Seriously, the fact they chose the most average looking models and STILL had to tweak their faces to be even more ugly is proof that they are disconnected from reality. lol
I gotta be honest. I'm a woman. If I'm playing a game like GTA V which is 99% male focused, I do NOT care at all. GTA is one of my favorite game franchises ever. Do I care there's no female protags? NO! In fact, I'm not jumping at the idea for Rocksteady to do a female main character AT ALL unless they do it right. Don't do it just for the sake of diversity PLEASE 😂
No one says anything to people in the LGBTQ for drooling over their favorite characters and even shipping them in gay relationships. But God forbidden a heterosexual male wanting to have an attractive woman in his games.
The wrong is the proclaiming audience that shouldn't allowed to see it. But well liberalism has no option in censoring instead they literally cut the content for kids " what they say "that wasn't suppose to see it. Nor girls who people violated. Never consume the contents that not supposed to be yours.
You would be very surprised how far confidence alone can get you. I know that's something people usually preach about to us guys but that 100% goes both ways.
@@adrianxx22 Ignoring the pointless, and quite frankly some of the most cut and past insults I've ever read online, like shit, try a little to hurt my feelings, but let me explain just why your comment is pointless by actually addressing it, despite the fact that you don't have an actual argument, just insults. No one is crying for hot characters, no idea how this is supposed to be an ego boost of any kind so this is entirely irrelevant, but they're simply going to play the games that have hot characters. If you don't support what your audience likes, then you aren't going to have one, so it's basic supply and demand. So before you go off thinking that you said anything of value, you didn't, but I hope whatever you're going through in life that you felt that you needed to come at me like that gets better for you, and I sincerely hope you have a day.
As a female gamer, I want to play games for escapism. That's the whole point. I want to play as someone who is more effortlessly beautiful than I can ever be in real life, or romance the smart, beautiful, strong-willed girl. Which is why botw Link and Zelda are among my favourite characters. Cyberpunk lets me have an attractive but cool, punk appearance that would be expensive irl and lot of effort to maintain. FF14 lets me be a cute catgirl or goth bunnygirl (or guy). I want to be Tifa or Aerith. Cortana was my favourite female character growing up. The fable character doesn't appeal to me at all. She's ugly inside and out, she's not someone I want to be
As a female gamer, I don't fucking care if I'm playing as a cartoon bunny or an 80 year old decrepit old man as long as the gameplay is not annoying and the story is interesting. Funny, different people have different opinions and different things they care about in video games.
As a female gamer SAMEEE, everyone enjoys eye candy, male gamers AND female gamers. I literally wear a bikini on most of my charactwrs, im sure if ppl didnt know im a female gamer they prob think my characters are being operated by some fat white coomer reddit mod with chips on his chest and on his sofa LMAO.
Make them ugly/unattractive is one thing. Another thing is their attitude is basically what pisses me off the most, all of them needed to be "badasses", rude, and act like an asshole. To the point that you even feel these characters are carbon copies of any other source material that did the same thing whether its from movies, comics, or games.
Panam from Cyberpunk is effortlessly badass without ever coming off as rude or like an asshole, its just the shills who cant write a good character even if their life depended on it.
That`s because "woke" people think being an absolute disaster of a human being is empowering, they literally don`t understand the difference between being a total @sshole and being strong and independent, because they have never been that themselves.. The only thing they`re good at is whining and complaining, and destroying what already exists, because they think that makes THEIR character "strong". Ruin Luke Skywalker and insert poorly written character. Ruin Indiana Jones and insert poorly written character. Make the bad guy (Kylo Ren) an insecure little btchboy. Ruin any sign of masculinity to make the feminine look stronger. These people are incapable of creating anything, all they do is destroy, and they`re doing it on purpose. And as far as appearance goes, have you seen these people? They`re all obese and fugly with severe daddy issues, and have zero original thought, as they are basically a hivemind at this point. The only thing they can think about is "the message".
Very good video. Its crazy some devs are so against creating beautiful female characters. The average woman is way better looking than the characters they create.
Exactly, we aren't even asking for Super Models. The average woman is beautiful, they aren't even trying to create the average woman. They are creating monstrosities and then you have NPC's saying "Have you seen a real woman before? Western Developers are being realistic in their design of women." So you mean to tell me women on average look hideous? These people put their own foot in their mouths.
@@MugenLord blackrock gives them ESG money to do this, they take the bribe and put it into their games, and when the game bombs because of this, they either double down on the nonsense or they just take the loss. what they really should do is take the money and make the game people want instead, instead of folding to the bribe money. that would be the ultimate justice in this case lol.
It’s the fact that they purposely take these beautiful actresses and take the time, efforts, and resources to actually uglify them. Have you guys seen how dropdead gorgeous the female actress for MK1’s Tanya is? 🥵 they took a beautiful black female actress an aged her 30 years which is like 200k years in Edenia lol purposely made her more masculine and unattractive on top of her also not looking anything like she used to from gameplay to weapon to aesthetics to background etc. and if you dare critique the way she looks then you are racist even though Tanya has always been black and beautiful and I want her to remain black but also beautiful as she’s always been. Using logic and brain cells to counter argument is too difficult when you can just throw around a “racist, sexist, bigot” to kill the convo 🙄🤦🏽♂️ SMH
If average women are "realistically" ugly, then why are most of my female coworkers are hot or at least attractive? They are so desperate to make women ugly, they actually made the women characters "unrealistically" ugly.
"Male gaze" 😂 I know plenty of men who are attracted to fat women. Wait till the game devs hear about that, what will they do then? Erase female characters out completely? Lmao 😂😂
"the feminist hates men so let's remove men from the game and crank their beauty to the max... Obviously we value the feminist opinion more than the general audience.. wait why are the feminist rioting? We've made them too beautiful?!?! What about the general audience?? The ones that composes the majority of our players? They're complaining about the gameplay?!?! How dare them, they must be actually complaining about our character designs!"
I'm a female gamer and I prefer the women I play as in videogames to be conventionally attractive. I think Korean MMOs have the most attractive models/faces in current gaming.
Agreed! Jumping into a completley different world and being/making an attractive character is what most people do because instead of it being us, we are represented by that character. I love making pretty woman as a woman because I dont feel very pretty so its nice to play a gorgeous character. Its a shame that they take that away from us
I'm female and I also prefer characters I play as in videogames to be attractive. I don't care if they don't "look like me" or whatsoever. To me, videogames are all about escapism and being able to do things that would be impossible in real life, which is why I love playing as characters that are impossibly beautiful or characters that aren't human. Why would I play as a fatass when I could play as a goddess?
Same. I was even a fat girl when growing up and Sonya Blade and Lara Croft inspired me to workout. 💪They were the first heroines in my video games and I just found them awesome enough to get into action myself.
Man. I am not generally somebody who notices "ugly" women in these games, but that Fable character... it's like somebody CGIed the face of a 40 year old sex offender onto the body of a 20-year old crossdresser.
You've ... never played or even seen any of the Fable games outside of this video, have you? Lmao. Every single character looks like an ugly caricature. It's purposefully part of the artstyle. You can't name a single female character from the series that doesn't look ugly, because there are none.
I'm a woman and I totally agree with everything you said, you are very well spoken and present cold hard facts. Also the people who are trying to make every character into ugly slobs are just insecure and jealous. Fit, gorgeous and badass female characters in video games, anime etc. inspire me to be a better person, to be more fit and healthy and to take care of myself. Even though I'm a tomboy at heart and I prefer male characters I still love my femininity and I refuse to embrace the narrative about beauty standards corporations are pushing nowadays.
Hear hear! We're all influenced by art and media, good and bad. With all this woke BS and 'fat is beautiful' rubbish, our standards for self-improvement and health are slipping as a society! I still try to get as ripped as Bimmy or Jimmy from Double Dragon and it's a never-ending struggle (especially when M&Ms are on special...)
@@phattjohnson Remember, sugar is more addictive than cocaine ;) Stopping my unreasonable daily sugar intake made a world of difference. I now feel the sugar crash depression whenever I get a bowl of cereal, for example, while it used to seem normal to me.
Great video. What they've done to Mortal Kombat is such a strong example. Even Kerri Ann Hoskins, the model / actress for Sonya in classic MK games, pointed this out on twitter. 'They softened her up, flattened her chest, and made her a plain face'.
@@SammEateragreed that she’s better looking than RBF Sonya of the last two games but def not Kerri Hoskin MK3 good or even close. Kerri is actually still a smoke show 30 years later absolutely gorgeous. MK1 Sonya looks good though I agree but it’s the body that’s lacking. It’s not criminal to give the lady some breast, a little butt and some female curves. She’s somewhat pretty in the face which is a step up but still has the body of a 14yo boy while other Kameos like Jax looks absolutely fucking INCREDIBLE! Dude is chizzled and ripped and just looks amazing and I love that. How insecure do you have to be to look at a fictional fantasized character in a video game and feel bad about yourself because you’re not as buff or ripped as them? Why would I want to play with dad bod ugly and obese Jax when I can have buff ass Jax kicking ass? I also want the females to look good as do girl gamers. My fiancé was appalled by 50yo masculine female Wakanda bodyguard Tanya who along with Jade as her favs in the MK universe. She wanted jade so bad but no unsure bc she’s afraid they’ll make her unattractive and manly on purpose even though the female actress playing Tanya is actually dropdead gorgeous in real life so they literally took her face and took the time, resources and effort to make her unattractive on purpose so my fiancé can watch me play all these handsome ass male characters while the females all look like male football players or 14yo boy bodies in 14 layers of clothes 😒😑😂 make it make sense
It’s not even for me or “horny incel sexist bigot males” 🙄this makes NOBODY happy! I usually play the male ninjas & cyber ninjas who are all dudes LOL female gamers almost always play the “females” and now the females also look like males 😂 so much for inclusion and diversity SMH lol
@@nerakar6562 Those motherfuckers made Jade and Tanya black. They have always benn tanned. Kitana was never a chinese. She doesn't look anything remotely similar to Sindel. That means they want to imply that Sinel cheated on King Jerrod. The most interesting thing: they "forgot" Cyrax is actual black dude. SJWs are the worst racists.
it's sad that she has been mentioned in 2023, but i remember her despicable prominence 10 years ago that plagued gaming. we have not recovered since then
@@KT-rq9id Yup, 10 years and it's been getting worse and I'm worried because it's creeping in to the east too. Far more effective than any military weapon.
Anita Sarkeensian is the most milquetoast feminist on UA-cam. Nothing she said was more than surface level feminist critique, and yet you people are still frothing at the mouth about her. Beyond parody
@@WhatACalamity57 "Anita Sarkeensian is the most milquetoast feminist on UA-cam" Maybe to a Kotaku gaming journalist. Speaking of, how's Kotaku doing right now? ;)
@@ZeroSmoke. I wouldn't know, Kotaku does low quality journalism. But it's a fact that nothing said on Fem Frequency was groundbreaking feminism. It was the lightest possible feminist critique of media, and was honestly fairly shallow. The fact that people were mad about it then, and are somehow still malding now is pathetic.
Games used to be made out of love. When it started getting popular, business people with no passion, saw it as a cash opportunity and took control. Now that politics have made its way in you got the two worst combinations trying to build a game for people to like. One is focusing on how to squeeze as much money as possible from the fan base and the other is looking to project their insecurities to the world. None are actually trying to make a product that people like.
