Hahahahaha oh dear
It's cool, I'll just drop her right here.
I have always know that Bayonetta's proportions are wierd and I played the first game and knew her legs were long but never noticed that her leg up to her knee is larger than her body and head.You forgot the best lady
So making broad strokes that another culture's design sensibilities are brainless (not the west though) isn't plainly racist? Because your posts are coming off pretty unintelligent and racist here.
You forgot the best lady
Seriously, what is the problem with sex appeal? It doesn't lessen something's legitimacy because it is attractive.
What kind of Puritanical regime are we living under that a midriff is now "going to far"?
Have you ever worked out? It's fine to show off the stomach if the character is fighting in a warm climate.
No, it's not. You don't like how the design looks? Fine, but what you're doing is no different than slut shaming a woman in real life who happens to have her midriff exposed.
It feels like we have reached a paradox.What kind of Puritanical regime are we living under that a midriff is now "going to far"?
Have you ever worked out? It's fine to show off the stomach if the character is fighting in a warm climate.
No, it's not. You don't like how the design looks? Fine, but what you're doing is no different than slut shaming a woman in real life who happens to have her midriff exposed.
IIRC she was designed by a woman.
None of what I said was racist but ok.
We're now slut shaming a video game character for being designed by men in a manner that doesn't make sense in the context of fighting giant robot dinosaurs, holy shit you've got to be kidding me.What kind of Puritanical regime are we living under that a midriff is now "going to far"?
Have you ever worked out? It's fine to show off the stomach if the character is fighting in a warm climate.
No, it's not. You don't like how the design looks? Fine, but what you're doing is no different than slut shaming a woman in real life who happens to have her midriff exposed.
Violence in media typically isn't shafting one gender over the other. Unless it's sexual violence, which typically women are the victim of in media. Violence is typically contextualized to an absurd degree, the lack of a woman's brain as she makes armor choices that expose skin, is not. And when it is, it's usually absolutely stupid. Like "I can't breath through my skin, so i'm gonna wear a bikini top, a thong, and ripped leggings specifically." The only thing worse than this is gamers who have no self awareness whatsoever and legitimately can't see why one gender being portrayed this way near constantly is an issue.
Context.
I have wondered if this has more to do with the relative age of America and it's birth through a bloody revolution. It's hard to glorify and thank soldiers of the past while also condemning them for the violence they participated in. It may have been viewed as a necessary evil or a righteous crusade while the deep religious ties prevented major progression in the areas of sexual freedom.
It's almost like guerilla painstakingly made the default outfit fit the context with lots of reasonable explanations for each component.
Where does "and for this outfit Aloy decided it's be best not to cover her stomach" fit into the context?
More like uncreative, not idiots. Doll faced sexualized characters in a Japanese game are about as common as a brown haired white dude with stubble in a western game, and at least there are efforts to solve the latter.
Thank you, there's nothing more disengenous than some of the poor excuses gamers come up with.
Compared to defending the sanctity of a really stupid outfit to the agency of women in real life who're not in a dangerous situation near constantly and chocking it up to "but it's video games" which is basically saying that you'd prefer not to have to use any sort of critical thought whatsoever and would get laughed of a class at a university for defending something like "it's a video game" or trying to poorly explain the context? And no, i'm not gonna get over it, just like African Americans aren't getting over the constant racism in America, people aren't gonna get over the examples of poor representation no matter how small. That's how things get better. Stop whining about criticism. Because I noticed a pattern, we have three games in the OP that have alts for the protagonists that don't make any sense.
Exposing skin to the elements doesn't help in the context of what a character is doing. Especially when we consider what might be causing heat in the first place in a post sci-fi apocalypse. You're right that all of her outfits seem to focus on crop tops and that she focuses on mobility first and foremost over a character who's a tank, but in a hot setting, just the undershirt being removed while wearing more clothing on your skirt doesn't really work as an equation. My critique is of yet another inexplicably exposed midriff in a character design but seeing people trip over themselves to justify it is really something else.
To be fair, Otome Games are aimed at women. The men in them are usually drawn super sexy lol.
Also this:
Literally the reason we're getting a game like Horizon with a character as reasonably designed as Aloy is because people absolutely spoke up about the treatment of women in games.
Receipts. First of all, I have no issue with preferring Japanese design preferences whatsoever, however, I DO have an issue when they don't seem to understand the issues surrounding them, in the exact same way that I have an issue with the way people don't understand the issue with so many protagonists being white. You sincerely need to stop fucking trying to paint me as someone who's racist against Japanese design principles that's not how fucking critique works.
