You have men yelling: “yay! Boobs in games! Bigger boobs! More boob! Naked boob!”for decades. When female gamers finally got enough of a voice to say: “hey, I kind of wish there were women in video games who weren’t 80% boob by body weight”: those same men utterly flipped their shit.
This whole “why complain? You can’t tell designers what to do!” only seems to come up any time anyone but straight, white men dares make their opinion heard.
Sadly accurate.
Note how whenever cishet white audience members demand changes, those demands are met, or at the very least acknowledged. Whenever anyone else does that, it’s gonna be called “whining” or “entilement”.
Emphasis mine.
~Ozzie
Video game has a single gay male character who flirts you? Riot against the developers. Protagonist options do not include a white male? Riot against the developers. Age of Conan reduces bust sizes on female characters? Riot against the developers. Didn’t get the ending you wanted? Riot against the developers.
Women who have been gaming for years point out obvious problems?
To anyone out there designing a female character’s clothes, think of this as you do: Would this outfit be functional/practical/acceptable for a guy, too?
There’s another MMO by the guys that did League of Angels — Knight’s Fable: http://knight.gtarcade.com/ I have not seen a single reasonably-armored female character on their websites. Behold!
Look at all those pointy bits. Most of their advertizing involves the female characters, though there are guys. Strangely, their armor and clothing offers full coverage.
Lastly, here is one of their actual advertizements on Facebook, un-cropped and unaltered.
Yep. Makes me want to cheer. How about you?
O_o I… have nothing to add. You probably said everything that needs to be said about this game already, lysander-gustav.
~Ozzie
Protip: If your default marketing idea is “A sexy woman in an improbable costume, but leave most of her fact out…”
it’s a constant that people will look at misogyny in video games and say ‘but look at all of the women fawning over this male character’ like having a cute boy with a nice face and all of his clothes on is somehow on the same level as bikini armor and things like jiggle physics.
if link’s face seriously makes men feel objectified i’m jealous let’s trade
I’m all about such trade! LET’S DO THIS!
~Ozzie
It has to be authentic “video game jiggle physics” though, so nothing like how real bodies jiggle. The whole crotch bulge should bounce and jiggle around like it’s a bag full of cats, making it impossible not to notice every time the character moves.
