Black Game Dev Silenced By Other Black Game Devs For Speaking Up | Uglification Of Female Characters

[@Impalingthorn]

I love how I was a "cringy anti-SJW" for years back between 2013-2022 until this crap hit critical mass and suddenly everything we were saying would happen happened. It's not a hard formulas, when you insert radical individuals into your hobby who TELL YOU they will change your hobby, they will inevitably CHANGE YOUR HOBBY. Movies, books, videogames, anything. The fact that only now, in 2024, people are allowed to DISCUSS this is kinda sad. Would've loved to see this energy back in 2016.

[@MagcargoMan]

You still are a cringe anti-SJW, considering how on the Critical Drinker After Hours video about Yasuke you claimed that saying he was a retainer (not a Samurai, but a retainer) and that him being under the employ of Nobunaga for 15 months was "obfuscating information" even though it's documented meanwhile your racist projection claiming he was just traded around constantly for his time spent in Japan has no evidence. I guess since Metatron provided evidence for the former and not your desired speculation you probably think he's "gone woke", right?

[@MagcargoMan]

You still are a cringe anti-SJW, considering how on the Critical Drinker After Hours video about Yasuke you claimed that saying he was a retainer (not a Samurai, but a retainer) and that him being under the employ of Nobunaga for 15 months was "obfuscating information" even though it's documented meanwhile your racist projection claiming he was just traded around constantly for his time spent in Japan has no evidence. I guess since Metatron provided evidence for the former and not your desired speculation you probably think he's "gone w0ke", right?

[@Henbot]

Kinda smoking out your bum dude. It’s a two way street- you are saying radicals do it and whining about woke but ignoring how right wingers also do that too

[@jbktpl1245]

It was, sadly many ignored those talks as just people over exaggerating.

[@MagcargoMan]

@@Impalingthorn Given the kind of comments you leave I can say you definitely still are one.

[@irvinmorales1409]

The same people who screech about diversity are the same people who are just as close minded as the people they claim to hate.

[@MagmaMKII]

"Accuse people of what you do, call people what you are."

[@ParodyAccount_]

Just don't buy their games. Money automatically talks.

[@RAIN_2001]

we were right all along

[@irvinmorales1409]

​@@ParodyAccount_ Oh I don't. I've mainly been emulating games.

[@ryo-kai8587]

The people they hate aren't closed-minded though. They just like freedom of expression and pretty stuff. The woke zombie army are the real closed-minded ones. Time to stop entertaining their BS once and for all

[@NexusWulf99]

Atp, we need games to completely go indie. These companies never want to give their customers they want, and expect us to buy their garbage and call us the bad guys if we dont buy their shet.

[@Henbot]

How you think a developer can afford to go completely indie? And you still going to have variety of characters and stories because not everyone is hive mind and that includes variety of character design

[@Evixyn]

All Color Voices Matter until it does not aline with their agenda. Very inclusive said the same inclusive groups.

[@kinglukethe7th524]

Great.. another sexist splatoon youtuber that doesn't like women and dislikes minorities. Why are splatoon fans so toxic?

[@mrkarateman]

It was already exposed that that DEI points are connected to investments from big fish like Blackrock. That’s why these “consultant companies” started to grow like mushrooms after the rain, cause that brings big bucks. Covid hurt gaming industry hard, people bought a lot of video games being locked down. So studios started to hire more people, they needed more money. But it backfired hard, now we see studios closing, thousands of people being fired, millions wasted. That’s why they need this big bucks from investors. Investors want a good DEI score. That’s where those consultants come in. Always follow the money.

[@Gambit2483]

Why do they do this? Because they are insecure about their own looks and they want to use games as a way to change what's "normal" or "standard" for beauty in women. I also wouldn't be surprised if they want to push the idea that women with masculine features are also beautiful on behalf of a certain social group. In other words, they want to condition men to be attracted to women with masculine builds and facial features

[@dazumba9630]

This is the guy who mocked the silent hill fans and then get mad because his design get rejected probably get what he deserves... still it is sad that good game destroyed because some people inserting politics on a video games rather than makes a good story

[@ATOMiiCChicken]

gets what deserves unfortunately

[@qu1253]

Was just about to say, this guy is only upset because it's _his_ designs getting mangled beyond recognition. If it was someone else's, he'd just tell them to shut up and get back in line.

