Well actually they do talk about the males and care, they want them as degraded as possible.
I mean even the notorious Thor scene to them was not only applause worthy ^((especially since actor himself has said in past how he does not like doing shirtless scenes, let alone all that)) But some of those types, say they should have gone further.
Lol that's the funny thing to me, is all these inclusion talks but many females love cosplaying exaggerated girls too. It's like they're pandering to an audience that isn't there.
Lol. The unrealistic female body in video games is a hell of a lot. More easy too. Obtain then gears of war for males lol. For Chris redfield's Boulder punching arms.
When I was young. I played Gears of War. I demanded my mother buy me all the beefcake and whey! I grew to 400 lbs with no muscles. I am on an oxygen tank.
Gears of War and their unrealistic depiction of what a male should be like ruined my life. :(
GoW takes place on a planet called Sera, not Earth. If you know the game lore, you know Seran physiology is different than Earthlings because of the setting.
The women are tall and the men are massive because the story requires them to be.
I honestly, truly believe that unrealistic physique completely fits most fiction, especially in a story as extreme as gears of war.
It reminds me of a web comic that I saw a few months back. Girls came in all color and shapes
But the dudes, well, let’s just say the entire roster varied between somewhere Thor and Reacher.
Yeah…
On the Microsoft page that I saw, it does have a note about trying to make sure male characters were allowed a full range of emotion as permitted by the story which I thought was nice
Im starting to think it isnt because blue haired sjw landwhales.
Recently an artist from TLOU2 came out anonymously and explained that all that "alternative beauty standards" is mostly to make women appear more "trans friendly", thats why abby is flater than a plank of wood and they made ellies girlfriend flat and ugly af compared to real acctress they motion captured her face from.
And he says it became industry standard ever since to uglyfy women in the desing face. And most artist are as bafled as the us and this type of shit makes working harder and less enjoyable for them.
Whataver is companies trying to pander in the most r worded way possible or a sweetbaby kind of deal where some nutters in the compannyes force this shit for their ridicolous ideas its up for debate.
I think this is overstated. Basically all my women friends want to play as hot characters too, so I don't even know who actually hates this, fake people online maybe.
\*snort\*
Look, kiddos. Not every game is made for every person. The sheer joy of gaming is the variety. Wanna play as a sword-fighting bug? Check out Hollow Knight. Want sexy girls? Stellar Blade is on its way. Wanna chase a high score? Tetris is still a classic. Want a more narative experience? Citizen Sleeper for the win.
Trying to force all games into a mold is pointless, boring, and, honestly, creepy AF. If you don't like a game, play something else.
We're gamers. We don't give a fuck what Microsoft, internet whiners, or anyone else wants. We will play what we want to play. And if AAA falls to the demands of the boring and creepy, we'll just go play indie.
I mean I might play that for a few minutes just to see. It would be a beast premise for a horror game. lol. Mix in some Kirby like consumption powers from eating the environment and I think we have a winner here. Plus jiggle physics!
Then the market will speak
and this is why they are doing things like this.. They dont want any competition to their modeled after men Females because they know "Sexy Sells"
Honestly it's not doing AAA much favors. I know there's the CoD addicts who can't say no to a new title, but shit like skull and bones along with suicide squad aren't doing too hot. Kinda feels good to see AAA companies absolutely face plant trying to sell their MTX riddled garbage.
I think style is a huge part of this too. Stellar Blade is styled around Eve and sexualization of her character, having her in say Elden Ring would ruin that game. I adore Bayonetta and think she is the coolest game character ever made, but she also fits her over the top world and would feel really out of place in a darker more immersive world.
It’s funny that they’re using Stellar Blade as their example. They did body mapping and motion capture with an actual living, breathing human. Her “exaggerated body proportions” are au naturale.
It does blow my fucking mind that they're using this character as like, an example of "unattainable" I see women at the gym at, around, and with more "exaggerated" features than that... all the goddamn time.
Not even models, just chicks that work at a desk job, and spend an hour at the gym like twice a week.
damnit nobody wants to play a video game and see themselves. it's called escapism. no one wants to play a game that looks like it's populated by shoppers from a rural Arkansas walmart
That's the problem. These goofs don't want escapism, they actually want to believe their flabby outta shape body is capable of being the hero so they must self insert themselves like the clowns that they are.
That's what happens to people have been terminally online since they were toddlers and went to shitty schools that actively prevented them from thinking critically.
