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Xelebes idea of "political purposes" is "anything that opposed my own personal moral ontology" apparently

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this needs a video NOW

s'how I did it

Nah, see, I think even dmc3 wasn't that deep as far as gameplay goes. Not to say it wasn't balls-hard, just that there was a serious problem with dominant strategy, making it so you could pretty much just mash X a lot and kill shit with Agni-Rudra or Rebellion and never have much of a problem, granted you could avoid damage somehow. So that's how my experience felt, even though it was crazy fun. In something like Ninja Gaiden, if you wanted to beat that shit on Master Ninja, You had to fucking know EVERY WEAPON AND COMBO for EVERY SITUATION, not to mention be a fucking master at parrying. It's not that every piece of combat was engaging or rewarding, it was that they were NECESSARY to completing the experience. Which is, in its own way, extremely fun as well. Same for dmc1, except for Nightmare-beta, that shit was worthless. That's what I meant by my comment

I don't really see how reductionism helps you here. I've not played DmC, but I quite fondly remember playing DMC3 in a manner quite similar to your boiled-down opinion of DmC, and had a huge blast. I mean, I died a lot too, but at no point did I really feel like I was doing anything more than pressing the attack button a fuckton of times while occasionally using trickster to be an huge asshole. The only action games I've played that I can really define my playthroughs of as anything more than "mashing X a lot until cutscenes happen" would be Ninja Gaiden and DMC1.

None of these things are really that big of a deal, dude

wait so your saying that in a world with cameras, public address systems, a world bank, organized, televized sports, magic, a giantass world-unifying religion, and BATHROOMS you think it's unlikely that people wash themselves?

So funnily enough I just started playing FFX again so my partner could experience it. The "HAAAA HAAAA HAAAA" scene is actually extremely well-put-together, as well as forcibly, intentionally, painfully awkward for everyone involved (except poor Tidus), and ultimately extremely depressing given the context of the game. Amazing how your view of a game can change with 10 years.

But if I make it look like you're attacking me personally, it's a free ticket to not feel obligated to think about what you say!

it'd just be a buncha dicks

alright we reached our laugh-joke quota for this final fantasy thread

instantly most anticipated game of 2014 and Logan Cunningham is coming back to narrate.

Just got to watching this due to a bit of worry about Thunderf00t. Sorry, but it's pretty much spot-on. I've never actually heard a "sexism against men" reductio argument used effectively until this video. Very, very good analysis of Anita's Texas Sharpshooting. Everyone should watch 7:50 to 11:05, if they choose to watch any of it all. As a final word for this thread, since I feel I've heard enough about it at this point, I'd like to highlight that, for other feminists out there, Anita Sarkeesian's words as a feminist should be taken with more than a few grains of salt, if for no other reason than for her comical ability to misread just about anything, even fellow (and excessively more successful) feminists (such as Amanda Palmer, who even I as a non-feminist have insane amounts of respect for). If you want some good feminist philosophy, read up on Amanda Palmer, or give her music a listen. Or read some Sally Tisdale.

not openly condemning another culture on the basis that i am immersed in a culture with different standards makes a pedophile apparently

Oh my god, something that depicts the social fantasies, ideals, and institutions of non-American culture disturbs me! I dunno, I guess Japanese society's ages-old infatuation with youth just doesn't bother me. Also: Moviebob tackles a few of my unstated personal thoughts on Sarkeesian's video.

oh my god that was amazing

See the words "pragmatic attempt" and "not addressing the problem at all".

Sense isn't part of the equation when you filter absolutely everything you see into collections of social statements. Prepare yourself for some serious allegations of latent/learned sexism.

instantly reminded me of hoooooo boy

You really have no right to ask me to be more clear if you're willingly only reading half of what I write. Just gonna leave that there. I literally answered BOTH of your replies in the posts you half-quote. did I miss the free blinders kiosk on the way into this thread?

Rosalina from your favorite series to misrepresent, Yuna from FFX, Bayonetta (if you're a sex-negative feminist you will disagree of course), Maria Traydor from Star Ocean 3, Penelo from FFXII, Zelda/Shiek, Farore, Din, Nayru, Impa, Saria, and more from Zelda, the list REALLY does go on. How's that for narrow? EDIT: If you want to throw all stereotyping ever out of the storyteller's toolbox, go ahead. Actual storytellers probably won't really pay attention to you trying to do that. A bucktoothed Asian farmer in a straw hat is not racist. APPLYING a derisive, jocular, or malicious characterization WOULD be racist (see myriad depictions in American film history). I've seen a fair few bucktoothed Asian farmers kick ass is kung fu flicks. Tropes, like any tool, are defined by how they are used. Insert "you're so racist" replies here. Yes because I explicitly said "don't talk about it". That's totally what I said. I totally DIDN'T say that every trope in the toolbox SHOULD BE SCRUTINIZED or anything. I didn't say that at all. I said that video games, as a new medium, should not be treated in the same way film, literature, and a plethora of emerging genres of music throughout the centuries were treated, e.g. with heavy-handed, dogmatic moralizing. Which, amusingly enough, nearly ubiquitously came down from academic and scholarly institutions.

Perhaps because the actual answer is that "needing to be rescued" is only problematic if it is institutionally, universally applied to characters of one and only one gender on the sole basis of being that gender. Keep in mind that saying it "is" is different from saying it "was". A trope should never ever be considered problematic in itself. It's application, however, should always be scrutinized. The last thing a fledgling narrative medium needs is to be treated with dogmatic moralizing. EDIT: Wooo now a Belmont