Something big happened yesterday and most people missed it. Every theory we had about the uglification of women in AAA gaming turned out to be true.
Look at what happened to Jean Grey from @insomniacgames Marvel's Wolverine from these leaked early screenshots of the first, beautiful model, to the masculine, world weary version we have today. They are ruining @Marvel
And yes, Marvel's Wolverine is a Sweet Baby Inc. game.
We were told it was the difficulty of scanning actors, or just tricks of light and bad screencaps. We were told we were incels for even questioning it. As a game dev, I knew this was BS. As gamers, YOU knew it was BS from comparisons with Asian games.
Yesterday, we found out.
A Principle Artist (read this as lead) at major studios including Naughty Dog, Rocksteady and Respawn told the truth...
(con't) 🧵
Look at what happened to Jean Grey from @insomniacgames Marvel's Wolverine from these leaked early screenshots of the first, beautiful model, to the masculine, world weary version we have today. They are ruining @Marvel
And yes, Marvel's Wolverine is a Sweet Baby Inc. game.
We were told it was the difficulty of scanning actors, or just tricks of light and bad screencaps. We were told we were incels for even questioning it. As a game dev, I knew this was BS. As gamers, YOU knew it was BS from comparisons with Asian games.
Yesterday, we found out.
A Principle Artist (read this as lead) at major studios including Naughty Dog, Rocksteady and Respawn told the truth...
(con't) 🧵
Yesterday, a Principle Artist (lead) at major studios such as @Naughty_Dog, @RocksteadyGames and @Respawn talked about his frustration at trying to get his designs for beautiful female characters approved at AAA studios.
Every time he concepted the, every time he pitched them, every time he brought it up at meetings, he was ignored.
Inexplicably, each character went from beautiful to "grocery store aunties." Each revision worse than the last.
This is no fan of gamers or GG2, this is a liberal, woke dev, with seemingly a lot of talent, who is bringing you this information. And he hates to have you use it, but he feels strongly enough that even he has to say something.
This is no myth. This is no conspiracy theory, this is happening in AAA and you were RIGHT all along.
Why is this happening?
(con't)
Every time he concepted the, every time he pitched them, every time he brought it up at meetings, he was ignored.
Inexplicably, each character went from beautiful to "grocery store aunties." Each revision worse than the last.
This is no fan of gamers or GG2, this is a liberal, woke dev, with seemingly a lot of talent, who is bringing you this information. And he hates to have you use it, but he feels strongly enough that even he has to say something.
This is no myth. This is no conspiracy theory, this is happening in AAA and you were RIGHT all along.
Why is this happening?
(con't)
We know that Sweet Baby Inc. is involved with Marvel's Wolverine. We know this because of Sweet Baby's own tweets, and because a Narrative Director for Insomniac's Wolverine game ran to the defense of SBI.
SBI does 2 things well talked about. They assist with dialog and story, and they also assist with character design. By now, everyone knows SBI's public mission to insert DEI sensitivity into all games. This is their sole purpose and pitch as a consulting company.
And this explains why Jean Grey went from great to "Grocery store auntie."
We see this every where in AAA Gaming, why was it necessary to reduce Firecracker's butt size in COD? That cost time and money to do for a skin that was already completed. It made no sense.
The only reason, the only reason at all, is politics.
After MeToo, there was a great call to reduce the sexualization of women. This horrible incident slammed into the Entertainment industry. Everyone overcorrected. Now, you can't have ANY female traits in gaming at all. Not even a butt. Ridiculously, the butts have to be smaller than even the male characters. Censorship ran rampant on outfits, with Asian games being targetted the most.
The second reason was the political imperative to place women equal to men, even in places where it made no sense. Girl Bosses. To prove women equal to men, they focused on the masculine traits...they had to beat men at their own strengths. This mean beefing up the women models, giving them thicker bodies, having them beat up multiple men in physical fights in movies, acting stoic and above all, suppressing their feminine features and strengths.
They call this "making women more realistic" but it's really just making them the opposite. They are completely unrealistic now. Cheap stand-ins for male tropes that display none of the natural strength of women and how they are strong in their own right.
The last reason, is the trans movement. We've had a couple of internal leaks, including Naughty Dog, that have told us that female characters must be changed to appeal to the trans community. The trans community that transitions to female wants to pass as female and feel included. Studios are bending over backwards to LOWER THE BAR for femininity in order to make this easier. Square jaw, removal of hips (pokemon go), reduction of bust size...all of this fits.
But is all this really helping?
(con't)
SBI does 2 things well talked about. They assist with dialog and story, and they also assist with character design. By now, everyone knows SBI's public mission to insert DEI sensitivity into all games. This is their sole purpose and pitch as a consulting company.
And this explains why Jean Grey went from great to "Grocery store auntie."
We see this every where in AAA Gaming, why was it necessary to reduce Firecracker's butt size in COD? That cost time and money to do for a skin that was already completed. It made no sense.
The only reason, the only reason at all, is politics.
After MeToo, there was a great call to reduce the sexualization of women. This horrible incident slammed into the Entertainment industry. Everyone overcorrected. Now, you can't have ANY female traits in gaming at all. Not even a butt. Ridiculously, the butts have to be smaller than even the male characters. Censorship ran rampant on outfits, with Asian games being targetted the most.
The second reason was the political imperative to place women equal to men, even in places where it made no sense. Girl Bosses. To prove women equal to men, they focused on the masculine traits...they had to beat men at their own strengths. This mean beefing up the women models, giving them thicker bodies, having them beat up multiple men in physical fights in movies, acting stoic and above all, suppressing their feminine features and strengths.
They call this "making women more realistic" but it's really just making them the opposite. They are completely unrealistic now. Cheap stand-ins for male tropes that display none of the natural strength of women and how they are strong in their own right.
The last reason, is the trans movement. We've had a couple of internal leaks, including Naughty Dog, that have told us that female characters must be changed to appeal to the trans community. The trans community that transitions to female wants to pass as female and feel included. Studios are bending over backwards to LOWER THE BAR for femininity in order to make this easier. Square jaw, removal of hips (pokemon go), reduction of bust size...all of this fits.
But is all this really helping?
(con't)
The answer is No. None of these changes help.
They don't help the industry, plagued by layoff and soft sales.
They don't help gamers, many of whom are women who want to play beautiful female characters.
They don't help trans, who also want to pass as beautiful women and aspire to that.
These are empty, token gestures, born of a knee-jerk response to misguided empathy. They do more harm than good, and they will continue to hurt the entire industry as the trend continues.
It's time to stop.
They don't help the industry, plagued by layoff and soft sales.
They don't help gamers, many of whom are women who want to play beautiful female characters.
They don't help trans, who also want to pass as beautiful women and aspire to that.
These are empty, token gestures, born of a knee-jerk response to misguided empathy. They do more harm than good, and they will continue to hurt the entire industry as the trend continues.
It's time to stop.
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