How is that any different than the male characters that follow the same attitudes, body types, visual designs, etc etc etc. It's called power fantasy for a reason and it doesn't matter the sex of the avatar the player is controlling.
Awww shit. Yeah i was recalling just off the top of my head and i could'a swore she was "faith" but you are right. My bad. I still liked that game.
While I agree that she brought a lot of it on herself and that most things were untrue. There is appropriate reaction, and then there is going overboard and setting off a hissy fit nuke.
You also forget that video games throughout the 80's and 90's were marketed almost exclusively as a boy's toy.
I mean her entire agenda and movement was a scam from minute one. She made a shitload of money scamming people and feeding off people calling her out on bullshit while she labeled it as "Harrassment". I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some or all of her most "disgusting" threats online, came from sock accounts of people on her payroll, especially once she learned how much money she could make from feeding off of it.
No, I'm merely calling out the hidden premise in your analysis: that any of these people are actually right or have the intellectual or moral standing to levy the arguments they -- and by extension, you -- have. As opposed to being untalented, self-interested, hypocrites with ulterior motives that lay exclusively in their own pockets. And as a result, the positions they endorse are just as self-contradictory and facile as they themselves are.
I'll come at this from a different angle. It wasn't controversial to have women or minorities as protagonists, because NOBODY MADE A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT.
It's funny, I got banned from the old forum by saying something almost exactly like this to you. I said something like "Maybe read the post on the page instead of the one you made up in your mind".
Sarcasm isn't an argument. Playing the victim is a very real thing that people do.
Let me add to that with more fighting game characters
I highly doubt that majority of the harassment was fake, made from fake accounts, or people on her pay roll. She would literally gain nothing from it. Especially in the long run. Sarkesian was just a stubborn, arrogant, schemer. Not this Kira/Xanatos God-Tier manipulator with a 1000 convoluted back up plans. This getting off topic, so I will end it here. Point being I highly disagree.
IIRC from the extra features/videos on the game disc of Heavenly Sword, it was the only game at an E3 that featured a female protagonist. We also know the stories of publishers not allowing female protags because previous games with them didn't sell as well. I even believe Naughty Dog had to fight to get Ellie on the cover of TLOU. How can you say there wasn't an issue with women and minority representation is games? There's probably still is an issue just because a lot of current game characters originated from those times so you'll still see less minority characters (based on general population percentages) just due to that. It's like how most comic book characters were white men because of times when all your Supermans and Batmans originated from. It's not just a current issue but a systemic one.
And Naughty Dog themselves are guilty of this too, certainly in the first three Uncharted games, where all the good guys are white Americans and the bad guys/duplicitous individuals are either British, South American, or wherever the hell Lazaravic is from. And the original concept art for Abby depicted her as a black woman, which would've made her the first playable character of color in a Naughty Dog game... and then they decided to just make her boring and white again. I guess at least we got to play as Chloe, who is half Indian (though I don't think anyone would've guessed that from the previous games) and has an Australian accent. Baby steps, right?
So in roughly half of those you could play as woman. Now that is obviously far less than where you could play as male and it kind of sidesteps the issue of "female leads might not sale" when you provide both options but it is not that it was difficult to find games where you could play as a female main character.
