01-14-2014, 06:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2014, 06:27 PM by FireIceTalon.)
(01-14-2014, 02:31 PM)LemmingofGlory Wrote: It seems to me that Japanese video games are not afraid of mocking their audience while simultaneously providing them entertainment (see "No More Heroes"). In this respect, I feel that we should address the possibility that Dragon's Crown is in fact parodying our fantasy game expectations in much the same way that FIT is a parody of communists that we've continually mistaken for the real thing. We may have just been Poe's Lawing (extended form) at Japanese lolling.
I'm not sure parody is the right word here.
As far as my views go, they aren't a parody - they are very much in line as a continuum of the theoretical framework of which Marx and Engels wrote. A parody would imply that I'm not a communist and that I have been trolling all along in my time here - I can assure you that isn't the case. The arguments typically made against communism (here or in the real world) have nothing to do with communism, they are just a strawmen created by anti-communists, pro-capitalists, right wingers, etc have setup in an (faulty) attempt to demonize or "disprove" communism. Stalin, Mao, or Pol-Pot would be parodies (or caricature is perhaps a better word to describe them) of communists - as they are not a theoretical continuum of Marx/Engels, and they certainly provide an excellent tool for perpetuating the previously mentioned strawman arguments that are so commonly made.
Anyways, the objectification of women as sexual objects in video games is nothing new, as sex is so highly regarded in our culture that it is naturally profitable to market it in any realm of entertainment - but I thought this particular game went really over the top and blatant with it. That sorceress doesn't look like some hero fighting villians, she looks like a BBW cougar thats performing a strip-tease. It all goes back to women being necessarily treated as second class citizens so the patriarchs of society do not lose their privileges - that isnt profitable so it cannot be allowed to happen! The video game industry and gaming world though is probably even more reactionary than the film industry (pornography aside, as that is in a class of its own).
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)