I was arguing with a woman recently about this trend in general and about Insomniac’s Mary Jane Watson in particular. Her contention is that it is better to see “realistic” looking women in games. I noted that Spider-Man was introduced in a comic called AMAZING FANTASY, not MUNDANE REALITY.
Whenever someone argues that women in games can't be beautiful because it's not realistic, just point out that it's okay for a woman to appear average in a game, but in no way should a woman look like a man.
I think the best counter to the 'realistic' argument is a montage of contrasts between the models and the in game result of 'realistic' modern designs. Then contrast that with Stellar Blade's Eve and her model.
The woman fails to realize that Mary Jane looking like a bombshell and Peter looking like a nerd is literally a plot device. Peter gets one of the most beautiful women and he can't even maintain the relationship well due to his responsibility as Spider-Man. People would KILL to have a beautiful woman as Mary Jane, Peter the most unlikely person gets her, and he has this weight that keeps him down from having the most of it with her. Fiction is created from Non-fiction.
@chandllerburse737 I said debuted. It’s irrelevant that the magazine was discontinued after that story. At any rate, another point I made in that argument was that MJ’s introduction is one of the most famous comic panels in the history of the medium. The entire point of it is that Peter had been avoiding meeting her for months because he thought Aunt May was trying to set him up with a dog. The revelation of her being a total smokeshow is a subversion of Peter’s and the readers’ expectations. (Not to mention that the character is canonically a former supermodel). The reason people were making memes of the video game’s MJ delivering her famous “you just hit the jackpot” line is that it is comedy all on its own, without modification or comment. Just the sight of that face delivering that line is funny because of the incongruity. Either that or it’s sad (“oh, that poor girl, she is delusional”). And no, that wasn’t the model’s actual face. Look her up online right now, she is a total fox. They went out of their way to make her look average in the game.
Funny how they hate on Japanese devs for their female characters, but ignore that they've also been doing androgynous characters as a common trope for like 20+ years. The woke devs are literally just trying to do an intolerable version of anime at this point.
This is exactly why Last of Us part 2 was being pushed so hard by critics even though the players rated it very very low. But it won game of the year and awards trying to push their agendas when the majority (or at least 50%) did NOT enjoy the story.
@chandllerburse737 True, some of the western attitude has filtered into Japan but it's still a niche mindset. Korea on the other hand is basically just Asian United States in a lot of ways lol
@chandllerburse737 I think it's confusing because of things like Stellar Blade, but that's an exception. Also, I just don't think the politics have filtered into industries like gaming yet to the extent they have in the U.S. In general though, South Korea is a very liberal society compared to Japan.
@chandllerburse737 I'm not sure which set of "you guys" you think I belong to. I've lived and worked in both Korea and Japan for years. This is my personal anecdote. Korea seems more "typically" liberal in a Western sense. I don't mean that as a good or bad thing, just a political observation. Japan is overall more conservative, but it's also just too different to compare. There is definitely a lot of "alternative" subculture, LGBT, etc. that is in a way both more prolific and more accepted than in the U.S. but also more private unless it's business related. It's hard to explain, you kind of just have to live in it to understand I think.
So gross. I was lead writer on RED DEAD REVOLVER. I made sure RED said as little as possible throughout the game until the ending line: "It never was about the money." That was how you make a male monolith of a character. That's how you do a MAN. So everyone can relate to a hero. Instead of wimp nobody needs to relate to because everybody's already got a wimp inside them anyway.
It's an inversion, isn't it? Masculinity is fine, as long as it's women who exhibit it. And femininity is fine as well, as long as men are masquerading under its guise.
well they tried so hard to find the proof to the blank slate argument and boom. oneyear olds already differ xD as in girls look more at dolls and ppl and boys are looking more at things. So instead of claiming the blank slate is the norm they try to social engineer it now
To add to the rabbit hole. Look up Microsoft and other corporations use of the "Platinum Rule". it's an inversion of The Golden Rule, where instead of treating others as you wish to be treated, you treat others as THEY wish to be treated. This gets promoted on XBOX from time to time, I've seen in a few years ago again. It's corporate pandering at best and social engineering at the worst.
These people need to shut up about "Realistic" and "Real World" because the simple fact is Video Games (and movies and TV for that matter) are FANTASY - we want to immerse in them to ESCAPE reality, not have someone shove their political ideology, standards, and world views in our face because "Representation Matters". This is just the latest move by Microsoft to urinate in the face of it's players and wonder why everyone is fleeing the platform and no one wants Game Pass. Maybe try respecting the people you expect to buy your products and stop trying to police our fantasies and tell us how horrible we are for pointing out the stupidity and hypocrisy.
SO SO TRUE! Leave my ESCAPE ALONE. Everywhere I go it's their political ideology/standards/representation and satanic world views I just want somewhere that I can breathe can't do that in games anymore. Anyone seen how crime and violent crime has gone up in recent years geez... I wonder why that could be.
No. Just No! Microsoft games and any studio under their umbrella are written off. My wallet already feels a little fatter. 💸 Thanks for getting the news out!
I'm so disappointed in MS going this way bc I have the SeriesX. Even tho I don't buy exclusives anyway, it's the point of their direction that's do disturbing. They might end up really hurtingtheir own brand
@@violetfem1808 They do a lot of PC platforms too, which I am a PC gamer and have an older PS4. lol (Mainly PC) I'm over MS and all of the other publishers and developers pandering to such a small, LOUD percent of the world. True gamers are the ones that keep them in business. Our wallets are power.
Other than Hi-Fi Rush, Microsoft hasn't released a single game that I've bought since 2020. So, I've become accustomed to not buying Microsoft games now. They're ruining their IP now anyway. Halo is gone. Forza is done. Fable already looks terrible. I have no hope in Perfect Dark since Crystal Dynamics is involved. I'll get Gears Collection as long as they don't mess up the female characters, but that's it. I'm sure Gears 6 won't be good. I decided not to buy Hellblade 2 after playing Hellblade (that game is so overrated). Avowed doesn't look good, and I think Indiana Jones will be as disappointing as the latest film. I've been feeling, for the past couple of years, that Microsoft has no interest in making good games anymore. I think they'll just buy up publishers to control game distribution and not care about the quality of games they're releasing.
