Hit more of the gym and less of the plate, you coward...

Write something worth reading that doesn't exist for the sole purpose of an easy click, you coward.

This is just stupid; why should we glorify obesity in games?
The answer is that we shouldn't.
No amount of glorification of other things justifies adding another to the pile just to please the SJW's.

What about Fat Princess? She's no joke!

Why?

Why not demand more characters be in wheel chairs while youre at it? Walking and running is ableist /s

Ban this site already!

Where's the anorexic community's characters? I can only think of one game where the protagonist is anorexic and that's Dante from Medieval.

There are already various overweight characters in gaming

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/...

Let’s try not to be a special snowflake and acknowledge the various body types already present in various mediums and not ask for more to fulfill some status quo.

I must be a psychic. I said: "This has to be New Normative or JstationX."
Nailed it.

This is satire right, this has to be satire?

I'm overweight and I still find fat characters funny. Watching Donut Drake scale a cliff or Tekken's Bob perform somersaults and flying kicks is just entertaining. Also, most game characters are active, running, jumping, climbing, fighting etc. You wouldn't expect them to not be in shape now, would you?

I knew it was new normative as soon as I saw the title. Picking fights and crying foul where it's not needed. That's the current cry baby culture these guys are going for.

I'll give them this: Life is Strange, where the characters aren't superheroes, has little excuse. They threw in one overweight person and made her tragic and miserable. Rest are so slim, you'd hardly believe the game is set in the US.

Other than that, making an athletic character overweight immediately introduces an explanation problem. Also, larger hitbox, which is rarely fun.

Gaming’s most famous video game icon is overweight you dumbass

Fat people are funny, not fun. Please don't glorify this, thank you.

GTA: San Andreas did a great job with this. You could become overweight in the game, but it impacted your stamina and ability to climb over fences.

That made it important to keep your character thin at least. Muscular was best but required you go work out at the gym on a regular basis.

It wasn't the best GTA, but it was fun to play.

Yeah there aren't too many black female gay midget characters who stutter and have lisp at the same time either..

"Have characters appeal to whatever i want you cowards"

Or how about they make the characters they want to make themselves?

Being overweight is not something anyone should want to be or look up to. It's unhealthy, unattractive and a dangerous idea to say that it is ok.

Don't make characters overweight! Show kids that it is not ok to be overweight. I'm not saying shame overweight people. Don't do that. Encourage them to loose weight instead so they can be healthy and live a happier life. Saying that being overweight is ok is a horrible and dangrous idea and anyone who is saying that should be jailed on the grounds of endangering peoples lives. Saying that being overweight is ok is like saying that don't go to the doctor with that severe heartburn you been having for a year, it's ok. Just keep suffering because that is who you are and everyone needs to accept you. Than you will slowly die from stomach ulcer that turned into cancer or esophagial cancer.

I can't stress enough how unhealthy it is to be overweight. Just go and check out Boogie on youtube. If you are overweight, don't expect the world to cater to your feelings and say it's ok. You are not ok, you need to lose weight and be healthy.

Hit the gym you coward.

lmao unless they’re evil or a joke? Lmao by those assumption I’m just gonna go ahead and say authors a lazy basement dwelling individual with anger issues since were all about assumptions here.

It’s called game design. They’re cowards for not taking the risk in dropping thousands of dollars creating a character that a minority of groups can identify with? Lol alright buddy...

There has yet to be a game that caters to the overweight, pansexual, transgender (though gender fluid), half Indian, Asian, Black, Native American person, who is handicapped, and I am highly insulted, and triggered, by this.

For what game? Mario Walmart Kart? I know this sounds crazy, but the vast majority of fat people aren’t exactly capable of taking down gods, fighting through thousands of men, or being special forces. You want a game featuring fat people? Make your own damn game. God, I hope this is satire.

There is a reason we have instincts to shun the unhealthy & weak links in the herd. No one WANTS to be fat. It means something went wrong.

Speaking as someone who is... it'd be nice to see someone who is not made into a joke, or evil, or mistreated, sure... but I don't really know what sort of game you think they'd fit into, or what role for that matter. Games typically require characters to be active, be capable of fast and often extreme movement, and that's not so believable in someone who's too out of shape. I suppose you could go the way of Sig Curtis in FMA where he's got a bit of a gut but also a lot of muscle, but that's what I mean; you're limited in what you can -believably- do with them.

I'm not sure I could buy into a fantasy where an overweight person is parkouring around like Lara Croft or Nathan Drake.

Hey, I play as a fat person.... in GTA4 to test the drunk physics.

the roles in most games seem implausible for an overweight person. just the truth. I like Create a characters though that let you make your person as you wish.

