I can testify to this. Based on what I was able to search up, not once was Ladiva ever played up for laughs, nor is she ever misgendered within GBF's world. Even her backstory is rather interesting.
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Why women criticise sexualised character designs | OT3 | "make her look more...corpulent, more stuffed where the eyes can't escape."
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Made the post. Probably a number of spelling mistakes but I need to eat!
Made the post. Probably a number of spelling mistakes but I need to eat!
Hopefully that ends up being the case.
Ideally, Corrin & Byleth should be female by default next time if they return. Hell, they should have made the switch for Corrin in Ultimate.
Fantastic thread, hopefully it helps more people stay informed.
Three houses had a lot of fun women that would be great choices for smash. I loved Hilda and would play the shit out of heavily armored axe wielding Hilda. Finally give us a woman in smash who is a slower bruiser kind of character. I don't get the focus on the main player characters. Robin, Corrine, and Byleth are all pretty boring characters in their original games.
I said something similar in the thread, but I am not an especially online person compared to a lot of the posters here. I really do rely on people around here to keep me informed about this kind of stuff. Your op was fantastically detailed, you did a very good job.
I said something similar in the thread, but I am not an especially online person compared to a lot of the posters here. I really do rely on people around here to keep me informed about this kind of stuff. Your op was fantastically detailed, you did a very good job.
It feels like the lessen of cyberpunk is more coming from CDPR marketing problem and the questionable approach ingame than whatever the story and character interactions will be. I will play the game but certainly now I'll be keep a keen eye on any problem I come across.
While I'm here I want to promote a cool cyberpunk game, Neo Cab.
While I'm here I want to promote a cool cyberpunk game, Neo Cab.
Ghosts of Tsushima's free multiplayer dlc came out today. It seems really fun but, very disappointing, the classes seem to be hard locked into gender. Its just a real shame to me that the main game had this bad ass woman samurai (Lady Adachi), and you can't play as someone like her in the multiplayer.
Wow...what? I am going to get it and play it on the PS5 in the future but that's pretty odd.
The problem is that Fire Emblem characters are already so over represented in Smash I think people would have a fit. While they'd be great for future games with trimmed rosters, for now I think there are better choices for DLC.
Like, Terra from FFVI, for instance.
Also: You know how "Sora for Smash" is a meme? I'd love it if instead they added a Keyblade wielding Kairi instead. Would it make sense? No, but it'd be hysterical, and we'd probably get a better cast addition out of it.
Smash seems to have a lot of weird internal rules that result in relatively boring picks. Like, we haven't gotten a brand-new Zelda character since Melee, because characters like Impa, Midna, Urbosa etc. are seen as "side/one-off characters" or something.
Really though in general it's a reflection of video gaming history which ultimately means the most important and thus more likely characters are male. Like I'd have loved Alena from Dragon Quest IV over any of the dudes they picked but they had to lean into the main character angle, and Nakoruru would have been way more fun than Terry as an SNK rep.
Plus yeah Edelgard or Hilda or basically anyone other than Byleth would have been better for Three Houses, specifically.
My understanding is that the classes in the multiplayer are based on the myths in the games lore in single player so that's why the classes are gender locked. Maybe there'll be an expansion DLC that'll change this in the future.
Ah that makes sense, didn't know that. But let's hope for something like that in the future.
Wait do you mean there are only male characters or each class is a specific gender that you can't change?
4 classes. Samurai has to be a man, Assassin has to be a man, Ronin has to be a man.
Naturally, the only woman is the fragile ranged bow user.
I like bow and arrows too, in most games and real life. But I found the bow pretty boring in Ghosts so I wasn't especially drawn to the Hunter here in multiplayer.
I honestly figured that the classes were tied to the specific people in the legends established in the base game, but that doesn't excuse the bolded.
It would not have been hard to design this group of characters with an even gender ratio.
The hell? There's 4 classes and only 1 is a woman?
That's... super disappointing. What the hell. I get that it's free, though, but come on :\
Thank you for the post! I found it really informative as someone who hasn't been paying much attention to news about CP2077 the past few months.
Even though I've never played Ghosts of Tsushima, I guarantee that decision was made under the all too common excuse of "historical accuracy." (Ah, historical accuracy. Always there to give the devs a free pass to exclude women in their incredibly realistic game with -supernatural elements-)
I remember a very heated argument on a sizable Japanese history forum once about how there was no and literally -cannot- be "female samurai" because they already have a dedicated non-samurai neologism for them that itself had to be made up because no women in history actually qualified for it and blah blah blah...
At a guess, they have people who subscribe to those same ideas on their staff/working as consultants. Same goes for Ronin, btw.
But gender locking the assassin class feels weak even under the guise of "history." (Sadly, I can't pull out any counter examples atm.)
I don't think the historical accuracy was a factor. The main game features tons of women in various combat roles, including female samurai. And it's not a historically accurate game anyway because samurai didn't even exist during the Mongol invention, they came about centuries later.
I'm assuming it's a technical limitation but they could have at least made it so that it's 2 men and 2 women. :\
These feel less like classes and more like fixed characters. So you can create your character but if you make a female you'll have to play with bow and arrow? Or do you choose your class first?
