You're right, I don't. And you didn't read the clarification that this isn't my view at all, but rather industry cues and standards that you'd be hard pressed to ignore if you're making a game. In fantasy, men are manly and women are feminine. Then again, I don't believe you stopped reading, because people scarcely…

That's why I'm easy on the writers of Other M- we know Samus is a freelance bounty hunter with very little other info about who she is, or what her life was like. Adam Malkovich was only written in for Fusion, and I guess they thought he deserved more of a concrete reference being that Samus obviously shows a…

I'm over it. I just want the game to come out already. I want I want I want I WAAAAANT!!!!!

Nah. Just something about the most female cosplayers seems to scream as though they're trying too hard to sexy up the costumes to get attention. Somebody who has a problem with this Samus appearance is calling me out on disliking the subject matter in a large percentage of female cosplayers' costumes? Zero Suit…

Well, even though it can seem like the odds are against you or whatever else, the authorities are set up to dispatch any sexual or gender based misconduct with haste. Those kinds of things are not tolerated at all in our modern era. They happen from time to time, but you do have the power to fix it, which is cool-…

Wow, ha ha. I'm surprised I was near right as well. My memory of Watertown (circa 2002, maybe) goes as follows: a stroll through town, noticing that there are rednecks loitering, noticing that there are way too many tanning salons around for some reason, noticing I just walked by the remnants of a bonfire, with deer…

You know what irks me on that account? 99% of female cosplayers. I don't know why. I feel like they're a blazing example of everything you're talking about here.

I'm not sure exactly what part I was looking at, but I just realized how she looked in Prime 1, and how much they changed her in Prime 2 and 3 to coincide with the Zero Mission look. My guess? They must have gotten some form of positive fan-reaction feedback out of the way she looked somewhere around then, and kept…

Ha- I just mentioned to my co-worker today that I had taken a park ranger test years ago! It sounded like a great job, and looking back, I can't remember what happened regarding it. I've never done poorly on a test.

Sounds like you live in Watertown, or thereabouts. That was the redneckiest place I've ever visited in NY, and it was kinda scary. That, or Fishkill, ha ha. I instantly think of Mennonites for some reason.

It was also evidenced in the middle-tier ending, where she simply removes her helmet. Pixels could still express feminine lips and flowing hair. They didn't need to have a bikini to express that she was indeed a woman- rather, they expressly chose to. They wanted to make her attractive, because most key heroes and…

Samus was playable as a half-naked woman in Metroid 1. Every game had an ending with Samus in a swimsuit or unitard. By Fusion, there were more than one ending depicting Samus as sexy, with a feminine figure and flowing hair. In Zero Mission, before she appeared in Smash, she had a last mission segment in the Zero…

She didn't use all of her powers as a direct order in full respect of her mentor and past CO. Even though she's a freelancer at that point in her life, they wanted to illustrate just how much respect she had for Adam. I'm still writing the Ridley thing as a mix between the fact that she thought him dead, which…

See, now I'm just curious- what general area, if you don't mind my asking?

Ha- I'm from NY, but I lived in central VA for a few years. The difference between how men and women interact between both regions is kinda funny, but also kind of evens out. In NY, a woman is likely to get stared at, the old "eyyo, gurl", and other forms of unwanted attention- but they can also easily shut a guy…

True True! We, the more patient people, are the glue that hold society together. Even when it's unbearably frustrating, we do it because we have to..... because we know no other method of coping with the dregs of the population :)

Even though I'm a guy, and really can't relate to how oversexualization affects my gender, I can tell you how to cope with gamers who need quasi-sexual content in their games, and drool over fictional characters and their assets........ pity them. Even as a guy, I find nothing more laughable than men of any age…

Likewise, thank you. I know how it used to be on Kotaku, and how it still is on the internet in general, ha ha. I try very carefully to make sure I'm reading things the right way, since debates in text can always easily feel angry. It's refreshing to discuss things instead of just opinionating out of a bazooka. …

They don't have to do it, but they do want to make their character as palatable as they can- and, unfortunately, that is the easiest way to do so. But, while I admit that Samus is obviously an ideal form of a woman, I don't think she is oversexualized in the actual game (although I do agree that the screenshots do…

Samus has always had a feminine figure, breasts, and long hair. She's always been a typical perception of an attractive woman. She actually shows less skin than she used to, and the heels, while a poor argument for a feminist outcry, are also not exactly the girly ballroom stilettos that people are making them out…