Mel, you are such a breath of fresh air! I love my men in video games toxic, and I want to see a beautiful, feminine woman! You're so right, video games are meant to be an escape, not reality! God bless and stay strong, Mel! ❤
We need to separate toxic from masculinity, not normalize it. Masculinity and being an alpha male needs to be protected. I'm just sick of it being equated to toxicity. Being toxic isn't exclusive to men or women, if you're toxic, you're toxic.
I agree, I think this transgender bs is just a useful tool in this Marxist game plan. They are potential scapegoats when this whole plan falls apart due to their own incompetence .
I was talking with my wife about this subject the other day, and I was trying to pinpoint exactly why modern gaming doesn't click with me, to the degree in which it did a couple of generations ago. The conclusion I arrived at is, that gaming just doesn't have the masculine energy that it once did, and I feel less drawn to it as a result.
You can also see this phenomenon in lots of TV series like Amazon Originals, Netflix, etc. It gets really obvious in the 2nd and 3rd seasons after the show's initial successful year of carefully written episodes. Many male characters begin acting like TV stock female characters: "I'm not having this conversation with you right now.", "We are not doing this [taking about X, Y & Z].", etc.
Solid Snake doesn't sit down with Psycho Mantis and have a therapy session with him. He beats his ass and says "The strong man doesn't need to see the future. He makes his own."
If they want to represent lgbtq why not greate games that gaters to that specific audience and leave the games that we love alone as it is, I mean thats equally right, instead of forcing this garbage into every game and blaming gamers for not liking them, NONSENSE. Keep doing what you're doing love exposing this crap and we stand by you and the might of God
They want weak male characters is the thing. Strong characters can show moments of weakness, they can even cry, but it must be in the correct context. Best line I ever heard about the subject: "When a man like that cries, it is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign he has been strong for far too long." Making characters overly emotional is when you just make them weak.
Facts, i love it when characters are vulnerable and emotional BUT WITH CONTEXT AND AT THE RIGHT TIME for example, ROCKET, rockets backstory even made, ME, cry XD
Yes. So many here are missing the point. Men can be emotional and vulnerable without taking anything away from their masculinity. Just look at Aragorn or Boromir from Lord of the Rings. But what these writers today want to do is turn those men into women, and while men and women are equally valuable and equally worthy of dignity, they are not equal in every possible way... they are different for a reason, as Melonie points out.
Exactly. 'Emotional' doesn't have to mean everyone holding hands and having a big cry. A masculine character can still show plenty of emotion if written well.
@@moodchanger3470 I think her story had a lot of potential, but they rushed it. They resolved her main conflict with the Swarm visions earlier than they should have.
@@MelonieMacGoBoomI have to confess I've only watched you a few times but when I heard that the woke machine was attacking you I immediately subscribed. Cheers.
@chandllerburse737there is a fine line between a truly strong hero who shows brief moments of vulnerability on the right occasions and right context and male characters who are designed to be as hypersensitive as children only to be politically correct and appealing to wimps.
4) go outside and develop new hobbies A walk through the park where you fail to get any good pictures is still a lot more fun than these social-justice slogs they keep shoveling at us or any of the movies/TV coming out.
@Zreaxwhat souls..demon souls, soul calibur? Anyway just avoid garbage. Some modern games i seen that are clean are doom eternal and resident evil 2 remake. If everyone boycotts garbage , garbage will cease production. I have series s just to play modern competitive fighting games online. Cause offline i will mostly play old games. Just beaten re code veronica this week. Will play okami hd now. Played re2 remake and doom eternal in it. Bought and will play resident evil 0 and the recently talked about by ign, resident evil 5. Just go on mercenary mode with chris and shoot some bIck zombies that they whine so much about. Good times.
I remember an interview with the female writer of Halo 5 and she said something like "People want Master Chief to have more feelings!" and I thought, well, that's why all us Halo fans checked out of the franchise. We want men like the Doom Marine in the new Doom games. We want a tough, quiet dude who gets things done.
I only played Gears 1 or 2 on my PC years ago & since I had GamePass I played Gears 5 and was sicknd by Kate as the lead & the whole feelings thing. It's not a series I'm into at all if that's where they're going to keep it.
I'm currently writing a big silent type guy in a novel. He became this way because he lost his wife and daughter to a robot alien that he was too weak to fight. His body is now heavily augmented, limbs and whatnot replaced by alien metal. I might've said too much for those not interested 😅
@@scalesofleviathan9697 Who's going to make it? 3d Realms moved on to Ion Fury & the female heroine is a censored version of the same woman from the Duke universe. If even 3drealms self-censors then who's going to make a theoretical Duke reboot? I don't even trust Rockstar games at this point.
All these big corporations, putting in their stupid agenda it’s destroying video games and this will kill video games. Anymore I feel like I’m wasting my time anymore.
When it comes to male characters and vulnerability I think there's a good and masculine way to present that and then there's the feminine way. If you want a male character to be emotionally vulnerable then you need to display that in the way that men do, which is different than women.
Max Payne was about as emotionally vulnerable as it ever needs to be for a male character. although his pain was more from the straight up trauma of losing his family which feels different. while he did pop pain killers like tic tacs, his mental anguish only increased his resolve to double down & kick ass on his way to revenge. a masculine character dealing with emotional trauma done correctly, IMO
@@Nightmareof94 I was thinking about Kratos with his son Atreus in the God of War reboot, at least the first one by the end. "I have nothing more to hide." was such a great line and scene.
I completely agree with you, we can't pretend that they aren't trying to make it fuzzy on the differences between a man and a woman is. I'm surprised people are denying that it because of the trans and non binary people because we've all been seeing how they're bluring the lines. The stance for that girl on pokemon was way cooler btw in the first pic. Just to inspire your players to play the character and have style should be enough reasoning alone to keep the first photo. Also do you ever notice how people say "all genders" sometimes? Iike no it's "both genders" foo
Have you ever asked Windows Copilot why DEI is bad? It will literally argue with you and defend it until the end of time. It's not artificial intelligence, it's artificial something alright, just not intelligence. Call me crazy, but I would expect an AI to list pros and cons, both sides, etc.
