Those eyes and dimples. This woman is adorable.
My wife would look at me funny if I import this..lol.
no need to import. it'll be sold domestically as well.
Ah, didn't know that
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So Metal Gear's "Quiet" figurine features squishable boobs.
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Those eyes and dimples. This woman is adorable.
My wife would look at me funny if I import this..lol.
Ah, didn't know that
Lalalandia
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Well the fact that we need her character to 'overcome' her design is the reason it's an issue. The character as is does not say sniper with a glance in the same way that the MGS sniper (can't remember anyone's name in this series) character design did. Still if the thing the characters creator was excited to point out was squishy boobies I'm not going to be holding my breath for a well written answer to the question of why someone walks around mostly bare skinned in a country with daytime temps of ~40° C
A girl is okay with it so everyone should be okay with it. That's how equality works.
Mods have clamped down on FigureGAF as of yesterday; (perm)banning people and closing the thread.
Mexen
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The Smoking Bun
Banned
This here is the core issue. Quiet could be the greatest female character in gaming and hailed as a modern day digital Joan of Arc and Kojima could get awards from women's rights groups the world over. But But But... this little doll still cheapens the character
Quiet will most likely turn out to be one huge troll. Like she has skin cancer or something
Quiet will most likely have a Kafka-esque heart wrenching back-story. Every time you look at that squishy doll you will cry tears of sadness. Hopefully that's the ultimate intention.
I ask again, what if this was a Katniss Everdeen doll? Would that cheapen the character? Honestly a Katniss doll with Kung-Fu grip would be a miracle
Exactly, don't get offended on her behalf.
John Kowalski
Banned
Looks like her hairbrush broke.
well, what I mean is it's like when I see designs for characters and have assumptions about them. I guess another good example would be like from the Yakuza games. you think you know the characters from their outer appearances as criminals at first but they show you they have a different side to them which makes you relate to them. i'm hoping Quiet has a similar arc for her character. I hope she's more like The Boss and less like one of those shitty bosses from MGS4
WrenchNinja
Member
I'm not sure superpowers is an explanation for running around in a bikini and stockings
Even if she had The End powers, we sure didn't see him running around in his underoos
Even if she had The End powers, we sure didn't see him running around in his underoos
Not just 'a girl' but 'the girl'.
You'd tell her it's not okay for her to have a doll of herself with squishable boobs?
Lalalandia
Member
Yeah that was the precise moment I realised that MGS was actually completely nuts. I don't accept 'a wizard did it' as good writing anyway so my own expectations are that we won't get an answer worth hearing but I anticipate some great laughs as people try and spin 'solar powered skin camouflage' as a reasonable answer.The answer is obviously going to be superpowers.
Hell, MGS 1 had this guy
MGS has always been daft but there was a nasty edge to some of the later titles (most Paz stuff) that has soured me a bit towards it. L
Dreams-Visions
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Why do the knees look like such a disaster area
Augemitbutter
Member
yuck. now this is truly disgusting.
But does she feature soft materials that can be pushed and lifted?
The actress is free to do whatever she likes with her body. And if she wants to take part in a production that makes dolls out of it, that's her freedom to do so.
That Saudi Arabia likeness is doubly ironic considering how everyone here is acting like a Saudi censorship bureau regarding this. Maybe if we covered her up real good, the design would be less "offensive"?
I'd tell her why it's questionable sure. Her being okay with it doesn't mean everyone who's upset by it is invalidated. Personally, I don't think having a squishable Quiet masturbatory aid is going to end video games as we know it (sex is awesome and boobs aren't going to kill anyone), but I can understand why people would be upset about it.
because Play Arts
people don't buy these overpriced toys for amazing sculpts they buy them because..uh..I got nothing
Stallion Dan
Member
When the figure is being made in her own image, yes at some point everyone else should just accept it.
She is the authority on herself. Not other people.
"Are you offended? Why aren't you offended? You should be offended! I am offended for you!"
You do know this is the same franchise that let you run around grabbing crotches lol.
Also what was achieved with female character's recently? There's always been good and bad examples in games.
Always-honest
Banned
Huh? How did they make this?
That's what I feel like this discussion has devolved into as well =/.
their human characters are a mixed bag but all characters in armor are great! the Halo ones are so good.
With weaponized 12 year old boy's fantasies distilled into pure silicone.
Demoskinos
Member
Yes god damn her because she has her own free will and chose to do this!
After lots of research.
Lalalandia
Member
So because all those models in ridiculously sexist ads from back in the day were OK with it we should be too? Maybe she is fine with it or maybe ongoing promotional work was a part of her contract, smiling and posing are what models do after all.
You are being absolutely ridiculous.
No one is reading the OP, lol
Jawmuncher
Member
The articulation they do on figures is always like that. It's more noticeable when the characters doesn't really have pants.
Always-honest
Banned
haha, no. I mean technically/ production proces/ construction wise.. How did they make it? Can you see a seam?
The Smoking Bun
Banned
Nowhere near the same thing.
If she had a problem, we'd hear about it
But again, we should be better than this. I don't think the games industry is mature enough to take squishy boobs doll in the right light.
That post was in reply to someone calling Japan a cute Saudia Arabia. I mean, shit, that's pretty ridiculous.
Only 12 year olds like breasts, apparently.
RedQueensAce
Member
I've not been following any of this Konami/Kojima stuff but almost everything I've seen about him makes him seem like an asshole...
That character design is ridiculous.
I think people who think this don't really understand the argument.
Hey, he asked how it was made and I gave him the facts. I'm merely a vessel for the facts.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Well it definitely feels like shame.
The prototype was probably designed in a 3D program like ZBrush. Then made in clay and casted in resin. And then at some point a PVC prototype made. Through some magic, a mold is created, the parts casted, assembled in most likely China, and painted and packaged.
EDIT: Soft part made from a different material than PVC of course.
What have you seen about him? I feel like I'm missing something here, like a Kotaku expose I haven't read.
Stallion Dan
Member
Ads using women in a sexist manner is a different topic than a woman being ok with a figurine of herself. And squishy boobs are not sexist.
John Kowalski
Banned
Well yeah. For her this might just be one helluva opportunity for her career, so she might not be comfortable thinking about the implications of having a sexy figurine made of your image, but that doesn't mean the implications don't exist. I mean, people who are into animu and sliced manga know how this works, often there are waaay too pervy figurines of characters who are otherwise actually pretty decent characters. But while it's possible that Quiet ends up being a fantastic character in the game, and still have absurd squishy figurines of her covered in ungodly extracts outside of it, it's still a very dirty thing to do with your female characters as a creator.
I just hope Stefanie san isn't crying herself to sleep over this.
the price you pay for articulation. Want some real nightmare fuel, take a look a Playarts Kai figures.
sensui-tomo
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Lalalandia
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Please explain how.
Also note that Konami have already shut down commentary by another talent associated with this game when they spoke out of turn on the Kojima mess. In a field as fragile as modelling being known as awkward is a recipe for no work (excepting the stratosphere of the 'super model'). Joosten is making her career in Japan becoming the centre of a controversy would not help with getting more work.
Or she's cool with it but so what? Very few offensive media images have been made with unwilling participants.
Ah for clarity's sake I meant even if she was uncomfortable with it speaking out about it has no upside for her
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