I don't know enough about sucker punch and their dev process, but is it possible this is a thing where a separate team within the company did the multiplayer? Because the main game definitely felt more progressive than the dlc so far. Honestly if the classes had been represented by side npc's they probably could have done the split much better. Yuna as the assassin, Sensei Ishikawa as the hunter , Lady Adachi as the Samurai, and Ryuzo as the ronin.
There is no character creation. After picking a class you can unlock some different armors and hats and stuff though. You pick a class out of 4. They are essentially set characters yeah, but they have no personality, almost no voiced lines, and basically no faces so "set characters" is generous. They are set classes out of 4.
Every class uses the swords, ghost tools, and bow and arrows. But everyone has different focuses in their talent load outs and special abilities. The Hunter (the one woman class) uses the bow and arrow for both her ultimate and her special ability, and her talents that I have unlocked so far all focus on the bow and arrow. She does still have a sword, but it is not her focus and she's better off avoiding using it when possible.
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Huh...Thanks for that. I didn't know they specifically included female samurai - though I'd seen a few of the game's female characters here and there. Although now I'm left even more confused by the decision. Let's hope it's truly technical. And agreed about that 50/50 split.
New DLC character in Nioh 2:
She's the first boss and really hard to beat, too. Man, Team Ninja sure has come a long way.
Edit: omg, I googled her name and... turns out she's a gender-swapped version of a historical character, and that same character has had a gender-swapped version in Fate/Grand Order, looking like... well, the one on the right:
She's the first boss and really hard to beat, too. Man, Team Ninja sure has come a long way.
Edit: omg, I googled her name and... turns out she's a gender-swapped version of a historical character, and that same character has had a gender-swapped version in Fate/Grand Order, looking like... well, the one on the right:
New DLC character in Nioh 2:
She's the first boss and really hard to beat, too. Man, Team Ninja sure has come a long way.
They've come a long way only with Nioh, DoA is still a shitshow.
Fate Grand Order made me hate the Fate franchise, and also Type Moon. Amazing what they will do just to sell 'waifus'... Or actually, have people gamble to get the 'waifu' they want.
To be fair, Fate has always been about people collecting sexed-up versions of historical figures to use as combat slaves. Grand Order just monetized that to a comical level.
I'm not saying that it's okay, mind you. Just that Fate is conceptually problematic at its core.
That character looks they have the metal contents of an ornamental fruit bowl strapped to their chest.
This GoT multiplayer discussion makes me want to give props to R6 Siege for always doing a 1:1 ratio of men and women in DLC. The amount of women in the game is truly staggering for a military shooter.
I really should get that game, I only played the beta of it funny enough.This GoT multiplayer discussion makes me want to give props to R6 Siege for always doing a 1:1 ratio of men and women in DLC. The amount of women in the game is truly staggering for a military shooter.
The Fate team really need a big chested character in their game.
It pretty funny how Fate Zero was where things got a lot more series and little more mature with it subject matter. Going from it hot that King Arthur is a lady to her struggle to being a king and flipping gender norms.
Going back to the original VN it was pretty bad.
Rin, at one point, turns Saber on inorder for the Shirou to get rile up for sex so they can have a better connection.
It pretty funny how Fate Zero was where things got a lot more series and little more mature with it subject matter. Going from it hot that King Arthur is a lady to her struggle to being a king and flipping gender norms.
Yeah. Back then when I was a teen and watched F/SN I didn't notice it, but the whole Master/Servant system is... yikes.
Is Nioh 2 coming to PC? Or is it still in PS4 jail? I'd like to play it but I just don't really want to invest in a PS4 for one game. Not to mention that PS5 is coming soon and I'm pretty sure the backwards compatibility is non-existent.New DLC character in Nioh 2:
She's the first boss and really hard to beat, too. Man, Team Ninja sure has come a long way.
Edit: omg, I googled her name and... turns out she's a gender-swapped version of a historical character, and that same character has had a gender-swapped version in Fate/Grand Order, looking like... well, the one on the right:
PS5 can play pretty much every PS4 game aside from a list of like 10.
Ah. Well, guess I'll wait a little while longer then. Here's hoping the backwards compatibility is good!
Fate Zero without any fan service manages to have every single female character written worse than in the eroge VN original though. Especially King Arthur, Saber is actually a good character in the main VN while in Zero she's a one-note cut-out obsessed with "my honour". The less said about Irisvel and Kiritsugu's affair the better too.
No PC version announced yet but it's probably coming at some point, Nioh 1 did get a PC port. That said, yes, the PS5 has backward compatibility. Some games like Ghost of Tsushima get a 60 FPS patch too.
Thanks for the info. And yeah, the FGO characters are... well, they're intended to sell to their audience (horny children). Particularly gross is that every further iteration of the game just makes the stuff worse and even more objectifying and exploitative.
Nioh 2 has different modes and two of them have unlocked framerates so it'll probably get 60 fps on the PS5
Yeah, I'm playing gameplay mode (1080/60 on the PS4 pro, I believe it's 720p/60 on the regular PS4). Hopefully the PS5 gets a patch for 1440p or 4K with 60fps, that'd be great. Not sure if they'll bother though and it might just run in simple backward compatibility mode without any boost.
It came out this year right? Hopefully they'll do a patch, especially since they're coming out with DLC for it so soon to PS5's release! I liked the character creator, it's one of the better ones in action rpgs I've seen.