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5 min readA small creator's critique of modern game writing gets 272,000 views
Asmongold watched a video from a creator with 300 subscribers who argued that AAA games have lost the ability to write compelling female characters. He agreed with nearly everything she said, linked her video to his audience, and her channel grew from 300 to 63,000 subscribers in the aftermath. The video itself accumulated 272,000 views. The conversation that follows—between Asmongold and the creator, Lulomi—lays out a specific critique of modern game writing and why certain character archetypes keep failing.
The pendulum swing and the "card" problem
The central framework Lulomi offers is that many contemporary female characters are written in opposition to older tropes rather than as fully realized people. She describes this as a "card" problem: "A card can't stand up by itself. It has to be leaning against another card." When writers create a personality defined by rejecting the one-dimensional "boob characters" of earlier games, both archetypes collapse if you remove the one they're reacting against. Asmongold calls this an overcorrection by the industry.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:36) **Asmongold Discovers a Small Creator's Viral Video** - Asmongold introduces a video from a creator with only 300 subscribers that has now gained massive traction, reaching 63,000 subscribers.
- 2 (02:21) **Creator's Introduction and Gratitude** - The small creator thanks Asmongold for reacting to her video and addresses her new audience.
- 3 (04:03) **The "Card" Analogy for Bad Female Characters** - The creator explains a key mechanism behind poorly written female characters in modern games.
- 4 (05:12) **Gamers Don't Hate Female Characters, They Want Good Ones** - The core thesis of the creator's argument is that gamers love female characters but reject patronizing or poorly written ones.
- 5 (06:34) **The Problem of "Defeminized" Leads** - The creator identifies a trend of stripping female characters of feminine traits to avoid past criticisms.
- 6 (07:08) **The Desire for Aspirational Characters** - The creator and Asmongold discuss why players want beautiful, larger-than-life characters in games.
- 7 (09:34) **Ripley as a Benchmark for Lost Complexity** - The creator uses Ripley from *Alien* to illustrate how character writing has regressed.
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