It's like...you guys bought a "this is how to be a woke, socially conscious asshole that nobody likes" handbook and you're just...going down the list one by one and writing articles about it. Have you done anything about how horribly damaging and transphobic the Honey Bee Inn scene in FF7 is yet? Or maybe a thinkpiece about why Gone Home is the best story based game ever made and the whole reason we have story based games being made now (you can even get Tim Schafer for a quote!) Or you could even blaze your own woke trail (just kidding, there's no original thought allowed in the SJW community) and concern troll about how upcoming game Biomutant might negatively represent the furry community. Anything but this same tired ass shit with the exact same picture of Nathan Drake in fat mode.

No, I don’t want to play as some fat prick.
This would immediately rule me out as a potential customer and would turn way too many people off a game imo.

Hahahahhhh Nathan looks like he is in a fighting game.

watch out, newnormative will shame you for not being fat. out of all the crap sites that make it to N4G, these folks have the worst agendas.

They make their games however they want. It's your decision if you buy it or not. It's not forced upon you in no way. I can't understand why people are starting to turn games into sexuality/political agendas. Same goes for this "article" or whatever trash this is.

If it doesn't add to the story in any significant way what's the point? Inclusion? In most games the characters you play perform feats that involve being in peak physical condition. Not to mention games as most entertainment are a form of escapism. Nobody fantasizes about being obese. If it bothers you so much stick to games with character creators and make your character as fat as you want. Ironically, everyone will see your character and think it's a joke.

Here’s the thing. I don’t have a problem with overweight people. A couple of my friends are overweight. They are great people first before anything. The thing is though, being overweight is bad for your health - even my overweight friends stress on this. So if you’re making your game heros overweight and idolizing weight problems, you’re saying there’s no problem being overweight. It’s ok. And socially it is ok or at least should, but for healths sake, I think it’s better to represent people we aspire to be. Hero’s are good and promote the right things and are healthy. That’s why they can do amazing things. Discipline and all that. Otherwise why don’t we just say we should have more game characters that smoke and drink or pop pills or other unhealthy behaviors.

This isn’t a dig on in overweight people at all. Sincerely. It’s more about making healthier impressions. Conversely it could go the other way too. Super skinny, anorexic models send a bad message as well. Both are very unhealthy.

Character customizations in games that allow it tho could and should accommodate anybody’s vision of themselves, whatever their real or desired self image should be - even if that’s overweight. After all, nobody should be ashamed to rep themselves.

Tomb Raider struggling through the doors of McDonald's sound ok to you?

What a stupid thing to focus on.

Why would they?

I don't say they shouldn't! but why would they? for an action game, doesnt make sense, sales wise doesn't help as most of us preffer to play and watch attractive characters, as a person gamers should aspire to be like?...DEFINITELY NOT!

Do not ever forget that obese people are either sick or they neglected to take proper care of their body.

Other than making a game specifically designed to explore the problems/conflicts/point of view of obese persons, there is absolutely no need to make obese characters, and developers are definitely not cowards for not doing it.

Play dragons dogma everyone is fat since it gave you bigger inventory

Don't we play games to escape the reality?

They really do want to ruin everything, don't they? Video games, movies, comedy, music, art. They're cultural cancer.

Why would I ever want to choose an ugly-fat character to play in a game?

Because overweight people should not be the norm it’s unhealthy and not something we should drive to be .

This just reminds of the a great line from the classic 90's show "Married With Children" when Al Bundy is carpooling with three big women:

Al Bundy: So they tell me that you girls are models for Victoria's Secret.
Fat Woman 1: Oh we are; We're Victoria's Big Secret.
Al Bundy: Oh Victoria couldn't keep a secret THIS big...
Fat Woman 2: It's a new line of lingerie for the full-figured woman, cause you know what they say: "You're never too big to be sexy."
Al Bundy: And do you know who says that? ...Fat Girls.

Because why would you want to play as an undisciplined Nathan Drake who wouldn't be able to scale a cliff

At least Max Payne got fat in number 3 so you have that I suppose. He also drowns in liquor and pills daily but still

I’m 305lbs. No. I don’t want this.

Life is hard living with this massive ass. Movement is limited, I get winded easily. Don’t even get me started on my back. I have health complications and yet...due to my addiction to food can’t stop stuffing my fatass mouth. Last thing I wanna do is ruin my second lives with video game protagonists reminding me of that.

Don’t. Glorify. Obesity.

F*** off lol

wtf is this nonsense LOL. What of waste of internet space.

Oh a newnormative article *rolls eyes* no wonder why. I thought this site was blacklisted

Fighting games, yes, for bulky, slow, methodical characters. Adventure and action games? No... It just seems unbelievable.

