vkaraujo said:
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Soundwave said:
Take two minutes and come up with something better than the "Peach has been kidnapped by Koopa! Again!".
It's a tired archetype anyway, like jeezus think of something else please.
Do guys even like the freaking "rescue the princess" archetype? For me even as a kid it started to get lame even around the time Super Mario World came out, like "she's been kidnapped ... again? What's her fucking problem".
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I agree about the archetype being tired (although i don't really mind them at all in Mario plataform games, I just ignore it), just like i also dislike Samus archetype in that game. But that's not because it is sexist, it's simply because it doesn't appeal to me.
Creators should not be harassed in order to work by someone else agenda, rather they should just create, and we just don't buy/recommend if it is not our thing.
I agree with your other post though, Japan may have a problem.
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I don't have a problem with it, because I'm a guy. I wouldn't care if Samus was naked.
However, honestly asking myself to put myself in the POV of a female gamer ... how would I feel if the next Zelda game had Link in a g-string thong with gratutious close up shots of his bouncing nut sack? Would I be cool with that? Nope. In fact I have to say I'd probably stop playing the series.
Would I be ok with every second male character in a video game being protrayed as brutish dumb ass who needs a woman to come rescue him because he's too stupid to figure it out himself and is better off just watching sports?
I have to say, that would get annoying after about 10 minutes, let alone 20 years of it.
Yes creators have the right to make what they want. What they DON'T have the right to however is to be exempt from any kind of critical discussion about their work. If you're a musician and making a song called "Bitchez Ain't Shit But Hoes And Tricks" strikes your fancy, sure you have the right to make it. But people have the right to say your work is sexist. You don't have the right to say "well I'm an artist and you can't be critical of my work".
And Japan definitely has a problem with societal sexism. And that's honestly were most of these video game "tropes" stem from.
Look I don't think we need to suck all the sexy female characters out of games. But I think there can be a reasonable middle ground here between all games being censored versus Solid Snake's female military advisor having watermelon's for tits that are exploding out of her camoflauged tank top and that passing for "serious drama" in a video game.