The Twitch streamer Asmongold has attracted attention in recent weeks with critical comments about women and is annoyed with voice actors, developers and journalists. His fans also don’t appreciate it when he gets too involved with women. But now he and his fans have finally found a woman they like: in the new game on Steam, Vindictus: Defying Fate.
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This is his reaction to the new game on Steam: In a two-minute video, a YouTube excerpt from one of his Twitch streams, Asmongold grins smugly and looks at the female character and her various outfits in Vindictus: Defying Fate. The new game is an action release of an MMORPG from Nexon. On March 19th, a pre-alpha for Vindictus: Defying Fate ended on Steam.
While the first outfits are still normal, Outfit 2 puts the playable warrior in a miniskirt. Outfit 3 shows her only lightly dressed and gives the fighter high heels and more underwear than armor. The outfit will quickly become a favorite of Asmongold and its community.
While the Twitch chat raves about “AAA quality” and “Game of the Year,” Asmongold can barely control his grin and eyebrows as he says: The combat looks a lot smoother than he imagined.
The video with the caption “Game of the Year” already reached 713,000 views in less than a week.
Culture clash between East and West among women in video games
This is what lies behind it: Asmongold’s video is almost priceless advertising for the game. This much attention would normally have cost Nexon several hundred thousand dollars in marketing budget. For most of Asmongold’s fans, a video like this is harmless fun.
But in a way there is a real conflict behind this: such highly sexualized game characters are still popular in Asia, where Vindicuts: Definy Fate comes from, while there is a movement against such characters in the games industry in the West. This movement comes from the very people and forces that Asmongold has been having a problem with lately. While Asmongold sees itself as the voice of precisely those players who oppose such changes and see them as undue influence on their games.
We’ve already covered the debate about game characters that set unrealistic beauty standards with the PS5 game Stellar Blade:
New PS5 game uses 3D scan of a model as a template for heroine – scoffers say: “In the West she would be ugly”