@@Fenris30Yeah but at least with Bethesda’s creation engine there was NO way to make attractive characters without using external programs so what we see is the best the devs could do I guess. Devs today ain’t got no excuses on why their female characters look busted as hell. 😂
@@Fenris30 Skyrim's women look consistent to the setting/environment and their male counterpart. Most of the Skyrim beautification mods yassify the NPCs a lot making them inconsistent with the environment around them.
If every man is a Bridget and every woman is a Captain Marvel then every white guy likes fried chicken and every black guy likes mayonnaise. Gender stereotypes have been broken for decades with characters like Superman and Wonder Woman. being motherly and compassionate doesn't mean you can't be badass. being manly and heroic doesn't mean you can't show emotion.
I don’t think that helps at all, Japan is well known to be a huge misogynistic culture. I like their games, some of them, but I think Japanese men might be starving all the time, literally, bc their super exaggerate breast, which means by scientific findings, they suffer from hunger, since childhood. Also, it’s quite insulting for Japanese women to depict many of their anime, manga and game characters with unnaturally overgrown breasts, bc Asian women, most of them, have really really really flat breats, serious, sometimes only the nipples are the difference between an adult male breasts and an adult female breasts. How horrible that men very men of your culture, who in interviews all over the net hipocritically say to preffer Japanese women and find Japanese women the most beautiful, then DO NOT ACCEPT THE REAL STANDAR BODIES OF JAPANESE FEMALES, but actually “create” mass consuming charcters that look the OPPOSITE, but not only the opposite, they look vulgar and are in most of the cases UNNATURAL, no women on earth could have that body, unless they do something repulsive to their bodies, like kim kardsian and the likes. This is where men do not realize how much they actually are stuck in BABYHOOD and how much they miss their mom’s breast milk and comfort, soooooooooooooo much that they look someone to have sex with that can re-live those tender moments with their own mother, but the thing is those moments were NOT SEXUAL, now that males are grown up, they should have grown off that, the sad REALITY: THEY HAVE NOT AND WORST; THEY DON’T EVEN REALIZE IT. It’s to vomit.
@singame7704 Sheva IS actually the hottest black character in gaming, so its normal you liked her. it's sad how it all went downhill from there. If capcom remakes RE5, Sheva will be redesigned very badly...
It's so misogynist. They looked at the model for Aloy and said "this woman looks weak and pathetic, she would probably cry if she broke a nail". How can they not see how sexist that is?
0:23 I swear to Allah, the creator of heaven and earth, and what's in-between, what's seen and unseen, that I cussed "wtf" at the same time as the video.
Also really disturbing is how actual women MUST be covered up, not sexualized in any way... Meanwhile, an LGTBQ character should be able to flaunt it! Show it all TO CHILDREN! These people are sick.
And if they're a queer 'actual' woman then what? Should they be covered up like nuns, or can they be sexualised? Also we have maturity ratings so not sure what you're worried about children for.
@SanguinaryBlade You're missing the point. By "showing to children", we're referring to the recent pattern of schools inviting drag queens or someone from the LGBT community to literally spread their ideology like a missionary. It's not hard to imagine kids, being young and impressionable, would try something that they don't know what's good for them. The rating system in media is designed to keep certain types of media away from children for that reason yet some schools don't filter what they're exposing to children because they are so caught up in being politically correct and is transgressing exactly that. This sht is starting to seep into video games and whether they're supposed to or not, kids do get exposed to games outside of these games' intended audience, and these studios know damn well for sure, now that's insidious. And going by these queer women's presumption that they're women too, you don't see the hypocrisy that they're the same group of people to coach women about how they dress despite them claiming their wardrobe freedom?
@@glassbob9871 Woah wait, whats wrong with drag queens putting on kids shows or something? Thats been commonplace in the UK for literal centuries and never been considered an issue until lately. Not to appeal to tradition but... There's never been any more harm to kids there than anywhere else. And yes, kids try things, because thats the point of being a kid and teen, to try and learn who you are, who you want to be, to make mistakes and learn. You're right, culture seeps into video game because it's part of media, that part's to be expected, for better or worse. Sure kids do sometimes get to see things the ratings say they shouldn't but you can't really clamp down on showing things in media because adults haven't been responsible enough or because a kid might see it. We'd end up back in the days of the hays code. And... I'm sorry but I honestly don't understand what you mean with the hypocrisy statement, can you elaborate on that?
As a Filipino seeing the crap happening, it's utterly terrible. Another problem is that same people from the Western Gaming industry are ruining the english translations of Japanese games. Basically making character sound like them. (Localizing into their shitty culture) Then they'll release crappy work worldwide. Why do we in Asia, have to get their crappy Localization when we don't even talk or think like them?
Wait, you get our shitty localization? That sucks, funimation and many other western anime localization studios have been trying to penetrate asia for sometime now. You guys are the last bastion of hope, please do not allow the west to infiltrate you guys.
@@MugenLord Yes we do, when it's about Japanese Games. Anime & Manga wise, we have no problem. Kept getting USA's crappy localization here in the Philippines. Even my Indonesian friends are getting it too. All we wanted was translations that's close to what was said, not some heavily edited localization that a Woke American would say. Japan has a problem of trusting the thirdparty translators, thinking they would do a good job since they're being paid. Which is why we're also complaining about the US localization reaching here in Asia.
@@fuisharu Localizers are nothing more than glorified hackjob TLs. Too much Nepotism in the localization industry. Those localizers know each other and will pull strings to get their friends to be in the same job as them.
@@YukitoOnline As an American I also VERY MUCH hate the bullshit "localizations". I want "translations" not "Localizations". Back in the day if I didn't understand a Japanese reference I would look it up and guess what? I L E A R N E D S O M E T H I N G about another culture! What a crime! Holy shit I need it to stop. However... don't despair friend... there is HOPE! Soon AI will be a much better, cheaper, and faster translator than these garbage "localizers" and they will all loose their jobs, because we can just buy the Japanese game and use an automatic AI translator. .... soon... ... so soon.... (I am saying this as someone who minored in Japanese in college btw, so no I am not bitter or stupid, I am so happy for AI translation!)
This was a very well written and fantastically researched video. This was so informative to where this video itself can be linked to those who have questions or are under the dark over whats been happening to the gaming industry.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo "Limiting consumption" bro its just called nto buying what you dont want. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy the billions of "horse grooming video game"s either but guess what they all have markets.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 You are making a mountain out of the mole hill again. I know you are trying so hard to become a contrarian, but you are failing
This is a well presented and well spoken video that really resonates with me, especially the family example. As someone who was growing up along with the first emergence of these sentimentality, I had most definitely witnessed in first hand how the media was really pushing it to change an evironment, then a group of people, and finally a person. I dont have children yet, but I do have a younger cousin who was very much into the pop culture yet somehow, out of no where, identifying herself as a trans-man in just 4 years from the last time I'd seen her. These effects to convert someone's psyche are very real and potent, and its amazing that you're doing the due diligence of a parent that some parents out there wouldn't care enougu about until its too late; and it really sounds like you're a cool dad and loves being one as well. Once again, great video good sir!
This could also explain why the American Animation industry of Hollywood is collapsing and so much Anime it’s taking over all the streaming services in America. I also noticed that the American video game industry is experiencing massive layoff in the American as American, video games are getting harder and harder to fi In my observation, I’ve noticed more and more American video games are disappearing off the gaming company sites are growing a endless supply of anime girl games and Anime Girl JRPGs that are populating the land of America. GEE, I wonder why . 🤔🤔🤔🙃🙃🙃
Japanese game developers know thst we like beautiful female protagonists and almost always make them as good as the amazing looking face models they are based off from. So why do western game developers go out of their way to make their characters as unappealing as possible? Edit: this does not seem like an issue regarding male protagonists, so why only female ones?
@@unicorntomboy9736 its a design choice... simple as that. its like with "white male brown hair protagonist action game"-syndrome. The fact companies stopped producing these types of things en masse doesnt mean they are jelous.
Everything really does go back to Gamergate. And do you know why "journalists" will never shut up about it? Because that was the first time the paying customer told the people in charge, "No, we're calling you out on your nonsense." And they can't stand it. Don't be hotphobic, people.
When character creation is an option, I always make attractive main protagonist. You spend tons of hours playing them, looking at them or watching them in cutscenes. So I always want to look at somebody who is pretty or handsome.
Internet Aristocrat made me aware of GamerGate back then, and the fact that these developers need to strip down the beauty of the face actresses does a real disservice to these women is telling.
Western devs: "She can't possibly be a warrior; she's too pretty! Why's my wallet feel lighter..." Eastern devs: *casually farting out femme fatales and shitting piles of money* "I'm sorry, what was that, baka gaijin?"
I just want beautiful and attractive feminine women in my games back, I don't want reality I already have way too much of that in this world, I want my fantasies back.
that's sad you think like that because ink eality there are plenty of attractive women its not the end of the world if a woman character in a game is unattractive. get a grip
I'm really looking forward to this. I've been playing video games and followed the culture since the early 1980s, so I've seen it all. You always have a well developed thesis and justifications, so I'm interested in your analysis.
@@Aya_f I commented when it still popped up as "Upcoming". Comments help a video get noticed in the Al Gore rhythm, and I try to promote creators with outstanding content.
There NEEDS to be another western game crash. That way the Eastern devs and game companies that didn't fall victim to the Silicon Valley syndrome can pick up the pieces and fix what has caused this mess to begin with.
With the reception behind BG3, forget it. The game is alright, lot of time and work put into it, sure. The writing is... there. Unfortunately lots of Millennial Marvel writing but whatever. Animations are very rough, like AA indie quality. Again, alright, it's a point and click. But every character is just so ugly, man. Like, needlessly ugly. Yet everyone is praising the ugliness disguising it as beautiful. So, expect more of the same going forward.
How the hell are you an Incel if you have a family of your own? That word no longer have value, that's just them being degraded from humans into animals, and now they're barking in rage because they simply didn't get what they want. Bless you man, keep the good work, because as far as I can see so far, you're doing God's work here.
Thanks, yea I'm always called an incel or a virgin and I just laugh it off because at this point their just saying what an NPC is scripted to say regardless if it makes sense or not.
The part about your daughter really hits home. I have a four year old boy about to start school in the fall, and I fear that as a young, handsome, extroverted, and confident mixed boy in a world where people are extremely politically correct will cause him to be insecure and afraid of expressing his opinions without being ridiculed.
My daughter is mixed and the political correction she receive from her black and white counterparts in school is exhausting. I'm building her confidence as she navigates through it.
I will NEVER. EVER. Forget the 1 Japanese commit someone made, describing the female Fable character, after she was revealed: "The face of a bastard." That lives in my head, rent-free, FOR LIFE!! 🤣😂🤣
I am a female gamer and the only female character i always look up to was rayne from bloodrayne. Other then that my favorite characters were mostly male characters. I really don't care if the female characters are feminine or not.
@redninja3056 It's not really that they are attractive or not it is that we know they are doing it on Purpose. The women most of these models on are cute and beautiful. And then they make the models look ugly.
I have a 3 year old daughter, and though she's still a way off from being a teenager, you pretty much echoed my same concerns that make me afraid of what she could end up going through. Like you said though, I just hope this nonsense stops sooner rather than later.
Yea, hopefully this dies off before your daughter becomes a teen because it's rough out here. I'm helping her navigate through all of this the best way possible.
@@tiflockhart5112 He wants his daughter to understand that she doesn't need to be masculine in order to have worth as a person. Plus you seem to be under the impression that beauty standards are inherently social constructs, when in reality MANY of them are baked-in parts of our biology.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 Oh that makes way more sense! Feminity is powerful just like masculinity, that is a good point to take away. I think my issue is that the female characters from the west displayed are just as attractive to me
Thank you for finally explaining GamerGate in a way I can understand. I swear that I've looked it up multiple times, and I never really understood how sexism was the result.
