Chaosritter said:
Bully? Bully. Really? That's the word we're going with? Devs complaining about being "bullied" sounds a lot like how the one percenters complain about how cruel society is to them. IE, it's a load of hot air. And you're missing my point, the point is that you're not using the word right. If you're going to insult a group of people that disagree with you, at least use the right word.
Because those are stupid reasons. "We're not comfortable with it"? "We didn't see the necessity"? Devs being "uncomfortable" with making any main characters that aren't brown haired heterosexual white men in their mid thirties is one of the main problems with the industry. And as a writer, I have to say that one of the big things about being a writer is getting OUT of your comfort zone. If you don't, you never grow as a writer. "We didn't see the necessity?" What's the necessity they see in their army of generic white heterosexual men then? Yes, they do have reasons. It's just that nine times out of ten they're stupid corporate pandering reasons.
1. My point still stands. And here's the thing, I don't care if they had "the right" to pull it, "their right" to pull it does not mean I can't call them out on their bullshit. For some reason you're acting like devs having "the right" to do something makes them immune to call criticism. I could walk into the middle of a town meeting, take a turn up at the podium to say my piece, and then call every last person in the audience every last foul word I could think of. I had the right to do that, but people are still gonna be pissed at me and call me out on my bullshit. These people who complain about there not being enough DLC? They're idiots. Just like the people who wanted the Xbox One original DRM back. I know it's just "their opinion" but their opinion is uneducated.
2. What does that have to do with anything? They're very legitimate criticisms.
Samus whining was far from the only thing wrong with that game. The shoe horned in mother symbolism that was completely OOC (If she thought that Metroid was her child, she gave it up to be experimented on remarkably quick) the fact that she was completely subservient to a jackass commander who literally shoots her in the back with her being so subservient to him that she didn't turn on her Varia suit in a room where she needed it to survive because he didn't give her the green light. Oh, and you're missing the entire point of why people think Other M was sexist. Samus was the only female character in a game filled with big burly marines. She was the sole female presence, which is why the gross mishandling of her character was such a punch in the face. Dom was in a game filled with other big burly marines who were constantly kicking ass and taking names, so it was hardly the insult Samus in Other M was. Also his whining was in character considering the fact that finding his wife was his sole purpose in life and with her passing he really didn't have much going. Also let's be honest, he was ALWAYS a whiny *****. Stoic characters don't refuse to shut their mouths about their missing wives. Samus was whiny because...Hell if I know. Her daddy figure didn't love her?
No, you use words like entitled and SJW, which really aren't that different because they're designed to insult the other party. Don't act like you're above the influence, because you're not.
Which begs the question, if there are so many female gamers, how come the industry is obsessed with it's generic cookie cutter protagonists? And I find it ironic that you're using that article to prove that the industry isn't that sexist when the article is complaining about how sexist the industry is. Kinda shot yourself in the foot there. And your link between the population of female gamers and the complainers only being a vocal minority needs a citation of its own.
No, it's not. In fact, it's pretty damn sexist that the industry thinks so lowly of men that they think I can't handle playing outside my gender. The whole point of that statement is that I want variety. If there was nothing but black people in gaming, and I mean like 95%, I'd want white people to balance it out. But that's not the case, heterosexual white men dominate everything, and it's like eating the same meal over and over again for a month. I'm sick of it and I want something different.
Always comes back to "the game sells" doesn't it? Frankly I find that argument is just a cheep ploy to avoid talking about the issue in the first place, basically coming down to "It's popular, so shut up." Funny, because I don't think that excuse would fly when it comes to criticizing Micheal Bay or Stephine Meyer, but then again the gaming community pulls out all kinds of excuses that wouldn't fly anywhere else.
