proudly “we lengthened her skirt a few inches so you can’t see the underwear.”
“What about the torpedo tits, wasp waist and liefeld spine?”
“What about em.”
It really does seem like a decision motivated by being grossed out with panty shot guys, which is fine. but they didn’t remove sexualization, they just decided to take away that one kind of fetishization.
It’s funny because I’m playing through yakuza zero (slowly. There’s just no time for video games anymore) and that shits hornier than skullgirls in a million ways but I can’t even be bothered by it because the whole thing is a loneliness and social isolation simulator rather than a fantastical fighting game.
Like when you’re running around Tokyo collecting cards with women’s faces and phone numbers on em to use in a telephone club while shoving people out of your way any arousal you might feel is completely drowned out by the deep despair the game is showing you.
When you’re picking which sexy cartoon to beat up your opponents sexy cartoon no level of mechanical depth and artistic excellence will ever change that focus. The sex doesn’t make a greater point, it’s the object of the game in the same way that the little sprites are the object of fetishization.
Specifically they lowered the amount of sexual violence and "involuntary" sexualization, which upskirts typically are.
Other than armbands, the actual models (in the traditional animation sense) are 0% changed, and the devs had no pretense of "reducing sexualization", even of Filia (the girl in the OP), who is canonically 16.
I put it in quotes because it's not a totally accurate way to put it. I basically mean the difference between a character dressing like a stripper with giant honkers for no reason vs a normal-looming character who has the camera constantly looking at them at exploitative angles. Basically elements of sexualization that are diegetically within the character's agency vs things that diegetically are not (or are fully non-diegetic).
The current devs are giving carte-blanche to the first one while trying to reduce the most blatant cases of the second one.
I think in the absence of a public statement confirming it, if you have to make a distinction between diegetic and non diegetic forms of sexualization to explain one part of the change it might just be that a bunch of users that love those parts of the game gross the publisher out.
Well, my initial wording was closer to that of the devs, talking about how the game features women who are "confident in their sexuality" or whatever but that some elements were "in poor taste", so theory liberal ideology/excuse-mongering is that the character models are characters expressing themselves and what they changed were a handful of instances where the sexualization, if anything, was going against the will of the character. I might just be talking in circles though.
I gotta ask the stupid question:
Does removing a panty shot really appreciably reduce the character sexualization in skullgirls?
To paraphrase who framed roger rabbit: she’s just drawn that way.
Her titty still at a 35 degree angle away from the ground
“Hey we fixed the sexualized minor character!”
“Oh sick, what’d you do?”
proudly “we lengthened her skirt a few inches so you can’t see the underwear.”
“What about the torpedo tits, wasp waist and liefeld spine?”
“What about em.”
It really does seem like a decision motivated by being grossed out with panty shot guys, which is fine. but they didn’t remove sexualization, they just decided to take away that one kind of fetishization.
It’s funny because I’m playing through yakuza zero (slowly. There’s just no time for video games anymore) and that shits hornier than skullgirls in a million ways but I can’t even be bothered by it because the whole thing is a loneliness and social isolation simulator rather than a fantastical fighting game.
Like when you’re running around Tokyo collecting cards with women’s faces and phone numbers on em to use in a telephone club while shoving people out of your way any arousal you might feel is completely drowned out by the deep despair the game is showing you.
When you’re picking which sexy cartoon to beat up your opponents sexy cartoon no level of mechanical depth and artistic excellence will ever change that focus. The sex doesn’t make a greater point, it’s the object of the game in the same way that the little sprites are the object of fetishization.
Specifically they lowered the amount of sexual violence and "involuntary" sexualization, which upskirts typically are.
Other than armbands, the actual models (in the traditional animation sense) are 0% changed, and the devs had no pretense of "reducing sexualization", even of Filia (the girl in the OP), who is canonically 16.
I been puzzling on this one. Can you explain what involuntary sexualization is? I keep bumping into the “all sexualization is involuntary” wall.
Totally fair question!
I put it in quotes because it's not a totally accurate way to put it. I basically mean the difference between a character dressing like a stripper with giant honkers for no reason vs a normal-looming character who has the camera constantly looking at them at exploitative angles. Basically elements of sexualization that are diegetically within the character's agency vs things that diegetically are not (or are fully non-diegetic).
The current devs are giving carte-blanche to the first one while trying to reduce the most blatant cases of the second one.
Ty.
I think in the absence of a public statement confirming it, if you have to make a distinction between diegetic and non diegetic forms of sexualization to explain one part of the change it might just be that a bunch of users that love those parts of the game gross the publisher out.
Idk anything though so 🤷♀️
Well, my initial wording was closer to that of the devs, talking about how the game features women who are "confident in their sexuality" or whatever but that some elements were "in poor taste", so theory liberal ideology/excuse-mongering is that the character models are characters expressing themselves and what they changed were a handful of instances where the sexualization, if anything, was going against the will of the character. I might just be talking in circles though.
https://youtu.be/2_pharWDqjE