They purposely made it hard to understand. The media took over the narrative, you had to follow gamers and important players in the gaming community who played a big part in gamergate to get the full picture. The Gaming and Journalist industry had a casting couch culture, trading sex and payoffs for good reviews or access to industry resources. Gamers called it out and they spinned it into a sexism narrative since the main person behind it was a woman. The industry needed to protect the corruption they had going on by deflecting it on us, the gamers.
Lets make male characters for one beautiful. It is time we sexulis males they way women are sexulist and holt thrm to the same extream Standard of beauty becouse male characters are ugly. #beautifulmsles. #sexymales. #makegtamaleslessugly #malecharctersneedtogetsexy #sexymales
female characters always been beautiful since the beginning. I don't know why people are freaking out when unattractive characters are becoming more of a thing
Your bravery in speaking up about these issues is admiring! Your daughter is lucky to have a father who is ahead of the game and looks out for her when it comes societal pressures and expectations. I absolutely love that despite her worrying about you getting backlash, you still went ahead and shared what you wanted to say. You're doing more than just gamers and her proud! Keep doing what you're doing :)
@@smilefenn4813 his point is BS. Attractiveness is a spectrum. There are still plenty of people willing to make all sorts of NSFW art and videos of these characters. Different strokes for different folks, right? Also, devs aren't obligated to make an attractive female character just like they aren't obligated to make an attractive male character. Kratos is ugly but that doesn't seem to stop people from playing God of War. Everyone in Spider Man 2 looks weird but whiny men only focus on MJ's looks for some weird reason.
I watched Melonie Mac’s video yesterday and she showed a clip from this video and said to check it out. It is sad that a majority of big gaming companies in the US basically don’t want attractive or even normal women in their games anymore.
This entire video is based. The accurate recollection of events preceding GG and during, is based. The music is based. I actually believe that western culture can pull through and overcome the cancerous mindset that has slowly been taking over for the past 10 years. Thank you for making this video, and thank you for speaking out. I wish more people would.
Thanks and I do believe a reset is coming, more and more people are being vocal about it. Twitter is where the battlefield is taking place. Since Elon took over, censorship had reduced a bit more and now many people are able to speak on this topic without getting shadowbanned or their accounts terminated.
There is no reset, this is the naturals state of liberalism unveiled, which for centuries have been building slowly since the enlightenment going back to Kant and Hegel. For there to be a reset you must completely erase secular liberalism, which is impossible bacuse its imbedded into modernity.
I probably don't spend much time on noticing this mainly because of lack of games I buy, or be influenced via social media. This was an interesting analysis and gives me another viewpoint on the industry, I think.
This was excellent. You make great points without being preachy. You present the history and information, but leave your viewer with the responsibility of interpreting your arguments into their own opinions so that they actually LEARN something and can create their own values from your explanation. This is the fundamentals of teaching that's been lost in modern education. You come from a place not of hate or anger, but of love and passion for gaming and freedom of thought and expression. You don't preach politics or an agenda, but of common sense and integrity. There's a lot to unpack here. The core problem as I see it is the common thread that unites all of these critics: college. I know when I was working on my degree, I had professors that spouted off about their beliefs and opinions all the time, and no one would want to debate them. Their grades were on the line. Either accept the group think or fail. I had a few verbal sparring matches with them, but even I quickly learned that a win in the arena of ideas often leads to a loss in the arena of academics. I have no plans to send either of my kids to college, and I know it condemns them to a life of blue collar labor like myself, but it's better than them coming home brainwashed and going into an industry that's full of other brainwashed people. If you look back at pictures of Iran and Egypt in the 1970s, the women are in modern clothes, style their hair, and wear makeup. They look like they could be in any magazine of the era. Through the 1980s, you see college graduation classes of women get smaller and more of them wear traditional clothing covering their entire bodies. By the time the 1990s roll around, they're all in traditional clothing. This is where all of this ends. They think they're protecting women through censorship and shaming, but I'm sure some of the most brutal dictatorships in the world think they're doing the same thing. The reality is that it's just another form of control of one human over another. I remember watching a video two years ago of a women's robotics team in Afghanistan participating in competitions. Now they're not even allowed to go to school. That's not the world any of us should want. I look forward to your continued exploration of these topics. The censorship issues in Sony are probably on your agenda for the future. I'm sure you won't be shocked to discover that all the most egregious censorship only started occuring when they moved their gaming headquarters to California. Now a game can't even show cleavage. Worst of all, Sony makes them sign deals that they'll put the censored version on other consoles as well. Damn. What's this world coming to?
hope japanese devs still not taking this ugly way, but sadly squarenix is working with sweet baby and capcom is on war with sexy mods, and they hired drag queens to promote exoprimal.
If I want to look at ugly realistic characters, I go outside. I don't want to constant look at that in the virtual world where ugliness and mundane reality is in abundance.
To be frank, even when I go outside the majority of the people I see aren't ugly. Average people aren't going to turn heads, but they're still leagues more attractive than the troglodytes hobbling around on the screen these days. That's the biggest thing that tells me that this is all deliberate and malicious; they're not even making average looking characters, they're making ugly ones.
@kenjutsukata1o1 depending on where you live, live anywhere super populated you'll see a shit ton of super ugly people. I feel like you're being too generous.
Hello from Japan. Great video. Unfortunately, many Japanese don't understand what's going on in the west. I'm afraid these problems may soon come to Japanese media as well.
Western developers have a phobia for feminine traits in general. It's not only aesthetics of female characters. They're afraid to make any male characters that are even remotely "pretty", which is something Eastern developed games frequently have roster of.
I had no clue you would make a video essay. While I agree that the philosophy that realistic options should be more common in games and it shouldn’t just look like a fashion show, beautiful people of both genders exist irl too! I love really rough looking badass women that fit their background like Sheeva or Sonya from Mortal Kombat, but just specifically making them unattractive is weird. When I watch the video later I will edit this comment with some closing thoughts.
Fantastic video. I love seeing more youtubers cover this recent nonsense in western gaming. The way western devs have become so prudish and afraid of showing attractive women in games, has been one reason why i've been more drawn to Japanese titles. Though we sadly see even some japanese devs like Square Enix pandering to those prudes and pulling back on their own female designs. I don't have an issue with western devs trying to add more diversity and body types, but we are actually getting LESS variety now than before. We've always had options for fat or goofy characters in past games but only recently have we seen beautiful model choices actively removed. I vaguely remember gamergate. I just knew it made the gaming journos lose their minds. They overreacted and started getting even more political in game coverage. It tainted the gaming industry and sadly western devs started making games with dumb sites like Polygon/Kotaku in mind. I hope western games keep losing money like Saints Row reboot did. That might finally send a message that real gamers don't want this forced nonsense from games journos.
The uglification of art and beauty is all part of the marksist comm-y playbook. It’s how they subvert culture. The gaming industry falls under the umbrella of entertainment. Which includes comics, movies, music, tv and fashion, etc. They use entertainment as a potent propganda tool. They invert healthy Norms like beauty and health, or monogamous relationships. It’s why they’re promoting being overweight, and hookup Culture. The hidden enemy is worming it’s tentacles into everything. Now we are seeing them promote unattractiveness in gaming. They’ve been at war with gamers for a long time. Gaming companies in the east like Japan, are not onboard with this agenda which is why the west demonizes them, and weaponized their henchmen in the media to write hitpiece articles. Look up Yuri Besmenov, he describes perfectly how this enemy subverts and weakens society. They destroy art and turn everything upside down on its head. They weaponize entertainment especially music.
@@Cr1ms0nRav3n Ah yes. Video game companies who make money by selling goods are actually Marxs secret weapon. Just shut up and grow up. You sound like a damn natsoc with your ideas of what art is and is not supposed to be. And "at war with gamers"... just that quote alone is on a lot of bingo charts out there.
@@Cr1ms0nRav3nthis is your brain when not a single skincell has touched a speck of chlorophyll in years. As shitty as Cyberpunk was on launch, it was filled with nothing but sexy ass female side characters, and thats a "western game". Freya from both God Of Wars is a complete MILF. A majority of the women in each Mortal Kombat are bad as fuck. The Modern Warfare 2 reboot's, what, TWO main female characters are played by insanely attractive women. Even the Far Cry 6 protag was a bad af latina chick. That's already more examples than the ones people bring up talking about "uglification" of female characters. These were some of the best selling triple-A western made games of the past couple years, no one is psy-op'ing attractive women out of games
Bro i'm female and i can tell you without a doubt I agree with everything you've said, some women do not want to play an unattractive character and the devs/companies pushing this crap on us is honestly horrible because they think THIS garbage is what all women want. I want back my attractive strong women characters who didn't need to knock over other men to prove they're strong. And tbh with the narrative they're pushing right now it feels like they're putting a divide over male and female gamers more than anything. edit : Also yeah, they're making female characters no different from male counterparts these days so in games like baldurs gate 3, romance pretty much feels the same( other than being JUST being aware of your gender). I have no words to describe how much I hate this change, because long gone are narratives which treat you different because you're a female, they're throwing away all that shit apparently so devs can be lazier and make everyone the same regardless of gender.
Anytime someone asks you why characters in media need to be attractive, remind them media is a product that needs to appeal to its core audience in order to be profitable.
Sometimes, it feels like only the female characters need to be attractive and only the straight men get to have eye candy. No one cares about women and their need for eye candy
There is nothing wrong with female characters being depicted as attractive. I don't like this trend of making all art look ugly. However, as someone who was raised to not show off literally everything, that translates into how I play video games. If the game has character customization, I'm going to have my character fully clothed. The amount of skin shown shouldn't dictate how feminine a character is, or how epic a character is though. Female martial artists don't run around in spaghetti strap bikinis when they are going into a fight or a competition. They wear clothes that cover what needs to be covered, and support what needs to be supported. Female soldiers wear the full uniform. A female can be gorgeous, still be fully clothed, and still kick the villains into space. Also I do agree with you that a female doesn't need to be like a guy to be strong, or a strong character. She also doesn't need to be nasty, catty, condescending, or manipulative, to be tough, (unless she's a villain herself).
you pretty much sum up how i feel and this is probably the most balanced take i’ve seen on this subject. putting female characters in practical clothing to match the situations they’re in shouldn’t be seen as censorship. putting jill valentine in jeans instead of the tube top and skirt (which was hideous) isn’t being woke, it just being sensible.
Preach brother, preach. Very good video and very succint in its point. I'm tired of this as well and it's a shame, especially when devs are demonized and eventually bullied into changing their minds, internally or via social media as well, the people at Gunfire games for Strife for example or Ed Boon internally. Hearing about what goes on with kids nowadays, through your daughter, makes me slightly glad I grew up when I did, even when I got bullied; at least I(and many others) could fight back and fend off my demons and my bullies. How can kids and teens push back against social exclusion and ostracizion for "wrongthink" though? That's teriffying for all kids and this will rob of them of their childhood more so than it does now.
10/10 video my guy. thank you so much for makes this. as a almost 40 year old male gamer I find is so hard to argue with people about this issue without being called a bigot or incel. but you have gave me strength to stand by my opinions. thank you sir.
Don't back down, if they call you a racist or an incel just take it on the chin and hold the line. Those words loss all it's meaning, I'm black with Native America Ancestry and was called a White Supremacists lol. You know who you are so it doesn't matter what they call you.
