If I recall correctly, I believe there was a study that found that straight women are more willing to engage with media focusing on lesbian representation then straight men are willing to engage with gay representation.
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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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Thank you for bringing the statistics you found. Can you spoiler-tag the stuff about Umbrella Academy, though?
Did you see this one? Some guy in the replies responded to someone complaining about how the artist sexualized her saying "she literally looks like this in the game"
It's a shame because it's otherwise a beautiful piece of art.
Absolutely. Toxic masculinity is so instilled into modern culture that the depiction of gay relationships makes most men uncomfortable and even violent.
I wish the men who whine about men's issues actually mentioned this one but it's always the straight men's issues they mean.
I agree with this. While it seems like mainstream media tends to portray lesbian relationships more than gay relationships, a lot of times it definitely feels like there's some fetishization behind it. Kinda flies against the point of representation.
Apologies. My fault for treating them as known based on time. Hope I didn't ruin anything for anyone.
I found out recently that the latest example of a mlm relationship in a AAA game is in . . . the DLC for Borderlands 3. A type of game that I would assume has a dudebro audience due to having a certain brand of humour even though it has had queer characters in it. Anecdotally, it seems to have landed well and isn't played as a joke.
It took a gay wedding for Borderlands to take anything seriously - Gayming Magazine
Borderlands 3's Guns, Love, and Tentacles, invites players to the wedding of Sir Alastair Hammerlock, and Wainwright Jakobs. Who's up for romance and guns?gaymingmag.com
reading the steam reviews for it are funny because the negative reviews are just people mad it's a gay men wedding. Article title is weird though because the series has taken things seriously since borderlands 2 dlc
The Borderlands series has always been progressive, at least since BL2. Pretty sure Maya was established to be asexual and I think it was indicated that Axton was bi. The meme/Reddit humor tends to come off pretty strong though.
100% this. Especially in gaming with the number of posters here who always try to pretend there is some epidemic of over representation of lesbians in mainstream gaming, but also can't name a single canonically lesbian main character outside of Ellie.
They are stated to be a couple in the base game too, which is nice, they were canonically a gay couple before the dlc about their wedding came out.
Borderlands is in a weird zone where its a lot of cheesy toilet humor, and there's definitely some glaring issues with some types of representation, for example I can't imagine how a little person would feel about there being an entire enemy type being called "psycho midgets".
But on many other issues the games are surprisingly progressive, such as about queer people.
Yeah I've had to defend this position in the straight women romance in games threads, who also in the triple A space have next to nothing, but yeah sapphic rep over-abundance fallacy is brought up often but when counting only AAA non-choice games it really isn't. Even Ellie has Abby in the same game, but the point is shouldn't be a fight between all these minority reps for scraps.
Wonderlands has a trans-masculine character I think which is awesome to see.
It is one of the more humanoid Kirby designs though, it just stands out more to me because its kirby.
Clawroline is like the odd one out I'd say. Most of the female characters in Kirby aren't humanoid like that in the first place.
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I kinda wanted to watch it, so yeah... not great to see them out in the open. But thanks for editing it.
I much prefer Honkai Star Rail's character designs to Genshin Impact's and Honkai Impact 3rd's. Then again, I thought something similar when Genshin was not yet released when comparing its character designs to Honkai 3's. The post-release character designs kept getting worse with body suits, sheer fabric, and weird cutouts. It makes me wonder if the initial approval process is more stringent than for post-release content (Honkai 3 and Genshin are both rated 12+ in China).
Say hi to Shez, the Hero of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.
I realize this is the "Women Representation in Gaming" thread and I should comment on her exposed thigh being polished to a reflective sheen in order to blind her enemies, but it's the one kneepad on both male and female characters that's getting me.
From the latest XC3 trailer
New mechanic where pairs of the party members fuse into mecha. Each pair is comprised of one man and one woman and it seems like one person is the dominant one. Guess which one has a woman as the dominant person?
