/svidya/ - Strictly Vidya Games

I definitely like it in my porn games. I don't like it when it kills immersion in others. And I really don't like it when I feel like I'm an idiot being pandered to.

It's not something I mind, but it's nothing I would buy a game over.

I see it the same as sexualization in every other media / advertising, it's there to draw attention and it often works.

Personally I don't care either way but I hate seeing games censored over it.

>>20526

>carrying over this daily bait thread from /v/

Can you not? The answer is that it has exactly zero impact on anything, and the answer will stay the same.

I hate fan service. I am not offended, I just hate being treated like I can't watch a show with tits to keep me entertained.

I also don't get Quiet's design. Ignoring the justification, she is very over-the-top as far as sexualization goes. She's jsut wearing a bra and has some really creepy shower scene in the game.

It's fine until it starts to bring down other parts of the game. And in this day and age, easy, sex sells tactics are the easiest ways to make a buck and this shit always pops up.

Marie from persona 4 is a shoehorned character who people will defend becaue "muh waifu". Also enabling persona 4 waifus to encompass all of persona and SMT. We probably got #FE because of persona 4 which took away SMTxFE from me and I will never not be mad about that.

Lightning from FFXIII was shoehorned into everything. Taking out learning about a potentially interesting universe to making lightning god of the universe and giving her her own dress up sim.

Another example is Valhalla Knights 3 where they could have spent development time improving aspects of the previous game but decided to add a pointless waifu dating sim on top of the buggy game.

I didn't like the redesign of Zero suit samus with the glowing high heels. giving the excuse that she needed rocket boots when every other character can already jump 100 feet without high heels. Someone at Nintendo was getting their dick wet taking liberties with designing characters when they should have stayed true to their designs, like any good crossover should do.

I dislike it, but I very obviously really fucking hate SJWs who criticize it. For me it's more because it's a distraction and kind of degenerate, and if it's deliberate fanservice then I know I wasn't really targeted with it and it's not my place to criticise it; another, more numerous audience was targeted and thus they take priority. It would be my opinion against theirs, so I know it's not universally recognized as bad thing and thus should probably not be criticised by those wanting something else

>>20526

Done well you could definitely have sexualisation that improves a game by fitting a character or serving a story or gameplay purpose in some way.

Obviously if it's done badly then it could make a game worse (I imagine there's a lot of people who find the design of some sexualised characters out of place or silly regardless of whether or not they thought the sexualisation itself was objectionable.)

Nothing wrong with sexualisation for the sake of sexualisation unless it makes the game worse in some way.

I like it. It's a neccessity in any 3D game that features females. For first, it pisses off the SJW/PC crowd, and that makes the devs uninfluenced by abhorrent shit like genderfluid trannies in muh game. Especially in the modern age, it shows they don't give a fuck. For second, this means the game's target are young heterosexual males - the only group that really plays video games and cares about game quality. The salt, you could say. Those two points are (one of reasons) why Ninja Gaiden for example is such a stellar game. I'm never bothered by skimpy females in my vidya, since I have no primitive urges, but they're needed in my games to ward off undesireables.

>>20989

But old heterosexual males have increasingly become a major video game demographic as young heterosexual males grow older.

Depends on how it's handled. I can look past it in DOA4, for instance, because of the gameplay, but when it's so front and center that it's hard to ignore, it can be a little much.

Perfectly fine with it unless it break the tone, theme, immersion, etc. - bonus outfits not included, they can be as out of place as they like - or there's an obnoxious amount of it when you're trying to enjoy the main draw of the game and the sex wasn't it.

>>20687

Mostly seems like the corrupting 'waifu' issue in Japanese media where they're created to pander, not so much be sexual, but they could both be present in cases.

>>20995

True. You could say they're still kind of young at soul, though. The old ones often stop playing video games seriously and either leave them or just peddle in casual shit.

Why even call it sexualisation, isn't that a feminist term? Are these characters asexual as long as they wear a niqab?

Wearing skimpy clothing does not turn characters into sexual beings, they always were regardless of clothing.

Please stop using their words. It gives them power because they are framing the debate.

>>21207

How about "titillation" then?

>>21210

Yeah the childish aspect is probably the worst part about softcore vanilla sexualization in vidya for me. It's really what makes it feel so insulting.

>>20995

>Gaming demographics getting older

>Anywhere

Maybe in your personal circle anon, but people are starting to play vidya at increasingly younger ages

>>21300

phone games dont count

t. anon whos earliest memories are of playing mega man X

>>21300

I started playing vidya at 3

That was the early 90s

I'm in my late 20s now, don't see any 1yo playing games

On the other hand there was nobody above 18 playing vidya when I was a kid, the only exception were the ones selling it and they weren't that much into it

Today you have 40yo gamers and 30+ gamers are the average age not kids, nuff said