OmegaSupreme
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In retrospective, what do you think of the sexualisation in video games back then?
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Johnny Concrete
Member
Regular size hands here, but small penis, though.
Danjin44
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The english dub for Golden Boy was hilarious!
skeebs
Member
Ha. No I missed that. It’s even more ridiculous with the knowledge that more hardcore stuff was on pc and to a lesser extent the more obscure disc based systems like 3do and cd-I.
Party McHardy
Member
Everything was better back then. Thank God Japan never changed.
Optimus Lime
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It is alarming that we are now seeing the emergence of a generation of young men who have been conditioned and trained to reject expressions of heterosexual sexuality.
The men of 1980, 1990, 2000, and even 2010 would have laughed at the 'I'M GLAD IT'S GONE IT'S SO MUCH BETTER NOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE GIRLS WITH BIG TITS' puritans. Booth babes, fighting characters with huge tits, Lara Croft in a bikini, God Of War being more interested in banging hot chicks than talking to his idiot son - it was all immensely better than the weirdly sexless, puritanical, timid culture of pathetic, no-balls beta male idiocy that we are now ensconced in. I want more tits in video games, preferably followed by rivers of blood, gore, and mindless violence.
Why do I feel like this? Because I am unashamedly a man.
The men of 1980, 1990, 2000, and even 2010 would have laughed at the 'I'M GLAD IT'S GONE IT'S SO MUCH BETTER NOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE GIRLS WITH BIG TITS' puritans. Booth babes, fighting characters with huge tits, Lara Croft in a bikini, God Of War being more interested in banging hot chicks than talking to his idiot son - it was all immensely better than the weirdly sexless, puritanical, timid culture of pathetic, no-balls beta male idiocy that we are now ensconced in. I want more tits in video games, preferably followed by rivers of blood, gore, and mindless violence.
Why do I feel like this? Because I am unashamedly a man.
DevilHunterX0
Member
Every game should come with a "NSFW option On/Off", maybe?
western people have so much priviledge that they have time to chat about sex... growing up in africa nobody gave a monkey about how video games boobs bounced.. but here we are somehow pornhub is celebrated where women are ligellay raped but video game boobs are considered sexism immoral and toxic....
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kiphalfton
Member
Yes. Real, fake, or fake fake.
Randall365
Member
With hindsight, it was far healthier than pornhub.
Maybe make it optional - but for teenagers it’s a few aimless thrills - no harm done at all.
Maybe make it optional - but for teenagers it’s a few aimless thrills - no harm done at all.
Randy Solo
Member
When women are left to their own devices they sexualize themselves. Tick tock/insta/snapchat etc.. I dont understand why modern males want to apologise for being attracted to women. Women are glorious. Games should represent them in all their glory.
Halo is Back
Member
I wouldn't want it in every game, but I think it should again be acceptable in Western media. Now, it seems like any developer could get immense backlash if they sexualize women anyway in thier game. The best character to bring it back would be Lara.
GermanZepp
Member
As others pointed out there is a right place for every aesthetic and sexual 'tone' in games, books or any media. Out of place anything could be distasteful, cringe or worst.
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Eiknarf
Banned
This ^
This is a better worded way of summing-up what I tried to get across a few days ago, here:
So maybe the answer is, “we need females in the game-developing offices”? Is that it? Do we need to have females designing the hot fictional female characters to make it be ok?
I’m just spitballing here-
I think it’s a very intriguing discussion. But I’m curious how it (sex, sexy characters, revealing clothes) will be in the future when I’m dead and gone.
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Umbasaborne
Banned
Im fine with it and fine without it, it was fine back then, but im not gonna screech on twitter that capcoms gone woke because leon doesnt stare up ashleys skirt anymore. People who get worked up about that stuff need to touch some grass. Also i game on pc and if you really need that shit nude mods exist lol
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jshaver488
Member
This made me remember a couple years ago on that “other” gaming forum where there was a huge thread of posting video game chads and drooling over them.
