That's really cool. Makes a change from She-Hulk/Starfire etc.Going back to alien/monstrous female designs, I do want to give props to Young Justice and Supergirl for their designs of Miss Martians true form. It would have been so easy for them to either ignore her white martian backstory or make the design more sexualized.
wow, Kojima is such an amazing game dev :) what a genius :)
The armor design in Radiant Dawn was really good. They struck the perfect balance between practical and not boring, imo.I miss when Fire Emblem characters looked like this:
Christ, what did women do to Kojima for him to hate us so much?
Hate's too strong of a word.
He constantly insults women in all of his games. He's a full-blown misogynist, not some innocent product of an old-fashioned culture.
Wow, that's beautiful. Props to the designers. Still a bit anthrocentric in terms of the humanoid stance and limbs, but I always appreciate alien designs deviating from the human form in meaningful ways.Going back to alien/monstrous female designs, I do want to give props to Young Justice and Supergirl for their designs of Miss Martians true form. It would have been so easy for them to either ignore her white martian backstory or make the design more sexualized.
That was a looooooooong read. I almost wish I didn't read it. I never realized MGS1 was that sexist.
How much did the Strahl cost anyways? That must've set him back a million gil at least.
Part of the problem with P3 is that it gives players no choice in regards to those relationships. Not only does entering into a romantic relationship with the women who have Social Links factor in early on, it's automatic once it reaches that point and is the only way to max the S. Links for everyone in the game. By comparison, P4 and P5 leave it up to the player to decide whether to pursue such a relationship or just remain friends, and the moment doesn't come until later. It's quite plausible to end the game without dating anyone and still max every bond, if one so chooses. P4 was more lax with link reversals/breaks by limiting them to only two characters and as a consequence for decisions that were more obviously bad ones, yes, with P5 of course not having them at all with its Confidants. Considering that such a thing only added a needless layer of micromanagement in a game that already had plenty of things to keep track of, not to mention S. Links reversing and/or breaking if they don't get to hang out with you as much as you like suggesting that said characters have nothing else going on in their lives if they could be bothered to take it so personally, I can't say that mechanic is missed one bit.
As someone who's been gaming since the late 80's, I'd like know where this "idea that women are objects who exist solely for male titillation and pleasure" came from. I know this is only anecdotal evidence, but I've never met a single man who referred to women this way, and gamers in general seem to be even more respectful of women than the average non-gaming man I come across. I can certainly see why you would jump to the conclusion that all the skimpy outfits are communicating such a message, but the message in question doesn't really seem to be communicated at a human level... again anecdotally in my world...
Go play Snatcher and Policenauts.
I mean, in my anecdotal experience, when it comes to women, gamers, as a whole, are awful. Really awful.
I was unaware that the slogan for the gamergate movement was "women are objects who exist solely for male titillation and pleasure"...
I pretty much have the same thoughts. I mean when gamers got wind of Anita's women versus tropes campaign, instead of just ignoring it (which I think would have benefited them so much), they made threats towards her, flash games where you could beat her up, and tried to doxx her. This continued even once the videos started coming out, including that bomb/gun threat at a college campus she was planning to speak at. Her videos are basic feminism 101 topics overall, yet people were acting as if she said all GTA/Mario players should kill themselves.
Do you have any arguments besides "I disagree"?
No, it was "women in games are objects who exist solely for male titilation and real women must stay away from our games"
Really? I thought it was just endless screaming into the void about 'censoring vagina bones'.
This is the opposite of anecdotal evidence though lol. This is a few fringe crazy people doing crazy things as reported by the media. We don't judge an entire group of people for that kinda stuff, right?
Yeah, I always find calling someone a bitch while pasting illiterate text boasting of sexual prowess over a picture of an infamous fictional psychopath to be 'respectful' of them.Gamers are respectful tho
While I agree 100%, think about what you're saying. Those odds that 1 person out of the several hundred she will interact with online will be a creep does not make those other guys creeps...
I mean its across multiple games, the images I had were from 2, 3, 4 and PW. Im not sure what you mean by the Oedipus complex in MGS3, ya there is a lot of respect between Boss and Snake, but I dont think it was ever sexualized. The boss is played really seriously the whole game and I would think is one of the stronger female characters in gaming personally
It's far more than '1 in several hundred'. I never said they are all like that (and hey, I occasionally play online games too, and presumably so do some people in this thread). What I did say is that the odds of a gaming crowd containing creepers and aggressive oddballs seems to be fairly high even compared to other online communities. There are various other online communities/chatrooms we talk to about our hobbies (mainly outdoors stuff), and while being a touch obsessive about the subject matter is found everywhere (and such folk can also be wonderful sources of information in any hobby), gaming is by far the online one with the greater percentage of creepers the minute someone is identified as female.
From my anecdotal experience, it is more than 1 out of several hundreds. I have gotten messages calling me baby, honey, and kissing mentions from multiple men. I do not even play online that much, just post in PSN communities.
We've really deviated from what I was trying to explore. I guess that's impossible here... oh well, thanks for trying to help...
Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, no one would really use a pic of The Joker to display themselves as the right choice for a 'respectful' relationship, would they? Is he an icon for 'cool' or a meme or something?
I think gaming/comics/anime etc has a huge crossover, that's understandable. It's when it moves into adults that I find the social skills dropoff really weird. If we go to a hiking/outdoor swimming/running meet, it's full of people who are capable of talking to each other both online and in person without being weird. There's often still a male bias- often women (even if they are the stronger athlete/hiker) will be married to/partners with one of the guys whereas there's still far more single guys in groups of friends than single women. If we go to a comics convention or a wargames shop (the latter being one of my passions, the former hers)? Most people will be awesome, friendly and helpful but that percentage of oddballs starts creeping (literally in some cases) up.
Going back to alien/monstrous female designs, I do want to give props to Young Justice and Supergirl for their designs of Miss Martians true form. It would have been so easy for them to either ignore her white martian backstory or make the design more sexualized.
Yeah, that's fair enough- I've had a lifelong love of anything sci-fi and fantasy for my own escapism from the mundane too.
Interesting stuff!
