I think it's really difficult to stray from the typical female designs in gacha games because the primary spending audience has so much sway. I watched a Moon Channel video about it and unless you hit critical mass popularity like Genshin, it's safer to capitulate to their demands else the impact to profit is too extreme.
The tiny progress of equality ~Yea. It's pretty generic gacha in regards to that.
Kuro does add some more sexualized men then most, but still too few and far between for it to even remotely be considered "equality", e.g.:
I think the worst in WuWa is when you ride elevators though...the breasts go so insane it's not possible to NOT laugh.
The man even has the underboob crop top
I'm sorry, I used to watch Matt with my partner but after he said man hands in one of his videos I had enough and haven't watched him since :/
It also helps that Boothill is genuinely funny. A lot of the Penacony characters speak in riddles with hidden agendas behind them, while Boothill is VERY straightforward. He even has a universal translator device that had been tampered with, changing swear words like 'Son of a bitch' to 'Son of a nice lady'. I think HSR does a great job at selling characters based on their personality on top of their designs, I'd argue it's a huge reason why they hit it big compared to most other turn based gacha.
There is a 36kr article about the phenomenon in China called "don't play if there are men". The site 36kr is a Chinese site for publishing market analysis and business insights, and this writer is a special invited guest, so it is a bit more reliable than the plethora of blogs floating on the web in China.
The article predicts fragmentation of 2-D games to cater to specific niches, so I assume it would different sets of games for men, women, incels, fujos, etc. It even mentions that games might cater to specific fetishes. In the short term, I suspect this is true, but the budget escalation in games will probably drive consolidation and more games toward general audiences. My guess (and hope) is that the new consolidate games arise more from developers targeting women, because Chinese women are more accepting of cute girls and yuri in games than the reverse for men, so games targeting women have a systematic advantage in being able to draw in a general audience without alienating their core audience.
I don't wanna be too defensive of someone i've never met but is it possible to call someone a respectful horndog? (that sounds worse typing out than in my head lol) Not saying that attitude makes it easier from someone getting into a community or that the FGC doesn't inherently has a problem with it, Matt just seems like a pretty good person
You can be someone that is seemingly a generally good person, and still also misogynistic.
That's definitely true, just in his case I don't know if misogynistic is a fair read
I might be out of the loop on the context of the man hands thing and i'm not trying to ascribe virtue but I just need more receipts on someone's behavior before jumping to their a misogynist
Didn't mean to come off as demanding or anything, sorry about that if so. I believe you I just hadn't come across anything like that so I just don't know the context
The context is that a videogame lady was on the screen and he decided his audience would be amused by him describing her hands as mannish
I have read a headline that said it sold over expectations, but I didn't read any further than that
Apparently it sold well enough to possibly have a PC version and maybe even a sequel as well!
Absolutely. The endgame boss gauntlet is the game's tonal peak, with everything leading up to it being both derivative and toothless. Raven (spoiler character) carries the story on her back for the criminally short screentime she gets, like she's easily the single most entertaining character in the whole game and that's precisely because she embodies that campy over the top anime sensibility.
That's a shame, it sounds like it could've been pretty enjoyable if it had just leaned into the camp and spectacle like Bayonetta does. Let everyone dress skimpily and fill every fight and cutscenes with premium anime nonsense.The gameplay really looks very up my alley though (I love me some Bloodborne and Sekiro as well as Ghost of Tsushima more recently) but I'm really not sure how much of the story (and the uncanny valley/gender disparity) I could handle. At least in those three the story is very easy to ignore when I don't feel like engaging with it.
It was evident with MGSIV. MGS 3 wasn't perfect, but 4 basically smacks you in the face with a baseball bat with just how off the game feels compared to the earlier games.
I'm glad I got that game free. I still haven't played it yet and I'm not sure when(if ever).
Unrelated, but I adore your profile pic. It's so adorable! Was it done by somebody or....?
I think a person doesn't double look at 4 until they look into his Snatcher and Policenauts shenanigans. Once you know you look at MGS 1-3 as somebody inside Konami or his design team sneaks in hitting the delete button on some script choices when the man goes to the bathroom.
