No, I meant with the Tainted Coil I thought there'd be more demonic stuff, seeing as how they're kind of, you know, demons and stuff. They're demonic, yes, but they're just as much into a bondage aesthetic. Which sounds more disturbing when I write it that way then it actually is in the game ...
And I consider many of those fantasy covers pretty sexist, too. Especially when you consider how incredibly misleading they usually are; what does that say about publishers opinion of the public the books were/are aimed at? I'm personally glad covers have gotten much better since the 70's (well, in regards to sexist representations anyway). Romance novels, on the other hand, seem to be just as bad as ever. (I'm actually surprised no one's brought them up yet. Then again it does seem like it was mostly guys commenting ...)
Well, those sappy romance covers usually have the guy in as much a sexual position as the girl - sometimes moreso. I don't see how that's a good comparison.
Oh, right. I didn't know "sexism" could also refer to prejudice against men. I thought it was a synonym for misogny.
But by that definition, any scan of the average magazine rack should, assuming you're that sensitive, offend you to the seventh state of unconsciousness. Brutal Legend handles it all a lot more maturely than, say, the average Rolling Stone issue, especially the ones with women on the cover.
*face palm* I'm hoping you're joking (the "sexism = misogyny" I'm pretty sure is a joke, but then you kind of keep going which makes me not so sure), but just to make it perfectly clear, I was joking. It was a joke about how romance novels are often just as sexist about men as many of the fantasy covers are about women ... and men now that I think about it.
Also, you guys really need to realize that feminism has come a loooooong way since 1972. We're already past the Third Wave, and some of you don't seem to have really got a handle on the First one ...
Sexism, a term coined in the mid-20th century, is the belief or attitude that one gender or sex is inferior to, less competent, or less valuable than the other. It can also refer to hatred of, or prejudice towards, either sex as a whole (see misogyny and misandry), or the application of stereotypes of masculinity in relation to men, or of femininity in relation to women. It is also called male and female chauvinism.
I played the BL demo on 360 back about a month before it was released. I played it about 5 times on each difficulty (and a few additional times drunk, which made it even mroe difficult, but more fun ) I was really excited about it, untill a few friends got it before me and told me that, despite the demo, it was really RTS, not hack-and-slash-adventure... that really turned me off to it. If I ever find it in a bargain bin for a few bucks I might think about it (if there's nothign better) but I dont like RTS and even more I dont like a game that's billed as adventure and is really RTS...
It's a hack-and-slash action game with some bits of RTS elements. Even some action packed FPS games do have that kind of RTS aspects, yet we don't call them RTS games...
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And I consider many of those fantasy covers pretty sexist, too. Especially when you consider how incredibly misleading they usually are; what does that say about publishers opinion of the public the books were/are aimed at? I'm personally glad covers have gotten much better since the 70's (well, in regards to sexist representations anyway). Romance novels, on the other hand, seem to be just as bad as ever. (I'm actually surprised no one's brought them up yet. Then again it does seem like it was mostly guys commenting ...)
But by that definition, any scan of the average magazine rack should, assuming you're that sensitive, offend you to the seventh state of unconsciousness. Brutal Legend handles it all a lot more maturely than, say, the average Rolling Stone issue, especially the ones with women on the cover.
Also, you guys really need to realize that feminism has come a loooooong way since 1972. We're already past the Third Wave, and some of you don't seem to have really got a handle on the First one ...
(Wikipedia.)
I thought you were kidding too, till I looked up the definition and had a moment of self-doubt.
I played the BL demo on 360 back about a month before it was released. I played it about 5 times on each difficulty (and a few additional times drunk, which made it even mroe difficult, but more fun
It's a hack-and-slash action game with some bits of RTS elements. Even some action packed FPS games do have that kind of RTS aspects, yet we don't call them RTS games...