Gone are the days of buzzcut stoics, quirk chungs, and mid girlbosses. Gaming goes through different eras, and we’re currently in one where male characters are treated as more than just some badass reacting to the environment or some Redditor talking all the fucking time.
so, my options are either girl boss sheboons or emasculated nu-maleswhat a dead fucking hobby this is
>>739685243Hate this safe faggy haircut so much
>>739685459Just don't play AAA or even most AA games
>>739685243being emotionally intelligent and healthy is bad because…?
>>739685459>emasculated nu-malesLolall of em are chads with hot girlfriends
>>739685243>some Redditor talking all the fucking time.This applies to Bond and the Star Wars ginger.Are the protagonists Nietzschean vitalists with eugenicist Hitlerian tendencies? No? Then they're not sensitive young men.
>>739685540so just stick to playing, like, one solid indie game a year, like I already do. you know, I vividly recall a time when I was playing a dozen new games a year.
>>739685556Who said that?
>>739685591no, they’re whiny bitches with a female handler who’s smarter, stronger, and more capable in every, burdened with having to show our dopey male lead the ropes.
>>739685650this thread? or are we playing stupid?
>>739685243>buzzcut stoicsNo buzzcut but Geralt and Jhons marston also had this exact same personality
>>739685641>a time when I was playing a dozen new games a year.It's been about 20 years since that era for me. I just replay old games or play whatever new indie is fun now yeah
>>739685774>no, they’re whiny bitchesNo they are not >>739685779And when did i say that ?
>>739685243Isn't the Star Wars guy just some generic White dude?
>>739685779I think you're just strawmanning, xis
>>739685774So they're just like you, then. Aren't you happy for getting represented?
>>739685591with hot latina/black girlfriends.
>>739685540>Just don't play AAA or even most AA gamesYou don't even play games.
they all just seem like regular dudes. am i not gay enough?
>>739685591Hans isn't that hot.
>>739685942Fair Italians are blacks
>>739685780geralt and john marston were over ten years ago
>>739685952I mean that's the point they stand out when you compare them to the usual video game male protagonistwho always had this >Yeah whatever ill take care of that attitude
>>739685921What is that even supposed to mean? Are you insulting him by comparing him to yourself.
>>739685948?There are other games than those
>>739685952>they all just seem like regular dudes. am i not gay enough?They are conventionally attractive dudes to young women who take contraceptives. Tall, lean, masculine but not too muscular nor too gruff.
>>739685518I didn't cut my hair in months and it looks like top right but longer and messier. Barbershops would cut my shit short while women hairdressers would give me a Leon haircut.
>>739686093I know, I was just saying that even non buzzcut guys had the same uncaring badass personality.
>>739685243Most of the people in that image are fairly cold blooded killers, though.
>>739686154Yeah you nitpicked then to make your point.
>>739686159yeah i wasn't saying they are like ugly or average looking, but some anons in the thread make it seem like i'm supposed to be looking at a picture of soys
>>739686159Say that you're a fat ugly sack of shit without saying it lmao. That myth is a /pol/ trap and i've had attention from both sides. On pill and off pill.You're fat and retarded.
>>739686237I don't understand your point. I find pretty much all AAA games to be trash and most AA as well. How is that equating to me not playing games??
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>>739686232I think that’s the result of gameplay dissonance, like in Uncharted
>>739686254Because that particular selection appeals to female players. Male gamers often like playing as big guys like Kratos, Geralt and the RDR2 guy.
>>739686232OP wants every character to talk like duke nukem or a gears character without realizing those characters were making fun of the people who liked it
>>739686405thats gay as hell
>>739685952As a fellow fag, I don't see what's so hot about them either
>>739686337t. Hole
>>739686405No, I want characters that are not written for the 12-14 year old audience who play pretend at being grown up
>>739686347I am saying that those characters don't really represent all mainstream games. Even E33 has an ensemble cast with characters like Maella and Gustave who don't quite fit the look OP was looking for.
