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[zen_monk]

 Man, here I am enjoying FFXIV and looking at Type-0 with promise, and nothing like FFXV news that really shows the faces of some fans who try to justify all the regression. 

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[sathari]

......do I even want to know? (Like vieralynn I mostly try to pretend that FFXV doesn't exist, but now I'm morbidly curious.)

[zen_monk]

apparently an all-male playable cast is more approachable to players and that they are the most natural-seeming, whereas having female playable characters would change the group dynamic and have aforementioned male cast to act differently.

*insert GRRM gif "I always thought of women as people" in retaliation despite GRRM's own troubling writing???*

[sathari]

................WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT. Man, I ~could not~ with the interchangeable-teenage-boy-with-one-older-dude cast of FFXV from the get-go, but this? CANNOT WITH. CANNOT CANNOT CANNOT, if anyone needs me I will be over here playing Devil Survivor 2 where you can actually end up with a nearly-all-female endgame party if you play it out right and all the women are badass to boot. (Seriously, the only gaming protags I like are the ones who are NOT your basic teenage boy getting to ~save the universe~ because he's ~just that awesome~, but this, my head, it's exploding.)

[zen_monk]

This is like, every shonen manga and anime ever, so I don't get what's so interesting to justify an all-male team. And even then, FF has almost always been male-led and in their point of view while also interacting with women, so I don't know what's up.

I almost rather have more Lightning directed by plot-noodle conundrum Toriyama and his fairly pervy nature.

[sathari]

Replying to both your comments in one: HOW is this anything like feminist? And after the interview in particular, even if it could by some stretch of the imagination go there, it's patently obvious that the goal on the devs' part is playing to the dudebro crowd.

Yes, please, more Lightning instead of this crap. Hell, I would put up with more Cloud Strife or more Vaan, both of whom I hate with the burning passion of a thousand suns, in place of this stuff if it meant we also got the awesome ladies in their worlds.

[zen_monk]

Also XV fandom tries to justify it with like "but this is pro-feminist because we see men as being, like, multi-dimensional and probably going to combat toxic masculinity" like bitch, it's toxic already if all the guys seem to think with their horns whenever a lady's around.

This recent news interview is like, the straightest thing I've ever heard tbh.