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Kojima responds to the criticism of Quiet in MGSV
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He had a rape victim in MGS4 too, but she ended up in a photo shoot doing sexual poses.
Major Nelson head of Mensa CONFIRMED
And we had this as a playable character MORE THAN 10 YEARS AGO:
Oh, the offense!
I, for one, am offended by Kojima's depictions of naked males in his sexist games. The objectification of men must stop. Problematic.
Frostinferno
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My first thought too. Everyone else going wild with their theories lol.
BumblebeeCody
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Based Kojima pls BibleThump
SomedayTheFire
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She's still absolutely horrendously designed, and that tweet of the characters ass would terribly childish.
When you will see Konami's cash flow, you will feel ashamed by your words and deeds.
Dude, spoilers.
TheBaronOfNA
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Well, I don't remember B&B figures, so maybe, If everyone ends hating her, maybe would pull back...
Risk Breaker
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You got that right bro, I feel disgusted!
Raiden IS the perfect comparison. He is the way he is because they wanted to SEXUALIZE the character so that he would appeal to female japanese gamers.
Just imagine having a naked hot female protagonist being controlled by the player in a modern, 3D-HD videogame. Imagine being able to do a cartwheel with her and see her non-existant genitalia. Imagine the outrage whatever the reasons for the character to be naked.
Immaculate
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lmaoTo those who question Mr. Kojima:
sixteen-bit
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This gif is incredible
Sniper Wolf, Fortune, Eva, and Pacifica Ocean all had that sexualized look. I guess the industry has finally caught up to Kojima, because he's been doing this shit for a long time. There's usually a counter-balance, though: Meryl, Olga, The Boss, and Strangelove. I guess there wasn't so much in 4, unless you count Meryl again. I'm sure we'll see the same kind of thing here, especially if Strangelove is actually alive.
No u.
Vicetrailia
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I don't think its quite sound to merely judge Kojima's characters. For good and for worse, they could turn out to be anything. He's using sex to sell, but it doesn't mean that the char is devoid of any value outside of that.
mullet2000
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If he hadn't previously explicitly said that he wanted her to be more sexy for figurine sales and cosplayers I'd be much more inclined to believe him.
I hope what he says is true though.
I hope what he says is true though.
Sapphire Dreams
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And we had this as a playable character MORE THAN 10 YEARS AGO:
Oh, the offense!
I am getting the feeling that this was fan-service too. But for the opposite sex.
To those who question Mr. Kojima:
What's the Japanese word for "tamarro", i wonder.
Infact, i wonder what the English word for it is.
encephalon
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If it turns out that she was dressed that way by her captors it doesn't make anything better and it sure invalidates the "sexual empowerment" argument.
Misterinenja
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Yeah not touching this shit anymore.
Risk Breaker
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It was
Seriously though, you won't see me get offended by the Raiden shenanigans. Or the KazxSnake thing, either.
thunder_snail
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I think he explicitly said that to bring about conflict. Many people are "whatever, he's kojima and MGS!!", but there are many warriors as well who defend or attack him over it. Like that 343 designer dude. He would be the first one to fire nukes if he was in a real war.
Kojima trying to bring about the notion that there is no definite right or wrong in a war?
Laughing Octopus.
Right, forgot about that. But the difference is that Raiden was not promoted at all prior to the games release. Many people thought that they were going to be playing as Solid Snake. Also the only thing they sexualized with his core design was, according to Shinkawa, making his suit skin tight. The rest they just tried to make appealing to girls, which apparently meant a feminine male character and Titanic. They took a fan letter from a single girl into consideration because she didn't want to play as an old man, not necessarily because Snake wasn't sexy enough. After Raiden's backlash, I assume MGS4 was planned specifically as revenge.
The naked cartwheeling was mentioned, and that is endgame stuff. Quiet is being overtly sexualized from the beginning. Which again, isn't my main issue, it is Kojima's odd reasoning after he admitted it was because of cosplay and figurine sales.
See my above comment, and also a game called "X-Blades" and more or less "Blades of Time". There is also an MMO where you only play as females, and eventually you can get them completely naked. No one really cares about those as much as they are terrible games. If it was female instead of Raiden, there would be backlash. See, people are upset at the over sexualization of female characters because that is the norm for games and people want that to change.
I can't answer for them, but the shit storm started when Kojima tweeted that he was constantly going to his character designer telling him to make her more erotic/sexual and the goal was to sell more figurines and encourage sexy cosplay.
We then got a shot of her model in a sudo stripper/hooker pose showing off the more revealing outfit and curves.
One female cosplayer said she no longer plans on cosplaying as Quiet, saying she looks 'trashy'.
And we had this as a playable character MORE THAN 10 YEARS AGO:
Oh, the offense!
Not remotely comparable.
There's a difference between being created with the idea of appealing to a demographic and... Quiet. At worst it's a matter of degrees and class.
NinjamicWZ
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Quiet is a beautiful Crying Game statement on the history of don't ask don't tell.
lazorexplosion
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Kojima is just a hack, plain and simple.
No this isn't like that bit where Raiden is naked. That at least is not Raiden's actual uniform. This is more like if Raiden's normal uniform was always nothing but a tiny skintight thong that almost leaves his cock hanging out.
No this isn't like that bit where Raiden is naked. That at least is not Raiden's actual uniform. This is more like if Raiden's normal uniform was always nothing but a tiny skintight thong that almost leaves his cock hanging out.
revolverjgw
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To those who question Mr. Kojima:
Is that arrow photoshopped on? I've seen this photo before but I don't remember noticing that
thanx
Dragon1893
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At the end of the day it's just fan service, no point in beating around the bush
soulassssns
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Nothing better than playing a game that actually makes you think.
Thank you Kojima.
Thank you Kojima.
SolidSnakex
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It wouldn't surprise me if it's real. Kojima also once tweeted a closeup pic of his ass in Spiderman underwear.
NinjamicWZ
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Freedom.
karasu
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so.
Yep, this is what I'm going with because you know, nanomachines.
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