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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.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Being sexy is an attention-getter for female characters. The memorable characters aren't Ellen Page crying on a toilet in Beyond: Two Souls, or any of the two dozen sideshaved dykes of the last 10 years.

If we're gonna have consistency, make girl gamers look at male characters modeled after MovieBob in a g-string.

I don't really follow MovieBob closely but I'm ashamed to know who he is with that image in my head.

I honestly think the argument over character body types is ridiculous, comic books have been doing exaggerated proportions for decades.

 

[Chuck McGill]

Evangelicals have a literal written code they have to follow, and were at least motivated by some form of goodwill. The woke literally hate beauty and hate you.

Not to mention at some point, even the most hard-core prudish of Evangelicals realize that they have to drop the act so they can be fruitful and multiply. Not to mention all the Renaissance art glorifying the female form that came from Christians. With wokies? You don't need to reproduce goy, we have Somalians that need jobs. And you definitely don't need to have beauty in your life, you need another lesson on how your penis makes you evil.

It feels very facebook boomer to call wokism a mind virus, but when you consider wokism can literally only reproduce by hijacking other organisms, it just becomes an appropriate descriptor. There's a reason they expose your children to these freaks over and over again.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Evangelicals have a literal written code they have to follow

So do leftoids. Marxism, trannies and climate change are their holy trinity.

 

[Meat Target]

It feels very facebook boomer to call wokism a mind virus, but when you consider wokism can literally only reproduce by hijacking other organisms, it just becomes an appropriate descriptor. There's a reason they expose your children to these freaks over and over again

Evil cannot create; it can only plagiarize and bastardize.

 

[The Last Stand]

Bayonetta's actual body proportions are insane if you look at her full body, her limbs are freakishly long and her head is weirdly small, she's supposed to look like a composite centerfold nightmare. her animations are lurid to the point of ridiculousness. she's a parody of sexualization in games, but not a cynical one. Hideki Kamiya is a chad-autism nexus of incomprehensible depth. also, his lead artist he worked with to conceive the character was a woman.

I've always thought her proportions were loosely based on 1940s pin up girls from those calendars. Rita Hayworth with a touch of Marilyn Monroe.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Why not have female romance movies with morbidly obese men?

Why do male video games characters have abs and a noticable bulge in the crotch?

 

[xivnuhranx]

I'll never forgive Sony for what they did to my beautiful redheadView attachment 5854486

And making her a lesbian. A lot of people liked that there was no romance plots for Aloy (honestly, most modern video game romance is cringeworthy, because the writers have seemingly never romanced anyone themselves). But that isn't woke enough.

 

[Would]

Microsoft will never have their women be blondes with 40-23-36 measurements or big booty coloreds with 36-24-44 measurements. The trannies and the uggos will never allow it.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Controversial take here, but none of that actually matters, because it's entirely lost on an audience that won't appreciate it.

Bayonetta's design can be exaggerated to the point of ridiculousness, her proportions can be impossible, her animations deliberately hypersexualised to the point of parody - none of that matters, because your average gamer is a barely functional retard who takes everything at face value and cannot see anything of the designer's intent beyond "Girl hot."

yeah, pretty much. the vast majority of game-soomers aren't qualified to have independent thoughts

 

[Buttigieg2020]

So do leftoids. Marxism, trannies and climate change are their holy trinity.

But those can be literally anything. The only thing communists were ever good at was killing other communists for not being real communists.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

...And with that they have just guaranteed the Coom industry repeat customers. Also, its safe to say that Western Devs are gonna do everything they can to make the female face in the west as beautiful as pic related.

The first dev that implements actual badass looking men and sexy women are guaranteed customers nowadays.

 

[Safir]

Ah, characters. From the headline alone, I was hoping MS would ban hambeasts from playing.

So do leftoids. Marxism, trannies and climate change are their holy trinity.

