Fighting Games (general)

Jan 12, 2017 14:34:58 GMT -6 Goobsausage said:

Everyone else there was either creeped out by it or disinterested and went off to play Injustice, Smash Bros, Street Fighter, MK9, and Skullgirls.

See, that's exactly the response I mean. Me personally, I am all for the aesthetic changing any way it needs to for more people to not feel weird about playing it. It isn't about the characters/their designs to me, but just how fun the game is to experiment with. I play Fiona and wouldn't care if she was 20 years older or even a robot or something, lol. The game has more variety and possibilities than pretty much any other game.

Jan 12, 2017 14:34:58 GMT -6 Goobsausage said:

Has SF5 gotten any better over the past year?

Yeah. Meaningfully? Not really.

Jan 12, 2017 15:05:57 GMT -6 crocodile said:

Who is to say that if they set the game 20 years into the future, they don't just include a mostly whole new cast of lolis? LOL

But yeah, before I even finished reading your post I was aiming for the "20 year time skip" option with the thought of "if they age up all/most of the cast that would be sweet!"

I've never actually played the Arcana Heat series but I've seen and heard enough about it to 100% believe the series has a lot to offer aside from lolis. But still.........were they necessary Examu/Japan?

lol yep, that's pretty much how I feel about it. To the first thought though, some people were thinking that as a serious consideration lol, but I would think that would contrast with the "another story" option if they just wanted to do "other lolis"...because those would end up being the same thing in effect.

Two years later won as I had expected, which certainly isn't the end of the world and probably the best for core fans that really liked how things already were while being a slight compromise where they can alter the aesthetics a little bit. The young characters will still be quite young, though...but...I mean, that's Arcana Heart after all lol.

One consolation to the seeming perverted nature of it, the game goes quite far out of its way to block panty shots. Outside of the characters that are wearing outright swim wear/gym shorts, you can't produce a look at their undies in any way in-game. It really doesn't flaunt boobs with move animations like many fighting games do, either (i.e. Skullgirls), though some girls do have large busts...mostly the robot and Maori.

edit: And hey, for those who may have not seen this yet:

Unfortunately, GG is at a point of diminishing returns where no one else is going to play it lol

It could get better and better and more people are still going to play while bitching about SF5. heh

Really, the game is all girls, but only a handful of them could be called lolis. Just looking at the character list, about 6 out of 23. Of those, I can only say that only maybe two could be perceived as being sexualized in some way, and that's likely why the Twitter account specifically asked about Kira and Konoha. Specifically, Kira just wears a gym swimsuit and is in a blob, while Konoha wear something similar and fixes her tail. The game doesn't show characters' underwear at any point, but since those are swimwear, technically you can always see them. There really isn't much of a "sexy" thing going on the majority of the time, but the tone can be perceived as pretty bad.

I myself am not a player that feels the need to pick a character that he/she can "self insert" into, or be representative of something about myself, etc. It also seems that a lot of guys won't play a female character (or even think they should be in the game) if they're not sexually attracted to them, i.e. if they can't "see themselves" as the character (a male) and the character isn't attractive to them, why bother? That rules out a lot of the AH cast then, for a lot of people, since there's that "why would I play a girl I can't even enjoy looking at" thing. For me, if what they do/look like is cool and fun, that's about all I care about. I can, however, sometimes see character traits of mine in female characters and pick them based on that, too, and even in doing that not want to have sex with them.

It can be a very polarizing thing based on the individual.

Oh hey Dengojin , Eliza!! lol now there's a sexualized character hahaha. She's cool though

Really, the game is all girls, but only a handful of them could be called lolis. Just looking at the character list, about 6 out of 23. Of those, I can only say that only maybe two could be perceived as being sexualized in some way, and that's likely why the Twitter account specifically asked about Kira and Konoha. Specifically, Kira just wears a gym swimsuit and is in a blob, while Konoha wear something similar and fixes her tail. The game doesn't show characters' underwear at any point, but since those are swimwear, technically you can always see them. There really isn't much of a "sexy" thing going on the majority of the time, but the tone can be perceived as pretty bad.

I myself am not a player that feels the need to pick a character that he/she can "self insert" into, or be representative of something about myself, etc. It also seems that a lot of guys won't play a female character (or even think they should be in the game) if they're not sexually attracted to them, i.e. if they can't "see themselves" as the character (a male) and the character isn't attractive to them, why bother? That rules out a lot of the AH cast then, for a lot of people, since there's that "why would I play a girl I can't even enjoy looking at" thing. For me, if what they do/look like is cool and fun, that's about all I care about. I can, however, sometimes see character traits of mine in female characters and pick them based on that, too, and even in doing that not want to have sex with them.

It can be a very polarizing thing based on the individual.

Oh hey Dengojin , Eliza!! lol now there's a sexualized character hahaha. She's cool though