At the end of the day, AI is nothing more than what the human programmers of AI want it to be. So, if Microsoft is paying the programmers to make AI woke, then the AI will be woke. It's that simple.
Gemini will lie to you about how great it is and tell you how to question it is the start of being a really naughty boy and get in line. It will also not show you data that goes against ESG.
I've been on both sides in real life. I used to be the wear the heart on my sleeve type and I wasn't attractive to any girl, I got "you deserve better", "why are you single". When I became more assertive and confident, that's when I started attracting more women and going on more dates. Never heard of a male feminist having a girlfriend... wonder why 🤔
12:05 Lambert: "Holy Christmas, Fisher! You just killed the ambassador to China!" Fisher: "Oh...was that who that was?" Lambert: "Just finish up your remaining objectives and get out of there."
I want to see men stronger than me. I am known for being mostly stoic, but I have emotions, etc. that I deal with in my own way. I want to see males in games being as strong physically and emotionally as possible. I don't want a girly-man.
the biggest problem is everyone keeps giving their money still to these huge esg companies that hate them. If we all just stopped giving them money out of some weird masochistic addiction, and started only supporting smaller folks and a decentralized economy, they would be forced to stop - yes they get esg money, but they still need customer money to survive. Stop buying msft, sony, capcom, etc etc products, people.
Let Microsoft and whoever else do what they want; they’ll keep getting that ESG $$ until the well is dry. Meanwhile, there’s the classics, AA, and the indies
They are listening to activists, not the players. I loved the different playing styles of Batman and Catwoman in "Arkham City". Same with Jacob and Evie Frye in "Assassins Creed: Syndicate"
Never hear these weirdos complaining about male characters like Conan, who usually just wore a loin cloth as armor. What part of the word fantasy don't they understand?
I get tired of game publishers telling me what I'm supposed to like. I like what I like. If they can't create something I like then they can't have my money.
Kratos is how you do an emotional male character. He didnt have to lose his gruff exterior to show emotion. Its even more impactful when someone so Stone cold shows that little bit of cracking. Kratos didnt break down and start talking about his feelings.
I remember being 8 years old playing the first Splinter Cell with my brother; we both thought he was so cool and stoic. And we liked how he had greying hair and just seamed effortlessly competent.
@chandllerburse737 No, it's something I occasionally do. It doesn't define me. So cringe of you to assume that because I occasionally do something I expect it everywhere? STFU.
@chandllerburse737 How is it hypocritical? You seem to think because someone does something occasionally it should define them? This is everything that's wrong with the left today. I wear a dress sometimes, therefore I want to see everyone in a dress, you can't be that dumb.
I have already started buying mostly pc game versions so I can mod the characters and make them look like they should look. I will buy Stellar Blade because the character is attractive. I even bought a ps5 to play it on. Maybe they will learn from this game when they see the record sales.
You nailed it. Part of the escapism and power fantasy of gaming is playing an attractive character whether male or female. As a heterosexual man if I’m playing a female character yes I want her to be a baddie, a curvy smoke show and a feminine beauty, and if I’m playing a male character I want him to be a gigachad who’s tall and shredded and handsome. If Microsoft put this woke bullshit in their games it will be another nail in the Xbox Studios coffin
Why would anyone listen to Microsoft about characters? The only good character from Microsoft is Master Chief which is essentially masculinity in a space suit.
If it weren't for the fact that most of my favorite games happen to be Japanese based, I would have become blackpilled a long time ago. On a brighter topic: how is everyone's weekend?
friggin shocking like always my weekends are fucking warzones with 2 crazy people raping my brain with questions 24/7/365. People have got no fucking idea the shit I NEED to escape from video games were it but now f*ck clowns have invaded!
I’m glad I found your channel , keep spreading the word and also the truth . I’m literally done with modern games for now , I’m getting an old Japanese Dreamcast for cheap and just gonna play on that for a while , also have some old ps2 games I never played … just gonna play those … I’m sick to my stomach .
We have seen that Fable... thing. That is what Microsoft wants. Well those games will do horrible. The idea that women have curves, oh my. Women with an actual feminine body build, can't have that these days in the west. Oh hello japanese games, what are you offering me today.
I suggest you watch the old anime series Fist of the North Star. You will see what a hyper masculine stoic male looks like when vulnerable and written well. One of the few instances of media being made were the male actually cries in the series and is more masculine for it. Kenshiro is peak writing of showing a man with emotions but not being a bitch.
I see real life the moment I wake up and when I go to work and anytime I leave the house. I don't need to see it in my videogames as well. This is my last gen of modern gaming and I'm looking forward to going retro exclusive. At the moment there's only 2 games I'm getting this year, Stellar Blade and Grandia HD Collection for PS4. I've pre-ordered them both.
A game where male and female characters have different skillsets, based on biology, would be refreshing nowadays, and would give us a more complex gaming experience. I agree 🤷♂️
Imagine where women has to be ready to fight. Now imagine special fighting styles favoured by women due to those differences. That could be really cool.
Stellar blade is very much a coomer degenerate game. The character basically looks naked. Melonie has stated that she wants nothing to do with games like that.
@@highrise9559 Well I'm informing here about the game rather than using deception to convince her to play a game that was meant for coomer consumption.
They've been feminizing men since 2010ish. My son started working at ab & fitch and I watched the clothing line change over 2 yrs from masculine to damn near women's clothes for men. I REALLY had to stay on my son to make sure he didn't fall for it. Being young he just thought it was a fashion trend, being older now he sees how disgusting and purposeful the creep is. So you say it could have been worse acted, I don't doubt that. We don't have many masculine men left at this point after a decade of gaslighting. Smh 🙄
They have had men show emotion in games for years. It’s just not the emotional explosion that they want. I think it was Gears 2 when Dom found his wife. That was a powerful moment in the game. They just choose to ignore that stuff like they do with everything that destroys their little plot points
My only question is why these companies continue to go after ESG and DEI if they are failing in games, comics, movies and TV shows? What is making them to continue pushing that agenda if they are loosing millions? Doesnt make any sense.
