Opinion: On Sexualization in Video Games

urgh its 2:37am i will read it tomorow, i'm sure i read a similar article somewhere. but yeah main audience is teen-20something males so, im sure ill stick with the 'sex sells' thing, but youre right , it should be worth some discussion.
 
Interesting, considering I researched something along the lines of the same topic (although I covered more than just video games) for my Critical Thinking class's final paper like a week ago, lol.

Yeah, it's rather amazing how accepting society is of violence over sex or anything sex related. It's been like this for years. It's gotten more lenient over the years but the paranoia is still there. I find it all humorous.
 
skimmed the article

Most game makers are sexist, that's just how it is. Most of the audience is men anyway....though this status quo is partly continued by sexist views portrayed by most games.
 
ya really...i mean majority of games focus on a male lead. but then theres bayonetta...and FF13 which have female leads....the world is changeing so nvm.

all in all though a good question. Porn is one of the highest grossing industries in the U.S. but put it in a game and ppl go apeshit...they say its because kids have easier access to games...like they cant just go on the internet and pull up random naked pics on google...

Ppl are always gonna freak out when they see something that exceeds their comfort zone. as the older generations die off things will change...just like always
 
Well just because the game has a female lead doesn't always mean it's transcending stereotypes. All that matters is the way in which the character is portrayed.
 
well bayonetta is a strong sexy confident woman....of course that in itself is a stereotype of the "man hater"
 
Video games culture (at its most “hardcore”) is, after all, already a shunned, de-masculinized (in the public eye) subset of white guy culture. White men who are dorks or gamers have struggled to build up some new brand of masculinity (which will never be as good, white, and manly as proper mainstream masculinity, and white guy geeks know this) around their deplored hobby, and, as always, once they solidified that identity, they needed a new Other, a new group to define as being less than and harmful to the grand, old tradition of white male gaming. In the kingdom of the white gamer, anyone obviously not white and/or male, or anyone professing to enjoy sexuality not strictly in line with white heterosexuality is both a worry and a threat.
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What?!?!?

This guy has really lost his mind.
 
Only Americans have a problem with sex in video games, particularly crusty white people. Americans have a problem with sex in anything outside of porn. Violence is fine, even ultra violence to a point, but show a titty and controversy ensues. Plus most Americans still view video games as a toy played by kids instead of a medium like movies. So put sex in a video game, and people go OMG think about the children who may play a game that's specifically for adults.
 
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Only Americans have a problem with sex in video games, particularly crusty white people. Americans have a problem with sex in anything outside of porn. Violence is fine, even ultra violence to a point, but show a titty and controversy ensues. Plus most Americans still view video games as a toy played by kids instead of a medium like movies. So put sex in a video game, and people go OMG think about the children who may play a game that's specifically for adults.
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well once again this comes down to the thing that so many parents seem to suck at...parenting....if a game isnt for ur child(and u can tell by the rating) then DONT BUY THE GAME AND BITCH THAT THE CONTENT WASNT RIGHT FOR UR KID(S)....dumbass motherfuckers....and if ur child somehow manages to get the game..cause some ppl have cool grandmas and what not. then dont let them play it. if they manage to play it behind ur back then once again ur parenting FAILS if they play it at a friends house and u dont like it oh fucking well thats not ur house and not ur kid so shut the fuck up about it....and lastly if u had these kinds of parents growing up no offense but that shit makes no sense and if u think it does wait til u grow up and then come talk to me.

funny thing is ull let ur kid watch a R rated movie(hell some parents let their kids watch porn) but they cant play CoD cause the violence is "too realistic". and resident evil is to scary but ur kid has seen the fucking movies....and dawn of the dead...and all the other countless zombie movies....ppl like this sicken me...nudity in games...oh no thats wrong...but ur kid has seen movies like basic instinct, species, monsters ball and shit like that....ya....go sit on a mace
 
Uh. games haven't managed to portray well adjusted or realistic MALE characters, why would you expect them to have decent female characters? This whole discussion seems to be made of fail; games are not a good storytelling medium, and my mind boggles when people expect them to be. At their absolute finest they approach run-of-the-mill Hollywood blockbusters.

Really, this seems almost like nitpicking. They don't do hardly ANYTHING right outside of shooting things or hitting monsters with swords.
 
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games are not a good storytelling medium, and my mind boggles when people expect them to be. At their absolute finest they approach run-of-the-mill Hollywood blockbusters.
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I completely disagree. Games can be much larger/longer than movies, and are interactive.


I'm thinking of Japanese made RPGs/Adventure games mostly.
 
ya the FF series (even though some of em are considered trash) take u to a completely different world with usually a decent story. hell FFVII is stil considered to be in top 5 games of all time in a lot of the list ive seen(and usually number 1)

tales of vesperia has a great story imo. and most games are automatically 5-8 hours long....thats the short 1s(usually action/adventure games) some RPGs go on for days with the story
 
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Only Americans have a problem with sex in video games, particularly crusty white people.
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Yo... seriously?

Let's not start bashing races, it's just because "crusty white people" are the ones in charge of these commitees and have to speak for the masses (shitty parents, stupid retail outlets, etc.).
 
Quantity does not equal quality. Just because games are long doesn't mean they're telling a good story. In fact it's usually the opposite, especially with JRPGs. They tend to start strong but have very weak (and long) second acts, while the quality of the endings are all over the place. On top of that, most of the time is spent travelling or fighting. The actual story segments could probably be compressed into a few hours at most.

Final Fantasy games are more about atmosphere than story. Their plots are not that strong when compared to any other medium or even some other games.

Tales of Vesperia, like most Tales games, is more about the characters and the themes than the plot. The characters in Tales games are usually strong and likable, the themes are clear and understandable, while the plots are a bad excuse to have everybody running from dungeon to dungeon.
 
crusty black ppl just need lotion

crusty white ppl...well thats cancer
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Quantity does not equal quality. Just because games are long doesn't mean they're telling a good story. In fact it's usually the opposite, especially with JRPGs. They tend to start strong but have very weak (and long) second acts, while the quality of the endings are all over the place. On top of that, most of the time is spent travelling or fighting. The actual story segments could probably be compressed into a few hours at most.

Final Fantasy games are more about atmosphere than story. Their plots are not that strong when compared to any other medium or even some other games.

Tales of Vesperia, like most Tales games, is more about the characters and the themes than the plot. The characters in Tales games are usually strong and likable, the themes are clear and understandable, while the plots are a bad excuse to have everybody running from dungeon to dungeon.
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i agree with u there...but if were talking about games as a medium they not just judged by the story....the gameplay is also top priority. ppl will play a game with a shitty story if its fun to play through said shitty story. hell some games dont even have a fucking story (mario cart) but ill still play it for hours. DMC doesnt have much of a story imo but ill play the hell out of it.
 
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