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No. 368628

Feel free to discuss and rant about:

>Instances of sexism in your favorite video games.

>Instances of sexism in video games you don't like.
>Sexism in the videogame industry.
>Sexism within the emulation scene.
>Videogames that are advertised as only for girls or only for boys.
>Specific videogame developers and publishers.
>Specific sexist videogame developers/emulator developers.
>Differences between how women view sexism in videogames v.s. how men see sexism in videogames generally.
>How your society views women and girls into playing and/or developing videogames.
…and much more.

Videogames on consoles, emulators, computers and mobile devices are all welcome to be in this thread.

Please keep transgender sperging to a minimum. It is likely to derail the thread.

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No. 368629

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>>368510
It's clear as day these things are made with certain biases and intentions in mind. It's not that it just contributes badly to how men view women, it's that men's pre-existing misogyny makes its way into these games and the games clearly reflect that. The game you posted is a prime example. There's 5 female costumes in the new vindictus game, 3 of which are coombait, 2 of which are modest, only one is of a heavier armor type. Meanwhile the male counterpart (the one that's on the actual promo of the game interestingly enough) has three almost identical outfits, where he's burqa tier covered in heavy armor and you can't even see his face. Vindictus and other coomer korean mmos actually have a pretty even gender distribution from my experience when playing them. Women like pretty female characters that koreans put out, aside from the coom they can make nice, elegant and classy outfits here and there and that's what I generally noticed actual female players put on their characters (unless they're in the game to just erp). Yet somehow, these games mostly cater to men. You don't need studies to notice this.
I will say vindictus would cater to their female audience with a few sexy male outfits too, but it's breadrcrumbs compared to what the male players get.

No. 368630

>>368629
even the modest outfits are coomerfied. Friendly reminded that korean scrotes throw mantrums when any character makes a vaguely pinching hand motion.

No. 368634

>>368629
that doesn't actually explain why its a bad thing.

No. 368636

>>368634
Because the men that make these big titty fertility goddess waifus are the same men that get offended if they see a finger pinching motion in their near vicinity. They want their women docile and dick hungry, and they'll get real women fired for it in real life. They're so fragile they can't even handle men being presented in the same way, as seen from the example posted in the last thread with that one final fantasy twink. If you've played korean mmos in the past you'd notice that they're slowly regressing when it comes to the general gender equality of fanservice which is just a reflection of korean society becoming more and more hostile to women becoming feminist.
I don't think games that are rated 18+ like vindictus will massively contribute to male radicalization against women, but they serve as a good mirror into their fragile egos. You seem to be more interested in baiting than having an actual discussion though so I'll leave it here.

No. 368637

>>368636
because I asked a question? god that anon who wouldn't shut up about da baiter really did a number on everyone here. fair enough though I don't play korean anything (especially mmos LOL) cause they suck at making games for the most part.

No. 368649

>>368510
Because men deserve nothing.

No. 368655

>>368510
>>368634
Its a bad thing cause its coomerbait garbage and ruins the vibe of the game they're trying to go for along with worsen any potential there is for there to be actual good games since garbage games like this will be popular, i.e stellar blade and the retarded apeshit schizophrenia thats going on around it and other games like it, seems like this game wasn't popular since i never heard shit about it till now but as i said it looks generic as hell and they probably spent most of their time on the 5 coomer outfits rather than anything else lol. Don't really care for males getting coomer treatment as well nor do i support it since it yet again gets in the way for anything more to come if everyone puts focus on that instead of actual creativity or originality which is rare nowadays, not saying i wouldn't love to see good looking men though, just don't let that be the only focus ofc.

No. 368657

>>368655
>if everyone puts focus on that instead of actual creativity or originality which is rare nowadays
This. It seems like practicaly every major studio is scared of taking risks or focusing on making something interesting, it sucks.

No. 368688

>>368634
Nobody should be forced to be part of the game devs jerking off material, if they want to make porny shit, they should do a porn game. Moids are more than capable of presenting diverse characters without turning them into sexual objects, why can't women want to be seen like that as well? So many women, including itt, have spoken out how uncomfortable they are to this double standard, wouldn't that be a reason by itself? What's the point of moids complaining few women play games when every games is clearly telling "you can stay, but you are not our audience". All that by itself should be enough of a reason. I personally always hated this, it's never equally applied to male characters. I don't personally want it to be applied to male characters, but the imbalance sends a clear message of what they see women as. I wonder why do you need studies on such a basic concept to grasp, maybe because some terms were parroted during the years, but seeing women as sexual objects is a very bad thing with plenty of studies on that. Look up how porn affects you brain. Why do men need this sexual gratification in most of their games? Is it because their brains are all rotted from porn? I heard the justification of this for years, "sex sells", but is it really sex as a whole being sold? It's not. It's male fantasy porn with no regards to the woman's interest. They don't want the men in their games to be sexual objects or appealing to women. I remember growing up, how many moids hated Leon and Raiden, because how dared some male character be pretty, to the point they always have to turn the pretty boys into depressed men with stubbles or fuck them up like ctyborg raiden to become "relatable" to salty moids. So if you are not convinced sexualization of these female characters is a bad thing, then why is it bad when it's applied to male characters in a way that appeals to women and not men. Do you think Fifa would sell if it was the equivalent of a waifu game? Imagine all the soccer players as beautiful husbandos making sexual panting sounds. Would that be something moids would like and endorse and "look past the sexual parts to enjoy the gameplay"? Why do we need to constantly do this in almost every single game?

No. 368705

>>368634
adding to what was already said: yes, it's bad because male characters don't get the same treatment. i'm having a hard time understanding why you think it's fine for female characters to be walking around in bikinis in the same world where male characters are fully covered up. it's gross, objectifying and clearly a big middle finger to any female player while trying to protect fragile moid egos from also feeling reduced to body parts.

No. 368718

>>368688
please please please learn what a line break is holy shit nona

No. 368750

>anons still trying to reason with the schizocoomer who spams this thread and the psyop thread on /ot/
Do we really need another 1200 posts of that delusional faggot insisting every game ever made is full of hentai xxx tiddy monster mommies and lolis and if there was an equal amount of male characters like that it would for sure create a pornbrained utopia where women would play games as much as men? That person has a fetish they're trying hard to push onto anons here as some feminist equality PWN.

No. 368781

>>368705
I don’t really care, I don’t play games like that because generally games where they need to use owning da libs as a selling point aren’t good games anyway. Especially if it’s gacha and mmos those genres are straight up garbage. It did bother me in Nier because I couldn’t take the story seriously at all.

No. 368785

>>368629
Men dont even realize how good they have most of the time as well. So when we get even 1% of pandering, they screech like monkeys because they think something is being robbed from them. Its like the concept of both genders having fanservice for them is impossible.

No. 368804

>>368750
I can think of several games that have big titty monster mommies and lolis, Fate for example is one of them. Do you happen to know about it? because it's very bad, they have realistic little girls in bikinis, can you believe women play that trash? they must be omega cuck queens.

No. 368806

>>368804
She didn’t say those games don’t exist she said those games don’t represent the majority.

No. 368810

>>368806
I can think of more games that have sexualized women than ones that dont. Hell, even atari had games with fucking fanservice. There are kids games like Crash Bandicoot racing that had big titty furry women. You are lying if you think female sexualization in videogames isn't a real problem and very present in most games.

No. 368813

>>368810
You can't just say "most games" and leave it at that. What's your evidence that it's in the majority of games? All your examples so far have been individual games. Even if there are genres that are notorious for it that doesn't make those genres representative of "most games".

No. 368816

>>368813
name one female main character from a game that is as ugly as something like kratos, go ahead

No. 368822

>>368816
??? What does that have to do with anything? Is your definition of fan service any woman that’s not ugly?

No. 368823

>>368822
Again, the anon you're talking to right now is a schizophrenic coomer looking to argue and push it's fetish. Don't try to reason with it, just report and ignore.

No. 368824

>>368822
so you cant? then stop pretendind we live in some magical world where female sexualization is an extremely rare thing.
>>368823
literally how is pointing out that most female characters in videogames are sexualized a fetish?

No. 368827

Did we really need another thread if you were just going to rehash the same topics over and over for another 1200 posts.

How bought talking about games that you don't think are sexist?
I realized the new Doom games don't have succubus enemies even though you'd think that would be an obvious idea.

No. 368828

>>368827
>How bought talking about games that you don't think are sexist?
because this isnt the thread for that, go to the videogame thread if you dont like sexism in videogames getting discussed.

No. 368829

>>368824
That doesn’t really make sense. No I can’t name a female character as ugly as Kratos, that doesn’t mean “most games” have fanservice. It’s not a rare thing but it’s not true for the majority either.

No. 368830

>>368828
I think bringing up games without sexualised characters is a good thing though, it gives anons alternatives and also lets them broaden their gaming horizons.

No. 368832

>>368830
this isnt the thread for this, do you guys not read the OP?
>>368829
>No I can’t name a female character as ugly as Kratos, that doesn’t mean “most games” have fanservice.
yes it does. It proves women in videogames can't exist unless they are pleasing to the player, meanwhile are allowed to be bald, fat, disgusting and completly non-sexualized. The most popular female mc in videogames are all turbo sexualized. And even when companies try to make ''diverse'' fmc they still don't make them as ugly and unsexualized as the men like in Overwatch.

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also, speaking of overwatch. Ashe is supposed to be a year older than mcree, but yet she looks like her daughter. Dont get me started on how her skin tight outfit accentuates her figure, compared to mccree who has a poncho.

No. 368836

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>>368834
the fact in the animated short they didn't even give ashe any pores while mccree did.

No. 368837

>>368832
If your definition of fanservice/sexualization is a female character that’s not as ugly as kratos then yeah I guess. That’s still leaving out tons of games that don’t have characters, have completely abstract representations of characters or have completely neutral representations of both.

>>368832
I think there’s worse issues than this one honestly, one of them being that women just give up before even trying anything more niche or complicated because of the culture around it.

No. 368838

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also, ana is supposed to be 60yo yet has less wrinkles than most of the male characters who are 30 years younger. Moids think this is still too much btw and call overwatch a ''woke feminazi'' game even though it has the same amount of female sexualization, if not more, than coomer moid pandering garbage like korean mmos. If overwatch is considered a ''woke feminazi game with ugly female characters'' then you will imagine how the average game treats its female characters.

No. 368840

>>368832
But like yeah everybody knows this shit already. Blizzard has been doing it since Starcraft and Warcraft.
They're never going to change, and you're not going to change the male players minds either so it's just best to try and ignore it for your own sanity.

No. 368841

>>368840
>reee ignore sexism in videogames in the thread to talk about sexism in videogames
no, this thread is to talk about this stuff.

No. 368842

>>368836
Autism

No. 368843

>>368837
> one of them being that women just give up before even trying anything more niche or complicated because of the culture around it.
people already explained it to you last thread , but you dont get it. I don't know why you pretend the high amounts of sexualization and double standars has nothing to do with women not wanting to give videogames a try.

No. 368844

>>368836
kek it just looks like a close up of ana from frozen. I hate overwatch so fucking much and all the moids that cry when a new character thats 60yo but looks 20 gets released.

No. 368845

>>368843
Because of the false idea that most games have it so why even bother even though that’s objectively not true?

No. 368846

>>368845
you are incredibly dense if you dont like women complaining about sexism in videogames then hide the thread already.

No. 368848

>>368845
then start giving titles of major video game releases that don't have any sexualized female characters.

No. 368849

>>368848
last time she gave resident evil and dark souls as examples lmao.

No. 368850

>>368830
not a good thing in the eyes of the sperg who remade this thread to keep infighting i guess kek. not even a day old yet and the're already samefagging.(report and move on next time)

No. 368851

>>368850
do you seriously think that its only one anon who dislikes female sexualization in videogames?

No. 368853

>>368848
I was talking about the whole medium not just major or triple A games. Last major release I played was Armored Core VI. That said even looking at the top 100 games on Steam I would say maybe 10 of them have this problem.

No. 368854

>>368849
If you really want an autistic text wall list of games without sexualised characters I can write one.

No. 368855

>>368854
considering you gave those two games as examples i dont think you know what non sexualized means.
>>368853
stardew valley is the second most played game on steam and it has been criticized several times for having ugly male love interests meanwhile the female ones are just pretty samefaced girls

No. 368856

>>368855
I wasn’t that anon, there are different people here. I was the rts purist.

No. 368857

>>368856
have you tried making a female only discord or something for rts games? since you want women to play rts so badly

No. 368859

>>368855
That’s not really the same thing though. You can’t really equate “not doing enough for female fans” (which maybe they are guilty of idk I never played it) to “female sexualisation”. Aren’t they just pixel avatars of faces anyway?

No. 368860

>>368857
I don’t like Discord.

No. 368861

>>368859
so, male characters being allowed to be literal disgusting hobos while the female ones are kawaii uguu samefaced girls without any flaws isnt a double standar? the dev actually made the choice to make the male characters UGLIER compared to the original sprites. And considered there is already a track of men censoring attractive men in videogames because it makes them uncomfy it's not far fetched to think he did it because it made him and the male players uncomfortable.

No. 368863

>>368860
Do you actually form part of any RTS related community? i dont understand why it bothers you so much women dont play RTS. You dont seem interested in making it more appealing to women and you also dont want to make female-only communities. Since most RTS are single player games why does it bother you so much there aren't more women playing them?

No. 368865

>>368861
It’s a double standard but it’s not sexualisation …

No. 368867

>>368865
>women being samefaced pretty girls while the men are allowed to be varied isnt sexualization
are you for real? they are literally mean to be love interests

No. 368868

>>368863
Cause I would like to talk about it with my friends but gaming communities are a complete meme unless you’re looking for people to play games with. And I agree, it’s not like I’m looking for people to play with, it’s just something I’d like to see more of. Sorry I don’t think the way to do that is to dangle anime boys in front of their faces, but I do think it would hep if we didn’t act like it’s impossible to just look up a guide or torrent a game to learn how to play it. Also I can’t imagine an “all female rts server no boys allowed” not being catnip for troons.

No. 368869

>>368867
If they’re all love interests then they’re all sexualized?

No. 368870

>>368853
armored core doesn't have any human characters, that isn't a good example. give us the actual autistic list of AAA games that have no sexualized female characters, but please include ones that aren't autistic robots flying the fuck around. be real.

No. 368872

>>368868
all of my male friends play games yet none of them plays rts, they play normie gay shit like Dota2 and LOL. It's like you don't realize RTS are extremely niche and autistic and even most men don't play them.
>Sorry I don’t think the way to do that is to dangle anime boys in front of their faces
I will give this example again since you seem to ignore points that contradict you. Shmups used to be considered a dead arcade genre until it got a resurgence thanks to doujin shmups like touhou. Most people that play shmups nowdays got into it thanks to touhou, even women, because guess what? having attractive characters instead of autistic scifi battleships is more appealing to the casual gamer.

No. 368873

>>368870
That’s not fair, you can’t be like “it’s a problem for all games” then when I bring up games that don’t have this problem they suddenly don’t count as games.

No. 368875

>>368873
women do play those games(the sims, animal crossing) but you also have a problem with that because they arent autistic factory construction games.

No. 368877

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>>368872
I know but I don’t care about moids!! And what they do!! I don’t want more moid friends lol. I have one moid in my group that plays the same games I do. I’m also not a dev or anything but I think people in general should be more willing to step outside their comfort zone. I’ve also barely played touhou but doesn’t the gameplay look like picrel? How often do you see the characters?

No. 368879

>>368875
I don’t have a problem with those games existing or with women playing them. In fact those games directly show that the problem isn’t because all games are sexualized, but something else.

No. 368880

>>368879
>In fact those games directly show that the problem isn’t because all games are sexualized
it actually does. Neither the sims(maybe the old ones did but i dont remember, the new ones dont) nor AC have sexualization of any kind.

No. 368881

>>368877
then idk introduce your female friends to RTS games. What the fuck are we supposed to do about women not playing autistic niche games that even most men dont want to play lol
>How often do you see the characters?
most people play touhou because they see fanart of the characters and get curious about the lore

No. 368882

>>368880
If women play games like that but not other games that also don’t have sexualised characters, then the issue isn’t sexualisation. It’s something else.

No. 368883

>>368873
I'm pretty sure that anon thinks that way because she's a gachacuck who doesn't play many real games if any and can't imagine people playing games for fun and not to collect waifus/husbandos

No. 368886

>>368881
I mean yeah I didn’t come in here asking for advice, just expressing a sentiment. I think women have a bit of learned helplessness with technology in general. A lot of them seem to think the feds will find them if they torrent.
>>368881
Fair, but then you could just release touhou VNs that would fulfill the same function, it’s not really about the gameplay.

No. 368888

>>368882
ok then whats the issue? also women do play more games that either have no sexualization or have male sexualization(hades, FF, TLOZ, RE).
>>368886
>Fair, but then you could just release touhou VNs that would fulfill the same function, it’s not really about the gameplay.
i am sorry anon i dont care if i catch a ban but you are actually fucking retarded. I dont know how many times i have to explain it to you, but making something more appealing will get casuals to try your game. People decide try touhou despite not liking shmups because they get drawn in by either the characters, the lore, or the music. If touhou was a generic battleship shmup or a VN it wouldn't have had the same impact in people. It's just a perfect mix of things that attract casuals and engaging gameplay that makes it the go to for casual gamers that want to play shmups.

No. 368900

>>368888
I don't know what the problem is. If I had to guess it's a mix of not knowing about it, feeling intimidated, or not willing to try new things. There is also of course the main point that the average gamer just plays easy slop, male or female, which is fine. I realise my perspective is sort of unorthodox even among gamers. I do find it odd more women aren't into puzzle/strategy/management type games actually because they're non violent problem solving. Also I guess my dream would be to find a group to play Diplomacy with.
To your second point though that's just it- that's great if people want to do that and revive dead genres and build lore around it and whatever, but to me that's window dressing. So it wouldn't be about the core gameplay anymore. Which is the only reason I play games.

No. 368901

Men would never get called ''fake gaymurs'' for getting into JRPGs thanks to Hyperdimension Neptunia. I don't understand why it's such a problem if women get into a genre thanks to cute boy bait.

No. 368903

>>368901
If the genre remains true to itself then sure.

No. 368907

>>368903
what about dungeon keeper but replace the demons with demon boys, is that okay?

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No. 368912

>>368909
then what was your problem then? you sperged for two threads over anon saying the same thing you agree with

No. 368932

>>368900
>the average gamer just plays easy slop, male or female, which is fine.
If you understand this then why
>I do find it odd more women aren't into puzzle/strategy/management type games actually because they're non violent problem solving.
is this so odd? Most people enjoy narratives and characters, it's not that deep. As a player of niche autistic games myself, I don't see what's so surprising that in a hobby with few women, there are even fewer women in a niche area.

No. 369017

>>368869
Nta but no, they're all sexualized love interests. You were nearly there kek.

No. 369019

>>369017
So then it's not just women being sexualised? What did I miss?

No. 369021

>>368932
Most people enjoy narratives over other games and that's why the most popular games on steam aside from outliers like Baldur's gate are all mostly multiplayer ones devoid of story and character development while multiplayer games blow the popularity of single player ones out of the fucking water.
>Valorant
>CSGO
>Dota
>PUBG
>Apex Legends
>Overwatch
>The Finals
>GTA online
>TF2
>That Chinese PVP game etc.

The only single player games on the steam charts are Stardew Valley and Baldur's Gate if it's still up there. Most people who play games period are still male. Most males enjoy score whoring hierarchical games that organize your worth by rank and most gamers have the attention spans of gnats and are impressionable apes who will copy whatever the other cool dogs do so developers have acted on this monkey demand along with lootbox gambling culture. Rockstar and Valve in particular learned that they didn't have to make new games if they pivoted to making and upkeeping online slop and appeasing the dog hierarchal order of males biology which lends popularity to super cereal competitive gaming.

No. 369023

>>369019
nta but the stardew male love interests arent sexualized, one of them literally looks like a sex offender

No. 369024

>>369019
You missed how women who are sex interests not love interests are often half naked, portrayed as handmaidens, trad, hyper pornified and unrealistic looking, and children while men generally aren't.

No. 369034

>>369024
What kind of video games are you playing where this is your experience?(bait)

No. 369038

>>369021
Sorry if I'm misreading your post, but this doesn't make sense at all, of course multiplayer games will dominate the charts because they have an "unlimited" amount of replayability due to the nature of online games. Whenever some big AAA release comes out you'll see them topping the charts for a while too, it's not exclusive to Baldur's Gate, but a single player game that you put 20-90 hours into will not have a consistent playerbase for prolonged periods of time the same way online games do. Not to mention Helldivers, Warframe and Monster Hunter are up there in the charts too and they're coop games, not "sweaty hierarchy moid games", not like there's anything inherently wrong with competitive games either.

No. 369042

>>369021
Most games fail at meaningfully interweaving gameplay and narrative so that makes sense.

No. 369266

>>369038
I don't think the hierarchy thing is necessarily a bad thing, competition isn't bad per se in games, my point was it resulted from male biology being projected onto pixels, kek. I play some of the games listed on top of the steam charts but multiplayer games topping the charts is not simply just a result of replay value and skill ceiling imo.

Singleplayer games can have prolonged lives like Stardew Valley, every Fallout game, probably The Sims is up there since its a sandbox and there's no market competition for life simulation games, and Baldur's Gate which has at least a hundred hours of content and replay value. Replay value is a factor that results in concurrent popularity but multiplayer games are favored by in large due to the attention seeking behavior of gamers needing validation from others, the short attention span and fickleness of gamers where one class based shooter replaces the next and the next and the tribal hierarchy of most of the moids playing the game. Multiplayer games whether they're PvP or PvE still fulfill that self-validating itch. There's been an uptick of meme streamer games that reflect this change in culture imo and that's why you don't see well crafted linear based story and character driven single player games as much anymore. Moids bitch about how Rockstar hasn't made a GTA game in a decade or any polished linear story based game like L.A Noire but then proceed to rot their brains on GTA online. Though I'd like to see more linear story based games I've been scarred by a lot of recent dogshit that consumers lap up because of the absolute feral demand for games, but it's quantity over quality. Gaming earns more than movies and music combined as a industry but most writing is bad anyways and this isn't something that's specific to games as a medium. Women are handled terribly in almost all game media, there's still the same tired prototypical story tropes that pervade all media, and little subversion. There's fake performative wokeness that infects everything but the same misognyistic tropes rehashed since two decades ago. They're a reflection of reality and the current cultural climate. You're honestly better off making your own game at this point but no one has the attention span for that shit so consumers will always far out weigh demand for games.

No. 369276

>>369038
I don't think the hierarchy thing is necessarily a bad thing, competition isn't bad per se in games, my point was it resulted from male biology being projected onto pixels, kek. I play some of the games listed on top of the steam charts but multiplayer games topping the charts is not simply just a result of replay value and skill ceiling imo.

Singleplayer games can have prolonged lives like Stardew Valley, every Fallout game, probably The Sims is up there since its a sandbox and there's no market competition for life simulation games, and Baldur's Gate which has at least a hundred hours of content and replay value. Replay value is a factor that results in concurrent popularity but multiplayer games are favored by in large due to the attention seeking behavior of gamers needing validation from others, the short attention span and fickleness of gamers where one class based shooter replaces the next and the next and the tribal hierarchy of most of the moids playing the game. Multiplayer games whether they're PvP or PvE still fulfill that self-validating itch. There's been an uptick of meme streamer games that reflect this change in culture imo and that's why you don't see well crafted linear based story and character driven single player games as much anymore. Moids bitch about how Rockstar hasn't made a GTA game in a decade or any polished linear story based game like L.A Noire but then proceed to rot their brains on GTA online. Though I'd like to see more linear story based games I've been scarred by a lot of recent dogshit that consumers lap up because of the absolute feral demand for games, but it's quantity over quality. Gaming earns more than movies and music combined as a industry but most writing is bad anyways and this isn't something that's specific to games as a medium. Women are handled terribly in almost all game media, there's still the same tired prototypical story tropes that pervade all media, and little subversion. There's fake performative wokeness that infects everything but the same misognyistic tropes rehashed since two decades ago. They're a reflection of reality and the current cultural climate. You're honestly better off making your own game at this point but no one has the attention span for that shit so consumers will always far out weigh demand for games.

