If sales improve, then it's not all that offensive is it? It's just offensive to a subset of people who aren't a target audience in the first place. And if it's sanitized to cater to their specific outrage-fueld needs, then the product will bomb into oblivion.
That's exactly the point I've been trying to make all along. Its good to think about as it has a high likely hood of making your work less derivitive. Thanks Skanker.
talking about censorship is taking it to the extreme. making hyperbolic comments like that is pointless. you are jumping from too many half-naked female tropes in games to censor all half-naked females ? it is the same argument tactic we saw in the gun debate where pro gun people were worried someone will take ALL their…
^ hah. sexism is institutionalized, it permeates all layers of our society, it's nothing that boils down to "well, she must have had a nasty boyfriend sometime in the past". And this whole thread doesn't surprise me in the least. Angry reactions to having one's faults pointed out, the classic "men are discriminated against…
zwebbie: well the major difference is that, except being a reward(which is bad), she also is the player avatar which makes her do all the cool stuff like shooting monsters and exploring and such.
No idea why you would attack me for that one man. i was just pointing out that it happens. that it happens less is also true, but the fact that it happens at all on either side is just as bad.
The voice-acting in that game is atrocious. I can't tell if that enhanced the mood or kills it. Oh well. Looks like I wasn't the only one dreaming of an MMO with all the usual trimmings, but with added pornography.
more on topic: The only thing that bugs me when it comes to discussions like this is when it is assumed a female character, or a gay character, etc. is a representation of them all. Instead of looking at a role as a character with a certain personality, it is taken as the summation of a writer's thoughts on that race,…
Tell me, is all this canceled out by the fact it is still, to this very day in 2012, impossible to rape your wife in several states? Your point on "well he/she must have wanted it" is used all the fucking time on women as well. And female rape is vastly under-reported as well. I have no doubt it is more common than I might…
Question for all who care to answer: What is your stance on a sexy female character design, that is objectifying, but is then cosplayed at shows/cons by a beautiful woman? Is she degrading, or empowering herself? Would she be anti this movement, or supportive?