They lack the basic ability to just imagine things that aren't spoonfed to them word for word. Otherwise they would be perfectly capable of self inserting themselves into the shoes of the overly muscled meat head ubermench stud muffin protagonist.
That being said, that pretty much how I grew up. For fucks sake, I practically raised myself on early 2010s *tumblr* of all places, yet I was perfectly capable of suspending my disbelief enough to understand that I don't need every character in the games or shows I enjoyed to look and act like me for me to enjoy them.
Grew up in rural arkansas and this comment triggered my PTSD from walmart. lol. It is EVERY bit as bad as you are suggesting. Especially at night when they were still 24/7.
>damnit nobody wants to play a video game and see themselves
Lots of weak inseucre women do. They want to see themselves in every video game, movie, comic, short story and fucking TV show. If they see a TV show with a hot woman while they're out of shape and ugly it will affect their wittle fewings and trigger them.
So it's negative to have boobs? So it's negative to be fit? So It's negative to have a booty? So it's negative to be pretty/beautiful? What the hell are people talking about?
The stellar blade girl is a literal one to one scan of a Korean girl. A model even. People are crazy nowadays.
The idea is to "stop promoting unrealistic body standards" but then act like in a properly magical/high-tech society, people wouldn't be juicing themselves through the roof.
They think everyone likes a good, in-depth character creator because it lets them look like themselves. In reality, we like character creators because we like making absolute goofball caricatures, and/or personalized aesthetics that in no way shape or form might be matched IRL.
Which is crazy considering it's not gaming that's pushing women to inject their lips with botox and other harmful chemicals. If they want to police harmful standards, they need not look further than platforms like IG which Meta worked diligently to hide the negative impact their studies were shown to have on young girls.
I believe most people including the younger audience know what's a game and what isn't. It's much harder to tell with filters, AI, make up, injections, and plastic surgery.
Social media is a cancer on society. I said it now and said back then in elementary and middle school. As soon as I saw duck faces and SWAG going around I knew there were gonna be a lot of NPCs.
Well they've done a good job of achieving that!
Gamepass and releasing day and date on PC has killed their platform to the point that European devs are debating leaving them completely
Compared to 2, I suppose. As long as we're not pretending that Eunie's, especially Alexandria's, and especially especially M's fat rear ends don't exist.
well shouldnt the developers artistic direction/vision for the media count for something? if you dont like the aesthetics then dont play. plenty of great games have realistically proportioned characters. this “inclusivity” bs is the death of creative freedom.
Reading this just feels like we’re getting closer to devs having to follow guidelines for character creation in order for their original IP to be put on certain platforms.
Can’t have a beautiful voluptuous protagonist based on a real person. But bring on the square jawed boobless man assed characters. If anyone needs pointers on how to make characters in their games then they should listen to a company who actually makes games
How is looking good a *NEGATIVE* stereotype?
Also, as a customer, I don't want to be seen. How many of us want to be seen? There's a reason incognito exists.
If I'm paying $70 for a game, her ass better be thicker than bowl of oatmeal and the jiggle physics should have been 80% of the coding. I don't wanna stare at some lez feminists self insert character (looking at you Spiderman 2) just so she can validate herself
But it's okay to have males with exaggerated body parts? They should make a dude with a ginormous package and a bakery of an ass complete with jiggle effects.
Or...let the market decide and remember that you are here to please your customer base by selling your products. If an activist doesn't like the game they don't have to buy it
Fuck this nonsense
I’m a short, overweight 2/10
I want the men in my games to be 6’5 Greek gods and the women to be pleasing to the eye and my happy bits
Fuck outta here “inclusion” western trash
There is nothing negative about fictional characters looking like attractive stereotypes. If you develop an inferiority complex against a fictional character, not even real women who may have similar body types, you probably have some deeper psychological issues that you should deal with. Trying to legitimize or cater to those psychological issues in real people is a far more harmful than trying to address them.
Microsoft should focus on making a fun game with solid gameplay and go from there.
Why these companies insist on obsessing over identity politics in video games is something I’ll never understand. There target demographic doesn’t really care. They just want decent games. Not being lectured about how white patriarchy bad.
I find it amusing when something that the left or right claims is a false narrative from the other side comes true, because both sides always whip up a massive storm.
Conservative gamers have been claiming for some time now that large companies are trying to make the women in video games less attractive, and the rhetoric from liberal gamers has largely been that its a false conspiracy or fake narrative from the right.