[@arnowisp6244]

Probably because it's white Women being made ugly. He's definitely a Anti White Racist.

[@SimonPugh-k8f]

That s suck s this is why tanya looked bad there only one skin that looks like tanya if its a good design why do that

[@derrickthemindfulgamer]

Videogames. Are. Political. You either have the ability to see it or you mash d1 on plus frames.

[@MobDraws69]

It angers me to know that even other black devs in the industry would silence their own so quickly. It makes me wonder if I could ever succeed in the industry if I can’t even trust in the integrity of my own people.

[@LamiaLover]

This hits home for me as well. Seeing our own sell one another out for brownie points and a leg up should not be tolorated. Not just for us, but for people of ALL races and creeds.

[@BlueBD]

Because they dont care about anything other them being right. Anything they claim to say about diversity is a lie. They dont give a damn about it. Its their way or no way.

[@Xanderxindershin]

As someone who wanted to go to school to become a video game developer, and as someone who would like his own small studio, this disappoints me. I was already considering not pursuing this career path for other reasons.

[@LamiaLover]

@@Xanderxindershin I wanted to become a game dev too, especially one for some of the biggest companies out there. Especially EA, since they were the makers of bangers such as Mirrors Edge, Battlefield, NFS, the Titanfall games, and the Jedi fallen order trilogy of games. But after what we heard from behind the scenes? I went HELL NO.

[@TheMilhouseExperience]

“I freed a thousand slaves. I would have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” -Harriet Tubman

[@eleos-7845]

At this point, I’m worried to make my characters for my own game

[@bl8sian]

Don’t be, make whatever you like bruv.

[@RealMikeHollow]

@@eleos-7845 😂😂 make them and make a ton of them, bro. Don't let these weirdos cut you down.

[@Aftokraftor]

Dont worry they are slowly taking our ability to make characters in games away and if we can all you get is body type A and B now

[@Iwisoks]

Maybe I'm ignorant but if you're an indie dev it shouldn't matter right?

[@kingj9664]

I mean have you not seen games like undertale or any other indie games you don't need a big company and you just do it by yourself dude

[@marco_fire_wolf951]

as a black man myself who designs attractive female characters, i realize that all of this talk about diversity in the gaming industry is not genuine at all

[@CarTastic-fv6eo]

Its all about ideology, same for alphabet mafia

[@maxrosefoxanime7225]

of course it not you know how much media Is effect by pointless black person don't get me wrong it just extremely odd when a comic or movie character is white for 15 years then there black some reason which confused me so much I know this old but bat women show that died lol was black and I don't understand y To me company's don't care about you, now and days they trying to aim at a wider opportunity and they don't even care about the actual show and lore and stuff

[@conscientiousobjector5988]

Explain "attractive."

[@Wano_9]

Fr bro there was always agenda too they did not want diversity they want to make certain people the ugly people the side kicks etc…

[@TheElementAce]

@@conscientiousobjector5988 No need to explain. @QOVESStudio has an entire KZbin channel breaking down attractiveness to a science.

[@JayJay-gh7or]

I think if you're a person that appreciates the beauty of black women and enjoys video games, that you've known its been this for a LONG time. Mostly because people don't want to play as black women as mains but then they aren't exactly doing their best to make them appealing. It has mostly fallen to Japanese designs to get some of my most beloved black female characters in the mix such as Sheva Alomar and Master Raven. What I've done is taken it upon myself to create beautiful female characters in video games that allow for a character creator. Over on the Western side of the game, black women characters are basically just Debra Wilson. Considering the amount of gorgeous black e-girls and actresses that I am sure exist... it's far too obvious.

[@MrCarrot2000]

This is actually sad, you can tell he’s basically held at gunpoint just by looking at that tweet

[@obrians-brown1307]

Ima assume they threatened his source of income and he has mouths to feed.

[@Vortex-5025]

At this point, it just shows that the AAA gaming market needs to crash and burn. This is why i mostly only play indie and Eastern Games at this point, because you can see the gun being held to his head and this is just the case we know of these ppl dont deserve to be supported.

