I think it is also extremely important to make the difference between the content creators (game devs and writers) and the marketing teams in charge of "selling" the product, which often dumb it down or even misrepresent it. Any movie can be recut into a 5 minutes sexist trailer. Every game can be made to look stupid with…
Regardless of where I logically stand on the issue I take offense to that, my girlfriend is a feminist(Shocker I know!), the same rights that allow us to create the content we like, is the same rights that allow people to express their views. I think I made a very clear point about society objectification, which is aimed…
Oxynary said it first. Large, muscle bound male characters are a male power fantasy. It does not count as objectification of men. Has a video game ever even had a nude male character in it? I know that StarBreeze Studios Escape from Butcher Bay had nude characters in it at one point, before the censors got to it. We…
You know, I was really excited when I saw the title of this thread because this is a topic I thought the generally level headed Polycount.com could discuss in a fair and logical manner, offer solutions, discussion perspectives and experiences, and get some fair representation, and I really REALLY wanted to be part of that…
ok what do people think has to change in order to rectify the current situation that games finds itself in? If we can finally get around to understanding the problem rather than just making knee-jerk statements on Kotaku then what really is the soloution....what can game artists do to change/adapt/survive? Can we do…