Why Are Videogame Bodies So Extreme?

Why are they so extreme?

Because it sells...was that so hard?

To be fair he actually made a pretty solid video and points. It didn't come across as any of the typical SJW bullshit in the least.
 
I see a lot of extreme bodies in Walmart too. In fact "I see them everywhere"...
 
Video games are an art form and entertainment. Just because they look so great today doesn't mean the end goal for every video gamer is photo realism.
 
roma said:
I see a lot of extreme bodies in Walmart too. In fact "I see them everywhere"...
Click to expand...

lol'ed

oh the "people of walmart" memes...



and yes, same goes with comic books and movies...you do what sells.

It's called Business 101.
 
because I promise if the main character looked like me you wouldn't run around skyrim with him since he would look like he could barely dual wield butter knives.

I like my male characters to look like steroided badasses and my women to be red haired skanks.
 
Darunion said:
because I promise if the main character looked like me you wouldn't run around skyrim with him since he would look like he could barely dual wield butter knives.

I like my male characters to look like steroided badasses and my women to be red haired skanks.
Click to expand...

Oh god, I love Moxxi from Borderlands. A slut and she embraces it.

Torgue is one of my favorite characters too, reminds me of Hulk Hogan years ago.
 
People with no imagination who don't know what make-believe is.

I lack a sense of humor sometimes, but dang these folks take the biscuit.
 
often its the characteristics of a hero. mass effect and gta do a good job on variety.
 
People keep dredging this up and just won't leave it alone. I don't really mind that part as much as I mind that there'll be a thread about it in which a certain someone with a 69 in their screen name will assign blame to a political ideology, grumble something about the "wussification of children" and drag mope into a debate that dredges up a lingering grudge over a debate they had in some other thread without ever realizing how silly it all seems which will still be fun to read, but make me shake my head a lot at the same time.
 
I like my women healthy
I like my men healthy
FAT IS NOT HEALTHY

I watched a few more of this guys vids, he talks about racism to. he says that he doesn't like that we are fighting primarily darker skinned muslims in the modern warfare games. as if we would find an abundance of asians and whites in the middle east...

He also at the end of one his videos says that he doesnt identify as a male but as a feminist equitarian. neither of these are genders...

he lives in a fairy tale and I honestly believe the world would be better off without these kinds of people.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Why are they so extreme?

Because it sells...was that so hard?

To be fair he actually made a pretty solid video and points. It didn't come across as any of the typical SJW bullshit in the least.
Click to expand...

Slight watered SJW bs. He tried to separate the level of exaggeration between animation/comics and video games with a flat out lie, that exaggeration was the exception and not the rule. The levels of exaggeration is quite comparable. All traditional visual media is dominated by unrealistic protagonists. Or do all sci-fi clandestine agents look like Scarlett Johansson and dress in black skin tight latex or goth heroines (if the were real) look like Kate Beckinsale and dress in black skin tight latex?

Video game to a degree and the offshoot video game youtube voyeurism don't fit in with traditional media, they don't make money off it and lose their lucrative avenues like movies and TV to them. So of course they are the easy target to stump against.
 
First of all, it would be unrealistic for characters that are obviously out of shape to be kicking ass in an action game. If you've ever played paintball you know the people who can't keep up for very long are the same people this guy says should be represented more in video games, but at the same time he ignores how realistic that would be while calling for more realism. So he just wants more realism of the kind he's concerned about while ignoring other kinds of realism. That doesn't excuse the waif-fu characters though, and I'd agree with his points there.

When Skyrim came out, I was astonished at the sheer numbers of female friends of mine on Facebook that were already fans of the Elder Scrolls series and were looking forward to the game. Once the game was out one of the chief complaints from them is that they couldn't create characters pretty enough. These weren't little girls either, they were chiefly college students in one of the engineering or science disciplines (women in Liberal Arts majors were generally far less likely to talk about playing Skyrim I noticed).

