I can’t tell if there was a second theme to that or not as a joke. So ima take the safe route and not give my initial reply :tup:
My friends are all so fucked up they gave me that way of thinking 
It’s hard to tell which is weirder, the negative obsession with the sexualization in the game or the obsessive need to justify the sexualization in the game.
Sometimes ya gotta just accept things for what they are and go on with your life
Not sexualization bro. Video games imitate reality to an extent, which also means gravity and physics.Though I will say it is a bit exaggerated
EDIT: It’s become a debate of sorts really. Either you don’t mind it or your against it, and you probably take a side. Besides threads like this are something to do when you’re bored or aren’t doing jack shit for the day.
I recall it didn’t sell as well as VII and VIII.
oh please, it totally is Its exaggerated in a very specific way, specific in that it emphasizes secondary sexual characteristics (busts and hips, not to mention all those micro-minis).
Its not offensive to me at all, and its silly to be offended by it, but its not doing anybody favors to claim that it’s not overtly sexual.
Edit: And don’t even let me get started on those tiny little ankles!
I main the only muscular woman in the game. She’s actually more manly than most of the men in fighting games these days.
If you have to ask it’s not worth keeping open IMO.
This should be the last argument possible when you are talking about an Airdash MvC style Fighter, where girls fight with hair, hats, living umbrellas, parasols, vacuums, their own decapitated head, adorable walking bombs, and the ability to copy any of the objects listed before.
I’m not complaining about Valentine because syringes full of poisons are weapons that fit the realm of realism, though i’m not sure how she can get
so easily a dead corpse in a bodybag, and manage to make the corpse wack their opponents.
I like to think she picks those out of her breasts, where countless of man die in the best suffocating way possible.
So yeah.
Skullgirls you shouldn’t be defended or accused on the claim of realism
my 2 cents - presentation is a turnoff, game system is awesome. the combo system is ingenious - move properties need tweaking though. I want Mike Z game design + '90s Japanese character design …
To an extent.
To an extent.
TO AN EXTENT I SAID!!!
…OK yeah I have no qualms with the character design in here but if Filia’s boobs Gainaxing all over the place even when she’s standing still was realistic then reality would be several times more awesome than it is.
the only things this game needs is more characters, more to the training mode, a lobby, a secret story mode, more colors and an art mode. im sure they could do that.
Because that is not what is emphasized in the real world by all sorts of mediums, and it is clearly not what most modern women believe to be attractive.
Shes bouncing dude. And I even admitted to things being exaggerated. I may be defending it but I’m not blind. And yes reality would be exponentially more awesome.
It still is a silly argument and you know it
I don’t care if insecure manchildren won’t play skullgirls. These are the same (apparent) macho-genius-types who call people who disagree with them “retarded” and people they don’t like “faggots.” Ironically these “men” tend to have limited/state-school education and haven’t a fucking clue about how to pleasure a woman.
The first thing I noted about Skullgirl’s was how deep cerebella and filia were (downloaded the trial). Secondly was how balanced the game mechanics were. By this point I upgraded the free trial, completely convinced. I did not give two shits about it being a girl fighter. Skullgirls is a good game. That should be enough to warrant it’s success.
Damn straight.
I’m gonna try this one more time before I lose faith in you as a human being. The physics of the characters imitate reality to an extent and then exaggerate it. The move sets and mechanics are not realistic. I’m saying that a certain part of the game is realistic while leaving the other part alone. for example:
In reality - boobs bounce
In SG - boobs bounce…alot more than normal
In reality - You can jump
In SG - you can jump…a second time after your first one
Video games are well known for taking something that is actually possible and then expanding on it while also making something that is not possible, possible. Both forms of logic coexist in the same world but it just might not be the way were used to. Like I said, TO A FUCKING EXTENT. Never did I say this game is 100% logical.
Whether its normal isn’t the point though, our media sexualizing things isn’t exactly (remotely) unusual. I didn’t care that in DOA one, Lei Fang had a maid outfit with seethru panties (or maybe just dirty, its been 15 years, there was a brownish blotch). I don’t care that the Sports Illustrated does a swimsuit issue every year (if anything its cute).
I do, on the other hand, have an issue with somebody buying the SI swimsuit issue and saying they’re shopping for swimsuits… although that comparison breaks down some, since I don’t think people are buying skullgirls for '80s whacking material.
The point is it is what it is, and denying it just makes people look silly.
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I played MK 1/Bloodstorm when I was 9 and it didn’t traumatize me. Matter of fact I found it silly. You guys forget or don’t know what it was like to be a teenager…or hell even a kid.
Yo legitimately I feel like a goddamn pervert sometimes when playing this game. I was ok with the all girl cast, “thick” girl design, jazz-y music and darker theatrical design. But the fucking tits and panty shots everywhere really fucking detract from any sort of “art direction” and make it seem like a cop out for a lonely boys in basement fetish. I enjoy porn and shit but this is unnecessary. I don’t know what was going through the dev’s head when all the animations were being put in but its awkward as fuck when my roommates see valentines win pose and give me the “what the fuck are you playing” face.
This game’s selling point is not supposed to be gore like MK. It’s supposed to be good gameplay. It has that, but this shit legitimately detracts from it. It’s not necessary.