[@ShadowBrave21]

I'm actually turning to indie too these days

[@adamyohan]

The fact he was outright silenced so blatantly in broad daylight is CRAZY. They validated the entire situation. You're not exaggerating when you say it's cult behavior.

[@CarTastic-fv6eo]

Its kinda scary to even get into the industry right now as the mob can just out right silence you or bully into submission if you are small dev. Gaming crash needs to happen and we need hard reset.

[@ArchonKujo]

I am truly sick and tired of virtue signaling in video games, everything has to be political in every single spec of games especially when it's made by the westerns, DEI has been affecting games and movies for too long enough and they discriminate a singular race cuz they think we're privileged, You either write a good story, or have a game be extremely related to diversity, And having to make attractive characters look unattractive is leads the downfall of certain games, and there's no other company that I can think of other than Sweet Baby, The budget for the newer games are never as good as the older titles, and these are the same people who could be xenophobic to Japanese all due to a design of characters 😭

[@utteero]

The problem is that you people complain all day and at the end of the day you end up buying these games anyway. If people Boycott these games en masse, they will get the message.

[@ArchonKujo]

@@utteero It's not that fucking simple, I don't even get any games that have that such insolence in it, here I'm starting to realize the situation of what's heading so, I'm not one of these people who just buy it anyways

[@conscientiousobjector5988]

I find it interesting that the original commenter ia basically admitting to a bias but thinks it is someone else's duty to indulge it. You are worse than privileged; you are spoiled. No one has forced you to play these games or consume any media (although advertising may be the exception). The only issue here is people are so inclined to deny there is a wide range in the form and expression of people. The gaming community seems maladaptive. Perhaps that is the bigger problem.

[@ArchonKujo]

@@conscientiousobjector5988 You people need to realize that there are people who are already at the diversity standpoint, DEI is only discriminating white people, That's the major red flag about it, What's more important than just diversity is talent, if you need installments to be made, stop making games that fits with your agenda and actually make the game that makes money, do you want us to see Jean Grey looking like an unattractive woman? That shit was made on purpose to piss us off, It's nothing but an agenda that keeps pushing our faces that we don't need nor is interesting to us, The thing is what we want for most games is that we want a good story as well, you see what happened with acolyte, this isn't even a show about the story, it's about forced agendas, you may be right about the spoiled part, But it's better to have the things be done correctly while you're spoiled.

[@alexkogan9755]

Crabs in a bucket, every time.

[@anthonyduran7553]

Lobsters captured and stuck inside a commercial lobster trap.

[@jebediahrage8273]

I miss when crabs were just enemies in game, and not running the companies...

[@alexkogan9755]

@@jebediahrage8273 same

[@farhanfmx]

I need to look up this phrase

[@pinksywedarnoc8017]

​@@farhanfmx Basically, when one crab tries to leave the bucket, the other crabs pull it back into the bucket. Rinse and repeat when another crab tries to escape.

[@naokikashima2885]

At this point I don't even know why people still bother with american games anymore. Boycott them all, stick to japanese/asian games ONLY.

[@kingj9664]

Cuz not All American games are like that and plus we still have like indie games that are pretty good they're made over here in America

[@espurrseyes42]

​@@kingj9664 Most are, and Indies are their own category.

[@kingj9664]

@@espurrseyes42 Still don't know about that 1 And let's not try and downplay indie games here I mean look at Hades in undertale and there's success

[@espurrseyes42]

@@kingj9664 It's not to downplay Indie. The opposite actually. Most people behind those actually care about the product unlike more mainstream/AAA stuff in general, not just Western. They shouldn't be compared to the crap big companies put out as far as this conversation goes.

[@bigZAIN187]

he should just release the list of weirdos that were DM ing him with these clear threats hot chicks sell things better, the market has established this for years

[@yuhgirlmj-]

To me idc about gaming politics it’s so fkn annoying everyone complains on both sides but as a black girl myself I’m so tired of them making us look masculine all the time even with apex I love Bangalore she fits that and I have friends and cousins who look like her but example lifeline barely has any outfits that ive seen looking feminine but all her other counterparts who are white or latina have outfits with heels and/or feminine clothing I just want a black girl who’s feminine but can still kick some ass like Harley Quinn or Ada Wong

[@ExplosiveBolts]

It's just woke devs and their enablers being anti-traditionalist, and that traditionalism just so happens to include traditional beauty which is why they are so opposed to attractive characters.

