I don’t want to be that nostalgic pessimist. We have Stellar Blade, Final Fantasy VII R, Cyberpunk, Atomic Heart, the new Yakuza games (…), but the character designs back then hoooly shit.

wow! Just the design work that they brought up on these! These unapologetically sexy outfits (women AND men, I guess the modern audience collectively forgot that), perfect 10/10 bodies (women and men) and unreasonably flawless hairstyles (the men too).

That was peak character design… imagine what iconic characters we could make with the graphics of today, but the designer from back then.

But it was not solely the design. The way women moved and talked so elegantly feminine or sexy or cute (yes, they had different personalities other than boss bitch back then) is so goddamn appealing and satisfying.

Nonetheless we should look forward! The new Lara Croft looks amazing! We got amazing games like Stella Blade or FFVII Rebirth now and some games today just Want to show the ugly in this world (Cyberpunk 2077) which is also okay, art is art, but I really miss these older sexy character designs.

Still gaming was just pure freedom and fun back then. I‘m remembering this one God of War Situation, where Kratos was like bathing with a bunch of women, boobs out and shit like that and you could fuck them in a quick time event 😂😂. Honestly, that was a bit much but it was so funny that it existed and that’s just the freedom of art.

Nowadays it‘s kinda like a extremist islamic state that we live in. Everything sexy is completely censored - sexiness is not allowed at all!! - but there’s an onlyfans link on every terminally online social media girl's bio.

Weird times we‘re living in.

  • A comment I read some time ago:

    Women’s insecurities have somehow pushed themselves to a point that they cannot watch a damn movie, a tv show, play a fucking game without feeling threatened by a literal pile of fucking pixels. I wouldn’t care if they somehow weren’t able to force change by projecting their insecurities, but here we are. forsenPEPE

    The sin of envy destroys integrity. The lack of integrity destroys the joy of life.

    These feminists are wrathful and want to see the world burn down. They want men to not be allowed to see beautiful women, they want men to all look at their slothful asses, although they don’t put one ounce of work into presenting themselves attractively from the outside and from the inside.  

    I'm gonna pull the "women most affected" thing here again, but most male posters here do not understand that the average woman post-social-media is actually seriously mentally ill now. They imagine that womankind is sitting on a giant pile of looted male properties cackling at the guys when the reality is that women have had every single avenue of socialization or identity formation absolutely destroyed by massive chronic overstimulation, gaslighting, shaming, isolation, etc.

    Every single female space has been dissected and mined for profit. Guys talk about how everything is gambling or porn or shaming for them? Well, it's the same exact thing for women, except instead of gambling for money it's gambling for likes and instead of shaming from without it's shaming from their "friends". Your average woman probably doesn't have an opinion on video games of this type beyond "not for me";' it's just that she spends 8 hours every single day plugged into a nightmare machine in her hand that tells her to be mad at them, among a million and one other things, which results in her having a mental breakdown. You think women get violated on camera for the price of a cheeseburger because they're happy?

    At least men have group chats where they can reach out to their friends and be like "holy shit everything I love is ruined". Women are forced to paint a big smile on every morning and insist to themselves and everyone else that they actually like that the shit they love is ruined. That's why they've all fucking insane now. It's mass imposed psychosis.

    And you can thanks Steve Jobs,giving normies readily available access to the internet in their pockets was a catastrophic decision.

    I like to imagine Jobs had no real idea what he was enabling. He already didn't like social media when he was alive and always talked about how he genuinely believed computers would improve human creativity.

    Like, by the time he died, he was already feuding with Dorsey and Zuckerberg about the nature of their apps; it's comforting for me to believe that he would be horrified by what his work ended up being used for.

    Steve Jobs was anti-porn. I remember back, close to 20 years now, that a Gizmodo blogger was having an email chain with Steve Jobs himself.

    They all got thrown in the deep end right out the gate, the normies didn't get eased into "internet culture" like the rest of us. They have a low tolerance and OD'd on the weirdness. Lol

    Of course, ultimately the Archetypal Feminine can never accept responsibility, acknowledge victory, or admit a greater suffering exists than Her own.

