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Microsoft wants to ban curvy females from video games​

US tech giant Microsoft is discouraging using excessively curvy female characters in video games, according to updated guidelines issued by the company on Tuesday.

As part of its inclusivity initiative, Microsoft offered developers a list of questions to consider while working on their products to check whether they are reinforcing any negative gender stereotypes. The guide, dubbed ‘Product Inclusion Action: Help Customers Feel Seen’, includes various stereotypes that the gaming giant believes are best left out.

According to the guidance, game designers should check if they are unnecessarily introducing gender barriers and should make sure they create playable female characters that are equal in skill and ability to their male peers, and equip them with clothing and armor fitting to the tasks.

“Do they have exaggerated body proportions?”the guideline asks.

Female characters play a significant role in the gaming industry and have become fan favorites throughout the years. Various females, including Lara Croft, Bayonetta, and Ada Wong have played iconic roles in video games.

One of the most vivid examples of unrealistically looking female characters is Bayonetta, who is integrated into every facet of the eponymous fantasy action-adventure game. Stellar Blade, another game with a controversial design, has used a Korean model for its main character.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I can't imagine what it must be like to be a Red Headed girl with DD's and a low BMI in the current year. Your very existence is "problematic".

 

[Kheapathic]

In my experience, most people of %CURRENT_YEAR% category don't even know what pretty/appealing/beautiful/etc means; and not just because shit can vary from person to person, but when they think what a good female character should look like, their brain fucking breaks. And part of it I'd say is due to modern sensibilities with all the hyper-sexual shit shoved in our faces in all sorts of media and advertising. The women in Resident Evil are mostly physically unremarkable; they're not double stuffed in the tits or ass category, they're not built like a house, or anything else, but their bodies are toned enough and their faces are pleasant enough you can admit that yes, they're attractive, and it doesn't matter if they're in street clothes, tactical gear, or a red dress, they can rock all and still look good. Imagine that, simply being a little toned up with a pleasant face is too fucking much for these psychotic puritans. But when people say they want something nice to look at; it's immediately confused (or strawmanned) as demanding a women with a triple-G chest and an ass that belongs on a draft horse and wearing nothing but 2 pieces of fishing twine; and not that I'm asking for it, but we can't even have that, it's always some fucking mystery meat with a jacked up face. And you may not fucking like it, but people generally would like to look at something they find pleasant as opposed to something repulsive; hard to fucking believe, I know.

 

[Particle Bored]

"No fat chicks." ~MS

 

[frozen_runner]

This is pretty stupid. They should worry about making good games. Games that people actually want to play. The lead dev of Bayonetta wanted a female character that looked like that. He told the artists to design a character like that. It was a female that designed the character if I remember correctly.

I played through games like MGS5 and I thought Quiet was a bit over the top. It's a MGS game and Japs are fucking weird. But what's going on in the Western video game industry is no better. It's like one extreme or the other. It's really weird to be playing this game with a serious setting and tone but then you have to deal with a Hooters waitress that also works as a sniper. I would rather have that than some ugly woman. I can understand where the criticism comes from. But the reaction is a bit extreme.

You can have women that aren't as curvy but aren't ugly.

Quiet was one of the best parts of MGS5, and it's a great (unfinished) game.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Leftoids are worse than evangelical christians when it comes to this crap. "uhm, sweaty, you are not allowed to look at things that are objectively sexy, here have this ugly degenerate shit we have cooked up, also we will turn your kids into ugly disgusting toxic waste monsters"

Leftists are also much more successful then the evangelical Christians in the 80s and 90s ever were at getting shit censored or removed. Most of the Christian attempts failed pretty spectacularly.

 

[Molag Bal]

I think it's pretty clear that by 'curvy', they mean attractive. They want more Ellies and Abbies, more prequel-Lara-Crofts (not og-lara, the flat ugly one whose face is constantly smeared with dirt) I don't know why Microsoft thinks removing good-looking female characters from games makes them more 'inclusive', you're not including anyone except a very narrow subset of women that are both ugly and insecure (about being ugly). Men don't want female character models they're expected to look at to be ugly and most women don't feel 'excluded' because of female characters being attractive either. It's really only the absolute rock-bottom tier fringe that actually gets this insecure about fictional women looking too good.
>are you implying everyone who is for this is an ugly woman who can't get laid
Yes, I'm unironically calling everyone who welcomes this policy a femcel. The only people other than femcels who are for this, are hyper-desperate simps and they only do it because they hope they get to fuck one of the former for it (so basically incels but they would never call themselves that).
If you switch the sexes, you will see why I'm saying this

Imagine if someone started arguing for literal years, that the games industry should remove any and all ripped, physically fit or otherwise attractive male characters from video games, and replace them with either scrawny weak manlets or fat dudes, and that every game's narrative should be about how the manlet/fat guy is a total badass, along with obligatory scenes where he beats and humiliates women to stick it to those femoids. And of course the femoid stand-ins in those games have no comeback, they can only sit there, listen and concede that the manlet/fat guy is right about everything.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the obvious inference you'd make would be that the person arguing this is a joyless incel and that he wants all of video games to forego entertaining everyone else in favor of being his personal incel cope fantasy.