Now I'm playing Elder Scrolls Online, and you can make characters over the entire range from waif to overweight to muscle-bound freak, with additional separate settings for chest and waist size, "posterior dimensions", age, facial scarring, branding, tattoos, piercings, body paint, etc, for both genders. Basically if this guy had ever seen Elder Scrolls Online, he could have cited it as a positive example of what he wants game makers to do, or maybe he was afraid that his concerns are quickly being mitigated by the industry already and it would damage his argument, and so he left it out.

So I'm pretty sure the point of this video wasn't to ask and answer why video game bodies are so extreme, but to ask for more variety of body types and to ask for more realism. The problem with that is two-fold: 1) Games aren't all supposed to be realistic, some of them are actively the opposite. And 2) For games that don't mind being realistic in this way, they are already doing what he asked, which makes his point rather moot.
 
EODetroit said:
When Skyrim came out, I was astonished at the sheer numbers of female friends of mine on Facebook that were already fans of the Elder Scrolls series and were looking forward to the game. Once the game was out one of the chief complaints from them is that they couldn't create characters pretty enough. These weren't little girls either, they were chiefly college students in one of the engineering or science disciplines (women in Liberal Arts majors were generally far less likely to talk about playing Skyrim I noticed).
Click to expand...

When my wife is creating a character in any rpg, she spends sooooo much time making the character perfect and pretty, and she has also complained that she couldn't make her character pretty enough in some games, haha.

She was pissed when her Fable 2 character became the raging she-hulk when too many points were put into strength.
 
Better question: Why is this dude's head movements so extreme?
 
Clicked on the video and saw another video in side bar from the same dude/channel called "How I Became a Videogame Feminist" Shut the fuck out you pandering pansy, trying to jump on the Sarkeesian band wagon are we?

MMdocdc.jpg
 
why are video game characters so absurd mr. youtube person?

because you touch yourself at night.
 
A good game that brings something interesting to the table will sell regardless of characters looks. I mean look at all the retro gaming stuff now days. But the reality is if you are going to bank on selling a mega hit game you don't want to leave anything to chance. Its the same with movies, music and commercials. People do not look at art or entertainment to see real life they look at it to see ideal life. I present boy bands as exhibit number 1 a cookie cutter music creation that we all know is targeted at girls of a certain age group. And guess what you don't see many boy bands consisting of a diverse looking set of boys am I right? But if one formed that was really made sensational music I am sure they could stand their own. And just as others have pointed out girls want to be pretty and most girls like to dress up or select pretty characters not ugly ones. In fact the most common people I see grabbing a big ugly butch girl are actually guys who think its funny and want to troll everyone else in games. But hey its all just my anecdotes.

Its also worth mentioning that maybe girls just don't like the things we tend to think of as video games. Most middle aged and older woman I see just don't play FPS, RTS, Mobas or most of these, they play other stuff that I simply don't like. I don't even know how to describe the games its more like board games and stuff. Flash games, stuff that now days we call mobile games a lot. I bet over in those games they see more men that are targeted at Roman, like Fabio.
 
Darunion said:
because I promise if the main character looked like me you wouldn't run around skyrim with him since he would look like he could barely dual wield butter knives.

I like my male characters to look like steroided badasses and my women to be red haired skanks.
Click to expand...

Indeed, and agreed.
 
Watch this guys video "How I Became a Video Game Feminist."


This guy is a fucking nutjob.

Other video titles include

"What if master chief were gay?"

"Why sex is so terrible in video games"

"Do video games need feminism?"

I really, REALLY hope that WW3 happens within the next 20 years. Many people need to die and maybe, just MAYBE it will give America the balls that it so desperately needs back.
 
Most gamer do not want a mundane realistic game that obeys the laws of physics. This is why games like GTA are so popular, because people enjoy being in an alternate reality, doing things they cannot do in real life.

So it's pointless to constantly compare video games to real life and say this and that are not realistic.
 
Feminists ans sjw's are nutjobs. Do you guys think Sarkeediot(Sarkeesian) will take Milo's(breitbart editor) 10k debate challenge.
 
It stems from comic book illustration and foreshortening which is easier to do with foreshortening anatomy.
 
Have a look on Second Life (yes it's still around) if you want to see some odd interpretations of what a human being looks like.

Most females are 8 feet tall and have legs longer than a giraffe. Most guys are 10 feet tall, have 60" chests, 30" waists and heads the size of a grapefruit. 85% of the people on there are all wrong in the proportions.

