When will this open-world ponytail meme end?

When will this open-world ponytail meme end?

when the games stop being GOAT

I don't know but I have long hair and can never make a ponytail look good. It seems you need to be dressed like a hippie or a a soldier/warrior to pull it off.

Pretty much this, although I agree it is a strange coincidence that the three best open world games of all time have pony-tailed protags.

You need to have decent facial aesthetics to pull it off without looking like a dirty stoner. It also needs to be relatively short. Long ponytails are very un/fa/ on men.

This, but MGSV certainty wasn't GOAT. Neither was TW3.

of course they weren't goats, they were videogames user

When physics engines and hardware improve to the point where you can simulate proper hair. 15 years ago even (physics-based) pony tails were asking for too much, that's why all vidya women had mandatory short hair (think Alyx from HL2) or static hair that looked like ass.
Nowadays, loose long hair is the new frontier.

Name 5 games other than those, that does this

I didn't expect a serious answer, thanks user.

Go away.
Open world rpgs are a million times better than all the shitty shooters we got last gen

How long do you think is too long?

Geralt is at the limits there. His only looks good because he has the undercut thing going on and he's super fit.

>reading comp

It is for the "I want to play as a girl but I am afraid someone will see " crowd.
You know faggots.

yeah the best selling games of the last 2 years were exclusively bought by closeted gay men

Who gives a shit? I think it looks cool.

Two of them are developed by japs, and the japs have a cultural connection between "warrior" and "tied hair". The other is optional and probably for some historical/setting flavor, and like the other user pointed out, a ponytail is easier to simulate than loose hair.

it's more of a running gag

the wilhelm scream of open-world games.

protag needs to look like he shops at whole foods

none of those people look like the stereotype youre going for. does anyone here even go outside

The half pony is great too. I was actually able to pull that off for a while.

I don't know how much you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but warriors and ponytails are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by sporting an undercut. If you have the wrong haircut in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is to shave it all off.

What this means is the japanese public, after seeing this, is not going to want to purchase any Western game for either system, nor will they purchase any of the developer's future games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Westerners have alienated an entire market with those haircuts.

I personally do not admire this haircut anymore, to the ponytail guys let's have a revenge: we will not buy these games. Let undercut guys have the game because on they can pirate the game so CD Projekt Red will never have big income.

"The Witcher" is a traitor, CDPR must publicly apologize and cancel The Witcher for PC or you can kiss your business goodbye. You'll submit to the gamers' will or you'll never have anyone to buy your games ever again! I guess you can say The Witcher made it's last sale unless this situation is remedied.