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[FalsettoVibe]

Pure bullshit. Resetera is the absolute worst gaming forum on the net. As soon as I saw that bastard ZeoVGM respond I knew it was over for that forum user.

Poor dude probably got banned.

Welp....you called it.

 

[Draugoth]

Pure bullshit. Resetera is the absolute worst gaming forum on the net. As soon as I saw that bastard ZeoVGM respond I knew it was over for that forum user.



Welp....you called it.

They only allow you to compliment transgender and men in that forum

"..I guess women just aren't seen as people by some.."

They're great at projecting their own disconnect with reality.

Finding women to be conventionally attractive and regarding them as people are not mutually exclusive concepts.

Also, this an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of pixels in an absurd videogame, not a woman.

Men are objectified, not to the same extent as women are, but they are. Just look at how the perfect man are perceived by pop culture, strong, muscular or skinned with timothée chalamet face.

This is Leon face Actor,

Just imagine what he has to deal with when walking around the street.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I don't get it. Is this the same person posting?

Yup! She's a frequent poster on the purple forum and I believe that she also works for a reviewing site. Anyway, the hypocrisy is quite ironic...

Some very good receipts there, Slothbeing1209 .

 

[Slothbeing1209]

I don't get it. Is this the same person posting?

Maybe, Maybe not. Not the point though. Just show double standard of Ree forum. While they can discuss and post shit about how hot Male character is but banned anyone dare to talked about how hot Eve is.

I saw this on reddit post, not mine btw.

 

[Majukun]

What’s point gaming forum like that if you can’t express your opinion?

You can’t even have proper discussion because you get banned if you disagree with them…..pure dictatorship.

yeah, I dislike the other forum nowhere as much as some people here, there's some good content and posters there, but the mod team is an absolute embarassment and has no idea what the world "moderation" means

 

[nkarafo]

Can't wait for the digital foundry video. They're not even gonna be talking about the tech are they? 'it look ok but why she so curvy?!'

I have completely lost respect for them tbh.

 

[nkarafo]

I am so fucking ecstatic those pathetic fuckers have no power whatsoever on what those Asian developers want to do and all they can is to meltdown all the time.

They don't have that power yet.

And it seems they have enough power to poison most western devs with their ideology, which they do for many years now.

We are losing this my man. The fact that this topic is so controversial and threads like this exists means we may won a battle or two but we have lost the war.

 

[Skifi28]

I have completely lost respect for them tbh.

Whenever Alex is not present, there's pretty good discussions to be had.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Code Vein and Scarlet Nexus are mid? Good to know. I love mid games.

Scarlet Nexus was really fun. I even watched the anime as it released. I still need to go back and play through as the other protagonist.

Code Vein was also a blast. Played it non-stop at release. I almost got the platinum, and that is rare for me.

These are both certainly “AA” games, but well worth playing!

 

[nkarafo]

Poor dude probably got banned.

Don't feel bad, he is an Era member. That means he is either an idiot or a troll. There's no way any logical person who wants to actually discuss things is there organically.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Whenever Alex is not present, there's pretty good discussions to be had.

Was meaning to post this. Kinda don't like when people hate on the whole DF crew just because Alex is being weird on this game.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Was meaning to post this. Kinda don't like when people hate on the whole DF crew just because Alex is being weird on this game.

All of the DF people are neurotic in some way, remember the meltdown over ignoring Hogwarts Legacy last year

 

[nkarafo]

Was meaning to post this. Kinda don't like when people hate on the whole DF crew just because Alex is being weird on this game.

Why do they need to validate him though whenever he is with them?

 

[YeulEmeralda]

There's an unholy alliance between wokefags and Christfags.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I’ll definitely look into getting it. Sad day when violence is more acceptable than a curvy set of breasts and cheeks.

 

[Skifi28]

Why do they need to validate him though whenever he is with them?

I don't know about validating, It's basically that annoying colleague where you don't want to create drama and just nod when he says stupid things to be polite. Probably not the best solution for a big channel, but I get it.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

They only allow you to compliment transgender and men in that forum

Seems that way.

