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[Durin]

I don't really miss booth babes at all, but miss when higher budget western games could have attractive characters in them...regardless of how much skin they showed.

And if a dev decided to have the hot character dressed in not much, that the only concern be from the audience is if the gameplay and story could back that up...not screeching that having the hot character is some problem in and of itself.

 

[PlayStaytion]

I'm a grown man with a wife. The only ones who miss this are teenage boys and grown men who are incapable of maintaining a relationship (e.g. teenage boys disguised as grown men).

The numbers aren't even matched, it's 3 to 1 in some countries, it's definitely a much more complex issue like a single women Doctors in their 40s being a stereotype.

 

[tr1p1ex]

I miss when Ms pac-man was only wearing a ribbon and nothing else.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Absolutely.

 

[A.Romero]

Not really.
I got to go to the last E3 where there were booth babes and Ubi was giving away thongs to promote Rabid Rabbits if I remember correctly but it felt akward as fuck. Girls didn't obviously know anything about the product, the chats with the developers were much more enjoyable than a weird pic with a girl dressed as bayonetta (although I do love that design).

Games themselves still have a lot of sexual themes.

I don't miss the advertisements, personally.

Right now I think Instagram and OF models cover that pretty well, even better than before.

 

[Moriarty1889]

Yes but there are still games out there one can get for that type of satisfaction. Removing booth babes was to make sure some overly sensitive twits didn't feel uncomfortable seeing an attractive girl at a gaming event. The world has gone mad indeed.

 

[Zacfoldor]

Yeah I do. Imagine a new sexy Lara Croft game in the same vein as say, God of War crossed with Stellar Blade. It would sell tons of copies. They don't make it because it isn't inclusive so now they want the big tittied hero they invented for us to be some sort of woman hero. Truth is she will fall to obscurity when her sexiness does.

I miss them greatly even when there are still a few around.

Where did the idea that women don't want to play as sexy women originate? Why is it so persistent?