    Feminism has no power without female misery. The engine that powers the destruction of everything you value is powered by directed female pain and derangement.

    Feminism's power is not reliant on female misery. Furthermore, most female misery today (to the extent it exists) is intrinsic, self-created, and/or generated by other women--not extrinsic and/or generated by men.

    No one or thing has destroyed everything I value. No one or thing can.

    Pain and derangement can play a role, but the Shadow Feminine also derives pleasure and amusement from the activities of Omega-Wave Feminism, similar to a Nurse Ratched or a Headmaster Umbridge. See also: cat "playing" with a mouse.

    I'm not really sure what you mean by "Shadow Feminine" or "Omega Wave Feminism", but female misery is what powers feminism. Happy women aren't feminists, therefore feminists explicitly enable policies that make women miserable. That cycle is as old as feminism.

  • We let ugly women make games. Nobody hates attractive women more than ugly women.

    Neil Druckman would like a word

    We sure he has a penis?

    Definitely no balls

    He has one, but if he's into pegging, he doesn't need it.

    Women in gaming happened. Simple as that.

    Not just "ugly" women, just women.

    Not entirely true. For example the character designer of Bayonetta is a woman.

    And the producer of the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, the scenario writer of Final Fantasy XV, the designers of some of the most sexualized Blades in Xenoblade 2, the CEO of Shanghai Manjuu (who make Azur Lane)...

    Exceptions prove the rule.

    Women do belong in gaming - as voice actresses and eye candy.

    Nowhere near the design or leadership.

    Depends on the game, is it made for male audiences primarily or is it made for women and girls? That's the point

    Studies have shown that women like sexy female characters too, just don't want to admit it.

    I know that, I've seen the stats and I'm not disputing it but I also know that the biggest Gacha games for women (Infinity Nikki and Love in Deep Space) and the biggest Gacha games for guys (Wuthering Waves, ZZZ, Genshin etc) are made with very deliberate design choices specifically for those genders and dev teams reflect some of that.

    Like I said it depends on the game, and who the game is for,thats what everything should be built around

    Disagree with you their bud. Women can have any role they want as long as the end product isn't shit and you can arguably point a finger at them and say "that's the reason".

    Another example is Amy Henning.

    This is how we ended up where we ended up.

    Do you even know who she is?

    I do, but strangely enough IDGAF. The net effect of women in gaming - as decision makers, designers, or even just players - has been tremendously negative. A few flashes in the pan by far do not outweigh this negative but rather highlight the general sad state of affairs. For every "good gamer girl" there are a thousand snakes who are either attention whores who get off on cockteasing thirsty gamer dudes, or rabid feminists whose entire life revolves around destroying anything that men may even remotely enjoy.

    And the funniest thing is we knew damn well that they were snakes before we let them in. Well, before they were let in by the same thirsty gamer dudes who thought that "girls will finally play games with us and we'll get laid" (thought with their balls, no doubt). I was always a strong proponent of freezing females out of male nerd hobbies, and did my best to do just that when I could. I'm not naive or stupid, I always knew I was spitting into the wind, and now here we fucking sit.

    There's really nothing you can say or present that would change my mind in regards to women in gaming and in male nerd hobbies in general. The examples are right in front of you. There's no use screwing your eyes shut, sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LALALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU", or "reaching out across the isle". There's no compromise to be had here, every male hobby infiltrated by females has turned to shit. I honestly hoped that Warhammer would hold out, and it did for a while, but even that grim, shitty and pessimistic universe has now been reduced to ruin (female Space Marines coming soon).

    There's really nothing you can say or present that would change my mind

    Thanks for that, saving me the effort

    I think what bro means is women were artificially pushed into gaming. The women back then that made great games were exceptions, because as we know women aren't usually as interested in video games the way men are. But they were welcomed because they actually had merit and gave a shit.

