What's importance is context:

The real fucking discussion about this is that why do male publishers think the only way they can feature a female lead in a mature fashion is if there's the threat of sexual violence featured?

It's not.

This is missing the forest for the trees. In what other circumstance is a paternalistic relationship assumed between the player and protagonist? In the situation of a reboot is not the idea supposed to be a clarification of pre-existing ideas and if that's the case why is this idea that men absolutely cannot relate to…

The important distinction to be made is that Bioware allows you to make decisions in-game that inform that sort of interpretation of your character. The persona series are intensely popular for this very reason. People enjoy Role-playing scenarios where their interactions with their compatriots aren't just limited to…

And ultimately it's this sort of ROLE-PLAYING freedom that so distinguish and render Bioware's products notable from the rest and also inform why people were so cross with the ending of Mass Effect 3.

Because I don't personally understand how a person can walk around with the pretension of being called a "good guy". People are less turned off by evil than they are with piety and the republic is chock full of the unbearable stigma of being considered "the good guys".

I don't know what y'all are on about. This is the best part of any MMO pvp.

My issue is that that statement is all-encompassing and unsupported amounts to a blanket slander on the article without support.

He's allowed to do that. What he's not allowed to do is claim that there are multiple issues and then only address one. If he'd like to address the other issues then he can talk about all the issues but if he wants to discuss one issue then he'd better speak exclusively about one issue and not have such a wide lead-in.

And that is the ultimate point of all of this: if you had actually done what you said you did which is actually back up your claim that there are many issues with this article - we wouldn't even be having this discussion. At least the numerous other bigots on this site have the common decency to back up their claims…

Except that you didn't. You clearly made claims regarding the author that far exceed merely the scope of his poor example with Arkham City and then fail to back up those claims with anything other than a myopic focus on Arkham City. You cite numerous issues with the article in both comments sections and then…

The irrelevant issue is the matter of whether or not the representations of women in Arkham City are sexist.

You don't get to redefine the terms of the argument and you most certainly don't get to dictate the terms of engagement most especially when you began with qualifying your derail as not a derail. You don't get to debate an irrelevant issue and then extend its ramifications to a larger issue because the logical…

It's typically a bad sign when you're agreeing with an onion article. Those things tend to be satirical don't you know.

You pick one irrelevant example, disprove it then cite it as proof of the entire article's intellectual dishonesty? It'd be the pot calling the kettle black but in this case the kettle isn't even black so you're hardly in a position to be accusing anyone of being fundamentally intellectually dishonest.

You're off your damn rocker if you don't think there's a societal component to how identical behaviors from both men and women are perceived. And in fact, in terms of pure raw numbers women actually get more shit done than men and yet society still considers men to be more able, more sensible, more staid when in fact…

That's just it though: you don't have the right.

I actually gave you the benefit of the doubt and checked to see if you in fact actually addressed the issue at hand and the fact of the matter is: you didn't. Even if you had managed to actually disprove the matter that the portrayal of women in Arkham City is sexist (you didn't) you still failed to demonstrate how…

That is not the point. The point is that they could achieve those exact same numbers without cheapening or catering to the population of boors that only wants their female characters to be cardboard shallow twits with tits.