>>739686418Men are gay.
>>739685243pic unrelated?
>>739686417Duke Nukem was a parody. Parody is different from satire. Duke's being dumb doesn't change the fact that being a badass is cool.
>>739685243It's easy to not like Xbox 360 buzzcut protags because they all look the same and their only personality is being an obnoxious prick. Ideally, we would just have a wider range of protagonists who look and act a bit differently. I think we're there. Cal did not remind me of Gustave. Now, with a wider range of protagonists, there's a decent possibility that you won't like some of them. That's still not as bad as not liking Marcus Fenix and then finding every game is basically about him.
>>739686369The Call of Duty 4 era of military dudes on top of the sandnigger wars. Everything made sense why these characters were everywhere.>>739686456You're the dumbest gorilla nigger i've ever seen. You're just fat, ugly, retarded, a dumb nigger and you forgot to put points in charisma, just kill yourself and stream it to /b/.
>>739686405>geralt The sensitive awkward dork loser who happens to be a sword otaku? You realize all of his interactions with peasants and the like are him putting on a facade because that’s what he was trained to do and isn’t his real personality
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>>739685556If your idea of genetically superior is a ten foot hunchback then yes bpd thirst demons are emotionally intelligent
>>739686648>gets upset after being called a hole
>>739686679I was talking about how he looks externally. Obviously the appeal is that he is smarter and more sensitive than you would think.
>>739686534I was commenting on the guy declaring that this hobby is dead. Which I don't think it is, because there are other games than the trash AAA and AA ones
>>739686679Geralt is just a subhuman who is infertile so the game is practically telling (You) that all women are whores.>>739686825I'm not a woman you fucking retard.>posting a literal pic of a faggot LMAO
>>739685243>sensitive young manThis twitter trend finally hit 4chan
>>739686932Post chest hair with timestamp.
>>739686975You can say nigger faggot retard on twitter nowadays. 4chan really lost its edge and it sucks.>>739687024>he wants pics of other menYou're gay and retarded. Kill yourself nigger and stop replying to me.
GTA6 clearly doesn't belong on that list.
>>739686369baldies existed because hair had a hipoly count
>>739685243>>739685459You are the mirrored version of a feminist screeching for flawless girlbosses.
>>739687176thats because white right-wingers are offended by mild terms like sensitive white men
>>739686337A woman taking birth control pills is getting estrogen, and estrogen can affect who the woman considers attractive.Studies have shown that women do say they have different sexual preferences on birth control. Other studies say there is no change. We don't really know one way or the other, but a change in hormone levels definitely affects how a person thinks. Specifically how that changes is complicated and varies a lot.
>>739685591>girlfriendsno one whipped like that can be a chad
>>739687281That's true, but a lot of them acted like a 14 year old's definition of "badass," and rendering power shouldn't affect that.
>>739687361The most emotional people are blacks lol they go online and literally cry and act "zesty". >>739687375>(((studies))) >(((experts))) Yeah ok but real life isn't teh internets. I've seen it all and in most cases it doesn't matter. Fat bitches get with skinny dudes or fat fucks who are hairy as examples but fat cunts don't go with guys in shape.
>>739685243The fabled "hurf durf feggitz git off mai vidyer" phenotype
>>739687689quads
>>739687770Dubs were removed from /v/ a long time ago fucking tourist.
>>739685556because it makes women's vaginas drier than a desert. guys behaviors are largely reactive to womens' behavior. they wouldn't be the way they are with their emotions if women didn't react better to stoic males than they do emotional and needy wrecks.
>>739687506Incel cope
>>739687176Okay, hole.
>>739688013>assuming emotional means being a manipulative clingy asshole instead of a healthy well-rounded person
>>739687645Anecdotes like the ones you're basing your opinion on are not very useful. You could say you went to a roulette table and it rolled a 17, so everyone playing roulette should always bet on 17. Something that happened to one person once probably won't happen to everyone all the time. I mentioned that the studies are conflicting, so even someone much smarter than you still wouldn't draw a conclusion from them because there is no one conclusion to draw.
