Gamepro Feature Mourns The Loss Of Mammaries

re: Gamepro Feature Mourns The Loss Of Mammaries

Amber Ahlborn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:13:11 GMT

Apples, I didn't address the main point of the article simply because I already did. Check the related links section which leads to my article: Letter to the Industry.

Your point is well taken all the same. There is a constant low level white noise of misogyny in this country that pervades every level of society. Dare call it out and you get labeled as a mythical "feminazi". Reading the dudely comments posted on other game sites when the issue is address is enough to put me into a rage sometimes. No wonder girl gamers are so rare in the larger public community. What self respecting woman would voluntarily subject herself to the mindless vitriol of the privileged dudely gamers? Only the ones with the thickest skins the strongest ignore-the-asshole-powers.

re: Gamepro Feature Mourns The Loss Of Mammaries

Apples — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:08:50 GMT

Mm. Write an article about the way the video game industry ignores/condescends to/insults women, and have the main point of your article completely ignored.

Yes yes, we all hate Gamepro. But let's hate them for endorsing a not only unattainable but outright disturbing standard of beauty, shall we? I think that's a little more important than some cartoon marsupial's arm tattoos.

(Sorry, I had to say something - I love the interesting articles on this blog and would hate to see it devolve into the seemingly much more popular "Most/top/best/worst # whatevers" lists.

re: Gamepro Feature Mourns The Loss Of Mammaries

Demaar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:36:55 GMT

I know you're not gamepro and that I shouldn't be commenting here, but whatever. Gonna go in the order they listed...

8. I kinda agree on Snake, I hate mullets. But everything else about him is way better. He's not a soldier now (not really) so his appearance doesn't need to be clean cut, and he's just plain more manly in MGS2.

7. Link was always a kid, LOZ was always whimsical and cute. I actually disliked the changes OOT brought in that regard. I loved the other N64 Zelda though.

6. Lara just makes me lol. Her redesign is superior in every way except the colour of her shirt. It makes more sense, but that's an ugly brown.

5. Isn't maskless Sub Zero a different guy? If it's a new character, it's not a redesign.

4. I love Ayami Kojima's designs for Castlevania. Her Simon may look more effeminate, definitely no more campy.

3. See Sub Zero.

2. Crash was always crap, his redesign isn't realy much worse. It's kinda just more of the same.

1. Isn't Act Zero Bomberman the original design, and the SD one the redesign?

Pretty shitty list, Gamepro. Now I remember why I don't read their stuff.

re: Gamepro Feature Mourns The Loss Of Mammaries

Amber Ahlborn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:32:56 GMT

I don't like Toon Link. I never did and never will. I just do not appreciate his football-headed stubbiness. Wind Waker made chibi ugly. I didn't like any of the human character designs really. Most of them were just too long in the body which made them look a bit freakish when they ran. There were exceptions of course. Ganondorf looked great. Link's Grandma looked good, heck, Tingle looked good. Link was awful. I liked most all of the nonhuman characters with Baloo the Dragon being a favorite. The King of Red Lions boat was a neat design too. Over-all, I really prefer the stylized look of Twilight Princess over Wind Waker. Actually, comparing the two visually, my likes and dislikes tend to be opposites. I like the human character designs in TP but a lot of the monsters were lacking. I liked the environment designs in WW, but found them hit or miss in TP, etc.

re: Gamepro Feature Mourns The Loss Of Mammaries

Roto13 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:25:11 GMT

Solid Snake NEEDS his mullet. When I saw that Kirby didn't get a Mullet when he inhaled Snake in SSBB, I cried for a week.

Cel Shaded Link was great, too. :P He had ten times the personality of OOT Link.

I'm too lazy to check, but I'd bet the "original" version of Simon Belmont was just on the American NES box art and not in the Japanese version.

I never did like GamePro. MOER LIEK LAEMPRO M I RITE?