What is with this game and half-naked women as bosses?

[nekuxdesu]

On the flip side, game companies fear (and probably rightly so) that hyper-sexualizing male characters in the hopes of appealing to female gamers (and non-hetero male gamers) would end up alienating the hetero-male gamers that make up the bulk of their customer base. It's a risk that few mainstream game companies are willing to take.

Can you show some proof

[myahele]

Can you show some proof

There was a slight controversy in the FF Mobius male character design when it was 1st shown

[Clethoria]

Can you show some proof

Modern Tales of Games.

[Nestama]

Modern Tales of Games.

There's a disturbing lack of bara in that image!

[Clethoria]

There's a disturbing lack of bara in that image!

Tales is fujo bait. Zaveid is the closest in the past few years and he's still too thin for bara standards, which isn't what fujos usually want.

I miss Regal. too bad he only likes lolis

"vaguely humanoid" then huh?

I can probably keep going...

Except, unless I missed the post that said it, they're just ugly. Plain and simple. I can have a hyper masculine, 80% humanoid with a gross face, loincloth wearing spider god and a very small minority will find it hot. I dont want to kiss Titan. I want to kiss Thancred. I dont want to motorboat Ravana's bug pecs either. It's simply not the same when Shiva looks like a super model doing a winter shoot and the males look like... well, that. In my post above about Tales. They are hot. The massive female fanbase said so. They are designed to be desirable.

Even Asura from Asura's wrath resembles the Crystal Tower guy who's name escapes me with their similar skin tone and design. But one of them is handsome enough to hit multi armed dilf territory.

[Cleftobismal]

Modern Tales of Games.

My Nose. It bleeds.