superheroes and women with big boobs and bikinis."

- But he thinks that videogames will get better with time as he said:

"Gamers used to be kids, stoned in the basement with their earbuds in, jamming out to rock music and playing video games,"

"But as players get older, they are expecting better material."

He pointed to the redesign of Tomb Raider star Lara Croft as evidence sexism is "getting better".

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/video-games-sexist-claims-uncharted-6494017


Many video games are indeed sexist in some way and he's right that it is generally becoming less of an issue but that does not mean he gets to talk down to the people who buy them. Why must Social Justice nonsense always be accompanied by over generalizations and smug condescension?



o_O.Q on 23 September 2015

""You design big, badass superheroes and women with big boobs and bikinis.""

yeah but women aren't perpetuating the very same "problem" when they intentionally walk around in skimpy outfits?

the funny thing to me is that as women get more and more sexually expressive the calls for ending sexism also increase

oh i deserve to be able to walk around half naked! ( and i have no problem with this ) but that half naked chick in the video game has to go!

as for men being big bad heroes, well looking back at history the action heroes generally have been men because men are naturally physically more powerful... that's reality



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Pavolink on 23 September 2015
generic-user-1 said:
He has a point, video games are sexist against males, they are marketed like young males are all retarded idiots that like big muscles and boobs.
is main role, nathan drake is all that, a not realy clever male power fantasy.
there is nothing clever about having a more stupid indiana jones with less charisma and less uberhot nazi women affairs.


Teehee

Well done, well done.

OT: Sexism is now a boring topic. Well, it was always, anyway.



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LivingMetal on 23 September 2015

I think the porn industry is sexist. And I think Peter NORTH will agree.



generic-user-1 on 23 September 2015
LivingMetal said:
I think the porn industry is sexist. And I think Peter NORTH will agree.


its easyer to find fresh women than fresh men.  japan has a real male pornstar problem... 



LivingMetal on 23 September 2015
generic-user-1 said:
LivingMetal said:
I think the porn industry is sexist. And I think Peter NORTH will agree.


its easyer to find fresh women than fresh men.  japan has a real male pornstar problem... 


That was a joke on the play of the last name "North."  Let's just leave it at that and go no further.



SocialistSlayer on 23 September 2015

You PC bro?