Very rarely the former too. With how many wig companies there are offering free passes to cancer victims, you never intentionally see bald women nowadays.
When everyone has short hair, also helps to make the population seem androgynous or interchangeable, which is another common style choice in cyberpunk settings.
Further proof that the future of gaming is the indy market: I didn't even know what this headline was referring to until I came to the comments of this post.
Deathloop sounds like a great idea on paper. The mystery of the premise is interesting and the idea of the gameplay loop also sounds really cool. It's a real shame everything about the execution sucked and more effort was put into "OMG COOL BLACK PEOPLE" than anything that matters.
I have a feeling that arkane’s falloff as a reliable developer could be explained with just two photographs, one of the staff five years ago and one of the staff today.
They've all been going this way with the character designing, it's very much part of the quotas I think just throwing in a black female somewhere into the game.
This trend was noted a few years before 2020. I think it was an E3 specifically where someone made a collage of all the interchangeable black afro girls in so many trailers. Most of which didn't come out, like Beyond Good & Evil 2.
Depends, some of them are pretty good, and lead to the rise of entire genres in gaming.
Siderant:* The narrative that all gamers are sexist pigs who hate women has always been odd to me when you have characters like samus aran, Lara Croft, Jill Valentine, etc. who are beloved by gamers, right alongside Mario, Nathan Drake, Chris Redfield, etc.
Of course the normies who don't pay attention to gaming unless it's on a cellphone don't really get this, which makes it a useful attack vector, but it was always a bit funny to me anyway.
Only thing that beats it is the half shaved head
A shaved head on a woman shows you that she either has or is cancer.
Very rarely the former too. With how many wig companies there are offering free passes to cancer victims, you never intentionally see bald women nowadays.
I would not classify those who have cancer and don't want to wear a wig along with those who shave their heads. Some people object to artificiality.
It fits in cyberpunk genre.
Because the shaved side contains plugs for cyberspace/neural net connectivity?
Freaky hairstyles are also a part of tribal recognition, alongside tattoos/face paint, and cyberpunk worlds are usually pretty tribalist.
When everyone has short hair, also helps to make the population seem androgynous or interchangeable, which is another common style choice in cyberpunk settings.
True. I guess they seem to they it belongs everywhere
Yep, very dystopic.
It's like round 2 of blackploitation with the amount of afros, they really can only picture a black woman only in an afro
So this is Blaxploitaion 3: Branch Swingin' From Tree to Tree?
Why oppress a people when you can get them to oppress themselves?
Further proof that the future of gaming is the indy market: I didn't even know what this headline was referring to until I came to the comments of this post.
The only reason people gave a shit about Deathloop was because Arkane put Black people in it.
Deathloop sounds like a great idea on paper. The mystery of the premise is interesting and the idea of the gameplay loop also sounds really cool. It's a real shame everything about the execution sucked and more effort was put into "OMG COOL BLACK PEOPLE" than anything that matters.
I have a feeling that arkane’s falloff as a reliable developer could be explained with just two photographs, one of the staff five years ago and one of the staff today.
The polar opposite of the Twitter before and after photograph.
They've all been going this way with the character designing, it's very much part of the quotas I think just throwing in a black female somewhere into the game.
This trend was noted a few years before 2020. I think it was an E3 specifically where someone made a collage of all the interchangeable black afro girls in so many trailers. Most of which didn't come out, like Beyond Good & Evil 2.
The old-school Afro said basically the same thing.
LegacyKillaHD is another progressive trog
I find Afro hair gross and distracting, even worse than men with absurdly long beards. But both hairstyles shout “look at me!” It’s grating.
How dare you?! Are you some sort of racists against women in wigs?!
That's a dude.
Female protagonists in general can go to hell.
Depends, some of them are pretty good, and lead to the rise of entire genres in gaming.
Siderant:* The narrative that all gamers are sexist pigs who hate women has always been odd to me when you have characters like samus aran, Lara Croft, Jill Valentine, etc. who are beloved by gamers, right alongside Mario, Nathan Drake, Chris Redfield, etc.
Of course the normies who don't pay attention to gaming unless it's on a cellphone don't really get this, which makes it a useful attack vector, but it was always a bit funny to me anyway.