New mechanic where pairs of the party members fuse into mecha. Each pair is comprised of one man and one woman and it seems like one person is the dominant one. Guess which one has a woman as the dominant person?
Showed some promise with the main character designs but they had to go full Xenoblade somewhere huh
Xenoblade 3's chararacter designs already just looked super generic and bland from minute one, so of course they had to go over the top with sexualization somewhere.
I did not have my money on "glowing mecha-uterus", though.
I did not have my money on "glowing mecha-uterus", though.
It's not even just the robot tits. The two male mechs have Iron Man-style glowing cores in their chests. The glowing core for the female mech is her crotch.
Well yeah that's cuz there was no room to squeeze it between the giant robot tits.
The bright red to signal bare skin is just.... something else.From the latest XC3 trailer
New mechanic where pairs of the party members fuse into mecha. Each pair is comprised of one man and one woman and it seems like one person is the dominant one. Guess which one has a woman as the dominant person?
I'm sure there is a very important lore reason for this. We just have to be patient.
"YOU SEE, THE GLOWING CORE BETWEEN HER LEGS IS SYMBOLIC OF MOTHERHOOD SOMETHING SOMETHING"
"ok so why is the core on the male robots on their chests?"
"ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...look it's a Nopon running gag BYE"
Ah the good ol' Zone of the Ender's COCK-pit approach.
Weirdly I can deal with them both having weird sexual robot anatomy (robo-tits and cock-pit) (it's not an excuse, I just...sigh/shrug at it these days). lol But at this point I hate that the girl-bot doubles down with silly girl-pose though. I'm sad there's still so little imagination for girl poses in some games (or...like...just standing...normally 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ ).
Me, when the XB3 reveal happened: "Wow, that looks so much better and less trashy. Cautiously optimistic!"
Me, now: MartinFreemanWhatTheFuckIsThat.gif
Me, now: MartinFreemanWhatTheFuckIsThat.gif
Wow they really went all out. Inward-bent knees, the princess peach arm pose, nuclear reactor vagina, robo clevage.From the latest XC3 trailer
New mechanic where pairs of the party members fuse into mecha. Each pair is comprised of one man and one woman and it seems like one person is the dominant one. Guess which one has a woman as the dominant person?
Ah, the Three Ages of Mecha:
"Crush them now, Chunky Boi!"
"Like an angel, with no sense of mercy."
"Waifubots, transform and suck cock!"
"Crush them now, Chunky Boi!"
"Like an angel, with no sense of mercy."
"Waifubots, transform and suck cock!"
Not to shy away from the silly woman mech with boobs, but is this a trend when males are wearing heels in Japanese developed games? I don't care, just something I've been noticing.From the latest XC3 trailer
New mechanic where pairs of the party members fuse into mecha. Each pair is comprised of one man and one woman and it seems like one person is the dominant one. Guess which one has a woman as the dominant person?
Are they even robots? Like they are some sort of combined form thing but don't know about mech. This isn't a justification because I still hate whatever it is with that one design, just being pedantic.
I wanted them to do better, but knew they had no reason to. People, even here, not this thread, resetera in general take every opertunity to point out how much better x2 sold and how much better the characters in it are so why would they back away from success? I just wish they would.
I really liked the main character's other than the super small "strong" girl. Main guy looks really good and reminds me of some of the best parts of Fei/previous characters.
I wanted them to do better, but knew they had no reason to. People, even here, not this thread, resetera in general take every opertunity to point out how much better x2 sold and how much better the characters in it are so why would they back away from success? I just wish they would.
I really liked the main character's other than the super small "strong" girl. Main guy looks really good and reminds me of some of the best parts of Fei/previous characters.
He looks like a rejected design from a Trails game to me. :/
Hadn't seen the trailer but I heard they did stupid shit with the mechs. Ugh.From the latest XC3 trailer
New mechanic where pairs of the party members fuse into mecha. Each pair is comprised of one man and one woman and it seems like one person is the dominant one. Guess which one has a woman as the dominant person?
This series won't ever improve...
