I'll be honest with you, I'm not a real big fan of her very base analyzing of games. I think she (and the other people involved in GG on both sides) really play up the threats. One thing that really bothers me in all of this is that an article will be written about it, and most of the comments are about how the article is brave, or wonderful, or spot on, and then one comment will tell the writer to die, and that comment will breed another article about how awful people are because they want the author of the article, or the person the article is written about to die. I'm getting kind of tired of it. It's a shitty loop, and it's getting tiring at this point.
If anyone is curious, this is what I'm talking about;
http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/201...-on-game-over/
Is it entirely necessary that we need to wrap up the user comments and spend a whole bunch of time on how the internet is full of thugs? I guess, but I'm probably just going to check out on the whole thing at this point.
Also, I want to direct this towards iruinedyourday, I know that you like her a lot, but if you actually play the games that she is "in depth" analyzing with her 5 second clips and sound bytes you'll see that they're not all the way she portrays them. There's a lot she leaves out of the games, and she has a tendency to focus on the negative instead of looking for anything positive. It's possible to have a strong female lead character in most of the Bioware games (bikini optional) and that's not even mentioned for the most part. The game she even mentioned as a good example had nothing to do with gender roles and instead handled the way you treat a child going through emotional issues.
She didn't touch, and won't touch games like To the Moon, The Walking Dead, Mass Effect, Papers, Please, Shadow Run Returns, etc. They do not hold any gut wrenching sexism for her to expose and she will not give them the time they deserve because they cannot make a point for her, and they don't act as good bait to outrage people.
Finally, I want to make mention that I think the way journalism is handled right now in games is pretty shitty. The fact that publishers can actually ask reviewers to give them a good score or else they will not give the reviewer an early access copy to review their game is pretty much pure bullshit. That's the ethical issue I think should really be discussed in all this.