Feedback -- Post-Gamescom 2010 Edition

EdwinJC

Congrats on the Award, you guys rock! This is my one and only favorite webshow in the history of forever! I wish you continued success! And while I'm still wishing, I wish I worked for G4.. and could put in a life cheat code so I had infinite money... And now on to the reason I'm commenting. This is focused mainly on Morgan's review on StarCraft II and Metroid: Other M.

So a few Feedback episodes back, Morgan makes it known that she has issues with the dancing Night Elf in the cantina in StarCraft II. I admit, I got a bit irritated that she found it to be sexist. I had played through the game and found it to be very tongue-in-cheek and an homage to their big seller WoW. Being a WoW fan as well, I didn't see it as "OMG, Female Night Elf doing sexy dancing!!" I just saw a WoW character doing the /dance emote. They could have put up a male Undead character on the table doing his /dance emote, and I would have still found it amusing. But I let it go cause I know it really can be a touchy subject.

And then I saw the review on Metroid. Now, I didn't really follow on the release date for this game so when I saw that it came out, I was very interested to see how the game fared. 2/5. Shocked. So I watched the review to see what the issue was. Well I'm irritated again, and this time I had to vent. If the review was just about how bad the game sucked, I would have been fine. But whats with the sexist issue? Frankly [Morgan], it's offensive that you have been throwing up the whole sexist thing, yet when it comes to other games that deal with killing a Arabic/Russian terrorists or a German Nazi, or any other racial stereotype, it's totally ok then, nobody says a word about it. When the producers of these games set out to make the game, they were trying to make something enjoyable, not thinking "How can we make this game completely sexist?" I'm sure if they knew that it would cause such a uproar from Mini Morgan, they may have toned it down a bit.

I mean, look at all the men in video games nowadays. All big beefy cups of man candy with epic beards or dark, brooding, mysterious with deep scratchy voices. I find it to be a really skewed and messed up view on how men are supposed to be (impossible in most cases, just look at gears of war), but I just take it for what it is, cause... um... it's a game. So with that said, Morgan, you're awesome and one of the best game reviewers out there in my opinion, but come on. I'm not trying to offend, I just feel there are worthier causes on the fight against sexism.