Gamergate Triggerhappy: Gamers hate female protagonists
When “Horizon Zero Dawn” was announced at E3, the gamer community was completely hyped by it, since it looked cool as fuck. Then the game journalists and feminists came out to show us their “extensive” knowledge about videogames, writing comments and articles claiming that there were almost no female protagonists in videogames (something that as someone who always plays the female character I can say is completely opposite to reality), that there was the first time in a E3 with multiple female characters (something that was completely disproven) and I even saw some people claiming there was no female protagonists in videogames before that E3…
As time passed, info about Horizon became worrisome. Reviews about the game talked extensively about how “feminist” and “progressive”, or “woke” the game was, because it had a female protagonist (further suggesting that there are no female protagonists in videogames prior to Horizon…), and praising it because the males are all portrayed as bad people or useless (in the same way they did with the ghostbusters movie) and because it shows a victory of the matriarchy, while at the same time they talked very little, or nothing at all, about gameplay. When gamers pointed out they wanted to know about the game, and not its politics, they were branded as sexist. This went on and on, including a streaming in 4chan of the game thanks to a leak, till a portion of gamers decided to cancel preorders or not buy the game because of fear of it being a low quality game, used by gaming media to virtue signal their politics. If the game is good or bad I don’t know, but the reasons of gamers to not play it are based on quality, not because of a “female protagonist”, but that’s how the gaming media has portrayed it: gamers who don’t want female protagonists in games.
The funniest thing about this, is that Horizon release date is 28 of February, and the 10 or march is the release date of Nier automata. The protagonist of the game, a woman, has been receiving huge ammounts of fanart, fancomics and praise since many months before release, and gamers are very hyped to play her. That fact should be enough to dismantle any notion that the gaming community doesn’t want female protagonists, yet the gaming media and feminists are completely silent about this game, as if it didn’t exist, and instead focus on how sexist gamers are for not playing Horizon.
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I think Nier Automata comes out on the 7th.
It’s the 10th for Europe. And i don’t care about you filthy American peasant players! 😀
Actually its PC release is the 17th so thats the true release date. No one cares about the grubby console peasants port.
I do, since I can’t afford both the game and a new $600 gaming rig to play it on.
I actually wanted to play Horizon, it looked like a cool game. But the dumb asses from the mainstream gaming media decided to turn it into yet another anti male propaganda output so fuck that.
I’ll just grab Neir instead and save some money for getting a new PC gaming rig in the process.
got myself both by now, and both are pretty good (horizon has next to none PC culture parts (save one lovesick king) and character fits games story if that got you worried)
I bought the game some months ago; it doesn’t have Pc stuff, but i stopped playing anyways cause it was super boring and visualy looked like shit XD
The story is really good (in me opinion), but the voice acting is awful making everybody except aloy boring as fuck and combat agianst humans is the dumbest and most boring shit on earth. The hunting is good but that and the story where the only things saving it (also it filled to the fucking grim with bugs and glitches). it does have an awesome plot twist about why the universe is inherited by robots, wich im not gonna spoil.
The response to this argument is extremely obvious to anyone who’s been fighting SJWs for a long time.
“but the female character from Nier Automata is sexy and wears revealing clothing, so she was obviously designed to appeal to the male gaze. therefor she’s an anti-female protagonist”
Which is why most female characters in MMOs are dudes… Which is why so many dudes, like myself, actually play female characters. I was FemShep in Mass Effect. I played as woman in FO2, FO3, FO4 and FO:NV. I played as men and women in my multiple play-throughs in BG & BG:II. I played as a woman in NWN, NWN2 and the NWN: Persistent World community (La La Land) for years.
But none of that counts. Because my being a cis-male means I must be, by default, a raging misogynist who only wants to play dudes.
I really cant’s stand SJWs and their ilk. They ruin everything.
All women are slaves to men 🙂
Hasn’t Perfect Dark been out for ages Kotaku? I thought I played it, I remember playing it…or is this the Mendacious affect? lol
There are literally hundreds of games that have a canonical female protagonist , and hundreds more that let you choose the gender of your character.
I’m surprised that you forgotten to mention The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Nintendo Switch’s release date, that’s right, March 3th 2017.
that, right there, marks the return of COD: IW vs BF1 vs Titanfall 2 sales.
These journalistic shills are always doing this. They hype up any game with a female protagonist (or at least the kinds of female protagonists they find acceptable) as being this huge revolution, pretending as though female protagonists have never been done before. Then when the next game with a female protagonist, they do the same while acting as if the game they were just hyping up previously never existed. Rinse and repeat. I think their flagrant disregard of gaming history is what gets to me the most. These assholes are clearly not gamers, and their reluctance to look into this hobby they claim to love so much shows it.
Thats probably what pisses me the most, that voluntary ignorance about gaming’s past, erasing all of the cool characters and games people enjoyed without questions.
Too much aggression, folks. Let’s cool down a bit and play a little game: write a comment here with a name of the first game with female protagonist you’ve ever played.
I’ll start: Syberia (just had got my first computer a year before ^_^ )
Ms. Pacman.
Super Mario 2
Barbie something or another
Simpsons Arcade
Street Fighter
Moral Kombat
Battle Arena Toshindin
Bushido Blade
Pandemonium
Primal
I know you said one but I couldn’t resist.
All the metroid games
No link to an article saying this? You’re just tilting at straw.
Also, you seem to be more worried about the politics of the game than if it’s good.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
No Kukuruyo! Don’t sink to their level by not providing sources. Just remember how many times SJWs have been hit in the ass for the same reason
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/31/horizon-zero-dawn-the-feminist-action-game-weve-been-waiting-for
The Journalists talking about the