    Nah, I feel like we let a different group into the gaming industry. 'Cause even normal looking women, they LOVED playing as Lara Croft or Lightning (FFXIII). It‘s the same as with us men: we see Dante from Devil May Cry, we think "holy shit he‘s cool, I want to be him" and then we play him. 😂

    Everyone like beautiful girls, women and men. We can have as many differences, language barriers and distances as possible, but whether woman or man, child or adult, criminal or businessman, everyone agrees: women are beautiful.

    Accept for this certain perverted and wrathful group of people who want to see the world burn down, that we let control over every entertainment industry now for some fucking reason.

    My man women do get insanely jely over literal pixels. These characters are tilted to the male gaze mainly so they get flack. Sure some women like sexy characters too but I don't imagine many enjoy EVE as much as we do.

    These jealous women are coming up with every name in the book to pathologize what men do or are attracted to. "Oh you like sexy characters? We've got a few terms for you: sexist, misogynist, male gaze, objectifying women, bigot", "hold on, you mean to tell me you like to treat women like ladies?? You're all of the above but also toxic masculinity".

    Notice how they never say anything about the degeneracy of women. At least we like women, they like wolves, monsters, fae and all sorts of monsters.

    Don't forget the classic: "incel"

    Also do not look up "Rejected Mates" by Cate C. Wells lmao. You mention it once and suddenly it’s “umm actually these are BOOKS, not AKCHUAL PEEPUL, do you not understand mEdIa LiTeRaCy??” like bro unclench, shits still unhinged 💀

    Don't forget "pedo" when you happen to like feminine women, for some reason

    Yeah even if said woman is older than you jfl. Olympics tier mental gymnastics to justify why they hate you.

    And Gooner. Notice how there's so many terms, negative terms, that are targeted against men. Women only have the traditional ones like ho, thot, etc. But can't think of any terms for women that shame them for what they like other than maybe gold digger? Even cougar isn't always negative.

    the 'male gaze' is a load of shite.

    Women like looking at beautiful women, too. Just like men like looking at handsome men.

    Its the 'human gaze'. and the people against it are simply misanthropes.

    Yep humans are hard wired to prefer looking at attractive people. Zero shame in that. It doesn't mean we want to immediately hump their leg.

    Yup. If you were to play a grand theft auto roleplay server like fivem or text rp etc, almost all the women will make themselves extremely attractive with a nice ass / nice titties. You would only see about about 2% of them trying to look like Ellie in Tlou2.

    Now let’s look at a more common game, The Sims. Pull up any let’s play or what we the fuck they’re called and show me how many females make ugly sims… I’ll wait. You won’t find many, they’re mostly all pretty, even the average ones.

    Dead by daylight, they always pick Sable, Kate and Fei. Fallout and Skyrim? Always some super attractive girl. So why is it when given the option. It’s never some girl that looks ugly?

    They did a big study on this and they found that the majority of women complain and say they dislike beautiful girls in games, but they also found that the same women all actually chose to play as attractive women over ugly hoes in games whenever able to.

    I find it quite fascinating that they say one thing but actually does the opposite

    The Archetypal Feminine is deceitful by nature. (Not necessarily as evil as that sounds ha.) It is less concerned with an "objective truth" as it is in how things make them feel in the moment and how things benefit them.

    Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/s/c6v2eG2n3x

    They did a big study on this and they found that the majority of women complain and say they dislike beautiful girls in games, but they also found that the same women all actually chose to play as attractive women over ugly hoes in games whenever able to.

    That's because straight women see other attractive women as competition. However they themselves want to be considered beautiful to attract high status mates.

    So they play as the attractive girl character while decrying how awful it is.

    Look at female musicians, more often than not they get famous because of their female fans projecti g onto them. It's activists that are the problem.

    Here in Asia, straight women like playing as hot women in video games.

    women are beautiful

    Except for the women who are quite the opposite, and those are the ones in control and desperately trying to take the beautiful ones out of the picture, aided by their private armies of desperate, bottom-feeder, standardless male feminist orbiters.

    everyone agrees: women are beautiful.

    That's a bit simpy, if I'm being honest. Women aren't beautiful. Some are. Some are not. Some are good. Some are evil. Women are just humans. Let's not put them on a pedestal.

