> Who votes for game of the year in the games awards? Journos, not the public in general. IIRC the public voting stuff are a mere %
So you're telling me it was not just the coomer public but even the journos themselves who voted for a game whose promo material made people think it's a fetish porn sim? Thank you for further strengthening my argument.
> This is the weirdest fucking argument. BG3 got popular by being an actually good game for once as far as I'm aware
The fanbase is EXTREMELY sex obsessed and they heavily leaned into this during marketing. They had a promo video where the buff himbo guy literally shapeshifts into a bear to have sex with the vampire twink. People are doing sex% speedruns. They have motion capped sex scenes. You can have an incest threesome with a pair of twin prostitutes. BG3 is coomer paradise.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great game. (I'm the founder of the BG3 wiki, which I started during Early Access.) But half of the viral popularity is from the sexual content, and it's extremely obvious that they made sure to have super sexy female main characters because many of the fans wouldn't like it any other way.
Shadowheart is the typical innocent (brainwashed by an evil cult) coy / tsundere fair lady, and Karlach is the oomph sexy "child bearing hips" momma. And I guess Minthara is the dominatrix or something. Don't ask me about Lae'zel; I guess some people are frogsexual.
I wouldn't even necessarily say the game has *bad* female representation per se, but the appeal to straight men is extremely obvious. They just justify it by adding tons of fan service for women and gay men as well, and I guess giving the female characters some actual personality even if they're partly designed to fulfill male fantasies.
TL;DR: You can *try* to go fully feminist (or "woke") and only have female characters who aren't sexualised, but your game won't be nearly as popular. Neither with the public, nor within the journalism part of the video game industry. The industry knows this very well, and is usually trying to balance things so they can appease both camps, like BG3 managed to.
> > Aloy looks like a 100% normal natural-looking female human being
> No she does not
Yes she fucking does and you need to take your pills.
> Are you seriously implying that the western industry as it is right now caters to coomers????? Are you freaking serious?
Yes. [insert gigachad]
> They have so little power that currently they're about to trigger gamergate 2.0 for what amounts of a small DEI creative consulting group, that has also consulted for massive AAA games
And yet they appease coomers most of the time. In part because even these SJW groups consist 50% of coomers themselves.
Grand TL;DR before I quit the thread:
The so called "feminist" conspiracy ruining muh vidya gamez is really mostly just faux progressives hooked on queer theory (that's a whole other can of worms I haven't really touched on here), half of them are coomers themselves, and they barely manage to make some female characters less extremely sexualised. You think they're turning all women in video games into egregiously ugly monstrosities because you're wearing ultra-coomer goggles that make you lose your mind when you see a female video game character who doesn't look like a literal sex doll. The fact that you think Aloy looks "unnatural," or super ugly somehow, is proof positive that you need to touch grass and take your pills.
Good night.