Hi!
Am I the only female player in this forum? I think there's plenty of guys discussing, but is there any girl?
As a female player, I just can tell one thing about sexism in the Void: it's not worst than any other game you can find elsewhere...
It's true that lot of players are men, especially in MMORPG for example. And the design characters is oriented this way: even an undead in WOW can be "sexy", how it could be in real life (if we consider that we could one day meet someone undead... hm. Creepy)? When you are a girl playing that kind of game, you should take a male character, if you don't want to experiment "Eve teasing"... very sad...
Look at Bayonetta, on PS3: do you think people buy it for the beautiful landscapes, and all these cute butterflies when the character jump? Errr... I don't think so...
So, it's quite true that in The Void, the nudity doesn't bring anything in the plot or in the action... it's a free "exposure". I think it could have been avoided, and make the Sisters more beautiful, dressed like strange princess, something like that...
But the experience of the game is more important I think than those "glamorous" scenes offered to us... I really don't think that male players oh this game play just to see "nude sisters"... There are a lot of other, cheaper and faster ways to see nude women! This game is so difficult that I think you really forget fast the nude ones to struggle to survive
Brothers are "dressed", ok, but they are depicted in a diabolic and disgusting way, something violent, ugly... could it be sexism too, to symbolize "men" that way? Like awful "ersatz" of humanity, oposite to the apparent kindness of the Sisters?
Sisters are just symbols, like brothers are. I really don't think that The Void is the sexist.
There's sexism everywhere, and everyday, women can be "attacked" by some very, very bad pictures ( the "Porno Chic" tendance in advertising, last year, was... a good example I think!). Sexism makes a lot of money... even in Videogame's World. And it's a pity. I just don't think that The Void could be compare to other games.
To conclude, I won't stop playing, and I'll continue to choose "Coach" or "Ellis" for playing Left For Dead 2 (even if Rochelle is the best one, lol!)
Sorry for all the mistakes, but I'm a french female gamer, which seems to be a little "rare"
PS: funny... my boyfriend really likes looking the screen when I'm playing to The Void, but not at all when I'm playing to Portal... could you explain that?