why are western female characters so un-likable?

[Gravityqueen4life]

stop calling me a pedophile. call me a weeboo and a incel beacuse those things are for the most part true.

I liked the not-dyke dyke-haired cowgirl and Ashly Burch homo from Outer Worlds, they were pretty good if not entirely original.

I also thought all of the women in RDR2 were pretty good, but you don't really play as any of them.

not my fault obsidian have not released their game on steam yet beacuse their communist cock-suckers.

 

[NerdShamer]

More than the writing, I think its the design. Western games have very bland and generic looking female characters, even if the character is interesting. In japanese games, even if the character is a bimbo, if she at least looks cool, you remember them. For example, Asasin Creed: Odyssey. Cassandra is awesome, but every other female character is super bland, specially your main villain. This is specially true in fighting games, where there is barely any writing, I love Mortal Kombat, but its female characters are the weakest part of the game. In the ps2 era, they made the mistake of making everyone a bimbo, in MK11, my main problem is the blandness of the design. I mean, I think its better they embraced a more realistic aproach with the women, but their costumes lack something, they are not iconic, like Chun Li, Cammy or Mai.

IS THIS NOT ICONIC ENOUGH FOR YOU?​

 

[DumbDude42]

ok real talk i think this is all somewhat of a recent development

you could practically see it happen in real time with blizzard games. in warcraft 3 sylvanas was a tragic and sympathetic character, in tft and early wow she was a great edgy anti-hero, but now in modern wow she's just cringe faggotry mary sue to the max

 

[kobox666]

IS THIS NOT ICONIC ENOUGH FOR YOU?​

Lol I meant those characters costumes are iconic. Even if you made her proportions more real, you would still recognize her as Cammy.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Who the fuck pays attention to the characters in video games?

 

[Strange Wilderness]

Female characters in the west are made for a different purse than in the east japan.
In the west they are created to serve a story first. and because every medium is infested with SJW at this point, the story they serve is made to further an agenda.
So they are ment to look tough or at least unconventional, and as realistic as possible (because retards lack imagination).
In japan female characters are mascots, made to sell a product. not only their looks but their entire character is made specifically to appeal to some weirdo who is really into that shit.

No female or female-adjacent character is safe from the dick of a japanese salaryman.

Another way you could look at is prestige, what gets you the most respect from your peers? In the west its clear that the game developers want the approval of the press and the woke Twitter crowd. What matters to Neil Druckmann isn't how many copies of TLOU2 sells or what the fans say, what matters to him are the fawning articles from Kotaku and Polygon about how awesome he is for making "strong" lesbian female characters who put white men in their place. Sales and the opinions of the peasants aren't important as long as the cool kids give him a like on Twitter. Don't know too much about Japanese corporate culture but I'm sure making a lot of money for the company is seen as a sign of success, so they make characters that will get Otakus to fork over their money for posters and figurines.

 

[Eurobeat My Meat]

I think it comes down to men and women not really knowing how to write female characters without them being some boring, generic or wacky mess. This is also true for japanese media. But there are some good ones out there, Veronica from fallout new vegas is a pretty cool one imo.

 

[SilkGnut]

Lol I meant those characters costumes are iconic. Even if you made her proportions more real, you would still recognize her as Cammy.

Proportions? SF2's cast is so iconic they do not even need shapes to be recognizable.

 

[Dyn]

stop calling me a pedophile. call me a weeboo and a incel beacuse those things are for the most part true.

All weaboos are pedophiles.

 

[Dreamer]

Don't know too much about Japanese corporate culture but I'm sure making a lot of money for the company is seen as a sign of success, so they make characters that will get Otakus to fork over their money for posters and figurines.