    I‘m just not lying to myself. Young women are beautiful. Their presence, their looks, their manners, their voice and how they move. I‘m just attracted to them, that’s how nature works. 

    Of course not every single one of em, but I didn’t said that and it’s also like someone telling you "I like anime because of their interesting stories" and you then specifically search for tentacle hentai and be like "eww.. that’s what you like?". Like ofc not these ones, ofc not everyone, but you can say women in general because as a heterosexual young man you just find every 10th young women which crosses you actually pretty beautiful, which is a lot.

    Sure, I don't disagree with that. You did narrow women to young women, which is a subset of women. I'd usually take "women are beautiful" as a general statement. But when you added "everyone agrees" it made a bit more universal and to mean women as a category (as opposed to men). It might be my own misinterpretation, but that's how it read to me.

    When I was young I thought it was badmouthing, turned out to be truer than truth.

    There's nothing more misogynistic than another women.

  • Horrible times we're living in. That is why old media is best media.

  • It's time to admit that the best games of 2026 are inferior to the best games of 2006.

  • The industry let in people that hate the media and the fanbase.

    Perfectly illustrates the importance of gatekeeping.

  • It became popular is what happened.

    Popular things become platforms.

    I‘m sorry: no, can’t be. Gaming is even more popular in Japan. Look at their character designs (Death Stranding 2, … or Stellar Blade from S-Korea). It‘s clearly something wrong here.

    Ok, let me rephrase.

    It became popular in the west, where politics became more and more divisive.

    I know most people won't like to hear this, but what happened is not just that gaming became popular, it's that when the industry reached a certain monetary size, the big western players started to make a move to dominate it.

    Sega of America doomed Sega as a console manufacturer, and eventually Microsoft replaced it.

    The Xbox was the beginning of the end, although its generation was the best one, it was the peak of gaming.

    With the X360 generation the west started to flex their financial muscles. The smaller, more artisanal, more artist driven Japanese companies couldn't compete with the Western corporate juggernauts.

    The more the gaming budget rose, the more the industry got dominated by Western corporate slop. Sure, you could say that back then even Western games had good stories and good characters, but gameplay wise AAA Western games have always been inferior.

    There may be some exceptions but IMO the environment hasn changed that much since then, the Japanese industry as a whole is still declining.

    Bro what the fuck kind of horseshit are you eating?! SoJ fucking KILLED ITSELF because it could neither handle the cost of its arcade business (which during most of its tenure were STATE OF THE ART) and did not understand how to have a console business outside of its own borders (and sometimes even within it) WHICH IS WHY they hired people in the west who knew how to do it. Like Kalinske or not, He made Sega and Sonic a brand in the US (Sega was also doing fairly good in Europe). Especially by making Sonic a pack-in title, something Japan is usually loathe to put in outside of dire circumstances (like with Mario NES in the west because of the US crash). And lets not get started on Sega 32X/Saturn bullshit where both companies were basically run against each other.

    Xbox is easier to see how that failed. Xbox OG literally lost 1 billions A YEAR during the 6th gen because of dealings it had with Nvidia over its chipset and the parts it cost to make the damn thing. If it wasnt for M$s deep pockets, it would have been dead there and then. 360 was probably even worse with with RROD issue which was a 54% error and then M$ relying too heavily on like 2 or 3 IP instead of broadening itself like Sony was on PS3 and then never taking advantage of big buys like RARE. Instead making Kinect crap. But by then most of the big game people at M$ were long gone which is what led to Xbone and Series X. A goddamn shame that.

    But if youre gonna tell the story, at least tell it right.

    I think his point is less that Americans don't know how to do business (they do) but rather that Japan was uniquely vulnerable to American activists simply lying to them.

    Because Japan itself is a very insular nation with its own things going on that are unique to it like the rest of the world. This globohomo bureaucratic nonsense bullshit is because corporations want an easy in to what they see as "potential customers" but neither want to work in appealing to them nor want to build a brand that would even work there.

    Also gaming itself is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT there than it is here or other places in the world. Consoles havent been as big there since the handheld renaissance in '05 when DS and PSP were reigning supreme and now its all about the mobile gacha trash. Playstation doesnt mean the same anymore and Switch is probably the only console that really makes money there anymore although I havent paid attention to Switch 2 adoption there.

