@Koga88 - But you're completely missing the point. It wouldn't be as offensive if it were a male torso, that's true, but that's because, unfortunately, it's still (though it's getting better, no thanks to things like this) a man's world.
Women are still marginal in society to a degree- are still subject to asymmetrical, patriarchal relations of power. In other words, a women are made by men, by the demands of men, and they mightn't even realize...
It shouldn't just be a matter of "don't buy it" - reducing everything to monetary worth. You've got to be more critical about these things. There's more to this than just your money's worth, it's about representation, it's about gender, it's about our culture. All these things seem to have been obscured by consumerism. It's all about value and object fetishism and luxury. What happened to actual values?
It pretty much sums up the juvenile mentality of the games industry though, and why it doesn't get taken seriously. I mean if you don't see how something like this could be offensive, you need to grow up.
Bit titted bikini babe = "sex sells" and LITERALLY objectifying women.
Mutilating the female form? Sure you could say it's attacking the idea that women have to have big tits, a great body and wear bikinis to be attractive, but somehow...
That to me looks like the guys at play asia based their information off the rumours. The image is that one that was edited by NeoGAF users. I suspect PlayAsia know as much as we do, and have just assumed.
Yeah there's something really sinister and sexist / misogynistic about making a bust of a maimed woman and selling it as a collectors item. Am I supposed to think it's cool and display it on my mantlepiece?
Not only does it literally objectivise women as busty, bikini models, it also mutilates the female body. Not exactly very subtle anyway. Also, I think it's in poor taste given the recent events in Delhi.
Dead Island is a reasonably popular ga...
In the case of Assassin's Creed, it's just consumerism gone mad. Stop trying to make us want and buy all this stuff. I'm only interested in the game.
Ugh, if they actually soil FFVI by porting it to or by creating a sequel for IOs I will for the first time lose a bit of respect for Square Enix.
"All the Bravest" sounds more like a Dissidia sort of deal though.
Maybe it's a classic rpg featuring characters and heroes from the franchise. That'd be awesome... so long as it isn't exclusively IOS
Seriously, stop supporting IOS, it's diluting videogames for the sake of ...
We're definitely gonna get Connor Brotherhood and Connor Revelations before we get IV.
I'm perfectly fine with it playing well, and playing like a DmC game, and being praised for that, just so long as Ninja Theory take on board that the twilight vibes from the game and the super-seriousness need to go. I mean that shit's just completely lame. Cringingly lame.
A thought just occured to me, I wonder if Capcom will have Ninja Theory develop an Onimusha reboot? That could be cool... Then again I think I'd rather have a Japanese developer make what is es...
It shouldn't matter, but when it's obvious that the artist is going for overt sex appeal, it becomes a problem.
A LOT of these are crappy and silly, but Kangiason's Japan ones are cool, as is Merkymer's Indian one.
Major lol at the Scottish one.
The china ones are just incredible.
My backlog mainly consists of like 40-50 rpgs and a couple of other random games. About 5 or 6 are physical copies, around 20-30 I emulate or have digital copies of and the rest are off my flashcard for my DS.
I think I manage just fine really. Sometimes they can be a chore to play, but I think any game can regardless of whether or not you have a huge backlog of others to play. You've just gotta take a break.
I think the trick is just investing and immers...
The Big Daddy and the Assassins are generation defining across platforms I think.
Ya see, you can look at games like this and Hotline Miami and say, yeah they're meant to make me feel uncomfortable- meant to elicit a dialogue with myself, but they still play like regular games. They reward you relentlessly for doing all this messed up shit.
Any game that claims it's making the gamer ask serious questions of themselves like the aforementioned games I distrust. It's a pretense these games put up to seem intellectual when really they're just r...
Wish they'd come up with some new types.
The disc is going to give off a potent toxin when placed in the drive that'll mutate us in to the things in the game. I'm calling it.
I thought he sounded a bit like Bob Odenkirk...
Fallout 3 WAS kind of retro-futurism and cyberpunk...
Gabe Newell has a really socialist ideology underpinning his opinions of the game industry, and I like that a lot, I think the man's a bloody genius.
He does say he's "philosophically" supportive of Kickstarter though people, which isn't necessarily to say that he thinks it's totally up to scratch as a service.
Gabe must realize that Kickstarter needs policing. No more Molyneux types hijacking it. Also, less people touting us despera...
Sexism: 1. Attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles. / 2. Discrimination or devaluation based on a person's sex, as in restricted job opportunities; especially, such discrimination directed against women.
It's the first sense that should be brought to bear on this, not the second.
The games ARE sexist in how they perpetuate and / or contribute to often impossible and shallow ideas of femininity. Tecmo should have more in...