The constant harping and controversy around Dragon's Crown over one (maybe two) female character(s) is really starting to feel like nothing but bandwagoning and link-baiting for page-hit revenue on the part of Internet game journalists. There are probably many more games (the entire Dead or Alive series springs immediately to my mind) that are more deserving of this kind of constant bantering about how women are poorly depicted in games.
To be clear, I'm not trying to defend Dragon's Crown (though, I will admit I am interested in getting the game because I happen to like the art-style and the throwback to some old-school beat-'em-up action), nor am I trying to say that there shouldn't be a dialog about how women are objectified or not given equal heroic idealization as their male counterparts. But, we should have a DIALOG, not the constant shameful, shallowly researched link-baiting that always seems to pervade online journalism, in general. If we want to deal with the poor depiction of women in video games, let's look at multiple examples and critically examine the ways in which women are poorly portrayed in the games compared to males. Even further, examine the actual percentage of games with significant female characters where the female is placed in an objectified or diminutive role compared to the male characters. Let's examine the percentage of games in which the female is portrayed as just a trophy or object to be won, or she is portrayed as simply wallpapering to the background of the game. Further, compare these percentages for the same occurrence of these aspects with male characters.
If we're really going to go on about this, let's actually look at the full picture of the problem and determine just how severe the issue really is, instead of just singling out one particular game and then writing a bunch of emotion-ladened trollage on the matter; let's have more than one data point. Let's see the Internet actually do some insightful research-journalism, for once, rather than the usual hastily written, off-the-top-of-the-head link-baiting for page-view revenue.
BTW, that first image panel was hilarious.
(Apologies for the sudden rant, but I'm just tired of the extreme, microscopic focus on one game, when the problem is much larger than that. At least the one game is fairly consistent with its outlandishness, unlike with some of the other games.)
ADDENDUM: I realized after posting that this rant was probably off-topic to the comic, so I understand if it or I get moderated. However, there was some mention of Dragon's Crown in context that precipitated it. Just to be clear, the rant is not directed specifically at Grey or Corey, but to the general controversy that has been surrounding this one game and the tiresome microscopic focus it has received. This was just simply the pot finally boiling over.