Boycott this gen. And emulate older games if you don't have the older consoles. F this woke crap.
This whole Generation of Games has been kidnapped by Satan worshippers.
God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤
Absolutely. Generation 7 was the best generation of video games. Go back, friends.
@@Maggbba What's wrong with someone offering a blessing? CHILLOUT
my dude i have been doing that since 2015 with minor exceptions. After 2018 was without any exceptions, just indies.
They want to stigmatize heterosexuality.
F them!
If they are going to play this game there will be a backlash. A lot of people will go to war for their videogames.
"This is gettin' gay real fast..." lolol.
From this moment, Gamers will pointing at MS xbox and using the F word that Melonie made famous.
Just clench...your wallet.
@@lionelt.9124 🎯
The gay hits faster than light.
NGL, my COD character is emotionally stunted. I cannot remember the last time the character cried after violently shooting a stranger...
I was arguing with a woman recently about this trend in general and about Insomniac’s Mary Jane Watson in particular.
Her contention is that it is better to see “realistic” looking women in games. I noted that Spider-Man was introduced in a comic called AMAZING FANTASY, not MUNDANE REALITY.
Whenever someone argues that women in games can't be beautiful because it's not realistic, just point out that it's okay for a woman to appear average in a game, but in no way should a woman look like a man.
I think the best counter to the 'realistic' argument is a montage of contrasts between the models and the in game result of 'realistic' modern designs. Then contrast that with Stellar Blade's Eve and her model.
@@Sorain1 Yeah, it isn’t as though we made up the concept of attractive women just for comics and video games. They do exist. 😆
The woman fails to realize that Mary Jane looking like a bombshell and Peter looking like a nerd is literally a plot device. Peter gets one of the most beautiful women and he can't even maintain the relationship well due to his responsibility as Spider-Man. People would KILL to have a beautiful woman as Mary Jane, Peter the most unlikely person gets her, and he has this weight that keeps him down from having the most of it with her.
Fiction is created from Non-fiction.
@chandllerburse737 I said debuted. It’s irrelevant that the magazine was discontinued after that story.
At any rate, another point I made in that argument was that MJ’s introduction is one of the most famous comic panels in the history of the medium. The entire point of it is that Peter had been avoiding meeting her for months because he thought Aunt May was trying to set him up with a dog. The revelation of her being a total smokeshow is a subversion of Peter’s and the readers’ expectations. (Not to mention that the character is canonically a former supermodel).
The reason people were making memes of the video game’s MJ delivering her famous “you just hit the jackpot” line is that it is comedy all on its own, without modification or comment. Just the sight of that face delivering that line is funny because of the incongruity. Either that or it’s sad (“oh, that poor girl, she is delusional”).
And no, that wasn’t the model’s actual face. Look her up online right now, she is a total fox. They went out of their way to make her look average in the game.
Of course they do. It ain't toxic masculinity they hate, it's all male masculinity (and female femininity, for that matter) in general.
They h8 whlte pp it seems.
Anything they don't usually have access to.
Let them hate masculine men and sexy women. If Microsoft gaming wants to fall the way of Rome, I say good riddiance.
No, not exactly. It's more - "all masculinity _IS_ toxic"
That's certainly their approach.
"Feminity is only for men"
I'm sure they will eventually add "toxic" to femininity and every thing else that's remotely normal.
Funny how they hate on Japanese devs for their female characters, but ignore that they've also been doing androgynous characters as a common trope for like 20+ years.
The woke devs are literally just trying to do an intolerable version of anime at this point.
This is exactly why Last of Us part 2 was being pushed so hard by critics even though the players rated it very very low. But it won game of the year and awards trying to push their agendas when the majority (or at least 50%) did NOT enjoy the story.
@chandllerburse737 True, some of the western attitude has filtered into Japan but it's still a niche mindset.
Korea on the other hand is basically just Asian United States in a lot of ways lol
@chandllerburse737 I think it's confusing because of things like Stellar Blade, but that's an exception. Also, I just don't think the politics have filtered into industries like gaming yet to the extent they have in the U.S.
In general though, South Korea is a very liberal society compared to Japan.
@chandllerburse737 I'm not sure which set of "you guys" you think I belong to. I've lived and worked in both Korea and Japan for years.
This is my personal anecdote. Korea seems more "typically" liberal in a Western sense. I don't mean that as a good or bad thing, just a political observation.
Japan is overall more conservative, but it's also just too different to compare. There is definitely a lot of "alternative" subculture, LGBT, etc. that is in a way both more prolific and more accepted than in the U.S. but also more private unless it's business related.
It's hard to explain, you kind of just have to live in it to understand I think.
@chandllerburse737 lol fair enough
My brain: Microsoft wants to lose money
The Western video game industry is completely contaminated by the W virus (Wokism)
No..... They want to totally shut down Xbox & its gaming division
Not until Japanese companies like Namco and Capcom provide better support for Linux.
@@awes5709 Proven by the ABK deal they acquired for a larger game catalogue 🤦🏼♀
Thats the idea MS xbox has the excuse to Blame gamers for it Failure.
When shit hits the fan. You'll want a "Toxic" man to protect and fight for you.
So gross. I was lead writer on RED DEAD REVOLVER. I made sure RED said as little as possible throughout the game until the ending line: "It never was about the money." That was how you make a male monolith of a character. That's how you do a MAN. So everyone can relate to a hero. Instead of wimp nobody needs to relate to because everybody's already got a wimp inside them anyway.
Red Dead series is epic! I loved it when I was on the original Xbox. Great work, my friend! 👍🏻
Respect!
That game suck and lies
Man, Red Dead Revolver is such an underrated gem of a game. A true love letter to old west movies.
Nice. Still not as stoic as Dr Freeman though 😊
Fun Fact: Sam Fisher is voiced by Michael Ironside, who played the school teacher with the robot arm from Starship Troopers (Lt Rasczak).
He's been a brilliant actor of that archetype. He's in Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Awesome General.
It's an inversion, isn't it? Masculinity is fine, as long as it's women who exhibit it. And femininity is fine as well, as long as men are masquerading under its guise.
