Recent content by Olikar

Moralising over art and calling for censorship makes me think she is less critic, more lunatic. If she really was a critic and was building her ideas around literary criticism she wouldn't make nonsense alarmist implications (such as implying video game violence leads to the acceptance of...

Classic in what sense? if you mean games that will go down as classics with the general gaming populous then I Imagine it'll be things like Skyrim, Bioshock infinite, COD and Mass effect (much to my dismay). If you mean games I will look back on and consider classics then I'd probably go for...

Again you can't accurately say it primary effects women, and it still has no relevance to your ludicrous claims that women are at constant day to day fear of rape in the western world. Yes but that has nothing to with being offensive but the joke being crap, if a joke was offensive but funny...

Then you wont mind me ignoring your claim that one in four women suffer rape or other forms of sexual abuse since most of those statistics are made mainly up of an estimated number of unreported or unproven cases of rape (all we have to indicate for what is definitely true are proven rapes)...

Given the stigma surrounding not only rape in general but particularly rape where the victim is male you cannot accurately say that women are more likely to be raped then men are. Complete and utter drivel, most women in the western world don't live with a day to day fear of being raped...

Are you going to back that up or just assert it? Sexism implies intent, you can only say the depiction of a certain character is sexist if there is clear intent for it to be sexist. No it wouldn't, at most you could say the film within the game is condoning rape (even that is a dubious...

I don't think it has anything to do with tone, I think they simply didn't want to deal with a shitstorm. Actually that should be the main issue at hand. Anything can be sexist if you wish to interpret it that way. Maybe but if they chose not to change it the claims of sexism wouldn't...

Oh please, it's easy to simply tell people to get a job and get out of poverty and gang life but in reality it's never as easy to actually do it.

So what if someone who played HM where the victim of extreme physical violence (but survived)?

Painting the devs as people who 'profit from rape' thus attempting to make the devs appear immoral to the rest of society is very clearly a form of social pressure. Again I said it's fine to exercise your power as a consumer but that's not what most of the 'criticism' against this scene...

Clearly you don't understand what censorship is, people applying pressure on an artist to remove content from his art due to their own social and political values is censorship. If people had said they simply wouldn't buy the game then that would have been acceptable and wouldn't have been a...

They where clearly pressured to make the 'choice' to remove the rape scene from the PAX demo, in what way is that not censorship?

OH GOD what the fuck are Game Freak doing? please stop this now! after Bioshock Infinite, Last Light and Rome 2 I can't take another disappointment in gaming this year...

The phrase "this sucks" is a statement on the quality of a game, the phrase "this is sexist" is nothing more than moralising over art.

The devs can hardly be blamed for what people put in fan art can they?