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In retrospective, what do you think of the sexualisation in video games back then?

OmegaSupreme

advanced basic bitch
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I've got that dvd right where I can see it funnily enough. A classic
 

Optimus Lime

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It is alarming that we are now seeing the emergence of a generation of young men who have been conditioned and trained to reject expressions of heterosexual sexuality.

The men of 1980, 1990, 2000, and even 2010 would have laughed at the 'I'M GLAD IT'S GONE IT'S SO MUCH BETTER NOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE GIRLS WITH BIG TITS' puritans. Booth babes, fighting characters with huge tits, Lara Croft in a bikini, God Of War being more interested in banging hot chicks than talking to his idiot son - it was all immensely better than the weirdly sexless, puritanical, timid culture of pathetic, no-balls beta male idiocy that we are now ensconced in. I want more tits in video games, preferably followed by rivers of blood, gore, and mindless violence.

Why do I feel like this? Because I am unashamedly a man.
 

Krathoon

Member
Actually, I need to own a copy of Blades. I think I have Rumble Roses.

Dragon's Crown and Blaze Blue are two other boob games.

What is funny is that you can oversexualize something to the point were it becomes annoying or boring.

Sometimes it even becomes comical.
 
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kingyala

Banned
western people have so much priviledge that they have time to chat about sex... growing up in africa nobody gave a monkey about how video games boobs bounced.. but here we are somehow pornhub is celebrated where women are ligellay raped but video game boobs are considered sexism immoral and toxic....:messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_tears_of_joy:..
 

deriks

4-Time GIF/Meme God
Back in the day was more of a fun thing - I still love Mai Shiranui, and I hooked up with a girl that cosplayed as her, mostly because of the character. As a grow up, doesn't really work and I'm more into foot on the ground girls
 

Eiknarf

Member
When women are left to their own devices they sexualize themselves. Tick tock/insta/snapchat etc.. I dont understand why modern males want to apologise for being attracted to women. Women are glorious. Games should represent them in all their glory.
This ^
This is a better worded way of summing-up what I tried to get across a few days ago, here:


Videos have ten times more tits and ass today. Megan The Stallion, Nikki Minaj, Cardi B, and seven hundred other female artists. Just watch almost any female artist’s videos on YouTube or Instagram or TikTok today. Difference is, it’s technically not MTV. So you’re only right on a semantic level.
The other difference is, it’s the female artist themselves who WANT to put their tits and ass on display. Not a male producer
So maybe the answer is, “we need females in the game-developing offices”? Is that it? Do we need to have females designing the hot fictional female characters to make it be ok?
I’m just spitballing here-

I think it’s a very intriguing discussion. But I’m curious how it (sex, sexy characters, revealing clothes) will be in the future when I’m dead and gone.
 
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Umbasaborne

Banned
Im fine with it and fine without it, it was fine back then, but im not gonna screech on twitter that capcoms gone woke because leon doesnt stare up ashleys skirt anymore. People who get worked up about that stuff need to touch some grass. Also i game on pc and if you really need that shit nude mods exist lol
 
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This made me remember a couple years ago on that “other” gaming forum where there was a huge thread of posting video game chads and drooling over them.

Someone made one with females and it was locked for misogyny something something patriarchy
 
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BbMajor7th

Member
I like women to be sexy in my fictional games, just as men are liked to be good looking/handsome/well-built. Forcing uglified female models upon us is a misandrist double standard.

that chick in the OP is wild to the point of being a 'distraction' though...
I hear this a lot but just look at GTA5. It has been the best-selling console game for three generations straight, it has three male protagonists that range from totally average to offensively ugly and literally nobody has ever made a thread anywhere on the internet asking why they aren't chiseled, square-jawed twenty-somethings. A woman falls outside the pristine Hollywood template of beauty though and... well, you've all seen the Fat Aloy memes.
 

Shubh_C63

Member
If you want sexualization in game then hit me with a whacky setting to go with it. Hot hourglass figure with on your face sex appeal clothes doesn't fit with say raiding tombs.

I am glad games are moving towards Witcher like portrays because then I wouldn't be embarrassed playing it in front of my wife.
 
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That was the just world we lived in back then in the 90s and 2000s. Everything had to be edgy and needed to push the limits. Every industry wanted to be like Howard Stern and attract people through either shock value or over the top portrayals of people’s vices and desires.
 
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Fredrik

Member
Every game should come with a "NSFW option On/Off", maybe?
Yeah, some games have a gore or blood on/off switch.

Why can’t we have a sexual content switch?

I think AC Valhalla had that. Not sure what that content was though since I hated the game and never finished it. AC Origin had topless women though so maybe it was something like that.
 

Schmendrick

Member
Back then men in videogames were built like He-Man and women were Barbies with torpedo tits.
Imho this falls into the same category as hair cuts in the 80s, outside of nostalgia/retro products it just feels old and rather cringy.
 
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Fredrik

Member
When women are left to their own devices they sexualize themselves. Tick tock/insta/snapchat etc.. I dont understand why modern males want to apologise for being attracted to women. Women are glorious. Games should represent them in all their glory.
Exactly. Can’t scroll through Instagram without seeing a proud girl in painted on gym tights showing off her big booty. (It’s great) And in games (western) devs try to shave off any bigger booty and let the characters wear pants that don’t show the curves and make them nearly look like men.
Who actually wants that? Women? Why? I wouldn’t want the men in games look like women or have no muscles. I don’t get it.
 

justiceiro

Marlboro: Other M
In retrospective, it's funny we saw those poorly rendered 3d models and found then "hot". I won't deny they existed, but I don't think gaming is worse because they are not prevalent.

Also, games were just teasing us without actually satisfying us, so it's all a blue ball fiesta. If anyone was being exploited, was men that had no access to the actual thing.
 

-Minsc-

Member
Back in the Soul Caliber 2 days I was more a Sophitia kind of guy. Wasn't a fan of the skin tight clothing showcased in this thread where it appears as if when you squeeze her boobs you could decorate a cake.
 

peronmls

Member
I mean I don’t see a lot of sexualized men. It’s always women. I don’t really care but it’s odd that humans male or female sexualize only females or children from random anime. You hardly see men portrayed that way. You will never see a guys nips stick out through their shirt even if it’s completely normal IRL than it is for a women.
 

Fuz

Banned
I mean I don’t see a lot of sexualized men. It’s always women. I don’t really care but it’s odd that humans male or female sexualize only females or children from random anime. You hardly see men portrayed that way. You will never see a guys nips stick out through their shirt even if it’s completely normal IRL than it is for a women.
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And a classic just because why not.
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Kvally

Banned
In every game I have to option to make a female lead, and make them as sexy as possible, I do. I even have my character in Saints Row 2022 as a naked female.

🙈
 

Krathoon

Member
Bethesda has gotten better at making more appealing women. For some reason, that did not happen in Oblivion.

I think they made the NPCs a little too average in that one.
 

Krathoon

Member
In their early games, Bethesda had nudity. Daggerfall, Arena, and Battlespire all have some nudity. It was pixelated, but it was there.
 

sono

Gold Member
I think that everyone is stressed about being seen to be pc.

Eg Lara Croft

Men and women like sexy men and sexy women. Not going to change.


Protect minors and rate games so folk can choose.
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
She obviously just needs to get to a lingerie store in the mall.
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The difference is that the lingerie store is selling lingerie. The console has nothing to do with lingerie. There is also the fact the guy appears to be fucking his controller and they chose a 'that's a penis' for the screenshot.
 
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