    Remember, we live in a world where Switch, Wii, PS2, and DS are the systems that have held the most marketshare and adoption and thats STILL only at about 150 million.

  • Feminism and woke infiltrated the industry, that's what happened.

    in a nutshell. We should protect Japan, the last bastion of "who gives a shit, we'll make uber chads and mega foxes", slowly creaking under external pressure

  • Boys look at female game characters: Eewww you like pixels wierdo!

    Girls look at female game characters: OMG UNREPRESENTATIVE OF REAL LIFE!

    Girls love them. For real. Normal girls who don’t envy, they love these characters, because they‘re beautiful.

    It‘s just these feminist bitches, who are envying and complaining. 

    Yeah I get that there are decent chicks out there.

    I was just making a point to respond to your OP

  • What they did to a Kratos and the God of War games is a crime. They went from rage fueled excessive violence with a splash of boobies to “We must be better” and whiny kids. My boy went from the epitome of testosterone to the apex of estrogen in males.

    To answer your question: it’s a mixture of vocal but unpopular politics being heavily pushed through media outlets, backlash over gamergate and the rise of popularity of shit heads like Anita Sarkeesian, mixed with advocacy groups being hired and possibly providing funding to design these types of ugly characters in the name of “modern audiences” (Sweet Baby Inc, for example), mixed with far leftist angry female and cuck male designers thinking their social justice warriors having heavy influence on character design (and self-inserting, which was a weird AF trend for a short time). Things are slowly coming back around as development and production companies learn these types of designs and ideas don’t sell, but it’s going to take time.

  • unapologetically sexy outfits

    Why should anyone "be apologizing" for wanting sexy outfits?

    Do not even use the word, it's literally what they want you to use.

  • SJWs like feminists and wokies have infiltrated both the game studios and the communities. That’s the ultimate reason why modern gaming had lost too much quality nowadays.

  • It became a victim of its own success, games went from being made by small teams of passionate and semi-autistic men to large groups of diverse women and activists under corporations who don't understand gaming.

  • Call me crazy, but I have a theory: After years of bad rep from game dev as a career (low paid, grind culture, unstability,...), the real competent ones would rather switch to betters careers than sticking with that "dream job".

    So only the nutjobs who believe they need to "make a change", idealist, incompetent... stick with it.

    You know, like "starving comic artist" type but for game dev.

  • its so sad we have this beefy hardware to make damn near anything we want aesthetically and it was wasted on making everything ugly. the ps3/360 era paid more attention to aesthetics than today

  • Nowadays it‘s kinda like a extremist islamic state that we live in.

    The US is so close to that. Just look at Mamdani.

    Mamdani isn't going to do any explicitly Muslim stuff aside from just using them as a weapon; he's a lib through and through.

    It's apparently already turned into Dearborn Michigan. Muslim chants blasted publicly over speakers multiple times a day. They've already raised the price of public transportation. Lots of cops have quit.

    The libs are adopting muslims. Which is the most dumbass thing I've ever heard. Hasan is good friends with Frogan, although I will say by the way she acts it seems more like a grift to me.

    This AsmongoldClips video kinda shows how weird the whole thing is, I don't even know how to put it into words. It just makes no sense. https://youtu.be/W7CbjY_MDGQ

    When I say "a weapon", this is what I'm talking about, though. There's no true belief in Islam behind any of these overarching policies; it's more like they just dumped a bunch of third worlders in and took the brakes off their behavior so they'd act as a terror weapon.

    If Mamdani was actually a Sharia guy he'd be governing NYC like the Taliban; he's not. He's governing it like Obama.

    Okay I get what you mean now. I've been saying for a while, I need to stop using reddit before bed because I turn into a zombie when I'm tired, and I have yet to follow my own advice. (I also yap a lot)

    I just hope he stays where he's at. Honestly I'd prefer he not be in any Governmental position of power at all due to his citizenship, but I won't get into that here. He's safer being the Mayor than something bigger like a congressman or senator.