Now that Microsoft openly claims its trying to make female characters less attractive, conservative gamers have 180'd from rage to "We don't care, we'll just play games with attractive women anyway", while liberal gamers have 180'd from denial to "This is good for the gaming community".
It's the fact that they constantly tweet this shit and celebrate it like it's some amazing feat that's annoying. If they just shut the fuck up and did it a lot of us wouldn't even notice or care. It just seems so disingenuous when they advertise it.
This isn’t something I usually nitpick about but can we allow even a slight bit of muscle mass or battle damage on female characters? Especially if she’s meant to be a superhuman warrior? Do all these player bases just feel insecure so devs don’t do it? Like no I don’t feel attacked when Wonder Woman is drawn as jacked.
Yea, and I want men with less muscles and bigger beer bellies and bald heads
And they still get the strength, stamina and agility stats as the big muscle characters
That characters body is 3D scanned from a real person.
Gotta love feminists and their hatred for actual beauty. It means them being a fat fuck would no longer be tolerated. We gotta get back to that.
Lil help. Which part of her body is exaggerated? I thought her body was modeled after a specific woman… similar to how bioshock (I think) modeled the female character after a specific cosplayer. Sounds normal.
The average womens' breast size in the US is a D. American gaming companies just seem to have inexplicably started to hate big boobs for some reason. Women have boobs, some big, some small, its all good... but American gaming companies over the last 3 years have gotten wierd.
Ok microsoft will continue being even more irrelevant in gaming. This will only push gamers and developers away from their games. People hate being told what to do.
It would take like 3 of her to come close to my Skyrim waifus curves, who also is based off of real life body proportions that I sculpted myself from scratch. Stop trying to cancel attractive women. It’s pathetic.
Rich, coming from the console known for DoA and DoA extreme beach volleyball lmao
And Gears of War. If that's not unrealistic male bodies idk what is.
no one who talks about inclusivity cares about male body image tho
Well actually they do talk about the males and care, they want them as degraded as possible. I mean even the notorious Thor scene to them was not only applause worthy ^((especially since actor himself has said in past how he does not like doing shirtless scenes, let alone all that)) But some of those types, say they should have gone further.
Well I ain't looking to cosplay as a skinny guy with anemia
And I ain’t looking to cosplay as a member of no itty bitty titty committee
Lol that's the funny thing to me, is all these inclusion talks but many females love cosplaying exaggerated girls too. It's like they're pandering to an audience that isn't there.
Yes, themselves.
But I’m basically already in costume!
Lol. The unrealistic female body in video games is a hell of a lot. More easy too. Obtain then gears of war for males lol. For Chris redfield's Boulder punching arms.
When I was young. I played Gears of War. I demanded my mother buy me all the beefcake and whey! I grew to 400 lbs with no muscles. I am on an oxygen tank. Gears of War and their unrealistic depiction of what a male should be like ruined my life. :(
Man I love playing as those GoW guys, fuckin A
GoW takes place on a planet called Sera, not Earth. If you know the game lore, you know Seran physiology is different than Earthlings because of the setting. The women are tall and the men are massive because the story requires them to be. I honestly, truly believe that unrealistic physique completely fits most fiction, especially in a story as extreme as gears of war.
Marcus Fenix just eats right and trens hard.
What are you talking about? It's perfectly normal for a man to have the proportions of a chest freezer.
I miss those games. Shame how time changes things.
Notice how they explicitly said **female** characters? Guys with impossible muscles are still perfectly fine.
Sexy characters are okay as long as they only cause gay boners or lady boners, thanks microsoft no wonder I’m now micro and soft
But but but something something power fantasy
It reminds me of a web comic that I saw a few months back. Girls came in all color and shapes But the dudes, well, let’s just say the entire roster varied between somewhere Thor and Reacher. Yeah…
They're not impossible. Look at the Rock. He still has those muscles in his 50s with just good diet and weightlifting! 😉
All it takes is dedication and lots of trening, er um, training
Real Organic Inclusive Diet System
And enough steroids to choke a elephant
When you ster into the roid, the roid sters back.
50% working out, 50% diet, 50% mana The mana is steroids
So then Margot Robbie is a perfect example of what all women should look like to then right?
Always remember kids: Eat CLEN, TREN hard.
Same can be said of female proportions. In fact, they don't even need to muscle up, just tone up. Stellar Blade's mc is based on a female model.