I am happy you brought that up. I thought people don’t bring that up because importance of gameplay overshadows the look. Or we are just afraid of being said we are racist.
In America even though they represent female representation, there female characters have to many characteristics that force male masculinity into their female characters like for instance Abby from the Last of Us 2. She literally had all that muscle in which she failed to kill Joel alone instead set him up with her gang. If you woman with some masculinity traits, make characters that grows to be a bad ass from traumatic events or like being raised by prominent strong cold male figures.
And now Korea and China are making so much money and their single player games like Stellar Blade and Black Myth Wukong have good looking female characters that make western devs angry
Thank U, yur video has been mostly a cure for my frustration for what happened with Skull-Girls recently these couple of months (I was really planning on finally getting it before the 'changes' were announced). The two content creators you mentioned are those I've subscribed to because of their relatable passion, its sad to see them treated with disdain at times for telling it like it is.
Thank you man for pointing this out ,I completely agree with you, I even wished something or someone would talk about it or mayhap change the situation, im so glad you are talking about this keep up bro !
Never seen this channel before. Great video, my girlfriend and I enjoyed watching it and agree with the topic. I find the ugly models asinine, especially when they're literally taken from a good looking real life person and then made ugly. I refused to buy Wanted Dead because the main character was so ugly
Brilliant! Everyone needs to help this video to go viral. I don't even agree with some of what you are stating in this video but that is a good thing! Trolls aside, debate is healthy.
Bro, really good thought out video. I've literally thought that all the effort developers put in to making themselves not seem sexist they end up coming across more sexist by making wemon characters more ugly and men characters more handsome and hero-like.
Thanks! Yeah, you really have to look at developers interviews when they talk about the depiction of women. They are pretending to standup for women but their response are sexist.
Damn I'm conflicted 😂 I agree with everything that you said pretty much but at the same time I think it's ridiculous how many people were genuinely angry by the female druid in diable 4 💀...idk I guess it's a bit different because there ARE "pretty" characters you can play as if you want to, and I personally have no issue with playing characters that are "more masculine." In fact one of my favorite skyrim builds was an Orc barbarian and she was really cool (and I thought she was pretty). Maybe the best option for games like that is just to add a body slider..? With so much customization already I'm surprised it's not an option already
Didn't Sarkeesian crowdfund further episodes of her horrible internet show? Whatever happened to that? And didn't Zoe Quinn use her crowdfunded game money to go on a vacation and never delivered a game? Those people are grifters.
@@MugenLord also went to the United Nations to cry about bullying when I saw that I was like "Who let these 304's in the UN?" Last I heard of Anita she don't wanna do that crap anymore, looks like the grim reaper is sewing her a nice sweater.
Dude! I'm only halfway through this video and I am amazed at how easily understandable your explanation of Gamer Gate and all the related events are. Bravo, brah! I subscribed, man. Are all your videos this good?
This is my first Video Essay on issues like this, there will be more like this in the future. I don't know how consistent since these videos can take weeks to make. I am a gaming channel, I cover gaming news, I review games, do unboxing of gaming products and merchandise etc.
western media: Cover up your characters. Your old outfit shows too much Eastern media (Capcom): okay, but check this out (Releases Cammy's original outfit and money flows into the studio)
What I love about your videos is that not only do you give the well deserved criticism to the entire "wokeism" movement and its influential figures and proposers that have plagued the industry for the last decade and point out their hypocrisy and ridiculousness, that but also unlike all other similar content creators that I've seen so far, you absolutely explicitly *expose* the entire context as to why and how this entire ordeal even came to be in the first place. You search deep into recent history to uncover the political machinations that gave rise to these modern trends and show there is active political motivations for game devs, filmmakers and the likes to do this and why are most companies give in to the pressure of these movements! So it becomes harder and harder to dismiss them as simply "conspirancy theories". Great work! Keep up with this! I've subscribed just for this reason! You're really unique amongst other creators of the same alignment as yours!
Wow I really appreciate the feedback, this means a lot. I try my best to research and may not get it right all the time but I try to cover as many angles as possible to shutup the detractors and hopefully they can see where we are coming from.
Really good video, exactly on point. I have been playing video games over 30 years and I'm so happy I could enjoy gaming in 90s and 2000s. I think most of the games from that era could not be made today. People want to escape reality while playing games not find it represented there.....
Most games are still like that. Just like any art form political commentary exists. But enough dumb fun games are also out there. Stop being blind to these things in your conviction that its all bad.
@@ifirespondiamstupid7750 Voting with your wallet does not work. Everyone knows Nestle is one of the most despicable companies out there but they are still up and running. Also I don't get what you are trying to say with your comment. I never said you'd have to buy something you don't like. Reading comprehension isn't a necessity on the internet but it does help.
15:50 you hit the nail on the head here, the purpose of women empowerment was meant to embrace the feminine in her, but what they are doing right now is the opposite, they are celebrating the masculine part of women way more than her feminine side.
You absolutely nailed it. Just played through MK9 last weekend again, and huge difference between the representation between that and MK11, even though I still really like MK11. A little worried about the new Mortal Kombat now. Honestly, I'd even be fine with the sexier female looks being sold as DLC or microtransactions. Despite the criticism towards that type of thing, I could live with that.
I agree with you. I like seeing games with attractive characters I won't buy a game if the characters arent visually appealing and im a girl. So yup not just men. I think we shouldn't buy games with ugly characters, hit them in their pockets and they will start to notice.
These activists pretend women like you don't exist in order to push their agenda. You ladies are a threat to the agenda because it destroys their argument, so they pretend you ladies don't exist and the media has convinced the public that same case.
As a trans woman, if a game gave me the option to play as a woman I would immediately pick that player model LOL. If a game had a female protagonist I'd be more drawn to it. The variety of playable female characters back then was there, and it's so bizarre how gaming journalists and Western developers act as if there's a lack of representation. Plus, escapism! Back then I'd play and revel in features and traits I didn't have growing up through the playable character.
The amount of incel energy this video gives just from the title
This guy stink
Boooo
boooooooo
The amount of vagina bleeding energy this comment gives off. I'm so sincerely sorry somebody called a fictional woman ugly.
booooo
1983: Wonder Woman
2023: Wonder if It's a Woman
LOL!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Congratulations. Now my lungs are in a worse state than a nicotine addicted man.
2024: dragon edge veil guard and any women playable character created by players 🤮
Western devs complain about "unrealistic beauty standards" then make their characters unrealistically ugly
@baddragonite
Is that technically a double standard?
@@DemonicRemptionyes, yes it is.
Seriously, the fact they chose the most average looking models and STILL had to tweak their faces to be even more ugly is proof that they are disconnected from reality. lol
😭😂😩💀
If you saw my Sister you'd know that was realistically ugly.
That shit is hilarious. They went so pro woman and inclusive they basically wrote femininity out of the games
I gotta be honest. I'm a woman. If I'm playing a game like GTA V which is 99% male focused, I do NOT care at all. GTA is one of my favorite game franchises ever. Do I care there's no female protags? NO!
In fact, I'm not jumping at the idea for Rocksteady to do a female main character AT ALL unless they do it right. Don't do it just for the sake of diversity PLEASE 😂
They do have femininity in western games. Just not for female characters. Rather for male ones.
I never understood why they call us incels for liking attractive women? Women are allowed to like attractive men, why can't we have that same right?
No one says anything to people in the LGBTQ for drooling over their favorite characters and even shipping them in gay relationships. But God forbidden a heterosexual male wanting to have an attractive woman in his games.
Women are far more insecure than men are.
@@vesselofamala2651who has ever said that sentence? Or anything close to it
@@vesselofamala2651 I use incel as an insult I've never or met anyone who has ever said that
Indeed
There's nothing wrong with making fictional characters feminine/attractive.
Amen!
The wrong is the proclaiming audience that shouldn't allowed to see it. But well liberalism has no option in censoring instead they literally cut the content for kids " what they say "that wasn't suppose to see it. Nor girls who people violated. Never consume the contents that not supposed to be yours.
But if you don't...well that's a crime against humanity 😂
They shouldn't be forced to be beautiful too.
But Is wrong to make them average?
Please Please Please Japanese/Korean/Chinese/Asian developers! Do not ever surrender to the West mentality!
Korean and Chinese are not. But japan man i'm worried Square and capcom and sega are bending the knee.
@@mohammadhussien5223 I bet Japan will not to be like western. Idk man, but I feel Japan still not want add western agenda. Just hope they not do it.
@@mavezplay You're late to the party Bandai Namco jumped on the bandwagon. Not sure about the accuracy but Namco wants to make Japan "diverse"
@@mohammadhussien5223 Square Enix created and formed my childhood with final fantasy. If they surrender to western ideologies, we are truly lost.
@@mohammadhussien5223 square enix and capcom have already bend the knee it's only sega left now.
i'm already ugly in real life, i don't want the character i play in game to be ugly too
u r not ugly
Facts literally how i feel as a woman, i dont need to be ugly in my games too 😂 let me have my fantasy of being a hot lady
i am ugly . i just wanna play a beautiful character in game. fucking p.c. ruins everything.e @@ronxdxd974
You would be very surprised how far confidence alone can get you. I know that's something people usually preach about to us guys but that 100% goes both ways.
Me too!!!
If I wanted to be an ugly character, I'd go outside and touch grass.
LOL!
Sometimes I see myself, and think that I am uglier than an ogre, and then I ask it to people (not my grandma) and they say that I am attractive, idk
boosting your ego by crying for hot characters isn’t much better 😂 maybe you should go touch the grass 😅
@@adrianxx22 Ignoring the pointless, and quite frankly some of the most cut and past insults I've ever read online, like shit, try a little to hurt my feelings, but let me explain just why your comment is pointless by actually addressing it, despite the fact that you don't have an actual argument, just insults.
No one is crying for hot characters, no idea how this is supposed to be an ego boost of any kind so this is entirely irrelevant, but they're simply going to play the games that have hot characters. If you don't support what your audience likes, then you aren't going to have one, so it's basic supply and demand.
So before you go off thinking that you said anything of value, you didn't, but I hope whatever you're going through in life that you felt that you needed to come at me like that gets better for you, and I sincerely hope you have a day.
@@adrianxx22 Did you really wake up and decided to spit out one of the most false, cliche, and stale insult of all time?
As a female gamer, I want to play games for escapism. That's the whole point. I want to play as someone who is more effortlessly beautiful than I can ever be in real life, or romance the smart, beautiful, strong-willed girl. Which is why botw Link and Zelda are among my favourite characters. Cyberpunk lets me have an attractive but cool, punk appearance that would be expensive irl and lot of effort to maintain. FF14 lets me be a cute catgirl or goth bunnygirl (or guy). I want to be Tifa or Aerith. Cortana was my favourite female character growing up. The fable character doesn't appeal to me at all. She's ugly inside and out, she's not someone I want to be
Why cant some of these guys understand, I bet they don't want to play as ugly bastards either... yet they shove these ugly women on female gamers?
As a female gamer, I don't fucking care if I'm playing as a cartoon bunny or an 80 year old decrepit old man as long as the gameplay is not annoying and the story is interesting. Funny, different people have different opinions and different things they care about in video games.
Exactly, I've met female gamers who want the female character with the best Ass
@@kenisedWell then more power to you, I guess. I agree with OP because I enjoy the same things she has written in her comment.
As a female gamer SAMEEE, everyone enjoys eye candy, male gamers AND female gamers. I literally wear a bikini on most of my charactwrs, im sure if ppl didnt know im a female gamer they prob think my characters are being operated by some fat white coomer reddit mod with chips on his chest and on his sofa LMAO.