That's the gender-swapped version of what I think all these girlboss themed 'strong female protagonist' narrative 'games' from the last decade are, a femcel cope fantasy. Femcel cope fantasies have somehow become the industry standard.

 

[DootSkeleton]

has used a Korean model for its main character

If they kept her in-game model as close to her IRL body as possible, can you really call it exaggerated proportions?
Rare proportions that are difficult to maintain maybe, but not exaggerated.

 

[SilentDuck]

People gonna still be putting out games like "The Police Mystery" whether Bill Gates cuts Batgirl's tits off or not.

 

[Prester John]

What a strange timing for this announcement with the recent Sweet Baby Inc. controversy.

 

[Snekposter]

Fuckers better keep their greasy mitts off 2B.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Fuckers better keep their greasy mitts off 2B.

More polygons in one asscheek than the entirety of Super Mario 64.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

I thank Microsoft for helping destroy AAA gaming.

It’s funny how some American gamers hate on weebs, and yet complain about wokeness infecting their precious “AAA” Western games.

Women are being replaced by """women""" in video games.

Stop playing video games lads.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Leftists are also much more successful then the evangelical Christians in the 80s and 90s ever were at getting shit censored or removed. Most of the Christian attempts failed pretty spectacularly.

That's because Evangelicals have morals that they simply will not cross. Leftists have none. Which is exactly why they shouldn't be considered human.

Rafael and Ted K was right about leftists.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Stop playing video games lads

Or just mainly stick to classics.

That's because Evangelicals have morals that they simply will not cross. Leftists have none. Which is exactly why they shouldn't be considered human.

Rafael and Ted K was right about leftists.

They do have morals they won't cross, but censorship isn't immoral. It's just that by the 80's & 90's they already lost influence. Once they Hays Code fell that was one of the major turning points in the culture's moral decay.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

That's because Evangelicals have morals that they simply will not cross. Leftists have none. Which is exactly why they shouldn't be considered human.

Rafael and Ted K was right about leftists.

I don't think that's it at all. The reason why leftists are so good at censorship is because they have infiltrated basically every institution in America starting in the 60s with academia and simply have the power to remove and censor what they don't like from the inside while disguising it as progressivism. The best example I can give is with tech companies. The silicon valley is one of the most heavily leftist places in the United states and they use their power to remove things they disagree with or that threaten their narrative. The fact they got this website nearly completely removed from the clearweb says it all.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

They do have morals they won't cross, but censorship isn't immoral. It's just that by the 80's & 90's they already lost influence. Once they Hays Code fell that was one of the major turning points in the culture's moral decay.

The Hay's Code died because people eventually got sick of it and just watched foreign movies instead. It also wasn't even required unless you wanted to work with Hollywood.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The reason why leftists are so good at censorship is because they have infiltrated basically every institution in America starting in the 60s with academia and simply have the power to remove and censor what they don't like from the inside while disguising it as progressivism.

Exactly right. They shaped the norms and standards as they saw fit, which is all censorship really is.

The Hay's Code died because people eventually got sick of it and just watched foreign movies instead. It also wasn't even required unless you wanted to work with Hollywood.

Not so sure about that, it's been a while since I learned about it, but I don't think that was the primary reason.

 

[The Ugly One]

Men don't want female character models they're expected to look at to be ugly and most women don't feel 'excluded' because of female characters being attractive either.

The idea that women don't want to be hot and don't fantasize about being hot is especially weird. Ever been to a mall? Seen a women's magazine? It's like 99% of everything that is marketed to them centers on being hot.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

my latest favorite example is the spiderman 2 game. that person the on the left is one of the writers at Insomniac. that 3d model on the right is supposed to be Mary fucking Jane from Spiderman. who are they fucking kidding

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She kinda looks like Julie Hagerty on the left. They definitely did her dirty with the in-game model though.

 

[Duck & Cover]

Developers insist on making their women au naturel with terrible skin and the most unflattering hairstyle. Guess makeup is bad if it's not sold to real-life women. Makes sense in some cases, not so in others.

How else do you explain this shit.