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deoxxys
05/20/23 6:33:57 PM
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https://youtu.be/sbpLC5RA7FU

  • Mirror's Edge
  • Metroid
  • Last of Us 2
  • Horizon Zero Dawn
  • Tomb Raider
  • Resident Evil 3
  • Celeste
  • Hellblade
  • Control
  • Dishonored 2
  • The Medium
  • Life is Strange
  • Beyond Good and Evil
  • Kena Bridge of Spirits
  • Beyond: Two Souls
  • Nier: auto tomato
  • A Plague Tale
  • Portal


I could go on but....OH WAIT, they mean plus size women.
Wait so they are saying 74% of women are overweight? Lol whut Dove? Why is a soap company making this promotion anyway? Ah yes the athletic obese action heroes, makes perfect sense. They'd be winded and doubled over after running up a hill.

Also I never understood "representation". None of my favorite games feature characters I look like. I play games to have fun not to pretend I am larping. *Thinks of Hollow Knight, Brotato, Don't Starve, Loop Hero, Kingdom Rush Vengeance and Hades.*

Everyone be looking like Kratos lmao.

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Questionmarktarius
05/20/23 6:35:30 PM
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Shouldn't there be a random tweet here, that I'll probably not to bother to look at?
oh, its a random [BRAND] video.
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008Zulu
05/20/23 6:36:55 PM
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How realistically would a plus sized woman work in an action game? A life dedicated running around and climbing makes for great cardio and strength training, plus sized wouldn't be plus sized after a while.

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ssj3vegeta
05/20/23 6:39:12 PM
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what percent of male gamers feel underrepresented in Video Games

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MarthGoomba
05/20/23 6:40:43 PM
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I vote yes to more fat chicks in video games

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Dakimakura
05/20/23 6:40:43 PM
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ssj3vegeta posted...
what percent of male gamers feel underrepresented in Video Games

69%

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Questionmarktarius
05/20/23 6:40:58 PM
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ssj3vegeta posted...
what percent of male gamers feel underrepresented in Video Games
What percent of male gamers even care?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActionGenreHeroGuy
Who actually looks like that, and plays videogames that aren't Madden?

Dakimakura posted...
69%
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Crimsoness
05/20/23 6:42:36 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
What percent of male gamers even care?
Must be a huge amount given how much they review bomb anytime a non-male is made the lead of a game.

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BurmesePenguin
05/20/23 6:42:38 PM
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Even without the weight angle, I dunno what point TC thinks he's making by listing like 15 video game titles with prominent female characters, including indies and David Cage shit.

Like damn. I guess women aren't underrepresented based on this encompasing list.

I dunno anything concrete about Resident Evil, though I'm sure there's prominent well-liked female characters like Jill Valentine. But if only one of 8 main games belongs on a female empowerment in video games list... way to punch yourself in the face.

I've never even heard of The Medium.

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ANort175
05/20/23 6:43:51 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
Even without the weight angle, I dunno what point TC thinks he's making by listing like 15 video game titles with prominent female characters, including indies and David Cage shit.

Like damn. I guess women aren't underrepresented based on this encompasing list.
As soon as I saw Metroid on the list I just assumed it was a joke post, since Samus could just as easily be a man and literally nothing about the franchise would change at all.

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Mormaurd
05/20/23 6:47:16 PM
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Anything involving David Cage games ought to be disqualified since the women in his games exist for his fantasies to put it politely.

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Questionmarktarius
05/20/23 6:48:08 PM
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ANort175 posted...
As soon as I saw Metroid on the list I just assumed it was a joke post, since Samus could just as easily be a man and literally nothing about the franchise would change at all.
Same could be said of Cooking Mama, really.
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Beveren_Rabbit
05/20/23 6:48:50 PM
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For every 2B, there's 50 games about where the MC is a man.

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RISEofCHRISTIAN
05/20/23 6:49:03 PM
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If Rockstar decides to make a GTA VI, they should make it three female protagonists. One black, one Asian, and one Hispanic.

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Heavy_D_Forever
05/20/23 6:49:40 PM
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The people complaining have every right to create their own video game with a fat female main character and watch it have abysmal sales numbers.

