Here are all three days of my spiral downward at E3 2013 in a convenient playlist.
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Here are all three days of my spiral downward at E3 2013 in a convenient playlist.
Saw your second e3 vid on youtube, don’t feel too bad if there are some female apologists for the generally awful depiction of women in games. I believe that they are a minority. Most women do not like the general depiction of female characters. I think there’d be a lot more women at e3 if the culture wasn’t so toxic (i.e. rape jokes) and there were a lot more variety in female body types especially, like that mother of three in Divekick.
Hey, thanks for commenting. I didn’t entirely disagree with those girls and I think we actually reached a decent level of agreement. I just think they were more okay with the idea of games “just being games” if they have ridiculously sexualized female characters whereas that sort of thing immediately kind of makes me not care about the game because it doesn’t seem to WANT me to care too deeply about its characters since its primary goal seems to be to make me find them sexually appealing.
Divekick actually has a character who shows off a pantyshot when she jumps, I later learned, but it’s done as a satire of fighting games. It’s actually one of the very, very few times I think I’ve seen sexual satire work in a game because it looks so ridiculous and blatant and there’s just really nothing sexy about it.