Women playing video games is something that appeals me, maybe because when i was growing up, playing video games was an activity exclusive for boys. Girls were suppose to play dolls... and the fact that there was no video games created for women, well, at least decent ones. If i ever do a research on video games or something related to the game industry, I will focus in analysing them from the feminist perspective. As you already know i don't know anything about video games, and I'm shooting this idea without any basis, but i realized that there are no video games that empower femininity and redefine womanhood. I think i will approach the representation of women in video games, in specific in Grand Theft Auto series, I remember in the reading was discussed that there is prostitute and in order to gain power the player need it to do stuff to her... ugggh! What! Why? This game think that women dedicated to pleasure men are a bad thing and a thing to be used to empower themselves. I think one issue that this kind of approach will be the fact that it can have biases and be tendentious researcher because is based on only one gender. ... anyhow! Thank god I'm not doing it lol!
My serious games i love it! It so interesting and explains the social- political and economical issues that a third world country faces because of globalization. Definitely I've decide that i will approach this game as a Marxist critique to globalization effects in third world countries. I know, i know ... is an easy way to approach the text, however many topics can be draw within this discourse such as: the fact that the players are limited to play a character that the game impose to you, that the narration seems that have the same ending (maybe with the purpose to show how globalization affects them), and last the whole text and characters chosen for the game.
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