Jesus H. Christ. It's almost as if violently extreme racism might not exhibit the same behavioural traits as opinions on video games
You're the one implying that those opinions are rooted in bigotry, so yes, the two are comparable in that it doesn't make sense to make concessions.
So I maintain that we should still be able to mathematically approximate the outrage.
Regardless, you seem to think that this "not 100%" is a small negligible number, when you have the ENTIRE FIGHTING GAME FRANCHISE putting men and women, minorities, etc on equal levels with ZERO complaints about it.
You can't just dismiss this entire genre as "well standard amount of error with any sort of statistics, nothing is ever 100%"
The evidence should convince you that your theory is wrong. It's not that gamers are anti-progressive, it's only when certain inconsistent elements are suddenly injected into franchises, do gamers become outraged about it. My theory fits all the evidence. Your theory only fits half of the evidence. Switch theories. Come over to my side.
Do you believe that those groupings of pixels made the choice of what to wear? Or do you believe they were designed by developers, with an eye to how they come across to viewers/ players?
I was joking. I was making fun of the stereotypical "victim blaming" mentality of "it's okay to stare, she wants me to, that's why she's dressed like that".
I believe that the women and men who designed these characters were either told by some executive, who doesn't play videogames, what to do, or they made those characters themselves. With the latter, I do not presume to know their motivations. With the former, their motivations were assuredly either based in profit, ideology, or both.
Yes, because the antagonist resorted to dirty, underhanded tricks, as is typical. So she won in a moral sense, kind of like Rocky.
But winning or losing isn't the point. It's what Tifa is capable of in the world of Final Fantasy. It's not based on physical rules of muscle mass or bone density or testosterone or estrogen, it's based on magic. If you want to say that she lost that fight because she's a girl, you'd be wrong.
Tekken is a fighting game. Women have to be able to sometimes win fights in order for the game to function at all.
Yes, exactly. There are rules, and the logic must be adhered to in order to maintain the audience's suspension of disbelief, and thus, enjoyment.
A professionally trained mercenary defeating two visibly-exhausted amateur treasure hunters doesn't break the "rules" of the Uncharted universe, either.
Yes they do, because Drake has, and goes on to, beat up hundreds of other professional trained mercenaries. In EVERY GAME he fights and beats professionally trained mercenaries. So what makes Nadine any different from the hundreds of other corpses that Drake left in his wake? The game has no explanation for this, so that's how it breaks the rules of the Uncharted universe.
So yes, that's why her inclusion must have been made for political reasons.
If we had some kind of origin story for Nadine, some kind of training montage where we see her being trained from childhood and groomed to be the leader of Shoreline, eventually fighting off 10 men, that would have been believable. I doubt anybody would have complained.