Someone made one with females and it was locked for misogyny something something patriarchy
Someone made one with females and it was locked for misogyny something something patriarchy
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badblue
Gold Member
She obviously just needs to get to a lingerie store in the mall.It was maybe a little over the top.
BbMajor7th
Member
I hear this a lot but just look at GTA5. It has been the best-selling console game for three generations straight, it has three male protagonists that range from totally average to offensively ugly and literally nobody has ever made a thread anywhere on the internet asking why they aren't chiseled, square-jawed twenty-somethings. A woman falls outside the pristine Hollywood template of beauty though and... well, you've all seen the Fat Aloy memes.
Shubh_C63
Member
If you want sexualization in game then hit me with a whacky setting to go with it. Hot hourglass figure with on your face sex appeal clothes doesn't fit with say raiding tombs.
I am glad games are moving towards Witcher like portrays because then I wouldn't be embarrassed playing it in front of my wife.
I am glad games are moving towards Witcher like portrays because then I wouldn't be embarrassed playing it in front of my wife.
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SupremeHoodie
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That was the just world we lived in back then in the 90s and 2000s. Everything had to be edgy and needed to push the limits. Every industry wanted to be like Howard Stern and attract people through either shock value or over the top portrayals of people’s vices and desires.
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Fess
Member
Yeah, some games have a gore or blood on/off switch.
Why can’t we have a sexual content switch?
I think AC Valhalla had that. Not sure what that content was though since I hated the game and never finished it. AC Origin had topless women though so maybe it was something like that.
Spitfire098
Gold Member
I personally don't need to consume degen content 24/7. I'm glad it's shifting away from it.
Schmendrick
Member
Back then men in videogames were built like He-Man and women were Barbies with torpedo tits.
Imho this falls into the same category as hair cuts in the 80s, outside of nostalgia/retro products it just feels old and rather cringy.
Imho this falls into the same category as hair cuts in the 80s, outside of nostalgia/retro products it just feels old and rather cringy.
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Fess
Member
Exactly. Can’t scroll through Instagram without seeing a proud girl in painted on gym tights showing off her big booty. (It’s great) And in games (western) devs try to shave off any bigger booty and let the characters wear pants that don’t show the curves and make them nearly look like men.
Who actually wants that? Women? Why? I wouldn’t want the men in games look like women or have no muscles. I don’t get it.
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
In retrospective, it's funny we saw those poorly rendered 3d models and found then "hot". I won't deny they existed, but I don't think gaming is worse because they are not prevalent.
Also, games were just teasing us without actually satisfying us, so it's all a blue ball fiesta. If anyone was being exploited, was men that had no access to the actual thing.
Also, games were just teasing us without actually satisfying us, so it's all a blue ball fiesta. If anyone was being exploited, was men that had no access to the actual thing.
Madserb2023
Member
Like with everything, there is always an over correction. We went from having female characters in games that were more attractive than 90% of women to now being less attractive than 90% of women. In the minds of game designers, real women must look like oblivion NPCs.
hououinkyouma00
Member
Some of it was a little over the top, but I enjoy it overall. However go outside nowadays and you see shit just like it.
A good variety is best though on both the male and female side personally.
A good variety is best though on both the male and female side personally.
peronmls
Member
I mean I don’t see a lot of sexualized men. It’s always women. I don’t really care but it’s odd that humans male or female sexualize only females or children from random anime. You hardly see men portrayed that way. You will never see a guys nips stick out through their shirt even if it’s completely normal IRL than it is for a women.
Danjin44
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Fuz
Banned
And a classic just because why not.
Fuz
Banned
I mean, in their defense, I don't think they see many women.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
The difference is that the lingerie store is selling lingerie. The console has nothing to do with lingerie. There is also the fact the guy appears to be fucking his controller and they chose a 'that's a penis' for the screenshot.She obviously just needs to get to a lingerie store in the mall.
