Sunday 20 September 2009

Why I’m Not Playing Batman: Arkham Asylum

It was supposed to be very good, and as a game maybe it is, if you can get over the ugliness that comes with every game made with the new unreal engine. Maybe the combats good if you learn the inelegant and unintuitive controls.

But I’m not going to find out because I’m not going to play it. Why? Harley Quinn. What they did with Harley Quinn, the Joker’s sidekick, was to dress her up in a leather corset, thy boots and tiny rah-rah skirt. Now, that’s not Harley’s costume, but ok, whatever, a nurses outfit sure, a sex, twisted nurse’s outfit even. But a leather bondage nurses outfit? Really? When EVERY other character is given a very traditional costume. And what’s the First thing you see her do? She gives a lap dance to a the captured warden.

So: rampant misogyny, but not just misogyny, they are taking SOMEONE ELSES CHARACTER and prostituting her. They are allowed to do this because the money in games is good enough. But why the stripper act? Why is that the first thing she does? Because some middle manager insisted that you needed some eye candy for the dribbling teenage boys. It’s so the spotty fuckers don’t need to turn of their PS3 in order to masturbate. Don’t worry boys, just make it to the next cut scene and you can squirt one out. Eidos are the producers of the game, and they are mind pimps. And by pimp I don’t mean purple suite and befeathered hat. I mean intelectual rapists and degenerates. Parasites or the most reprehensible order.

They don’t respect their characters, and I care about characters, so they don’t respect me. Fuck them and their ugly interactive porn magazines.

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