[@impactsuit9871]

Beauty is beauty, there´s no traditional beauty, what they want is to fight against reality.

[@SemekiIzuio]

Yup its starting to happem in the anime/manga community as well now, Blackstone bought one of Japans buggest digital manga sellers. They are infecting gaming and manga niche hobbies. Its horrible, the future is looking very bleak. 😔

[@SeasoningTheObese]

With Jews, you lose.

[@songoku9348]

I have a proposition for you all. Shall we all go back to classic game systems? More and more day by day my beloved SNES is becoming more appealing. I have no words. Why are we at this point? What happened and the fact that this has to be talked about is baffling.

[@YellowFellow86]

Totally agree with your take 👍 Hopefully we will win eventually against these ridiculous people.

[@shinfitz]

To offer another perspective, perhaps the people spoke to him didn’t say “get in line”. Perhaps they told him something along the lines of “calm down, cause you’re on the bosses radar to be fired”.

[@demariogoss9732]

Same effect though. Fall in line, or lose your place in it permanently.

[@shinfitz]

@@demariogoss9732 Perhaps, but the context is different. One is black people bullying black people to comply. The other is black people looking out for black people to keep their job.

[@God-T]

my best bet for why their doing this is that's it a "Giant social experiment" to see how we consume the content and to collect data on how humans react to it. its a form of emotional control and manipulation. if this shocks u don't be surprised, the history book is a good example of human psychological experimentation, the internet is just another form of that, YOU ARE an EXPERIMENT! 🫵

[@bstarjam466]

These are VIDEO GAMES!!! I don't know why we have to have so much politics regarding the styling of characters. Let us have our gorgeous characters in peace. Damn!

[@johnny718bravo]

What a wonderful industry where you are censored by your peers. He's a coward.

[@TruGouki]

black voices only get propped up if they are promoting the message. If you're "off code" or a pull yourself up by your own bootstraps kinda guy thats when they show you what they really think of you and how racist they really are.

[@kingj9664]

But let's just always remember that's not just one side that's both sides.

[@xr.spedtech]

Me and del want one thing : Pretty black women... They can't hold me back, though.

[@broccolisauce2722]

so when are we storming them and demand our pretty characters back?

[@XarronChaos]

Yo I'm ngl but that model that dev suggested really made me think that was a beautiful black cosplayer. I would of never thought it was a character he suggested

[@MachineheadNews]

Its also possible they realized doing talks on things like "Black Representation in Video Games" doesn't move the discussion forward, increases segregation, and requires an emphasis on race that is counter productive to doing good work.

[@EndThusIAm]

He was told to put his strings back on, like a good puppet.

[@unrulydgj9589]

Nice using Dolores as the thumbnail 👌

[@anthonyduran7553]

Me personally I always preferred entertainment of Asian culture. There was clearly nothing special about Western entertainment at all because of stupid and ugly miscellaneous things.

[@MagcargoMan]

Dumb weeb.

[@toastedjambread]

These people would cry for representation, have a character like sheva alomar, and complain she "too pretty". Like you really are threatened by a fictional character?

[@funkydown]

the female game devs? yeah, they even have a reason to be threatened by beautiful fictional characters

[@budgiecat9039]

The best looking black female characters in video games were Grace from Fighting Vipers Sheva from Resident Evil 5 Vanessa from Virtua Fighter Elena from Street Fighter 3 Lisa Hamilton from Dead or Alive Master Raven from Tekken 7 And theyre all Japanese made

[@FaeAvalon]

We gave these people an inch and they're just running miles on us, see what all this inclusion and acting like everyone's opinions matter has done to our games? The need for representation never stops, they will never stop because they're freaking lunatics. Screw representation and make good games.

[@yohobin]

It speaks volumes that Japanese devs can make beautiful black women with ease.... but actual black developers refuse to.

[@awsomeboy360]

I think a lot of devs, etc feel the same way but they can't talk about it because they fear they'll get fired , etc.