>>739688032Is an axewound's rope
You're looking at multiple completely different character types there.>James Bond>sensual French artisan who probably runs a baguette shop>strapping young Aladdinesque lad>white trashidk who the fuck the two blandos are.Also, the buzzcut dudebro era was famous for it's protagonists being sad mopy bastards. That was Gears of War.
>>739688818Well James Bond doesn't look like classic Bond. He looks more like Nathan Drake during the first months of his gender transition.
I want a guys only slumber party
>>739685556>emotionally intelligent"Emotional "intelligence"" is the most retarded woman moment term to plague this planet.
>>739688885because it's an origin story, and he's younger than he's usually depicted. IO are thinking long term in terms of franchise building. His whole character design is pretty much just "what if we took the Ian Flemming illustration of James Bond, and made him 20 years younger". He even has the scar.
>>739685243>Posts a sensetive young (32 is still young!) man who gets killed and replaced with a stoic
>>739687854it's a meme you dip
>>739687281realistically military organizations don't allow you to have jRPG protag hairdos.
>>739685591>all of em are chads with hot girlfriendsOne of them has a hot boyfriend and I think that's lovely. :)
>>739687347except my complaints are legitimate because, unlike me, feminists are cratered to all the time
>>739686369Half these guys are non-whiteBaldness is non-white itself
>>739689043>IO are thinking long term in terms of franchise buildingno they aren't. because then they'd have him growing into a guy that bosses women around and has sex with them instead of letting them boss him around and save him. and that's not allowed, that'd be problematicThat said, I asserted the invincible tv show would have to change mark breaking up with amber to date eve but they really surprised me with that one
>>739685243The best video game protagonist is a scrawny nerd loser who slowly becomes a badass through his journey, building pysical strength, skill, knowledge and wisdom until he becomes gigachad.But strating as the badass gigachad and destroying everything is fun too.>>739688921This looks cute but isn't that fun to play as. Unless he somehow gets a big fuck-off anime gun or something.
>>739685243Are these "sensitive young men?" They just seem like normal dudes, some downright quite badass. Is this just a thread for brown trannies to be upset there are a couple games with white guy leads again?
>>739688669>Chads don't have gfs dude they just fuck cheap std whores like retards
>>739689043>because it's an origin story
>>73968906532 is young>>739688818But they are all young and sensetive (compared to usual protagonist)
>>739689364>They just seem like normal dudes10 years ago they would get included in a list of generic video game protagonists.
>>739685556>emotionally intelligent Holy fuck. Everyone point and laugh at this troon!
>>739688526Healthy well rounded men are stoic and in control of their emotions is what I'm saying, numbnuts. "Emotional intelligence" is a meme made by women to be as vaguely defined as possible so they can have some fictional thing they claim makes them smarter or something.
>>739689136Only if you are a homo
>>739689219>Half these guys are non-white>Baldness is non-white itselfBalding is an inherently white trait
>>739689471There is nothing more retarded than paying the woman tax for sexChads fuck at parties with no strings attached
>>739685243I don't know about any of the others but at least I could dress up Cal as Freddie Mercury in his game.
>>739689756somalians confirmed white
>>739689364Calm down lil zoomie
>>739689739I am a homo, I wish there were more homo games like that for homos like me.
>>739689627>why does he look like he's a kidBecuase he's pretty much a kid, bro. I dunno what you want me to say.
>>739690219The point is that these origin stories are always gay. The character has skills he shouldn't have but just acts more juvenile.
>>739689837>Chad fucks used up whores
>>739690690Yes he does
>>739690690Chad fucks everyone, he just doesn't commit to anyone
>>739690690What do you think normies do?
Lol you did the thing!
>>739690982Chad isn't a normie
>>739690690Chads also jestermax.Chads are just clowns but succesful since they are good looking and neurotypical.The difference between a Chad and a Simp is just looks.
