wouldn't that just confuse it under the game of the same name
It depends.
Improved. The conversation is happening more broadly now than in the past when the status quo was widely accepted.
I like this.
Pretty much. Western games and Japanese games with realistic styles like RE or Death Stranding have been very good.
I thought mercy's under-boob boob-armor last year was a lot but widow's nipple-plates are really something special
the geniuses at blizzard have done it again! what new innovations in boob armor will they come up with for next blizzcon?
Oh no....I didn't even think of that as a hinge. That somehow is even worse if you're right.
Era is the biggest gaming centric forum for English speakers and we have a heavy progressive slant. Of course right wing chuds gonna take pot shots at us.
Back in the day, there were several websites and off-site threads dedicated to shitting on me everytime I posted against fanboyism and objectification. I eventually accepted they were (horrifying) evidence I was saying the right things as apathy is the true enemy of progress.
I don't know... if they do open for some sort of new in game super attack that would almost redeem the design.
No I'm honestly glad to see my posts show up there for that same reason.
Their normal designs are fine and the secondary ones are better. The evil Callie one is just weird, the maybe thong or whatever that is supposed to be is just unnecessary. The shades are cool though. At least them and Pearl and Marina are two sets of women main characters in newer Nintendo games and aren't really objectified.With Splatoon 3 coming (2022, but who counting), let check out the female cast of the series.
Squid sisters
Actually cousins, they formed a idol group and crack jokes as they relay info to you (the player) on events.
Alt outfits have Callie in the cliché sexy evil outfit when she was brainwashed
But she does have her nice casual wear after you and Marie save her
Looking at her concept art her evil outfit could had been a lot better or a lot worst
Marie gets a nice Kimono
Got a nice casual outfit in the concept art
Stay turn for more Splatoon series female cast
Staaaay fresh!
They look more like the connector thingies on seat belts, so the armor "pasties" can be quickly removed/reattached.
Japanese developers have definitely improved; the problem is that they are very jaded about it. Look at how wildly different women are portrayed in games meant for a global audiences vs domestic. Japanese developers clearly know what they should and can do, but avoid it on domestic focused titles that can squeeze the local male dominated market for more money. And I'm not sure how one would fix that as it won't stop until Japan completes it's own progressive movement (which clearly won't happen until the old guard dies out)
I guess the good thing is that were are starting to see it slowly. Capcom had that thing leaked that said they were taking TLOU2...and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, as good examples of going forward for handling women in games and progressive issues. TLOU2 selling so much and raking in awards seems like it could be an overall big influence that games infact can star women and even lgbt characters, and be a big success.
That's true when you put it this way.
I really hope they improve with SF6. The one thing I like about the designs in 5 is that the female characters actually have muscles. Every single one which is great in a fighting game. Though muscles arn't everything. SF6 should tone down the sexualized outfits way down and have more diverse body types for the female characters. I want to see big ladies as huge as Abigail or Zangief. Not just the same body type for every woman in the game.
That's kind of true, but even with something like Fire Emblem, I've seen artwork and designs from older games and then compared to the new ones, and it's just a stark difference. It seems like they started doubling down there right when the series got more popular.
Just make sure you rely upon the community when it becomes overbearing. That kind of shit can become dark fast
These posts both kinda connect to my idea that Japanese developers know better but choose not to be more progressive. Obviously both the games from the Animal Crossing/Splatoon team have been great with diversity & representation. They've also had a female director (Animal Crossing) and a large number of women developers in Nintendo EAD/EPD overall. And you can see this diversity even leak into other Nintendo games such as Zelda, Mario & Pokemon.
Yea that seems like it honestly makes sense. Nintendo and it's different teams are so varied that they can't put a stronghold over all the ones that aren't as close in. It makes things super awkward that they have gone back and forth between some really good representation, and then bad, both within games and series, and then just separate.
With Splatoon 3 coming (2022, but who counting), let check out the female cast of the series.
Squid sisters
Actually cousins, they formed a idol group and crack jokes as they relay info to you (the player) on events.
Alt outfits have Callie in the cliché sexy evil outfit when she was brainwashed
But she does have her nice casual wear after you and Marie save her
Looking at her concept art her evil outfit could had been a lot better or a lot worst
Marie gets a nice Kimono
Got a nice casual outfit in the concept art
Stay turn for more Splatoon series female cast
Staaaay fresh!
And of course, Arms is by the Mario Kart team, another staple of Nintendo EAD/EPD.
Yea, I would never expect anything good from the xeno games. Especially since XB2 is the best selling one ever I think. Fire Emblem will probably also have a lot of bad ones. I guess at the very at least if it's all just contained to those two series and it means everything else Nintendo is mostly good, then it could be worse. At least with Fire Emblem, none of the bad designs are in Smash though.
Well officially they are 17 (Splatoon) and later 19 (Splatoon 2) so i can see why, especially since they don't look that different from the Inklings who are 14 and later 16
They're all designed by women and the duo of both games are aged between 17-21 (the evil version you posted is supposed to be 19). The issue with Splatoon is that all the playable characters are supposed to be 17-19 but because of issues with designing a non-masculine "boy character", they de-aged the player characters to 14 while keeping the story as the youthful rebellion of the 17-18 year olds. Hence the obvious issues.
What saves Fire Emblem is A) it's vast western popularity dragging the series to more progressive designs and B) the fact that Intelligent Systems, while not a part of Nintendo HQ, is LITERALLY next door, which has to have some kind of positive impact.
This is true to a certain degree, but even the designs of SNES-era video games were far better designed compared to most shit you see from Japanese game devs today, particularly the bigger publishers. The 90s in video games did see stuff like Policenauts but it also had stuff like Tactics Ogre. I haven't played a Japanese RPG with a political story as well told as the one in Tactics Ogre. It was a game that had a lot to say about the nature and politics of war and it pulled it off exceptionally well. That has not happened in a single jRPG since, I would argue, the PS1 era.
