Posts by Vilham

  • Tropes vs Women in Video Games

    You may not be claiming that. But she is. That is her whole thing. Generalising the industry and claiming its misogynistic. Which is why I can't take her seriously, anymore than I would take the Westbro batist church or the BNP or the golden dawn etc seriously. Because their entire basis is genearlisation.

    That link you posted, first page, batman rescuing woman, evidence of the game being sexist right?

    O wait in the same game you rescue batman as cat woman.

    Rescuing a woman is not inherently sexist and to claim it is is incredibly ignorant and actual degrades womans' rights movements in countries that actually struggle with sexism. I think Sarkeesian (and through your defense of her, you) fail to understand what sexism actually is.

    As to mirrors edge, yeah you are. Sorry is that sexist? I guess that overrides the fact that its a story element as you as a female character are rescuing your sister (also that the hardest boss in the game happens to also be a woman). Seriously, you guys are grasping at straws.

    Adding to the link, you rescue the girl in Psychonauts along with around 5 other male characters, guess that's sexist too though.

    Sarah kerrigan, only the most powerful human in existence in the SC2 universe, that requires an entire planetary invasion and a magical device to restrain before turning her back into a normal human.

  • Tropes vs Women in Video Games

    Quote from csyver
    • He tries to excuse the sexism in the damsel in distress-trope by saying that the man loves the woman. The stereotype is not based on “rescuing a loved one”, but based on rescuing (exclusively) women. The women can be a love interest, but the stereotype here is that it’s always women that have to be rescued and not men.

    Shame that isn't remotely true though. It isn't always women being rescued by men, ever played mirrors edge for example. Hence why her entire rant is just bullshit generalisation of an entire industry that employs hundreds of thousands based on a few games.

  • Tropes vs Women in Video Games

    "Everyone else, every podcast, every website, asks for donations." Every.. means all. So actually that is a huge generalisation. I don't actually know of a single podcast that asks for donations. But you don't seem me claiming some absolute truth.

  • SimCity V

    Quote from Thrik

    What other good simulation games have there been during the past 10 years? Other than Tropico I can't think of any other particularly worthwhile ones, the millions of hours I'd spend with things like Theme Park, RollerCoaster Tycoon, SimCity, etc are long gone. The Sims is about as close as I've gotten to a fun experience, others seem too focused on being ultra-realistic or designed for old men and just aren't very enjoyable.

    I'm not saying the genre is actually dead, but it feels so under-loved that when a big-budget game like SimCity comes out it makes you realise how good this genre could be (retarded technical issues aside). There're virtually no well-known or mainstream simulation games nowadays and that kind of sucks. It seems like most simulations nowadays are made for old men who don't care about a remotely polished experience.

    Yeah sure sim isn't mainstream anymore, but that has been the case for a long time. However there are still loads of sims out there, most made by small european studios. I have bought quite a few on steam sales at random points, can't remember the names off the top of my head but they were all quite good.

  • Tropes vs Women in Video Games

    Quote from Rick_D

    Like campaign junkie said, I thought we were better than this, I thought being in the industry we would see exactly the kind of shit that happens on a day to day basis. Marketing and demographics over-rule common sense and morals, and those demographics aren't even accurate. Just because YOU think white males aged 20 make up 90% of the people playing games, and that those kids only like shooting arabs, doesn't make it true.

    Personally I am getting tired of video games, I don't want fucking action shoved down my throat every second of every hour. I want good games that feature stories, arcs, progression. I want to feel that same "wow" I feel when I put down a good book, or finish watching a great movie. Just sitting with the status quo gets us shit like lollipop Chainsaw, and Hitman (recognisable by her small tits lol get it because she has small tits and she must be killed lmao!).

    TL;DR for dux and sentura: fuck you lmao

    When have you ever heard from someone in the industry that 90% of gamers are white 20 males. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that the average gamer age is like 33 and that 40% of gamers are women. I have literally never heard someone in the industry claim otherwise. (although those statistics in themselves are worthless as there are demographics for different games (or do we want to generalise gamers as well), just as there is a demographic for barbie dolls and everything else in human existance (people are different, different people like different things)

    As to the shooters thing. Try expanding your horizons, there are thousands of games out there that focus on other things. I would say you perceiving only shooters is more your problem of generalising the "industry".

  • Tropes vs Women in Video Games

    Quote from Kedhrin

    No one stands up against feminism because they're scared to stand up against blatant 'you're guilty' attacks like this one. And no one is saying racism/sexism/whateverism doesn't exist. Just because it does exist doesn't mean blow it up in everyone's faces and way out of context like this video does.

    You're basically saying "You are disagreeing with her, therefore, you are sexist" - which is dumb, ignorant, and full of shit.

    And i'm hispanic, not white.

    Wtf thrik did you know about this! A hispanic on this forum! An outrage, this forum is for white males only! /s

    Pretty much Kedhrin has hit the nail on the head. Her original claim that kicked up a stink was that the female characters in the video game industry are portrayed in a sexist manner. Which is a ridiculous sweeping generalization. Have you even read her dissertation CJ? Her assertions on negative and positive roles of male or female are beyond absurd and in themselves could be construed as sexist.

    Btw as far as her making videos and people paying for it. Who cares? Its her choice and theirs to pay. But that doesn't mean people shouldn't be allowed to critique her critique.

  • Starcraft 2 HOTS

    Quote from Skacky

    StarCraft 2's story was extremely chliché'd, Mengsk became an utter idiot while he was a cunning backstabbing bastard in both SC1 and Brood War, and Kerrigan became an emo Zerg matriarch who wanted to die constantly and she was not fearsome at all. I'm sorry, but WOL's story sucked compared to its predecessors. The whole space cowboys stuff was great, but it only lasted like 4-5 missions. Still, I agree that WOL's story is 10k times better than D3's, no contest. Also, the mission design was brilliant at times, but several of them were really boring/annoying and relied too much on gimmicky stuff.

    I'm more of a multiplayer type of guy when it comes to games such as StarCraft, but the balance of WOL is horrendous in its current state and it clearly shows Blizzard has no idea how to balance the game. Protoss and Zerg have been dominating for quite a while (I'm not talking tournaments, I'm talking ladder) and now with HotS's beta Terrans were wrecking absolutely everything. Widow Mines are still incredibly powerful, and the new Protoss units are a joke and have not fixed the lack of aerial possibilities for them at all.

    If Blizzard addresses this and balances the game correctly I might pick it up, because it clearly all looks awesome. These cinematics are really well made and the campaign looks fun enough, but I'll need to wait and see first. I definitely won't buy this on the first day.

    SC1 story isn't that much better. My only big complaint with the story in SC2 was there being too many elements in the story. The missions were probably some of the best strategy missions ever made (not hard I know, strategy doesn't lend itself to awesome missions very well).

    Widow mines are pretty good its true, but you claim that Terrans wreck everything just doesn't stack up with the rankings as they stand. Plus Protoss Air is probably one of the most powerful builds atm.