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I was thinking about that after walking away for a bit. I don't _hate_ sexualization of characters. Like, totally. Let's make sexy characters that we all adore

I was thinking about that after walking away for a bit. I don't _hate_ sexualization of characters. Like, totally. Let's make sexy characters that we all adore, but let's not make it a default where female characters _have_ to be sexy. I am all for the ridiculous boob sliders or boob physics or whatever, I think it is just that there is an expectation in video games that a female character has to either be sexy or not exist. If there was a widely accepted place for female characters that are just another character, just a human being existing, just like male characters are, then we could have a space where you have those like hyper-attractive female characters just like games currently have the Adonis-attractive male characters.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Yeah, I agree with that. Tifa had a huge rack, but she was also a fully fleshed out character and not really sexualized outside of being a nebulously romantic interest of Cloud's. Her bust size was reduced in the remake because, and I'm guessing here, they were going for a more realistic look than the superdeformed look of the original and it would have been out of place [0]. The problem is that the backlash was entirely in the form of man-children making this out to be some woke appeasement move because they can't ogle quite as much volume of virtual knockers. And even worse is that, as a culture, we just kind of shake our heads at this and ignore it. [0] Barret is still ripped as fuck, but his proportions are much better. The Rock actually looks like that.
mbrodersen 5y ago
Try and replace attractive men and woman in movies with average people and see how quickly movie sales will drop. Men and woman enjoy watching attractive men/woman doing interesting stuff.