Make them ugly/unattractive is one thing. Another thing is their attitude is basically what pisses me off the most, all of them needed to be "badasses", rude, and act like an asshole.
To the point that you even feel these characters are carbon copies of any other source material that did the same thing whether its from movies, comics, or games.
Yea, they make them insufferable and its not like its only one of them, its the entire female cast they do it too.
It's the girlbossification of female characters > to be strong = being assholes.
and butch/side shave hairstyle which I can't stand
Panam from Cyberpunk is effortlessly badass without ever coming off as rude or like an asshole, its just the shills who cant write a good character even if their life depended on it.
That`s because "woke" people think being an absolute disaster of a human being is empowering, they literally don`t understand the difference between being a total @sshole and being strong and independent, because they have never been that themselves..
The only thing they`re good at is whining and complaining, and destroying what already exists, because they think that makes THEIR character "strong".
Ruin Luke Skywalker and insert poorly written character.
Ruin Indiana Jones and insert poorly written character.
Make the bad guy (Kylo Ren) an insecure little btchboy.
Ruin any sign of masculinity to make the feminine look stronger.
These people are incapable of creating anything, all they do is destroy, and they`re doing it on purpose.
And as far as appearance goes, have you seen these people?
They`re all obese and fugly with severe daddy issues, and have zero original thought, as they are basically a hivemind at this point.
The only thing they can think about is "the message".
Very good video. Its crazy some devs are so against creating beautiful female characters. The average woman is way better looking than the characters they create.
Exactly, we aren't even asking for Super Models. The average woman is beautiful, they aren't even trying to create the average woman. They are creating monstrosities and then you have NPC's saying "Have you seen a real woman before? Western Developers are being realistic in their design of women." So you mean to tell me women on average look hideous? These people put their own foot in their mouths.
@@MugenLord
blackrock gives them ESG money to do this, they take the bribe and put it into their games, and when the game bombs because of this, they either double down on the nonsense or they just take the loss.
what they really should do is take the money and make the game people want instead, instead of folding to the bribe money.
that would be the ultimate justice in this case lol.
Imagine a world that figure out how to make pumpkins the size of house,yet don't have skincare product
It’s the fact that they purposely take these beautiful actresses and take the time, efforts, and resources to actually uglify them. Have you guys seen how dropdead gorgeous the female actress for MK1’s Tanya is? 🥵 they took a beautiful black female actress an aged her 30 years which is like 200k years in Edenia lol purposely made her more masculine and unattractive on top of her also not looking anything like she used to from gameplay to weapon to aesthetics to background etc. and if you dare critique the way she looks then you are racist even though Tanya has always been black and beautiful and I want her to remain black but also beautiful as she’s always been. Using logic and brain cells to counter argument is too difficult when you can just throw around a “racist, sexist, bigot” to kill the convo 🙄🤦🏽♂️ SMH
If average women are "realistically" ugly, then why are most of my female coworkers are hot or at least attractive? They are so desperate to make women ugly, they actually made the women characters "unrealistically" ugly.
"Male gaze" 😂 I know plenty of men who are attracted to fat women. Wait till the game devs hear about that, what will they do then? Erase female characters out completely? Lmao 😂😂
And what about ''Female Gaze''?
Because female gamers also like attractive characters (male or female)
Have the ''woke'' forgot that detail?
"the feminist hates men so let's remove men from the game and crank their beauty to the max... Obviously we value the feminist opinion more than the general audience.. wait why are the feminist rioting? We've made them too beautiful?!?! What about the general audience?? The ones that composes the majority of our players? They're complaining about the gameplay?!?! How dare them, they must be actually complaining about our character designs!"
male gaze is just an stupid femcel theory
@@tatianaoliveira2191Especially the fujoshi coomers
I'm a female gamer and I prefer the women I play as in videogames to be conventionally attractive. I think Korean MMOs have the most attractive models/faces in current gaming.
Same, I'm a feminine looking woman and I don't feel represented by these uglies in woke games. In fact I feel insulted.
Agreed! Jumping into a completley different world and being/making an attractive character is what most people do because instead of it being us, we are represented by that character. I love making pretty woman as a woman because I dont feel very pretty so its nice to play a gorgeous character. Its a shame that they take that away from us
I'm female and I also prefer characters I play as in videogames to be attractive. I don't care if they don't "look like me" or whatsoever. To me, videogames are all about escapism and being able to do things that would be impossible in real life, which is why I love playing as characters that are impossibly beautiful or characters that aren't human. Why would I play as a fatass when I could play as a goddess?
Same. I was even a fat girl when growing up and Sonya Blade and Lara Croft inspired me to workout. 💪They were the first heroines in my video games and I just found them awesome enough to get into action myself.
@@ncs9753 You should feel insulted. They are trying to scrub, and erase feminine women representation like you away from popular media.
Man. I am not generally somebody who notices "ugly" women in these games, but that Fable character... it's like somebody CGIed the face of a 40 year old sex offender onto the body of a 20-year old crossdresser.
You've ... never played or even seen any of the Fable games outside of this video, have you? Lmao.
Every single character looks like an ugly caricature. It's purposefully part of the artstyle. You can't name a single female character from the series that doesn't look ugly, because there are none.
Lol 🤣
"40 year old sex offender onto the body of a 20-year old crossdresser." you are the King!
381
Reply
🤣🤣🤣 damn
I'm a woman and I totally agree with everything you said, you are very well spoken and present cold hard facts.
Also the people who are trying to make every character into ugly slobs are just insecure and jealous. Fit, gorgeous and badass female characters in video games, anime etc. inspire me to be a better person, to be more fit and healthy and to take care of myself.
Even though I'm a tomboy at heart and I prefer male characters I still love my femininity and I refuse to embrace the narrative about beauty standards corporations are pushing nowadays.
I only wanna play video games where I get to be the cute and adorable female.
Not to mention their #MaleGaze excuse erases lesbiens ;)
@@Julieber1Same
Hear hear! We're all influenced by art and media, good and bad. With all this woke BS and 'fat is beautiful' rubbish, our standards for self-improvement and health are slipping as a society! I still try to get as ripped as Bimmy or Jimmy from Double Dragon and it's a never-ending struggle (especially when M&Ms are on special...)
@@phattjohnson Remember, sugar is more addictive than cocaine ;)
Stopping my unreasonable daily sugar intake made a world of difference.
I now feel the sugar crash depression whenever I get a bowl of cereal, for example, while it used to seem normal to me.
Great video. What they've done to Mortal Kombat is such a strong example. Even Kerri Ann Hoskins, the model / actress for Sonya in classic MK games, pointed this out on twitter. 'They softened her up, flattened her chest, and made her a plain face'.
Wow, I didn't know that. Wish I found that juicy bit of info for this video.
Funny enough, even now the original Sonya is hotter than anything they've designed for her current version.
@@SammEateragreed that she’s better looking than RBF Sonya of the last two games but def not Kerri Hoskin MK3 good or even close. Kerri is actually still a smoke show 30 years later absolutely gorgeous. MK1 Sonya looks good though I agree but it’s the body that’s lacking. It’s not criminal to give the lady some breast, a little butt and some female curves. She’s somewhat pretty in the face which is a step up but still has the body of a 14yo boy while other Kameos like Jax looks absolutely fucking INCREDIBLE! Dude is chizzled and ripped and just looks amazing and I love that. How insecure do you have to be to look at a fictional fantasized character in a video game and feel bad about yourself because you’re not as buff or ripped as them? Why would I want to play with dad bod ugly and obese Jax when I can have buff ass Jax kicking ass? I also want the females to look good as do girl gamers. My fiancé was appalled by 50yo masculine female Wakanda bodyguard Tanya who along with Jade as her favs in the MK universe. She wanted jade so bad but no unsure bc she’s afraid they’ll make her unattractive and manly on purpose even though the female actress playing Tanya is actually dropdead gorgeous in real life so they literally took her face and took the time, resources and effort to make her unattractive on purpose so my fiancé can watch me play all these handsome ass male characters while the females all look like male football players or 14yo boy bodies in 14 layers of clothes 😒😑😂 make it make sense
It’s not even for me or “horny incel sexist bigot males” 🙄this makes NOBODY happy! I usually play the male ninjas & cyber ninjas who are all dudes LOL female gamers almost always play the “females” and now the females also look like males 😂 so much for inclusion and diversity SMH lol
@@nerakar6562 Those motherfuckers made Jade and Tanya black. They have always benn tanned. Kitana was never a chinese. She doesn't look anything remotely similar to Sindel. That means they want to imply that Sinel cheated on King Jerrod. The most interesting thing: they "forgot" Cyrax is actual black dude. SJWs are the worst racists.
Words cannot express how much I despise Anita Sarkeesian and her biased nature against gaming
it's sad that she has been mentioned in 2023, but i remember her despicable prominence 10 years ago that plagued gaming. we have not recovered since then
@@KT-rq9id Yup, 10 years and it's been getting worse and I'm worried because it's creeping in to the east too. Far more effective than any military weapon.
Anita Sarkeensian is the most milquetoast feminist on UA-cam. Nothing she said was more than surface level feminist critique, and yet you people are still frothing at the mouth about her.
Beyond parody
@@WhatACalamity57 "Anita Sarkeensian is the most milquetoast feminist on UA-cam" Maybe to a Kotaku gaming journalist. Speaking of, how's Kotaku doing right now? ;)
@@ZeroSmoke. I wouldn't know, Kotaku does low quality journalism.
But it's a fact that nothing said on Fem Frequency was groundbreaking feminism. It was the lightest possible feminist critique of media, and was honestly fairly shallow.
The fact that people were mad about it then, and are somehow still malding now is pathetic.
It’s almost like we’re seeing extremely insecure people getting into these game studios and getting upset when people don’t bend to their delusions
Games used to be made out of love. When it started getting popular, business people with no passion, saw it as a cash opportunity and took control. Now that politics have made its way in you got the two worst combinations trying to build a game for people to like. One is focusing on how to squeeze as much money as possible from the fan base and the other is looking to project their insecurities to the world. None are actually trying to make a product that people like.
Skyrim's woman are so goddamned ugly I can't play it without mods. This game is old as dirt.
@@Fenris30Yeah but at least with Bethesda’s creation engine there was NO way to make attractive characters without using external programs so what we see is the best the devs could do I guess. Devs today ain’t got no excuses on why their female characters look busted as hell. 😂
Why does it bother yall so much having to interact with women that do nothing for your wang?
Nvm my brother explained to me my bad guys
@@Fenris30 Skyrim's women look consistent to the setting/environment and their male counterpart. Most of the Skyrim beautification mods yassify the NPCs a lot making them inconsistent with the environment around them.
The irony is that, in trying so hard to break gender stereotypes, they are reinforcing the same gender stereotypes.
If every man is a Bridget and every woman is a Captain Marvel
then every white guy likes fried chicken and every black guy likes mayonnaise.
Gender stereotypes have been broken for decades with characters like Superman and Wonder Woman.
being motherly and compassionate doesn't mean you can't be badass.
being manly and heroic doesn't mean you can't show emotion.
@@fearlessleader889based
@@fearlessleader889 EXACTLY! SPIT YOUR SHIT, BROTHER!
@@fearlessleader889 but there are still stereotypes enforced within them two characters
how the developer think that consumer would pay big bucks to play such a ugly mc is beyond me.
"I refuse to VA that game without beautiful gals and jiggly boobies."
Probably that one legendary Japan VA and man of culture, Tomokazu Sugita.
