Why do Japanese games demand their protagonists to be so young?
Take dagger for instance. She's only 16, but she has the features and maturity of someone at minimum 18-20. Yes it's only 2 or so years but 16 is when a person starts going through puberty, there is a major change in how a person behaves and looks from 16 to even 18.
Are we supposed to believe Zidane is as popular with women as he claims he is, he's still a fucking child. Give him four more years and we can realistically see him being much more mature.
Fuck even Vivi is originally stated to be 9, that's a fucking baby he acts like a teenager, he should be closer to 16.
Why can't Japs bump the ages up a couple numbers? Would pedos really get that triggered?
Hudson King
the game you are complaining about is very old and times have changed with there being quite a large age range of protagonists today
you're stupid your thread is stupid
Anthony Hughes
Play games made by leaves. Those are made for your kind.
Josiah Perez
Look at this young girl
Nolan Parker
The optimal age for self-insert characters in nipland is 15, so they make that the baseline then everything else a similar age while their actual physiology and mental acuity can be whatever the fuck they need
Luis Garcia
Most women begin puberty at 13. Characters are young because the demographic is children and manchilds who yearn for childhood.
Matthew Allen
>16 is when you start puberty >t. low test late bloomer
nigga what the fuck took ya so long?
Angel Allen
Japs lose all hope when they get older and ends up stuck in one company for the rest of their lives. Youth is idolized.
Jacob Williams
Fucking retard murricans.
Isaiah Lewis
Hey, some games have grown women in them!
Bentley Cruz
At least Zidane is a great protagonist. Niggers like Squall are the real problem. Then there's the fucking retarded case of Vaan. I think either Balthier or Basch were supposed to be the protagonists but Squeenix forced a random androgynous boy on the role, that might as well have been a paperweight for story-related purposes. The original director for the game even got the fuck out of the project because of that faggotry.
Aaron Peterson
For Square-Enix specifically, it is partially due to Vagrant Story. It had an older protagonist and didn't sell well, so they decided that must be the reason. That's the reason they replaced the original FFXII protag with Vaan.
Charles Adams
Are we supposed to believe Zidane is as popular with women as he claims he is, he's still a fucking child. No you're not supposed to believe that, that's the whole point, its just something he claims because that's just who he is. >Vivi is originally stated to be 9, that's a fucking baby he acts like a teenager Vivi is a doll that was built for destruction, you can't apply the same logic to him, that's like saying a 12 year old dog hasn't hit puberty yet and is still a child.
Joshua Gonzalez
This has to be bait, who the fuck goes through puberty at 16 you retard? Women start puberty as early as 11.
Benjamin Wilson
>16 is puberty what the FUCK am I reading
Brandon Peterson
Because they want to pretend that they're young again and all that shit. I've seen it explained here a hundred times. Also girls go through puberty at like 11
Evan Murphy
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty Were you homeschooled, OP?
Brandon Thomas
YOU RETARD
People get sexually mature at 16, that's why you fucking inbred American. You can make it illegal for them to have sex until 18, but we reach sexual prowness MANY YEARS before that.
Did some of you faggots not gain boners in the middle of class as early as fucking 14? Well guess what, girls start at that age too. Some even earlier. It's human by human basis.
I was fucking fully erect at age 12 as a kid because I accidentally rubbed one off in the sheets and this triggered an early puberty for me. I was a fully hair legged at 14 and yes, it was embarassing because everyone else in my class were all literal babies still. My voice was deeper and I was also taller, but man did it happen fast.
So don't give me any of this "18" shit. Most of the developed world agree 16 is when it's fine to give goddamn consent. 18 is cruel because by that time most will have sticked their dicks in every thing they can find.
tl;dr - There is LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG with what the Japanese are doing
Bentley Wright
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty American education, everybody!
Nathan Williams
Retarded americans don't like Women in their golden age, 14~17
Michael Nguyen
>tfw started puberty at 11 >looked 25 by the time I was 16
Robert Lopez
I legit always thought this character was a loli Tifa. Only played FF3 and 7.
Jayden Baker
The Japanese word for "teacher" is "sensei">
先 = sen, which means past. 生 = sei, which means life.
The Japanese believe you live your life throughout your youth, and when you are older, your role becomes more of a teacher than anything else.