No. 369571

>>369276
I think narrative is a lot less ismportant in gaming tee bee haych. Like a good story is a nice addition but it can’t save bad gameplay. I also think atmosphere and environment design are more important for the story.(learn2integrate)

No. 370657

A demo of Stellar Blade got released 2 weeks ago and, what a surprise, it looks like something out of the chinese app store. Scrotes are praising it's lacklusted, boring and linear gameplay that could rival the trashiest mobile games just because ''hurr durr cum sexy woman make feminazis mad''. Funnily enough the designers are actually retarded so they gave the MC a long ponytail that hides her ass 90% of the time. Can't wait to read moids buying this overpriced chinese mobile trash slop for 60 usd and saying it's the best game ever just to ''own'' women that would never want to touch their moldy cheese ridden dicks anyways.

No. 370664

>>370657
Yeah, they wouldn't care about that game if it didn't have a character like that which….what is even the point? Moids already have the possibility to play and create sexy female characters if they want. It feels like Atomic Heart, just trash that earned money because of lazy coom, play an actual porn game at this point or use coom mods in a decent game kek. Wanting to play X game just because the character looks like a sexy waifu, what absolute fags.
Also as an actual waifufag i will never stop saying how her design sucks, absolute nonsense mess, she could stand in front of a mossy rock and i wouldn't be able to spot her.

No. 370668

>>370664
>Also as an actual waifufag i will never stop saying how her design sucks, absolute nonsense mess, she could stand in front of a mossy rock and i wouldn't be able to spot her.
It looks like they hired AI to do the art direction. I like trashy hack and slash with waifushit from time to time, like Lollipop Chainsaw, but that game actually had a cool art direction and Juliet was pretty funny.

No. 370669

>>370657
Korean scrotes have always been some of the worst because of their invisible microdicks.

No. 370671

>>370657
That Korean gloss is so gross, everything that comes out of Korea is awful. Also I bet the gameplay is shit.

No. 370676

>>370664
They’re literally not even going to play it. Some might buy it out of spite and it will sit untouched.

No. 370678

>>370668
Right, when the characters have a personality and an idea behind them they can be actually appealing, agree on the Ai as well, i refuse to believe that an artist would create a cat vomit outfit like that.

No. 370684

>>370657
I'm convinced all the hype around this is artificial. No one around me talks about this game, but its fans pretend like there's a hardcore feminist rally against its existence in order to lure in your usual scrotes that want to own the ebin evil feminists.

No. 370700

>>370684
It's like Nikke. Literally no one cares except coomer moids.

No. 370716

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>>370700
i care about andersen-san

No. 370718

>>370716
Kek, maybe one April Fool's day they'll be ballsy enough to make an animation for him.

No. 370722

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>>370718
every april fools I pray they do more andersen fanservice, give my hag the panchira he rightfully deserves

No. 370723

>>370722
wow it's like one of my Japanese animes

No. 370738

>>370716
why are scrotes so insecure, why did they give him a beard. It never looks good.

No. 370761

>>370738
Shit taste, go back to your containment thread(infighting/baiting)

No. 370768

>>370761
you're being ridiculous
>>370722
I've already replied with that silly Metal Gear joke but the quality is really nice, love the uniform, shame that i'm one of those nonas who doesn't like beard and his eyes are a bit too deep set to me but thank you for sharing this moiderino.

No. 370775

Project Moons giant E cup tit designs are gross and just as sexist as any other Korean devs.

No. 370798

>>370669
After learning about all the harassment female team members get designing scrote apps, and the magelian thing, I hate Korean moids the most.

No. 370820

>>370722
>>370716
He looks like a mix between bucky and snake.

No. 370868

>>370722
dont tell me you actually play this coomer scrote game, why

No. 370884

>>370775
Which designs are you talking about nonna? I'm not really familiar with the games aside from Lobotomy Corp and a bit of Limbus Company. I dropped the series after last years controversy with the Korean moids losing it over the Ishmael ID for the summer event.
I know Angela, Rodion and Faust have pretty large chests but I didn't think much of them since they aren't dressed skimpily.

No. 370890

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>>370775
agreed. They look so weird too.

No. 370969

>>370775
a woman having big boobs isn’t really the same or similar to a woman having big boobs and wearing high heels in a bikini dress while flushing and moaning at the camera while her tits sway and jiggle. also fanservice in pm games is extremely tame, and men get it too. it’s a shame they did what they did with vrelmori though, i was a happy whale kek

No. 371066

>>370775
it's one of the least sexist designs you can see from eastern devs
i dunno what you're smoking, but you just gotta look at what most japanese gacha characters look like and you might come to your senses.

No. 371069

>>371066
NTA but they have gigantic tits while the men look malnourished, i don't think it's unfair to complain about it. They look extremely retarded. They also fired velmori over incels throwing a tantrum, so we know the kind of audience they are pandering to.

No. 371071

>>371069
>NTA but they have gigantic tits while the men look malnourished, i don't think it's unfair to complain about it.
Because most anime doesn't look like that?

No. 371073

>>371071
They are clearly not better than other gachashit if they are willing to let one of their artists get harassed by moids. Chainsaw man also has fully covered female characters, that doesn't make the artist less of a coomer, especially since he has an obvious suit fetish.

No. 371082

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>>371069
That's only true for some of them. In the same way that only a few female characters have a big chest

No. 371085

>>371073
Not arguing that pm isn't a shit company but they genuinely don't have the coomer fanservice that chainsaw man has (the women in it aren't always fully clothed and the mc is only ever thinking about fucking them) so I don't get your argument. It's been discussed before and no one supports the company, but you can't deny that they weren't somewhat good at designing and writing interesting female characters.

No. 371090

>>371073
Chainsawman had a lesbian orgy as chapter art and female characters (and a trap) in lingerie, plus the groomer dommy mommy Makima shit was overtly sexual from the start. I think the only way you can compare say Limbus characters to Chainsawman ones is that they wear suits/uniforms, but from when I played it and from watching later story cutscenes after the summer event fiasco I can't remember the female characters ever being fetishized.
I don't think anyone's arguing that Project Moon is good after last summer, but compared to the other current popular gacha, Limbus is almost puritan.

No. 371173

>>371066
I was actually talking about LoR
Angela/Sayo/Meow/Katriel/Olga
It all made me uncomfortable

No. 372149

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Scrotes are seething over this lesbian Kotaku writer thinking aphrodite's design while criticizing stellerblade. The difference is that scrotes have 0 self control and have to make every woman coombait even when it doesn't make sense. If Hades was an AAA game demeter would be designed to look much younger and would have a revealing design.
Hades has hot male characters in revealing clothing (excluding hepheastus but he is a canon uggo). Something which couldn't be done in the God of War games because scrotes want every man to look like a 40 year old alcoholic divorcees.

No. 372519

>>372149
I never really cared about designs in Hades other than Zag and Thanatos, but this made me think. It'd be so fucking good to have joseimuke based off Greek mythology. I want to see them all turned into pretty boys.

No. 373954

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No. 373965

>>373954
Japan's wobbly leg fetish is so fucking weird.

No. 373974

>>372149
I love older Aphrodite. She's gorgeous.

No. 373979

>>373965
But nona, its makes women look petite and feminine and dainty…. lol

No. 373981

>>373954
>>373965
It looks retarded, like their knees are glued together. It's clear it's supposed to be for modesty reasons but 2 of them aren't even wearing skirts.
BTW watermelons have very little calories so the massive difference in slices doesn't make sense except for manliness and daintiness reasons.

No. 373998

>>373981
Persona 4 was developed on a shittu budget and in a very short period of time and is full of reused assets from P3, I think the devs didn't care at all about creating a new pose for the female characters for the few times when they're not wearing their school uniform skirts.

No. 374000

>>373981
eating sweet things isn't very manly lol

No. 374004


No. 377173

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This is why the hades vs stellar blade comparisons will never be the same. If coomers had their way EVERY female character in a game would have to be sexualized (and young).
Scrotes think if a woman is unattractive they don't have a place in video games, yet the average male videogame protag is an ugly self insert

No. 377178

>>377173
While I don't like Hestia's design as much as the other gods in Hades, I can at least tell from looking at her what she's the goddess of the hearth. Hestia on the right has no visual references to the mythology whatsoever, she just looks like a generic anime whore.

No. 377179

>>377173
Is that animu girl really meant to be Hestia?
That Hades design is great, full of references to coal and grilling. Making her an older, motherly woman also fits.

No. 377195

>>377173
This just proves japanese coomers will use any theme as an excuse for fap folders, it doesn't make them smarter, it makes them porn addicted.

No. 377207

I think for me the worst issues are, in order
Any games with voice chat for women
The IRL culture
Badly written female characters (I think bland characters that are an afterthought are worse than what they’re wearing)
Creepy cutscenes
Over sexualisation
Power gap
Mog station being too expensive
Power gap
Not having enough coom material

No. 377215

>>377173
While I do like her clothes/overall cloncept and it's way more interesting than her JP counterpart, western Hestia is very unappealing to look at. There are better ways to make granny characters, I'm actually surprised she looks that bad when most old characters in media look very sweet.

No. 377222

>>377215
whats wrong with her? she looks cute

No. 377229

>>377215
I agree it's all good except the face/hair area is a mess that all blends together

No. 377231

>>377222
The only thing I'd personally get rid of is the white soot (birthmarks?) on her face/chest, because it feels like there's too much going on. The lipstick should be orange instead of white imo. These areminor complaints, though, and it seems fine otherwise. I like the detail where her hoopskirt looks like a brazier. Jen Zee (the lead character designer on Hades) is a million times more talented than whatever pervert designed the generic moeblobs in Danmachi, a shitty harem anime that was popular for like two seconds a decade ago. The only people who still like that shit are the sort of bottom feeding scrotoids who enjoy haremshit.

I think it's interesting that the gods age in the universe of Hades. Like Demeter, Hestia, and Kronos look old-ish, while Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades are middle-aged. Then you have the playable characters and their love interests, who are college age or young adults.

No. 377232

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Also while we're here, Hades II has no shortage of sexy female characters. Just look at Hera!

No. 377267

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>>377232
but if you close your eyes…

No. 377394

>>377232
But anon that is a powerful adult woman, not a squealing little girl so scrote animu coomers won't approve.

No. 377601

>>377207
>Mog station being too expensive
You mean the XIV store? Mog station is just their retarded hub to sell the expansions and the retainers. It's a crime the store even exists and the fact they charge for extra retainers.

No. 377817

>>377601
Yes I meant the outfit store idk why I was calling it the mog station this whole time. And yes it’s a crime that they charge $15 for a basic black skirt and I bought it

No. 377822

>>377232
Me when I throw a deformed scrote baby off mt olympus

No. 377835

>>377817
Kek probably because stupid square made up different names for their thousands of extra services. We got the companionapp on the phone for… selling things on your retainer or something. Then the mog station, then the store for fantasias, mounts and outfits kek it's no surprise you got them confused. I used to call it mogstore and it's not even called like that. I agree, their prices are insane, on top of having a subscription already. Check the prices on square enix store later kek it's even worse. They released a music box with aerith's theme for almost 1k USD. A few XIV items you can only have if you buy a real item from their store, and those are usually really expensive too.

No. 382654

i just hate this new wave of gamergate bitching about "wokeness" in everything. i don't think moids are capable of playing through a video game without having a boner. female characters are literally only allowed to exist as pornography to them.

No. 382655

>>382654
On one hand I get it because I also don't play games with ugly moids in them because it's boring if I don't have someone to objectify but on the other I don't understand the entitlement. Gamers are always bitching about one thing or another, they act as if devs owed them something. They can whine about wokeness, micro-transactions or the game being unfinished and yet they still buy it anyway so their complaints don't even matter.

No. 382658

>>382655
>On one hand I get it because I also don't play games with ugly moids in them because it's boring if I don't have someone to objectify but on the other I don't understand the entitlement
the difference is that extremely objectified porny female characters of all varieties are already present in literally every video game ever, while the opposite is true for male characters. moids can just go play stellar blade, some shitty furry monsterfucking loli hentai game on steam, or just any of the gazillion coomer titles at their disposal and be happy. but no, they won't settle for already having it all. they want anything that doesn't cater to their pornsick sexual preferences to get canceled and instead of just ignoring the "woke" games with "uglified" characters they will launch rabid hate campaigns against them and make video essays about how society has wronged them if a developer so much as dares to move the boob slider a mere millimeter to the left on anyone.

No. 384173

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we don't live in a time period where women lack money, right? obviously the wage gap exists and women generally make less (?) but they're still getting paid. this should be common knowledge, so: why aren't there more games that pander exclusively to women? male rage aside…

but i actually wonder if male rage even factors into it when games like enstars and twisted wonderland are doing well. are companies just scared women won't have enough $$$ and time to waste on a high budget, exclusive gacha? i'd love something like genshin with nice designs and cute boys as far as the eye can see

No. 384182

>>384173
yeah its kinda sad all we get is either gacha or otome shit and even in gachas most of them still pander a lot more to men

No. 384188

>>384173
>why aren't there more games that pander exclusively to women?
Women are more likely to be normies than moids, that's literally it. That's also why all those gacha games that do pander to women are super casual normieshit but with cute anime boys. We tend to forget because there are no normie women among us.

No. 384189

>>384173
All AAA games are live service trash. We live in the multiplayer world and frankly I don't think most women care about that. Being competitive in video games seems to be almost entirely moid trait. That's why e-sports and speedrunning have more troons than actual women. We're more creative and mostly run fandoms but corporations don't give a shit about their communities.

No. 384195

>>384173
Because at the end of the day the investors are men, the people in high positions are men, the people who own these companies are men and all they care about it creating what they want to see.

No. 384210

>>384173
The men who run these companies literally do not believe women enjoy video games nor have tastes different from them. Like, actually, unironically.

No. 384213

>>384210
Well, by their own admission most women don’t really play games for the gameplay but
for the characters and fandom which you don’t need to play the game to experience.

No. 384239

>>384189
>We're more creative and mostly run fandoms but corporations don't give a shit about their communities.
then why does a well-made model statue for that ugly fag astarion exist? he's not even the most popular BG3 character, and yet. i think companies are noticing fandom women will pay big bucks for shit like that.

No. 384259

>>384195
This might apply to the game devs, but I don't think the investors, and the people at the top of the company, really give a shit about the content of the games. The company could be making games about talking genderless toasters and investors would be fine with it so long as the games make them money.

If you convinced them that producing games for women would be more profitable, they'd stop pandering to men in a heartbeat.

No. 384269

>>384259
And they're not going to because it's not more profitable as much as this thread hates it.

>"But [gachashit x] makes billions from women! Yuri on ice!"

Gachashit will always have titles specifically for women because it is something women pay up for. Merch and laid back character collectors. When the more gameplay-heavy games don't land as well with women, but the borderline gameplayless games do, that gives devs no incentive to add more meaningful gameplay to female targeted games or add more pandering to female players in their gameplay centered games.

No. 384278


No. 384284

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>>384173
because every time a game tries to men get pissed and throw temper tantrums
>>384269
execpt its been proven that games that appeal to women get more female fans. Like hades, FF, LoZ, Devil may cry, Resident evil. Hell, KoF was saved by fujos.

No. 384345

>>384284
>none of the first five series even come close to being more popular with women than men
And see >>384213. Women do fluff up fandoms which in turn aids merch sales for these games, but they're less likely to play them for the gameplay. In other words, they're less likely to actually play the games. In gachas too, female players are more likely to spend money on merch than whale in game unlike moids, and they'll buy anything, whereas moids typically only shell out for figures. And that's with the east asian ultrabuyfag culture in mind, women in the west spend less money on games across the board, leaving western game companies even less incentivized to try appealing to them. As much as I'd love more fanservice that appeals to me in games, if I put myself in the position of a shareholder who only had making money in mind, I would question a company's descision to give a small minority of players an equal amount of pandering to their core audience who is offput by it unless the company planned to merchandise heavily to properly take advantage of it, and even then it's awkward when you think about how that minority would just as happily buy said merch for a game with next to no gameplay.

No. 384398

>>384284
kek this pic

No. 384418

>>384345
>even come close
>FF, Resident evil
Just say you are retarded and go.

No. 384420

>>384284
your forgot persona, its super popular with women yet atlus refuses to give us the option to date guys or play as a girl.

No. 384421

>>384269
Except gachas still pander more to men you fucking moron. Care to explain that? After all these are mindless no-gameplay games for women, unlike all those 1000 iq complex ones (counter strike) for men.

No. 384427

>>384420
The current director for persona games even said there's no way a woman in a mc's role would make sense (a woman wouldn't be able to be heroic and save the world unless shes a sexy sidekick). Not to mention the way they ignore P3P's FEMC.

No. 384428

>>384421
i’ve read that even when mixed gacha games exist, and even if they are made female devs, they still have to release coom skins to pay the bills (punishing gray raven for example)

No. 384430

>>384427
Yes and no, not really, he said that but he isn't working on Persona games anymore and is working on the Metaphor game now. iirc a younger team is handling the Persona series and is most likely working on P6.

No. 384436

>>384421
Because men spend on the actual games more. Men whale in gacha games more than women do again because they care more about the gameplay side of things, women spend on merch more. Games like twisted wonderland and enstars make a large amount of their revenue through merch, that's why they release so much of it relative to moid gachas. You can also see this in games like genshin and FGO where the games themselves are very moidy but most of the merch is cute and girly with a lot more options for male characters alongside the occasional horny figure of one of the girls. Genshin is less moidy than FGO but it's male-dominated while FGO isn't, why is that? Could be the less compelling characters, but could also be the amount of gameplay it has relative to the average gacha.

No. 384440

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>>384436
you are talking out of you ass there are more female figures from fate than male ones. This is from the first page of mfc alone. There are 5 guys to 35 girls and astolfo

No. 384441

>>384436
i will never understand why certain weeb women are so obsessed with hoarding tons of plastic shit? too much money??

No. 384446

>>384441
male weebs do it more, most anime figures are made for moids. Never heard of melonpan?

No. 384447

>>384446
yeah but i dont think you can compare figures to pins and whatever else weeb women usually hoard.

No. 384448

>>384436
Your room temperature IQ is a dead xy-chimp giveaway(scrotefoiling)

No. 384449

>>384447
i think buying figurines of lolis in bunnysuit outfits is miles worse

No. 384450

>>384449
eh if companys would release sexy figures of my husbando, you think i wouldnt be getting them?

No. 384451

>>384446
Figures are one thing but what weeb women hoard are overpriced mcdonalds toy quality plushies, acrylic stands, and other garbage. Men rarely buy those, they buy figures and so companies make more figures for them to buy while they give women the plastic crap they settle for.

No. 384452

>>384450
men commit 98% of crimes its not comparable to women. When men do it its creepy.

No. 384453

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>>384451
you dont know about the tacky autism armours moids wear for their waifus? they make itabags look elegant

No. 384454

You never see men buying 12 copies of the same 30$ mini plush and 12 more copies of that mini plush's yaoi boyfriend and carefully sewing outfits for them to picture and post flex on socmed to make even more people want to buy them and do the same thing. Why bother producing expensive figures when the key to a woman's heart is a happy meal toy of her husbando.

No. 384455

>>384454
i’m a woman and i’d never do this. i want to see cock and balls and hole

No. 384457


No. 384458

>>384454
The touhoufags do it with fumos but those are $50 plushes

No. 384461

>>384458
nooo men dont do that they dont waste money on useless junk like plushies only useless junk like loli figurines

No. 384462

>>384454
I will literally never understand these retards buying 100 copies of overpriced acrylic stands and buttons. It almost infuriates me.

No. 384468

>>384462
As it should, because that retarded buyfag culture is why there are so few male figures. A couple acrylics will set you back about the same amount as a whole lower-medium end figure but the acrylics cost .0001% the time, effort, and money to make.

No. 384477

>>384454
>>384455
>not doing both at the same time
I'm disappointed in you.

No. 384511

>>384213
Where did you even get this info? If they don't play it for the gameplay, why would they even play it, they could just watch the gameplay. Why would they force themselves to play something if not to experience the gameplay? Do you think men only play games for the gameplay and don't enjoy the story and characters?

No. 384513

>>384173
I think we are starting to see more games that appeal to women with the growth in popularity of "cozy games". The problem is that these games are not able to embrace female sexuality.
It's like developers see women as asexual by default and willing to accept anything as a good love interest. There's always an effort to make sure scrote's love interest appeal to them attractively.
But with women not only might the story be half hearted the designs are basic or downright ugly. There's decades of romcom media out there but game developers pretend that women don't have any standards for what they see as attractive. The new life is strange is a good example of this

No. 384515

>>384513
Samefagging but I'm looking forward to this more. If games are gonna fumble sexuality for women then they should at least put effort into writing about friendships or platonic relationships between women. (And not just yuribaiting for scrotes). I can tolerate more games if they went the pretty little liars route a.k.a. focus on the female characters and their stories instead of inserting shitty love interests that are too scared to offend scrotes

No. 384517

>>384513
he looks like a crappy literally me character for moids. If you told me this was a self insert fantasy for moids that want asian waifus i would believe it.

No. 384520

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>>384517
Agreed the problem with western games is they make male love interests who validate scrotes insecurities rather than pander to women. Stardew Valley is a good example of this

No. 384523

>>384520
the pedo sex offender guy actually used to look like a cute nerd. I hate male insecurity.

No. 384524

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>>384520
the ugly faggot from baldurs gate deserves to be posted

No. 384525

>>384524
i am so glad no one likes him anymore. These type of beanie baby fad husbandos are so annoying.

No. 384546

>>384511
Literally from the people in this thread and the last one. See also girls who like complicated games being told it’s “autistic moid shit” (also from these threads). Also basically every woman I talk to with few exceptions. And yes men are far more willing to play a game solely for the gameplay. Sorry.

No. 384547

>>384546
wow i wonder why women arent interested in a medium that dangles big titty bitches to moids in almost all its titles while also having repulsive male characters. U seriously wonder why the most popular franchises with women are those with hot men like Resident Evil and Persona. I, again, cannot wrap my head around why women dont want to play god of war, a game with a gross balding musclepig protagonist that has a sex minigame where said roidpig fucks two naked women. Truly it must be because women are dummies too retarded to enjoy games and not because they have standards and arent willing to degrade themselves while partaking in a medium thats 90% moid power fantasies.

No. 384549

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>>384517
Unironically, even those have a good chance of looking better than female love interests.

No. 384550

>>384549
He's hideous.

No. 384551

>>384550
Point is he's better than pedo stach, unless you're actually into that.

No. 384552

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>>384549
ew shirou, gilgamesh is the real mvp of fate

No. 384553

>>384547
nta but girl calm down and quit pretending games without moid fanservice don't exist, or like a normal woman would even be bothered by it half as much as you for that matter. you know what the most popular franchises with women are? cozy all ages games like animal crossing. even mario and zelda are male leaning. a vocal minority of leonfags =/= a majority female playerbase for re either, that's like claiming cod has a majority female playerbase with your only evidence being that soapghost is a super popular ship. companies who make actual games don't care that much about people playing their games for entirely superficial reasons the way gacha companies who bank on those ppl do. moids aren't playing gow for a sex minigame, but women are playing persona for lousy shipbait. be mad about them all you want but there's logic behind these companies descisions.

