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[Mathius]

I have never seen a better retrospective on Super Metroid. If you love this game then watch this video.

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[Xak]

HAHAHAHAH rivals anything the WWF (erm WWE) has ever done.

LMFAO I  know right?? Let me dance in your face before I knock you the f*** out. I love Akihiro Gouno he didnt give a damn about anything!!

anyways

[jeffhlewis]

HAHAHAHAH rivals anything the WWF (erm WWE) has ever done.

LMFAO I  know right?? Let me dance in your face before I knock you the f*** out. I love Akihiro Gouno he didnt give a damn about anything!!

anyways

I really hope he hasn't been dancing in a while since he's listed as being 3-6 since 2008, most recently with Michael Chandler knocking him on his ass in 56 seconds.

[TR0N]

Still the guys at retroware didn't like the movie i was in wtf 

[SuperPlay]

Jesus On E's Audio Re-make - Ableton Live Playback

[geise]

Holy f*ck! 


My wife sent this my way.  She said it was stupid bullshit. 

This woman obviously hasn't played Valis, or had to deal with Character Design.  I get the point and understand it but holy crap.

[Mathius]

Yay for feminism!

[Necromancer]

I can't get past her f*cked up eyebrows.

[turboswimbz]

So game designers use sterotyopical woman features to make female characters look female And it only took her 25 minutes to point out.   

[geise]

She obviously doesn't want to be a stereotype with that flannel looking shirt she's wearing.  Then again she's giving women a bad name wearing those hoop earings.

[esteban]

I love you guys. But, damn...

You guys are crazy: the critique presented in the Feminist Frequency video is valid concerning video games (and the entertainment industry in general).

The bottom line is this: Ms. Man and Smurfette Syndrome are, sadly, dominant in pop culture. Character designs (aesthetics) as well as character traits (personality, identity) of female characters should be more progressive by now. Storylines are just as pathetic.

Nobody is saying we can't have shallow, hyper-feminized video games—we can have have them! BUT THEY SHOULDN'T REPRESENT 99.99% of the content.

Dear Lord, mainstream pop culture would be so much more interesting and less insulting if it was populated with genuine characters, period. If a significant number of these genuine characters happened to be women (gender would not be their defining quality), then I would be impressed.

Most of you know that I am on the far-left, politically, so I categorize this Feminist Frequency video as a PRETTY MILD FEMINIST CRITIQUE of the video game industry (personally, I'd have much harsher things to say if I were making a critique), but men are such pussies they can't even handle a mild feminist critique. Suck my left one! Yeah, I know this isn't Fighting Street, but damn.

One final point: the sexist trends/patterns of entire industries (for decades) is what pisses feminists (me) off. As I said earlier, I am not trying to take away all your tits-n-asses, I just don't want it to represent 99%+ of the content.

Thank you 

[geise]

Esteban.  Please tell me how you would make an angry bird character look female without any of those stereotypes she mentioned.  Like I said, I understand what she means, but she's also not taking into account the context of the game.  Some are set up and make it nearly impossible to really design a female character without a stereotype to differentiate gender.  For instance her references to mario.  I would LOVE to see others do character mockups of how it "should be" for her version of Mario female characters.  I guess it's lazy design,  but it's also not easy design for certain games.

I also can't believe she took 25 minutes to talk about how bad designers are with depicting females, then show 1 minute of good female designs.  Well those were already based around "1" character for "their" game.  That's easier to be loose with your design.  At that point you can create the character however you want, since it's new.

There's also a ton of games with female characters that do it right.  I guess with all the time she took she didn't have enough to mention those other games.  All I got from it, was any game that makes a female character look female "at all" is a stereotype.

Also, my comment above yours Esteban was kinda shitty, but the earring thing was a knock at her issue with bows and anything that "might" resemble someone stereotypically as female.

[_joshuaTurbo]

Interesting perspective.  Good watch.  Happy to see the Bomberman mention but am disappoint that there was no mentions of PC Engine Bonk's feminine transformations....