Shit, I'd dress my BroShep up like this given the opportunity. That's awesome.

THANK YOU!!!! This is the first African-American Shepard I've seen since the one I created back in 2007. Too bad that I couldn't customize her to look nearly this badass AND sexy.

From the header image, I thought, for one second, that it was a dude.

She is FIERCE. Bravo.

Yeah, I'm going to once the game settles for a bit. For now so far the reactions mixed at best. There's this whole camp of nationalistic people who are all for it, then there's this group of nationalistic people who are against it. It also breaks down between educated and uneducated too. It's so polarizing.

How long until they have a Taiwan map where you're retaking "Chinese Taipei" from devilish "insurgents"?

It's not the violence itself that is unsettling here, it's the context. China and Japan have a strained relationship and this represents a real life place and a real conflict. It's a bit brutal...but hey, that's life.

Valve are genius. People are not so smart. Valve aren't made of humans!

no, as a company, they don't have that responsibility. but if I were working at the company, as a human being, artist, and storyteller, I WOULD feel I have that responsibility. each talented individual there does.

and you don't need to go all "kotaku commenter" on us and start crying about feminism oppressing your penis.

Criticism is not censorship.

Wanting to see less of something in the industry is not censorship.

If I say, "Man, I should would like to see a lot less racism and homophobia in Hollywood", that is not censorship.

You can't simultaneously invoke freedom of speech and then imply that people who disagree with something…

Art is about free expression, but if you don't like the art you can fuck off. So basically, not free from criticism, including bad ones. Got it.

I think that's how a lot of people view her, as just satire or too absurd to really be a sexual object. And I understand that, and even feel that way a bit too. I just think that Jason at least has a somewhat valid point to these posts, and that it's a fairly relevant and important topic to be discussing.

Did you read the rest of my post? Sexual objectification can be sexist/a form of sexism.

And you're trying way too hard to see around the giant, melon sized breasts. There's a difference between sexualization, and sexual objectification. Yes, a character can be sexy, and competent. And I could maybe get on board with the argument that this was an just an extreme example of sexualization, were it not…

violence is an outlet. violence is never depicted as an ideal. meanwhile sexuality, especially with women consistently depicted the same way over and over again, reinforces stereotypes and ideals in both men and women about what to expect from a woman.

If you want games to be called art, then they should be subject to the exact same criticism that other forms of "art" have to endure.

Big boobs aren't in and of themselves a problem. They are, however, a problem when they're the main focus of the female character, outfits and armour revolve around how much boob they show, completely broken jiggle physics, and when the majority of female characters have large breasts.

It's not about the boobs being big. The character is designed for you to look at her boobs. She's presented as a sexual object. Just look at the GIF above.

What a bunch of garbage. Jason, you got it right in the first article. This IS sexism. This IS insulting to the large audience. And it IS exclusionary to anyone with a shred of self-respect or intelligence!

Plain and simple, it is the enforcement/ endorsement of pop-media portrayal of gender roles. Women are to sex…