Japanese artistic scene is pretty weird to describe. Its full of skilled people who quite literally dedicate their entire lives to one thing, be it animation, manga, hentai or anything else.
The whole corporate culture is like this actually, people tend to tunnel into a niche and stay there until death. They don't get paid much btw.
But because of this those obsessed dedicated people need leadership, and that leadership ultimately dictates the quality of their product.
For a time japan lived in a economic bubble meaning that their leaders were not as tight and therefore japanese culture was really top shelf.
But that time has passed and now their produce has taken a noticeable dive, and is much more profit-oriented. So they pander to coomers and copy-paste shit a lot.
Every once in a while we get a product lost in time like Death Stranding (unique) but what comes out of japan these days is mostly porn and extremely safe media that takes a lot of wasted effort to make.
Oh, also i find japanese culture to be a lot more deviant than the west, or maybe deviant in a strictly sexual way.

Don't get mad at me, its just my opinion.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Reeee female characters aren't big titted animu children who make muh useless dick hard!1

Fuck off r.etarded weeb fag.

Do you even have to ask the question? Blame feminism.

I miss when gaming was an unapologetically male oriented thing.

Deranged testerical screeching.

 

[Reverend]

I'll take more women like the current Tomb Raider as she was at least somewhat attractive, wasn't giant anime tiddies, and didn't break immersion and look like a fucking troglodyte like the current batch of games put out in the last 3 years by EA and Activision who made women look like a BLM protestor and someone you find you want nothing to do with because you play games to feel heroic, inspired, and someone different/extraordinary.

No one wants to play a fucking video game like some slag who works at Riot Ribs.

 

[Samson Pumpkin Jr.]

The Japanese constitution was the most radical of its day, forced on it by the US. It was literally made by a Jewish woman. Japan, while it may be patriotic, is deeply ill. The issues of its society, from a bottom up perspective, start with the alienated young men and end with its constitution.

To say that those women in Japanese cartoons are better than those in western media is dumb because Japanese media only serves to give pleasure to the consumer when western media wants to create an idealized, if not deeply flawed, woman. I'm not saying that these western archetypes are good, rather that these archetypes exist in reality, when you look at Japanimation there's nothing real about these people. Why do you think so many men in Japan are hermits? those men live in an idealized version of reality tailored to them provided by the free market. One of the benefits of communism is that reality is forced on those citizens whether they like it or not.

If you like eastern fantasy then there's something wrong with you, and double with the west. We shouldn't want to be more like the east (black pigeon speaks), we should look to our past.

 

[Pope Fucker]

I like it when female characters are mean and can kick ass. Moe girls are often useless and their high pitched baby voices turn me off.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Most modern game characters tend to be a bit shit male or female. Mechanics are better ut the stories get shitter.

Or I play shit games? Idk; most recent game i played was the destroy all humans remake. the two main characters there are autistic ayy lmao's who would have been beards. That was pretty fun. Outer worlds was peak shit tier characters. male and female ones were bad and interchangeable. Metro Exodus was good character wise.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Moe girls are often useless and their high pitched baby voices turn me off.

And when they scream it sounds like squealing pigs

 

[Pope Fucker]

And when they scream it sounds like squealing pigs

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

 

[Johan Schmidt]

And when they scream it sounds like squealing pigs

Japan has a weord abundance of grown women that sound eight years old.

Worst part of jap games isn't the weird sex stuff; or the random shrine maidens, or their dumb voices. it's that the cunts have no ability to make people sound natural. It's always a weird as fuck speech pattern that sounds like a hive guard from zeta Reticuli wrote it.

"Kiwifarms! a place of great renown where the autists of the internet follow the most cherished american pastime of tard husbandry!"
'Tch! So it's that sort of place huh?'

Why is every non English speaking nation so fucking inferior at telling a story? Only good things the heebs did for us.

 

[Disc]

Eastern Female Characters are written by horny men.

Western Female Characters are written by angry women.

I'm counting Neil Druck in the latter group, here.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Bad stories are supplemented with unlikeable characters regardless of sex but it's arguably rare to find an equal yield of likeable men and women characters in even good games. Good stories have both, but a good story needs some sense into why a character is undesirable, not just an unironically terrible voice or reprehensible tard casting it. I find there are more tier-z NPCs who get on my nerves than main characters regardless of sex.