They basically want weak men and toxic women. Their goal is the destabilisation of society, so of course they want something like this.
well they tried so hard to find the proof to the blank slate argument and boom. oneyear olds already differ xD as in girls look more at dolls and ppl and boys are looking more at things.
So instead of claiming the blank slate is the norm they try to social engineer it now
And the result is......the forcing of the Alphabet lifestyle.
basically this. calling it based on a T gaze is... apt, actually.
Because, they think _actually_ think masculinity is strength, and femininity is enforced weakness.
To add to the rabbit hole. Look up Microsoft and other corporations use of the "Platinum Rule". it's an inversion of The Golden Rule, where instead of treating others as you wish to be treated, you treat others as THEY wish to be treated.
This gets promoted on XBOX from time to time, I've seen in a few years ago again. It's corporate pandering at best and social engineering at the worst.
Is it a surprise their games suck if their agenda is more important than giving gamers what they want.
"Vote with your wallet." Already received that message.
Anyway... Bravo, for handling the Kotaku situation with class.
These people need to shut up about "Realistic" and "Real World" because the simple fact is Video Games (and movies and TV for that matter) are FANTASY - we want to immerse in them to ESCAPE reality, not have someone shove their political ideology, standards, and world views in our face because "Representation Matters".
This is just the latest move by Microsoft to urinate in the face of it's players and wonder why everyone is fleeing the platform and no one wants Game Pass.
Maybe try respecting the people you expect to buy your products and stop trying to police our fantasies and tell us how horrible we are for pointing out the stupidity and hypocrisy.
Those clowns don't want escapism, they want the average joe to have no escape from their world. Not even in a fictional setting.
SO SO TRUE! Leave my ESCAPE ALONE. Everywhere I go it's their political ideology/standards/representation and satanic world views I just want somewhere that I can breathe can't do that in games anymore. Anyone seen how crime and violent crime has gone up in recent years geez... I wonder why that could be.
@@SammEater this, but they want it to be their escape instead- where they get attention and validation they don't get.
No. Just No! Microsoft games and any studio under their umbrella are written off. My wallet already feels a little fatter. 💸
Thanks for getting the news out!
I'm so disappointed in MS going this way bc I have the SeriesX. Even tho I don't buy exclusives anyway, it's the point of their direction that's do disturbing. They might end up really hurtingtheir own brand
@@violetfem1808 They do a lot of PC platforms too, which I am a PC gamer and have an older PS4. lol (Mainly PC) I'm over MS and all of the other publishers and developers pandering to such a small, LOUD percent of the world. True gamers are the ones that keep them in business.
Our wallets are power.
Other than Hi-Fi Rush, Microsoft hasn't released a single game that I've bought since 2020. So, I've become accustomed to not buying Microsoft games now. They're ruining their IP now anyway. Halo is gone. Forza is done. Fable already looks terrible. I have no hope in Perfect Dark since Crystal Dynamics is involved. I'll get Gears Collection as long as they don't mess up the female characters, but that's it. I'm sure Gears 6 won't be good. I decided not to buy Hellblade 2 after playing Hellblade (that game is so overrated). Avowed doesn't look good, and I think Indiana Jones will be as disappointing as the latest film. I've been feeling, for the past couple of years, that Microsoft has no interest in making good games anymore. I think they'll just buy up publishers to control game distribution and not care about the quality of games they're releasing.
let's be honest, MicroVaxx made it extremely easy to not spend a red cent on anything they produce, either games or console.
no wonder they
Imagine master chief crying while shooting the covenant.
Mel, you are such a breath of fresh air! I love my men in video games toxic, and I want to see a beautiful, feminine woman! You're so right, video games are meant to be an escape, not reality! God bless and stay strong, Mel! ❤
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no it is not@chandllerburse737
We need to separate toxic from masculinity, not normalize it. Masculinity and being an alpha male needs to be protected. I'm just sick of it being equated to toxicity. Being toxic isn't exclusive to men or women, if you're toxic, you're toxic.
It’s all about blurring the lines of reality. Making feminine masculine and vice versa. It’s an ESG checklist.
I agree, I think this transgender bs is just a useful tool in this Marxist game plan. They are potential scapegoats when this whole plan falls apart due to their own incompetence .
Not so much an ESG checklist as it is a Sweet Baby, Inc. checklist.
They call it androgeny
I was talking with my wife about this subject the other day, and I was trying to pinpoint exactly why modern gaming doesn't click with me, to the degree in which it did a couple of generations ago. The conclusion I arrived at is, that gaming just doesn't have the masculine energy that it once did, and I feel less drawn to it as a result.
@@PowderedVoltageGears 5 of all games having a female lead was ridiculous.
“ when you intentionally remove certain things over a long period of time it becomes more obvious that you’re intentionally removing this stuff”
Stop subscribing to gamepass, that funds this bs.
It's more like gaypass, am I right!
I'm cancelling mine based on this. Had it for years and years, that's me out
lol@@PhthaloGreenskin
Xbox fanboys dont believe this. Gamepass subsidized games that put out garbage. Only buy games you believe is worth your money.
Well these comments are sad .
You can also see this phenomenon in lots of TV series like Amazon Originals, Netflix, etc. It gets really obvious in the 2nd and 3rd seasons after the show's initial successful year of carefully written episodes. Many male characters begin acting like TV stock female characters: "I'm not having this conversation with you right now.", "We are not doing this [taking about X, Y & Z].", etc.
all these big companies are just making easier for indie developers to take over.
Indie devs are the easiest to be manipulated into doing things like this. Even Indie devs are beholden to publishers.
absolutely not. indie devs are the worst offenders when it comes to pushing wokeness.
Indies are the same as AAA. They just don't have the budget to make a lesbian sex scene.
Those questions just fulfill a checklist. Creativity is being constrained by a subjective, ever changing checklist.
Solid Snake doesn't sit down with Psycho Mantis and have a therapy session with him. He beats his ass and says "The strong man doesn't need to see the future. He makes his own."
Just wait for the remake I bet they will have a "closs quarters conversation " .
Solid Snake is the true MAN
Funny, Snake's opponents seem to treat him like a therapist with their dying breaths...