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Full_Pokedex
05/20/23 6:51:39 PM
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Are we forgetting about Fat Princess for Playstation?

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ANort175
05/20/23 6:53:08 PM
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Oh yeah he totally forgot the Xenosaga series, Shion and KOS-MOS were pretty good female main characters and they were solid games, shame on you TC.

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Dakimakura
05/20/23 6:53:47 PM
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Average Gamer has zero representation in games but deludes themselves into thinking the unrealistically built male character is their representation.


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Mad-Dogg
05/20/23 7:00:30 PM
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Dakimakura posted...
Average Gamer has zero representation in games but deludes themselves into thinking the unrealistically built male character is their representation.
You take that back this guy is totally my average gamer representation!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/8/AARkkPAAEftG.jpg

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tb333
05/20/23 7:00:39 PM
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I smell a bit of incel in here......

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Punished_Blinx
05/20/23 7:01:10 PM
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I remember playing Life is Strange and noticing immediately that people were all different heights and sizes. It's funny how rare that actually is in video games even now.

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Lil_Bit83
05/20/23 7:01:28 PM
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008Zulu posted...
How realistically would a plus sized woman work in an action game? A life dedicated running around and climbing makes for great cardio and strength training, plus sized wouldn't be plus sized after a while.
That never trimmed down Mario, just sayin.

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Lil_Bit83
05/20/23 7:03:39 PM
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Anywho, I don't really care. There are plenty of kick ass chicks in games, as well as games with character creation modes. I have never felt the need to bitch about why none of them look exactly like me.

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ArsGoetia
05/20/23 7:04:27 PM
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ssj3vegeta posted...
what percent of male gamers feel underrepresented in Video Games

me tbh
only genre that really ever lets you play an androgynous dude is jrpgs
sucks sometimes playing western games , where even in the character creator you can't make anything but a gigachad looking mf
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Questionmarktarius
05/20/23 7:07:55 PM
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Lil_Bit83 posted...
That never trimmed down Mario, just sayin.
"Look, it's a dumpy Italian guy! Representation!!" wasn't the marketing campaign for Donkey Kong, though.
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Homeless_Waifu
05/20/23 7:10:27 PM
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I remember a time when video games where blocky and made loud beeps with flashing lights.

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Turbam
05/20/23 7:10:59 PM
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Weird melty

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Dakimakura
05/20/23 7:11:49 PM
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Homeless_Waifu posted...
I remember a time when video games where blocky and made loud beeps with flashing lights.

I still play Minecraft

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CRON
05/20/23 7:13:04 PM
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RISEofCHRISTIAN posted...
If Rockstar decides to make a GTA VI, they should make it three female protagonists. One black, one Asian, and one Hispanic.
A build of the game leaked months ago and the two protagonists are a hispanic woman and a white man.

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Doe
05/20/23 7:13:32 PM
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had to check if im on PS5 board

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Homeless_Waifu
05/20/23 7:16:37 PM
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Dakimakura posted...
I still play Minecraft
Me too!

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Dakimakura
05/20/23 7:19:16 PM
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So long as AAA developers are running the industry into the ground do not expect any effort what so ever.

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Supaitwo
05/20/23 7:22:55 PM
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RISEofCHRISTIAN posted...
If Rockstar decides to make a GTA VI, they should make it three female protagonists. One black, one Asian, and one Hispanic.

GTA VI has been in development for ages, the playable characters are a brother and sister iirc.

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RISEofCHRISTIAN
05/20/23 7:25:53 PM
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CRON posted...
A build of the game leaked months ago and the two protagonists are a hispanic woman and a white man.

Supaitwo posted...
GTA VI has been in development for ages, the playable characters are a brother and sister iirc.

are we certain rockstar is being legit about this and not just giving fake news to shut the gamers up so they can continue milking GTA Online?

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Supaitwo
05/20/23 7:28:57 PM
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It was legit.

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the_final_bahamut
05/20/23 7:33:22 PM
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008Zulu posted...
How realistically would a plus sized woman work in an action game? A life dedicated running around and climbing makes for great cardio and strength training, plus sized wouldn't be plus sized after a while.

