MGS2 Sexual Objectification?

[Aaron Sylvester]

Such as Jennifer, the hostage you can shoot with a tranquilizer gun so you can look up her skirt and take a photo of her panties.

Well how else are you supposed to take a photo of her panties? Tranquilizer solves a lot of problems.

 

[MirenBainesUSMC]

Walls and walls of text...

I'll make this short. The entire MGS series has sexual innuendos and objectification. Raiden doing cart wheels naked is about 2% of the much larger subjects in that realm...

And did someone dig deep in the Anime and bring up BEZERK? LoL!

 

[Brain Tumor]

That is the thing though, she is taking issue with the entire industry right? Then any and every game should be able to be pulled into the conversation. You don't get to just pick and choose which one fits your agenda.

She has to pick and choose. She cannot possibly critique them all. I know she's a bit slow about releasing those videos, but she couldn't comment on all games even if she released videos daily.

That wasn't my point. I didn't say she needs to critique every game, I was saying that it didn't matter how old or popular a game was/is to be included in the discussion.

Someone had said that MGS 2 was too old for it to matter, which is not accurate.

Anyways, the way I see it, male characters have been objectified just as much and as long as females, at least on the topic of graphics and such. I will say that a lot of games depict the saving of a female, but that goes back to a male character trait of "protecting" females. I don't think its developers being sexist for the sake of bringing females down. Other tropes that have been used are, saving your brother, finding/saving your father, child whatever. But every game doesn't need to eliminate established "tropes."

I think her discussion is far less about gaming, and more the fact that gaming is a much easier target than say the movie industry. If this whole series would have started, and been about the movie industry instead, then she wouldn't have gotten all the publicity and hate that she has, IMO.