I just watched the first part of an official gameplay trailer for Cyberpunk 2077. When I first heard about this game, I was pretty interested - I like the genre of game, I've always had a weakness for cyberpunk, and I'd heard some good rumors about it.
So, within the first ten minutes of gameplay:
We rescue a naked, brutalized, and perfectly physically attractive woman, hauling her out of an ice water bath
we introduce our player character. She is in her (skimpy) underwear. There is a long panning shot up her naked legs to her tasteful side boob. The camera shifts to a view from behind; she is wearing a thong, giving us an unobstructed view of her perfect ass.
It's the second one that really got me. Once you start to notice how often attractive female characters are framed this way, it's really hard to stop noticing it. But do the men doing it realize what a trope it is?
As this was all happening, the narrator was going on and on about how gritty, realistic, and immersive their game will be. It tells you a lot about how deep in they are in the male gaze. It isn't reality-breaking for them at all, because it's actually how they see women.
So, within the first ten minutes of gameplay:
It's the second one that really got me. Once you start to notice how often attractive female characters are framed this way, it's really hard to stop noticing it. But do the men doing it realize what a trope it is?
As this was all happening, the narrator was going on and on about how gritty, realistic, and immersive their game will be. It tells you a lot about how deep in they are in the male gaze. It isn't reality-breaking for them at all, because it's actually how they see women.