Henry Cook
a numer in character profile is making me nervous i'm triggered the memories of being raped by a pastor are coming back please help
Nicholas Ward
Did someone bully you lad?
Julian Nguyen
Americans have to understand that if she bleeds, she is a woman and is ready to take cocks right in the pussy.
Lucas Flores
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
Stop breathing anytime.
Brayden Cooper
At least you look like a man is supposed to be
>Tfw 25 and look 16
Luke Jones
Many ancient legends did this too, although there was a more even split between teens and adults and the life expectancy was shit, so there's that.
Luke Butler
do you have something you want to share?
Logan Robinson
I don't think numbers mean shit to Japs. Look at fighting games and height/weight.
Aaron Jenkins
not interested in discussing how realistic things are in an fantasy game w/ talking moogles and chocobos
Nicholas Russell
Damn, you really are just stuck on us. Cute.
Chase Taylor
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty No it isn't
William Wilson
it's because videogames are meant for children you fucking retard, I think it's time for you to grow up
Andrew Myers
Tell me who bullies you, ill fight them
Sebastian Moore
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
How old are you, that this is what you think?
Nolan Green
I really like that character
Hudson Bailey
>Questions the age of characters >In the pedo resort island japan
Nicholas Collins
Isnt age of consent like 12 there
Ethan Rogers
No that's Thailand
Cooper Lopez
13
Zachary Moore
Some people speed through puberty right at 13. Zidane growing up with a filthy scoundrel group was probably making all sorts of connections in the city it's not really suprising. Even playing it at 8 years old I could relate to it.
Cooper Kelly
Legit question, how old are americans by average when you lose your virginity (>implying)? Most of Europe it's like 16. Also is it a crime if two minors have sex over there?
William Hughes
12
Adam Powell
yes
Wyatt Cook
28
Adrian Barnes
Age of consent is set by each prefecture independently, 13 is just the legal federal minimum. That is, no prefecture can set the age of consent lower than 13. But as it happens, every prefecture sets it at at least 16.
Charles Morgan
On paper its 13 but most of the prefectural laws make it 18. I think the only places still using the 13 laws is Tokyo. They're set up like the US states though, so every prefecture is different about what is the age of consent and all the strings attached.
Adrian Lee
Because only moralfags won't admit that 16-18 is the peak age of a human being.
Lucas Lopez
Around 16 here too. Also no unless there's enough of an age difference a case for statutory rape/molestation.
Andrew Torres
>puberty at 16 Maybe years and years ago, but it's around the 9/10-12~ range now, hell I started puberty at 9 myself. I've seen 16 year olds look like 20+ year olds, who would have thought that adding in things to food (and having easier access to food) would do anything to people? Andt he elevens do it because everyone has been young (well excpet those who are younger, but you get the picture)
Isaac Powell
I have no idea, people in my country rarely bring up sex in the open.
Chase Collins
What a gay
Jack Gutierrez
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty Dumbest post on Sup Forums today
Jacob Allen
>their most popular game >protagonist is 21
Jack Thomas
Real talk Sup Forums.
What did you do when you were 16? Don't tell me you stayed home playing videogames instead of partying, adventuring and enjoying the highpoint of your life?
Landon Cook
>She's only 16, but she has the features and maturity of someone at minimum 18-20
OP, I think you need to go out more. High school girls have great bodies, even more so with sports girls.
Matthew Powell
Was posting on Sup Forums and playing video games
Adam Howard
>16 years >Person starts going through puberty
Americans
Hunter Campbell
>adventuring How to tell someone is pretending not to be exactly the type of virgin they're describing: the post
Luis Sullivan
>but 16 is when a person starts going through puberty public education everyone
James Mitchell
What a 馬鹿
Michael Davis
Maybe you are on to something but FFIX is not a good example of it. I work in the pediatric operating theater and see completely naked girls of all ages daily, and some of the 12 year olds look like 16-18 you would fuck, it's just insane. I can guess their age only after I look into the papers or they start talking.
Also Vivi is a machine set to die early, so we can guess his learning and character maturation is accelerated when you compare it to other humans. And Zidane is not human, so his biochemistry can be off as well.
Jeremiah Smith
You keep at it till 18 or so nigger.
Ayden Hill
>Why would you make the main character the same age as the target demographic
Hudson Cooper
I actually went to parties and shit, but now 7 years later when I should still be doing that I'm not which sometimes hurts desu.
