It really sucks looking at the detrimental effect this had on gender ratios in gaming to this day. It's gotten a lot better but it's still not there yet.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, we need to level the playing field by having half naked sexy guys on the cover of games. ^please

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Like Fabio? Pretty much any depiction of a barbarian is some muscular dude wearing only a loincloth and his broadsword.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Doubt that's going to be enough, I think if you want to make a sexually objectifying 90s magazine ad that appeals to female nerds you're going to have to break out the homoerotic innuendos

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

People used to bring up Kratos in these discussions but before these new games he seemed far more likely to bite someone's face off than to kiss anyone. There's a difference.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

looking in your direction, clive rosfield

[–] pickman_model@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Fair

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

I'm ok with that

[–] molochthagod@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather we stop sexualizing characters altogether. If anything, it's silly and makes it more difficult to take them seriously.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I think there is space for both sexualized and non-sexualized characters, as long as they are treated evenly. This is entertainment, they don't need to be all business serious.

I dread that in trying to be perfectly respectable, the medium might err to the side of prudishness and sexual repression.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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