    I just hope he stays where he's at.

    Oh, no; him governing as Obama is way worse.

    He's safer being the Mayor than something bigger like a congressman or senator.

    NYC is one of the most important cities in the world, controls a budget larger than that of many UN member states, commands a standing army of 35,000 and has a population of nine millions. A majority of US GDP flows through NYC in some form. It's way more important than a Congressional district where nobody lives.

    Lol, always hilarious to see people so scared of the guy. Someone says they'll crack down on shitty landlords and people who want to own a building freak tf out

    What I am envisioning, is a world in which the housing is owned by a collective and people are paying 30% of their income in order to live in their housing. If your income is zero, you pay zero. If your income is $500,000 a year, you’re paying 30% of that. And the government is providing the sort of… the government is sort of owner, or not even owner, the government doesn’t have to be the owner but the government is making sure all of that sort of works and cash flows.

    Fuck yeah I'd be scared of the guy.

    Oh no, how terrifying, being able to have a roof over your head

    Anyway, hope you finally read up about tulsa

    You realize that this policy would cause mass homelessness, right?

    hope you finally read up about tulsa

    The only source I could find on it was a fictional show about superheroes in which fictional evil white people strafed a bunch of fictional blacks with biplanes.

    This article has been permanently locked to all edits. Only Wikipedia Senior Editors may view edit logs or propose changes.

    Already off to an amazing start.

    The top sources cited are:

    • The Guardian, which itself cites two podcasts
    • Britannica, which cites the Guardian
    • A segment on NPR titled Why Aren't We Talking About The Tulsa Race Massacre? featuring known racist crackpot Nikole Hannah-Jones
    • An article in the Washington Post titled Stop Calling It The "Tulsa Riot" And Start Calling It The Tulsa Race Massacre
    • An earlier article from the Washington Post titled Why The Tulsa Riot Mattered
    • An even earlier article from the Washington Post titled Discovering The Tulsa Riot
    • A fictionalized account of the event from a superhero show on HBO
    • An article from a black supremacist newspaper titled The Black Haven That Rose From The Ashes
    • A book by an insane bigot named Ibram X. Kendi
    • A 2023 executive order from President Biden
    • Three more podcasts.

    This is on par with fucking Yakub.

    If you want more information you can check out your local library and ask one of the people who work there

    Stop making up fake black history; it's embarrassing.

  • i recognize every one of them but batty maid, who dat?

    ah. i feel a bit regarded for forgetting DOA exists.

    Must be a dead or alive game, but I don’t know which one exactly, sorry for that ✋

  • They stop being a niche/nerd thing and became main stream, that also happened because of the crazy amount of money it made, which attracted paras-...investors, which attracted more "normies" which attracted women, which attracted activists, which lead to current situation

  • We know what happened but I feel a shift and gaming is coming back, we will enter a 2nd golden age coming in next 5-10 years

  • Anita Sarkaasian

  • This is my personal opinion and observation and i can be 100 percent wrong, but i think only reason is this is simply social engineering. World Elities are literally trying hundred's of methods as an experiment to be able to influence and control human minds, and this particular thing is just the experiment on gamers.

    Overall goal is to slowly push humans against their desires to make them feel so defeated that they cannot rebel. and it's working. Ex, where is the outrage over Epstein files? If it were 100 year ago, American would be our there for blood.

    Also, personally, I think most nerds (not meant as insult) are difficult to control because they can think and are usually not NPC. They don't give a fuck about social appearance and hence, harder to control.

    They are doing same shit with Comic books as well.

    and you want to know who are they, then know that they made payment gateways stop and literally try to ban certain games even if it got nothing to do with them. This means, they control the flow of money.

    Ex, where is the outrage over Epstein files?

    Conservaturds too busy pounding on the chest screaming "America, fuck yeah!" over another foreign war to spread ''democracy''. Libturds too busy outraged over pro-illegal immigration woman FAFO after trying to run over an ICE cop. The system is working as intended.