 

[Kikorin]

Will be refreshing after my long run with this beauty:

 

[nkarafo]

I don't know about validating, It's basically that annoying colleague where you don't want to create drama and just nod when he says stupid things to be polite. Probably not the best solution for a big channel, but I get it.

I believe they do it because they want to virtue signal and not lose whatever status they have on Era. Which is even worse because that means they are also dishonest. I don't like Alex and his views but at least he is honest.

 

[Draugoth]

Will be refreshing after my long run with this beauty:

 

[Evil Calvin]

Well, better to look at her than looking at Ellie, Abby or Aloy

 

[Krathoon]

This is the most Asian anti-woke game ever.

 

[Kings Field]

 

[Krathoon]

Watch Kotaku start shitting themselves over this game.

 

[Arsic]

Yeah but like… is the game any good?

Idc if she looks like Duff Man or like Mia Khalifa, but if it’s a shit game then who cares?

The trailers for this game haven’t made me think this is hype and I’m a fan of DMC, Vanquish, etc.

Hope it’s actually good.

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Whenever Alex is not present, there's pretty good discussions to be had.

Bro looks like he's wearing eyeliner. Or Guyliner in this case..

Or am I tripping balls?

 

[MonkeyClaw36]

Making an account now on Era just to see how fast I get banned after commenting the great ass of Stellar Blades' protagonist.
Edit: My pronouns are He Him Penis

Guess I won't make it past validation..

 

[Guileless]

It’s reasons like this why we NEED Japanese, Korean and Asian developers in general working in the gaming industry. They are not afraid to think outside the box and go against the norm. Their games generally offer things other developers cannot or will not do. It could even be jealousy for reasons I won’t go into now. It’s a shame he has to explain himself though. Let developers and creators create the games and visions they want to make. If people don’t like it, just don’t buy it.

Cultures that are not dominated by neo-Puritan secular monotheistic strictures are making more interesting art.

 

[Hypereides]

This should be the OT title

I'd vouch for |OT| user warned: "boys club erotica". All credit and © goes to Mr. Chuck Berry himself.

 

[Chuck Berry]

I'd vouch for |OT| user warned: "boys club erotica". All credit and © goes to Mr. Chuck Berry himself.

 

[Madonis]

Like I've said before, I'm totally alright with seeing attractive characters in games more often. Absolutely, go right ahead. Doesn't mean every single character of every single game needs to look like this, which is where I think some folks tend to overreact these days, both positively and negatively.

I still want this game to find its own identity outside of vaguely coming across like Nier Automata: Korean Edition. Not that it would be super bad if it didn't, but one can hope!

 

[blakdecaf]

That’s a GAF wet dream right there.

 

[Eiknarf]

Exactly. All western games now must have uglified girl bosses otherwise it is bad. It's like watching Game of Thrones and all female characters look and act like Bryanne of Tarth. What made her special was her rarity and uniqueness, compared to the other women.

I raise a question:

A few pages back I compiled an image of the female leads in Spider-Man 2, Horizon Zero Dawn and Control… and compared em to the lead in Stellar Blade.

You may have noticed I didn’t put any of the lead females from The Last of Us in that because I don’t feel that is a fair comparison.

Because the world in which The Last of Us takes place is a post-apocalyptic world where there is no access to healthcare, there’s no access to make up, there’s no nice clothing, there’s no access to hair salons, eating healthy is almost impossible…etc so people are not going to look good. Male or female.

Isn’t that why the leads can be seen as “not attractive”?

Because if you took Abby or Ellie and got their hair done, and make-up done, and dressed and cleaned em up nice…etc they would look a lot better than they do, right?

Spider-Man 2. Control. Horizon zero Dawn have no excuse for making their female leads unattractive .

 

[Mister Wolf]

They only allow you to compliment transgender and men in that forum



Men are objectified, not to the same extent as women are, but they are. Just look at how the perfect man are perceived by pop culture, strong, muscular or skinned with timothée chalamet face.