No. 384554

>someone posted fate in the antifatesperg's domain
Ruh-roh, storm incoming

No. 384555

>>384554
fate has some hot men so its fine

No. 384556

>>384554
My bad, I actually didn't remember, just picked first male self insert mc I could think of as an ecample.

No. 384557

>>384553
dont women also play persona for the story and gameplay? i doubt majority of the women playing sit through a 50 hr. game just for some fujobait

No. 384558

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>>384520
This is why I always download mods to turn the men into kawiwi husbandos. The bachelorettes in sdv are beautiful then we have the most atrocious set of scrotes to pick from:
>Basement-dwelling discord mod
>fat retard
>the pringles guy
>goku
>guy that growls into a mic on tiktok for booktok hags
>ugly roidpig

Elliot’s downgrade especially makes me want to alog.

No. 384560

>>384554
everyone with dignity hates fate. It has nothing but lolis and male fanservice. The female designs are genuinely attrocious.(derailing)

No. 384563

>>384553
>companies who make actual games don't care that much about people playing their games for entirely superficial reasons
yes they do. Nier automata would have been a massive fucking flop without 9s ass front and center. There is a reason why the original games with the roidpig and the ikemen(who never released outside japan because it hurt westoid men feefees) arent as popular

No. 384568

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No. 384571

>>384563
the female character in nier replicant literally walks around in lingerie

No. 384572

>>384568
what a gross monstrosity

No. 384573

>>384552
I don't know how to convey this without sounding baity or woke but I don't think an animufication of Gilgamesh should be so pale and blonde with a short haircut. Feels weird. Also why is Enkidu a waifu? Shit tier.

No. 384574

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>>384560
okay fatesperg time for bed(derailing/infight bait)

No. 384576

>>384571
the mc are moids

No. 384577

>>384568
ballsack boobs, ick

No. 384578

>>384573
enkidu is not a waifu, hes genderless kek

No. 384579

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>>384574
its really sad because fate does have some delicious moids but its all ruined because of the coom shit

No. 384580

>>384579
i cannot imagine playing fate for this, he's so meh. At least arknights has cute guys and better gameplay.

No. 384581

>>384578
Okay well they still turned a badass beast man into a lame green-haired almost astolfo-tier "genderless" waifu. Absolutely awful sanitized interpretations of legendary hero and wild beast man dynamic

No. 384582

>>384580
i dont even play fate kek, i only watched the anime (which has a decent story and is beautiful animated).

No. 384583

>>384582
same, still think the guys are hotties. we already established that women don't play these games for the gameplay so you don't even need to play it to get into the hot guys, just consoom doujin, uploads of stories involving the characters you care, and merch.

No. 384586

>>384583
but some women do play "those" games. theres even girls who like blue archive (100% scrote pandering game)

No. 384588

>>384547
>god of war, a game with a gross balding musclepig protagonist that has a sex minigame where said roidpig fucks two naked women.
Nta but is this true? Men really get everything catered to their sexuality

No. 384590

>>384586
well logically speaking a woman attracted to women is going to enjoy sexy depictions of women

No. 384591

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>>384588
Nta but yeah, kek. Older games are especially terrible about it. I love the witcher franchise but the first game has an atrocious concept where you get a collectible card like picrel every time you have sex with a different npc female.

No. 384592

>>384591
I unironically want to make games just as sleazy as this but genderflipped and targeted towards women.

No. 384593

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>>384592
Same. I wasn't too mad at it when I played through it, I just wish we had the option to collect something like picrel for ourselves kek. We need more male sexualization in media.

No. 384597

>>384591
Its so bleak for us

No. 384600

>>384593
you can date men in the witcher?

No. 384601

>>384600
No, I wish. That's fanart. It's my dream to date my witcher husbando.

No. 384602

>>384601
ah makes sense, maybe one day they give ciri a game in which you can date men.

No. 384607

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>>384560
Ironically enough back when fsn was an eroge the female characters actually had really good designs, spare medusa's coomery design but she's a nun compared to modern fate women. Anything past that is shit tho

No. 384634

>>384546
kek I've been itt since the start probably arguing with you over this. As a woman with an autistic interest in gameplay, I don't see why you can't understand that most men also aren't interested in autistic gameplay either. More men are playing, there are more of them in number, so ofc you find more men interested in specific gameplay and you don't find as many women in this. From the gamers I know, most men are into basic stuff and most don't obsess over hardcore stuff. I don't know why you want women to collectively be into hardcore gameplay when even most men aren't into that.

No. 384653

>>384607
>Medusa
I personally never found her design to be too bad in the VN at least, and she looks really cute in her casual clothes.
The problem with modern Fate designs is that 99% of modern Fate is FGO and FGO needs coom to sell because it's a gacha, they also have a lot of different artists on board which is why art quality and designs tend to fluctuate greatly.

No. 384741

>>384634
I didn’t say hardcore, most women aren’t really interested in gameplay at all, and game mechanics aren’t their primary reason for playing games.

No. 384743

>>384547
I could literally just spend the next year doing nothing but clearing my backlog and still not come across a single game that “dangles big titty bitches in front of me”. Sexist games exist but there’s also a learned helplessness problem.

No. 384745

>>384741
kill yourself retard this stupid thought process is why all female-orientated games are boring slop like animal crossing and starshit valley
>game mechanics aren’t their primary reason for playing games
this is the case for many female gamers, actually. real gamers. in the same way a guy who just plays genshin/aaa is a normie slop casual non-gamer a woman who just plays cookie clicker is also a casual, and shouldn't be considered "gamers". real gamers like challenge. see: women loving LoL, souls games, obscure horror titles, etc.(infighting)

No. 384747

>>384547
>gross balding musclepig protagonist that has a sex minigame where said roidpig fucks two naked women.
I looked up the sex minigames in god of war and I was shocked at how repulsive they are. I'm not against nudity or sex in games, but I hate every element about the way these minigames were designed. The dialogue is retarded and the women move like dehydrated worms kek I'm amazed even moids can find this sexy. The protag looking like a fat bald pig is the cherry on top of the repugnant pie.

No. 384751

>>384747
Well, at least they don't do them anymore, right?

No. 384753

>>384751
No, I don't think Ragnarok had one. I wonder why? I also wonder if moids complained about it. I'm kind of tired of looking up sex scene information from a franchise I don't give a fuck about so I'm not going to research this.

No. 384755

>>384745
>LoL, souls games, obscure horror titles
guess I'm not a real gamer even though I've been playing stuff for decades then cause those are all genres I hate.

No. 384763

>>384751
>>384753
No. I played 2018 and ragnarok and there is absolutely no sex, he isn't even touchy with his wife when she appears. It wouldn't make sense to put that crap there either cus the focus is his son who accompanies him everywhere the entire 18 game and most of ragnarok, imagine ditching the kid so you could have sex wtf, it also would cheapen his relationship with his recently dead wife and the whole mourning thing. Idk if moids complained about the lack of nasty minigames but they sure are vocal about not wanting the franchise getting a remake because they fear it will be censored, and since the fight scenes are as gorey as in the original games I am sure they're talking about the sex minigame.
Anyway even without sex scenes in the 18 and ragnarok males still make sex jokes, the whole atreus (kratos teenage son) turning into a wolf and fucking his two female wolves comes to mind, it's a popular "joke", men are complete degenerates, even when they're put in the role of a father they still manage to have despicable thoughts.

No. 384772

>>384741
men literally make memes about masturbating to touhou instead of playing you nlog. If men cant shoot things while roleplaying as space marines they arent interested. The average scrotoid doesnt like gameplay either because most dislike single player games, they just want to be with their bros, they arent interested in gaming for the gameplay.

No. 384773

>>384745
It’s not a thought process, it’s how it is, it doesn’t mean I agree with it or want it to be this way. But the casual Stawdew valley slop you mentioned is what’s popular with women for a reason. It’s not a top down effect. Though I think women would enjoy strategy more if they knew about it. It’s more of a statistics thing really. But even in this thread soemone said women prefer fandoms and creating things to playing games competitively .

>>384772
>can’t shoot people then they’re not interested
So… gameplay then? Lol

No. 384775

>>384772
>playing games with your friends isn't True and Honest gaming
Might be the funniest take in the whole thread. It's crazy how the only thing saving some of your posts from being completely indistinguishable from reddit neckbeards are the pinkpill buzzwords.

No. 384780

>>384775
you are crying about how men care about the gameplay, unlike those poser womyn! meanwhile men refuse to play games JUST for the gameplay(single players) they need their discord friends and music to properly ''enjoy'' games. Also shit like overwatch/cod/LOL are the male equivalent of no brainer crap like animal crossing. If a man likes those he goes in the trash.

No. 384781

>>384773
>So… gameplay then?
so, why is going pew pew gameplay but women spending hours min-maxing their sims not gameplay?

No. 384785

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>men LIKE gameplay because they're autistic losers with shit taste
>nevermind, men DON'T LIKE gameplay because they only like that shitty meme game that blew up on niconico for memes and porn
>women LIKE gameplay because they play 3 resident evil games for leon
>okay nevermimd, women DON'T LIKE gameplay and ONLY play games for hot guys but that's fine because men DON'T LIKE GAMEPLAY either and only play games for hot girls
>MEN DON'T PLAY SINGLE PLAYER GAMES
>and yes, women still only play sims and animal crossing but those are REAL games, unlike tf2 and overwatch.
this sped's about to make me stroke out. the fuck did she mean by any of this. she has the continuity of a poorly made chatbot. maybe we do need a recaptcha system here after all.

No. 384787

>>384785
what even is your definition of gamepplay? you seem to think when men play it=gameplay, but when women play it=no gameplay.
If women dont like gameplay why are they making fucking challenges for games like the sims?

No. 384788

>>384787
i think the better question is what's yours as well as your definition of what a video game even is because now you've uno reversed the goalpost to
>overwatch does NOT have real gameplay but the sims 4 does
which is a take so weird it shows you aren't even familiar with the sims series somehow. can like you write a manifesto that you can cross reference or something because you changing your story up every 5 seconds makes you sound like someone's testing their c.ai lolcow infight bot on us without our consent. none of us can comprehend whatever it is you're trying to say.

No. 384791

>>384788
the men you are cocksucking arent into games for the gameplay and gave you several examples you keep avoiding, like scrotes who masturbate to touhou and buy the fumos but have never played it. If they liked games for the gameplay they would play single player games by themselves. Take the discord friends out of the equation and they arent interested in ''gaming''. Hell, my LOL playing male friend doesnt even like LOL, he just plays it because his friends do. You are just a weird NLOG that's fixated on calling women fake gaymurs like some 2014 gamergate neckbeard while also defending men who are fake gamers by your own definition. Its funny you think collecting hats and throwing racial slurs in voice chat is real gaming but a woman spending hours playing by herself min-maxing her sims from birth to have the perfect family isnt gameplay. Also, its several anons shitting on you.

No. 384796

>>384791
>it's several anons shitting on you
i don't know who you think i am but i'm just scrolling up and getting repeatedly confused by the word salad. it's several anons shitting on you and i wasn't even one of them.

>unironically has male friends

>ridiculously aggressive towards other women, calls us all a bunch of cocksucking nlog retards unprovoked
my ai theory coming in nicely

No. 384798

>>384796
you are the one that thinks men playing crap like overwatch makes them real gamers but women playing the sims makes them fake gaymurs. You are such a nlog you think women only play games to consoom, with no proof at all outside your personal bias.

No. 384802

>>384798
i still can't make sense of any of your posts but the more i tried to the more they made me laugh from the sheer absurdity and i've been laughing so hard irl i've been in tears for the last 5 minutes so thanks for that. i hope your plan to defend the sims 4 of all games because soygirl EA paypigs play it will fix sexism in videogames, farewell.(infighting)

No. 384803

>>384801
damn you have a severe lack of reading comprehension. I wasnt even defending the sims 4, but the women who play it you keep insulting and calling fake gamers. Maybe play less slop like overwatch and read a book next time.(infighting)

No. 384805

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>>384436
>twisted wonderland and enstars make a large amount of their revenue through merch, that's why they release so much of it relative to moid gachas
Except in figures for some reason, I never got why but joseimuke characters very very rarely get scale figures. Meanwhile there's over 700 Azur Lane figures.

No. 384806

>>384805
I think it has to do with how men and women approach the idea of being a fan. Women are far more inclined to work their fandom into their social identity and try to integrate it into their everyday lives, so merch is portable, easily tacked onto their bag or clothing and taken with them everywhere. Practical fanmerch is also overwhelmingly bought by women, like themed clothing, towels, dishes, perfume, etc. A scale figure can't safely be carried around and used in day to day life, it just sits on your shelf. The most you can do is post a picture on social media.

No. 384809

>>384468
Always makes me laugh when they pretend rich weeb women wouldn't buy figures though, you really think the group that buys 100+ of the same badge wouldn't buy at least 10 of the same figure?

No. 384810

>>384806
Also we have the age old issue where the audience for female figures is both men and women while the audience for male figures is women only. Just look at the droves of female miku collectors

No. 384811

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>>384549
>Liking the alarm clock hating misogynist
Honestly all the guys in fate stay night are pretty trash, I do kinda get the argument for Archer though since he had a lot of shipbait with Rin and he's actually attractive it always felt like Rin was just waiting for Emiya to turn into him anyway

But I also think Shinji is the FSN best character sooo…

No. 384814

>>384806
I kind of get that argument (it would also explain why the most popular type of figure with women are nendoroids because they actually do figures for them and they're tiny) but at the same time there's plenty of women who just collect dupes of the same merch over and over again to have as a once a year shrine pic on said character's birthday and then have it in storage for the rest of the year.
>>384810
That's also true, not counting shounen characters obviously since both men and women buy those.
At the same time though, the most popular cast off on MFC is Aoba rather than a female character so clearly there's a market for it (at least for fujos, no idea if yumes would also be interested)

No. 384815

>>384814
Those women must think more merch in total = more dedicated, even if it's the same amount of money spent on 100 badges and 10 figures.

No. 384817

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>>384806
>>384805
I always found this odd, it shouldn't be that rare to want good scale figures of either 3d or 2d male characters yet they go on making weird specific merch like picrel too (touken ranbu inspired) which seem more complicated and niche.
Also the topic of this thread is always going to cause some discussions at some point, they can't go on forever but i think that sometimes certain redtext are unfair.

No. 384819

>>384817
Touken Ranbu actually gets some pretty nice figures since Nitro+ actually cares about keeping their female fans happy and making as many figures as possible.
As for the watches and purses, some people just like a more subtle weeb look but want to buy the stuff related to their favorite franchises when possible.

No. 384820

>>384811
They were pretty clearly just talking design wise and comparing it to >>384513 and >>384520

No. 384821

>>384805
its been said already but its because the fans buy buy buy the badges and acrylics and keychains and other junk that costs nothing to produce, but figures cost more to produce. if a company can get away with selling their customers bottom of the barrel sludge over a higher quality product they're sure as hell going to.

No. 384822

>>384819
Yeah i know about the ones you've mentioned, they have stuff about other videogames but i didn't want to derail by talking about anime or mostly just visual novel serieses.
>Some people just like a more subtle weeb look but want to buy the stuff related to their favorite franchises when possible.
I'm the same, but i still think that there should be the possibility to also buy good scale figures like it happens with series that are more aimed at moids, no wonder magical girl franchises still get a pass since lots of men are into it too.

No. 384823

>>384817
>i think that sometimes certain redtext are unfair
Most redtexted posts seem to be made by, in response to, or oppose the beliefs of a certain aggressive sperg with a penchant for whining about ''nlogs'' in /meta/. She probably reports them, mods see the reports, and ban both the posters and her without thinking because they're lazy.

No. 384826

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>>384821
This reminds me a bit of how i often see official cosplayers for certain female characters in events, but male characters always get cardboards cutouts kek. I know that asking for decent official male cosplayers is too much, but the push for official female cosplayers always weirded me out and seemed unnecessary.
Sorry if the male examples has some kind of nobodies, i'm sure i could find better pictures of more popular franchises but finding the pictures of the cutouts is a bit troublesome.

No. 384830

>>384826
>asking for decent official male cosplayers is too much
what? no it's not, there are plenty of whore men who'd gladly dress up like whatever anime faggot they got paid for hoping to get some pussy from it

No. 384837

>>384773
>would enjoy strategy more
Ahhh yes, now everything makes sense. You are the RTS purist, aren't you?

No. 384839

>>384826
It’s car show girls for total losers.

No. 384846

>>384826
To be honest I don't think women are as likely as men to like sexy cosplay.

No. 384849

>>384846
I remember women going crazy over some leon cosplayer a while ago. Its not that they dont, it's that men are too lazy to whore themselves out for women.

No. 384851

>>384849
also, pretty much all big female franchises get stage shows.

No. 384856

>>384837
No? I play classical strategy and turn based, as well as puzzle games. I would think women would enjoy them because they require problem solving and they aren’t violent.

No. 384863

>>384846
you gotta be kitten me. there's hundreds of corny dudes on tiktok thirst trapping with great success in FOTM character cosplay like ghost from call of duty, random slashers like ghostface, the aforementioned leon etc

No. 384874

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>>384805
azure lane is pure coomship but the figures all look very well-made and pretty, its makes me kinda jealous. i need picrel as a well-made figure, sexo rinne is essential for my well-being

No. 384882

>>384874
they made one of whore rei, so its possible.

No. 384884

>>384882
rei and ritsu seem to be only characters that got a normal figure so far and enstars is already out for 9 yrs.

No. 384924

>>384741
Oh whatever, me and other anons are getting sick of you repeating this without any proof besides your own beliefs. The issue is that not a lot of women play games to begin with.
We already discussed why some women are potentially turned away from games last thread and I don't feel like going in circles. Everyone who plays a game, enjoys the gameplay at some extent, they wouldn't play it otherwise, there's no proof you need to show to make sure you like the gameplay, it's that simple. Why are you putting women under a microscope and analyzing their gameplay enjoyment? Why do women need to prove they gameplay love and devotion based on what you consider gameplay? You should consider that most people aren't into niche games and it's not a gender issue, that's what most of us are trying to explain. Think in percentages and not in total numbers.

If anecdotal evidence means so much to you (since you seem to base your opinion on that), I got two normie female friends who play the sims and animal crossing, but they love age of empires and civilization, these interests aren't mutually exclusive.

Honestly you're kind of pissing me off already and I don't want to catch a ban like other anons, but we already discussed this last thread. The fact you don't find women to play your RTS games is a you problem, your experience with your niche games are not a gender problem. I play niche games as well and I think you're missing the point on how few people play them to begin with.

No. 384933

>>384924
You’re right but stop biting her bait, she camps out in this thread to scrutinize women at any moment this thread gets some discussion going. I’m sure its so she can go running to /meta/ to get the thread closed since her last attempt failed.

No. 384935

>>384924
other women who play rts are hiding from people like her and the trannies that pester the genre. I dont know why she wants rts friends so much they are single players games without history for the most part there isnt much to discuss about them.

No. 384947

>>384781
one takes some modicum of skill, the other could be mastered by a toddler

No. 384960

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>>384947
nta but building a pretty house in sims can also be hard and especially time consuming. you think you could just start the sims and build a house like this?

No. 384962

>>384935
>I dont know why she wants rts friends so much they are single players games without history for the most part there isnt much to discuss about them.
RTS games are famously amongst the first real competitive games ever alongside fighting games and shooters, they're multiplayer games at their core, of course she'd like to have other women to play.

No. 384977

>>384933
The only anon I see camping out in /meta/ is the anon with rancid takes who freaks out and calls anons retarded nlogs because she thinks everyone is that RTS anon or whatever. Not only does that delusional belief turn all of her posts into incoherent rambling to people who don't even know who she's talking about but everytime she's sperging at someone she goes to /meta/ to beg for mods to ban them while still breaking the rules herself. She's in a neverending loop of sperging, getting banned, and evading.

No. 384998

>>384924
Why are you all talking about RTS? Who even mentioned RTS? In my experience, both online and IRL, most women play games for the story or the characters and see gameplay as either an obstacle or something they tolerate for the story. Most men I talk to, online and IRL, play games primarily for the game mechanics whatever they may be. I don't have statistics for something like this, honestly I dont know how you'd measure it, but the fact that practically every woman I meet (not every but most of them) doesn't know what I'm talking about when I bring up hearthstone for example but half the men I meet do is enough for me. You can't have it both ways, either I'm a cringe nlog for enjoying games primarily for gameplay or ackthually women all really like gameplay even though the games I hear them talk about the most have little to no gameplay elements, yes even compared to average casual slop like valorant. So you can't really be surprised mechanically challenging or involved games don't pander to women. As for why this is, I have some ideas, but I'm not interested in opening a teach-girls-to-enjoy-game-mechanics-camp or something. If someone isn't interested I'm not going to preach to them, but I am going to say don't be surprised.

No. 385004

>>384960
yes(baiting)

No. 385015

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>>384773
>Though I think women would enjoy strategy more if they knew about it.
This. I play The Sims, farming sims and other "girly" games, but I also love Civ series, Crusader Kings, X-Com, Rimworld, etc. I love games with strong strategic or "managerial" aspect to them (which is also why many girly games appeal to me). I wish more women would discover these games. but I think the militaristic/stats-autims look of these games puts a lot of them off, sadly. I've noticed that Civilization series tends to attract more women, perhaps because it's more colorful and approachable.

Man, I need to reinstall X-COM 2.

No. 385017

Why even argue about "women like this women like that" like we aren't extremely diverse in our tastes? There are women out there who play Spyro because they think the jack in the box villain is hot and there are women who play Dwarf Fotress because they want to manage a million pixels. There are also a lot of normie women who don't play games. Just talk to some nerds and figure out who has similar interests instead of whining and nlogging on an imageboard

No. 385018

>>385017
When we discuss hobbies, we are ultimately going to discuss trends and group preferences within the hobby. It's never going to reflect every single person within the group. Saying "everyone's individual, we shouldn't even talk about this" comes across as pretty defensive.

No. 385019

>>385015
Actually this, they look so off putting even if their fun. Long live the queen got me into strategy.

No. 385020

>>385018
You have a good point but I'm tired of this same topic being brought up. It's like the third time now and the conversation goes nowhere

No. 385023

>>385015
they dont make pretty rts games anymore, now they all look like the game equivalent of commie blocks. Pharaoh will always be my favourite. One time an anon tried telling her that maybe a rts game with husbandos or pretty characters would appeal to more women but she threw a temper tantrum over the idea lol.

No. 385109

>>385015
tbh i played a ton of RTS games as a kid and kept trying them even as an adult and still enjoyed them. i tried to get into civ but just couldn't. as an adult, RTS games as a genre don't usually interest me.
right now, i'm really enjoying kenshi and i would hardly call that "pretty". it's all about the worldbuilding of the game for me.

No. 385115

>>385109
AYRT, why is everyone talking about RTS (real-time strategy)? That's not the same as "strategy games" in general. I don't even play RTS games.

No. 385121

>>385115
anon was talking about ''autistic moid games'' which tend to be rts.

No. 385125

>>385121
I know it's petty but, using it as a general moniker for strategy games bother me a bit. It's like if people in the movie thread kept referring to movies like Titanic as "rom-coms".