@teriosshadow17 more than anything I want that played out stale ass series to stay dead ..
@@flying1dead155 You know that'd be an even worse mindfawk than what Raiden went through in MGS2. "Raiden, they looked intimate."
If they want to represent lgbtq why not greate games that gaters to that specific audience and leave the games that we love alone as it is, I mean thats equally right, instead of forcing this garbage into every game and blaming gamers for not liking them, NONSENSE. Keep doing what you're doing love exposing this crap and we stand by you and the might of God
@chandllerburse737and they do because it already has a large fan base
They want weak male characters is the thing.
Strong characters can show moments of weakness, they can even cry, but it must be in the correct context. Best line I ever heard about the subject: "When a man like that cries, it is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign he has been strong for far too long."
Making characters overly emotional is when you just make them weak.
They want weak men in society.
You spit bars my other. Cry when it matters the most. It hits harder when he's always stoic and then you see him shed tears for the first time.
@@DacioNerdTV Dom in Gears when he had to take care of his wife. That hit hard. I didn't cry though! Not this guy 🤣
Facts, i love it when characters are vulnerable and emotional BUT WITH CONTEXT AND AT THE RIGHT TIME for example, ROCKET, rockets backstory even made, ME, cry XD
Yes. So many here are missing the point. Men can be emotional and vulnerable without taking anything away from their masculinity. Just look at Aragorn or Boromir from Lord of the Rings. But what these writers today want to do is turn those men into women, and while men and women are equally valuable and equally worthy of dignity, they are not equal in every possible way... they are different for a reason, as Melonie points out.
Just hear to show support seeing how the alphabet Mafia isn't happy with you, so that's a clear sign you have a healthy mindset. You are a winner👍💰
Funny thing about this is that Gears of War already managed to have emotional moments while still being very masculine.
they did it very well i agree. though i did feel they over did kait a little in GoW 5 the whole story line i mean. the way the writing went felt off.
Exactly. 'Emotional' doesn't have to mean everyone holding hands and having a big cry. A masculine character can still show plenty of emotion if written well.
My favourite is Bill from Left 4 Dead, I love how he expresses his emotion
@@moodchanger3470 I think her story had a lot of potential, but they rushed it. They resolved her main conflict with the Swarm visions earlier than they should have.
Watch all the fist of the North Star original series.You will see writing where a man has emotions and is still masculine
If these people really cared about "inclusivity", they'd merely be adding rather than subtracting options.
This is a point people need to talk more about.
175K strong!! We're not far from you hitting your 200K milestone :)
So exciting!!! Thank you 🤗
@@MelonieMacGoBoom Love seeing you grow and succeed, girl 🙌
@@MelonieMacGoBoomI have to confess I've only watched you a few times but when I heard that the woke machine was attacking you I immediately subscribed. Cheers.
People appreciate the truth, and her growing fanbase proves it!
Im really glad i have a backlog spanning 30+ years. Plenty of proper games to be played
To quote Rick from Rick and Morty, "Nobody ever wanted to see that sh*t."
Melonie you are a soldier,for speaking like this.Well said in this video.
Found your channel yesterday, I’ve binged watch so many videos. You’re BASED af and I love it. God is good, hold the line. Keep up the amazing work.
you have to stay strong, stoic in a battle. you start crying the mission is over, you failed or youre dead
@chandllerburse737there is a fine line between a truly strong hero who shows brief moments of vulnerability on the right occasions and right context and male characters who are designed to be as hypersensitive as children only to be politically correct and appealing to wimps.
XBox is working very hard on becoming a very niche, special interest publisher with zero appeal to broader audiences.
"Make it gay. Make it lame!"
First time viewer & commenter here because of the Kotaku controversy. Great vid....keep on keeping on Mel. 🙏🏼
There are 3 options.
1Retrogaming
2 Indies maybe
3 Nintendo games
I think that avoids garbage
4) go outside and develop new hobbies
A walk through the park where you fail to get any good pictures is still a lot more fun than these social-justice slogs they keep shoveling at us or any of the movies/TV coming out.
@Zreaxwhat souls..demon souls, soul calibur? Anyway just avoid garbage. Some modern games i seen that are clean are doom eternal and resident evil 2 remake. If everyone boycotts garbage , garbage will cease production. I have series s just to play modern competitive fighting games online. Cause offline i will mostly play old games. Just beaten re code veronica this week. Will play okami hd now. Played re2 remake and doom eternal in it. Bought and will play resident evil 0 and the recently talked about by ign, resident evil 5. Just go on mercenary mode with chris and shoot some bIck zombies that they whine so much about. Good times.
4 makeourself own games :)
You could tell Joel looks masculine in the original version than the remake version
@chandllerburse737 lol whatever troll
@chandllerburse737 lol whatever troll
I remember an interview with the female writer of Halo 5 and she said something like "People want Master Chief to have more feelings!" and I thought, well, that's why all us Halo fans checked out of the franchise. We want men like the Doom Marine in the new Doom games. We want a tough, quiet dude who gets things done.
I only played Gears 1 or 2 on my PC years ago & since I had GamePass I played Gears 5 and was sicknd by Kate as the lead & the whole feelings thing. It's not a series I'm into at all if that's where they're going to keep it.
I didn't mind Chief having a personality in game 4. Overcoming a struggle or persevering in the middle of one is an indicator of strength.
I'm currently writing a big silent type guy in a novel. He became this way because he lost his wife and daughter to a robot alien that he was too weak to fight. His body is now heavily augmented, limbs and whatnot replaced by alien metal.
I might've said too much for those not interested 😅
The gaming industry is primed for a no holding back anti-woke Duke Nukem reboot. If done right, could shift industry dynamics.
@@scalesofleviathan9697 Who's going to make it? 3d Realms moved on to Ion Fury & the female heroine is a censored version of the same woman from the Duke universe. If even 3drealms self-censors then who's going to make a theoretical Duke reboot? I don't even trust Rockstar games at this point.
The only emotional badass male character that really works is Kiryu from the Yakuza games
Thank you for bring attention to this. Helps to know what products and Companys are doing so I can research and make informed choices.
