Drake is given an explanation in the third game and somewhat in the second. The third mostly dealing with everything that makes him, well, him. He's an orphan who gets off on nearly getting himself killed. He's not even a Drake, but it's something that he created himself as an image to cover up his true past. He's got…

Drake is given an explanation in the third game and somewhat in the second. The third mostly dealing with everything that makes him, well, him. He's an orphan who gets off on nearly getting himself killed. He's not even a Drake, but it's something that he created himself as an image to cover up his true past. He's got…

Yahtzee's analysis of things have always been remarkably shallow. If he truly thinks that Drake isn't flawed, he's probably not bothered to even look at the series that closely. Which, for a guy who got caught with his pants down lying on a talk show (where he was talking trash about shows he hadn't even watched),…

No one is chastising the medium

No it's not. It's saying that some productions will present values that you don't agree with, which is why it's so important that other productions present values that you do agree with. If anything, it's society's place to choose which of these they wish to advocate by purchasing and funding in the future.

It's not the job of the media to parent society. That belongs to every individual. It's a childish way of dodging responsibility to say that the media is at fault.

The media isn't there to parent you, that's your parents job. No great story ever started out with the writer thinking "how am I going to be fair and balanced towards everyone?"

Calling someone a little shit because they don't have the credentials that you apparently desperately need to validate your life is exactly a call to authority. It just doesn't have to be your own, especially when you have none.

Your mom.

You're looking at an issue in the shallowest way possible, which I maintain is just as sexist and degrading as anything else within the problem: a woman can't be a strong woman if she has feelings, either emotional or sexual, towards a male in the story. She's a cliché, she's weak writing, anything but an actual…

The job of all media is fair and equal representation for all.

Ah, appeal to authority, one of the more common fallacies in arguing.

Yes it is. Stacey is calling Chloe a weak character because she uses her sexuality to get what she wants out of Drake - a move that is motivated by her past with Drake (knowledge of his weaknesses) and her goal of betraying him. There's nothing poorly written about her, she's a femme fatale who is playing him for a…

Rogue Legacy, Angry Birds and Ms. Splosion Man are all satire and broad, broad comedy. Legacy even features farty dwarves with tourettes! Left 4 Dead isn't a character driven, nor even a story driven game, it's pure action with a few avatars.

Once again Sarkeesian attacks something that is both a) old and clearly dated or b) something so asinine that her attack on it remains puzzling. Of all the modern tropes and poor female characters, she chooses to concentrate on Ms. Manning something as irreverent as Rogue Legacy and Boulder Dash? Both games of satire…

Yes? And that's a problem because? Chloe is what Drake used to be, there's no romance there, sexual attraction maybe, but not romantic. Elena is what Drake can aspire to be and thus the romantic attachment. Chloe's and Drake's past is a small, tiny part of only the second game, Elena's and Drake's story is bigger, but…

Yes, cause god forbid women use their sexuality at all. You're just using the flip side of sexism here - slut shaming.

No, Chloe is introduced as a hardened, tough and elusive criminal. Elena is introduced as a go-getter, a great reporter who isn't afraid of getting herself in danger to get the story.

Yeah, because numerous generations of strong Disney princesses are totally to blame.

If you honestly think that Elena or Chloe are defined by their relationships to Drake, you haven't played the games at all.