No. 385128

>>385125
i don't think rts is supposed to be a catch-all for strategy games. rts is a specific genre involving directing groups of your units to do things like combat and building and etc whereas a "strategy game" could just be a chess simulator

No. 385143

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>>385128
Yes, but some anons in the thread seem to be confusing rts with other strategy games.

As not to derail further, how do gamer nonnas feel about "detective" games like for example Return of the Obra Dinn? I think this is another avenue that might appeal more to female audience if they were only able to find these types of games. I'm really looking forward to The Rise of The Golden Idol.

No. 385144

>>385143
that question belongs in the videogame thread i think

No. 385152

>>385144
That's why I added the part about the genre being potentially appealing to women. The game industry's failure to attract women (en masse, not talking about anyone's individual tastes) is part of the broader discussion on sexism in the hobby and the industry. A lot of women don't even know that these types of games exist, since the medium's mainstream face is so heavily defined by combat as the main mechanic. I had to explain Life is Strange to a non-gaming friend of mine, since she couldn't comprehend how a video game could possibly be "like a teenage drama."

No. 385260

>>384998
you're not an nlog because you enjoy games for their gameplay. you're an nlog because you think you're not like other girls for liking games for their gameplay. hope that helps.

No. 385265

>>385260
in my experience me and women like me are basically a minority. if pointing that out makes me an nlog I dont care.

No. 385272

>>385265
Why not post about games you love instead of complaining that no one likes them then. You're bound to attract someone else eventually

No. 385293

>>385265
men who like that type of game are a minority too, its a niche genre

No. 385299

>>385265
No, you're just assuming that because women don't play your superior niche games they don't like games for their game play. Animal crossing, Kirby, Sims, etc have like no story but women will sink countless hours into them. If there's no plot then what could it be other than gameplay keeping them playing? Every woman I've met who likes Zelda games likes them for the puzzles and dungeons and fighting enemies. Even plot heavy games like final fantasy women I know enjoy them for the dungeons/puzzles/boss fights. Just because you struggle meeting women into your turbo autist games doesn't mean your love for them is somehow more pure and valid. And maybe, just maybe, you struggle making female friends into the same games is because you're an insufferable arrogant loser.

No. 385305

I think that an assumption that women wouldn't like strategic and gameplay-oriented games is not true. It's just that they are not tailored for women's likes. I'm huge into strategies and I knew a few women who do too.
It's just that I feel women are mostly into tycoons, city building sims and general stuff like that.
If we are talking about earlier games, there was a portion of women who adored Pharoah/Ceaser/Zeus and Rollercoaster Tycoon.
It's just that mil sims and military strategies bore women to death. I admit, I feel the same way. Total War is booring and I never understood how anyone can enjoy it.
IMHO, most women who play games like that, play them for autistic customization and micromanagement, and like creating stuff rather than moving armies around.
Maybe some women do like that, again, for each on their own, as women are not a hivemind.
It even shows in the paradox community, where CK has a sizable female player base, while HOI is a huge sausage party. After CK, Cities are also relatively popular. It's just that yout average strategy playing woman more enjoys creating stuff from the ground up and seeing her creation develop in her vision rather than autistically painting maps.
Although, I noticed that TBS like XCOM also garnered some fangirls. But it's because XCOM overall is a very cool series.

No. 385317

>>385305
>mil sims and military strategies bore women to death
i don't think it's sexist or nlog to say this because yeah, women aren't fucking rape apes fueled by testosterone and we are rarely interested in war. i see women play what are essentially RTSes that focus on something more appealing like running a business or caring for animals (i spent a VERY long time on a mobile game where you make penguins do tasks in order to make their island bigger) and… those are real-time strategy games. hell, a lot of women are into kenshi, which was mentioned before. the game's main writer is a woman (not a troon.) probably because kenshi is not just about creating a military, but you can do that if you want.

No. 385349

>>385265
Have you considered that maybe you couldn't make female friends with the same interests as you because you’re an unlikeable retard?

No. 385350

>>384998
>>385265
This is obviously a scrote. The post doesn't even make sense.
>hurr durr women dont play video games for the gaming aspect!1!!(scrotefoiling)

No. 385359

>>385317
>>385305
What anons have been saying though is that this is not a female only phenomena. Those games bore most male gamers to death as well. Games have just historically catered to men so there's more of them playing games period. More men playing games in general = more men playing niche autistic games. Less women playing games = less women playing niche autistic games. Why is this so hard to understand.

And like other anons have said, a lot of women aren't open about playing these games because they want to avoid the type of men that play them and the women like the nlog upthread.

No. 385364

>>385317
i’m a woman who loves political war sims though and has an interest in war literature. why do you people have these retarded ideas on what a woman can and cannot enjoy? you think the female mind is too pea-sized to enjoy a war drama here and there

No. 385367

>>385364
Guess we better get our testosterone levels checked for having an interest in war, nona.

No. 385368

>>385364
I like it too but we are the minority. Unlike men women dont have an incentive to like war shit since, unlike moids, we were victimized during the war.

No. 385375

>>385364
i like military history and strategy too. yeah it's not a mainstream interest but anyone who insusts it's exclusively for males is a sexist retard.

No. 385422

>>385317
This is the anon calling you a retarded nlog with crippling internalized misogyny btw

No. 385424

>>385317
This is tranny logic. What's the point of generalizing women like this?

No. 385497

>>385422
i like war and stuff but you have to be autistic to think saying the average woman isnt interested in stories of men blowing shit up and raping women is nlog behaviour. Men like war bullshit because its a power fantasy to them, it's hard to sympathize with war scrotes as a woman. Personally i only like it because of ryona and because i like tanks, it's not the same enjoyment men get out of it. The average man is already averse to war history because it isnt fun, now think of a woman who has to read about baby-san and the absolute degradation of women during war. For men its a power fantasy, the idea of them being potrayed as heroes. Its why women are normally more interested in greek mitology, at least there are some cool goddesses.

No. 385505

>>385497
You need an internet detox

No. 387020

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Though I’m an unrepentant shotafag, I really wish that non shota male characters could be given lewd outfits as well. It’s already rare enough enough as is, and when it does happen it’s more often than not a shota. Hell, even in female targeted games/vns it’s rare which is absolutely ridiculous. I assume it’s because shotas are nonthreatening whereas skimpy teenage/adult male characters trigger the holy council of scrotes(shotasperging )

No. 387022

>>387020
i fucking hate you shotafags, always announcing your shitty fetishes even when no one asked

No. 387023

>>387022
Womp womp

No. 387028

>>387022
boo hoo

No. 387055

>>387022
I'm sure your hate is going to stop them anon kek. Go harass moids into loli, oh wait you don't because that's fine and it's only bad when women do it.

No. 387057

>>387020
I have genuinely never seen a skimpy shota outfit in games before. Do you have any examples of that?

No. 387058

>>387057
Ntayrt, but does Rex from xenoblade count? I don't actually know.

No. 387077

>>387020
>shotas are nonthreatening
It's because shotas and baras are gay male fanservice. Not saying women can't like them, but the reason they get a pass is because some men jack off to it.

No. 387639

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With gamergates ten year anniversary coming up, how do you guys feel about her now?

No. 387640

>>387020
what? which games? genuinely never seen that.

No. 388143

>>387639
mad to think what gamergates effect was
correct me if im wrong but didnt it all started because some people got pissed off about games companies paying for good reviews from video game sites and magazines

No. 388490

>>388143
yes, that “game journos” were corrupt but also that Zoe Quinn slept with them for good reviews of her game.

No. 388520

>>387639
Not to sound like a scrote, but she has terrible tattoos, so I wonder if she ever got them lasered off or will do it later.

No. 388543

>>387639
I think she and Anita whatever she's called are both retards and made things worse for everyone long term even though they're not even actually into video games. I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion here but idgaf. Now we have game companies all over the world pandering to Amerilard sensitivities before the localization starts and I and my female friends shouldn't have to deal with that as a European who only plays Asian videogames.q

No. 388546

>>388143
gamergate faggots forced companies to become ''woke''. They were the ones calling companies to take their ads off sites they didnt like, and then it backfired on them because companies would rather be on the side of a whore than on the side of basement dwelling edgelord scrotes who send death threads to anyone they dislike.

No. 388547

>>387639
She's a stupid bitch still who slept with greasy gamer dudes for a good game review. Her and Anita throw a lot of women under the bus for their own agenda. Anita did almost zero research for her videos and they were hard to watch.

>>388543
Pretty much this.

No. 388577

>>388547
Was this ever actually confirmed or just her jilted ex? This part of the story always bothers me because if you’re even half decent at farming simps, a good game review is not something you need to fuck them for.

No. 388585

>>387639
I really don't get why moids were so obsessed with her, did they want to hatefuck her like Anita or something?

No. 388588

>>388585
one time a moid wanted to commission me to draw porn of anita sarkeesian. They really want to hatefuck her, its insane.

No. 388593

>>388585
>>388588
men cannot process any feeling without relating it to sex. "my niece is really cute, i want to fuck her!" "my teacher makes me feel special, i want to fuck her!" "i hate that girl who keeps rejecting me, i want to fuck her!" "i'm really mad at my mom, i want to fuck her!"

No. 388600

>>388547
>>388490
Propaganda so good it got women years after the first gamergate believing it. Note that her game was free, so she wouldn't have gotten any financial benefit to getting the game out there at least. She's protroon libfemmy which is dumb but ultimately inoffensive with her shit. She was a good conduit for moids hating on a woman in video games.

No. 388609

>>388600
She also got a moid to kill itself which is based.

No. 388624

>>387639
My opinion on her has softened over the years, but I still stand by the fact that she was a hack who slept her way to the top. Not as bad as Anita though, she was a bonafide grifter with no talent. Both were narcissistic normies exploiting a community for their own gain and ruined the talk about sexism in video games forever by weaponizing it for their own business instead of genuine interest for women's rights.

As for gamergate itself, it was a movement that meant good, but ultimately opened the gates for not only the occupy wallstreet opportunists, but also actual neo-nazis and white supremacist who both made it into their battleground.

>>388600
Nope. Zoe did a ton of vile stuff, including intentionally sabotaging other female developers and their game jams and pocketed money meant for her own Rebel Game Jam that never happened. If she was as relevant today as she was 10 years ago, she would definitely have an active thread here. The post-gamergate dudebro audience targeted a lot of innocent women who were flamed over petty garbage like that bullyhunter girl but Zoe was not one of them.

No. 388629

>>385305
>Total War is booring and I never understood how anyone can enjoy it.
Because it's a fun series? Or at least I had a blast playing Rome and Medieval 2 back in the day. Dunno about the modern state of the series.

No. 388630

>>387639
I tried "playing" Depression Quest back in the day and the writing was really bad.

No. 388632

>>388624
This. I don't have an autistic hateboner for Anita or Zoe, they're grifters that just came at the right time and place. I do unironically think they set females in the gaming community back with their shenanigans. For a time it felt like women couldn't really talk about anything related to videogames without men in the community invalidating women's opinions because "Woke bad" and on the other side of the spectrum either having your opinions ignored because it wasn't the same surface level clickbait topics of the time or being given the most infantilizing/demeaning responses because of said grifters ruining public perception of females within the gaming community.

I think nowadays compared to the early to mid 2000s when balloon tits, jiggle physics, and poorly animated cutscenes were the bane of a lot of people's existences, the sexualization of female characters has been significantly toned down in western video games.

No. 388633

>>387639
She is a grifter opportunist and in the last 10 years she made Gamergate her whole personality and grift despite claiming otherwise. If you compare her to other women who have been victim of online harrassment it's night and day. She has all the traits of a narcissist and talking about her feels like falling into her trap.

If you think about it, every relevant figure of GamerGate ended up being a grifter, Milo Yannapoulis (or whatever his surname was; another narcissist on top of it) even went on to become a semi-famous right wing grifter in the US.
Gamergate as a whole was the beginning of the end for the videogame fandom, when politics started poisoning every discourse and when topics such as sexism or fanservice couldn't be discussed anymore without summoning a horde of mouth-frothing retarded moids. It showed that Millennial moids were a big apolitical mass that have now been radicalized into following anything that caters to their immediate feelings. How many gamer gaters are now uwu trans ladies uwu, I wonder?
It was one of the most embarrassing online moid shitshows and one of the first steps of gaming and nerd outlets being tainted by political psyops (the roots were there before, but it was with gamergate that it all flourished).
All in all, I hate it and we have it worse now.

No. 388634

>>388632
Western video games suck ass so it doesn't change anything if there are less balloon tits having female characters in them tbh.

No. 388643

>>388624
>slept her way to the top
the top of what? she only got "popular" after her jilted ex made that autistic masterpost, she didn't make money or clout off her walking sim.

No. 388658

>>388643
my bad I meant PDF but you know what I mean

No. 388660

I disagree with Anita Sarkeesian being a grifter or a fraud. I was subscribed to her channel before shit hit the fan with GG and iirc, she was just making normie feminism 101 type media critiques. She started the tropes vs women series with movies and tv shows.
Vidrel is the original Kickstarter kickoff. I think it's a completely innocuous project and it makes sense for her to have wanted to fundraise since she'd need to purchase the games and capture video material of the stuff she wanted to present.
Idt Anita could've predicted the malding and mantrums males would throw over this. The huge amount of money she ended up getting was just a backlash to the backlash.

No. 388661

>>388660
I also watched several of her videos way before gamergate was a thing and her videos were shit. She was somewhat popular on tumblr at the time which is how I heard about her in the first place.

>she was just making normie feminism 101 type media critiques

That's precisely the issue. People need to stick to talking about topics they actually know about instead of saying "video games are le bad because… uh….. because Lara Croft has triangle boobs!" for 20 minutes per video. I'd rather listen to constructive criticism from women who are into video games as a hobby and not as a side gig.

No. 388663

>>388660
>I disagree with Anita Sarkeesian being a grifter or a fraud
Well yeah you're the type of person she's scamming/grifting kek. Like what Hontra and that fag James Somerton went on to do, preachy videos applying basic political takes to media that's a huge redflag for a cashgrab. The kickstarter made it even less subtle for her.

No. 388668

>>388660
she should have used that money to make a game where you grope a moid in revealing clothes. would have been turbo based.

No. 388682

>>388661
she was prob a proto lefty grifter but isn't this whole thread video games are le bad because boobs? and whining about not enough husbandos.

No. 388687

>>388682
there's a reason why people kept calling this the gamergate thread

No. 388690

>>388682
God forbid women complain about female characters being over sexualized while male characters have their asses deflated in the proper thread.

No. 388697

>>388690
well no I don't care if people do that, but it's weird to criticize anita for the exact same thing, also I really don't think it's the most pressing issue affecting women

No. 388699

>>388697
What is the most pressing issue affecting women in video games in your opinion?

No. 388701

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>>388699
I for one think the top 2 most pressing issues are definitely game companies making the assess of male characters .01% smaller and the absence of female ugly bastards because that's a vidya problem and not a worldwide problem with media as a whole including, nay, especially that which is made by and for women themselves, and I LOVE this based thread! it makes moids seethe!

No. 388703

>>388699
The culture for sure.

No. 388705

>>388682
We actually play the games we sometimes complain about here as a hobby so unlike these dumbass youtuber we know what we're talking about. And we're not directly paid by American companies to randomly tell devs and translators and writers to make everything more American before release. I'd rather listen to a random anon say she dislikes Bayonetta as a character because she's too fanservicey than rewatch that one video by Anita saying that "Bayonetta is a walking fucktoy" or whatever she said, one seems much more genuine than the other.

No. 388708

>>388701
This but unironically

No. 388712

>>385299
No, I struggle making female friends into the same games because I literally have yet to meet one who even knows what I'm talking about outside of the internet. And I know you didn't just bring up Animal Crossing and the Sims as examples of games with challenging gameplay.(trying to continue a 12 day old infight)

No. 388715

So a month after I got let go from the game company I worked at, they showcased all the women who work there for International Women's Day. They also showcased the two troons, as well, because of course they did, lol.

No. 388717

>>384259
>but I don't think the investors, and the people at the top of the company, really give a shit about the content of the games
OHHHHHHH yes they do. They absolutely do. If they see something in the game that could potentially spark outrage or be seen as controversial, they won't hesitate to badger the devs about it. Microsoft is apparently famous for doing this. If you go read up about the Limbo development, you'll see that the investors were trying to get them to dumb the puzzles down.

No. 388732

>>388717
NTA but that's what she was saying, companies are largely amoral and let anything slide as long as it makes them money. The only incentive they have for removing controversial content is that they'd be risking their profit margin, not because they have a personal moral investment in it.

No. 388752

>>388661
I don't think her content was amazing or anything like that. Very basic media criticism that could've helped some young women and girls become more aware of the boxes that we're put in media. I appreciate coming across her content when I was younger, as she put into words some abstract, uneasy feelings I had about some portrayals of women on media but I didn't know hot formulate those thoughts. I was never on Tumblr so maybe that's why her content at the time felt new to me.
You don't think an "outsider" could critique games on the elements she does have a grasp on, such as the overt sexualization (Lara Croft's triangle boobs as you said kek), weak characterizations and the lack of agency in narratives? Those things happen to female characters across the board in media and idt you need to be an expert hobbyist to be able to point it out and critique it.
>>388663
I don't feel scammed since I never spent any money on her content. I found value in her videos when I was younger and felt bad for all the shit she had to endure.

It's crazy that it's been over a decade and women itt can say that her or Quinn (I don't know much about her since I wasn't into games and the discourse at that time) made things worse for the games landscape or blame them for what happened. You can say Sarkeesian's videos are shit or that Quinn was a dishonest whore trying to get promo for her awful game but even if that's true, the response from males was completely unjustified and disproportionate.

No. 388756

>>388752
>It's crazy that it's been over a decade and women itt can say that her or Quinn made things worse for the games landscape or blame them for what happened
Hell, I'm sure back then we would've been more likely to brush it all off as moids raging at innocent women over something petty, it's a half-truth a lot of people believed, but in hindsight, they were both grifters talking out of their asses and actively stirring the pot to milk the situation for everything they could. Nothing they said was coming from a place of genuine concern despite what you thought as a literal child watching them, and they didn't care about the consequences their instigating would have for the rest of us. They and their dissenters were the pioneers of the dreaded breadtube. Men bad=/=women can do no wrong.

No. 388763

>>388699
Personally, I think fanservice is mostly a non-issue. I like 2b, Classic Lara Croft, Ivy Valentine and a lot of other characters people would call sexualized. On the other hand, I find actual sex scenes (Like in Baldur's Gate 3 or the old God of War games) to be gross and cringey. However, while the sex stuff in Baldur's Gate 3 grossed ME out, apparently a lot of other women actually liked it. I guess it's just a matter of personal preference.
I think there are three things we can all agree on though:
1)games need more hot guys
2)Moids need to be less toxic and stop scaring women out of the hobby
3)no more troon shit

No. 388867

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>>388763
It's an issue the same way the female class, irl, is seen as ornamental kek. Moid developers are too insecure with their masculinity to openly sexualize male characters the same way. I get so frustrated at the shitty bikini female armor (and boring male armor) in older monster hunter games.

A tangent. I'm annoyed when the gender player options have the men walking normally and the girls walking in a way moids who have never seen a woman think how we walk. Gets me all dysmorphic.

No. 388876

>>388867
looks like this could have come from a Chris Hart how to draw book

No. 388878

>>388867
this book is both so good and so cringe. This dude must be a massive cow because there is an entire chapter where he blogposts about being beaten by is teachers at school. It's a very detailed anatomy book tho.

No. 388882

>>388878
yeah for anatomy it’s peak. knowing why shit is the way it is and why it fits together how it fits together is incredibly helpful. i’ve still got a ways to go but i at least know all the bones + torso muscles now

No. 388891

>>388867
>when the gender player options have the men walking normally and the girls walking in a way moids who have never seen a woman think how we walk
That shit drives me insane. I remember spending hours creating my character on dragon age inquisition only to restart it as soon as I saw the female character walking as if she was some model on the catwalk while men walked normal, it seriously annoyed me since I don't remember walking being this exaggerated in the old games. Not entirely the same but kinda, on mass effect: the fucking ugly ass lashes that stay even if you get rid of all makeup, also how male shepard is all strong and female shepard looks like a twig. I also noticed how some characters talk to female shepard differently than they do to male shepard, and you bet that made me play a much more ruthless shepard when playing female. You mean to tell me we got this 'equality' thing everyone loves talking about but women still get to hear misoginistic bullshit? Make up your mind, either we left that crap behind or the future is just like the jetsons envisioned: crazy tech but everything else is still the same and women are still the bottom of the barrel. I don't wanna hear about how women get to do shit, I wanna see it and do it without having to listen to some aliens talking like human scrotes.
What is equality anyway in futuristic settings? No separated bathrooms based on sex (cus women naked in front of men is so progressive, nevermind the setting still shows rape, prostitution and porn as things that exists and happen almost exclusively to women) and women getting violently killed or tortured on screen? Never seen that before…
Men don't seem to spend more than a minute thinking why things are the way they are, why women behave the way they do and what would need to be changed (and how) for them to behave a certain way, nah, gotta spend more time writing some "realistic" dragons, just call it equality, they can take a beating now just like men, equal rights ftw.
Back on topic I also hate so much when games make that sliding thing for the characters and all it does for female characters is making their breasts bigger or giving them more curves, no muscles in sight and when it's there looks like they just gave up, put the male template and call it a day.

No. 388892

>>388752
An anon ITT already mentioned her stealing charity money and fucking over female creators, but her anita also made complete asses of themselves at the UN when discussing female harassment online, and while I don't think she was lying about Alec Holowka being a shitty boyfriend, I do think she tried to capitalize on the whole metoo thing only to regret it after he committed suicide (I don't see her as the sole reason he did it but it does seem like her tweets were the final nail to push him to do it). Tl;dr Zoe is a grifting BPD Cow that always has some kind of drama follow her. Anita is more a blatant grifter that makes moids seethe.

No. 388894

>>388763
I think for me it’s
1. How unplayable multiplayer games are
2. How hostile the community and especially the industry is
3. The culture war bullshit that infects everything
I honestly genuinely do not care about husbandos. Though if that is your passion, I also don’t care if you crusade for it, it just doesn’t affect me.

No. 388895

>>388894
Adding, I do hate games like nier automata and some of the other things talked about ITT, but I can ignore it in games that don’t take themselves seriously. I find it insulting when I am expected to take your coomer waifu slop vehicle as some serious story like fuck off.

No. 388897

>>388752
I was well into my 20's when Gamergate happened and I was able to make my own judgement based on what I witnessed and I still remember how it went down before the movement was hijacked by Neogaf breadtubers, Milo Yiannopoulos and his grunts and Stormfront faggots. Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian were both grifters on par with Brianna Wu and that's it, no amount of whitewashing history will change it. They made it difficult for women in the gaming community who genuinely care about feminist issues but also love the medium to be heard because they were caught with their pants down multiple times and got rightfully ridiculed for it - both were indifferent to or outright hated video games and looked down on them, Zoe Quinn absolutely exploited her simp connections to forward her career like pulling strings to get her shitty text game greenlit on Steam despite it being rejected at first and had unprofessional journalists in prolific places hype it up, and she did the same to drive her female competition out like she did with her Rebel game jam that she used just to pump money on her personal paypal account.

Anita Sarkeesian knew next to nothing about video games and had horrible media literacy and media analysis skills, reducing potential issues with sexism in video games into shitty clickbait titles nobody could take seriously. She could've used her position to talk about issues in depth and to cover things like sexism in the industry and done genuine investigative journalism but instead she took the "hurr why are girl characters damsel in distresses all the time???" talking points and ran with it ragebait was the easiest road to take. It's not like she was wrong with her points because female representation in video games was abysmal at the point, but it was done in such an egregious and insincere way it didn't resonate with women who actually did play video games and only fed off the gamerbros generating hateviews. That's called a grift.

