Like I said about one of their earlier reviews. This person is obviously searching for cannon foder for their agenda and gamespot let's them because it does nothing but generate page hits due to the hate it causes. I remember she did a peice on The Last of Us and made a point to make every single attempt to point out how sexist it was when at the end of the day all of her points were just reaching at the shortest of straws. "Classic case of looking at something from only one angle, sure Joel is a male, white angry dude. But what about how the world effects and changes Ellie? Hell we experience an entire arc of how Ellie can take care of herself without Joel (Sans the interference of crazy people, where Joel is actually the one to get Ellie into a jam this time) But it's easy to only look at the one sided story we always get about sexism and gaming, your looking too hard for something that isn't there." It's obvious that Carolyn has a agenda and it jades her views on things becoming utterly unable to seperate themselves from their crusade and let it seep into every facet of their point of view. Carolyn spots Sexism when it isn't even there, like a preacher spouting that everything not in the holy book is evil without any real cause or justification it just is evil because it's evil. They don't look into how the roles play into a games narative, if the characters seem real and their actions seem to make sense regardless of gender bias. It's the equivalent of jumping at shadows, just baseless reactions spewing sexism when it's not even there. Sometimes a female in danger is just a "PERSON" in danger, just because it was a female doesn't mean they were trying to portray them as weak, stupid, a object, sometimes characters happen to be female, and it's even worse when you turn a blind eye to evidence on the contrary of your argument as well. But what can you do? Hate makes money, no matter how stupid it is, as long as people click that review to gamespot the higher ups couldn't be more happy to tell Carolyn to continue spewing garbage and probably encourage them to do so as often as possible even if Carolyn isn't aware of it herself. Your boss probably doesn't agree with or support your crusade on sexism in games, he does however support your click fodder.Jynxzor
I don't think it was done for page hits, the game ( well as far as I am) doesn't have any intellgent female characters.
I'm not defending it though, I don't think it's a developers duty to cater to every audience, and make everybody happy.
Honestly the thing that bugs me more is the pollitcally muddled thing, I've loved all the political humor in it so far, they don't pull any punches and they don't pick a side.
EDIT: NVM Decided to read the whole review, your right she has an agenda, and also doesn't get it.
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