It's the same thing with the Asari, though they at least get real clothing
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Why women criticise sexualised character designs |OT2| I have no pants and I must scream (READ OP)
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I know I've been cisplained over Persona by several people. These are always such laborious topics.
Reminder that magic the gathering continues to have badass women
Rowan kenrith from the upcoming set
Yeah, I'm liking the more painterly aesthetic seen in some of the new art too.
If you're a woman in a video game, and you go anywhere near a pole-like object, you are contractually obliged to perform a sexy, sexy dance.
Leia Rolando had a pole weapon but she never did pole dances. In fact she a pretty cool and fun character.
Please tell me there's not a scene in Trails in the Sky where Estelle pole dances.
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Everything they've shown of Kait has been so good. I'm not even annoyed that her hair is bloodless.
Thats fucking awesome. Which trailer is this scene from?
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Wear it as a badge of honor!
That gif was the same exact reaction I had when I read your ban reason.Hey I still have an old account on the old forum...I wonder what it's like now afte---
You know what's the worst part?
She's basically Code Vein's version of the Dancer of the Boreal Valley from Dark Souls 3. It really shows how much class From Software had in comparison.
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From Software has had dancers, witches, evil queens, and even sex workers as characters or enemies.You know what's the worst part?
She's basically Code Vein's version of the Dancer of the Boreal Valley from Dark Souls 3. It really shows how much class From Software had in comparison.
Can you imagine how they'd be represented if done by any other Japanese dev?
I still firmly believe that Code Vein is the most creatively bankrupt game of the year..... in the same year where Days Gone exists.
That place turned into a shitshow, holy crap. First thread I open puts fake comments into the mouth of Kotaku previewers and they are complaining about "lefties".
At least it looks kinda dead; the same topic which got 3200+ posts here only got 60 over there, lol.
What card is that Orzhov noble art from? She looks incredible.Yeah, I'm liking the more painterly aesthetic seen in some of the new art too.
When From Software designs a character, there's always something more than just initial appeal. It's what gives their world building so much coherence. They know their characters have to mean something beyond just "cool" or "sexy" or "funny".
And it's that sort of approach Code Vein and so many other games are missing. They are so focused on immediate gratification (Here's a big glowy anime sword, here's some thigh, here's the designated comic relief constantly yelling jokes in a silly voice) that they forget about depth and consistency. And that simplistic approach leads to characters becoming little more than stereotypes, many of them hurtful.
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It's from the upcoming set, don't know the name of the card yet. They just showed off a bunch of new art recently.
Yeah, nowadays even the alt-righters and the trolls post directly here.
god, they even directly say in the mass effect artbook that the asari were created just to fulfill the "sexy blue alien woman" trope
cuz that was something they absolutely needed to do
and you can definitely see the "this is actually meant for straight men only" vibe when you go to the strip clubs, where in this huge galaxy filled with all sorts of types of people, the only dancers are ever asari and human woman (all of whom are, of course, skinny)
in ME2 they tried to equalize the asari aspect somewhat by introducing the drell, who were designed to be sexy male aliens for straight women (as the asari were sexy female aliens made for straight men), but by ME3 the drell are basically forgotten
(IIRC a writer said that the reason Thane has so little romance-specific dialogue in ME3 is because they actually forgot to write any until late in development)
meanwhile, the asari are revealed to be the super special species chosen by the protheans to receive portions of their knowledge and technology
I love mass effect but maaaan mass effect......
Mass effect is great as long as you ignore everything about the main storyline
Twitter thread about how "censorship" actually works in game design
Oh whoops. I thought she was Orzhov. Still wouldn't be surprised if she was White/Black mana-affiliated with that opulent art though.
This thread is amazing and so on point. Having lots of friends in the video game industry, from AAA companies to indie ones, I can see this happening first-hand. Most people have little idea of how much games have gone through countless iterations to satisfy the marketing team needs more than the actual artists' vision (narrative or visual).
Something tells me that OneAngryGamer, all the youtube shitheels, kotake in action, and GG twitter aren't gonna make articles, tweets, posts, and videos about this. I wonder why. 🤔
I don't know what game she was wortking on but from the images it looks like a gatcha mobile game.
As far as I can tell they make 99% of their money on people throwing money at the game in the slim hopes of getting that SSSR swimsuit costume.
I honestly don't think gatcha games are worth fighting for. They are already disgusting gambling simulators and money sinks.
Not worth saving.
Fuckin' hell, that makes me sad. Just thinking of all the missed potential...
Super interesting, and deserving of its own thread imo. Thank you for sharing. Now I want to know what Astrid looked like originally.
Thanks for sharing. It must be rough being an artist and have to deal with your creations be changed or destroyed like that.
With how we sometimes hear about devs having to fight to get women or poc on their game's covers, this probably happens much more often than we think.
I've mentioned it before, but some advice I received a couple of years back as an author went along the lines of "don't write anything too diverse/progressive if you actually want to get published". Also that, the more diverse your cast, the more generic the story should be.
Gotta avoid alienating the market, and all that.
Great read.
The Au Ra race from FFXIV suffered a similar fate as Astrid, the warrior woman discussed in there. If you compare the conceptual designs with the final ones, you'd see what I mean.
Reminder that magic the gathering continues to have badass women
Rowan kenrith from the upcoming set
My roegadyn queen is full muscles but i kept her height at around 2 meters. Just didnt feel like making her taller but having been 10+ hours in the gsme i can still edit her to be taller right?
Oh wow this looks beautiful.
The crazy thing is that picture I think is one of the least impressive pieces of art they showed off
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Well, you made me go the site and log back in just to see what my status was. I wasn't expecting to be banned, and indeed, I'm not, because I wasn't that active in political threads... But now I have to look at this list of achievements I just got for logging back in, like I'm still part of the community or something, and I feel dirty for it.
I never had an account there, but was a lurker for years (for whatever reason my ISP never got on the whitelist). I'm sure I'd have been banned anyway for similar reasons as Joe2187. I've stopped going there completely now...for awhile I was basically using it as digital self-harm and I realized it's just not worth it.
Anyway, that twitter thread is super interesting and I agree, it would make for a good thread here on its own.
Anyway, that twitter thread is super interesting and I agree, it would make for a good thread here on its own.
They'll only get worse, as each extreme becomes normalised and they have to push things even further to stand out from the crowd.
So like porn consumtion for way to many people. Vanilla isn't enough so they need more and more extreme stuff. Only with this the developers need to at least try to make it look like it's not porn. As long as the law isn't broken they can turn the dial up as long as they're "creative" enough.
But only a few thousand people are needed to make them a good profit and there're more than enough that will throw hundreds and thousands of dollars into this pitt just to get these kind of skins. That's why i personaly don't really see this going away as long as they stay within the laws.
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