Do these people have mirrors or have seen another human being?
 
BlankIt said:
I really, REALLY hope that WW3 happens within the next 20 years. Many people need to die and maybe, just MAYBE it will give America the balls that it so desperately needs back.
Click to expand...

I guess by then you'll be too old to get drafted?;)
 
BlankIt said:
Watch this guys video "How I Became a Video Game Feminist."


This guy is a fucking nutjob.

Other video titles include

"What if master chief were gay?"

"Why sex is so terrible in video games"

"Do video games need feminism?"

I really, REALLY hope that WW3 happens within the next 20 years. Many people need to die and maybe, just MAYBE it will give America the balls that it so desperately needs back.
Click to expand...

I don't think wishing the chaos, misery, and death during a war on people who have opinions you disagree with makes you less of a nutjob than them. Besides that, unless a war gets really, really bad, I don't think the people wish would be harmed by it will suffer any consequences as the casualties will be limited to a certain segment of the population that's given the job of dying on behalf of a bunch of people who are sometimes not grateful enough for their willingness to make such a sacrifice. :(
 
A war that has actual negative financial and economic ramifications back home?

The corporations would never allow it.
 
Yes because we want the characters to reflect the public, manatees in sausage casings...
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I don't think wishing the chaos, misery, and death during a war on people who have opinions you disagree with makes you less of a nutjob than them. Besides that, unless a war gets really, really bad, I don't think the people wish would be harmed by it will suffer any consequences as the casualties will be limited to a certain segment of the population that's given the job of dying on behalf of a bunch of people who are sometimes not grateful enough for their willingness to make such a sacrifice. :(
Click to expand...


There's a difference between having a opinion and being shame to Freedom of Speech. There's so many other issues at hand that what I'm trying to say is that most of these SJW's have there own agenda and it sure as hell isn't to try to "equalize" the rights of both males & females, nor better both.
 
I've been as vocally anti sjw around here as anyone. Some of you are just way the hell off in crazy land. This video was far from feminist propaganda. Try actually watching it without assuming it's some Anita trash piece.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
I've been as vocally anti sjw around here as anyone. Some of you are just way the hell off in crazy land. This video was far from feminist propaganda. Try actually watching it without assuming it's some Anita trash piece.
Click to expand...

...Take a look at some of his other videos.
 
Wow, another video that covers a topic in wide strokes where an written article would be much more appropriate. I'm worried that we're creating a world full of idiots.
 
BlankIt said:
There's a difference between having a opinion and being shame to Freedom of Speech. There's so many other issues at hand that what I'm trying to say is that most of these SJW's have there own agenda and it sure as hell isn't to try to "equalize" the rights of both males & females, nor better both.
Click to expand...

It probably would be more sensible to it that way in the first place. Going straight to the cleansing purge of a war on home soil might come off as a bit extreme and crazy-cakes. I know guys mostly prefer going the violent route right away and don't stop to think about how that fantasy fits into a workable vision of problem-solving in the real world, but its hard to take a person seriously if they start with killing as a solution to a difference of opinion about something that isn't very important in the grand scheme of things.

Quix said:
I'm worried that we're creating a world full of idiots.
Click to expand...

Created...it's been a world of idiots for a very long time as any student of history can deduce from what we already know about human civilization. :D
 
I'm disappointed in you all.

He doesn't ever bring up designing a character to have a recognizable silhouette and none of you have either.

All good characters will have a very distinct silhouette. This means that in all media there will be exaggerated proportions. Look at all your favorite, most memorable characters from all media and you'll see recognizable silhouettes (you can even google silhouettes of them if you want).

fb915e_032da223064b473f828d4a722be999b2.jpg


More: Google Image Results. See how easy it is to recognize these characters?

To make a recognizable silhouette you are going to have to make certain body parts or accessories extreme.

The other thing mentioned in passing was bad breast physics. I'll just link to an article that doesn't excuse bad breast physics, but at least looks at the issue holistically: http://kotaku.com/how-video-game-breasts-are-made-and-why-they-can-go-so-1687753475
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top