Greg the White wrote:

DarknessDeku wrote: ShadowViperX wrote: Unfortunately, lagging is always going to be a part of online games, despite how much I agree. Sometimes there'll be that one computer with piss-poor performance and lots of other people get dragged down with it. Also, imo, Maple Story does NOT suck. NEXON does. Mostly. Furthermore, I myself am not one who'll judge someone's orientation because they feel strongly against sexism. I myself was in something of a situation like that, though I morely got myself out. During college, while I had a girlfriend, I went to a mall nearby and bought DOA XBV, mainly because I'm a huge fan of DOA. On my way out of the mall, I took another look at the game, and ultimately reconsidered. It wasn't that I was uncomfortable, rather it was because, as a guy with a relationship, I didn't need to throw a game like that in and risk generating negative opinions. ... why are you worried that people will be offended over a game? Girls in bikinis does not equal sexism. Thing is, it's hard to feel like I have respect for the video game industry when a lot of the stuff seems so gender exclusive. If a game portrayed black people as loving fried chicken and talking like Mammy, or Latinos wearing sombreros and eating tacos, everyone would be offended, so why not be a little pissed off that 90% of women in the games are usually: 1)Tall, big-boobed, tiny-waisted, wide-hipped 2)Either insultingly ditzy or patronizingly tough to the point of bulldyke-ish 3)Almost always some kind of love interest who buckles under a male's charm like a good slave Do you wonder why women flock out to buy stuff like Animal Crossing and cartoony Wii Games? According to surveys, women like to feel comfortable while playing games, and they generally respond to stuff like Bloodrayne and DOAX like they respond to Playboy or movies of the same kind. It will help the industry sell more, plus remove the old stereotypes that all gamers are a bunch of sexually repressed social rejects.

I've got to say, this sounds like a feminazi is holding you at gunpoint.

In my experience, very few women know anything about videogames, and even fewer actually enjoy playing them with any regularity. (And even then, it's not usually a game like Tomb Raider or Final Fantasy).

Videogames always have been and always will be a male-dominated medium. It's only natural that game makers design their products to fit that demographic. I find it hard to believe that a woman with a good head on her shoulders could be truly offended by the content of a game. There are far more offensive things in TV, movies and music, which are mediums to which females pay a lot more attention.

Furthermore, in today's games, women are typically depicted as "empowered" rather than ditzy, slutty or in constant need of a strong man to protect them. If I'm not mistaken, this is the image that most feminists want to put up on a pedastal.

As someone above mentioned, I would really like to see these supposed surveys in which women claim they want to feel "comfortable" while playing a videogame. Until today I've never even heard of such a thing.

On a final note, if we gamers are truly being stereotyped as "sexually-repressed social rejects," I don't think we're the only ones living in a bubble of ignorance.