Portraying a computer game woman with enhanced sexual qualities is sexist because it portrays the impression that she is only worth paying attention to, only worth something because of those qualities. No respect is given for other aspects of a woman's make up, such as her emotions.
No, that is what YOU take away from it, that is not what the game itself does. Most of those things you mention above are irrelevant to most games. Now, I would like to see more games that give me more character depth and decisions in character portrayal, but that would tend to show up more in RPGs and adventure games. Not in action oriented games.
The idea that just because a character is portrayed in a physically attractive manner doesn't make it automatically "sexist".
That is the way some choose to percieve it. But game makers are not responsible for either your perceptions or your political agendas.
And I'd argue that a pixellated hunk is also sexist, but it's harder to show people a problem with it when the people affected by it like it.
More people like the cheesecake, too. The sales prove it.
Simply put, the makers of the games seem to think that players want their male characters to be strong and muscly, and their female characters to appeal to the hormones of the male players. And when the female characters are designed with an eye to how likely male players want to fuck them, that is sexist.
Yes, they do. And the sales show it. Scream "sexist" all you want. People will vote for their dollars. Such portrayals have been inherent in "heroic fiction" since the beginning. There is no sign they will change, and also, there is no reason to believe that people appreciating physical attractiveness don't notice anything else.
That is up to the individual to realize. Or not. No amount of preaching or harping will change that.
It, in itself, is not a bad thing.
I mean, have a look at the game "Star Trek Elite Force 2". Look at the Idryll scientists Kleeya. Here is a grown woman whose primary attribute is her intelligence, and yet the makers of the game see fit to give her large breasts and an outfit - an OUTFIT - that barely qualifies as sexy lingerie! No woman would look at this outfit and think it is fit for general day to day wear, especially considering what all the other members of her species wear.
I can't comment on that, as I haven't played the game. But I don't automatically conclude that is sexist. Maybe the character is a maverick. Maybe she doesn't care for the conservative, stuff/PC nonsense from her people. Maybe she has an agenda to be aggressively sexy and STILL be a competent scientist.
I do know that in the first Elite Force game, if you play the female version of the character, at one point you board a ship from the Mirror Mirror U, and to help you infiltrate, you can change into the uniform female crewmembers in that setting wore.
If one was inclined, they could scream sexism about that, since the character is fit, curvy and makes nice eye candy in that sequence. But they would be offbase, and demontrate a total lack of appreciation for context as well as knowledge of canon.
But again, eye of the beholder, and those with an agenda will grasp onto what they see will support it.
And yet, the makers make her look like this because she is to have a relationship with the player's chatracter, and so she needs to present herself as a sexual trophy for him. Do they think that this is the only reason a man would ever be interested in a woman?
Not the only reason I personally am interested in a woman, but you better believe the first thing I notice is a woman's physical appearance. That is not where I stop...but it is where I start.
As we all do, if we are honest.