I had just finished watching this. My head canon is becoming that the boobs are the armor. Who designed these women characters?
I had just finished watching this. My head canon is becoming that the boobs are the armor. Who designed these women characters?
A game has to pull this at some point I swear.
This is basically the buff body armor from Monster Hunter for both sexes.
When I was playing MHW that's the armor I'm sure I never really wore. I think I have parts to an Anjanath set, which I remember looking dumb as shit.This is basically the buff body armor from Monster Hunter for both sexes.
I think Phantasy Star Online 2 has big breasts as an cosmetic attachment? I guess also the 2B panties in the nier raid increase butt size.
A few people talked about Ai: the Somnium Files here and while it not perfect it does have this young lady
Yup. Unavoidable.
Why must the genderbent designs take every gram of muscle mass away from the resulting woman character aaaaaaagh
A few people talked about Ai: the Somnium Files here and while it not perfect it does have this young lady
It's depressing when even on Era we get threads like this
where most of the posts are about the underage main character's sexualized body, with people praising the fanservice, admitting that they find it "titillating" or outright trolling those who criticize it.
What do you mean what happened? Have you never seen what Mai looks like?
Why must the genderbent designs take every gram of muscle mass away from the resulting woman character aaaaaaagh
I was juuuust about to post this. It'd be cool if they actually resembled the character they were based on and not just costume wise.
But this is expected.
What do you mean what happened? Have you never seen what Mai looks like?
This is all par the course.
Though making Zero a little girl with cleavage and bouncing breasts is way over the top.
Funny enough, MUGEN has a better female version of Zero. Yeah, mini skirt, but as you just saw, it could be way worse.
Far enough. Even XIV was pretty modest looking back.Golden Age SNK had plenty of designs that made up for Mai. She was an exception not the standard back then.
The same clothes exploding they've always done. -_-I'm back from the dead what did I...what the hell did SNK do!?!
The genderbent Zero doesn't even have irony going for it, though. It's just...bad.
You're right, it's impossible to know whether people are genuinely lusting after the thighs or mocking them. Though I think by now we know irony is mostly just a cover for people's true intentions.I don't mean to defend the game or thread because I don't really care, but it's funny how I didn't get that take at all from the thread.
What I got from the thread is people generally found it kinda ridiculous and took the chance to make as many thigh jokes as possible, because well, how can you not, it's like they're picking on the game for doing that to me, not praising it, but that's just me maybe?
Also quite a few people commented that the game got its sales partly because it's actually a great game with good gameplay, and people who are buying it because of the thigh pics or how she dresses are going to be extremely disappointed because they say it's relatively free of fan service outside of that.
I guess the bottom line is no matter how much I read this thread and try to keep an open mind about trying to be more inclusive and see things from other POVs (I also have a daughter so if nothing else now I really think twice about a lot of the crap in games), I guess I'll just never have the same experiences even remotely to those here, and I suppose I'll have to accept that and try even harder.
I want mk9 with the newer mk ddsigns :(Would be funny to go back to the Mortal Kombat 9 years and tell people that MK would have some of the best female designs. They'd never believe you.
I barely played that game. All I know is the characters look horrible. I know MKX has some bat shit ass combos.
It is my favorite Mk but i can't stand the female designs... can't express how i feel about itI barely played that game. All I know is the characters look horrible. I know MKX has some bat shit ass combos.
They are nothing but tits with god awful bone structure.It is my favorite Mk but i can't stand the female designs... can't express how i feel about it
It's less noticeable with the sprites due to the size and resolution limitations. And of course....the camera! The cartoon-y-ness helps too; proportions always get screwed up (think eye's half the size of someone's head), so certain details may look less egregious. But, now make them highly detailed and animated 3D models...it ends up looking gross.
Well, it's more like it's less of a thing than ever before. Modern anime design seems to now be eternally at one pole or the other, where one side is complete trash (the majority), and the other, sensible, or at least not entirely stupid, designs.Apparently in JRPG land "upper chest protection" is a thing of the past...
And make them 12 years old.Why must the genderbent designs take every gram of muscle mass away from the resulting woman character aaaaaaagh
You think there will ever come a point when the pendulum swings back, or are we eventually going to end up at the point where every female character is simply naked?
It depends. The pendulum is already swinging back when it comes to Western AAA games. Female character designs seem to be given more thought and inclusivity is more of a design goal in such games. However, there's a reason why most of the negative examples in this thread are from Japanese games, and the trends in that market are all negative right now. Currently, Japanese games are fully beholden to otaku tastes, and these tastes don't give a damn about any of this. And I don't see this changing because all of the criticism is coming from outside of Japan and Japanese otaku simply aren't receptive to non-Japanese opinions. Maybe it'd change if feminism gets some action in Japan, but I imagine that you'd have to wait a very very long time.You think there will ever come a point when the pendulum swings back, or are we eventually going to end up at the point where every female character is simply naked?
If you're solely looking at Japanese video games, then we're probably at the peak of the swing right now. But other Japanese media have been slowly pushing back against fanservice and sexist designs in recent years. Hopefully, it'll spread to video games as well.