  • I know people like to blame politics and bad actors entering the industry, which is true. But I would like to a put a lot of blame on people like Keiji Inafune who were obsessed with westernizing Japanese video games. Devil May Cry 4, at the time, was the best selling entry in the DMC franchise. Despite that fact, Inafune still pushed for the series to be handed to a western studio to make DmC: Devil May Cry, a rancid, awful reboot completely removed of any kind attractiveness in everything from gameplay to character design.

    Then you have other people, like that infamous "indie developer" panel where Phil Fish tells a Japanese dev, Makoto Goto, who worked FF games among others, that "Japanese games just suck." The developers of Super Meat Boy and Braid were right alongside him yucking it up. While it clearly aged incredibly poorly from our current hindsight. But AT THE TIME it was untrue Demon Souls had already come out and Dark Souls was literally either gonna release or was released.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKUGwlFJAHw

  • You didn't even use the hottest Soul Calibur character.

  • To a degree, when they first started going on about wanting more diversity in characters, I would've been ok with it. A lot of female game (& film & tv) characters mostly fit into a standard template of "attractive character" - slim, slight hips, modest bust, slight ass. Its like they all go through an accepted mold of what an attractive female character is allowed to be.

    So, you want more variety? Sure, that would be great! More variety in bust size, hip size, height, weight, build, etc. Of course, they didn't actually want more variety and actually diversity, just female characters made mannish, androgynous, and looking like their own uggo selves.

    This is what happens when something gets too popular, at best it dilutes itself. At worst, outside forces come in and start radically changing it.

  • We allowed morbidly obese Tumblrinas and [REDACTED]s to become game devs.

    This is why gatekeeping is important.

  • Neckbeards thought hiring female co-workers will increase their chances of getting laid.

    Now they are unemployed and playing gay porn. And the rest of us have to suffer because it turns out, no matter how much DEI you throw at women. They still can't figure how write or code worth a damn. 🤷‍♂️

  • TLDR the late 90s early 00s lunatics infiltrated entertainment. Slowly but surely made sure their pals were hired. Ran off the real talent. Now here we are.

  • Everyone's collective little sisters decided they wanted to play and ruined the game. Nobody ever grows up, and the politics of being a 10 year old little boy dealing with an 8 year old little sister never ends.

    1. Eve and the apple

    2. GamerGate

    One is selfexplanatory...everything went to shit from there.

    As for two, when presented with rotten apples within their ranks, what did the gaming media do? A) purged and denounced them, showing professionalism and integrity or B) sided with trash, threw everything away and started waging eternal war against gaming over rancid boipussy of Zoey Quinn? I think we ll know the answer to that...

  • When gaming wasn't afraid of being sexy was its best era, indeed. Censorship can fuck off. Lightning and Serah were such baddies.

    Btw, even though I enjoyed FF VII Remake and Rebirth, OG FF VII is still better.

  • Harvey Smith listened to Sarkeesian.

  • Fuck “realism”. If your game has fantastical elements, it absolutely can have hot people wearing stylish clothes.

    Also, Trish is the best girl here.

    Absolutely. I always hated realism. Boring af.

  • We have Stellar Blade, Final Fantasy VII R, Cyberpunk, Atomic Heart, the new Yakuza games

    All made by non-US studios.

    So, to answer you question: US based studios started developing games influenced by their stupid culture. That's what happened.

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  • Just part of AAA games are affected. The vast majority of indie games are doing fine.

    Doesn’t help the situation of AAA games

  • With the rise of authoritarians come the advent of prudes, because what else to support the iron fist better than getting rid of the supposed representatives for degeneracy?

  • well the majority of these character are from japan Lol . if your talking about the west then yeah rofl west is cooked . East asia largely the same

  • It became gentrified (but without the benefits).

  • Time for the weekly, mod-approved "what happened?" thread I see, with a dash of appeasement optimism. Daring today, KiA /s

    Sometimes it feels like this place is a never ending circle of the same exact discussions, perpetually asking what went wrong, when the root causes have been obvious for years now. Anything else gets insta deleted I guess. 

  • Who is this character next to Trish? Also most of those characters are from asian companies... and they characters still looks good.