It doesn't matter. Games are diversions. As I said earlier...I'm not defined by games. I hope no one here defines himself by games.
No but for a lot of people it's there hobby, like fixing a car, growing a garden, collecting coins. So people are emotionally connected to the games they play.
You brought up one game. Whooptie-doo.
I've played a number of games in my life. I have noticed a trend. Yes, some games are better and more intelligent. I'd cite Half Life 2's Alyx and The Darkness II's slow-dance scene as good examples of women being portrayed well. But I'm not going to use them to say that she has a worthless argument. I've noticed that lots of games are really bad on the misogyny meter. Taken on a whole, it is to be expected, given that most developers are male, most gamers are male.
And yes, there is a pattern of this. She points it out. How does this harm you or anyone?
I never said it harms me but I do have to ask why you are even here. I am not here to support gamers gate. I am not here to support feminism's push to remove valid and useful story telling technique's out of false offense just to push their agenda either. I actually contributed to Anita's kickstarter (not much only a couple dollars or so) because I think the topic needed to be approached. I don't like the abuse that her and others have faced for voicing their opinions (whether I agree with them or not) and I don't like GGer's pretending that they aren't part of this problem just because they (on a singular level) weren't the ones sending the tweets, emails, and phone calls.
That said there are valid points to be made about her cherry picking. Because she shifted away from games that use disenfranchised Females as a core of the story. She has been showing singular examples in games out of context or in the case of at least the Hitman example completely blowing up the context and objectives of the game just because it could be done. That's damaging to her because it's only useful as long as the populace doesn't know the context. It's damaging to us because she and others want to limit story telling to the point either you or someone else (not digging back through the thread) compared all of the depowered female scenes to black face.
If you and others can't see the importance of these tropes and their male (but not named) counterparts in storytelling, then read carefully the next few books. Watch carefully when watching the next few episodes of your next TV show. Really analyze the movies that you watch. I gave an example and could do it again of a game that came out this year where female characters where you can get a cutscene or two of one or more of Anita's tropes. But in context of the whole game women where actually empowered. How many times in Female led shows do you see the female character caught, tied up, being harassed, being assaulted, and so on. One of my favorite shows has one of the strongest female characters on TV in L&O:SVU. A recent season finale/season preimere had her being kidnapped and nearly raped. But if I just looked at one or two scenes in that 2-3 hour span, one could assume that show was misogynistic. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. That is what Anita is doing now.
Now in your two examples can you give me any examples in GoW or Duke Nukem where Anita's tropes come in? Your right it's probably not that hard to find them. But can you tell me how often that happens? Can you tell me if men where ever shown in similar light in either game? Was it as many times as women, less, more?
Let me make it easier have you actually played a game recently that was overly misogynistic? If so what? If not, did you play a game recently that had so called jarring scenes that were out of place that degraded or depowered women? If so what and why was it jarring?