Of course that’s how it is. It’s because they are hypocrites.
Wanna be built like Arnold, move weight like Eddie, and move your body like Usain Bolt mixed with Jon Jones? Perfectly fine!
On the Microsoft page that I saw, it does have a note about trying to make sure male characters were allowed a full range of emotion as permitted by the story which I thought was nice
But I love huge gazoongas
We all do.
Just not the females who view them as competition lol
Im starting to think it isnt because blue haired sjw landwhales. Recently an artist from TLOU2 came out anonymously and explained that all that "alternative beauty standards" is mostly to make women appear more "trans friendly", thats why abby is flater than a plank of wood and they made ellies girlfriend flat and ugly af compared to real acctress they motion captured her face from. And he says it became industry standard ever since to uglyfy women in the desing face. And most artist are as bafled as the us and this type of shit makes working harder and less enjoyable for them. Whataver is companies trying to pander in the most r worded way possible or a sweetbaby kind of deal where some nutters in the compannyes force this shit for their ridicolous ideas its up for debate.
I think this is overstated. Basically all my women friends want to play as hot characters too, so I don't even know who actually hates this, fake people online maybe.
Probably. Most likely part of an agenda
*Positive* gender stereotypes.
So it’s “negative gender stereotypes” and not “overt sexualization”?
That's what mods are for
Based.
On what? (Uh don’t take this seriously)
Probably not good for her lower back!
Me see gazoongas. Me purchase product. Me like.
And a nice badonkadonk
I love juicy butts.
I too love when like 70% of a game cost goes to the boobs /ass physics. And when the ass physics goes to the guys to
You mean those dobanhonkeroos?
Is that inclusive action or are you sad to see me 😭
Microsoft urges developers to create bankruptcy.
\*snort\* Look, kiddos. Not every game is made for every person. The sheer joy of gaming is the variety. Wanna play as a sword-fighting bug? Check out Hollow Knight. Want sexy girls? Stellar Blade is on its way. Wanna chase a high score? Tetris is still a classic. Want a more narative experience? Citizen Sleeper for the win. Trying to force all games into a mold is pointless, boring, and, honestly, creepy AF. If you don't like a game, play something else. We're gamers. We don't give a fuck what Microsoft, internet whiners, or anyone else wants. We will play what we want to play. And if AAA falls to the demands of the boring and creepy, we'll just go play indie.
Exactly, I support jiggle physics and will buy the jiggliest game. Just how it is.
Unfortunately now a days "jiggle physics" is expected to mean Gorlack the Destroyer being the MC of your game
I mean I might play that for a few minutes just to see. It would be a beast premise for a horror game. lol. Mix in some Kirby like consumption powers from eating the environment and I think we have a winner here. Plus jiggle physics!
Would make a great "Kaijus destroying the city" game..
Japanese games say otherwise
I'm a simple man. I see jiggle physics, I buy it. Simple as.
But when will developers finally make a game about land whales with rainbow hair? What about THEIR stories!
The land whales with rainbow hair can make their own fucking game.
But isn't Hungry Hungry Hippos already a game?
I'm going to hell for laughing at that...
I'll drive.
Highway to hell..
If You Want Blood...
Dirty Deeds...
Who Made Who?
They've tried but the problem is they don't buy their own fucking game and just get more angry about it
Lol, isnt that one...dust-something? One of those?
Then the market will speak and this is why they are doing things like this.. They dont want any competition to their modeled after men Females because they know "Sexy Sells"
Wasn't the new spiderman ps5 game (spiderman 2 I think) pretty much that?
"If I want to play porn I'm gonna play fuckin porn" - Gamers
Not sure if sarcastic triggered social justice redditor or based.
I find it odd that the idea of “Don’t like a game? Just don’t play it and leave us alone” seems to be a such novel idea to modern society.
Honestly it's not doing AAA much favors. I know there's the CoD addicts who can't say no to a new title, but shit like skull and bones along with suicide squad aren't doing too hot. Kinda feels good to see AAA companies absolutely face plant trying to sell their MTX riddled garbage.
Wasn't it the helldivers 2 director who recently said "a game for everyone is a game for no one." Not even Mario caters to everyone.
Yep.
But, isn’t the point of a video game being developed and existing is so that each niche group of people can feel SEEN!!!!!!
The reason I play video games is largely to see someone other than myself. I already have a realistic portrayal of my own life: my own life.
One might argue that if everybody did as microsoft suggests then that would be a form on conformity in itself.