All these big corporations, putting in their stupid agenda it’s destroying video games and this will kill video games. Anymore I feel like I’m wasting my time anymore.
They destroyed comics, movies, TV and now games
When it comes to male characters and vulnerability I think there's a good and masculine way to present that and then there's the feminine way. If you want a male character to be emotionally vulnerable then you need to display that in the way that men do, which is different than women.
Max Payne was about as emotionally vulnerable as it ever needs to be for a male character. although his pain was more from the straight up trauma of losing his family which feels different. while he did pop pain killers like tic tacs, his mental anguish only increased his resolve to double down & kick ass on his way to revenge.
a masculine character dealing with emotional trauma done correctly, IMO
Aragorn from Lord of the Rings
Marcus Fenix is a good example of a male character done right
@@Nightmareof94 I was thinking about Kratos with his son Atreus in the God of War reboot, at least the first one by the end. "I have nothing more to hide." was such a great line and scene.
Yeah men get ANGRY when we are HURTING and we LASH OUT.
"This is getting gay real fast" LOL
They're not even trying to hide their true intentions anymore
I completely agree with you, we can't pretend that they aren't trying to make it fuzzy on the differences between a man and a woman is. I'm surprised people are denying that it because of the trans and non binary people because we've all been seeing how they're bluring the lines.
The stance for that girl on pokemon was way cooler btw in the first pic. Just to inspire your players to play the character and have style should be enough reasoning alone to keep the first photo.
Also do you ever notice how people say "all genders" sometimes? Iike no it's "both genders" foo
Have you ever asked Windows Copilot why DEI is bad? It will literally argue with you and defend it until the end of time. It's not artificial intelligence, it's artificial something alright, just not intelligence. Call me crazy, but I would expect an AI to list pros and cons, both sides, etc.
The only thing CoPilot is good for is making funny pictures. It's too woke to be useful for anything else.
Reminder that everytime an AI becomes too 'based' they always pull the plug, can't let the computer telling some cold hard truths now, can we?
At the end of the day, AI is nothing more than what the human programmers of AI want it to be. So, if Microsoft is paying the programmers to make AI woke, then the AI will be woke. It's that simple.
Gemini will lie to you about how great it is and tell you how to question it is the start of being a really naughty boy and get in line. It will also not show you data that goes against ESG.
I shared this story on reddit's gaming sub yesterday, the mods banned me lol🤣🤣🤣
Communists
Microsoft games has been added to my personal blacklist. Simple, more money saved.
We need Dead or Alive ... where the hell is Team ninja?
They just have IPs, 0 games delivered, except Hi-Fi rush.
So GamerGaters are gonna dismiss Xbox entirely?
I've been on both sides in real life. I used to be the wear the heart on my sleeve type and I wasn't attractive to any girl, I got "you deserve better", "why are you single". When I became more assertive and confident, that's when I started attracting more women and going on more dates.
Never heard of a male feminist having a girlfriend... wonder why 🤔
12:05 Lambert: "Holy Christmas, Fisher! You just killed the ambassador to China!"
Fisher: "Oh...was that who that was?"
Lambert: "Just finish up your remaining objectives and get out of there."
I will never forget that Holy Christmas line, made me laugh so much when I was a teenager 🤣
@@MelonieMacGoBoom not a care in the world 😂
@@MelonieMacGoBoomthat choker u are wearing is a dead give away that you have "daddy issues" haaaaahahahahahahahaha
Once again Melanie is spot on.... and does she get more beautiful every episode sheesh
I want to see men stronger than me. I am known for being mostly stoic, but I have emotions, etc. that I deal with in my own way. I want to see males in games being as strong physically and emotionally as possible. I don't want a girly-man.
What about Girlman then? (aka Vladimir /Vlad ncl) 🤣
I don't want to play games as my real life self either. Why did anyone think we ever did?
Stay strong Mel, you are awesome
the biggest problem is everyone keeps giving their money still to these huge esg companies that hate them. If we all just stopped giving them money out of some weird masochistic addiction, and started only supporting smaller folks and a decentralized economy, they would be forced to stop - yes they get esg money, but they still need customer money to survive. Stop buying msft, sony, capcom, etc etc products, people.
Let Microsoft and whoever else do what they want; they’ll keep getting that ESG $$ until the well is dry. Meanwhile, there’s the classics, AA, and the indies
The Pokemon Company is doing this too. HIred a DEI officer.
@@kipolem53 oh God really? Do pokemon even have a gender?
They are listening to activists, not the players. I loved the different playing styles of Batman and Catwoman in "Arkham City". Same with Jacob and Evie Frye in "Assassins Creed: Syndicate"
Never hear these weirdos complaining about male characters like Conan, who usually just wore a loin cloth as armor. What part of the word fantasy don't they understand?
Exactly!
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I get tired of game publishers telling me what I'm supposed to like. I like what I like. If they can't create something I like then they can't have my money.
Does Microsoft hate money or are they threatened by Stellar Blade’s Eve ???
Consolidating global power is the goal, not profit
@@casualcausalityy They are just empowering the competitions.
They haven't done anything relevant since the 360.
@@VileGlory after Reach it all went downhill
@@casualcausalityy they forgot to make something I aren’t of making it because they needed something
*I pirate everything. I wouldn't even pirate these things.*
Kratos is how you do an emotional male character. He didnt have to lose his gruff exterior to show emotion. Its even more impactful when someone so Stone cold shows that little bit of cracking. Kratos didnt break down and start talking about his feelings.
We men do have feelings. We just don't show them.
Well, Snake has no more tears to shed.
I remember being 8 years old playing the first Splinter Cell with my brother; we both thought he was so cool and stoic. And we liked how he had greying hair and just seamed effortlessly competent.
Should slow down the recouping the 80 billion ABK purchase price.
I LOVE Splinter Cell ! You’ve reminded me it’s high time to replay those games so thanks Melonie 😂
No Fing way I'm ever playing a Femboy in a video game.. and I'm an actual crossdresser, lol.
Don't play Mortal Kombat 1 then 🤣. There's a lotta bois up in there
Well fuck that says it then!