No. 388922

>>388756
>>388892
>>388897
ayrt, thanks for your perspectives. At the time GG happened I wasn't a part of the gaming scene, so from my point of view it looked like an outrageous reaction to some harmless pop feminist media critique. I can understand from your point of view Anita coming in as "an outsider", trying to present herself as an expert on the medium and in your opinion not doing a great job, that that would be grating. Especially since if/when she fumbled it would be twisted to represent all women in games. That must've sucked.
I still maintain that the main takeaway from GG is male entitlement and how far their mob mentality can go unchecked, however I also now understand nonas who felt slighted by Sarkeesian and Quinn and want to critique them.

>They and their dissenters were the pioneers of the dreaded breadtube.

kek I've definitely enjoyed some breadtube videos. I agree though that Feminist frequency content seems like a precursor to them. And for sure, if you dislike the concept/find them shitty then you definitely wouldn't have liked her content.
Thanks again nonas for taking the time to explain your viewpoint.

No. 388923

>>388897
literally everyone grifted out of the situation. Plenty of cringe commentary youtubers like shuwu and Mr Metokour jumpstarted their ''careers'' thanks to gamergate. But ofcourse no one thinks they are grifters because they were on the ''right'' side. Honestly if scrotes had just ignored it and laughed it off we wouldnt be in the current climate, but nooo they had to go harass people. They took the bait hard and now we are living in this tranny hellhole thanks to them.

No. 388928

>>385305
HOI is a huge sausage party because a lot of the playerbase are nazi larping altright retards and the other half are people who enjoy WWII history but don't want to be confused with the nazi retards so they never talk about it in public.

No. 388934

>>388891
All women are born with glued on eyelashes and heels raised to accommodate high heels from birth according to game devs.
> You mean to tell me we got this 'equality' thing everyone loves talking about but women still get to hear misoginistic bullshit?
For real kek. If everyone had equal opportunity, women wouldn't be wearing idol costume bikinis as armor or something. I don't play the same games as you but you are seen and heard, nonita.

>>388894
I've always envied the moids who post vids playing multiplayer online holdfast or mordhau and have funny silly interactions on vc. Hurts a lot that I will never experience that with my sisters, even moreso because I'm now an adult and don't have much free time.

No. 388937

>>388897
This. You're also absolutely right about Metokur and you should say it. I can't think of a single good thing to come out of the cultural zeitgeist that was gamergate.

No. 388942

>>388923
we've been calling shuwu, metokur, and ESPECIALLY the amazing athiest grifters for years, it's the amazing athiest's main legacy apart from shoving a banana up his ass, wtf are you talking about?

No. 388943

>>388923
>m-muh metokur muh shuwu
Did anyone deny they were grifters too? No? Anons were pretty much implicating that the movement attracted nothing but grifters on all sides. Even back then everyone was calling shoeonhead and her cronies out for doing it, and Metokur himself got a ton of shit for dipping out "early" (because his girlfriend was doxxed) and retards like Sargon and Ethan Ralph never let him live it down, not even to this day. And to his credit, at least he was passionate about video games despite being a piece of shit.

>>388922
You'd be surprised at how many both breadtubers AND altright channels (who were called the "skeptics" back then) got their start during Gamergate. None of them gave a shit about video games, both sides saw them as mindless entertainment for loser nerds but were more than happy to exploit and weaponize the sides of the community for their resources be it money or exposition. Like take pretty much any breadtuber or right wing tuber in their late 20's or older, you'll be able to trace their career back to gamergate for sure.

>Especially since if/when she fumbled it would be twisted to represent all women in games. That must've sucked.

That was what was so absolutely fucked about it. Female representation in games AND the gaming industry was almost nonexistent and this was the shit we got for the first time when women in gaming came up for the first time in a non-pornified way. Two normie grifters who despised video games were the most prolific people talking about women in gaming. Absolutely made me seethe, still does.

No. 388945

>>388942
>>388943
KF scrotes love metokour though, and they only call out shoe because she's a woman

No. 388949

>>388945
How about literally anyone else on that side of the movement? AA, Sargon, Armored Skeptic, Blaire White, Milo, they're all hated more than shoe ever was and they're scrotes. Metokur gets special treatment because he had a phase where he used to read off niche KF threads and talk to the cows, he was one of the first people to do that before normies who think kf is the deepweb started doing it and his videos were better made and researched.

No. 388956

>>388934
Me too, I’m envious of nerd moid camaraderie in general tbh. And it’s a big reason I don’t play multiplayer that requires a mic. And it’s also hard to make female only guilds because a “female only FPS” community is just asking for troons nowadays.

No. 388957

>>388943
The thing is even if there were passionate or real girl gamers, as it were, talking about these issues, the reaction would have been the same. So idk how much of it can be blamed on them even if they are grifters who hate video games.

No. 388960

>>388957
I honestly wouldn't be so sure about it. Despite all the sexist bullshit and "SHOW TITS GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN GIRLS DONT PLAY VIDYA" stuff it only got worse post-gamergate. Video game communities were oozing with misogyny before, but as someone who has frequented those communities since the early 00's, people were much more tolerating of women in their communities. The misogyny was more based on ignorance rather than intolerance back then. It's the combination of FPS e-sports normalfags and the leftovers from the actual white supremacists of gamergate that really ruined the gaming community for good.

No. 388970

Does anyone in this thread actually know what grifter means

No. 388972

>>388897
>They made it difficult for women in the gaming community who genuinely care about feminist issues
Thank you for calling out this. I fucking hate that anons keep glossing over this. IDK how many of you work in the industry but it's women like them that gave the rest of us bad names for the way hey behaved. Especially Zoe. Nothing sets back women's progress in a male-dominated industry like sleeping around and expecting praise for it. Disgusting. Zoe and Anita deserved what they got.

No. 388973

>>388972
men would have found a way to discredit the movement anyways. Its funny how when a moid in the industry sexually harasses women its brushed under the rug and seen as an outlier, but a single woman whores out and then the entire movement is 'tainted'. Women arent perfect, they are bound to make mistakes and just because one whore did something bad it doesnt mean its her fault that misogynistic moids hate a movement that goes against an ideology that treats women like humans and not like walking sacks of ass and tits. Its moids who are looking for excuses to discredit the movement(while ignoring their scrote peers who molest women) that set back women's progress.

No. 388974

>>388972
Are you saying that Zoe Quinn deserved what she got because she was “slutty”? Are you bet ex?

No. 388975

>>388974
Ntayrt but I believe she meant the classic
>fuck around & find out
I mean don't try to clip your nails with a shotgun and then try to blame the manufacturer

No. 388976

>>388973
>>388974
>Zoomers who weren't there when it happened trying to apply 2024 lolcow mindset on something that took place 10 years ago

No. 388977

>>388976
>that person said she deserved what she got so clearly that’s her current mindset

No. 388978

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So the Silent Hill 2 remake.
Angela looks more chubby and much younger than she did in the original and they clearly have some kind of shif in the artstyle to change her face entirely but I guess that's fine, the turtleneck fits the sexual assault survivor trope more (they cover up and maybe even make themselves look more unattractive) and that's fine it fits I guess.
But then they made the nurses and Maria less sexy when that was the point of them. Like I get midriff and report print aren't popular anymore but the dress and coat combo is too modest for Maria's role as a literal moid sex fantasy.

No. 388979

>>388976
When I saw an anon saying she wasn't even playing video games yet when she found Anita's video when she was very young made me stop caring about this conversation. If you weren't there from the start to witness this shitshow yourself your opinion is beyond worthless, especially when everyone involved keep posting their own version way later on what happened. Why would I argue with anons on if these two idiots deserved the backlash or not when some of these anons were 10yo at the time after all?

No. 388980

>>388977
>sleep around
>got criticized for it
>spark questions of journalism integrity over it

No. 388985

>>387639
I wasn't exactly present when GG happened but I was aware of it. I must say that sleeping to the top is common but choosing the gaming industry was the worst choice. LMFAO of all the industries she chose the stinkiest.

No. 388988

>>388976
This.
>"b-but when I was 11 and watched her vids I thought they were very informative and you guys sound like scrotes tbh umu"
Retarded. How much you wanna bet they'd be riding Brianna Wu's girldick too if it was a strap-on instead of the real thing? We've known a lot of the most vocal anons ITT are shitheads for a minute now but come on.

No. 388989

>>388978
Oh I didn't know her outfit was based on a real one! Who's the person on the left?
Also I think this outfit was fine. It's not even that sexual, just a bit tacky.

No. 388992

>>388957
They reaffirmed every negative stereotype moids have about 'girl gamers' and 'feminists' all in one fell swoop, add Brian Wu and the army of male feminist orbiters whiteknighting their asses off in a last ditch attempt to get laid into the mix and you could not have come up with a worse lineup of people to be the face of the movement if you tried. Libfem parodies who made fools of themselves at every opportunity, it could not have gone down the way it did if those moids weren't being given constant ammunition.

No. 388997

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>>388989
It's Christina Aguilera from the teen choice awards in 1999, and Maria being based on an actual physical outfit a celebrity wore is very clever

No. 389007

>>388960
Remember the female reviewer who they tried getting fired for giving gta a 9/10, even if plenty of other reviewers didn't give the game a 10 at the time? Thankfully for that woman, she didn't live in Korea, so she didn't lose her job. I've played games all my life, and they tolerated us more because nobody spoke up against anything they liked. If you dared to mildly criticize something, you were in for a lot of shit. You can still go by like this, all you have to do is not complain.
>>388973
nta but they'll say every woman is a cheater if their ex cheated on them. It wasn't about anita and zoe, they were already being aggressive and not listening, they just had a new direction to point their finger as the reason. They know rapists and bad men are the exception, but why did they discredit other women because of them? They never listened to women, they never cared, and they were the ones lumping women into a group of "feminists evil!" and proceeding to deny the reality in front of them.
I never liked Zoe and her pretentious game even before the controversy and I never cared for Anita, she was just one of the many women dipping their toes in feminism at the time and making surface level takes on the media around them. Remember the obsession with bechdel test? Or the women posing with controller sticks and lingerie? I never liked them, but they didn't affect me directly as the men who justify their hatred with that.

No. 389008

>>388978
Angela always had a turtleneck, it was just that type of turtleneck that slumps over a little. Her face looked weird and I disliked it, not because she looked chubby or ugly or whatever people were raging about, I didn't feel it was Angela. Overall I didn't like the changes to Angela, but I could brush it off. Do you have a picture of the nurses? They seemed pretty close to the original to me. The change to Maria's clothes didn't make much sense to me either. They failed to give to one of the few characters that having a retarded sexy outfit makes sense.

No. 389009

>>388978
>But then they made the nurses and Maria less sexy
the nurses look pretty much the same though

No. 389010

>>389007
Yeah I’m surprised at everyone just taking the word of her asshurt ex seriously, his evidence for her cheating was that she wouldn’t let him see her phone. Plus coverage in irrelevant indie publications is not really sleeping to the top in ny opinion, even if she did fuck them for good reviews even though they probably would have done it for free if they were simps.

No. 389012

>>388978
i fucking hate the change to maria's outfit. way to entirely miss the point of the character. it makes so much sense that james would be lusting after a young popular celeb and imagine his wife being "young and sexy" like that. fucking hell i hate bloober team.

No. 389016

>>389010
ayrt and honestly didn't remember much of the controversy, maybe I shouldn't have used the cheating example kek. WhatI meant was every guy who discredited other serious women tackling women issues in the industry because of Zoe and Anita, was never even listening. They make exceptions for bad men and say those don't reflect the whole industry, but they acted like Zoe and Anita were the norm for all women. I still dislike Zoe and Anita, I do think they overplayed the victim because they knew the victim card was part of what made them notorious and they fed it. Ironically the men who viciously hated them were the ones who gave them their notoriety.

No. 389090

>>389016
Propaganda so good that the "level headed" take is to think both sides are bad grifters ackshually.

No. 389157

>>388978
She is not even that sexy in the og
i dress like this everyday

No. 389526

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how did game development shift so heavily male? from what I've researched during the early history of game development, women played a more proportionate role in the industry, it was only the Japanese Industry that was 99% male
In fact you could argue that women have influenced video games more than men. Jane Jensen, Roberta Williams, Kim Swift, Corrinne Yu, Carol Shaw, Jade Raymond, Amy Hennig all played a huge role in early gaming, I mean Roberta Williams single handedly(with some help from her husband) revolutionised gaming and created a new genre while she was a housewife

No. 389539

>>389526
Likely males saw how profitable it was, infiltrated, then made it into a hostile boys' club that pushed women out of the industry. Males tend to do this from jealousy. They cannot stand women having our own spaces, especially when those spaces generate success and money.

No. 389542

>>389526
>it was only the Japanese Industry that was 99% male
Didn't the gaming industry in the west shit itself during the late 70's and Japan practically took over? There was a lot of buzz from the western industry during the 2000's about how the japanese side was too big and they were jealous.

No. 389544

>>389526
I mean that's like less than ten people with the rest of the big players being male so idk if you could argue they "had more influence", however you want to quantify it. I think it's because games development is a meme and a real labor of love, so you would be putting up with the BS women in tech put up with already except for basically half the paycheck you'd get elsewhere, so I understand why many would leave for greener pastures as it were. I definitely wouldn't want to do game dev even if it's basically what I do now under a different name.

No. 389552

>>389526
Not directly related but you reminded me of how much I seethed when I learned the French woman who created Adibou received a légion d'honneur before the pervert who made Detroit Become Human and Beyond Two Souls. She made an actual educational video game for French kids in the late 90s or early 2000s which is still fondly remembered while the guy makes shitty, pretentious visual novels.

No. 389562

>>389552
Honestly neither of those deserve accolades if I'm being real.

No. 389635

>>389562
I get it, but if you had to give this kind of reward to one of them and ignoring both isn't an option, who would you pick?

No. 389656

>>389635
True, David Cage is such a hack. I seriously hate people who think video games are beneath them and wish they were movie directors.

No. 392018

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Any nonnies been following the Midori saga? For those not in the know, a Sega/Atlus leaker who went by the name of Midori was just outed as a white man who pretended to be a Japanese woman on Twitter.
It's pissing me off because I keep seeing comments about how pretending to be a woman online is fine, it's the pretending to be Japanese part that is ~problematic (picrel). Of course the video game community is infested with trannies so I assume most of the people saying this are TIMs who don't want people to think about how fucking creepy and weird it is for a man to pretend to be a woman online (Midori even made a bunch of "teehee stop hitting on me silly boys I already have a boyfriend" tweets kek). I've also seen people act like maybe the man behind Midori was "exploring their gender". Fucking bleak.

No. 392020

>>392018
A friend has been sending me updates on this ordeal so I’ve been following it secondhand. Just saw a video clip of what the leaker looks like and he literally looks like a textbook creep who later decides to identify as a TIM

No. 393459

>>392018
I wonder if the name Midori is a reference to the really infamous and gross Suehiro Maruo manga and anime. It's fit with how edgy troons like to be, eg sewerslvt.

No. 393610

>>393459
I think it's as simple and dumb as Midori meaning green and the leaker being obsessed with the idea of Persona 6 having green color scheme (who the fuck cares)

No. 404064

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everything about zzz makes me fucking seethe. mihoyo took the money from their 50/50 male female playerbases and put it into this. are putting it into this. even the male characters are male-pandering. christ

No. 404068

>>404064
i dont understand why they hired a lolifag who only designed 3 mediocre loli characters for gachashits like azur lane to be the main designer of such a huge mainstream project.

No. 404070

>>404064
I'm more suprised they got this coomeshit approved by Chinese authorities since they are hard on coomer shit in games so much alot of genshit skins were changed to be more modest.

No. 404071

>>404070
The Chinese govt doesn't do 24/7 monitoring on games, they only get busted when jilted players mass report for obscene content.

No. 404072

>>404064
She should invest in a sports bra

No. 404075

>>404064
My sides went in orbit when I saw her massive cameltoe. Girl's pussy is obese, holy shit KEK

No. 404077

>>404064
>their 50/50 male female playerbases
kek

No. 404082

>>404064
I could ignore this game completely if it were an all-female character gacha like their main honkek game is. What feels the most awful to me is that they have the most "we don't want women to like these designs" looking male characters as possible - literally furshit to pander to that kind of fag and obnoxious not!deadpool shit that feels formulaicly made to not be sexy or threatening to men. If it had a full female cast the hoyofag underagee girls on twitter would be able to see this game for what it is but because there are any male characters, some of them seem to have successfully had the wool pulled over their eyes and will unironically praise how "diverse looking" said male characters are. Man even honkai 3rd with its all female playable cast has sexy men as non-playable characters. Isn't zzz the game they had their Canadian studio do a lot of work on? Because it shows, no one is more allergic to sexy men than insecure North American men

No. 404087

>>404064
I hate seeing ads for this game. The voice acting is so nauseating, especially the ones for the female characters. Why can't video games like these use normal sounding voices

No. 404101

>>404068
I don't get the appeal either but they wanna use waterkuma's art to powercreep pedobait n46561651 so who knows
>>404082
The studio is based on Montreal and it's not surprising this shit baits trannies and fat smelly moids. Have you seen the android lolibait? Why is Billy allowed to look like a regular android but she looks like a complete throwable sex doll? Glad I haven't downloaded this shit.

No. 404110

>>404064
Oh she's jiggling all over the place but at least she's fully clothed.

There's the First Descendant where all the girls have maid outfits to buy but of course the male characters are all fully covered.

>>404082
>Canadians
hey, my #1 husbando was designed by a Canadian…

No. 404111

>>404064
>why is a coomer company that was created by moids making male pandering waifu games? huh, huh i wonder whhyyy…. hmmm…
are you retarded or something?

No. 404113

>>404110
>at least she's fully clothed.
Damn, our bars are so low. She has a skintight outfit for a reason, and it's not to fully cover her in modesty.

No. 404114

>>404075
Weirdly enough this isn't the first time I've seen a gigantic cameltoe in coom animation and somehow it's not the most retarded, the last one I saw was somehow like fully outlined through DENIM kek

No. 404120

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>>404110
the game has panty shots

No. 404122

>>404064
Her breasts move like balls… chesticles!

No. 404127

>>404122
Kek you're right. Moids are so fucking gay and retarded. They don't know how boob physics work and think they bounce around like anti-gravity testicles.

No. 404192

>>404064
I'm glad I never gave a cent to hoeyoverse and I also stopped playing Genshin which has turned to absolute bullshit (it wasn't great to begin with but it was better than now). Fuck all of the male enployees and designers, I hope their uninspired ugly lolishit makes them go bankrupt. No amount of shitty ads and youtube sponsorships are going to make me play one of their games again.

No. 404254

>>404077
You mad, anon-kun?(scrotefoiling)

No. 404456

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>>404064
>Be Mihoyo
>Pander to the bottom of the barrel gooner incels with your stupid Honkai Impact game full of lolis, sexy big tit women and yuribait
>One of them gets so possessive over his waifu being put in a bunny suit he enters the Mihoyo HQ with a knife intending to stab people
>Get so spooked over this happening that your next game is made for a more unisex audience with a more balanced character gender ratio and female characters that don't look nowhere near as coomery as in your previous game
>Launch Genshin Impact with multiple consecutive bishounen banners to get all the fujos and yumes creating free advertising material for you and paying for the banners
>Milk the insanely popular franchise for a few years to become a multibillion company
>The CEO is still salty over not being able to put his male power fantasy self insert (Welt) into Honkai Impact because they literally start receiving death threats over a questionnaire asking if the players would be fine with a playable male character
>Funnel the money printed by Genshin Impact into creating Honkai: Star Rail, an alternative universe spinoff of Honkai Impact with some returning Honkai characters including Da Wei's personal self insert being added to the permanent banner of the game and given the role of one of the main characters
>Apply the same "consecutive male banners at launch tactic" you did with Genshin because you believe that both Star Rail and Genshin will generate infinite amounts of money (spoiler: outside of China HSR stagnated immediately and started sucking Genshin players' money because players don't suddenly get double income when playing two games and HSR is based on new units always powercreeping previous ones)
>Asian gachacels are radicalizing more and more, constantly attacking Mihoyo for "ignoring" them when a new male character is introduced (despite always being followed by 5 armpit waifus) and going nuclear rage mode when a male playable character does more damage than a female one and hating one popular male character associated with cats to the point they start spamming cat torture videos and harassing/stalking anyone talking about him in a favorable light
>Mihoyo tries playing both fields and rolls out 8 consecutive waifu banners on Genshin while dropping IRL collabs and merch sets meant to target female players in Asia, obviously scorning global audience
>One of the male Star Rail writers is outed by Chinese players for bragging about purposefully trolling female fans by adding his retarded mary sue waifu into the game and making both popular BL ship characters have an obsession with her on his social media
>Roll out ZZZ
>The head artist is an open lolicon
>Only one male character that's a human and he's an uggo (excluding the main character)
>Tit and ass jiggle, cameltoes and nipples poking through tops everywhere
>The blatant cartoonishly cringe coomery of the Canadian studio right there on the screen
>The game heavily relies on monetization mechanics, way more than Genshin and Star Rail
>Mihoyocucks still play it because "i-it.. it has diverse characters!" despite all women being babyfaced big booba waifus and desperate husbandofags cry tears of copium trying to coom to a literal furry because that's all they're going to get while fujos are attempting to stitch together material between him and the male MC who's the only non-ugly male in the game
Mihoyo is too big to fail at this point but it genuinely makes me mald and seethe to think that they exploited a mixed sex audience and above all the amazing creative power of female fans to rocket into global fame from being just a game studio in Shanghai creating a niche waifu game, only to spit in their faces and go back to sucking the crusty cocks of incels who are just one careless event costume away from going into domestic terrorism.

No. 404457

>>404456
>One of the male Star Rail writers is outed by Chinese players for bragging about purposefully trolling female fans by adding his retarded mary sue waifu into the game and making both popular BL ship characters have an obsession with her on his social media

Lolwut. Which character? Sparkle?

No. 404458

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>>404457
It was Baiheng. He added her into that Cloud Quintet chapter that basically had every single member in it fall in love with her and go extremely out of character just to simp for her (Especially Dan Feng), both male and female. It made a lot of Chinese female players in particular angry because they understood all the subtext better than global players and because she was an unapologetic Mary Sue being loved by everyone and having superpowers that made no sense like being able to predict future and basically being unbeatable despite being a regular Foxian.

No. 404460

>>404456
I genuinely wonder if they thought that pandering to male gachacels MORE would stop them from going berserk again. To anyone with a brain cell, this obviously wouldn't work for the same reason that feeding a wild bear won't make it friendly towards humans, but to a bunch of spooked out-of-touch execs it probably seemed like a viable idea (and now their entire male audience is full of proto-terrorists kek)

No. 404461

>>404458
Female players need to mass report their games for all the shitty coomer content so china law can fuck them hard in the ass and they're forced to put their precious loli waifus in actual clothes (the horror)

No. 404469

>>404461
We should also do the same for FGO. No more ugly coomshit only pretty boys.

No. 404470

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>>404458
Who's willing to bet that this moid just wanted to put his cringe donut steel OC into the game and then went "um yes this was totally 5D chess to own the female players all along" kek. Ironically there didn't seem to be THAT much fanart or anything when I googled her so good for him I guess?

