|
by Jessica Alba 07/13/2012, 4:26pm PDT |
|
|
|
|
|
an Android based media center wrote:
Jessica Alba wrote:
Honest to fuck though, that new Tomb Raider is more exploitative and a hell of a lot creepier.
Agreed. They're desperately trying to do damage control and game journalists eat it up.
PC Gamer wrote:
This is about the creepiest thing I’ve had to do in the course of previewing a game: refuse to instruct my female character to defend herself against a guy who’s already touching her inappropriately. There are two prompts to fight back: hit one button as he leans in to knee him in the groin, and hit it again when he moves close to her face to bite his ear.
I ignore both. He leans into Lara’s ear to yell threats at her, then puts his hands around her neck and throttles her. When she falls to the ground, he shoots her in the head.
Instead of actual rape, you just get some groping of a tearful Lara that you can stop with a QTE. Or not, if you're not in the mood to protect her. Totally better than calling her a bitch and having her respond by chainsawing his head off without crying.
Fetishists get to hide behind "empowerment", while bull dykes do the same only instead of jerking off, their end goal is simply becoming the female version of the typical misogynist video game protagonist. Just as embarrassing and horrible, but now with an extra hole. Games Journalists eat it up because they live in an anime fantasy world where a man's job is to constantly apologize while women either cook & cry or punch all men for non-slights. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|