There also seems to be so much more lesbian “romance” options in games these days (way more than gay ones), and I’m convinced it’s for male titillation not actual lesbian players.

Plus "jiggle physics" 🙄

Oh god, yes, and the high heels... I'm currently replaying Witcher 3, and even though most women wear clothes that befit their position and cultural background, some of them still wear high heels. Ciri is an expert warrior, a total badass when it comes to fighting both with her sword and her abilities, but she does that on high heels.

What annoys me whenever the discussion about women's clothing in many games comes up: "But men are portrayed as sex objects, too, what with the bulging muscles and bare chests!" Yeah, but they still get to wear practical clothing, they get to wear pants instead of what looks like metal bathing suits, they get to wear normal shoes.

Clothing for female characters in a lot of media has always been stupidly sexualized. The clothes are ridiculously impractical for no other reason than to serve as jack-off material for men. Fanboys even whine about it when female characters aren't specifically tailored to be attractive.

I’m sick of my real life boobs constantly escaping from the ridiculously low cut clothing options available to me. Every time I buy a cute dress or top online, I have a 50/50 chance it will look pornographic on me. Dear lord, can we please just get things cut with a smudge more coverage? I’m so tired of pinning everything I own.

Whats worse is when the sexualized outfits distract from the story. Tales of Berseria is one of my favorite games. But it loses some appeal because the lead female character always has her boobs out in the default costume (thankfully, changing it during game play is an option. But its still there in all the cutscenes). Even though the first half of the story features her on the run from the authorities and trying not to attract attention.

The game's story tries to have a canon reason for her to dress that way. But its stupid

And the most egregious one I've seen is when Sly Cooper 4 (a talking animal game aimed at children) decided to change the costume of the female lead. They decided that the female police officer needed to be redesigned so she was wearing high heels, a mini-skirt, and a bikini top to work. 🙄

I stopped playing Xenoblade Chronicles because of this. I thought I'd found a non skimpy clothing option and then I saw the back and realised her ass was hanging out. There were no options that didn't have either her boobs or her ass out, while the male characters all had practical clothes.

So I’m not a video game person at all. I never owned any growing up and I don’t now. Of course my ex, who was also an abusive porn and sex addict, was really into them. (That’s not to say anything about women who play games, but that the majority of male “gamers” are also porn addicts).

He really wanted me to play the games that he loved. So he found an old PlayStation and I tried some out.

I did have fun doing the first Prince of Persia; he knew I really liked the movie and actually I didn’t know it was from a video game. That game would have come out in 2003 from what I’m seeing? Then he said, you have to play the second one! It’s even better! I couldn’t make it past the first day I started, once I saw the disgusting pornified female character. I instantly knew why he thought it was “better”. It made me want to vomit. Additionally, if I remember correctly, it felt like the prince character had turned into a massive jerk. He looks more like a scary creep on the cover of the second one. And that came out in 2004.

Ex was pissed that I insulted his games by calling this out and refusing to play it anymore.

All this to say it was obviously always headed in this direction. Those games were for kids and teens, despite any age rating. There weren’t nearly as many adult video game players then as there are now. They knew exactly what they were doing, and I’m sure it made them millions.

And the kids who played those in the early 2000s, are the adult gamers playing the new games now, and the current game developers. So I’m sadly not surprised that you can’t find any new games that don’t pornify all the female characters. And I won’t be surprised if the majority of games 10 years from now go the route of The Witcher and CyberPunk, to the point where any game without nudity and porn will be rare.

Ugh the steel plate armor for Skyrim that has molded breast cups that look absolutely awful. Plus the fact that all the female npcs and main character walks like they are wearing high heels.

Everything is always catered to male gaze.

I'm a big Destiny 2 player, and I like the fact that while the female characters are obviously female, they don't have boob-armor, they don't run in a stereotypically "girly" way just in a female way, and they're as solid and believable as the protagonist as any male character is. I actually haven't taken my helmet off in like 3 years, so I don't even know what I look like under there any more.

I started to play Dragon's Dogma because I heard from a few sources it should be so good and I do like it but I was taken aback by the mentioned super sexy sex appeal with female characters... boob armor but what's even worse for me the MAKE UP!!! They look so dolled up like full face and no skin texture with the only exception being the very old grandma's. I just shake my head everything and try to ignore it but it also takes me out of the world as a whole because it makes no sense that a WARRIOR women looks like that.