No. 404472

>sexism and videogames thread
>immediately taken over by the fujoshit who lets Da Wei renting her head free(infight bait)

No. 404489

>>404469
Female players who roll for these waifushit characters are traitors too imo

No. 404493

>>404470
>that detailed af armpit
God is dead

No. 404496

>>404469
FGO is japanese, tardchan.

No. 404516

>>404460
At this point I have to wonder if they're just doing it for the love of the game i.e. hating women and wanting them off their playerbase or if they're genuinely threatened by the possibility of an incel terrorist attack if they aren't cranking out numerous photocopied waifus. People always say that waifus sell and that's why they outnumber husbandos, but I honestly have to question that sentiment seeing how female fans are buying huge billboards and advertisements in the big cities of China just to congratulate their favourite Genshin boy on his birthday. Male fans don't do that shit, they might waste their month's paycheck on a waifu but they leave it at that while female fans buy endless piles of merchandise and do free grassroots level marketing with fan art, fan fics, zines and so forth. I don't know about Chinese statistics, but at least in Japan women are slowly overtaking men as the biggest consumers of anime merchandise. So in my opinion it's probably a little from column A, a little from column B, incels are much more likely to get what they want because people are way more likely to sympathize with their demands than with women.

No. 404518

>>404456
>constantly attacking Mihoyo for "ignoring" them when a new male character is introduced (despite always being followed by 5 armpit waifus) and going nuclear rage mode when a male playable character does more damage than a female one and hating one popular male character associated with cats to the point they start spamming cat torture videos and harassing/stalking anyone talking about him in a favorable light
This sounds psychotic

No. 404520

>>404458
Did he at least get fired?

No. 404531

>>404456
I thought they made an otome game at some point. Did it underperform or something?
>>404458
After seeing this it's not surprising that they'd return to their roots but it's still annoying. I don't even know why they bothered adding male characters that aren't the MC to their new game tbh. I know they'll get money no matter what but it seems like they just want this game to appeal to males so what's the point of trying to appeal to others in such a half-assed way? I made the mistake of playing a gacha game with a similarly unbalanced gender ratio so I can't even judge the women that are doing it but it's sad. It will never get better.
>>404516
>incels are much more likely to get what they want because people are way more likely to sympathize with their demands than with women.
Reminds me of those gacha game gender war videos. They were filled with so much sympathy for the male gamers that were pitching fits and trying to ruin the lives of women for the crime of not being pandered to 24/7.

No. 404533

>>404496
So chinese games are sexist but not JP coomer games? Wtf nonna.

No. 404545

>>404533
The coomer shit in Chinese games could possibly be reported to the government and censored. But FGO is a Japanese game. Read the original post.

No. 404732

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This was so unnecessary. I know "ackshually the party escort bot did that" but still completely unnecessary. I know the bar is on the floor but I always appreciated 2000s Valve games for having normal looking female characters.

No. 404739

>>404732
Wtf is this?

No. 404745

>>404739
The protagonist of the Portal games in the first versus second game. That's supposed to be the same woman btw

No. 404767

>>404732
Honestly never noticed this. Seems completely pointless. You see her face for like maybe a second from far away if you're looking through a portal in the right direction.

No. 404783

>>404732
when would she have time to put on makeup kek christ

No. 404798

Why haven't there been any grassroots female-driven indie games that make games that women actually like? If places like Japan can do it, I don't see why Americans can't.

No. 404804

>>404798
Because troons

No. 404808

>>404798
American women are currently busy creating all-inclusive games with fat bearded male characters

No. 404821

>>404531
>Reminds me of those gacha game gender war videos. They were filled with so much sympathy for the male gamers that were pitching fits and trying to ruin the lives of women for the crime of not being pandered to 24/7.
I'm still seething so hard over that. The videos did impressive research on the Korean society and how deeply fucked the current generation is due to the greed and corruption of a few families holding all the power and wealth in their country but when it comes to gendered issues it just said "we need to be a bit nicer to each other, huh? girls, just stop treating men as monsters!" when South Korea practically outlawed feminism, barely investigates rape and sexual assault cases and allows women to be openly discriminated against with no consequences and game studios fire female employees over incel outrage even when they did nothing like what happened during the Project Moon drama. But yeah women just need to have a bit more understanding! Poor men have lost meaning in their lives because they don't get to have everything handed to them on a silver platter simply for being born male anymore!

No. 404861

>>404821
I do not blame 4b when the men there will murder and rape women they deem to be "feminist".

No. 404866

>>404821
I hate that cocksucker youtuber so much, he does what seems like incredible levels of historical research for his videos (when compared to most youtube wannabe essayists) but omits the entire korean female POV from the narrative of the gacha game gender wars in a very intentional fashion in my opinion. Typical slimy new york lawyer. He also shoves in digs at JRK here in there in his videos so on top of an incel he's also a TRA. I can't trust any of his research for his other videos now, who knows what glaring important aspect he's omitting.

No. 404914

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>>404866
I saw that fags video when it premiered and so many viewers thought that the "nikke is a feminist game" was a bit and a dig at korean coomers…until he shilled it again. he calls himself a "lawyer" but doesn't feel gross promoting a coomer game with child characters like picrel in it and yes they show child ass

No. 404991

>>404914
I really can't understand how can anyone think that nikke is a feminist game when its characters literally look like hentai monsters. I am not even talking about the game company firing "feminist" women and removing the pinched fingers signs that incels hallucinate in their games.

No. 404992

>>404914
why the fuck did they have to make the loli look like a 5 year old?

No. 404994

>>404914
>picrel
Every time shit like this gets put in an obviously coomer-oriented game people start claiming that her sexualization is in YOUR head and YOU'RE the pedo for even thinking that way about her. And you bet Nikke players did the exact thing.

As for the Nikke shilling, it was hilarious how like two days after his video went up Nikke was hit with a controversy of firing female artists because incels in their delusional state saw what could be the pinching hand gesture. Who would've thought that a game company making a game all about looking at girls' bared asses while they shoot at things would be sexist?

No. 404995

>>404821
Something about this guy gives me "muh based patriarchal Asian fetishizer" vibes.

No. 404998

>>404914
Wait, nikke is feminist? Since when?
>>404994
Adding a child into a coomer gacha game was intentional. They know enough about their audience to check off every sick fetishes these moids have. It's why genshin doesn't have a shota model since forever because they know cute little girls sell but they won't every say it.

No. 405001

>>404998
Pornified depictions of women somehow = feminism according to braindead faggots. See also "stan twitter". I still believe this kind of moids are more or less actually bisexual and/or AGP in denial though.

No. 405005

>>405001
Oh, you man the same retards who think mihoyo is totes progressive for having more waifus than husbandos? kek.

No. 405006

>>405005
NTA but as a Genshintard I've had to face numerous conversations like this. Some of them are troons (especially the "these characters are made for ~sapphics~" crowd), but some are living flesh women who sperg about how hating them is literal misogyny because you're not letting women express their sexuality and you're practically slutshaming all these extremely empowering cartoon women. I always got the impression that they know it's bullshit but don't want to rock the boat nor admit that women are constantly coomified for male pleasure because that would be too scary and blackpilling.

No. 406167

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forgot about snowbreak. men seethe so hard about da ebil foojos ruining their sexy anime women but shit like this is everywhere. so entitled

No. 406186

>>405006
As much as ZZZ is trash, at least it's filtering the "sapphic" fags with its's total lack of troonlesbo pandering. It still exist but only if you squint and take everything at face value.
I'd much rather all-male female gazey gachaslop exist than yet another braindead waifu collector where troons and their lackeys can goon over how feminist it is. Gacha should've never left the east.
>>406167
Thanks, I hate it.

No. 406189

>>406167
I can't stop cringing

No. 406210

>>406167
Is this sfm porn?? no way is this in an actual video game

No. 406217

>>406167
You picked a really tame video too. The whole game is soft porn for men. They have so much of these around yet want every single game to cater to them in every way. I don't give a shit these games for men exist, it bothers me that most games have some form of a men's fetish and when a few manage to avoid that they kick and scream like entitled babies.

No. 406220

>>406217
Especially when stuff targeted at women is so tame in comparison. And even male fanservice is fucking rare compared to waifushit always needing some coom element in their designs

No. 406478

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Remember Tower of Fantasy? The first "Genshin killer" action fantasy game that basically ripped the entire gameplay and assets off and faked google reviews to get an excellent app score? Apparently they stopped releasing male characters entirely and went the full goonpandering route with its "dorm mode" where you can just ogle the female characters wearing sexy lingerie, basically took the porn route. Why do companies choose to pander to this kind of men only? There's so much competition in that market to begin with, why not tap into the market of female gaming? I don't like otome games personally but Love and Deepspace is literally printing money at the moment, it's not like women aren't willing to cough up the money if you just gave them what they wanted. It genuinely has to be only misogyny at this point, no amount of "but waifus sell best" cope will convince me otherwise.

No. 406522

>>406478
Why don't you like otome? Is it the lack of gameplay?

No. 406525

>>406522
The only gameplay is a faceless blank slate self-insert dating equally bland male characters talking to (you) and I'm not interested in that. I know a lot of women like it but it's not for me personally, it's too on the nose and commodified self-insertion makes me uncomfortable. I honestly wish there were more unapologetically female-pandering games besides horse riding and fashion dress-up for little girls and dating sims for adults which is why it's so disheartening when games with genuine gameplay sink into inceldom.

No. 406628

>>406525
So you want one with gameplay and attractive men? That makes sense. I'm in a similar boat myself.

No. 406665

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>>406478
afaik Love and Deepspace is literally the first otome gacha (first otome period?) to include action combat and I think that's a big reason it's doing so well. It's been doing quite well financially the whole time its been out but specifically for July it got second in gacha revenue, beating out even genshin and starrail (which are admittedly in somewhat dead patches). It should be HUGE that a husbando game can do this well. A lot of the guys seeing these results aren't even considering that this is JUST the yume market of female gamers LaDS is feeding off of too. Also I hope mihoyo is kicking themselves seeing LaDS's success compared to their shitty low effort otome gacha of their own. I'm not fully satisfied with LaDS myself, but it should be obvious to anyone looking at it's success that it's due to a company finally putting reasonable effort in a game for women

No. 406686

>>406478
I feel like some people see LaDS and some huge fluke even though there have other games that pander to women that have sold well. But in the eyes of companies and some gamers it doesn't matter how much women spend tbh we won't be considered a worthy audience unless we can for sure give them 30 million+ in revenue each month which is crazy when you think about it. It's not enough just to give them boatloads of money we basically have to give them double the amount a waifu character could earn to be considered somewhat equal.

No. 406696

>>406478
Its so insane to me that the people that fund and develop these games hate women so much they dont even WANT to consider them a viable market

No. 406697

>>406665
Makes me happy to see Snowbreak that low

No. 406699

>>406697
What even is that one?

No. 406701

>>406665
>Also I hope mihoyo is kicking themselves seeing LaDS's success compared to their shitty low effort otome gacha of their own
I doubt it because their lowest effort project yet is in the #1 spot on your list and they make up most of the top 5. The company is full of gooner moids, they straight up don't care about pandering to women or how successful games that do are any more than the people behind blue archive do.

No. 406702

>>406701
I think female players are starting to wake up just a little bit. I dropped HSR ages ago but I'm still in the r/HonkaiHusbandos sub and there has been a slew of recent posts in the past few weeks regarding extreme dissatisfaction about how the game is shafting it's male characters that are getting upvoted and many people agreeing that they already dropped the game or are about to because they are sick of incels and their bad behavior being chosen over the female base time and time again. But ultimately CNsisters are the ones who's choices matter most, we'll see what they do.

No. 406705

>>406702
I think HSR has actually been quite generous with male characters who are actually worth something as units and remain story relevant as well (Argenti, Ratio, Aventurine, Boothill, Gallagher and Sunday in Penacony for example) compared to the two previous story chapters but in return they went really heavy with the waifupandering making Firefly a straight out waifubait character with no other purpose than obsessing over the MC and they milk her hard in the advertising. Genshin on the other hand has been depressing with a husbando drought lasting almost a year by now, most of the new waifus being absolute shit as characters too both writing, design and gameplay wise (and the only one with some sassy personality pissed of Chinese incels bad KEK). I thought it was because they were saving the hype up for the upcoming region (Natlan) but so far it has only two new playable male characters and seven female, the worst ratio yet. They released ZZZ now, why do they need multiple games full of moidgaze bullshit?

No. 406707

>>406705
A lot of the complaints from the sub are regarding the playability of the male characters. HSR powercreep is pretty hard and the devs are pretty blatantly making content difficult to clear for husbando only players because it's been more than a year now and one whole element and another whole path (the most important one) are gender-locked to waifu only. And iirc there's drama around male characters kits getting gutted while waifus continue to get stronger and stronger. The feeling is worse in HSR because unlike genshin there isn't much to do outside of combat and the performance difference between male and female characters is noticeable.

No. 406708

>>406702
>I think female players are starting to wake up just a little bit.
Only a very small majority imo and not the type that will be vocal about it. There are still a shitton of female hoyoshills who are playing and drawing art for their new furry gacha

No. 406710

>>406708
Pickmes will remain pickmes til death but I think the female players who thought they were signing up for an equal pandering game but realized they were duped can be convinced to quit. We just need to be louder on social media and others will feel seen by other women and learn to move forward from these games that want their money but don't want to cater to them.

No. 406711

>>406710
>the female players who thought they were signing up for an equal pandering game
None of them thought that

No. 406713

>>406711
You severely underestimate how retarded some people are.

No. 406776

>>406707
The powercreeping is an issue with every unit in the game imo, even the waifus get thrown aside by a new one that keeps upstaging them because that's how they've built the monetization of the game. But the lack of harmony male characters is a huge bitch because you NEED harmony characters to clear endgame content and it has to be a deliberate choice.

No. 406788

>>406665
fuck it, im installing love and deepspace, i dont even like otome games that much. But i nejoyed the nikki games and i want more female oriented games to be succesfull. Wish it was also playable on other devices tho like the mihoyo games. I dont like playing on mobile.

No. 406790

>>406710
I think a lot of women don't even realize that they have the option to demand better, plenty of female gamers (especially gachafags) are so beaten down into submission that they consider coomery waifushit the only thing they can get and one bishounen amidst 20 overpowered waifus and lolis is "good enough" and they've been conditioned into believing that they'll be attacked and ostracized if they say a bad word. Chinese fangirls need to rise up and start causing a ruckus because the Japanese sure aren't going to rock the boat and Asian developers don't give two shits about the western fandom.

No. 406791

>>406665 hope that means we'll be getting a game like NIKKE but with male characters instead. That would be my dream.

No. 406844

>>406788
>dont like playing on mobile.
If you have a good computer you can emulate with Mumu player or one of the other android emulators.
That's how I play cause my tablets too low spec.

No. 406960

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>>406697
>>406699
I don't know if any of this has been posted about before, but for some context, Snowbreak was a pretty generic third-person shooter unknown both overseas and in China, and was on the verge of death until a couple months ago when they announced their intent to pander to coomers and stirred up a lot of drama in China. "有男不玩" or "Yǒu nán bù wán" means something like "don't play with men" and became a slogan on places like Tieba, meaning "I won't play your gacha game if there are any men in it (because it will become as gay as Genshin)." Picrel is the current icon of the largest Genshin-related subforum on Tieba, which used to just say "farewell gayshit."

Snowbreak caught onto this by pandering hard to this demographic & it resurrected the game, so this is probably the highest it's ever been. (It's mostly a PC game anyway, I think those sales charts are for mobile).

No. 406990

>>406186
>Gacha should've never left the east
My moid senses are tingling on this one
>>406478
Company retardation. Instead of fully milking the route Papergames did with LADS, they'd rather stay in their comfort area with the same recycled VTuber designs.
>>406665
This is even more humiliating considering Tears of Themis was on anniversary period and still didn't make it in the top 10. If they step up their game, they could remain invincible on the gacha market.
>>406701
That's because ZZZ just started. I've seen AO3 stats and the shippers are filtered hard. The most popular ship is het and it's incest. Not even the furrybait managed to raise interest.

No. 406991

>>406776
Sunday is rumored to be Harmony in the latest patches
>>406707
Is it about Gallagher being powercrept by generic Xianzhou girl n°14532? Only character I can think about.

No. 408511

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A tweet someone I follow posted. Apparently the men in the chinese fandom of Persona are so bad they even doxxed a 18yo girl.
Can't say I'm surprised after all the things you all posted here (and in other threads) about the chinese videogame companies, but it still sucks to see. My best wishes to our sisters at the other side of the ocean.

No. 408530

>>408511
What is this tweet even trying to say, and haven't moids had enough time to get over persona having a sizable fujoshi fanbase since P3?

No. 408556

>>408530
The tweet was made by a woman, she talks about how gross men in the fandom are and how badly they treat both the female characters and the female players.

No. 408563

>>408556
What are Chinese moids in the persona fanbase even upset over?

No. 412471

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How do nonnies feel about Haunting Ground? I see a lot of video essays about this game saying how it's a commentary on young women getting sexualized and have their bodies commodified but no matter how much I squint I still don't see it as anything else but break the cutie torture porn that some of the devs probably got off to. It's not the same level of symbolism as Silent Hill 3 was, and it's not the kind of portraying harsh experiences of growing up female as Rule of Rose was, it just fails to connect with me as some kind of a "girl horror" game when the meek and scared protagonist is dressed up in skimpy clothing with ridiculous jiggle physics and ends up being brutalized in every death scene, heavily implied to have been raped and killed, and the entire plot revolves around everyone wanting to practically fuck her with the only female antagonist being jealous of her womb. I would be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt but next to SH3 and RoR it just feels nefarious.

No. 412475

>>412471
>commentary on young women getting sexualized and have their bodies commodified
No, it's just another young female character getting sexualized. I don't understand nerds who say shit like that. Maybe it's to justify being a fan. I never wanted to play it myself for the reasons you described. It just seems misogynistic.

No. 412479

>>412471
i never noticed how ugly her outfit is. it's like they tried to do heather but worse kek. i do love the image of her with the dog though, it looks amazing.

No. 413526

>>412471
It's rape fetish porn and every female youtuber who copes or over-intellectualizes it to the point of thinking it's worth making massive videos over is a terminal stage pick-me.
I won't even accept the "but muh spiritual successor to clock tower!" shit because there's a pretty clear difference between a modestly clothed girl getting chased by a mutant with scissors… to a girl wearing THAT being chased by killers that all conveniently seem to embody some fetish when they kill her.

No. 416144

>>412471
Growing up with these games, a lot of coomer shit passed right through me. But even then, I was deeply disgusted with this game. I could tell the boob physics was too much, it genuinely made me uncomfortable and that's saying a lot for the time it was released. The death scenes made me drop it. I hate media that pretends to criticize the sexualization of women while doing that on screen. Like how fucking dumb someone needs to be to no see the irony in that.

No. 419184

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https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/the-sony-state-of-play-open-world-dress-up-adventure-game-and-the-rpg-where-you-carry-a-child-on-your-back-are-both-headed-for-pc/

I hate it when scrotes find out about a video game (or show, whetever) targeted at a female audience and then act like it's the funniest, silliest shit in the world, making as many cringe-worthy comments about it as they can in every paragraph, instead of just fucking reporting on it more neutrally, like "this is an adventure/dress-up game" because it's just one more game among many others, there's nothing new or weird about it. They might think they're being funny drawing attention to how girly and non-violent this fashion-centered game is, but they're doing the same they've always done, which is to make fun of things that are for women and girls and act like those things are inferior because they're not about killing and raping everything in your path. Even if they don't straight up say "girls and their video games are so dumb and lame", they're making these games and their female playerbases sound like outsiders, aliens, or retarded babies.

>>412471
This sounds like that Metamorphosis hentai manga where all sorts of horrible things happen to the protagonist, and some people had their theories about it being social commentary, until that coomer The Anime Man interviewed the author, and he basically was like "lol there's no message, I just wanted to draw torture porn".

No. 419191

>>419184
I don't think it's that deep. a scrote used to reporting on scroteshit gets randomly thrown a cute girly game and finds it novel and interesting. what am I supposed to be offended about here?

No. 419205

>>419191
This is the sexism and videogames thread and I made a post on how I hate that scrotes on one of the biggest video game-related news sites keep alive the notion that video games are not for women and any games that are must be ridiculed. Ranting about that kinda thing is what this thread is about.

No. 419210

>>419205
yes, the sexism and video games thread not the insane reaches to get mad over nothing thread

No. 419213

>>419184
It annoys me too, they can’t just like a game ‘for girls’ as a guy, they always have to make such a big deal about it. They’re like men that get into ‘girly’ hobbies like knitting or make-up and won’t shut up about how so unique they are because they desperately want attention from women.

No. 419220

>>419184
I hate scrote video game journalists. They always act like things for female audiences are piles of moldy shit

No. 419225

>>419220
Idk not defending this guy but why does everything “for women” have to be like this…

No. 419230

>>406665
replying to old post but love and deep space has action in it? maybe I should start playing after all

No. 419231

>>419230
It's mostly VN reading and minigames, but there is 3rd person action battles.

No. 419243

>>419230
combat isn't very mechanically complex nor really something you'd be doing as part of your dailies, but combat sections are sprinkled throughout the main story, you have to fight certain stages for materials before you can insta use your stamina on rewards, and there are refreshing combat endgame modes in the form of timed battles with a set team a la genshin spiral abyss and a roguelike mode

No. 419290

>>419210
>mad over nothing
In case you didn't notice, the guy was clearly being sarcastic about wanting to be a pretty princess or whatever the fuck.
>>419213
They're like that particular type of brony that acted like they were super special and unique for liking MLP.
>>419225
NTA, I don't play the Nikki games at all and last time I played a dress up game was when I was a kid. But this is undeniably a game that's 100% targeted to girls and women, and it appears that it's very high quality too.
It's not my cup of tea but that's a different topic altogether. I don't personally like this genre either (I don't even play Animal Crossing which is another hit with female gamers), and I've seen the infight that happened in the last thread due to dumb misunderstandings from both parties. But the female audience that is into this kind of thing has every right to get quality video games that are respected and not shat on by the rest of the industry. So yeah, the game is about fashion. So what?
As for last thread's infight, the harsh truth is that most women don't like violence and war as much as moids do. That's why those kinds of video games don't get very popular with women. There's also the fact that male gamers have been the gatekeepers of the whole hobby for decades and this has fostered a misogynistic culture that many women reasonably want to avoid. Another factor is that anything to do with computers, including video games, is seen as a male thing, so less women grow up learning about and liking computers than men. Also, a lot of mainstream video games are moid power fantasies and/or have shitty female characters, so of course less women play them. I could go on and on. It's all these factors that contribute to women vastly preferring "casual" games and games that neither you or I consider "cool". I also wish more women played the games I like (and on lc I've found a lot of them) so I wouldn't feel so lonely, but I'm not about to shit on other women for not liking games with a higher difficulty that encourage competitiveness.

