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Hyper Sexuality in Video Games

Unlike women who have faced similar subjugation for a long time, this is alien to men. Women have are depicted in games as something inhuman; they are tall, thin and have breasts large enough to make any bra supporting them a miracle of suspension rivaled only by the Golden Gate Bridge (Ivy of Soul Calibur).

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LiquifiedArt5627d ago

(cough) If i do recall... Male characters are displayed the same way lol.

Thats why they are created. Bodies, Abilities, Smarts etc... all beyond that of the oridnary man.

puffkix5627d ago

Over half the article is about how it's true about male characters...

Walrus5627d ago

And once again, no one on n4g reads past the headline...

Why do we even bother posting links to the aricle?

Varodor5627d ago

I click on this news only for the pictures

yesah5626d ago

This article has not my approval, such topics should not be discussed in such ways.

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Quagmire5627d ago

Chris Redfield and Kratos are the male equivalent of Hyper Sexuality. Bulking bodies and one of them's half naked!

Dsnyder5627d ago

Yeah people also fail to look at the other gender. Men are shown as overly muscled and possibly overly endowed. We dont really complain about it but there is no doubt that it has risen the standard of the good looking male even further. While men like women with huge boobs, women like men with 20" biceps and an 8 pack. In short, its harder to get laid now than it was when there was no media at all.

AlienFodder5627d ago (Edited 5627d ago )

"While men like women with huge boobs, women like men with 20" biceps and an 8 pack."

Please don't be too quick to generalize. As a woman, I think Sam Fisher (in Conviction) and Nathan Drake are the sexiest male video game characters and they certainly don't have huge biceps. And as a matter of fact, Kratos is not even on my top ten list. :)

MarkusMcNugen5627d ago

@Dragonfodder Yet another person who didnt read the article... how sad. If you did then you would have seen this "There’s clearly a problem when a character like Nathan Drake seems to be a relief from the industry’s muscular-man syndrome."

ravinash5627d ago

He talks about when we are exposed to so much unrealistic examples of the male form that it distorts what we expect the male form should look like.
Its similar to what women have been expereancing from womens magazines with their photoshopped pictures which he also meansions.

AlienFodder5626d ago (Edited 5626d ago )

@MarkusMcNugen - Excuse me? Then I guess you didn't read my comment correctly because if you had, you would have seen that I was merely replying to Dsnyder's comment! Next time, maybe YOU should read more carefully before replying and wrongly attacking someone. I did read the article in its entirety and I clearly understand what the author is saying.

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ReconHope5626d ago

Forgot to mention almost every metro-sexual male character in Final Fantasy.

CoLD FiRE5626d ago

Male characters in FF aren't metro-sexual. They're just emo and gay.

TronEOL5626d ago

Kratos is drawn off Spartans, and to most people Spartans have been well-built, toned and ruthless. Not to mention I don't think people covered up too much back then.

Chris Redfield was a fantastic "male equivalent". Kratos? Not so much.

Kingmitch235626d ago

If they showed true Spartan culture most males in our society (including me on some matters like pedophilia) would not find them even close to "epic"

Quagmire5626d ago (Edited 5626d ago )

Spartan men had sex with other men like it was no business. True story.

CoLD FiRE5626d ago

@Quagmire Spartan men had sex with young boys (aka pedophilia).

chainer30005627d ago

While well written and executed, this is nothing new. "Hyper sexuality" will continue to exist in media so long as it sells, and it will.

Komega5627d ago

Nothing wrong with sexuality as long as it's not employed at the detriment of story, gameplay, etc... So I guess that is what he means by "hyper-sexuality" so ugh....nevermind.

Darth_Bane795627d ago

Look, as long as girls have big boobs and nice asses in videogames, I don't give a rats ass what the male charaters may look like.
On a side note, who else thinks that the guy who wrote the article is a fatass lardo? LOL

Komega5627d ago

and the award for "obligatory douche comment" goes to...

Darth_Bane795627d ago (Edited 5627d ago )

Really!!?? OMG!!! Thank you!!! Thank you so much!!! http://media-files.gather.c...

MarkusMcNugen5627d ago

I agree with Komega... so... your welcome? Good job on being a golden douche bag! Props to you! You even posted a picture of the award you won.

Darth_Bane795626d ago (Edited 5626d ago )

LOL! People can't take a joke! Oh well..

ravinash5627d ago

I don't.
In fact I think he's very observent and realises the issues that can arise when the media bombard us with sexual imagery about how we are suppost to look and how often we should be doing it.

You may think it doesn't effect you, but if you go with out TV for a month and you would be surprised about how it effects your own self confidence.

Oh, and I'm also not a large ass before you go saying anything.

ReconHope5626d ago

That's kind of jumping to conclusions don't you think?

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio29d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing29d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9229d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit29d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing29d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9229d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."