[@resistancepublishing]

I’m glad I’m independent and don’t work for a company. I refuse to bend the knee to stupidity

[@marco_fire_wolf951]

8:37 as the youtuber J THE CONCEPT said, we need to start developing our own games so we won't have to worry about other game directors telling us how we should design our characters

[@MaoriGamerDood]

We are inclusive. But we don't include beauty. Natural or otherwise. Because THAT MAKES SENSE!?

[@neodarkomega]

Anyone with eyes and playing games didnt need confirmation but its always nice to hear or from the horses mouth.

[@RenTheDragon1975]

I've only gone on what you've said in the Vid as I don't do Twatter. And I might have missed a Trick ..... but could these Black devs telling him to pipedown be coming fron the same direction you are ..... "Keep ya Head down, get to the top, and THEN make change" ? I'm not black ... but this makes sense to me..... only going on the info you gave me. BTW as a White Tekken player I did find it odd that the only Black Female Character in Tekken 7 was given a Fucking ugly default outfit imo.... she is pretty if you customise her .... but the default is ew imo.

[@bossredd-77]

Didn't hear about this until I clicked on your channel. Thanks, and subscribed.

[@RealMikeHollow]

Thank you ☝🏾

[@robertevans4902]

These studios don’t sound very progressive or forward thinking to me…🤔

[@TheCanineContrarian]

Bro had a full sympohony play at the end of the video i thought it had ended and a random muaic video song came on it had me vibing hard af after some (horrifying) facts was just spit 😭 (FYI, the majority of the time im on commentary-esque videos I'm 90% listening to them while the phone is somewhere)

[@RealMikeHollow]

😂😂😂 gotta throw them Naruto tunes in there when I can.

[@Kinos141]

I used to think of the games industry as the last good place, where people are supportive. How I see it's no different than the rap industry.

[@MrSamPhoenix]

Been noticing this for a long time now. One of the most egregious example of this is Tanya from Mortal Kombat 1.

[@TrizollinTehWorld]

I just don't understand making characters purposely ugly. Attractive people exist!

[@Donotaro22]

When you champion the death of artistic expression and making something enjoyable for the sake of inclusivity, mock people who vocally don’t like it by labeling them as “gamer gaters”, I don’t feel bad for you when it ends up being your turn. Say whatever you want, I don’t feel bad for him because he wouldn’t feel bad for others in his predicament. He even said “I’m not like those gamergaters, I’m special because “black excellence and beauty”, so he doesn’t get labeled as bad for wanting what most people do as well. He helped make the bed, he can lay his ass off in it. I don’t comment much but damn, the complete hypocrisy and desperation in those tweets are just a bad look. TL’DR Sucks to be him

[@curtisjackson4090]

Shambolic work

[@roguespartan2854]

Wow, it's almost like the thing the guy was rooting for wasn't such a great bunch to be siding with after all. He laid his bed, now he's gotta lie in it with all the shit it came with.

[@kingj9664]

Like I said in your last video people like sweet baby ink really do harm developers that actually want to bring good diversity into gaming

[@ryzekiv7147]

I know character designs change but that’s usually in phases and involves the lead designer and the game director (BOTW Link). Such a dramatic shift from start to finish often includes name (Lara Cruz > Lara Croft). To see this dramatic change without the in-between phase or the lead designer’s input feels a bit weird. Obviously to have multiple occasions where your own job is overwritten by a higher up is frustrating, especially as an artist. In the the information age where risk of extremism from reactionaries is high (d☠️ threats and doxing and bullies, oh my!), it’s might be company policy to not vent frustration on Socials (ESPECIALLY Twitter). What else within the game did he work on? Could maybe the artbook alleviate some of this public concern? Could _he_ have received messages from gamergaters of “validation” and got increasingly uncomfortable with the comment thread, realizing most of the people he disagrees with are treating him as their posterboy/new member? Any way you slice the sandwich, its still pretty rank. Imma recommend waiting for more info before treating this as anything more than a guy feeling undercut in his workplace. _There’s already a lot of that going around the industry…_

[@zedrinbing]

that kof character is looking hot as f

[@christophermarshall2362]

Black developers must support one another not shut others down.

[@truindividual]

These DEI guys are pretty much the real oppressors here to push the narrative that we're maginalized and oppressed. I remember when AAA games used to be fun? I'll stick to retro

[@totalrko]

Don't be fooled, he only cried because HIS characters got uglified, he could care less about characters we like that get uglified.