This is Leon face Actor,

Just imagine what he has to deal with when walking around the street.

Men are objectified as "success/financial" objects by women. Meaning it's not about who he is as a person, but how he can improve her life financially. The NBA had to put out a notice telling players how to properly dispose of their condoms because there were numerous incidents being reported of women stealing the semen from out of their condoms. Most recently the musician Drake stopped a women's attempt at doing this by pouring hot sauce in his condom post sex. Another example is women willingly engaging in sexual activity with a men of status, then on the back end using that fact and the threat of revealing personal info about him to extort money.

 

[Sentenza]

Beauty is one thing.

Shoving the protagonist's butt in your face all the time is another thing entirely.

This is beauty and grace combined, for instance.

EDIT - I'm way too late.

 

[_Ex_]

Looking forward to Stellar Blade selling millions, thoroughly proving to misguided woke western devs/publishers that SEX SELLS DEFINITIVELY. And the desire to, I don't know, make a profit perhaps(?) will bring sexy girls back to western gaming again. Idealism doesn't pay dividends, but dat ass do.

 

[rkofan87]

Looking for the Steam Store Page and can't find it. This game is dead to me, sexy or not.

it will come to pc later.

 

[Shin-Ra]

New trailer?

I see WipEout ships and track.

 

[belmarduk]

This is such an obvious point I wouldn't think anyone would even need to make it.
Nobody wants to play games with characters who like like fat, ugly Reseterans.

 

[Ar¢tos]

I wonder if the devs keep the design exactly as it is, but add the option to make her trans and add a bulge between the legs, will they get endless praises from Era?

 

[Mirumi]

My biggest issue in all this is the double standards western media and social media takes.

Video Game Women must be normal or "not attractive" because it takes away from the game.
Yet EVERY TV show and movie must have outrageously attractive movie stars with perfect skin, teeth and ratios.

For those that don't like the game, it's fine, don't play/preorder. There is no shame in that. Go about your day as you are not the target audience member. You can say your piece, but likewise we shouldn't argue either. Let the sales of the ones that like this thing decide if the game is successful or not.

 

[ZVWQP-9B8TM-VH9CT]

freaking "progressive" puritanism.

 

[ZVWQP-9B8TM-VH9CT]

My biggest issue in all this is the double standards western media and social media takes.

Video Game Women must be normal or "not attractive" because it takes away from the game.
Yet EVERY TV show and movie must have outrageously attractive movie stars with perfect skin, teeth and ratios.

For those that don't like the game, it's fine, don't play/preorder. There is no shame in that. Go about your day as you are not the target audience member. You can say your piece, but likewise we shouldn't argue either. Let the sales of the ones that like this thing decide if the game is successful or not.

not always. They shove on our faces how beautiful the ultra-fat "model" is with the huge belly and the nonexistent tits and a body identical to that of 55-year-old overweight men.

 

[Madflavor]

I'm at a loss of words at what an absolute fucking cancer that community is.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I tend not to pre order games these days, most are complete dog turd

..I'll pre order this.

It may be total ass, but it's an ass I can get behind.

More of this in the gaming sphere please. We're not prude children.

 

[Nickolaidas]

I raise a question:

A few pages back I compiled an image of the female leads in Spider-Man 2, Horizon Zero Dawn and Control… and compared em to the lead in Stellar Blade.

You may have noticed I didn’t put any of the lead females from The Last of Us in that because I don’t feel that is a fair comparison.

Because the world in which The Last of Us takes place is a post-apocalyptic world where there is no access to healthcare, there’s no access to make up, there’s no nice clothing, there’s no access to hair salons, eating healthy is almost impossible…etc so people are not going to look good. Male or female.

Isn’t that why the leads can be seen as “not attractive”?

Because if you took Abby or Ellie and got their hair done, and make-up done, and dressed and cleaned em up nice…etc they would look a lot better than they do, right?

Spider-Man 2. Control. Horizon zero Dawn have no excuse for making their female leads unattractive .