Sugibro is the goat
@singame7704Nothing wrong with that man. Don't let nobody else tell you otherwise
I don’t think that helps at all, Japan is well known to be a huge misogynistic culture. I like their games, some of them, but I think Japanese men might be starving all the time, literally, bc their super exaggerate breast, which means by scientific findings, they suffer from hunger, since childhood. Also, it’s quite insulting for Japanese women to depict many of their anime, manga and game characters with unnaturally overgrown breasts, bc Asian women, most of them, have really really really flat breats, serious, sometimes only the nipples are the difference between an adult male breasts and an adult female breasts. How horrible that men very men of your culture, who in interviews all over the net hipocritically say to preffer Japanese women and find Japanese women the most beautiful, then DO NOT ACCEPT THE REAL STANDAR BODIES OF JAPANESE FEMALES, but actually “create” mass consuming charcters that look the OPPOSITE, but not only the opposite, they look vulgar and are in most of the cases UNNATURAL, no women on earth could have that body, unless they do something repulsive to their bodies, like kim kardsian and the likes. This is where men do not realize how much they actually are stuck in BABYHOOD and how much they miss their mom’s breast milk and comfort, soooooooooooooo much that they look someone to have sex with that can re-live those tender moments with their own mother, but the thing is those moments were NOT SEXUAL, now that males are grown up, they should have grown off that, the sad REALITY: THEY HAVE NOT AND WORST; THEY DON’T EVEN REALIZE IT. It’s to vomit.
@singame7704 Sheva IS actually the hottest black character in gaming, so its normal you liked her.
it's sad how it all went downhill from there. If capcom remakes RE5, Sheva will be redesigned very badly...
I can't find this quote anywhere. So I'm guessing you lied.
It's so misogynist. They looked at the model for Aloy and said "this woman looks weak and pathetic, she would probably cry if she broke a nail". How can they not see how sexist that is?
They don't see how sexist it is because they're still screaming at men.
0:23 I swear to Allah, the creator of heaven and earth, and what's in-between, what's seen and unseen, that I cussed "wtf" at the same time as the video.
😂
We all did bro
😂😂😂 go pray 4 rakaas, and try to forget that image.
Also really disturbing is how actual women MUST be covered up, not sexualized in any way...
Meanwhile, an LGTBQ character should be able to flaunt it! Show it all TO CHILDREN! These people are sick.
And if they're a queer 'actual' woman then what? Should they be covered up like nuns, or can they be sexualised? Also we have maturity ratings so not sure what you're worried about children for.
@SanguinaryBlade You're missing the point. By "showing to children", we're referring to the recent pattern of schools inviting drag queens or someone from the LGBT community to literally spread their ideology like a missionary. It's not hard to imagine kids, being young and impressionable, would try something that they don't know what's good for them. The rating system in media is designed to keep certain types of media away from children for that reason yet some schools don't filter what they're exposing to children because they are so caught up in being politically correct and is transgressing exactly that. This sht is starting to seep into video games and whether they're supposed to or not, kids do get exposed to games outside of these games' intended audience, and these studios know damn well for sure, now that's insidious. And going by these queer women's presumption that they're women too, you don't see the hypocrisy that they're the same group of people to coach women about how they dress despite them claiming their wardrobe freedom?
@@glassbob9871 Woah wait, whats wrong with drag queens putting on kids shows or something? Thats been commonplace in the UK for literal centuries and never been considered an issue until lately. Not to appeal to tradition but... There's never been any more harm to kids there than anywhere else.
And yes, kids try things, because thats the point of being a kid and teen, to try and learn who you are, who you want to be, to make mistakes and learn.
You're right, culture seeps into video game because it's part of media, that part's to be expected, for better or worse. Sure kids do sometimes get to see things the ratings say they shouldn't but you can't really clamp down on showing things in media because adults haven't been responsible enough or because a kid might see it. We'd end up back in the days of the hays code.
And... I'm sorry but I honestly don't understand what you mean with the hypocrisy statement, can you elaborate on that?
Lgbt character? What lgbt character are you talking about. You sound ridiculous stop trying to equate lgbt to pedophiles
@@SanguinaryBladeok groomer
As a Filipino seeing the crap happening, it's utterly terrible.
Another problem is that same people from the Western Gaming industry are ruining the english translations of Japanese games.
Basically making character sound like them. (Localizing into their shitty culture)
Then they'll release crappy work worldwide.
Why do we in Asia, have to get their crappy Localization when we don't even talk or think like them?
Wait, you get our shitty localization? That sucks, funimation and many other western anime localization studios have been trying to penetrate asia for sometime now. You guys are the last bastion of hope, please do not allow the west to infiltrate you guys.
@@MugenLord
Yes we do, when it's about Japanese Games.
Anime & Manga wise, we have no problem.
Kept getting USA's crappy localization here in the Philippines.
Even my Indonesian friends are getting it too.
All we wanted was translations that's close to what was said, not some heavily edited localization that a Woke American would say.
Japan has a problem of trusting the thirdparty translators, thinking they would do a good job since they're being paid.
Which is why we're also complaining about the US localization reaching here in Asia.
@@YukitoOnlineironically the fansubs could do far better job than these weirdos did the localization
@@fuisharu
Localizers are nothing more than glorified hackjob TLs.
Too much Nepotism in the localization industry.
Those localizers know each other and will pull strings to get their friends to be in the same job as them.
@@YukitoOnline As an American I also VERY MUCH hate the bullshit "localizations". I want "translations" not "Localizations". Back in the day if I didn't understand a Japanese reference I would look it up and guess what? I L E A R N E D S O M E T H I N G about another culture! What a crime! Holy shit I need it to stop.
However... don't despair friend... there is HOPE!
Soon AI will be a much better, cheaper, and faster translator than these garbage "localizers" and they will all loose their jobs, because we can just buy the Japanese game and use an automatic AI translator. .... soon... ... so soon.... (I am saying this as someone who minored in Japanese in college btw, so no I am not bitter or stupid, I am so happy for AI translation!)
Sexiness attractive women in games sell plain and simple. We need to get those back!
This was a very well written and fantastically researched video. This was so informative to where this video itself can be linked to those who have questions or are under the dark over whats been happening to the gaming industry.
Another thing that is part of this insanity is the censorship of characters/content.
Yeah censorship is easy to push under the guise of equality and representation.
Too many self-loathing narcissists have infiltrated the gaming sector. Now they're power tripping.
All we can do is vote with our wallets and hope for reason to win through
Yup. Limiting consumption is a must.
It's the esg loans fucking things. They are zero interest if you play by there loans.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo "Limiting consumption" bro its just called nto buying what you dont want.
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy the billions of "horse grooming video game"s either but guess what they all have markets.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 You are making a mountain out of the mole hill again. I know you are trying so hard to become a contrarian, but you are failing
@@ifirespondiamstupid7750that's the same guy trying to defend the devs in other comments
This is a well presented and well spoken video that really resonates with me, especially the family example. As someone who was growing up along with the first emergence of these sentimentality, I had most definitely witnessed in first hand how the media was really pushing it to change an evironment, then a group of people, and finally a person. I dont have children yet, but I do have a younger cousin who was very much into the pop culture yet somehow, out of no where, identifying herself as a trans-man in just 4 years from the last time I'd seen her. These effects to convert someone's psyche are very real and potent, and its amazing that you're doing the due diligence of a parent that some parents out there wouldn't care enougu about until its too late; and it really sounds like you're a cool dad and loves being one as well. Once again, great video good sir!
Sounds more like the parents fault then culture
@@redninja3056It's more the culture than the parents. Weak parents produced a weak child who's susceptible to the brainwashing.
Thanks for spreading the word man. Why manga is killing comics.
This could also explain why the American Animation industry of Hollywood is collapsing and so much Anime it’s taking over all the streaming services in America.
I also noticed that the American video game industry is experiencing massive layoff in the American as American, video games are getting harder and harder to fi
In my observation, I’ve noticed more and more American video games are disappearing off the gaming company sites are growing a endless supply of anime girl games and Anime Girl JRPGs that are populating the land of America.
GEE,
I wonder why .
🤔🤔🤔🙃🙃🙃
Japanese game developers know thst we like beautiful female protagonists and almost always make them as good as the amazing looking face models they are based off from. So why do western game developers go out of their way to make their characters as unappealing as possible?
Edit: this does not seem like an issue regarding male protagonists, so why only female ones?
One reason Jealousy among others.
@@thecompareablezombie Jealous over video game characters? You cannot be serious
It's about the destruction of western culture and norms. Communism 101.
@@unicorntomboy9736 its a design choice... simple as that.
its like with "white male brown hair protagonist action game"-syndrome. The fact companies stopped producing these types of things en masse doesnt mean they are jelous.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Surely it's not just a coincidence
Everything really does go back to Gamergate.
And do you know why "journalists" will never shut up about it? Because that was the first time the paying customer told the people in charge, "No, we're calling you out on your nonsense." And they can't stand it.
Don't be hotphobic, people.
They have been highly opposed to any criticism ever since, well only when people are critical of them.
When character creation is an option, I always make attractive main protagonist. You spend tons of hours playing them, looking at them or watching them in cutscenes. So I always want to look at somebody who is pretty or handsome.
Internet Aristocrat made me aware of GamerGate back then, and the fact that these developers need to strip down the beauty of the face actresses does a real disservice to these women is telling.
If I was them, I'd sue the developer.
Western devs: "She can't possibly be a warrior; she's too pretty! Why's my wallet feel lighter..."
Eastern devs: *casually farting out femme fatales and shitting piles of money* "I'm sorry, what was that, baka gaijin?"
@@redninja3056 That's just, like, your opinion man. 🎳
Get woke and go broke... just need for people to stop spending money on those ugly games.
@@redninja3056go away, tyrant.
@@thathandsomedevil0828 no
🥴
I just want beautiful and attractive feminine women in my games back, I don't want reality I already have way too much of that in this world, I want my fantasies back.
that's sad you think like that because ink eality there are plenty of attractive women its not the end of the world if a woman character in a game is unattractive.
get a grip
Then go and play other games, I'm pretty sure you'll find plenty of escapism around
@xorcist5910 When a lot of these games used to have all their female characters attractive you shouldn't have to go elsewhere.
Most AAA games still have attractive characters. It's just a few of them which don't have.
I'm really looking forward to this. I've been playing video games and followed the culture since the early 1980s, so I've seen it all. You always have a well developed thesis and justifications, so I'm interested in your analysis.
video posted 3 hrs ago and your comment 10 hrs ago?
@@Aya_f I commented when it still popped up as "Upcoming". Comments help a video get noticed in the Al Gore rhythm, and I try to promote creators with outstanding content.
There NEEDS to be another western game crash. That way the Eastern devs and game companies that didn't fall victim to the Silicon Valley syndrome can pick up the pieces and fix what has caused this mess to begin with.
With the reception behind BG3, forget it. The game is alright, lot of time and work put into it, sure. The writing is... there. Unfortunately lots of Millennial Marvel writing but whatever. Animations are very rough, like AA indie quality. Again, alright, it's a point and click. But every character is just so ugly, man. Like, needlessly ugly. Yet everyone is praising the ugliness disguising it as beautiful. So, expect more of the same going forward.
@@jase276Still coping about BG3?
I like the idea. Well as long as some Indie Devs can have some of these pieces too!
women: "StoP sExUaLiZiNg WoMeN!!!1!1!1!"
Same women: *50 shades of gray*
How the hell are you an Incel if you have a family of your own?
That word no longer have value, that's just them being degraded from humans into animals, and now they're barking in rage because they simply didn't get what they want.