[@taejoonpark9613]

Ayyy yeo is that howling butterfly asuma vs choji, ino , amd shikmaru ost from storm 3 music I hear in the outro!?!!

[@RealMikeHollow]

@@taejoonpark9613 that's the one, sir ☝🏾 🐐 tune!

[@Ock_mantis]

I've just got to the point i just dont buy it. Simple as that. Sadly that means i also gotta research all of my games. Even more! Then i normally do. And its stupid because i shouldn't have to.

[@gamesonastick]

I gotta wonder if they're looking into legal action and that's why he won't speak on it further

[@darencree9959]

I'm sick of people saying "it's just a video game", so ? First of all, the gaming industry has an audience of 3.2 billion gamers throughout the world, I don't know about you but it's what I'd call a fairly popular hobby. I'm certainly passionnate about it AND I'm buying these video games, might as well enjoy the game AND what I'm watching while playing. I didn't know that "it's just a video game" completely invalidates how the majority of gamers feel about the industry right now. I mean, WE ARE the audience ffs (you know, the ones BUYING the games), and all we've got these past few years are insults thrown at us in the most condenscending tone ever. Maybe, just maybe, the audience is somewhat right when everywhere you look you can see similar statements. But no, we're idiots who need to grow up. Well generic SJW (dev, DEI consultancy, CEOs etc), I'm not the one insulting my audience because I disagree with you, you are. So let's see what happens when you'll be cancelled in a not so far fetch future now. I'm looking forward to it.

[@CyberLou]

This is genuinely concerning.

[@Cng215]

But why would they do something like that? To what end?

[@VideoQuestEx]

Sadly, based on what Del Walker (aka The Cartel Del) stated, in the past, people like him probably supported, in some way or another, the "ugly-fication" of fictional female characters in video games, so as to "defeat the male gaze," and force male gamers, to get used to new woke standards of "female beauty" for a "modern audience." Now, he is complaining that the very ideology, which he may have initially championed, is now being used to suppress his own artistic creativity. Simply put, this is all a consequence of what he probably pushed/supported before; only now his own work is being targeted for censorship.

[@Jamester445]

I've been thinking about it for a while now and I'm just gonna say it. Western Media's (Movies, games etc) has a big problem with a lack of diversity. TLDR: They surround themselves within echo chambers within echo chambers all to create one big circle jerk. But a good amount of western media is made in or filtered through a single state within a single country. And that industry regularly hires based on favoritism and nepotism. They're not going to hire people they don't like. And this isn't just limited to creators but also critics. We've all seen where forms of criticism are labelled as a form of bigotry. Our boy Del Walker was tweeting about how much he stans Alissa Mercante not too long before his grocery store aunties tweet. Former employees at Volition studios admitted that games aren't being made for gamers anymore but game developers. And they do this because they want to control the culture and your wallet. This is also why for all their talk about lifting up diverse voices, they hate foreign media. This is why they constantly feel the need to remake Asian shows and movies like The Good Doctor. They're attacking the studios behind Asian games like Black Myth, Stellar Blade, and most JRPGs. This is why when Anime first came to the west, comic artists and cartoonists smeared anime has being inferior. They don't want competition. They don't care about YOUR representation, they care about THEIRS. And this is why when our boy Del Walker speaks out, He's silenced. Because he tried to speak out against the culture they're trying to create.

[@aquapendulum]

I can believe that Del Walker wholly believed that he was doing the right thing by representing his people as beautiful and attractive. The industry however is run by unwell individuals who think pixels and polygons are competition to real people, and that they are doing the right thing by making the pixels and polygons look ugly.