No. 419292

>>406525
>commodified self-insertion
The fuck does this even mean?
The appeal of actual dating simulators (not VNs like most otome games are) is the strategizing and time managing to unlock neat rewards (events, CGs…). That's actual gameplay, even if it's just about numbers at its core, kinda like RPGs. Non-action gameplay is still gameplay, some of us find VNs boring as fuck even if "you" can self-insert and have a fictional harem of boys, but there's something about simulation/stat raising games in general that we find entertaining so we prefer otome dating sims (actual dating sims). If that's still not your thing, it's fine, but I hate this generalization that all games that are primarily about romance/where the end goal is romance are boring slideshows with zero gameplay. And Love & Deepspace in particular has tons of different game modes that don't involve reading through the story, including puzzle and action.
>>406665
I'm fucking ecstatic, I hope this convinces other game devs to pander to us more. I hope LaDS will keep succeeding.
>>406217
>and when a few manage to avoid that they kick and scream like entitled babies.
And then the devs usually listen to their mantrums and censor the fuck out of manservice and/or or add the waifushit fanservice back.
>>419230
Yes, and it's not something minor either. Honestly the main story isn't even half of the game at this point. If you're a daily player you'll probably have to clear battles almost every day. Every week for sure. I've seen people compare the combat to Genshin Impact, but I've never played that one, so I don't know how accurate that comparison is. For me, the romantic events (what the devs call "dates") are secondary and I spend most of my time in-game doing other shit like playing the minigames and doing battles.
>>419243
>combat isn't really something you'd be doing as part of your dailies
Really? Shit, combat is kind of the most entertaining part of the game for me. It's piss easy (as long as your memories are high level) but very fun. I try to do battles as often as I can.

No. 419364

>>419290
Not shitting on anybody's game taste, but I feel condescended to by games "for women" being mechanically shallow pink slop. Same way that anime "for women" is overwhelmingly romance. Can't help feeling that way. It also unintentionally implies that anything challenging or intricate is for men.

No. 419372

>>419364
This, I'm so tired of every female-targeted game having such simple gameplay, I want something more complex. It feels like these games insult my intelligence sometimes.

No. 419376

>>419364
Why do you have a hateboner against girlcore games nonny? Could you perhaps be a moid, hm? Girlcore is more valid than any moidslop, where all there is to do is rape and shoot women(bait/scrotefoiling)

No. 419377

>>419364
>>419372
I'm not defending it at all in the slightest so dont misunderstand, but sometimes I do feel like women themselves encourage/play into this stuff. For example, when Love and Deepspace recently introduced a rougelike mode, the comments during the live stream and in the replies of the official posts were like
>???? this is too confusing/hard
>HAHA im too dumb to get this
and even the japanese comments were like
>wtf this is an otome game I don't want complicated gameplay
All over a basic rougelike mode that once you actually play it basically handholds you how to do it, there's even a toggle option to "simplify text" that describes character abilities. Idk. I just feel some frustration towards women sometimes who don't want to explore new stuff themselves and treat it like "a moid's thing" when there's a lot to enjoy out there besides basic VNs, simple simulator games, etc.

No. 419379

>>419376
Quit acting like we're talking about rape games when we're talking about gameplay complexity

No. 419385

>>419184
>>419220
I feel like it's the remainders a lot of scrotes have of gamergate. And now it's just a another mockery in the industry so scrotes feel inclined to shit on anything approaching women oriented games or anything even tangentially touching on being supportive of women's interest in games.

Or I'm just retarded.

That being said I am so sick of watching video game analysis and anything from 2014-2015 and they have to make an obligatory joke about how cringe women were during gamer gate and equating them to the bully hunter shit. While I agree there was a lot of bull shit virtue signalling (especially from thirsty crusty scrotes but that's not as funny as women caring about things I guess), but the conversation bears having that portrayals of women in games and women in the industry is shit.

No. 419395

>>419364
I think that anon is just stating how the games are seen and marketed. If that game didn't look like that, that moid journalist wouldn't have made that condescending comment. Gendered marketing is not only a game issue, it's a broad societal issue. Most people are not gender critical and they truly believe pink girl, blue boy, unfortunately.
>>419377
I have a tinfoil on why a lot of women feel insecure about gameplay difficulty. Moids act like they are so good at difficult games and that's not even true. Over the years the normal difficulty has been lowered because the average player isn't that good. Yet nobody is scrutinizing men's braindead gameplay, they do it to women because there's this idea that women suck at games. So when women fail, people mock them way more. Men fail, and they'll get told they suck, but it won't be pinned against their whole identity as some intrinsic flaw, also men are completely delusional and don't acknowledge when they are terrible players. Differently from women who tend to care more about other's opinions in general.
There's also an issue that every game relies on a bunch of common game knowledge since they constantly borrow from each other. I remember some guy on yt who convinced his gf to play BoTW without having played any other game and she struggled with very simple concepts at first, she obviously learned and picked up, but anyone who grew up playing games would know them intuitively. It wasn't her fault or her being dumb, it's just a new set of rules that some aren't acquainted with. Men don't take any of this into consideration when it's a woman playing, they'll just mock her and spam women coffee memes. If you're a woman in a gaming space your bar is much higher, I can't fully blame some of them for believing it's too hard or feeling intimidated. Men are not nearly as criticized and when they fail, they won't hear even half of the nasty shit women get told.

No. 419432

>>419292
regarding combat dailies I mostly meant that you don't have to do them as part of your dailies so I imagine the majority of the players don't. For example, once you've cleared snoozer level 9 you never actually NEED to do the fight again to use your energy and get the rewards, you can just press the arrow at the bottom to instantly use stamina for rewards. However, if you actually want to do the fight nothing is stopping you. It's just that you can fully skip contrary to something like genshin or wuwa that will make you actually fight a boss every time you want its rewards

No. 419612

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>>419364
I also feel it's condescending to call easy pink girly games "girlcore" or whatever, I rarely (if ever) play those games. I honestly don't like the label. But I don't like shitting on those games either. It's not easy to criticize the label without insulting the games and the players that enjoy them in the process.
Games for women and girls shouldn't only be that, but it should be fine for those games to exist as well (without them being considered "the" genre for female audiences). It's not like casual games for moids don't exist.

Anyway, I just said Infinity Nikki is aimed at women (and shat on because of this), not that they're the only games that are or should be for women. I feel like scrote journos like that one would still shit on a challenging game aimed at women if it had an unapologetically girly aesthetic and cute anime boys.

>>419377
>roguelike
ftfy
I also think a specific subgroup of female players play into it, and unfortunately they end up making us all look stupid. But tbh gachashit games are mostly about doing your dailies (which should be quick) to unlock waifu/husbando content, and adding too much complexity to the ways of getting rewards can get frustrating to the majority of the players who will probably think of it as more effort and time wasted. That's not to say that none of those comments were based on internalized sexism, though, especially the "uguuuu I'm too dumb to get this" ones. Just embarrassing.

On the other hand, there are cases where the female players that actually want challenge in their games criticize dumbed-down gameplay in female-oriented games, see picrel for a Japanese review of KimiKiri (unrelated to the current discussion but still releavent to the thread and game: https://x.com/otomebunny/status/888698429248905217)

The retards who said "this is an otome game" as if that was a reason to make it require zero effort on your part don't know shit about otome. The first game in the genre was a simulation game and it'd probably be called too complex by most current otomefags. Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side is also a simulation game with more depth than Love & Deepspace and it was a huge hit in Japan. So a game being otome is not an excuse for it being little more than a boring slideshow. I really wanted to like otome, since I like self-inserting and the concept of romancing cute guys in video games, but most of the shit being released now is just novels with pictures so there's no incentive for me to keep reading. It's not a "game" at all. If I wanted just the story I'd go read a manga or watch an anime instead. Meanwhile, a simulation game meshes well with self-insertion because it gives more freedom and lets you make your own decisions, plus more unexpected things happen from a gameplay perspective. Imagine what other kinds of fun gameplay we could have in otome alone if we got rid of this perception that it shouldn't require any effort to "play" whatsoever, let alone non-otome video games for women.

>>419395
>There's also an issue that every game relies on a bunch of common game knowledge since they constantly borrow from each other. I remember some guy on yt who convinced his gf to play BoTW without having played any other game and she struggled with very simple concepts at first, she obviously learned and picked up, but anyone who grew up playing games would know them intuitively.
This. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but a lot of this is due to women usually not being socialized and raised in the same way as moids. The average woman is less familiar with video games than men because computers and games and other geeky techy stuff are seen as a male thing. Any woman can get addicted to video games once you teach her how to play and give her time to get used to the logic of video games (and don't judge her or make her feel stupid). This happened to my mom when she was younger, actually. After a female friend of hers introduced her to it, she loved Tomb Raider even though she's not a gamer at all and is less familiar with geek hobbies than my dad. And both men and women can be clueless about video games, or dislike "hardcore" games, especially older people (my dad hates anything more complex and time-consuming than Tetris).

No. 419616

>>419432
Yeah, I know you meant the skippable battles. But aside from those, there are other kinds of battles that give you daily or weekly rewards, such as the trials, hunter contest, and the newly introduced deductions. You can get a lot of gems from those and they also count towards your daily/weekly progress, they're also not skippable. I like that there's so much combat-oriented content and they reward us pretty decently for engaging with it.

No. 420476

Has anyone else noticed that games aimed at women, such as BL vns or otome, are built around humanizing the male characters and still sexualize the female characters, while the men are modestly dressed? Meanwhile moid targeted games focus on dehumanizing and oversexualizing the womenas much as possible. Wtf is up with that?

No. 420480

>>420476
A mix of basic jappery and knowing their audiences wants. You know most of those games are made by the same people making the moid games, right?

No. 420481

>>420476
Dehumanization is to a certain extent, considered gross.
Bl vns that do dehumanize the male characters to a similiar extent exist, you can guess what it would have and why many women would not like that.

No. 420482

>>420480
What type of woman wants a game where she's more objectified than the sexy men in it?
>>420481
>Bl vns that do dehumanize the male characters to a similiar extent exist, you can guess what it would have and why many women would not like that.
Names? The ones I've played thus far overly humanize their male characters. The only women I can see not being into fictional moids being dehumanized are pickme bitches who suck up to moids despite them being as disgusting as they are.

No. 420493

>>420482
>What type of woman wants a game where she's more objectified than the sexy men in it?
A japanese yume?
>only cocksucking pickme bitches don't like the porn I like because I need to feel like I'm one-upping scrotes even when I'm alone playing a dating sim in my dirty bedroom at 3am
Heckin' baste stacy! Before we decide we like something, we should factor in how it makes 4chan incels feel. If it doesn't piss them off enough that means it's unbased and we need to find something else.

No. 420501

>>420493
KEK so true nonnie, I don't like anything scrotes like. Scrotes are so angry that I only enjoy cute and sexy bishies and not something disgustain like yumeshit. Nevermind that a lot of the bishies I love were created by moids…ugh, they just don't get these characters

No. 420611

>>420476
I just want them both to be well-dressed tbh. Is that so hard to do for devs? Keep the guys dressed modestly, while NOT having the female characters (esp. the protagonist) show unnecessary skin?? Of course, if the game is targeted at women, and the point is romance/sex, the women shouldn't be sexualized at all, and the men should at least appear in a state of undress every now and then, and with camera angles that objectify them through the protagonist's POV. Moids do this so easily but it frustrates me when female creators choose to include the woman in the objectifying process or even make her more prominent than the male.
But I guess it's extremely difficult for most otome devs (dunno about BL) to even imagine such a thing since we're all so brainwashed by mainstream culture and society into seeing women as sex objects first and foremost. Only relatively few women, who have broken free from social programming (whether they have always found sex roles ridiculous or learned about it in adulthood), are capable of seeing through the bullshi and willing to demand change. I think if we want this situation to improve, at least in our niche hobbies, we should be louder about this on mainstream social media and make an effort to create our own content, especially video games and such, that show other women that it is possible to make things for a female audience without portraying our sex as the designated passive and sexy "thing", or without equating the female sex with the act of sex itself.

>>420480
>You know most of those games are made by the same people making the moid games, right?
WTH are you talking about? AFAIK, most otome and BL games are written and illustrated by women.
Ironically, one of the best otome games as far as sexualization and other issues are concerned is Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side, which was created by moids, and (originally) just a gender-flipped version of Tokimeki Memorial, meaning that there was a lot of variety in love interests catering to girls with different tastes, and the protagonist was the active one while the love interests were passive. She also never even shows her face except in chibi form, so everything happens from your perspective and at no point is your character sexualized or focused on. And aside from the dress-up feature, the love interests don't even comment very much on your appearance (telling you that you're cute, finding your reactions endearing, pointing out that you're blushing, etc.).
They literally just took the galge formula and inverted the sexes, which should be the default. It shouldn't be more complicated than that, but somehow the otome genre ended up being more sexist than a game made by scrotes who also made dating sims for moids, and it's very sad to see.

>>420481
I think what anon means is that a lot of effort is put into making the male characters as deep, human and likeable as possible. Sure, they might suffer a lot in BL games with lots of rape like the Nitro+Chiral games, but unless it's a fucked up nukige like Hadaka Shitsuji (made by a moid) or Masquerade Jigoku Gakuen Sodomu (which was inspired by a galge nukige with a similar premise and greatly influenced the Hadaka creator), the characters are just suffering humiliation and torture within the context of the story, but given that a lot of the story is dedicated to fleshing them out and making you empathize with them, in real life the readers are mostly going to like them as characters, whereas the female characters are usually just there as enemies or unthreatening friends. TBH I don't think there's anything surprising about this, since the point of both otome and BL games are the hot husbandos, so of course they're gonna be better written and have more focus than the female side characters and the side male characters (who often get the same treatment as the female characters because they're not the focus either).

The problem is when those female characters all fill some sort of nasty stereotype and/or end up being sexualized for no reason, and even worse, when the protagonist herself is sexualized or encourages some sick fetish (like those old R18 otome games with loli protagonists).

No. 420616

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>>420493
>A japanese yume?
Japanese otome fans (not yumes in general, they're not interchangeable) and those who prefer Japanese otome games with all their sexism are clearly too used to it at this point to even see there's something wrong with the genre. And that's not just me saying it, but also Asian otome game players that have noticed this trend and don't like it.
See picrel (I apologize for the shitty automatic translation, I tried to clarify some mistranslated/unclear terms). There's a part where she basically says that a game like Love & Deepspace, where the protagonist isn't a doormat, is strong enough to protect the male love interests instead of being a useless damsel in distress, and in fact has agency and is the one that leads the relationship (no questions asked, like that's just the deafult), could only be possible outside Japan because of how bad sexism is in said country, even in media that is supposedly for women (I don't know how true that is, because I'm neither Japanese nor Chinese). Love & Deepspace may not be the ultimate perfect femdom/femgaze/feminist otome game or everyone's cup of tea, but she has a point. There are good things about the setting presented in that game that many other otome games lack, especially those coming from Japan.

No. 420617

>>420493
Why are you so pissed that I enjoy seeing anime men in pain? Not everyone is a vanillafag who enjoys generic otome shit where the female lead is more sexualized while the male character is respected. Pathetic, imagine simping for moids THIS hard you think women can’t be sadists.

No. 420625

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>>420617
>Why are you so pissed that I enjoy seeing anime men in pain?
NTA but she never said anything of the sort or criticize your choice to only consume media where moids aren't portrayed in a humanized way. You're the one who started shitting on other people's taste by calling those who aren't exactly like you "pickme bitches who suck up to moids despite being as disgusting as they are". You're just a disingenuous retard.
>vanillafag
Nothing wrong with not being pornsick. Not everyone is obsessed with rape and torture. God forbid some otome fans actually want to imagine themselves in a wholesome, healthy relationship with a cute anime boy.
>enjoys generic otome shit where the female lead is more sexualized while the male character is respected
This is not equivalent to not wanting to see any character being dehumanized at all. There is a problem with female sexualization in many otome games, but this doesn't mean all otome fans are happy with this. Also, you're grossly exaggerating the situation.
>you think women can’t be sadists.
No one claimed anything of the sort, you underaged moron. You're the embodiment of picrel.
Nice job evading anon's point that we don't always have to like things just to make scrotes seethe, btw.

Go back to TikTok, Xitter or whichever illiterate shithole website you came from, you clearly cannot hold a coherent conversation with people who aren't as obsessed with your favorite flavor of porn as you are.(infighting)

No. 420632

>>420501
>H-How come the creator knows the characters he created much more than me, the autistic fujotard???
>>420617
Go back seething about moids in burqas and women showing bare ankles and leave this thread(infighting)

No. 420640

>>420616
Wow this person in your pic is just like me, I wish there was a more softer/sensitive LI in the game too kek. I agree with her other points as well, as someone who has been playing jp otomes since childhood, they would (almost) never release something with the relationship dynamics in l&ds for their own otome. Not that l&ds is perfect or anything, but it’s a nice change and step in a better direction.

No. 420656

>>420616
Honestly, Chinese games have became much better with creating content that panders to women, comparer to Japan where it feels far inferior except for BL vns.
>>420625
>You're the one who started shitting on other people's taste by calling those who aren't exactly like you "pickme bitches who suck up to moids despite being as disgusting as they are". You're just a disingenuous retard.
Women who enjoy oversexualized women being brutalized by moids or any diabolik lovers type shit are pickmes, yes.
>God forbid some otome fans actually want to imagine themselves in a wholesome, healthy relationship with a cute anime boy.
We get it, you’re asexual. Your abnormality is not the default.
>This is not equivalent to not wanting to see any character being dehumanized at all.
Okay and why does men being dehumanized bother you so much unless you suck up to moids already?
I’m simply stating I wish there were more joseimuke were moids are dehumanized and oversexualized like is the case with male oriented games, especially since (surprise surprise) I like most women have sexual desires.
>>420632
>Go back seething about moids in burqas and women showing bare ankles and leave this thread
How is either of that a bad thing? God forbid I want a change to the status quo.(infighting)

No. 420680

>>420617
Kek, you retard. Idk about the forced anime boy sadism kink but your posts do point to a humiliation fetish. Your posts are as recognizable as ever.

No. 420691

>>420617
why do the male femdom ryonafags have to be so uppity? like the centerpiece of your fantasies is literally still a male, you aren’t morally superior just because you wanna stick needles into his balls or whatever.

No. 420698

>>420691
In her case it's overcompensation for self-inserting as the boy getting tortured by her real types

No. 420701

>>420691
Because they're literal teenagers who want to be edgelords for shock value. I love male ryona but even I cringe at their constant attention seeking "yeah I love seeing scrotes being punched we girls can be just as fucked up as moids and you vanilla roasties don't get it!!!" chimpouts that come off as weirdly insecure. And half of the posts are from Rancefag

No. 420703

>>420691
No shit, they’re the center of my fantasies because I’m straight.
>>420701
It was other people derailing me to twist my point, how the fuck is saying that women are objectified in games for men and men are humanized in games for women at all a controversial statement? I just want to see a change because I like seeing men be sexualized and objectified because I’m ATTRACTED TO MEN. I swear the people replying to me are genuine asexuals.(ban evasion)

No. 421021

>>419395
Men also gatekeep women from games such as not letting them join guilds, bully them out of the community and overall isolate them so that they'll never learn the tricks of the trade or get to really display them. I know extremely dedicated female players who are mindblowingly good at combat in their games but they mostly lurk in the shadows or fake being men because they don't want to deal with gamer scrotes who would either immediately think they have a chance with them and/or start stalking/harassing them.

No. 421029

>>420703
i moreso meant it's weird and hypocritical to shit on women for liking "moids" when you yourself are fantasizing about fucking them. like that's your cousin

No. 422521

>Randomly watch a fun stream/edits of a game.
>Moids suddenly shout "BITCH" "CUNT" and other female slurs at female enemies.
>Porn jokes like brazzers, goth gf, feet, etc.
I'm so fucking tired, anons. I just want a female gamer that plays games I play. And doesnt do the things above.

No. 422552

>>422521
I mostly watch female streamers if I'm ever in the mood to watch streams

No. 422563

>>422521
I'm having a hard time finding female gamers that play the same games I do.
Last time I watched someone was Kpopp and that was nearly 10 years ago. I tried watching another girl Marz, but she got kinda boring for me.

No. 422650

>>422552
>>422563
Whenever I randomly browse, it's either big titty waifu vtuber (if it's a woman at all, 80% of these are moids who aren't even tims), "I'm just a girl" women who still use female slurs, or ultra safe general audience content creators. I have my favorites but they often fall on the last part. I want more women trying out non cozy games.

No. 422906

>>422563
>>422650
Would it be in bad taste to recommend a female twitch streamer I like? Really small streamer (usually less than 10 people watching) so I wonder if it's a good idea or not.

No. 422936

>>422906
I don't mind. I have posted asking about female streamers in the female content creator thread too if you want to post there instead.

No. 422941

>>422936
>Savii
vtuber, 30+, plays a variety of games, has the largest following but the streams are laid back and she has a consistent schedule
>hsara
mostly plays resident evil, she's pretty good too. Her schedule isn't as consistent. Small channel, last I've been it's about 7-10 people tuned in
>daniegurl
Consistent nightly streams. 30+, plays a lot of shooters, she's really funny. Has a thick Southern(?) accent. Small stream like hsara's.

I like other female streamers too but they mostly do cozy games.

No. 422975

>>422941
Are they all on twitch?

No. 422981

>>422975
Yep, all on twitch I should have clarified

No. 422989

>>421021
I feel so called out by your post. When I'm too into a game I tend to obsess and get pretty good at it, I'm average on most, just very few make me dedicated to that point. There is one that has a some sort of a leaderboard and I'm embarrassingly high on it. I usually hate the male fanbase of any game so I hide these things, either lie I'm a man if I need or keep it neutral. My female friends don't play and I can see they find it an odd hobby, something just men get into, not that I fully blame them. I end up feeling ashamed for it, I feel bad even typing this. Part of me didn't know why I hid it, but your post made me realize some reasons why.

No. 423351

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Someone posted the AI shit of Angela in /ot/ but the backlash against this scene reminds me of >>412471. They don't want psychological horror. They want to get off. Perhaps psychology is too sophisticated and complicated for moids?

No. 423352

>>422989
You sound cool anon, I wish we could be friends. I also often have very similar thoughts.

No. 423356

>>423351
Reminder that scrotes think this is peak humour that only an anti-intellectual wouldn't laugh at.

No. 424065

>>423352
It would be nice to have a friend who shares these thoughts, but at least it's reassuring to know there are more women in similar situations, for the longest time I thought it was a me issue.

No. 424086

>>423351
I hate being a gamer sometimes.

No. 424089

>>424086
I play videogames and I still wouldn't associate myself with these ugly fatasses by calling myself a gamer.

No. 424105

>>424089
It's just a word lol you know what I meant

No. 424106

>>424086
I hate the term "gamer", mostly because I think it's retarded when people use the English word for that in my language, but also because of the associated """culture""" that comes with it. It's cringe as fuck consoomerism and full of misogyny. I just enjoy video games.

No. 424133

>>412471
all "psychological" horror games are just waifu coomer bait but make it emo, dark and edgy

No. 424353

>>424133
Untrue

No. 424384

>>424353
Could you expand on this a bit nonna? List some games maybe that aren't exploitative to women?

No. 424393

>>424384
I'm not that anon but in terms of horror games some of the Resident Evil games are alright
>re3
Jill has a goofy ass outfit but everyone has a goofy outfit in that generation of games, they kind of needed strong silhouettes to stand out given the graphics limitations of the time.
>re3 remake
Arguably tried 'too hard' with the girlpower by changing Jill's personality, depending on who you ask.
>re1 remake
no issues there from what I remember.
>Re Revelations 2
Claire and Moira were a nice duo, nice to see a sort of mentee/mentor relationship with two women

But then lots of other RE titles do have weird fanservice like Revelations 1, Re6 and Re8.

No. 424396

>>424384
Yes.
SOMA
Penumbra series
FEAR
Dead Space 1&2
Darkwood

No. 424398

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>>424393
Reminds me that re3 remake has a scene of an enemy called Drain Deimos, a giant mutated flea, that deepthroats Jill and infects her with its larvae. The scene is so sexualized I've seen it uploaded countless times on youtube with nasty comments and also modded with different female characters. Of course it's a monster only Jill faces, to nobody's suprise they aren't deepthroating Carlos.
To be fair, that anon >>424133 specifically said psychological horror, which RE really doesn't fit into anyway.

