Lots to unpack here.
on the bold the difference is that men in games are portrayed as the player wanting to be them, women are portrayed as the player wanting to fuck them.
It's the same issue with PoC representation in games, except no one really gives a shit (exhibit A:this thread).
"I'm a white dude so maybe I don't get it, but..." <proceeds to show that he truly doesn't get it>
Yeah, okay. By the way, the problem with representation of women isn't that they're good-looking, it's that they're often sexualized. Completely different thing. You don't see Nathan Drake or Joel walking around in a speedo because that'd be patently ridiculous, but that kind of ridiculousness always gets a pass for many female characters because they're designed as sex objects first and foremost.
Oh... Yeah I can see that now. Well I didn't think that way I admit, it's true that women are "attractive" and sexualized, I didn't think that Nathan Drake for exemple was not "sexualized enough" to make girls think "hey I'd fuck him", but mostly because I've always been thinking about guys (not all of them) as persons who easily wanna fuck anything possible and girls (but again not all of them) to be more down to earth persons on that subject. Personnaly I've never thought at a girl character in the way "damn I'd fuck her", there's some girls character in games for who I'd feel "hey she has a nice personality, I like people like that" but not physically... And I mean there's VG characters after all so I didn't think about that too much, I've to admit.
But yes ok you're right I admit, women characters are way more sexualized than men, in a "fuckable" way, I just didn't think like that.
And yeah as I said I maybe didn't get it at first, it's why I'm on a forum, to discuss, if I'm absolutly sure to be right or that my opinion is the "best" or the good one I'll insist, but if I'm wrong or see that another opinion is better than mine, no problem I'll admit it.
Have you A) ever played RE5 and B) ever been to any countries in Africa? I love me some RE5 but jesus christ I dunno what Capcom was thinking with certain sections of that game.
A) Yes, finished it like 10 times! :O B) No, never been to an African country but what is wrong in RE5 about that? You mean that on the first version there were only black characters so it was not realistic enough since most of North African countries have Arabian people and not only black? Well yeah but in some countries of Africa, people are 95% black, no?