Bless you man, keep the good work, because as far as I can see so far, you're doing God's work here.
Thanks, yea I'm always called an incel or a virgin and I just laugh it off because at this point their just saying what an NPC is scripted to say regardless if it makes sense or not.
The part about your daughter really hits home. I have a four year old boy about to start school in the fall, and I fear that as a young, handsome, extroverted, and confident mixed boy in a world where people are extremely politically correct will cause him to be insecure and afraid of expressing his opinions without being ridiculed.
My daughter is mixed and the political correction she receive from her black and white counterparts in school is exhausting. I'm building her confidence as she navigates through it.
@@MugenLord That’s some real father daughter support right there. Mad respect and power to both you and your beautiful family ❤️
I mean there are more important things to worry about but sure
@@MugenLordYou're a good parent man
@@redninja3056 if you believed that you wouldn't have replied to every comment. 😂
I will NEVER. EVER. Forget the 1 Japanese commit someone made, describing the female Fable character, after she was revealed:
"The face of a bastard."
That lives in my head, rent-free, FOR LIFE!! 🤣😂🤣
I am a female gamer and the only female character i always look up to was rayne from bloodrayne. Other then that my favorite characters were mostly male characters. I really don't care if the female characters are feminine or not.
I am a female gamer too, I only really play male characters but I do notice cause I know they are doing it on purpose.
I'm a female gamer, I wanna play as a pretty female character because I'm not hehehe
Male gamer here I don't care how female or male characters look as long as there good characters and neither has to be attractive for me to like them
@redninja3056 It's not really that they are attractive or not it is that we know they are doing it on Purpose. The women most of these models on are cute and beautiful. And then they make the models look ugly.
@@Noodlepunk okay so what?
I have a 3 year old daughter, and though she's still a way off from being a teenager, you pretty much echoed my same concerns that make me afraid of what she could end up going through. Like you said though, I just hope this nonsense stops sooner rather than later.
Yea, hopefully this dies off before your daughter becomes a teen because it's rough out here. I'm helping her navigate through all of this the best way possible.
So you want your 3 year old daughter to only have conventional beauty standards?
@@tiflockhart5112 He wants his daughter to understand that she doesn't need to be masculine in order to have worth as a person. Plus you seem to be under the impression that beauty standards are inherently social constructs, when in reality MANY of them are baked-in parts of our biology.
@@kenjutsukata1o1 Oh that makes way more sense! Feminity is powerful just like masculinity, that is a good point to take away. I think my issue is that the female characters from the west displayed are just as attractive to me
@@kenjutsukata1o1 the clickbait in the thumbnail also had me watching with a very negative perspective
People are labelled incels for anything.
Thank you for finally explaining GamerGate in a way I can understand. I swear that I've looked it up multiple times, and I never really understood how sexism was the result.
They purposely made it hard to understand. The media took over the narrative, you had to follow gamers and important players in the gaming community who played a big part in gamergate to get the full picture. The Gaming and Journalist industry had a casting couch culture, trading sex and payoffs for good reviews or access to industry resources. Gamers called it out and they spinned it into a sexism narrative since the main person behind it was a woman. The industry needed to protect the corruption they had going on by deflecting it on us, the gamers.
I wanna go back to 80's-00's where this shit wasn't an issue
I know right!
That Fable character looks like a brazillian soccer player before the fame
Let’s Make Female video game characters beautiful again
Lets make male characters for one beautiful. It is time we sexulis males they way women are sexulist and holt thrm to the same extream Standard of beauty becouse male characters are ugly.
#beautifulmsles. #sexymales.
#makegtamaleslessugly
#malecharctersneedtogetsexy
#sexymales
female characters always been beautiful since the beginning. I don't know why people are freaking out when unattractive characters are becoming more of a thing
I don't get it either. Women are allowed to be more than just their looks. @@jakeystarsuper
I agree@@amberforbes3151
Not to these mad incel boys. Women need to be pretty or nothing, apparently. Throw these whiny boys in the trash where they belong.@@amberforbes3151
Aloy pretty much turned into Jimmy Hopkins from Bully.
Underrated comment.
You have my sincerest respect, man. You are truly a G for voicing this bullsh*ttery out!
Thanks I appreciate it, someone has to stand up to this nonsense.
Your bravery in speaking up about these issues is admiring! Your daughter is lucky to have a father who is ahead of the game and looks out for her when it comes societal pressures and expectations. I absolutely love that despite her worrying about you getting backlash, you still went ahead and shared what you wanted to say. You're doing more than just gamers and her proud! Keep doing what you're doing :)
Thanks I really appreciate your feedback :)
What? This guy isnt brave at all just another incel trying to justify why he can't see unrealistic women on screen
I’m kind of conflicted on the overall message of this video but… yeah he’s so brave for calling those women ugly.. huh?
@@smilefenn4813 his point is BS. Attractiveness is a spectrum. There are still plenty of people willing to make all sorts of NSFW art and videos of these characters. Different strokes for different folks, right? Also, devs aren't obligated to make an attractive female character just like they aren't obligated to make an attractive male character. Kratos is ugly but that doesn't seem to stop people from playing God of War. Everyone in Spider Man 2 looks weird but whiny men only focus on MJ's looks for some weird reason.
I watched Melonie Mac’s video yesterday and she showed a clip from this video and said to check it out.
It is sad that a majority of big gaming companies in the US basically don’t want attractive or even normal women in their games anymore.
Yeah but hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel with all this. Thanks for stopping by and appreciate the love from Melonie Mac.
This entire video is based. The accurate recollection of events preceding GG and during, is based. The music is based. I actually believe that western culture can pull through and overcome the cancerous mindset that has slowly been taking over for the past 10 years. Thank you for making this video, and thank you for speaking out. I wish more people would.
Thanks and I do believe a reset is coming, more and more people are being vocal about it. Twitter is where the battlefield is taking place. Since Elon took over, censorship had reduced a bit more and now many people are able to speak on this topic without getting shadowbanned or their accounts terminated.
There is no reset, this is the naturals state of liberalism unveiled, which for centuries have been building slowly since the enlightenment going back to Kant and Hegel. For there to be a reset you must completely erase secular liberalism, which is impossible bacuse its imbedded into modernity.
I probably don't spend much time on noticing this mainly because of lack of games I buy, or be influenced via social media.
This was an interesting analysis and gives me another viewpoint on the industry, I think.
This was excellent. You make great points without being preachy. You present the history and information, but leave your viewer with the responsibility of interpreting your arguments into their own opinions so that they actually LEARN something and can create their own values from your explanation. This is the fundamentals of teaching that's been lost in modern education.
You come from a place not of hate or anger, but of love and passion for gaming and freedom of thought and expression. You don't preach politics or an agenda, but of common sense and integrity. There's a lot to unpack here.
The core problem as I see it is the common thread that unites all of these critics: college. I know when I was working on my degree, I had professors that spouted off about their beliefs and opinions all the time, and no one would want to debate them. Their grades were on the line. Either accept the group think or fail. I had a few verbal sparring matches with them, but even I quickly learned that a win in the arena of ideas often leads to a loss in the arena of academics. I have no plans to send either of my kids to college, and I know it condemns them to a life of blue collar labor like myself, but it's better than them coming home brainwashed and going into an industry that's full of other brainwashed people.
If you look back at pictures of Iran and Egypt in the 1970s, the women are in modern clothes, style their hair, and wear makeup. They look like they could be in any magazine of the era. Through the 1980s, you see college graduation classes of women get smaller and more of them wear traditional clothing covering their entire bodies. By the time the 1990s roll around, they're all in traditional clothing. This is where all of this ends. They think they're protecting women through censorship and shaming, but I'm sure some of the most brutal dictatorships in the world think they're doing the same thing. The reality is that it's just another form of control of one human over another. I remember watching a video two years ago of a women's robotics team in Afghanistan participating in competitions. Now they're not even allowed to go to school. That's not the world any of us should want.
I look forward to your continued exploration of these topics. The censorship issues in Sony are probably on your agenda for the future. I'm sure you won't be shocked to discover that all the most egregious censorship only started occuring when they moved their gaming headquarters to California. Now a game can't even show cleavage. Worst of all, Sony makes them sign deals that they'll put the censored version on other consoles as well.
Damn. What's this world coming to?
It really isn't but as long as you agree with his opinion it will seem like that
hope japanese devs still not taking this ugly way, but sadly squarenix is working with sweet baby and capcom is on war with sexy mods, and they hired drag queens to promote exoprimal.
If I want to look at ugly realistic characters, I go outside. I don't want to constant look at that in the virtual world where ugliness and mundane reality is in abundance.
To be frank, even when I go outside the majority of the people I see aren't ugly. Average people aren't going to turn heads, but they're still leagues more attractive than the troglodytes hobbling around on the screen these days. That's the biggest thing that tells me that this is all deliberate and malicious; they're not even making average looking characters, they're making ugly ones.
The thing is that they dont look like regular people, but like ogres xD
@kenjutsukata1o1 depending on where you live, live anywhere super populated you'll see a shit ton of super ugly people. I feel like you're being too generous.
bruh, not the pfp. Full of Energy, huh
Lol.
Hello from Japan. Great video. Unfortunately, many Japanese don't understand what's going on in the west. I'm afraid these problems may soon come to Japanese media as well.
Welcome, Japan and the east is our last hope. Please don't let them ruin you.
Western developers have a phobia for feminine traits in general. It's not only aesthetics of female characters. They're afraid to make any male characters that are even remotely "pretty", which is something Eastern developed games frequently have roster of.
I had no clue you would make a video essay. While I agree that the philosophy that realistic options should be more common in games and it shouldn’t just look like a fashion show, beautiful people of both genders exist irl too! I love really rough looking badass women that fit their background like Sheeva or Sonya from Mortal Kombat, but just specifically making them unattractive is weird. When I watch the video later I will edit this comment with some closing thoughts.
Fantastic video. I love seeing more youtubers cover this recent nonsense in western gaming.
The way western devs have become so prudish and afraid of showing attractive women in games, has been one reason why i've been more drawn to Japanese titles.
Though we sadly see even some japanese devs like Square Enix pandering to those prudes and pulling back on their own female designs.
I don't have an issue with western devs trying to add more diversity and body types, but we are actually getting LESS variety now than before. We've always had options for fat or goofy characters in past games but only recently have we seen beautiful model choices actively removed.
I vaguely remember gamergate. I just knew it made the gaming journos lose their minds. They overreacted and started getting even more political in game coverage. It tainted the gaming industry and sadly western devs started making games with dumb sites like Polygon/Kotaku in mind.
I hope western games keep losing money like Saints Row reboot did. That might finally send a message that real gamers don't want this forced nonsense from games journos.
The uglification of art and beauty is all part of the marksist comm-y playbook. It’s how they subvert culture. The gaming industry falls under the umbrella of entertainment. Which includes comics, movies, music, tv and fashion, etc. They use entertainment as a potent propganda tool. They invert healthy Norms like beauty and health, or monogamous relationships. It’s why they’re promoting being overweight, and hookup
Culture. The hidden enemy is worming it’s tentacles into everything. Now we are seeing them promote unattractiveness in gaming. They’ve been at war with gamers for a long time.
Gaming companies in the east like Japan, are not onboard with this agenda which is why the west demonizes them, and weaponized their henchmen in the media to write hitpiece articles.
Look up Yuri Besmenov, he describes perfectly how this enemy subverts and weakens society. They destroy art and turn everything upside down on its head. They weaponize entertainment especially music.
