FAKECLAIMTv Tropes claims Final Fantasy is “one of the few mainstream game franchises from the 90s and 00s that was interested in acknowledging its female fans” and claims that the “misogynist parts of gamer culture don’t consider it ‘real games’.”

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I believe it was all the way back in the early 00s or late 90s when we had this dumb argument that video games created violence and that there was no female representation.

If i remember the 90s was mostly about the violence after Columbine happened and then statistics proved that to be completely wrong and people shifted to the female representation thing in the 00s.

The immediate response was Sammus Aran from the Metroid games and these people were baffled that gamers could understand that the "suit of armor" was a female hero. This makes a lot of sense because this is when the trans issue started to emerge and people started to reinforce old gender stereotypes.

Recently like within the last 5 years Kotaku actually pushed an article complaining that Sammus Aran existed because she was a female which didn't run around looking like a pretty princess. That article really rubbed me the wrong way. Like this is where supposedly woke writing has come. Criticizing strong female characters for not acting like empty headed fucktoys.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I knew parents in the 90's during the height of the violent game freakout that wouldn't let their kids play any games with female characters because it encouraged violence against women. At the same time there were other parents that wouldn't let their kids play games with female protagonists because it was "immoral for women to fight".

I guess the social outrage needed to be targeted towards something after DND. It's pretty funny to me now thinking that they were up arms over games like Doom compared to the level of graphic violence we see in games now. Maybe there was some truth to the desensitizing argument. Though I can't really say that virtual violence has any bearing on real life.

There's an old John Stossel piece floating around from the 80's where he's interviewing parents taking issue about their children's newfound fascination with killing goombas from super Mario bros. It's pretty funny to watch now. I wish there was more documentation about parents freaking out about comic books back in the 50's would love to read their hot takes today. It's always baffled me how the people who complain about their kids not being able to tell the difference between real life and fantasy are so scared of fantasy like it's real life. Maybe they can't tell the difference? Then again some people are too stupid to realize and I suppose you don't want your kids trying to ape Bart Simpsons attempt to skateboard off the roof, some kid might try.