Triggerhappy: Gamers hate female protagonists
When “Horizon Zero Dawn” was announced at E3, the gamer community was completely hyped by it, since it looked cool as fuck. Then the game journalists and feminists came out to show us their “extensive” knowledge about videogames, writing comments and articles claiming that there were almost no female protagonists in videogames (something that as someone who always plays the female character I can say is completely opposite to reality), that there was the first time in a E3 with multiple female characters (something that was completely disproven) and I even saw some people claiming there was no female protagonists in videogames before that E3…
As time passed, info about Horizon became worrisome. Reviews about the game talked extensively about how “feminist” and “progressive”, or “woke” the game was, because it had a female protagonist (further suggesting that there are no female protagonists in videogames prior to Horizon…), and praising it because the males are all portrayed as bad people or useless (in the same way they did with the ghostbusters movie) and because it shows a victory of the matriarchy, while at the same time they talked very little, or nothing at all, about gameplay. When gamers pointed out they wanted to know about the game, and not its politics, they were branded as sexist. This went on and on, including a streaming in 4chan of the game thanks to a leak, till a portion of gamers decided to cancel preorders or not buy the game because of fear of it being a low quality game, used by gaming media to virtue signal their politics. If the game is good or bad I don’t know, but the reasons of gamers to not play it are based on quality, not because of a “female protagonist”, but that’s how the gaming media has portrayed it: gamers who don’t want female protagonists in games.
The funniest thing about this, is that Horizon release date is 28 of February, and the 10 or march is the release date of Nier automata. The protagonist of the game, a woman, has been receiving huge ammounts of fanart, fancomics and praise since many months before release, and gamers are very hyped to play her. That fact should be enough to dismantle any notion that the gaming community doesn’t want female protagonists, yet the gaming media and feminists are completely silent about this game, as if it didn’t exist, and instead focus on how sexist gamers are for not playing Horizon.
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It’s not about that at all. The reason people like Aloy is because she’s a strong lead who is more based in reality and therefore more relatable for a wider group.
2B is not. People like her sure, but they also look at her design and platinum’s track record for how they portray women and, let’s be honest, that’s not great.
Long story short, there’s a wide gap between designing a strong female lead and designing a fan service-y character designed for the male gaze.
That’s why feminists like horizon. It’s unfortunately atypical in the gaming world full of 2B’s to see women like Aloy.
That’s pretty much incorrect, in both that it’s atypical and on why feminists like one and dislike the other.
You’re only exemplifying the points i make in my comics about puritanic voices, who simply hate this characters because they’re attractive. You simply use a different language than religious people, with terms ike “male gaze”, or “portrayal of women” designed to shame men for healthy normal sexual attraction, in the same way religion did.In the end, the fault is in you, and not the creator.
And i don’t even know where the claim that Aloy is “realistic” and the others are not came from. She has also an atractive and fit body that you can only get going to the gym.
I would never shame anyone for having “healthy normal sexual attraction.” That’s not my point.
My point is that platinum has a very obvious stance about how women are treated and portrayed in their games. Just look at bayonetta.
-unrealistic anatomy
-the downright gropey aspects
-obviously chosen camera angles
– ONE HAND MODE?! C’mon.
That is what is meant by “male gaze”. The idea that this game is meant to mainly tantalize the male fantasy. Honestly, as a guy, I find it stupid and embarrassing. Also, What religious groups are you even talking about?
I said Aloy is more* realistic. And wtf, “she’s fit” is the best example of non-realistic you have? She has trained her whole life. She runs, jumps, climbs, hunts, fights… she’s gonna be in shape lol.
My point: horizon depicts Aloy in a way that isn’t meant to titilate like nier or bayonetta.
P.s. It isn’t a bad thing to have attractive female characters either. Look at Jill valentine, Claire redfield, Lara craft, tifa lockheart just to name a few. All attractive and strong.
And there’s abolutelly nothing wrong with doing something with the idea to sexually appease people. It’s a very common and blatantly wrong missconcenption to think that if a product has attractive people it must be bad. Far from reality. Sexual attractive is just one of the miriad things you can add to a product to make it better, independently of plot, gameplay, etc. Nier automata has an incredible plot and gameplay and it’s in my top 10 games of all times. A sexy protagonist just adds to that.
Also i’m not the one who claims that a fit body is unrealistic, quite the opposite, it’s the feminists who are always saying that characters with fit bodies are unrealistic and impossible to reach in real life, while i point them to the thousands of women who go to the gym, do sports, or are simply young and healthy, who have those bodies. My point is that it’s ridiculous to claim Aloy is realistic but 2B is not, when Aloy has the same kind of body. 2B is an attractive female with a pretty face, wide hips, fit body, and a relativelly small chest. Aloy is also an attractive female with a pretty face, a fit body, and i would say bigger boobs. To say one is realistic and the other is not is absurd, is just selective bias. The difference between the characters would be that one dresses more revealing than the other, and that’s not related to some unrealistic and unattainable body, it’s an stylistic choice. The game doesn’t even have camera angles showing 2B as sexy, it’s just that people do it in their games cause the camera is free to move. In fact if there’s any kind of sexual use of camera would be with the two male villains, Adam and Eve, whom are esentially two half naked ikemen (or completelly naked depending on the scene) who the camera seem to like a lot for close angles. I showed a female friend a scene of them and he went “well, now i suddenly want to play this game”. And that’s completely ok.
Sexual promiscuity like all vices is completely okay in moderation. A lot of gamers who like characters like Bayonetta don’t just fap: they admire the characters’ confidence and flair alongside the cartoonish nosebleed moments inspiring fan smut. That’s just medja in general, especially online media like games which make the player interact with said character and share their struggles and peaks.
When I make a Dark Souls character with the intent of low-level-running it, I go with female as the gender because I see them growing as characters despite being so limited. If you were feminist-minded you could even say that character broke the glass ceiling set for her, shattering expectations and showing her talent. I think that’s a great rush, with or without porn and sexualization.
I can’t believe in all my time in GG I never found out this site hosts the Gamergate Life comics. You’re pretty great.
That’s one of the problems with comics and internet. People tend to share without citing the source, and sometimes even if you sign the comic they delete your signature, so many people share the comic but they don’t know where it cames from :p
Why is it not great?
What is wrong with any of the things you listed?
Being based in reality is not desirable. Relatability is not relevant to anything that makes a game fun or a character good. 2B’s design and Platinum’s track record are perfect. Fan service is good. The male gaze is good. It is fortunate that more characters are like 2B than Aloy. Eat shit.