@@Cr1ms0nRav3n The very reason the Taliban destroyed those giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan was to DESTROY non-Islamist culture in that country!
@@Cr1ms0nRav3n Ah yes. Video game companies who make money by selling goods are actually Marxs secret weapon.
Just shut up and grow up.
You sound like a damn natsoc with your ideas of what art is and is not supposed to be.
And "at war with gamers"... just that quote alone is on a lot of bingo charts out there.
@@Cr1ms0nRav3nthis is your brain when not a single skincell has touched a speck of chlorophyll in years.
As shitty as Cyberpunk was on launch, it was filled with nothing but sexy ass female side characters, and thats a "western game". Freya from both God Of Wars is a complete MILF. A majority of the women in each Mortal Kombat are bad as fuck. The Modern Warfare 2 reboot's, what, TWO main female characters are played by insanely attractive women. Even the Far Cry 6 protag was a bad af latina chick. That's already more examples than the ones people bring up talking about "uglification" of female characters.
These were some of the best selling triple-A western made games of the past couple years, no one is psy-op'ing attractive women out of games
Okay so do you just ignore all the attractive females? Because there's plenty of of western games that have them so your point is stupid
Bro i'm female and i can tell you without a doubt I agree with everything you've said, some women do not want to play an unattractive character and the devs/companies pushing this crap on us is honestly horrible because they think THIS garbage is what all women want. I want back my attractive strong women characters who didn't need to knock over other men to prove they're strong. And tbh with the narrative they're pushing right now it feels like they're putting a divide over male and female gamers more than anything.
edit : Also yeah, they're making female characters no different from male counterparts these days so in games like baldurs gate 3, romance pretty much feels the same( other than being JUST being aware of your gender). I have no words to describe how much I hate this change, because long gone are narratives which treat you different because you're a female, they're throwing away all that shit apparently so devs can be lazier and make everyone the same regardless of gender.
Anytime someone asks you why characters in media need to be attractive, remind them media is a product that needs to appeal to its core audience in order to be profitable.
Sometimes, it feels like only the female characters need to be attractive and only the straight men get to have eye candy.
No one cares about women and their need for eye candy
The Japanese-created characters end up being MORE attractive than their face models in a lot of cases
There is nothing wrong with female characters being depicted as attractive. I don't like this trend of making all art look ugly. However, as someone who was raised to not show off literally everything, that translates into how I play video games. If the game has character customization, I'm going to have my character fully clothed. The amount of skin shown shouldn't dictate how feminine a character is, or how epic a character is though. Female martial artists don't run around in spaghetti strap bikinis when they are going into a fight or a competition. They wear clothes that cover what needs to be covered, and support what needs to be supported. Female soldiers wear the full uniform. A female can be gorgeous, still be fully clothed, and still kick the villains into space. Also I do agree with you that a female doesn't need to be like a guy to be strong, or a strong character. She also doesn't need to be nasty, catty, condescending, or manipulative, to be tough, (unless she's a villain herself).
you pretty much sum up how i feel and this is probably the most balanced take i’ve seen on this subject. putting female characters in practical clothing to match the situations they’re in shouldn’t be seen as censorship. putting jill valentine in jeans instead of the tube top and skirt (which was hideous) isn’t being woke, it just being sensible.
@@xLadyRaine Thank you! ^_^
Preach brother, preach. Very good video and very succint in its point. I'm tired of this as well and it's a shame, especially when devs are demonized and eventually bullied into changing their minds, internally or via social media as well, the people at Gunfire games for Strife for example or Ed Boon internally.
Hearing about what goes on with kids nowadays, through your daughter, makes me slightly glad I grew up when I did, even when I got bullied; at least I(and many others) could fight back and fend off my demons and my bullies. How can kids and teens push back against social exclusion and ostracizion for "wrongthink" though? That's teriffying for all kids and this will rob of them of their childhood more so than it does now.
10/10 video my guy. thank you so much for makes this. as a almost 40 year old male gamer I find is so hard to argue with people about this issue without being called a bigot or incel. but you have gave me strength to stand by my opinions. thank you sir.
Don't back down, if they call you a racist or an incel just take it on the chin and hold the line. Those words loss all it's meaning, I'm black with Native America Ancestry and was called a White Supremacists lol.
You know who you are so it doesn't matter what they call you.
@@MugenLord You the Real One. thank you. I'll keep my head up high.
I am happy you brought that up. I thought people don’t bring that up because importance of gameplay overshadows the look. Or we are just afraid of being said we are racist.
In America even though they represent female representation, there female characters have to many characteristics that force male masculinity into their female characters like for instance Abby from the Last of Us 2. She literally had all that muscle in which she failed to kill Joel alone instead set him up with her gang.
If you woman with some masculinity traits, make characters that grows to be a bad ass from traumatic events or like being raised by prominent strong cold male figures.
One of your best videos yet
And now Korea and China are making so much money and their single player games like Stellar Blade and Black Myth Wukong have good looking female characters that make western devs angry
Thank U, yur video has been mostly a cure for my frustration for what happened with Skull-Girls recently these couple of months (I was really planning on finally getting it before the 'changes' were announced). The two content creators you mentioned are those I've subscribed to because of their relatable passion, its sad to see them treated with disdain at times for telling it like it is.
The whole skullgirls situation is just baffling to me. But we have to call it out and not back down in order for this nonsense to stop.
Thank you man for pointing this out ,I completely agree with you,
I even wished something or someone would talk about it or mayhap change the situation, im so glad you are talking about this keep up bro !
Never seen this channel before. Great video, my girlfriend and I enjoyed watching it and agree with the topic. I find the ugly models asinine, especially when they're literally taken from a good looking real life person and then made ugly. I refused to buy Wanted Dead because the main character was so ugly
If the main character is not appealing, I won't buy the game.
Brilliant! Everyone needs to help this video to go viral. I don't even agree with some of what you are stating in this video but that is a good thing! Trolls aside, debate is healthy.
Bro, really good thought out video. I've literally thought that all the effort developers put in to making themselves not seem sexist they end up coming across more sexist by making wemon characters more ugly and men characters more handsome and hero-like.
Thanks! Yeah, you really have to look at developers interviews when they talk about the depiction of women. They are pretending to standup for women but their response are sexist.
And that’s why western love eastern content. Like Anime, Games, etc.
Damn I'm conflicted 😂 I agree with everything that you said pretty much but at the same time I think it's ridiculous how many people were genuinely angry by the female druid in diable 4 💀...idk I guess it's a bit different because there ARE "pretty" characters you can play as if you want to, and I personally have no issue with playing characters that are "more masculine." In fact one of my favorite skyrim builds was an Orc barbarian and she was really cool (and I thought she was pretty). Maybe the best option for games like that is just to add a body slider..? With so much customization already I'm surprised it's not an option already
Didn't Sarkeesian crowdfund further episodes of her horrible internet show? Whatever happened to that? And didn't Zoe Quinn use her crowdfunded game money to go on a vacation and never delivered a game? Those people are grifters.
The biggest grifts of the industry, took the money and left the industry in shambles.
@@MugenLord also went to the United Nations to cry about bullying when I saw that I was like "Who let these 304's in the UN?" Last I heard of Anita she don't wanna do that crap anymore, looks like the grim reaper is sewing her a nice sweater.
@@otakuthegreat damn, so she fucked the industry and got her bag then left.
@@MugenLord Yeah, pretty much
It’s also a disservice to women thinking they can’t be attractive and be a power house of a character is so cringe
So true! Well put man, I believe that dumbing down what most women work hard on THEIR BEAUTY.
Facts!
Dude! I'm only halfway through this video and I am amazed at how easily understandable your explanation of Gamer Gate and all the related events are. Bravo, brah! I subscribed, man. Are all your videos this good?
This is my first Video Essay on issues like this, there will be more like this in the future. I don't know how consistent since these videos can take weeks to make. I am a gaming channel, I cover gaming news, I review games, do unboxing of gaming products and merchandise etc.
western media: Cover up your characters. Your old outfit shows too much
Eastern media (Capcom): okay, but check this out (Releases Cammy's original outfit and money flows into the studio)
They hate having consumers enjoying pretty things.. period
This is your best video so far. Glad to see it's getting some real views, I hope this blows up. More people need to see this
Thank you so much, I just hope people stick around for my other content XD
What I love about your videos is that not only do you give the well deserved criticism to the entire "wokeism" movement and its influential figures and proposers that have plagued the industry for the last decade and point out their hypocrisy and ridiculousness, that but also unlike all other similar content creators that I've seen so far, you absolutely explicitly *expose* the entire context as to why and how this entire ordeal even came to be in the first place. You search deep into recent history to uncover the political machinations that gave rise to these modern trends and show there is active political motivations for game devs, filmmakers and the likes to do this and why are most companies give in to the pressure of these movements! So it becomes harder and harder to dismiss them as simply "conspirancy theories".
Great work! Keep up with this! I've subscribed just for this reason! You're really unique amongst other creators of the same alignment as yours!
Wow I really appreciate the feedback, this means a lot. I try my best to research and may not get it right all the time but I try to cover as many angles as possible to shutup the detractors and hopefully they can see where we are coming from.
Really good video, exactly on point. I have been playing video games over 30 years and I'm so happy I could enjoy gaming in 90s and 2000s. I think most of the games from that era could not be made today. People want to escape reality while playing games not find it represented there.....
The 90's and early 2000's will forever be the best era of gaming, facts!
Most games are still like that. Just like any art form political commentary exists. But enough dumb fun games are also out there.
Stop being blind to these things in your conviction that its all bad.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 This comment says alot about you than anything else. We will still vote with our wallet.
@@ifirespondiamstupid7750 Voting with your wallet does not work.
Everyone knows Nestle is one of the most despicable companies out there but they are still up and running.
Also I don't get what you are trying to say with your comment. I never said you'd have to buy something you don't like. Reading comprehension isn't a necessity on the internet but it does help.
There will be a backlash when the normies get radicalized.
15:50 you hit the nail on the head here, the purpose of women empowerment was meant to embrace the feminine in her, but what they are doing right now is the opposite, they are celebrating the masculine part of women way more than her feminine side.
You absolutely nailed it.
Just played through MK9 last weekend again, and huge difference between the representation between that and MK11, even though I still really like MK11.
A little worried about the new Mortal Kombat now. Honestly, I'd even be fine with the sexier female looks being sold as DLC or microtransactions. Despite the criticism towards that type of thing, I could live with that.
DLC would be fine, I can go with that.
@@MugenLord It got me to buy the UMK3 outfits for the females in Mortal Kombat 11..... twice!
I agree with you. I like seeing games with attractive characters I won't buy a game if the characters arent visually appealing and im a girl. So yup not just men.
I think we shouldn't buy games with ugly characters, hit them in their pockets and they will start to notice.
These activists pretend women like you don't exist in order to push their agenda. You ladies are a threat to the agenda because it destroys their argument, so they pretend you ladies don't exist and the media has convinced the public that same case.
As a trans woman, if a game gave me the option to play as a woman I would immediately pick that player model LOL. If a game had a female protagonist I'd be more drawn to it. The variety of playable female characters back then was there, and it's so bizarre how gaming journalists and Western developers act as if there's a lack of representation. Plus, escapism! Back then I'd play and revel in features and traits I didn't have growing up through the playable character.
Very well made video and it's now among my favourites. 👏👏👏👏👏 You deserve alot more attention to this along with subs.
What's good adjei?
BRO YOU KILLED THIS!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks, it had to be done!
What an amazing, well thought out take. Men are allowed to have fun. Never let them shame you for your preferences.