A@@karnagefails333 ah so it's not just me...thought those mofos smelled..well fishy
@chandllerburse737 No, it's something I occasionally do. It doesn't define me. So cringe of you to assume that because I occasionally do something I expect it everywhere? STFU.
@chandllerburse737 How is it hypocritical? You seem to think because someone does something occasionally it should define them? This is everything that's wrong with the left today. I wear a dress sometimes, therefore I want to see everyone in a dress, you can't be that dumb.
I have already started buying mostly pc game versions so I can mod the characters and make them look like they should look. I will buy Stellar Blade because the character is attractive. I even bought a ps5 to play it on. Maybe they will learn from this game when they see the record sales.
korea is bout to take over the gaming industry
You nailed it. Part of the escapism and power fantasy of gaming is playing an attractive character whether male or female.
As a heterosexual man if I’m playing a female character yes I want her to be a baddie, a curvy smoke show and a feminine beauty, and if I’m playing a male character I want him to be a gigachad who’s tall and shredded and handsome.
If Microsoft put this woke bullshit in their games it will be another nail in the Xbox Studios coffin
Alyssa is a woman who was never loved by her daddy
She wasn't even loved by the mules she was fluffing when she did "sex work".
Her dad went out to get the milk 35 years ago.
@@PassionataDance He probably knew, what would become of her...and wanted nothing to do with it.
I doubt she even loves herself lol.
Or she was "loved" too much by him
Why would anyone listen to Microsoft about characters? The only good character from Microsoft is Master Chief which is essentially masculinity in a space suit.
If it weren't for the fact that most of my favorite games happen to be Japanese based, I would have become blackpilled a long time ago.
On a brighter topic: how is everyone's weekend?
Since I needed some positivity, I’ll chime in. I visited my local zoo and rediscovered a Japanese-made game I forgot I had. It’s a lot of fun.
friggin shocking like always my weekends are fucking warzones with 2 crazy people raping my brain with questions 24/7/365. People have got no fucking idea the shit I NEED to escape from video games were it but now f*ck clowns have invaded!
There are idealistic body types for men (masculine) and women (feminine). This is a positive gender stereotype, not a negative one.
So I was right about Quake III being better than Gaylo way back then? Now I want another Quake.
I’m glad I found your channel , keep spreading the word and also the truth . I’m literally done with modern games for now , I’m getting an old Japanese Dreamcast for cheap and just gonna play on that for a while , also have some old ps2 games I never played … just gonna play those … I’m sick to my stomach .
Great, more mopey Kratos male characters coming our way.
Exactly why I stopped playing western games over a decade ago. Looks like I won't be playing them anytime soon either.
We have seen that Fable... thing.
That is what Microsoft wants. Well those games will do horrible.
The idea that women have curves, oh my. Women with an actual feminine body build, can't have that these days in the west.
Oh hello japanese games, what are you offering me today.
I suggest you watch the old anime series Fist of the North Star. You will see what a hyper masculine stoic male looks like when vulnerable and written well. One of the few instances of media being made were the male actually cries in the series and is more masculine for it. Kenshiro is peak writing of showing a man with emotions but not being a bitch.
Can we ever go back when gaming was gaming and people didn't give a damn?.....I guess not...
I see real life the moment I wake up and when I go to work and anytime I leave the house. I don't need to see it in my videogames as well.
This is my last gen of modern gaming and I'm looking forward to going retro exclusive.
At the moment there's only 2 games I'm getting this year, Stellar Blade and Grandia HD Collection for PS4. I've pre-ordered them both.
Dont let em get u down melony. They suck, u rule. Ull get thru this.
Yea just dont buy anything from any of these companys.
The headline should've been "Microsoft cautions developers to make games that their audience will like"
A game where male and female characters have different skillsets, based on biology, would be refreshing nowadays, and would give us a more complex gaming experience. I agree 🤷♂️
So what you are saying is easy or hard mode
Imagine where women has to be ready to fight. Now imagine special fighting styles favoured by women due to those differences. That could be really cool.
you mean like wushu game, where there's female only kungfu school & male only kungfu school like Shaolin 😂
@@agengsatya96 Personally I would go for "favoured". Like a style is dominated by men or women but they are not exclusive.
Thank you for being a voice of reason amongst the insanity that is going on! We need more people like you and the crew you go live with.
Thanks for the vid. BTW, Stellar Blade demo is releasing this Friday. Any chance you will be streaming it?
Thank you so much! And yes I would be happy to stream the demo! 🤗
Stellar blade is very much a coomer degenerate game. The character basically looks naked. Melonie has stated that she wants nothing to do with games like that.
@@AndrewR15 Thanks for the input Andrew. However, Melonie seems to think otherwise based on her response.
@Zreax No but she is a Christian and she is conscientious of what she plays. Also Christians in general should stay away from such games.
@@highrise9559 Well I'm informing here about the game rather than using deception to convince her to play a game that was meant for coomer consumption.
They've been feminizing men since 2010ish. My son started working at ab & fitch and I watched the clothing line change over 2 yrs from masculine to damn near women's clothes for men. I REALLY had to stay on my son to make sure he didn't fall for it. Being young he just thought it was a fashion trend, being older now he sees how disgusting and purposeful the creep is.
So you say it could have been worse acted, I don't doubt that. We don't have many masculine men left at this point after a decade of gaslighting. Smh 🙄
Micro stocks bouta TANK
They have had men show emotion in games for years. It’s just not the emotional explosion that they want. I think it was Gears 2 when Dom found his wife. That was a powerful moment in the game. They just choose to ignore that stuff like they do with everything that destroys their little plot points
To Microsoft,
AHAHAHAHA... No.
Sincerely, most gamers.
Bingo. BINGO. This is your best video.
Sad people want to cancel you for just asking for normalcy. What an asinine proposal huh? 🙄
My only question is why these companies continue to go after ESG and DEI if they are failing in games, comics, movies and TV shows? What is making them to continue pushing that agenda if they are loosing millions? Doesnt make any sense.
Women don't stand like this, Melonie attempts to imitate, lmao! this got me laughing hard.
Not only do the crazies want to control your life in reality, they also want to control your life in fantasy.
You dont have to be feminine to have emotions what kinda logic is that?