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Let's talk about sexualized men in gaming and lack of diverse body types
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You guys are lucky I'm not in charge!
Rabid Dwarf 76
Member
Do only men read movie reviews?
T.Slothrop
Member
Well the majority of people like fit bodies. So your big budget games aiming at doing big sales are going to aim for that platonic ideal in terms of body depictions, with whomever their target audience is. Sorry boutcha.
Is the bolded stats from my ass?
Hmm, I'm finding it hard to find stats about what young, straight American males think is ideal (because guess who's designing your video game characters).
I found what a random American graphic designer thinks is the ideal male body type:
And what a bunch of straight young British college males think the ideal body type is:
In this image, the men designed C and D.
(The asthetic in the UK has always been thinner that the asthetic in the US based on media created in those regions.)
But nothing that took a group of hypothetical dude bros and had them measure out the perfect body.
Technically part of a gaming cross media promotion, but...
Submitted for the approval of the midnight society: Nyx from FFXV Kingsglaive.
flandersshakingthatass.gif
Like...wearing nothing at all....
nothing at all.....
ivanthebearable
Member
You do know that it's possible to have fit types AND other types in the same game right? There's no excuse. That's what this thread is getting at in the first place.
SchrodingerC
Member
Post-rehab stint DINO was sufficiently bae
Oh please, with that garbage face and obnoxious personality?
Boy belongs in the trash.
capitalCORN
Member
Lol, a meninist thread.
meltingparappa
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capitalCORN
Member
If it's about queer, where's the lesbians, the trans?
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Did you skip over the "male" part of the thread?
While that does rightfully include a large number of Trans folks we're discussing the representation of male bodies here.
Female body type representation is a great and important conversation to have but that's not something I think should be the focus of a thread on men...
capitalCORN
Member
Butch les? Are we discounting bi/pan now?
Basketball
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Muskieratboi
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umop_3pisdn
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What are you talking about?
Sammy Samusu
Member
How about you try taking your own advice?
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capitalCORN
Member
Masculinity isn't simply male. Don't kink shame.
Astral Dog
Member
Not enough examples the last few pages 😴
i think Robin was bald too
umop_3pisdn
Member
Okay. But the op, while not great, doesn't have the problem of being unclear in what it's about. If you think this topic should be circumscribed differently, maybe you should make your own thread/op where all of that can be made explicit from the beginning so the form of the discussion can follow from that, instead of simply taking umbrage with a relatively transparent discussion already taking place.
meltingparappa
Member
Speaking of which, making Prompto look like he's got a little more meat on him via winter fashion:
Not enough examples the last few pages 😴
i think Robin was bald too
We just need a game about Nightwing
's butt.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
my god this thread is amazing
HappyPuppy
Member
*high five
I'm mostly into it cause of the body hair, the muscles are meh. I just want more body hair in gaming or in media.
Been watching Buffy lately and got all giddy when I could see Warren's chest hair coming out ... good times.
Going to check out that Bastard Bonds game, seemed interesting >_>
joecanada
Member
Oh wow that is some next level disturbing but yeah he's not 2% bf for sure ...
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Man, what an utterly transparent shitstain of an OP. Thread is suspect as fuck.
We just need a game about Nightwing
's butt.
Wow. I didn't know comic book has made a massive leap in male exploitation.
+1
Luckily, it's a subject that a good amount of people have a legitimate interest in. So whatever the OP's original intentions, the thread seems to have gone in a decent direction.
Muskieratboi
Member
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Im deadddd
It is not comics ... it is just Nightwing
I'm one of the people that really likes Vaan's design, even though I'm more into "dad bods".
He is a young teen. Like many teens, he doesn't look over masculine. Also he lives in a desert city and is an easy-going guy, so that's quite normal that he only wears a west. Furthermore, he is poor (and therefore doesn't it too much) and I asume that he is quite active. This results that he has abs.
I personally don't see what's wrong with him.
He is a young teen. Like many teens, he doesn't look over masculine. Also he lives in a desert city and is an easy-going guy, so that's quite normal that he only wears a west. Furthermore, he is poor (and therefore doesn't it too much) and I asume that he is quite active. This results that he has abs.
I personally don't see what's wrong with him.
FingerBang
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I don't know what I was expecting to find in this thread and I don't know if I found it.
Monocle
Member
Aww man I missed the pictures.
Also I like his face when he's not pulling a dumb expression.
He's a super obnoxious character, but I can't hate on that torso, mmh.Post-rehab stint DINO was sufficiently bae
Also I like his face when he's not pulling a dumb expression.
The same way people sexualize images in movies, comics, and saucy fan art? Hot is hot.
OMG this is my jam. Work it.We just need a game about Nightwing
's butt.
Wait, hold on, this is actually possible? How did I not know this?
I like Hwoarang but sadly Tekken's male anatomy has been kinda whack since Tekken 5. Even 4's wasn't great. Soul Calibur 4 and 5 have way more appealing models.
Hwoarang's T7 design and poses are pretty thot
blankslatenator
Banned
Hot damn, I cracked up when I saw this.
AtomskEater
Member
It just now became an option with the release of his DLC. You need to get like 500k points in the score attack mode.
Battlechili
Banned
I was pretty happy with Adam and Eve in Nier Automata honestly. Probably the most attractive men I've seen in video games.
LelouchZero
Member
Dammit, I missed the good stuff! The posts on the first page have my sides hurting!
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I love that in video games, kemono characters kept the bara stuff before human males got a ride with it for quite a while~
My god this thread is all kinds of spectacular. Too bad a topic worthy of discussion had to be broached in such an... unorthodox way.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Bill from The Last of Us yet.
Fantastically written and performed, definitely a nonstandard body type, and oh yeah -- he just happens to be gay. Bill is the shining beacon of thick dudes in video games, not conforming to any hackneyed stereotypes. Sadly, he's unlikely to be surpassed any time soon.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Bill from The Last of Us yet.
Fantastically written and performed, definitely a nonstandard body type, and oh yeah -- he just happens to be gay. Bill is the shining beacon of thick dudes in video games, not conforming to any hackneyed stereotypes. Sadly, he's unlikely to be surpassed any time soon.
Agreed.
I think he wasn't mentioned because this thread is mostly about sexualized men. The game had references to his
dead partner and collection of skin mags,
I agree he's a great character. His banter with Ellie is gold in the game. Any other studio would've put in gay panic moments or somehow painted him as abnormal.
This is the way to do token representation but do it right. His story is small but it's moving; it utilizes his sexuality (in that his relationship is directly addressed) but it doesn't make a big deal out of it. They even get in a few yuks about his gay porn without ever having it read as homophobic, which is quite a feat.
And nice to see Naughty Dog move from this to even more central LGBT representation since - unlike certain other developers who have stuck a toe in the water and then regressed.