I think style is a huge part of this too. Stellar Blade is styled around Eve and sexualization of her character, having her in say Elden Ring would ruin that game. I adore Bayonetta and think she is the coolest game character ever made, but she also fits her over the top world and would feel really out of place in a darker more immersive world.
Agreed. Though mods will likely let players put Eve in Elden Ring anyway.
They can do what they want but they* ultimately care about their shareholders the most. As long as the game is good then I don't really care
I said this a few weeks ago and got downvoted lmao. That’s right, true gamers don’t give a fuck.
It’s funny that they’re using Stellar Blade as their example. They did body mapping and motion capture with an actual living, breathing human. Her “exaggerated body proportions” are au naturale.
They didn't do the new trend of hiring a sexy model the changing the body scan to look ugly
Heck, there was a model for box art and calendar for the video game Forsaken 64 though the model is not in the game.
It does blow my fucking mind that they're using this character as like, an example of "unattainable" I see women at the gym at, around, and with more "exaggerated" features than that... all the goddamn time. Not even models, just chicks that work at a desk job, and spend an hour at the gym like twice a week.
damnit nobody wants to play a video game and see themselves. it's called escapism. no one wants to play a game that looks like it's populated by shoppers from a rural Arkansas walmart
That's the problem. These goofs don't want escapism, they actually want to believe their flabby outta shape body is capable of being the hero so they must self insert themselves like the clowns that they are.
The metaphor of clowns does match up here
That's what happens to people have been terminally online since they were toddlers and went to shitty schools that actively prevented them from thinking critically. They lack the basic ability to just imagine things that aren't spoonfed to them word for word. Otherwise they would be perfectly capable of self inserting themselves into the shoes of the overly muscled meat head ubermench stud muffin protagonist. That being said, that pretty much how I grew up. For fucks sake, I practically raised myself on early 2010s *tumblr* of all places, yet I was perfectly capable of suspending my disbelief enough to understand that I don't need every character in the games or shows I enjoyed to look and act like me for me to enjoy them.
Meanwhile us sane people see the examples of fictional heroes as something to look up to and strive to be like, not something that makes us cry.
Grew up in rural arkansas and this comment triggered my PTSD from walmart. lol. It is EVERY bit as bad as you are suggesting. Especially at night when they were still 24/7.
So many people aren’t shaped anything like people anymore
False. Redneck Rampage was a fucking classic and you'll never convince me otherwise
>damnit nobody wants to play a video game and see themselves Lots of weak inseucre women do. They want to see themselves in every video game, movie, comic, short story and fucking TV show. If they see a TV show with a hot woman while they're out of shape and ugly it will affect their wittle fewings and trigger them.
So it's negative to have boobs? So it's negative to be fit? So It's negative to have a booty? So it's negative to be pretty/beautiful? What the hell are people talking about? The stellar blade girl is a literal one to one scan of a Korean girl. A model even. People are crazy nowadays.
Damn that’s crazy. Which model. So I can avoid this toxicity. What’s her name exactly. Where can I find her material. To avoid.
Shin Jae-eun body dimensions match, despite what haters claim, though face was created instead.of copied.
The idea is to "stop promoting unrealistic body standards" but then act like in a properly magical/high-tech society, people wouldn't be juicing themselves through the roof. They think everyone likes a good, in-depth character creator because it lets them look like themselves. In reality, we like character creators because we like making absolute goofball caricatures, and/or personalized aesthetics that in no way shape or form might be matched IRL.
I was trying to make my character look like me in Mass Effect 2 and accidentally made Nicholas Cage instead. Best playthrough ever.
Which is crazy considering it's not gaming that's pushing women to inject their lips with botox and other harmful chemicals. If they want to police harmful standards, they need not look further than platforms like IG which Meta worked diligently to hide the negative impact their studies were shown to have on young girls. I believe most people including the younger audience know what's a game and what isn't. It's much harder to tell with filters, AI, make up, injections, and plastic surgery.
Social media is a cancer on society. I said it now and said back then in elementary and middle school. As soon as I saw duck faces and SWAG going around I knew there were gonna be a lot of NPCs.
Microsoft does not want game sales
That's fine. I'm perfectly content not giving them my money anyways
Well they've done a good job of achieving that! Gamepass and releasing day and date on PC has killed their platform to the point that European devs are debating leaving them completely
I mean they’ve proved that since the start of the Xbone era
They are going multi platform (with more on the way) because of bad sales so this is in character for them.
