Anita is completely tone deaf in her criticisms. Yeah, there’s an issue with representation of women in video games, I’m not going to pretend there’s not, but she often points to examples that make no sense if you actually know the source material. Here she points at Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite as an “encouraging…

I’m not exactly sure why does it get points for “slick and respectful use of 40k license”. This isn’t just some 40K game among the others, this is THE 40k game. Dawn of War series is basically the core title among all the other games in the 40k universe.

This lady resurfaces every 6 months with the same tired schtick - a surface understanding of a medium she doesn’t even consume and understands only on a surface level, using confirmation bias to attack video games as anti-woman and in need of reform.

How on earth can you, a person who really seems to be able to think critically, how can you not see through Anita’s dishonesty and bullshit? I am sorry but I immediately start to lose respect for someone when they are unwilling to call bullshit bullshit and I find it terribly hard to believe that you agree with…

And now that we’ve suffered through that, please take the time to watch Liana Kerzner’s much better and more entertaining ‘Gamer’s Guide to feminism’. A video series with a longer run time, better production values, a shorter development cycle and done entirely for free.

Problem is I don’t think she contributed much to the discussion about women in games. Many things she stated have either been called out as simply incorrect or exaggerated to an extreme and instead of answering these criticisms she calls abuse and/or blocks the person.

So, her analysis of Bioshock Infinite really shows the problem with her videos.

She lost me when she called Bioshock Infinite’s story “garbage”.

“For all the financial support Sarkeesian and her project received, she also received harassment and fierce criticism, much of it from people intolerant of even her generally mild critique of video games and hawkishly scouring her work for possible errors or missing counter-examples.”

This was probably the easiest…

I’m sure BioShock Infinite would have been a lot more fun if Elizabeth killed everyone while I picked locks and threw her support items.

Bayonetta 2 is a second party game. Nintendo definitely has ownership over it.