I’ll always champion Space Marine - it’s no Gears of War, but it’s a solid-to-excellent third person brawler with shooting that’s hobbled by bland environments. 

Having your memory wiped without your consent isn’t a violation? It doesn’t have to be sexual to be violating. Which was the point of the post. Violating women for plot is a trope, often times its sexual but you can put a different skin on it when genres change and still garner the same effects.

For what it’s worth, I don’t ascribe this to any innate inclination to sexual violence on Cage’s part — I just think it’s something that makes games shitty for women. There’s nothing titillating about this for me, nothing fun to play it through; it just reminds me of being the object of sexual violence in the past.…

I think your taking a more meta approach to the mansion scenario though. Sure he’s done it to tons of other androids, some of which who are male. But the actual act is done off screen. Storytelling and the tropes within it refer to things that happen on screen for the viewer to see, not what the viewer imagines from…

The fact is that David Cage historically does a shitty job writing female characters. The fact is also that his studio has a history of sexual harassment concerning women.

Good comment. I find that the frustration stems not from one fantasy that makes the female character helpless, but from the genre being flooded with it. It wouldn’t be such a big issue if this didn’t happen in every David Cage game. It wouldn’t be such a big issue if the horror genre were more balanced (and I’m one…

Without commenting on whether the article is a reach or not (I haven’t played the game yet, so I can’t say), it is completely unfair to say Heather has an irrational hatred for David Cage. I’d say Heather’s previous writing has been mildly charitable to his previous work, which does not at all jibe with your claim…

I disagree. I know what sequence you’re referring to but being “born” into abuse and living through it is way different than being “born” into privilege and having said privilege taken away.

Hey now, that’s a complete lie and you should be ashamed of yourself for spreading it, that’s not at all what happened!

Sort of. I can’t comment on Detroit, and Two Souls was just about unplayable (sorry, just my opinion, I downloaded it for free from PSN and deleted it about an hour in) so I can’t talk about that one either.

It’s more accurate to say that she is suggesting that Cage has an uncomfortable relationship with women (as a category, not necessarily interpersonally) which is expressed in a similar manner to other men whom have proven to be abusers or who have escalated their behavior to abuse.

And this was the one review I needed to read to make up my mind on playing this game.

Isn’t also the only other main female character a sex robot.

By contributing in material and intentional ways to a disgusting campaign of misogyny and racism that scarred the industry forever, obviously.

If you are going to read my comment please read to the end because I’m not going to sugar coat this. I hated Total Biscuit. I hated his guts. I hated his holier than thou attitude, his pretentious demeanor, his talking down to game developers, his dismissal of 30fps games as a whole, his shitty tweets and his voice…

how the fuck did he change gaming?

Holy shit. I know the big C comes down hard on some people. But I really expected a few more months out of him. Not really a fan, but I guess I expected him to be around a bit longer. RIP John Bain.

I hope his family and friends are coping with their lost as best they can.

Found a troll that couldn’t get past the filter.

Just imagine having a life shitty enough that spending hours and days harassing a banana over the Internet seems like a good use of time.

So why aren’t the people orchestrating this bullshitery banned from Twitch? Seems like this GreekGodX guy should be permabanned.