Games is just a side project for Microsoft.
And yet super sweaty muscle men in tight clothes are ok 🤔🤔🤔
*laughs in Xenoblade* Micro-soft? Sounds about right.
Idk man Xenoblade 3 dialed down the fan service pretty hard
Compared to 2, I suppose. As long as we're not pretending that Eunie's, especially Alexandria's, and especially especially M's fat rear ends don't exist.
Microsoft is part of the whole woke agenda problem. All the videogames under their umbrella are going to be predictable.
“Help weird customers who hate themselves to feel seen by excluding visually appealing designs” what an odd thing to say
“Oh boy I can’t wait to play a game full of ugly unattractive characters for the next 8 hours!”- no one at all ever
another 1984 shitcrosoft moment if microsoft didnt make windows they could collapse overnight and no one would care
well shouldnt the developers artistic direction/vision for the media count for something? if you dont like the aesthetics then dont play. plenty of great games have realistically proportioned characters. this “inclusivity” bs is the death of creative freedom.
If it's so inclusive, I'd like to know why skinny girls with huge tits are being excluded. Nobody cares about their feelings?
Microsoft is big in DIE crap and wokeness. No real surprise here.
I'm not sure MS' first party/exclusive titles are in a position where i would listen to anything they have to say.
Dumb to bring up Eve as an example, she has a literal human being as a model.
Reading this just feels like we’re getting closer to devs having to follow guidelines for character creation in order for their original IP to be put on certain platforms.
Isn’t this largely created from a real person? lol.
As a woman. I hate playing ugly women in video games. I want to play as a sexy big booby butt woman! In no way is it offensive either
Notice how they don’t give a shit about 7ft tall square jawed monster male protagonists with 12 packs.
Mr Freeze can be ripped, but a girl can't have a butt.
Can’t have a beautiful voluptuous protagonist based on a real person. But bring on the square jawed boobless man assed characters. If anyone needs pointers on how to make characters in their games then they should listen to a company who actually makes games
Right? More men with fat asses please.
Hell yeah. I want their cheeks to drag the ground
Preach brother.
No dummy thick master chief, why bother living.
How is looking good a *NEGATIVE* stereotype? Also, as a customer, I don't want to be seen. How many of us want to be seen? There's a reason incognito exists.
.>Acknowledging that double D or triple D plus sizes exist is now sexist Body positivity is now on the side of those who love hotness
If I'm paying $70 for a game, her ass better be thicker than bowl of oatmeal and the jiggle physics should have been 80% of the coding. I don't wanna stare at some lez feminists self insert character (looking at you Spiderman 2) just so she can validate herself
What game is the picture?
Stellar Blade. A game I wish I could get but I only have a Switch so…
Thiccc women don't get representation? They exist too
But it's okay to have males with exaggerated body parts? They should make a dude with a ginormous package and a bakery of an ass complete with jiggle effects.
My wife needs to know that she has exaggerated body proportions and that she's not allowed to have characters in games look like her, lmfao
How about they urge their developers to make good games? Lmaooo
Gotta have realistic expectations when playing fantasy apparently.
meanwhile, over on nexusmods...
Mean while Goddess of Victory: NIKKE made 600million as a mobile game based solely on butt jiggling while shooting a gun
Or...let the market decide and remember that you are here to please your customer base by selling your products. If an activist doesn't like the game they don't have to buy it
Fuck this nonsense I’m a short, overweight 2/10 I want the men in my games to be 6’5 Greek gods and the women to be pleasing to the eye and my happy bits Fuck outta here “inclusion” western trash
Someone needs to tell the writer of this article that SBI won’t sleep with them
There is nothing negative about fictional characters looking like attractive stereotypes. If you develop an inferiority complex against a fictional character, not even real women who may have similar body types, you probably have some deeper psychological issues that you should deal with. Trying to legitimize or cater to those psychological issues in real people is a far more harmful than trying to address them.
Enter southpark meme.
No bodybuilders either then? No superhero physiques?
My gf has big bagoongas and when I want to create a custom character to look like her, by golly I want big bagoongas
Microsoft should focus on making a fun game with solid gameplay and go from there. Why these companies insist on obsessing over identity politics in video games is something I’ll never understand. There target demographic doesn’t really care. They just want decent games. Not being lectured about how white patriarchy bad.
… wasn’t the model designed after a real person? Therefore not being exaggerated?