>>739690983All I did was say that they making young protags who gives a fuck
>>739691118>Chads also jestermaxAbsolute state of zoomersI am just tall and decent looking, and I’ve had a bunch of Beckys and two Stacies strike up conversations with me.
>>739691417Yeah sure buddy whatever you say
>>739691660Start taking showers and hit the gym
>>739692139You really need to go back to X/Reddit
>>739690983Isn't that guy a generic Neocon?
>>739691047Depends on the chad.
>>739685243Indy clears all of them.
>>739685243Checked the most popular story-based games on Steam for 2025. Most of the male main characters are still gruff and grizzled.
>>739685243Doesn't Gustave get killed off, replaced by Mr. Edgelord like half the game? Not only that, they extra shit on him by all of his friend group now sucking off this new edgelord guy instead (including a chick that had a crush on him). The only person that remotely still cared about him was Maelle (who gets treated as 'bad one' in finale), and even she gets cold because they double shit on Gustave (his legacy) by pulling the shitty painting plot. Aka that Gustave, all that we saw when we were him, all the people we talk to, all don't fucking matter because they aren't even real so fuck them.I'll never get why E33 got so much praised for it's writing when entire plot shits its bad half-way through in which they make your emotional investment that you had up until then as null. Instead they force this family drama boring plot that you couldn't give less shit about, and you can't also care about characters around you anymore because the game keeps telling you not to care as they are just painting fake people and whatever emotions you see them have "aren't important" because it's not fucking real.This was one of the worst bait and switches in gaming history, and it gets fucking praised despite the fact that it completely fucked up any sort of emotional investment that you might've had.
>>739692502>>739691118>>739691047>>739690767Social media and TV shows have ruined the perception of a ChadA real Chad is someone who gets it all effortlesslyHe’s just that charming, interesting, and funHe's not some retarded PUA
>>739692618Harrison Ford? Yes.Troy Baker doing a soja-infused imitation? No.
Tell me bottom right isnt GTA6..
>>739692618Ford is grumpy but also pretty damn based for an old boot.
I just don't believe in your everyday John Betterman performing the role of an unstoppable one-man-army that the gameplay makes him into.Heroics are for heroes.
>>739692781>A real Chad is someone who gets it all effortlesslyYeah that doesn't really happen in 2026Don't get me wrong Chads were very real in the pastChads in 2026 are tryhard jestermaxers looksmaxer my friend
>>739692930To be fair, Hans isn't a one-man army. It's just a different type of game from something like God of War.
>>739693029>average is 2 for women in 1910sFUCKING HARLOTS
>>739693341The father and the husband
>>739689210They weren't 10 years ago. Wow it's almost like they took the time to create what they wanted while you consoomed like a greedy fat retard and never bothered to create
>>739693380Okay, nevermind.
Sell it to someone who wants to play that gay shitStill not your modern audience.Still gaming for ale and whores
>>739688636It's all good until you notice a pattern IRL outside of American cancerous cultures and influences all over the world. Matches aren't set in stone but patterns exists outside of any "studies". You don't need any PhD or a 300 IQ to notice shit around you.
>>739689070Milhouse isn't a meme.
>>739693763Yet.
>>739685518Its tgis, or bald, or buzzcut, or pube broccoli hair. You don't get anything cool.
>>739693803 THE . . . G A M E
“sensitive young man” soooo, some fuckin jewish dork’s self insert? yaaawwwnnn
>>739685243buzzcut ripped stoic x sensitive young feminine man
>>739689043>IO are thinking long term in terms of franchise building.too bad the first game is a flop then. guess they weren't thinking hard enough!
>>739685459Wait until you see majority of anime and jrpgs
>>739689684>32 is young/v/ proves that they can still be funny, laughed my ass off on that one
>>739689684>>739694358I am 24 and have crippling fear of aging.I don't even know why because I do not really fear death that much.
