GotGame: (Maggie Wiland) - Now, there’s the obviously moral thing that’s wrong with this situation in that if a character is sexualized to the point of it just selling units then yeah that’s a little questionable. However, if a character is just ok with her sexuality-it’s a personality trait of hers and that’s how she’s decided to portray herself-then I don’t really see the problem.
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The Metal Gear series has sold 60.2 million copies, as of September 2023.
Too bad it was a lazy release. They could've updated the visuals and everything. Missed opportunity.
...and yet, they couldn't give more respect and effort into the collection.
What a terrible company.
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Yea I don’t get why they’re allowing old reviews to be posted here. Someone did one on Soul Reaver and I got so excited thinking there was some stealth release of an HD Remaster, but no… it’s just someone who had a slow day posted an old review…
I liked the game but for me it felt somehow like a military simulator rather than a proper MGS.. i got bored of that
The author was in a coma for 9 years and didn't get to play the game when it released.
Amazing how bad this game looks already. We keep acting like this gen doesn't feel like an update but I think we're starting to see it.
Looks better than Starfield, Cyberpunk and most recent games out. Still fine.
The gameplay was great. It was the tacked on open world and repetitive missions that messed the game up.
The game started really strong in that hospital, but after a couple of hours I wondered if it was even an mgs game I was playing.
The hospital section was the only bit that felt like a MGS game.
MGS4 was the ending for me. I totally ignore the fact 5 exists. It didn't need to exist tbh
I'd be proud if we stopped adding fuel to this topic
Ugh not this nonsense again.
I did want this topic to die but this was a good article. Could've done without the conspiracy theory stuff in the last paragraph but most of the points raised here have been my thoughts on the issue that I always felt a little iffy voicing because I'm a man (or at least a 30yr old little boy). I always feel like this stuff is the old Victorian fear of the power of female sexuality resurfacing under the guise of 'protecting women' but to be fair I always had to accept the fact that I did not know exactly how this stuff felt from a female perspective. It's good to see a female perspective on the issue that I can actually relate to somewhat.
Seems likely that Quiet is a victim in the game which sort of invalidates this article's central thesis, i.e. "However, if a character is just ok with her sexuality-it’s a personality trait of hers and that’s how she’s decided to portray herself-then I don’t really see the problem." Of course there's nothing necessarily wrong with this, but the evidence is mounting to suggest that's not what the character of Quiet is all about.
There's also the issue of determining that in "being proud of one's sexualisation" whether or not one has merely just internalised patriarchal values, as opposed to adopting an identity that is free from ambient social and cultural pressures. There's a lot of women who feel proud of their sexualisation only because on a deeper level, this appeases and pleases men and is perhaps the only way to appease their oppressors- the only way to fit in such a society as a woman; the only way to make something of yourself or be noticed as a woman. The kind of success this may or may not grant is of course, far from being quite as privileged as the success that a male would achieve. Mainly because their agency is denied through objectification, and their self-determined identity can never be taken seriously or as anything substantial.
"[Women] often say, “Hey, we’re not just a piece of meat!” which is true, but to an extent we can use that train of thought to our own advantage can’t we?"
'Don't treat us like pieces of meat, but let us act like we are'
Huh?