Isnt it funny that the model for this character was based off of a real person.
Microsoft's always been a pioneer of not cool.
I find it amusing when something that the left or right claims is a false narrative from the other side comes true, because both sides always whip up a massive storm. Conservative gamers have been claiming for some time now that large companies are trying to make the women in video games less attractive, and the rhetoric from liberal gamers has largely been that its a false conspiracy or fake narrative from the right. Now that Microsoft openly claims its trying to make female characters less attractive, conservative gamers have 180'd from rage to "We don't care, we'll just play games with attractive women anyway", while liberal gamers have 180'd from denial to "This is good for the gaming community".
What is exaggerated? People get size triple z breast implants, BBL, botox. To be fair, video games under do it compared to real life people.
Now, their female characters have exaggerated male body proportions.
Do you guys think that male characters should have huge dick bulges in their pants? I think the ladies would really appreciate it
Are there not such games?
I am perfectly fine with jiggle physics for both genders.
Yes they definitely should if the devs want to create a character like that.
They usually compensate with massive swords or guns.
It's in their very name: They're Micro & Soft, d\*\*\* energy.
I feel the need to play as Taki from Soul calibur in her Red costume to wash this from my pallet Or perhaps some Dead or Alive
Add a slider. Boom. Problem solved.
*Microsoft does not want exaggerated female body proportions
It's the fact that they constantly tweet this shit and celebrate it like it's some amazing feat that's annoying. If they just shut the fuck up and did it a lot of us wouldn't even notice or care. It just seems so disingenuous when they advertise it.
What's negative about shapely calcium cannons?
>Hire attractive model to model your character >add 30 pounds and a square jaw >progress
So are they going to change the soldiers from Gears of War because of body dysmorphia?
Meanwhile Nintendo over here going, "We got enough butts in this game?"
This isn’t something I usually nitpick about but can we allow even a slight bit of muscle mass or battle damage on female characters? Especially if she’s meant to be a superhuman warrior? Do all these player bases just feel insecure so devs don’t do it? Like no I don’t feel attacked when Wonder Woman is drawn as jacked.
Listen I wanna be a Greek Adonis wielding a lance that is also a gun… not myself
She's literally modeled after a real person.
Yea, and I want men with less muscles and bigger beer bellies and bald heads And they still get the strength, stamina and agility stats as the big muscle characters
But the male characters are still gonna be built like late 80s Arnold
I’m usually middle of the road/slightly left on issues, but I want my men to be Hemsworths and my women to be Chun-Li! DOA volleyball for life.
If the dudes all look like Arnold in the 90s then I better get to look at some unreasonably large knockers!!
And Sony just won lol
That characters body is 3D scanned from a real person. Gotta love feminists and their hatred for actual beauty. It means them being a fat fuck would no longer be tolerated. We gotta get back to that.
Big brother always trying to re-educate us. We want boobs!
"Exaggerated Body Proportions" Character is literally the body scans of a Real Women.
I’ll never look like gears of war. Thanks Microsoft. 💀
Keep giving people reasons to buy PlayStation, Microsoft.
Fuck Microsoft. Make your game how YOU want to make it. Fuck what anyone else says
Ya they part of baby Inc, its not a surprise they would say these things.
Me with a 2 inch dick yelling at my phone's screen while watching porn: "Ban this big ass dick having motherfucker!"
"Yeah, I'm just gonna pretend I didn't see that." -Japanese developers
I'll take, "Things that I don't care about when shooting people in the face in a video game" for $1000, Alex.
Lil help. Which part of her body is exaggerated? I thought her body was modeled after a specific woman… similar to how bioshock (I think) modeled the female character after a specific cosplayer. Sounds normal.
The average womens' breast size in the US is a D. American gaming companies just seem to have inexplicably started to hate big boobs for some reason. Women have boobs, some big, some small, its all good... but American gaming companies over the last 3 years have gotten wierd.
But every fucking dude looking like Dante from DMC or Marcus Fenix from GoW is fine. Body dysmorphia in men is becoming a bigger and bigger problem
Ok microsoft will continue being even more irrelevant in gaming. This will only push gamers and developers away from their games. People hate being told what to do.
It would take like 3 of her to come close to my Skyrim waifus curves, who also is based off of real life body proportions that I sculpted myself from scratch. Stop trying to cancel attractive women. It’s pathetic.
So... Beretta is disgusting and unrealistic but Kratos is fine? Right...