... You realize these are games, right? They tend to not be big on realism. I just got done playing Dead Space and my space dude got stabbed in the chest multiple times by space monsters and then walked it off. He also immediately knew how to repair all kinds of tech. Also, the dead space place was full of space zombies, which I'm pretty sure isn't very realistic.

Like... Bob from Tekken is a thing. Rufus from street fighter is around. Roadhog exists. Remember Thor from Dad of War Ragnarok? "Unrealistic" man, get the fuck out of here. Know what's an unrealistic body? Kratos from the old god of war games. Man had a waist like a Barbie doll.

Also why is it that every time women go "Hey can we have non-shitty body type representation in games? Thanks?" there's a bunch of men going "bUt tHAtS noT faaaair! MeN aLsO hAvE bAD bOdY RepReSentation!" instead of going "Yeah, can we get that for male characters too? Thanks"?
Thing is, I don't have to ask why. You already know

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Full_Pokedex
05/20/23 7:34:20 PM
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008Zulu posted...
How realistically would a plus sized woman work in an action game?
Fat Princess made a lot of money.

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cjsdowg
05/20/23 7:44:57 PM
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the_final_bahamut posted...
Like... Bob from Tekken is a thing. Rufus from street fighter is around. Roadhog exists. Remember Thor from Dad of War Ragnarok? "Unrealistic" man, get the fuck out of here. Know what's an unrealistic body? Kratos from the old god of war games. Man had a waist like a Barbie doll.

Rufus is a joke because of his fattiness, I don't know about Bob. I don't think that people upset about how women are shown would be happy if they were treated like Rufus. Also Rufus was suppose to be a black guy going from dojo to dojo so fuck that guy.


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VFalcone
05/20/23 7:48:27 PM
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Don't normalize fatness.
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Nosferatu_Zodd
05/20/23 7:52:46 PM
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Turbam posted...
Weird melty


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bkilla
05/20/23 7:55:00 PM
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Shouldn't be going by how women "feel". Who cares how people feel, the numbers are what's important.

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the_final_bahamut
05/20/23 7:56:34 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
Rufus is a joke because of his fattiness,

That really doesn't pertain to the conversation you responded to, Cheif.


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Mad-Dogg
05/20/23 7:58:27 PM
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It isn't like video game big women can't do all the things any other video game action hero can do because at the end of the day, these are video games/fantasy. (Lets be real even with nathan drake as in-shape as he is, ain't no damn way any human is pulling off the shit he normally does and especially that uncharted 2 train intro, lol).

One of the only things that has mattered is if the game will sell and bring in that money. Would a lot of today's gamers be willing to drop 60 to 70 dollars brand new for a game starring a really big-boned lady as the main player protagonist (as in, no supportive role side character like borderland's ellie or a selectable character in a battle royale game like with that now shut down xbox console exclusive game who's name escapes me. The main character the player has no choice but to play as)? Not a smaller PSN store project like fat princess, but a bigger lets say ghosts of tsushima, horizon zero dawn, or god of war budget type of game?

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andel
05/20/23 8:00:22 PM
#49:


women should be better represented in games and more games should have women as main characters tbf

fatties don't need more representation though, whether male or female. that shit won't sell

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cjsdowg
05/20/23 8:11:31 PM
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the_final_bahamut posted...


That really doesn't pertain to the conversation you responded to, Cheif.


Yes it does, the unrealistic fat male bodies are played as joke. OF that character was women and treated in the same manner it wouldn't be seen as a good thing. So you have out of place bodies like that if they are the butt of the joke.

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the_final_bahamut
05/20/23 8:29:26 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
Yes it does, the unrealistic fat male bodies are played for a joke.

The poster I responded to hid behind the weasely answer that you couldn't have fat women in vidyagames because it was unrealistic to be fat with a videogame characters athletic lifestyle. Not only is this not actually untrue, but I pointed out that there were male characters that were obese despite an athletic lifestyle. Whether those characters are intended as jokes or not (and a lot of them aren't) does change the thing that videogames make space for them.

The fact that fat shaming should happen less in media in general is a different discussion.


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GrandConjuraton
05/20/23 8:38:11 PM
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