This creature is the marketing face of redfall
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I don't really pay attention to AAA games but I can't help but notice the number of intentionally ugly women - black women in particular - that are being used in marketing these days.
What is that expression supposed to convey?
Who is this supposed to appeal to?
Of female gamers I would guess that the group that plays games the least would be black women. Yes there are black women who play games but I would think they play the least of the groups. Same with reading sci-fi/fantasy.
I have yet to even see a black woman be into games, let alone any fantasy genre. It's the one they try to push the most because they want them in those spaces. Same as with women going into tech: they don't want to, stop trying to social engineer shit no one was asking for.
I wonder though, what are black women into?
STDs.
Like I said I’ve only seen a few but the group that teased me the most about nerdy stuff were black women. I just find it odd this push to cater to them. Same with comic books and the female push. I guess they are into music and stuff
Well, "music"
The only black women I know who play video games are gigantic weebs playing Anime games and the occasional Nintendo "comfy" games like Pokemon and Animal Crossing.
And never are their player characters anywhere close to black caricatures like these.
Actually hot, big tiddied black women that appeal to European standards like anime and video games.
Probably because they were raised by whites or in a white majority area.
True. I’ve known a few black girls into anime
“Cracka ass vampires can suck this dick fr fr”
The vampire is black too, and just as badly designed.
The ratings on Xbox marketplace are dismal and quite entertaining. This game is a deserved flop, and Arkane hasn't learned a thing after Deathloop "underperformed despite solid gameplay" and choked on woke.
LMAO looks like a fucking blaxploitation movie.
Except Blaxploitation movies were entertaining.
triple AAAHAHAHAH games.
Well the premise seems interesting in the sense of vampire hunters vs vampire gods, but the second I read "scientist created vampires trying to save his daughter and became their god", I knew it would be shit.
It would be good if it were just Borderlands or Dead Island with vampires, that's a pretty low bar too, but they insisted on making it more grounded and over-explaining everything in the summary articles.
They've gone all in on the diversity myth and seem to think that pushing woke is a substitute for quality. This is the same mindset Hollywood has adopted.
They're not going to stop until everything on a TV screen in any media format is complete garbage.
It's actually kind of funny -- back in the early '00s, the best way predict if a game was derivative, unimaginative garbage was if its cover featured a jacked (generally white) guy with a crew cut.
Now it's a black chick with ugly frizz hair. Progress!
Most of the games featured fit white guys with short hair because 1) white males were the target audience and 2) short hair was easier to render. The good games and the bad games had similar protagonists.
Or the woman with side shave
It's the leftist 'smugly' face. It's everywhere in marketing now. Especially in comic books. I don't know the purpose behind it, but it's everywhere. There's a meme genre about it.
I think female writers think it's strength/empowerment. Because dudes learned long ago this face gets you punched, but .. well equal rights and all that haven't really kicked in yet.
Look up the TMNT 'Arpil O'niel' typo comic book cover. Yah they actually printed it "Arpil'. That's how competent Heather Antos is as an editor. One of the original Smuglies. You'll see the expression on 'Arpil' and recognize it's on so much other shit right now.
I looked it up, holy cow the art is terrible. Like the last page of clip art from a 1990's bargain bin CD that no one ever bothers to scroll to. No wonder these people are afraid of AI. https://i.imgur.com/epNsHkX.png
Yeah that cover would most definitely outsell the Arpil cover. Even with the AI gibberish text.
Well, women are still allowed to punch other women, and I'd definitely punch that face. And I'd punch my own I saw that in the mirror.
Oh, but wait, I'm too pale to punch that darkie bitch. But throw in spiritual dysphoria? Maybe I'd get away with it ....
It is supposed to impress the game director's wife's boyfriend's daughter.