Posted December 19, 2020
I did a side quest to a gay strip club called "The Dicky Twister", the name of which I thought was kind of cute, a nod to "The Titty Twister" from the "From Dusk til Dawn" movies perhaps.
Its cool that there is a strip club that features men, and the Sarkeesian-types writing articles about how the game sexualizes women "for the male gaze" and makes some women gamers "uncomfortable" because of that, seem to be unaware of the fact that the game sexualizes men as well and that this is all part of the overall story (getting very tired of sex negative game reviewers, frankly).
The layout of the club is cool and I get a kick out of the wall art, including the dual male arrow symbols. It COULD be *really* cool. There is a lot of potential. And this is the very first game I personally have ever played that natively has an all male strip club. So there is a lot to compliment here and it seems some trailblazing going on.
That being said...every stripper was wearing enough clothing to go skiing in a blizzard. OK that's a slight exaggeration, but they were just wearing regular street clothes and were completely covered Baggy shorts, wife beaters. Nothing particularly sexy and certainly nothing was actually coming off. Not one of them was nude or even halfway nude.
Is this another part of the whole "censured nudity" thing? Why can't they at least be dancing in underwear or something? I know that there have been complaints that the female dancers are wearing skimpy outfits instead of being totally nude, but at least the clothing they're wearing makes some kind of sense and attempts to be sexy and sensual rather than frumpy like the guys at this club. Its a shame because the concept art of the club that I found after I googled it a few minutes ago makes the guys' in silloutte look WAY sexier and implies that they are either nude or at least very skimpily attired in body hugging materials.
On the wall of the club is a neon penis that gets erect before your eyes. But the dancers can't at least be dancing in speedos or something? I hope this gets fixed in a patch or at least modded but I would much prefer it gets fixed officially.
Anyway, I really like the club over all. But we need some sexier clothing on the dancers..or better yet, none at all. This goes for the female dancers in other clubs as well.
Its cool that there is a strip club that features men, and the Sarkeesian-types writing articles about how the game sexualizes women "for the male gaze" and makes some women gamers "uncomfortable" because of that, seem to be unaware of the fact that the game sexualizes men as well and that this is all part of the overall story (getting very tired of sex negative game reviewers, frankly).
The layout of the club is cool and I get a kick out of the wall art, including the dual male arrow symbols. It COULD be *really* cool. There is a lot of potential. And this is the very first game I personally have ever played that natively has an all male strip club. So there is a lot to compliment here and it seems some trailblazing going on.
That being said...every stripper was wearing enough clothing to go skiing in a blizzard. OK that's a slight exaggeration, but they were just wearing regular street clothes and were completely covered Baggy shorts, wife beaters. Nothing particularly sexy and certainly nothing was actually coming off. Not one of them was nude or even halfway nude.
Is this another part of the whole "censured nudity" thing? Why can't they at least be dancing in underwear or something? I know that there have been complaints that the female dancers are wearing skimpy outfits instead of being totally nude, but at least the clothing they're wearing makes some kind of sense and attempts to be sexy and sensual rather than frumpy like the guys at this club. Its a shame because the concept art of the club that I found after I googled it a few minutes ago makes the guys' in silloutte look WAY sexier and implies that they are either nude or at least very skimpily attired in body hugging materials.
On the wall of the club is a neon penis that gets erect before your eyes. But the dancers can't at least be dancing in speedos or something? I hope this gets fixed in a patch or at least modded but I would much prefer it gets fixed officially.
Anyway, I really like the club over all. But we need some sexier clothing on the dancers..or better yet, none at all. This goes for the female dancers in other clubs as well.