I don't think that post-apocalyptic settings mean there can not be beautiful or sexy women. I mean, SURE, if you go for immersion, they may lack make-up? They may have dirt on their face. Granted. But they can STILL be sexy and beautiful.

This girl is quite cute, even with the freckles and without the make up. I don't think that a Mad Max or the Last of Us character looking like that would be too much to ask.


While this?!

This is literally uglification. Especially when Mary Jane is being CANNONICALLY drop-dead gorgeous. So when a character IN-LORE is gorgeous and you purposefully uglify them (and I don't care what setting your story is, if the writer says the character is gorgeous, they're gorgeous), you are in the wrong.

Warning, personal rant follows: Now, my problem in post-apocalyptic settings, ironically, isn't with the faces or the lack of butt/tits thickness, but with the utter lack of suspension of disbelief in terms of how women are portrayed in such a setting. There is no way in FUCK, that in a post-apocalyptic society where we basically have the Law of the Jungle, is it feasible or realistic to have women in positions of power and who rule by force. Women in post-apocalyptic settings are powerless to defend themselves and are totally reliant on the whims of men, who unfortunately have the tendency to embrace their inner asshole because laws do not really give a fuck about a woman's safety or the sanctity of her vagina when there aren't even courts or civilian lawsuits or whatever. It all boils down to connections and the power of the male who forces himself on the poor woman. So women, realistically speaking, would seek the protection of strong alpha males from predatory males who would want to force themselves on them. They wouldn't become the leaders of the tribe and bash the skulls of people they don't like.

So when people tell me that the HBO tLoU show was well written, I reply with 'fuck off'.

 

[Eiknarf]

I don't think that post-apocalyptic settings mean there can not be beautiful or sexy women. I mean, SURE, if you go for immersion, they may lack make-up? They may have dirt on their face. Granted. But they can STILL be sexy and beautiful.

This girl is quite cute, even with the freckles and without the make up. I don't think that a Mad Max or the Last of Us character looking like that would be too much to ask.


While this?!

This is literally uglification. Especially when Mary Jane is being CANNONICALLY drop-dead gorgeous. So when a character IN-LORE is gorgeous and you purposefully uglify them (and I don't care what setting your story is, if the writer says the character is gorgeous, they're gorgeous), you are in the wrong.

Warning, personal rant follows: Now, my problem in post-apocalyptic settings, ironically, isn't with the faces or the lack of butt/tits thickness, but with the utter lack of suspension of disbelief in terms of how women are portrayed in such a setting. There is no way in FUCK, that in a post-apocalyptic society where we basically have the Law of the Jungle, is it feasible or realistic to have women in positions of power and who rule by force. Women in post-apocalyptic settings are powerless to defend themselves and are totally reliant on the whims of men, who unfortunately have the tendency to embrace their inner asshole because laws do not really give a fuck about a woman's safety or the sanctity of her vagina when there aren't even courts or civilian lawsuits or whatever. It all boils down to connections and the power of the male who forces himself on the poor woman. So women, realistically speaking, would seek the protection of strong alpha males from predatory males who would want to force themselves on them. They wouldn't become the leaders of the tribe and bash the skulls of people they don't like.

So when people tell me that the HBO tLoU show was well written, I reply with 'fuck off'.

Also, didn’t Insomniac use face model Stephanie Tyler Jones to model MJ’s face? If so, it makes no sense that the end result doesn’t look anything like her.

 

[Eiknarf]

Also, didn’t Insomniac use face model Stephanie Tyler Jones to model MJ’s face? If so, it makes no sense that the end result doesn’t look anything like her.

I’m replying to myself because I just found something.

So is Stephanie Tyler Jones perhaps NOT the face model for MJ? Because the one in the game we got looks more like this girl:

 

[Fbh]

Wow it's almost like they listen to their actual intended audience instead of the blue haired weirdos at ERA who were never interested in the game anyway

 

[Mister Wolf]

I’m replying to myself because I just found something.

So is Stephanie Tyler Jones perhaps NOT the face model for MJ? Because the one in the game we got looks more like this girl:

It could be some of her face too. They obviously took creative liberties.