[@ThousandairesClub]

*gaming needs more hott black chics, they are extremely under represented* 👌

[@Herowebcomics]

Sweet baby is so bad,even people who work for them are complaining! 😂

[@plumpydayz]

From what I've been able to understand with the "uglification" of women, it seems like going from one extreme to the other. I can understand that we are being bombarded with images of "the ideal" and have been for a very long time which can get somewhat tiresome. So having characters that don't fit the mold I think is fine but now the pendulum is swinging perhaps a little too far. As a woman who likes to game and has been gaming since I was 9, I never really had an issue with attractive characters in games. Lara Croft had a ridiculous figure and so did Bayonetta but I love those characters and the games that they come from are solid in my opinion. I don't see why we can't have both and I don't like how the idea that a regular looking character has to also push certain ideas through their dialogue. It just makes it more annoying. I'm not happy with the landscape of gaming anyway, we used to have amazing games with all types of characters, great stories and fun gameplay. What we have now is depressing, uninnovative, samey games where DLC is pushed and at times "a must" in order to have a few crumbs that they bothered to programme.

[@guygadbois3010]

I really, really, really don't understand what making us look at ugly, masculinized game women is supposed to accomplish. I don't.

[@FBBReppCloud]

They're trying to change beauty standards and behaviors. Its super obvious, especially with all the trans nonsense going on, making the female characters look more masculine is supposed to change peoples views on that sort of appearance. Obviously it'll never work because attractive women and characters exist REGARDLESS, plus you can't change what it is people find attractive inherently. Its just the way it is.

[@impactsuit9871]

They want us to accept trans women appearance as being how a woman should looks like...I don´t care about trans people in real life, really, I just think their choice is beyond stupid, but I don´t care, but I do care that they are destroying all the entertainment industry

[@a_smile55]

Damn so much for artistic vision 😢

[@teenermeener971]

Thats been going on for decades, nothing new. The difference now is it getting exposed and being said out loud.

[@casadovah4684]

Is this gameplay footage recent? Is this from the pc version or Playstation?

[@emikochan13]

Del said they wanted to go indie, and I want to support his creations. Will have to keep following them.

[@misberave]

Lmfao no way he even says "After talking in DMs" THis guy gives away everything we need to know lol

[@NightyN-eye-t]

Gonna take a step and blame doves "diversity in gaming campaign", since then it feels like video game characters arent aloud to be to "attractive" or overly sensitive ppl on Twitter are going to cry up and down about realism or that nobody looks like that in real life

[@AscendantStoic]

It's very clear he got a talking to, shut up and fall in line or you will never get another job in the industry.

[@TIENxSHINHAN]

It's crazy that you have to go to Japanese developers in order to see black female characters who aren't ugly. I feel like western studios try to hit as many diversity points as possible on one character, so black is one, female is two, may as well throw fat or ugly in there to get 3 or 4.

[@RiccoDaniiDev]

If any devs come work with me at Devil Cry Games, you won't have to ever worry about this.

[@AllOOon561]

When shilling goes wrong😂

[@-abc--6976]

the silence can be a sign of gaining the share of $$$.

[@Gamesta100]

He doesn't need to say anything else. He said it once, we saw what he said and what he said won't go away because it's been recorded outside of his tweet.

[@poetjla7778]

I thought the same about female characters like Yuna and Tomoe from Ghost Of Tsushima.

[@SoloEmpireOfficial]

Start your own game company… look at CD Projekt Red.

[@ghost7685]

If he is an sjw then why is he complaining? This is what they wanted

[@wintermute6384]

I play Dead By Daylight, and it has the kind of demographics (large LGBT community, sizable amount of women players) that these devs probably want to encourage. Genuinely don't believe game would be profitable if BHVR pursued uglification. Players male and female alike gravitate towards attractive female survivors with flashy or revealing cosmetics (Sable Ward, Feng Min, Kate Denson). Ada Wong in DBD has her iconic "too sexualized for remake" dress from the OG Resident Evil 4 as a default. Survivors that fit a woke aesthetic like Haddie Kaur or Jane Romero (whom I don't mind TBH) aren't picked frequently, and Ellen Ripley or Laurie Strode (both fantastic in their franchises) aren't picked much because their defaults are boring + no cosmetics.

[@simplysage3562]

If I may ask what Game are you playing bro great commentary btw

[@RealMikeHollow]

@@simplysage3562 that's Uncharted 4, bro. Great online shooter.

