Controversial character design changes in game remakes

[shikamaru317]

DroidKnight said:

tsogud said:

Yeah it came off as sexist because it was sexist. The reason those changes happen is bc more people other than straight males play video games now. Video games have become mainstream. And it's gross to know it's largely there bc some guy wanted to see virtual breasts.

If I was a gay woman I would still prefer a voluptuous well-figured character.

If I was a gay man, I would like to think I would prefer a beef-cake character, huge muscles and a huge bulge.

I'm not sure what being a straight man has anything to do with anything.

I'm not really into fugly (it's gross), but I'm not going to judge you.

What really grinds my gears is the fact that many of the same people that complain about characters like these:

are the same people drooling over characters like these:

They claim that these sexy female game characters are unrealistic and drive unrealistic beauty standards that harm women, and yet they are right there drooling over sexy male game characters that the vast majority of male gamers will never be able to look like. But you don't see the male gamers crying over unrealistic standards and asking for the male characters to be made pudgy and balding to better represent the male gender, instead either accept the fact that they aren't going to look like a sexy male game character, or they aspire to look more like those sexy male characters; they hit the gym, pump iron, eat a ton of protein, etc.

I see the same thing happening with superhero movies. When men cry fowl over how female super heroes and their outfits are becoming less sexy over time, the feminists claim they are being sexist. But then those same feminists are drooling when Chris Hemsworth takes his shirt off.

I just can't abide by all the hypocrisy I'm seeing these days.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 07 December 2022