Oh fuck, another one. Look, homofaggot gayboi, we Marxists put faggots in prison and turned trannies into vegetables. You capitalists shot, watched, and lauded movies in which children got raped and a woman dumping her faggot fiancee she'd caught getting buggered damned her to degradation and insanity. Go suck a tranny dick and die from aids.

 

[jertzog]

Does this mean no twitch thots allowed to play xbawks?
Because a lot of thirstcucks, for lack of sexy women in videogames, are watching those 3D foids instead of getting drawn to spend some fucking money.

 

[Rekeita's Kidneys]

Leftists hate beauty and strength because it isn't reflective of immense self hatred. One can becoming stronger, more attractive etc through actual hard work and not bitching. Turns out commie pinko faggots never do any of that.

 

[Stoneheart]

Do they mean curvy or american woman?

 

[TowinKarz]

Do they mean curvy or american woman?

They mean anything that doesn't look like a 2 x 4 in a dress....

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Come on, even women enjoyed tomb raider - Croft’s SCUD missiles were part of the fun.
Joyless puritans.
Too many woke scolds and men pretending to be women in gaming. Bring back the bikini battle elves.

Bayonetta has a sizeable female fanbase. Hell, a woman designed the main character. Not sure if Ada has a lot of female fans. Leon Kennedy seems to be what Resident Evil fangirls like.

Which is understandable if you don't find boulder punching meatheads sexy.

Almost every female Devil May Cry character is sexy. That series also has quite a following with women. Mostly because the men are attractive. Metal Gear Solid and Yakuza have a similar following. Yakuza has minigames that only exist to advertise porn stars. No one cares except game journalists. Good thing no one with sense listens to those guys.

If I want ugly main characters, I'll play Oblivion without mods that make everyone look like they have a normal amount of chromosomes.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Oh fuck, another one. Look, homofaggot gayboi, we Marxists put faggots in prison and turned trannies into vegetables. You capitalists shot, watched, and lauded movies in which children got raped and a woman dumping her faggot fiancee she'd caught getting buggered damned her to degradation and insanity. Go suck a tranny dick and die from aids.

Somebody is totally not mad that his ideology is actually mental retardation and has caused suffering beyond human comprehension. What are you going to tell people when the next iteration of your colossal fuck up bullshit doesn't work? "This was not real tranny climate communism" or something? Commies always will be the biggest faggots of them all.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

And by "exaggerated" OC we know that's another code word for non-prepubescent or feminine.

Fuck these retards. Fiction and fantasy are about idealism, even when not ideal. Just like with edgelord and tragic or grim-dark crap, why do i want my entertainment and escapism to be boring or unpleasant?

Remember Soyny isn't the only enemy. MS is just as cucked, just not as explicit about it. Steam too.. it's only a matter of time before Steam moves on from just targeting anime/Japanese games.

Like somebody said in the SBI thread, the best part of all this is the lefties who raise a stink about these "issues" don't actually buy or play video games. They just spend all day seething on social media about them.

And ReeeeEra.. don't forget about them!

Shit like this is why I have given up entirely on the modern AAA gaming industry and exclusively play fan mods of early 2000s RPGs.

Same on the old games thing.. And mods. But watch out.. The mod world is also getting cucked. The major sites are pushing their intolerance of things further and further. When one bans a mod, they almost all do afterward. All those articles that feminists and SJ tards made over the last decade or so, complaining about having to see all the "gross sexist" stuff on mod sites had an effect it seems. Plus they are doubling down on letter people "protection". And targeting Japanese media particularly. (they have deleted mods undoing simple but annoying costume censorship and text changes, to western ports under the argument that "localizers did it for a reason", for "respect" of their work and other nonsense. Always targeting fanservice, things of a sexual nature or "sexist" and sexed dialogue.)

I had low expectations for the TES VI, but now I'm 100% sure it's going to be faggy to the extreme and a buggy unplayable pile of shit.

You mean the series with the female character face options that all have features more masculine than most of the male faces, a decade before the industry takeover? Surely you jest!

 

[JamusActimus]

They should avoid curry women instead.