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Misogynistic men fear the normalization of women as people, not objects for consumption. Video games are quite popular with young people, so teaching boys that video games belong to them and that girls should be depicted as objects, if they appear at all, shows the boys how to perpetuate the patriarchy.

>>304009
>Extraction shooter but Overwatch
Tarkov will have some serious competition in the irritating death department.
Another title in the
>[Established vidya genre] but everyone has MOBA abilities
I'll stick to Titanfall 2

i will stop caring about the flaws of the characters and the story once they deliver good gameplay.
if the game is shit its so much easier to find stuff to complain about

>>304023
Fictional characters are objects that exist for our enjoyment.

>>305372
Nta. Fiction can serve multiple purposes. People absolutely do use characters as role models, and this is why having fiction/games/films about strong, smart women is very important (see the Scully effect). But oftentimes characters are only there for entertainment. I agree with both.

>>304009
If you're talking about Marathon, to my understanding the current interpretation of the game to be released has effectively nothing in common with the previous entries. Not even a campaign to pretend as such. Any then prominent deviation will be attacked as a pattern is established. I haven't been following the news around it ever since I learned there will be no main story, and so if there's more drama around it I couldn't say.

>>305373
It just skirts a bit too close to the ‘video games cause violence’ school of thought for my taste. I reject the mentality outright.
While true that someone could develop healthy interests from a fictional character, I don’t think social engineering should be the focus of entertainment.

>>305377
"How it should be" and "how it is" are very different things. Entertainment has been used for social engineering since time immemorial.