>>739695323It's fine social life gets more fucked up but if you are loner it's all the same
>>739695323I think the worst thing is that you will likely expire before you die, like getting crippled by some age-related disease. Not to mention mental deterioration at 50+. At 35 I have embraced getting saggier and balder since I'm a hermit anyway, but there's still always the thought that physical/mental functions will get wrecked decades before I finally go.
>>739695520>>739695675Things I fear are:>Losing agility and speed>Losing endurance>Losing raw strength>Losing beauty>Having to hang out more with older people who care more about dumb shit like career and politics and less about video games, comics or action movies.
>>739693029I don't get how it's possible for men and women to have different numbers unless we're factoring in different rates of homosexuality. There are the same number of men and women in the world, roughly. Let's imagine a scenario where there is one man only, and five women. He has sex with each of them, so his average is 5, and their average is 1.But in the real world there is roughly one man for each woman. So in a scenario where the man stays at 5 and the women stay at 1 each, there would need to be 4 other men at 0, which would bring the average for men down to 1 the same as women. In another scenario, say the women go up to 2, where each of them sleeps with Chad plus one of the other 4 men, that would leave Chad at 5, 3 of the other men at 1, and one at 2, which is an average of 2 overall, same as the women. I can't imagine a scenario where one gender has a higher average than the other, so either the data is misinformed because it take's people's word and men just overreport, or women underreport, or it takes into account overwhelming gay male promiscuity.
>>739685518Show your haircut then.
>>739686932>Geralt is just a subhumanGeralt by definition is an überhuman.
>>739685243> This Faggot never played Space Marine 2
>>739685243those are all gays aren't they?
>>739696121men cheat a lot, especially back then. it wasn't really a big deal if a man cheated, but it was if a woman cheated, and so women didn't report that
>>739685243This post was written by a weak brown man.
>>739696121Adding homosexuals is cheating avg homo fucks more than biggest whore yk
>>739696808Nothing is weak about being a little more human at times
>/v/ spams "we must be better men" as a """joke""">men become betterwtf...
>>739695863>Losing agility and speed>Losing endurance>Losing raw strengthwho gives a fuck, are you a day labor? >>Losing beautyBetter use it while you got it>>Having to hang out more with older people who care more about dumb shit like career and politics and less about video games, comics or action movies.You gonna grow up with people like yourself no with some random boomers
>>739697893>who gives a fuck, are you a day labor?Agility, endurance and speed are highly important for me to feel free and unburdened. If I can't move around quickly and longer distances, I feel like trapped in an invisible jail.Strength for me is mostly just to defend myself and feel confident, but being able to lift or otherwise move heavier objects with less strain is also quite useful and being able to break down a door could save my life in an emergancy.>Better use it while you got itBeauty isn't something you can "use", unless you are a manipulative woman. You just have it.
>>739695863Dude it's not a big deal. Old people just talked about those sorts of things because it was always what they talked about. I'm an unc millennial and I still talk about movies and video games with my other unc millennial friends and coworkers.As far as your mobility and strength, just take your vitamins, fish oil, exercise, and eat well most of the time. It greatly increases your longevity. Whatever you do, do NOT get into a habit of regularly drinking (like at least twice a week).
>>739699389>Agility, endurance and speed are highly important for me to feel free and unburdened.Just it the gym 4 days a week and eat wellyou'll be in pretty good shape >You just have it.Well then go outsid
>>739685243what's wrong with soft boys?
>>739700937Soft means you're not strong. Bottling up your emotions is a good thing because it means you have more anger and thus more resolve to direct towards someone who chooses to either mock you or endanger your family. Our grandfathers smoked, drank, and didn't show even a single emotion and that's how we won the last war we ever won. Women today want us to stay home with the kids and clean the house while they do all the important work.
>>739701476>didn't show even a single emotion and that's how we won the last warAnd that turned out to be the generation of men later traumatized by fireworks, with a healthy smattering of wife-beater drunks. Bottling up sure worked for them.
>>739685243>henry>sensitiveThis dude will slaughter an entire camp of gypsies for no reason then complain about being hungry
>>739702883And fuck a dude after
