I've never understood the need to combine all genres into one big happy little streamlined family. We get divisions, developers try to reach out to everyone with a single title, then when the current iteration fails, everyone points fingers and says its not to their tastes. Shit hits the fan and everyone is separated. Some people start getting preachy and tell them that we need to stick together. The sad fact of the matter is that everyone was an individual in this whole gaming business. We were segregated from the rest because of the games of our choice. There are no videogames for women because it wasn't common for girls to shut themselves in their room for 18 hours a day on preference, even though that's rare even for guys. Gamers like that stick to other people like that because they relate. People who game together don't always meet to socialize, it's because they found relativity, understanding. It's sad, but true. When they stick, they try never to let go only because they think that person understand where most don't, they assume a kindred spirit.
That's right, games were made for lonely 14 year old mindsets. Then suddenly an idea struck some idiot. He thought that videogames were something to brag about to "normal" people. Like if you told someone who played basketball you can do a quadkill without needing any allies or having the enemies come one at a time in DotA or any similar games. Then the "normal" people took that as a challenge. Then they start bragging about it too. Then it all loses control from there. Facebook pops up and youtube then we're all suddenly posting how "badass" we are. Marketers see this potential market and hope they can make some green from it. So they make franchise tie in games. Barbie, Disney's Hercules, lots of other stuff.
Indeed, it may be weird for a kid who's 13 to be playing a game about a lady trying to get with this one guy as he goes around trying to save the world. Then again I play Atelier Rorona where you practically have a reverse harem at your disposal, then again as a guy I have those bizarro glasses when the female lead interacts with the female best friends. I still wish the character MC herself a good fortune and she ends up with that one guy. Why? I don't know? Does that affect my gender identity? Definitely not, I'm still attracted to girls and not guys.
Guess what I'm trying to say is that. This crap is just getting blown out of proportion