Eli Reed
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
Jose Stewart
In japan, games are for kids.
Kevin Watson
What do you mean by life expectancy in ancient times exactly?
Sebastian Nelson
Life expectancy after age 5 was actually pretty similar. People just didn't listen to >women and fucked what they wanted.
Anthony Jones
>I accidentally rubbed one off in the sheets and this triggered an early puberty for me lol
Isaac Lewis
It's not just a video games thing, it's a Japanese thing. The most popular anime and manga are about people who are high school age. There's a whole genre just about being a kid and going to school.
In the west (the broad, vague west encompassing most of America and Europe) we live in, for lack of a better term, a rather immature world. The biggest political battle of recent years (the American presidency) was defined by internet memes, and people can make a living off of being lazy shits, even those who are working generally don't work particularly hard. I think this directly influences our media and what's popular, older actors are preferred to younger ones and things try to be more serious and mature (try being the operative word). In Japan it's all business all the time, honour and duty and the salaryman working ridiculous hours, so their media, their escapism, has evolved with a larger focus on youth, when they had no such pressures.
Tyler Lopez
No
Oliver Nelson
I live in a shit country. In here you're considered normal only if you're still a kid at 23 but gotten laid at 13.
Ian Murphy
You're mid-puberty at 16
Hunter Martinez
Embrace it. Become a trap.
Jaxon Butler
At least you look like a young person is supposed to be
>Tfw 23 and balding It really sucks guys ;_;
Colton Hill
Same. I'm almost 30 and I'm "starting to look like a man" I've been told.
And by 25 I had 2 friends freak out about my age not being 18.
Jacob Long
>yfw all sjw are this retarded
Elijah King
Would you like to play with hags?
Brandon Wood
...
Colton King
>tfw started puberty at 10 >was 6'1 and could grow a full beard at 14 >6'5 now and look perpetually 30
Bentley Long
tfw you will never look like Garnet
Owen Jones
16 is the age of peak fertility for women. After that it's all downwards when at 30 you have a significantly increased risk of birthing Downs retards.
Stop differentiate youth from sexuality. They are closely intertwined. It's more disgusting turning 40+ grannies into sexual characters when their ovaries are just a few years from going completely silent.
Parker Walker
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
>american education
Lucas Davis
>She's only 16, but she has the features and maturity of someone at minimum 18-20 Wanna know how I know you're a beta virgin with no exposure to girls outside of porn?
Brody Jackson
What is it that makes Americans such consumer hounds? The star trek battlefront business is the latest in the pattern, but certainly not anything new or unusual. There's the longstanding abusive relationship they have with Comcast. They actually make tv shows about how much they hate comcast, but the notion of not purchasing it is simply not even a concept to them, like a cat trying to read a book.
Right now, there's a huge campaign begging a game company to fix their product so they can give them money. They are so desperate to be parted with their money, they will literally wage war to do it. It's like they aren't just obese in their body from always buying potato chips, but have somehow found a way to become obese in their minds.
Joseph Allen
Women and men don't really mature much past puberty. I've seen 47 year old women dumber than mice and 17 year olds who are socially and logically skilled. The whole "mature" bs is really just insecure roasties attempting to turn their high age into some advantage when to a man there's no reason at all choosing the older womam.
Jonathan Sullivan
Always just stayed at home and played vidya I regret nothing
Owen Jones
Cloud and Noctis are in their 20s, Noctis even ages to his 30s during his game.
Brandon Smith
Nier Had an old, Ugly protag.
Camden Johnson
>Outfit was essentially underwear >Her REAL clothes got burned off in an accident >Continues running around in underwear for rest of the game
What did Square mean by this?
Isaiah Lee
She wanted to flirt with Zidane with her delicious ass.
Evan Flores
>Why do Japanese games demand their protagonists to be so young? Because Japanese gamers are pedophiles.
Benjamin Morgan
With this reasoning western gamers are faggots.
Also being a fag makes you exponentially more likely to be a pedo.
Jason Thomas
Rosa ran around in her underwear too, so it's a reference.
Tyler Green
>16 is when a person starts going through puberty
Hunter Turner
Where do you even get creepshots nowadays?
Alexander Nelson
Because youth is when japs have the biggest amount of personal freedom and individualism, the peak being your rebellious teenage years.
When you become an adult you give up on your hopes and dreams and become a part of the machine.