Human beings love monsters. All throughout history humans have created monsters to fear, and to help us come to terms with some of the fundamental aspects of our reality. Well, video games are full of monsters, bizarre creatures, fear and sex. So this is my (Angela Night) take on sexuality and the grotesque in video games.
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id throw haunting ground into the mix. it still looks fantastic.
but i still dont quite understand why we never got a dragon quest 8 remaster for ps4. even the damn 3ds got one.
Silent Hill 3 was straight up sorcery. It has better hair animation than most modern games, which is wild to me.
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Went in somewhat dubious expecting another castigation of men demeaning women in videogames but was pleasantly surprised at the, for once, mostly even take on both sides, especially this quote which I feel actually attempts to reason out why we see so much overt female sexualization as opposed to male:
" As it is while depictions of female nudity and sexuality, weaponised or otherwise can often scrape an ESRB T (Teen) rating in the US, or 15 rating in the UK, depictions of male nudity and sexuality will virtually guarantee an ESRB M (Mature) or even an AO (Adult Only) rating, or 18 rating in the UK. This imbalance in the rating system means that video game character designers have little choice but to skew utilisation of grotesque sexuality in favor of the female form."
This was a very nice read I have to say. I honestly thought that it would be a "Queen Anita" kind of OP post at first.
The female body is a very beautiful thing, and yet there is so much rants and complains in the world of games when female characters show some skin.
The authors take on the subject is interesting. Decent read for early morning.
So you blur partial female nudity but it's okay to show male nudity?? Just another subliminal gay agenda message. What is this world coming to. On another note how is it ok to show full male nudity but it's not ok to show the vagina???? That gay agenda tho....