[@kage1573]

I don't know all the specifics of this but I would argue that some of these designs could be the result of trying to tell a story through a character design such as emphasizing a grizzled warrior that has seen suffering in the world which can be emphasized through a more rough and rugged appearance instead of a focus on beauty and if the character is compelling then her being pretty doesn't mean much. There are a number of examples of pretty female characters in western games like the majority of the Overwatch female characters, Marvel Rivals female characters, Mortal Kombat, etc and I wouldn't say that a characters attractiveness illustrates a good character because even games like Tekken where they have attractive characters like Jozie, Katrina, and Lucky Chloe but aren't favored much due to their bland stories or personality traits that people find annoying while something like Ghost of Tsushima has female characters that don't fit the ideas of beauty like Yuna and Masako but they are still seen as great characters that have layers to them. Visual storytelling I would say means more than if a female character is attractive or not because many attractive female characters in games are forgotten but female characters that have likable personalities, good stories, and cool designs will keep someones attention for decades.

[@Skye2993]

There are plenty of attractive characters that people talk about I could list them but I don’t make this comment long, and what storytelling are they going for here because a lot of the time it’s not about a suffering world it’s them just doing this a lot of the time because their checking boxes of things they want to push or don’t like, I have no problem if the setting and world is supposed to be a bleak one and they have the character looking as rugged but do some more research on this topic and you’ll see these people and companies aren’t doing this for the reason you think.

[@kage1573]

@@Skye2993 That's true that their are attractive characters that people talk about and is true that their are companies that design these characters for to emphasize a mindset but the many times characters are designed in a way to emphasize their personality, shape language and story such as Marisa from Street Fighter 6 where she has more masculine physic but that is due to her focus on power and her fighting style while it all ties into her personality and her view on strength and I many attractive characters are mostly talked about due to their personalities and stories such as 2B, Bayonetta, Chun Li, Ivy Valentine, Jun Kazama, Ada, etc but many attractive characters that only had their looks as a point of interest were quickly forgotten.

[@shoukaiser]

You're naming a lot of eastern games and studios that don't do this as severely as the west. They also don't have the layoffs that the west does.... But both regions like to have their cultures gagged and obedient, it just comes out in different ways. Kleptomaniacs and sociopaths rule the world for very logical reasons.

[@kage1573]

@@shoukaiser I don't know about that because Netherelm, Blizzard, and even the marvel games division that is working with Marvel Rivals are from the West and don't fall into people's perception of what the West is doing, I would argue that characters Naoe from Assassin's Creed Shadows, Black Cat, many female characters and NPCs from GTA 6, etc. I wouldn't say that the issues that I brought up for Tekken are present throughout the entire roster especially not the entirety of Eastern gaming but my main point was to show evidence of attractive characters not being what gives them value but their character and how much you can be invested in them.

[@Skye2993]

@@kage1573 I thought you were saying before in your first comment that there weren’t any attractive characters that people talked about but seeing you list the ones you did, I know see you what you meant before I had misinterpreted, also don’t forget Lara Croft and Samus from Metroid to add to that list and Harley Quinn.

[@LegendOfSolidus]

Uglifying real women but keeping men unchanged is ironically pretty misogynistic, which is what they claim to be against.

[@IzzyQuil]

It's a lot more difficult but indie/solo dev is the way to go going forward. I be damned if i make my female characters (black white, etc) hot and have someone chnage them into gremlins. No thanks. Have fun with your fable mc.

[@phantommah8042]

Explains why jade in mortal kombat has become progressively lighter and more ambiguous with each new game.

[@trillatsunset]

This is what a wise man once called "the unspoken negro code". We have enough people that don't care for black characters in fiction, it doesn't help that some our own are sabotaging us too. This is the reason I focus on creating my own comics and worlds, we can rely on these kinds of industry ppl or others to develop genuineness lovable black representation. Literally make visually appealing cool shit with some depth, all them other agendas kills art

[@jubilantvision2212]

"I want diversity, but my way." It is one of the most discriminatory things you could do to a population. You don't make creative decisions for other groups of people.

[@Henbot]

Doesn’t have to be held at gunpoint dude - he just burned his peers so that likely will hinder his job opportunities

[@damainman652]

Kind of sad that he lost his balls to point this out once his buddy started gaining up on him.

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

The solution to the ugly characters in video games problem is to become your own game dev and make your own independent games, or support developers who don't uglify characters.

[@hyperturbofox17]

Eastern Dev make better & glorious African/Black Characters than the West even the developers & designers are Asian.