You know how sites like your's go on about women being dressed appropriately for combat? Well, try not being a hypocrite.

I do, in Dark Souls

lol shut up

Who is proud of being slob though? I get the “representation” thing, it’s stupid but I get it. They are proud of whatever, race, sexuality, gender.. Are there really people proud of being fat and want to be represented in games? Most overweight people would rather lose the weight, I would imagine lol.

I hate how games, like Skyrim for example, only have 1 or 2 body types/structure on ALL AI. Same face on a lot of them as well.
I want to see Some women have beautiful, big areolas. Some taller. Some short and fat. Just everyone...different

Well the excuse that a fat character wouldn't be able to do anything without tiring out is silly. Most characters we play as shouldn't be able to survive the amount of punishment they receive, and yet they do, because the vast majority of games are highly unrealistic in almost every way, including the resilience of the player character. So, if we make thin people unrealistically resilient and athletic and so on, and if we don't have to be realistic when it comes to them, why do we have to be realistic when it comes to fat people? If athletic, acrobatic fat people are immersion-breaking to you, why aren't hyper-resilient bullet-sponge thin people immersion-breaking to you too? It's no more or less realistic. Why don't you complain about the latter? There are examples of unrealistic fat people anyway - lots in fighting games - and no one really complains.

But, we shouldn't be glorifying or encouraging obesity (i.e. leading people to believe that it's harmless and something they can pursue without fear of reduced quality of life and health complications; or that it's something cool), I don't care what anyone says. Plus-sized? Fine. But morbid obesity isn't healthy, and a morbid obese person doesn't WANT or LIKE being morbidly obese, so you're not doing them a favor by refraining from "policing" their lifestyle. Lots of seriously fat people are unhappy not JUST because of fat-shaming, but because being really fat is an inherently physically uncomfortable way to be, and leads to other health issues that compound that discomfort. I'm not saying fat-shame people, because that's no better than leaving them alone - it just leads to depression-fueled self-starvation or overeating and other things. We're partly responsible for anything we could have prevented, and we could tackle obesity if we approached it properly and respectfully, so we're therefore partly responsible for those bad things that happen to people as a result of their obesity, and I can't really have that on my conscience. It bugs me that so many people don't have the quality of life they could have, and in many (but not all) cases because of predatory corporations pumping them full of junk food that is moreish and addictive by design for purposes of sales.

Aaaanyway, like anything misleading and unrealistic in games and other forms of entertainment, we need to be responsible and careful about how we portray it. Other than that, I'm happy to play as any character, regardless of gender or race. I think people stick to characters that are similar to themselves so they can enjoy them as a kind of power fantasy, probably to compensate for their own lives being lacking. The avatar becomes a powerful body for them to inhabit - a different, superior body for their mind / brain that they control with the gamepad. Not all games have to be or should be realistic, but when we're making unrealistic games, we have to be responsible about it. Unrealistic things can put false ideas in peoples' heads about things they have never experienced first hand, and this can attract them to, or repel them from, those things. In other words, in the absence of first hand experience and exposure, such misleading stuff can cause people to believe things that aren't true, and what we believe determines how we act.

It was always a blast to make Carl fat, then work out like to crazy to make him back in shape. Real life accomplishments sort of made me motivated to want to get in shape back then.

What if they started with the character overweight and out of shape. Then as they level up and increase their strength and stats the character slims out. So by the end when fully levelled you are a far more toned and muscular. Makes sense in some games when the character can only run for 10 seconds before the stamina bar is fully depleted.

Fat people who can't accept their condition are cowards.

Here is a real question to the OP:

In games where you can create the main characters in any shape you want.
Do you make them obese?

A fat Nathan Drake would be hilarious.

It wouldn't really make any sense in most cases seeing as how most protagonists are in situations that are strenuous and grueling which would as a result make them fit. though the idea of an overweight protagonist for some reason makes me want a Mech game where the pilots are out of shape due to just sitting around pulling levers/pushing buttons. Would actually be kinda cool to be this killer mech, then have to hop out and find parts for repair when it's been damaged, with limited movement and a very crappy stamina meter, maybe run into other armed out of shape mech pilots while on foot? dunno sounds neat to me.

I still feel salty about the first game, that final chapters was such a let down compared to the build-up to it, I really wish they had made it as they had intended (the developers actually ran out of time).

LiS2 is in the top 20 highest peak players ever on Steam - which is amazing when all of the other games on that list are multiplayer big-hitters.

https://steamdb.info/charts...

The performance of that game imo being based on just how good and well loved the OG (and BtS) was.