I think you would have to use prospective cohort study design. I really do think the impact of stuff like this is cumulative and takes effect after years of being barraged by this sort of imagery. Plus you'd have to design new testing mechanisms a bit more subtle than outright asking them if they've been negatively impacted by the depiction of women they've seen in media. Otherwise you run into lots of problems with bias (confirmation, framing, attribution).
I'll do you one better.
I guess this is technically cross-gen but still.
Exactly.^^
Oh yeah true, they were definitely not sexualized in any shape or form. Male gamers can't have that as we know.
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It is but Era will never lose a chance to dunk on xenoblade 2
What? Those are totally inoffensive
I mean yeah, she's also wearing big red boots. I think the modern MMA inspiration is still fairly clear, despite them keeping her sex appeal or pandering to whatever is popular in Japan right now.
What pisses me off about Newt is that they had a pretty ace design until they just decided to remove all her clothes.Dahlia was already posted so I'll offer Newt as well:
Xenoblade 2 is actually a good game, by the way. Please believe me.
In offensive yea, but god do I hate their stupid hair, and the attitude they have in game.
There is also Fate GO designs that are quiet level but with underage charactersMight traumatise the people who are blissfully unaware of the fact that Xenoblade is nowhere near the worst.
Here's the main characters of Nights of Azure 2
Believe it or not there's alternate costumes where Aluche(the character on the left wears event less)...
Its a never ending well.
Wait she's from Resident Evil, though she was from Saints Row considering how ridiculous the outfit looks, if you put her side by side with the other character from SR you would totally believe they are from the same game
for some reason the 1st is the only one bothering me. I think I'm becoming desensitized. Fuck.
Does the 3DS still count as "this gen"? Because Resident Evil: Revelaitons.
Xenoblade 2 has an excuse, the characters are literal living weapons that "Resonate" with their wielders and constantly evolve every time they are invoked. Since they are not technically humans they pretty much have any body they want.
Just checked it out. I thought the Paul Bunyan design looked inoffensive (as far as turning historical characters/figures into anime girls goes) but what the hell were they thinking of with Jack? Never would have guessed that was based on Jack The Ripper.
Not this genhow can I forget about Shalua Rui
Dirge of cerberus is awful if it counts.
No, Wander from Shadow of the Colossus Remake is.
So much detail in their designs and yet still intensely boring.Yeah there's plenty worse. But Nights of Azure 2 is a good one because you think the hero is bad and then there's the villains:
Sad state of gaming if female characters have to be sexualized in order to avoid being considered boring.
Yeah this is the one for me. First time many that I can remember in the community being disappointed in Yoshi p and the team.
Ryne, a girl who has to be about 15 or 16, is the host for Shiva in this fight and in the Savage difficulty version she has this form.
Yeah...
She's Jessica from Resident Evil: Revelations, a game littered with bad character design.
So they hired an anime writer to write the story of Revelations. This was something that Capcom actually touted in the lead-up to the game releasing. So it isn't surprising that it turned out the way that it did.
What's frustrating about this design is that it's actually really cool. Then they took her god damned clothes away and shit all over it. What the fuck were they thinking.Dahlia was already posted so I'll offer Newt as well:
Xenoblade 2 is actually a good game, by the way. Please believe me.
This one is also terrible. It breaks my immersion in the game, because I'm constantly wondering why the fuck she has Carmen as her Persona, and why the fuck she wears this outfit. The guys all get outfits they think are cool and speaks to them...not her. Slutty cat! I am playing the game now, and was so glad that I could change her costume. Sadly, I still had to go through her awakening scene with boob physics.The one advantage of Quiet is that she's not underage.
yikes
Yeah. My SO is fit has abs and likes to wear similar styled tops in summer. I guess I have to tell her she can't.
I'll do you one better.
I guess this is technically cross-gen but still.
You know what, here's all the shitty Xenoblade 2 designs. Judge for yourself:
Yes, there are three Blades in the game that use the "1,000 year old dragon" archetype.
Honestly, Praxis and Theory are even worse than Dahlia as they're clearly intended to be loli bait.
By the way, the characterisation of all of the above blades except for maybe two are terrible - to the point that it's clear that they were designed as fetish fuel first and an actual character second.
Mandatory reminder that in the Persona 5 Artbook, it was stated that Ann is not wearing her phantom outfit by her own volition. Game director Katsura Hashino just simply thought that it would be "cute" if Ann was embarrassed by her metaverse getup.
Yeah cultural context and upbringing can absolutely play a role. My girlfriend and I primarily grew up in the states so we already have a problematic relationship with sexuality lol. As to your question about whether or not seeing buff dudes all the time in media makes me feel insecure... Yeah, it kinda does. I mean, in one way it can be kind of good cause it motivates me to work out more, but it's kind of a bummer to not see folks that are more representative of me (both in color and body shape) given starring roles in tentpole media. I don't know if "objectify everyone!" is immediately the answer, but I think it's more that folks are just asking for a greater variety in body and fashion design. Having folks that are heavier, skinnier, a different color, or a different race and dress differently than what we usually see are what we need to strive for.Well, does buff guys do the same to you, asking her "do you want me to look like that?"?
Just as an example too, I watch with my fiancée every day since quarantine began a very famous anime called Food Wars. I noticed it on cruchyroll and since we started cooking a lot by staying home, it was an easy pick to get some inspiration.
Well, turns out it "objectifies" both men and women constantly (much more the women, sure, because... japan), in every single episode - Xenoblade 2 is sooo tame next to it it's almost cute.
But she laughs her ass off, loves all the girl cast and we even cringe together when it gets too rauchy, then laugh and forget about it - but oh well, it's not like we feel insecure after any of that. And every night she asks for us to watch it. It's funny, it's sexy and gives excellent culinary tips. We started to love it. We even say "shokugeki" to each other when we cook now (a term from the show meaning a contest to see who makes the best dish).
The problem (and only problem) I see here is the imbalance between male and female objectification. There's lots of naked men there, but that's dwarfed by the amount of girls.
That's the problem, imo. Not the girls, but the lack of men.
Other than that, insecurity problems do exist. I just don't think eliminating all that's sexy and juvenile solves that.
Oh, well. We both live in Brazil, and scenes like these are common from birth here, so maybe that's that.
Very similar to many JRPGs designs.
