2013-05-29, 02:14 PM
Kabanaw Wrote:But that's the problem - it's almost never a brother or a husband that gets killed or kidnapped. It's never the wife who has to avenge the death of her son and husband. The woman is almost always delegated to be the motivator and the man the one to take action. As Anita said in her video, the woman is often just in the game as the motivator for the man to go on his quest. So let's assume that using that tired trope is alright, and it's fine to have a person die to get the game moving. So why is it always a wife, girlfriend or daughter? Why not a mother? Or a father? Or a brother? Or a husband? Or a son? Or a best friend? It's not that they use death as an easy motivator that I don't like, it's that they always use the death of a woman.
Because most gamers are heterosexual men?