How old is gamefaqs

Time and time again, as I looked at character guides for RPGs or fighting game FAQs and movelists, I found a recurring motif: people being really weird about women characters in these old guides. It's little things, really. Comments about their appearance—or more commonly their sexual attractiveness—that aren't there for male characters. Notes that women characters often made it into a guide author's party because they're hot rather than because they were actually useful from a gameplay perspective.

Individually, they may seem minor, but they stack up over time, and once you see one and are really aware of it, you will start to notice them everywhere. I think one of my favorites was one FAQ writer describing a woman character as being "beautiful and strong and she hasn't been given huge bosoms or anything to make her more appealing to shallow people," a statement so heavy with irony that I don't even know where to begin to discuss it.

But even only considering games I've recently played and thus read FAQs for , there's definitely other examples. A guide writer for Seiken Densetsu 3 — i. In truth, multiple FAQs for this game zero in specifically on Angela in a similar way. A build guide for Unlimited SaGa implies, for lack of better phrasing, the author receiving an imaginary face slap every time they comment on the weight or age of playable women.

None of these examples are exactly four-alarm fires; they're microaggressions, as many things of this type usually are. It's not that any one example is usually anything more than off-putting, but seeing them happen repeatedly really starts to grate, at best, and at worst has the potential to be strongly upsetting.

A foundational Marxist theorist, Louis Althusser, describes a process called interpellation , where the structures in our culture "hail" us to identify ourselves relative to them. This is a simplification of a larger and more complex idea, obviously, but in many ways that's what this onslaught of microaggressive or objectifying comments and statements is doing.

It would be really easy to blame these weird, objectifying comments and asides on individuals or small groups, i. The question we need to ask ourselves, though, is: what's building that culture in the first place? The answer is that a specific type of masculine identity has been sold to players male or not for decades; it's built into the marketing of games and the construction of an ideal consumer by the industry itself.

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