No. 424401

>>424396
Seconding SOMA. It's so good.

No. 424402

>>424396
Adding some games onto the list.
The original Silent Hill trilogy Angela's backstory is handled tactfully and nothing is shown at all, you can completely skip the 2nd game if the subject matter bothers you too much tho
Ib
Mouthwashing
Outlast 1 and Whistleblower (the others are shit don't even bother)
The Amnesia series
Darkwood
Little Nightmares

No. 424403

>>424384
Bugsnax.

No. 424407

>>424398
The Resi games are all over the place with the fanservice. Sailor Chris, anyone? They really should have let Carlos be attacked by Drain Demos the same way.

No. 424408

>>424407
Just balance out the gross moments by installing naked Leon/Chris mods. Also if you want to play a game but don't want to support the company, piracy is LITERALLY free.

No. 424410

>>424408
I think the base games do try to present Leon and Chris attractively they just don't always hit the mark and they aren't consistent.

Personally, I never bought 6 because it's just a bad game but the weird sexualization is a good enough justification to not buy it. 8 just doesn't interest me, too much fantasy. I regret buying Revelations 1, the fan service is part of why I dropped it but I didn't know about it ahead of time. Also, it's a bad game. Funny how the bad games have the worst sexualization.

No. 424418

>>424407
>Sailor Chris
When men design these for male characters, they think it's a joke, not really fanservice. In the end, their fanservice is still very focused on their male audience and a few male characters being attractive don't come close to how the female characters get treated.

No. 424428

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What do you guys think about this?
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/Women-LedGamesShowcase
I just think the mascot is disgusting. Wearing stockings and hot pants for no reason to make her sexy? Why is she posing like that? It's a mess in terms of design, but it's also oversexualized despite being meant to represent female devs/players. It had potential, but imo it was ruined by coomshit/internalized male gaze.
Also look at their description kek
>Reviewing and celebrating games created by women and femme-identifying developers.
I wouldn't want to look at this showcase either, because I wouldn't know if a game was made by trannies posing as real women to make dev teams look progressive, and the whole point of things like these is to support women. Actual women.
I know nothing about this Steam group but the fact that they have a mascot like this and explicitly allow trannies is very telling. And sadly this is the kind of thing that we have to settle for because women are too nice and tolerant and it'd be hard to organize in the same way scrotes would throw a large-scale mantrum if their events/groups/communities were represented by a sexy half-naked bishie with pointless zettai ryouiki. If women protested there'd be pickmes against them praising the sexy mascot and if women demanded male trannies not to be included, they'd be harassed to death. We can't fucking win.

No. 424429

>>424428
This 'showcase' is obviously made by trannies, for trannies. kek. That art was obviously troon inspired- the ugly colors, animal ears, uwu animu style, thigh high socks, sexual focus on the chest, thigh, butt, stomach. Yep. smells like stink ditch.

No. 424431

>>424429
I read the description of one of the mods in that Steam group and she's (yes, an actual woman) a she/her 'activist', so yeah, probably troon inspired and the organizers are handmaidens.

No. 424437

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zzz once again releasing one (1) male-oriented male character amongst a fleet of scantily clad waifus. it’s to be expected but it really makes me seethe and i don’t get why mhy fangirls aren’t rioting, aren’t they angry their money is going towards this?

No. 424440

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>>424437
Why aren't they scantly-clad like the women? I don't get Genshinfags, at least play Nu Carnival or something

No. 424442

>>424437
The character designer is a literal pedophile with small dick complex ofcourse he's not going to draw hot men, only half naked lolis

No. 424444

>>424440
imo fan culture is a large part of it, people want to be where people are. zzz/mhy games are also actual open world games vs like, bejeweled or a rhythm rapper

No. 424445

>>424442
i thought dorontabi only did the girls/they had varying designers

No. 424446

>>424428
Actual female-only dev teams have to move under the radar like they're committing a crime in fucking 2024. Any public-facing community like this one always has like 3 troons for every bio woman, it's never worth it. A while back some anons in the artist salt threads managed to successfully assemble an actual female-only gamedev team, but I have no idea whether thats still working out or not since I didn't join.

No. 424447

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>>424445
It's not dorontabi, dorontabi only worked for Blue Archive. They hired Waterkuma who also previously designed characters for gachashit like Azur Lane. Men in asia can be openly pedos and still land major art gigs but if a female artist says they are against spy cams and celebrate women's day they get fired. Sad.

No. 424449

>>424402
>Mouthwashing
The only woman is an incompetent? nurse who gets pregnant and kills herself so…

>>424440
I'm not a fujo.
Not like I care about ZZZ either. I don't spend money on gacha though, not even LADS.

No. 424450

>>424449
nta but yeah anya’s character pissed me off. i was fine with her being a loser, they were all technically duds in their own way, but the pregnancy on top of it was too much. men have such a hard time writing women

No. 424458

>>424447
The rage I felt looking at this..fuck japan and Korea I hope each lolishit artists rots in acid and gets doxxed so they live in fear

No. 424465

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>>424440
Nu carnival might be the only game if not media in general that oversexualizes its male characters like how women are oversexualized in everything and i love it for that. I'm shocked i haven't encountered much if any handmaidens, moids, and trannies complaining about MUH POOR OVERSEXUALIZED MOIDS. Farthest i've seen is tifs complaining about how there are no dilfs/fatties/trannies (ew).

No. 424468

>>424440
Hideously ugly character design

No. 424469

>>424468
You just don't get it because you're a suitfag who likes men wearing hideous outfits that hide their figure

No. 424471

>>424469
Nah, garu is the fugliest boy in Nu:C, you have shit taste.

No. 424473

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>>424471
I can agree to some extent, I love his outfits but his body is offputting. I think it's the shota face with the muscular body kek, just go one way or the other. I'm a Reifag though.

No. 424477

>>424473
I like this guys design and the tired blond with the ferret. But I can't get over the gay shit.

No. 424478

>>424477
Good. The game is not for you.

No. 424483

>>424465
Sad it's an idle gacha game.

No. 424485


No. 424486

>>424478
I don't see why people keep trying to shill the game, it's better off staying as a small thing for fujos only instead of trying to rub it in faces for muh moid fanservice clothes or whatever. I'd rather yume stick to yume games.

No. 424487

>>424486
Cause lolcow autists

No. 424489

>>424486
Most of the time it just ends up with some autists getting annoyed and complaining for way too long about how it's actually bad, it's gotten to the point where I refuse to rec anything at all on this site because I know it'll just end up like that.
Just stick to talking about jjk, vns, eva, genshin, and modern anime bad.

No. 424490

>>424486
>I don't see why people keep trying to shill the game
to farm (you)s and 'based stacy's from other retards. none of those anons play the game because it sucks, they watch ripped h scenes on mega sometimes.

No. 424493

>>424490
It's so fucking annoying when you retards act like women can't enjoy sexualized men without some ulterior motives. Stop pushing this nonsense that women are asexual beings and that they MUST be doing it for validation if they dare enjoy sexual things

No. 424494

>>424493
They can, but you don't. That's why you make a big deal of telling everyone about it and how heckin baste it makes you for validation. People who do it regularly don't do that.

No. 424496

>>424494
I don't even know what you're talking about and i never said that but it is pretty based ngl. You sound insecure that not everyone enjoys the same monotonous otome abuse vns

No. 424497

>>424496
>ackshually it's based to pretend to like things for validation on lolcow.farm and you're probably a triggered maledomfag sksksk also I can't read
Kek?(infighting)

No. 424498

>>424486
it’s just farmers farming kek. their gay porn has to be le based feminist moid ragefuel (nevermind that half of them look like barashit)(ban evading)

No. 424502

>>424497
Nigga are you retarded? How do you know that they're liking it for validation? You act like women can't be coomers and if they do they MUST be doing it for validiation, of all fucking things. It's easily accesible gachaslop, no one is pretending to like it. It's very sexist
>>424498
Lmao how do the nucani guys look like baras. You aren't morally superior because you prefer suitmoids that abuse you, jfc. Either way I don't see the issue with liking stuff that pisses off moids it's funny(infighting/derailing)

No. 424503

just report the annoying derailers who have an autistic hateboner for the game for god knows what reason

No. 424506

>>424402
>whistleblower
That game will be my favorite just because of this one scene alone.

No. 424508

>(nevermind that half of them look like barashit)
>Either way I don't see the issue with liking stuff that pisses off moids it's funny
See, this is the retarded takes you get when you keep trying to shill on this site. Do you even like the game or are you in it just because it pisses off moids? This "ironic fan" shit sucks.

No. 424509

>you're a suitfag who likes men wearing hideous outfits that hide their figure
>you prefer suitmoids that abuse you
>You sound insecure that not everyone enjoys the same monotonous otome abuse vns
>she's not trolling
ay dios mio this schizo again

No. 424510

>>424508
Yes I am a genuine fan what the fuck and even if I just watched the porn megas who fucking cares? The fact that you don’t question moids who are into shit like blue archive and nikke which are too coomer gachashit is proof of your underlying misogyny. You can like sometring and also think it’s funny that it makes scrotes mad you autist, they aren’t mutually exclusive

No. 424512

>>424510
>Why don't you say anything about coomer moids into blue archive and nikke, misogyny WAAAAH
>In the thread where BA and nikke have been shat on multiple times
Open the schools dear God.

No. 424513

>>424512
I doubt you’d say it directly to their faces though? Once again, it’s a coomer gacha game. Why are you so defensive over it lmao

No. 424514

>>424510
If you're going to reply, then reply to what is actually being said instead of your own hallucinations.

No. 424515

>>424514
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Men into blue archive and nikke aren’t ever questioned by other men over if they’re a real fan or not like I see on here. It’s rooted in misogyny and the fact that apparently women can’t like things unless it’s for the validation of others

No. 424518

>>424515
As a 4chinz tard, men absolutely shit on other men for being obsessed with coomer games on the occasion those coomers venture out of their /vg/ hugboxes.

No. 424519

>>424513
>>424515
This comeback doesn't make sense when nobody here fucking says anything directly to moids.
That's why you and everybody else bitches here.
The original point was that by constantly and only shilling the game as "moids hate it!" It makes you sound like a ironic fan that's only into it because of that. If you seriously enjoy the game then talk about the game in the game thread, or at least something about the characters and not just repeating "internalized misogyny! Pickme! Suits! Muh moids!"

No. 424520

Nu:carnival is less of a game than the mobile slop you see in ads for ipad babies and doesn't belong in video game discussions period but this girl who keeps bringing it up is a genuine schizo we should be ignoring. According to the anti-fujo thread it might be Rancefag so take that as you will.

No. 424523

>>424519
This isn’t the only thread I post on you retard, I specifically said it here because it’s relevant to the topic at hand. Either way it’s nu carnival, a coomer Gacha game, who fucking cares.(infighting)

No. 424525

>>424440
He looks ugly as fuck

No. 424526

>>424520
The antifags are also just as annoying as fuck, the reason why the shizo is that annoying is because she just brings in more of them to shit up the place.(infighting)

No. 424529

video game companies are retarded. to start making money from us women they will need to make content like the kino yaoi cum petplay hentai dressup flash game I play. it already has 5 million download while their games only made a poor amount of money lol. a game like that. 3d. open wold. the next big thing, mark my words. the moid seething will be legendary.

No. 424534

>>424529
Game name?

No. 424535

>>424529
deep love space is doing very well and it has some gameplay to it so its very likely a lot of high effort games for women might start popping out. Gacha shit for moids is already oversaturated.

No. 424537


No. 424547

>>424535
so true sister
>>424534
homestar runner

No. 424552

Once again depressed over how little video games there are targeted toward women. And I mean actual games here, not visual novels or gacha slop with mind numbingly easy gameplay. It makes me so fucking sad, we can't have shit.

No. 424553

>>424552
And the few games that are targeted at women are safe coffee shop au tier cutesy shit which is lame as hell. We need more dark/action oriented games aimed at us, I’d kill for a male version of doa where it’s hot men in skimpy outfits fighting kek.

No. 424556

>>424553
You dont know how much i have been waiting for a (cute)male cast only fighting game. I love fightans but they are all saturated by troons and coomers. I need something that filters men and attracts a female-only community.

No. 424562

>>424396
>>424402
It's been a long time since I played them, but where there women at all in the Penumbra/Amnesia games? Is it that they're positive to women since there are none to be sexualised in them?
FEAR is also an interesting choice. Wasn't there an infamous scene in which the evil girl shapeshifts into an older form and rapes the MC, from his POV?
Mb if I'm barking up the wrong tree. I'd like to add Pathologic but both games do have NPCs with skimpy steppe outfits.

No. 424563

>>424562
Amnesia's Justine features a based dark triad stacey.

No. 424598

>>424562
Yes, I tend to just rate games as being “not sexist” if there’s no rape or fanservice, not if there’s actually good female characters lol…. Foe me it’s easier if there’s just no women at all (or even better, very few characters and just gameplay) than to have them just relegated to support or romance roles. As I type this out I realize my standards are pretty low, I guess. It’s why I enjoy Kaiji, not because I think it’s good that there’s barely any female characters more that most anime treats them so badly that it’s a nice change of pace.

No. 424603

>>424449
>>424450
Regarding Anya I get that these sort of things are often handled in exploitative fashion. But I wouldn't automatically cry misogyny when you have bad stuff happen to women in stories that are supposed to be dark. Curly gets the most disturbing fate anyway.

No. 424625

>>424552
So true, I don't mind dating/romance angles but you gotta give me that AND more. Basically just action rpg with good respectable fashion and attractive men the way that a lot of rpgs would even with non romanceable characters. I like playing as a woman and best case scenario for me is a 50/50 gender ratio cast imo.

No. 424627

>>424529
Nice satire, fujoschizo(infighting bait)

No. 424703

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>>424603
eh the issue is less that a bad thing happened to her and more whenever a bad thing happens to a woman in media it’s always related to her gender rather than her character. it’s always rape or pregnancy or sex or her appearance.

i don’t think it’s outright misogyny more so laziness. why explore a female character, just stuff her

No. 424706

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>>424603
>>424703
Nayrt but to be fair it's kinda impliedthat Jimmy was also raping Curly whenever he went to give him his medicine. So at least it's not just her.

No. 424707

>>424706
>raping
man what i thought he was just beating his ass

No. 424708

>>424706
I thought that was Joshua Graham and was about to ask who the other guy was.

No. 428274

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It’s official, we are never escaping by the patriarchy and will never have our sexualized moids and will continue to drown in oversexualized female characters. I’d like to thank the dumb cunts who engage and promote this behavior which will continue with the rend of women being viewed as sex objects both in fiction and real life. I fucking hate these pickmes

No. 428277

>>424706
That wasn't implied at all

No. 428294

Already ranted about this in the Dragon Age thread a little bit, but after having watched footage from Veilguard, just, holy shit TIMs hate women and it all shows so clearly when they're given creative control.
>Can't make properly curvy female characters 'cause body morphing must be kept troon accessible
>Buff female character isn't a woman at all, no no, she's nonbinary
>Buff NB character's mom is the evil terf who finally gets killed after repenting her evil terven ways

No. 428311

>>428274
wasn't this well-known already? it's not my personal preference, but 8/10 times I've played/talked games with other women they prefer to play as their vision of highly attractive/sexy female characters, especially if there's customisation options. You don't have to agree with or ascribe to it, but for a lot of women that's part of a power fantasy for them, especially when they're younger/inexperienced and lack self-confidence irl.

No. 428327

>>428274
i hate straight women, genuinely, they ruin shit for the rest of us with their obsession with retarded big boobie self inserting.(bait)

No. 428328

>>428274
what about the female gamers who like playing male characters/sexy men

No. 428329

>>428274
But the issue isn't sexualized women, it's ONLY having sexualized women. It's fine if BOTH male and female characters are sexualize.
Obviously women like to play with the prettier characters.

No. 428333

>>428274
Wasted my time and looked it up and they just made up soul calibur characters and had women pick up the ones they liked.
>The researchers created four distinct types of female characters using SOULCALIBUR VI: each character was customized to represent one of four combinations of sexualization and strength—high sexualization with high strength, high sexualization with low strength, low sexualization with high strength, and low sexualization with low strength.
I can't find any pictures of these characters, so I wonder how they looked. I don't doubt some women like sexualized designs, but the research was conducted in such a lame ass way, I can't take it seriously. They could have at least designed the characters instead of using a lame character creation of a game that is predominately sexualized, therefore the options must be designed for that.

No. 428336

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>>428274
men are such retarded apes for thinking this extremely small study using ONE GAME means anything. none of my female friends like or play as oversexualized ugly male-designed female characters.

No. 428338

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>>428336
not to be an asshole to prove them right but i really love soul calibur and dead or alive and have loved them since i was a little girl. No male influence needed. I liked it mainly for the customization and how pretty the girls were. Also the voice acting and story lines. The outfits even though very sexual were really cute to me. I love Xianghua and Sophitia's for example. Also I got addicted to unlocking things in free mode when I had DOA so I was sadly proud when i got extreme jiggle physics because i didnt have to pay for the game kek.. To be fair though Soul Calibur attracts both the male and female gaze. In both genders when you lose the characters clothes become more and more tattered and they also do deep breathing. I think the same is with Dead or Alive they make both the men and women sweat and breathe hard too the men lose their shirts all the time. Fighting games are extremely over sexualized though but i love them so much. Even though we have super sexed up IVY we also get Voldo who is in literal fetish gear half the time doing kinky scary shit. You guys can beat my ass.

No. 428339

>>428338
…you think this picture is sexy?

No. 428342

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>>428338
sameanon But I never liked the game because I was sexualizing the girls. My favorite character in Soul Calibur was Taki. It had nothing to do with her outfit and everything to do with the fact that I used to pretend she was Sango from Inuyasha because they looked alike to me. I actually hated that you could see every outline of her tits. But i loved her fighting style so I ignored it.
>>428339
HELL NO I was just showing that they dress some of the men up like sluts too. Well only like 1 him and Zack from DOA.

No. 428343

>>428338
Women can like sexualized designs, but the study is trying to prove women love sexualized designs over other options, but the premise is flawed if you're not going to present an equally well-designed equivalent, then you're not proving much. A design isn't just showing skin, it's using colors, shapes, and more. A bad design is bad with or without sexualization.

No. 428345

>>424706
literally where? no such thing is implied, Jimmy hated Curly but not that much, and why would the male devs put in such a scene?

No. 428346

>>428338
it's a study of 250 participants using one game. it's worthless

No. 428347

>>428346
>>428343
oh no that's crazy I thought they were saying just sexy designs I'm a bit slow. I dont care about sexy designs if you are slow in combat. I need fast and nimble fighters and female characters are usually fast as hell while men are bulky. Sorry you guys I just love Soul Calibur and Dead or Alive but not for what that stupid study was implying.

No. 428357

>>428342
I like fighting games too but this makes me kind of sad.

No. 428370

>>428357
it makes me sad too as a fighting game lover. We have to set aside so much cognitive dissonance just to pretend to beat up scrotes.

No. 428383

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>>428274
Here a picture of what was used. The article headline is completely making shit up. The most popular options were the red dress at 23% and the second one with wings on the bottom row at 23.4%.

No. 428398

>>428383
Wow, what a joke of a study. The popular designs aren't even sexual.

No. 428400

>>424706
At no point does this get implied you stupid fatass fujo.(infighting)

No. 428428

>>428277
>>428345
It's not really implied to be sexual. But there are some very odd noises in those 'giving him the pills' scenes.

No. 428451

>>428383
Thank you for finding it, anon. I fucking knew it was bs.

No. 428470

>>428428
it's almost like he's being force fed pills when he has no control over his swallowing reflex anymore

No. 428472

>>428470
and don't forget that his skin is gone too.

No. 428474

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i'm gonna alog

No. 428476

>>428474
anons predicted this

No. 428515

>>428474
Please tell me someone brought up the statistics of husbands leaving their terminally ill spouses compared to wives as a response.

No. 428624

>>428474
>Wife dying and suffering from a terrible terminal disease
>What about the husband? Think about him!
Ofc, moid feelings come first because the evil dying woman said mean words to him, and that broke his poor little soul.

No. 432065

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This is EXACTLY why I fucking hate women in the gaming industry. They're all pickme whores. Women are the one responsible for corny jiggle physics and panties in eastern games because they'd rather suck the dicks of ugly scrotes than ever provide for their own gender. Disgraceful.(take your meds)

No. 432069

>>428383
So women want sexualized bimbos with tit physics because they don't want the clunky Siegfried armor and bland beige star wars outfit. make it make sense.

No. 432073

>>428383
This study doesn't seem to offer "good options" hence the weird statistics and agenda driven drivel. "see, women actually like sexy characters so we're allowed to draw all the goonbait" But why? Women have eyes. They know what's works and what doesn't. Naturally when presented with two options, the "prettier" one wins out thanks to choice scarcity. Women have no other choice but to pick the most sexualized out of the sample because no alternative was given.

No. 432103

>>428274
im 99.9% sure this study accounts TIMs as "women"

No. 432109

>>428274
This is actually so stupid when you think about it. I know normie women can be pretty retarded and naive but what do you expect when the only female characters available ARE the hypersexualized overtly feminine characters?? No matter how much women say we don’t like that shit, they will always cater to their main audience and main consumers which are porn-brained males and if they decide to actually make a female character with her clothes on and her chesticles aren’t flying all over the place people will call the game woke and attack it so video game companies will learn to never do that thing again. It’s such a lose-lose situation and this is about males wanting to exert domination and control over fucking fake dopamine addiction circuses they pay for $40-$60 to keep women out. If we even try to make our own female gaming spaces and did this same shit we would be invaded. I hate this fucking world, it seeks to always take away the last bit of whimsy that a woman can experience

No. 432131

>>428383
STUPID study. The red dress isn't even that bad, it's sexy but mostly covered up and it's the only outfit that looks stylish.

No. 432345

>>428383
Yeah, knew right away it would be a bullshit clickbait article with misinterpretation of the results of a singular small scale study. The turbo pickmes who demand sexualized female designs are a very loud minority in my experience.

>>432065
Living through an era where SH2, one of the greatest video games ever made, gets dragged through the culture wars trenches actually makes me want to kms.

No. 433013

>>428338
>Even though we have super sexed up IVY we also get Voldo who is in literal fetish gear half the time doing kinky scary shit.
Yeah but none of it is meant to titillate, unlike literally all the female characters. It doesn't matter what clothes the males are wearing if they're still depicted in a gross, unappealing way, whereas a female character could be fully covered head to toe and still be drawn, modeled or animated in a way that emphasizes every curve with hypersexualized poses, and is given hentai voice acting. You said it yourself, you liked these games since you were little, that's why you can stand the designs. Of course no moid had to directly groom you into liking those designs, since you basically desensitized yourself to it before you could even tell there was something wrong with it.
Not saying you like these oversexualized designs over normal ones, but this discrepancy between male and female characters is another point of discussion in these threads.

No. 433306

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>streamer mentions how booth babes used to be a thing
God I fucking hate scrotes. These are the same faggots who wonder why women don't like them.

No. 433308

>>432103
I think it mentioned they let troon men join in.
>>428274
They basically forced the women (and troons) to pick between premade characters, but if the study actually wanted to be truly worth anything, they would've let women make their own characters, and judge them on that. Forcing women to pick the obviously strong, yet obviously slutty character isn't proving that women like slutty designs. It just shows that they know strength when they see it.

No. 433310

>>433306
>Gamers do infact treat real women the way they treat video game women
Who could have possibly guessed?



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