Everyone knows how to sexualize female characters in video games.
But how to sexualize male characters and do “fan service” for the female audience?
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But how to sexualize male characters and do “fan service” for the female audience?
Easy, just add Caius Cosades to your game:
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Conan Exiles has good donger physics.
To sexualize men for women, you have to understand women.
To men, attraction is largely visual. So to sexualize a woman for a male audience means making her look attractive, and dressed in a revealing outfit. Swapping the genders doesn’t work. A visually attractive man in a revealing outfit is far more likely to appeal to either gay men sexually, or men generally as a power fantasy. To appeal to women you need a fundimentially different strategy altogether.
Consider erotic literature. Its a genre that is disproportionately popular with women. Its basically anti-porn, no visuals all story. Male characters in these stories are almost always sexualized by women for women. The attraction mostly from their choices and actions than appearance. You need a completely different approach.
Go read some smut. Talk to straight women about who and what they find attractive. You have to learn a lot about women to appeal to them. What they are looking for, and how they are looking for it is entirely different from men.
Consider erotic literature. Its a genre that is disproportionately popular with women. Its basically anti-porn, no visuals all story. Male characters in these stories are almost always sexualized by women for women. The attraction mostly from their choices and actions than appearance. You need a completely different approach.
Yes, its no visuals. Thats why there isnt 500,000,000 books with fabio ripped and glistening on the covers.
I think you need to check out the genre of Otome games. There’s hundreds of weird dating sim style games catered to women which feature a male cast.
It’s debatable of how sexualized these characters are. But whatever they do appeals to their female audience.
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Seconding the otome comment, and a link to a relevant tag on vndb - you can probably find anything from not very sexualized to pure smut on that list, and there’s often screenshots. https://vndb.org/g542
I think Hades is an excellent example of a game which just sexualizes everyone.
So lots and lots of cocaine. Got it!
“Gee I don’t know boss, that’s a lot of hair…”
[gunshot]
“The gun shoots death…”
Watch jojo. You are gonna get your answer best way possible
Jojo Rabbit? Not sure if Hitler is that sexy…
I’ve tried to get into Jojo so many times for the beautiful men, but I kinda get bored.
Regardless ,thanks Araki. I still love the art.
Strange, cause I’m a straight(ish) dude and it hooked me in season 2. Season 1 was cool, but the hyper batshit insanity of the following seasons hits.
That’s sexualizing men for everybody. He’s asking how to do it specifically for women! It may seem like the same thing but it is different.
If it’s uncomfortable and disempowering for men, you’re probably doing it right. It’s often a power dynamic.
But to draw back from a sour take: This will also turn off some people. Both ways. For instance: I love sexualized designs, but some games genuinely went too far. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Nier Automata had genuine, serious stories to tell, but fell flat on some people for sexualizing their main (female) characters in such an objectifying way.
I also think for women, the pure visual isn’t quite as important as their movements and actions. That part gets tricky since tastes vary.
There’s a few gacha games out there designed for women that can give an idea of an extreme end to take it to. Again, keep in mind, there’s not one universal appeal for a whole gender (same for guys) so it will often turn out that the most universally appealing designs are the relatively safe ones you already see.
Love In Deepspace is your example of highly sexualized men for women.
I also think for women, the pure visual isn’t quite as important as their movements and actions. That part gets tricky since tastes vary.
I find Wolf (sekiro) very hot in part because of how his movement is animated. BUT the man looks like he hasn’t bathed in weeks so… He’s more of a "hear me out’.
And also not thinking about visuals… Yeah, a sexy voice can do a lot of heavy lifting for a character.
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Same way. Hot bods, tight clothes, show plenty of skin.
Women enjoying the same things as men? Why, I never!
Says Velma with an oversized sweater, just look at Daphne’s outfit… Like, zoinks, Scoob!
Velma’s short skirt and knee highs though…
Velma’s short skirt and knee highs though…
On all fours… looking fo dem glasses…
Wait, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that one.
She was my bisexual awakening before I ever even realized it lol
Everyone was too busy looking at Daphne to realise Velma had it going on
dorky chicks like you turn me on too!
Testicle cleavage and beer belly shirts. What’s the sluttiest hair style a man can have?
Thinning on top with the “monk ring” style cut. Nothing gets the ladies going more.
But serious advice for guys, know when to just shave your head man. People like full heads of hair, people like bald, nobody likes thinning. Make the call and save yourself the embarrassment. Bald is beautiful.
Not cleavage. Give 'em the moose knuckle.
They should be so lucky
According to my wife…
Dress shirt with sleeves rolled up to the elbow.
Kilts.
KILTS!
It depends on the genre of the game.
Fighting games like Mortal Kombat? Put the men in skimpy outfits that show their muscles like the women.
Survival game? I don’t need to see the characters sexualized while they’re trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. Give me character depth and growth, empathy, and strong story-telling visuals. I’ll fall in love with man or woman that way.
Nothing like a miniature sized trikini to survive the zombie outbreak.
Just have to add on to all the preferences already described… don’t make them vapid idiots on top of the physical preferences, and you’ll be fine.
As long as they’re a cohesive, fleshed out character, they could be an evil pile of shit and quite a few ladies will be thinking, “can I fix him?”.
Same could be said for women characters, but it’s WAY easier to sell to a horny dipshit than a horny lady, since most said dipshits don’t think past hipthrust.
Just look at the sheer number of women who like Severus Snape of all people.
I’ll cite some examples:
Hades and hades 2 (all the characters) supergiant did it right in both fronts.
Khazan. (protagonist)
Elden Ring. Godfrey/ Hoarah Loux & Radagon. (Crumbling or whatever, I don’t care)
Or give me a guy in full plate with a sexy gait, see: Demon’s Souls Penetrator.
Or without sexy gait. See: DS1 Artorias
I’m sorry I don’t make the rules.
ETA: Halsin! (BG3) how could I forget?
I can’t believe you’re into Halsin haha. I don’t know how you manage to make a sex crazed man-bear insufferably boring but by gods, they did it!
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Lol, that’s your objection on this list?)True, but I’m not exactly going for substance here, and I’m definitely into how Halsin looks (and sounds.)
There’s plenty of well developed characters in BG3 that I’m not really offended by him being bland.
Tbh I’m not really all that into the way he sounds either, although I don’t know how much of that is related to how he’s written and acted. If we’re just talking about the tone of voice I guess it’s okay. But I’ve never really been one to go for the hunks, you know. A swelling bicep is nice and all but doesn’t really move me much.
Now, a lanky tortured poet on the other hand… Something like Finn Andrews is a bit more my speed.
Geralt from the Witcher fits nicely on this list.
Of.course, plus Geralt knows how to treat a lady. You know what, let’s trow in Eskel as well, for the “rolled up sleeves” people… I see y’all.
