Comment Sexualization of violence (Score 1) 428
As a chick who spends way to much time playing FF7, Half Life, ADOM, and anything by Sierra, I avoid games like QuakeX and LAN parties and that whole scene not because of the violence, but because of the explicit sexualization of the violence. While I really honestly enjoy watching someone's head blow up in HL, I DON'T enjoy the rape imagery implicit in Quake, from "riding rockets" to the players referring to a bad loss in a match as being raped.