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I see that Reeve likes wearing Squall's pants.

And also the gun part of his gunblade.

http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/games/1741/screenshots/LeviKHColours.png

*cough*

It's the amount of swear words per second.

Game =/= Video Game.


Dear Esther and Gone Home are video games.

Anyway: I do quite enjoy point and clicks, but Gone Home put me off by pretending to be a horror game. I get scared enough in my own damn home, of course someone else's house, in the dark, in the rain, alone, is going to terrify the shit out of me.

gawd

Meanwhile I loathe touch encounters.

Have I not stated that sexualization is fine? Fanservice is fine, too. In moderation, otherwise it comes across as unappealing and off-putting. None of these characters reflect their personalities, they reflect what you find attractive. If you were making this game entirely for yourself that's fine, but you're sharing it and that puts it in the limelight for public critique. And it's not attractive, for the record.

And are you kidding me? You do realize the entire reason this debate exists is because games solely appealed to the male gaze for a very, very long time? A number of the examples you listed such as Raiden cartwheeling were done by the Japanese, who despite their love of hentai and tentacles do seem to have a more balanced scope in regards to women and men being sexualized. Western games, though?

I didn't have friends until I was around 16 years old because I loved videogames, and it was socially unacceptable. I didn't find people I could talk to videogames about until I was 18 because I am doing a University course specifically designed around games. I didn't get to geek out and enjoy videogames without the whole underlying debate over sexism and the male gaze BECAUSE I AM FEMALE. I had no peers who enjoyed the same things I did, so your 'missing of the old days' is your view. This debate and topic exists because exactly half of the world's population, until very recently, was completely excluded from games culture.

I am not a part of your geek subculture, or I wasn't until the last five years. And most women weren't. We were pushed into a tiny 'niche' group with pink swirly games and Barbie Horse Riding. The debate exists because women want to be included in that culture of videogames without feeling objectified or being submitted to harrassment. MEN ARE OBJECTIFIED, YES. But in NO WHERE NEAR the same degree as women are, and ALMOST NEVER as badly. A man with their shirt off is not the same as a woman with nothing on besides a vagina cup and an impossible shirt covering her nipples.

Female enjoyment culture like yaoi exists and IT SHOULD because women should be able to enjoy that sort of thing too. It was ok for gamer magazines to write about how they thought yuri between Lightning and Serah was hot, in an official publication, but imagine the freaking uproar that would happen if the same thing happened with the genders reversed ten years ago. THAT IS WHERE THE ARGUMENT IS. It's about sexualization in equal doses, on an equal ground, rather than it solely being women and one or two men.

I am not saying you shouldn't sexualize your characters, or censor everything and I have been saying that from my very first post. I am saying that it can be done tastefully, in an appealing manner, that fits the characters and context of the game. Hell, I read your character profiles and only one even slightly fits into the guise of someone who's sexually aware. You can have your short skirts and low cut tops and what have you but tastefully is the issue here. Your designs have no taste. They are obnoxious, not sexy.


And for the record, my avatar clearly states that I pair Cloud with Squall.