timppu: The issue is not how much clothes females (or males for that matter) have in games.
It is mainly that feminine straits even in faces is apparently not welcome anymore. Everything must look androgynous and/or trans, even faces.
Catventurer: Is that really the issue here.....?
Yes, especially it if it really due to some big financing companies (Blackrock etc,) strong-arming game studios to do that, or change the Warhammer lore so that suddenly "Brotherhood of the Demigods" is renamed to "The Order of the Demigods" and then claim that yeah it always had female participants as well, when in reality it didn't.
IF it was just the developers or publishers own wish to make games with ugly women and trans characters, then by all means they are free to do so. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case, as Mark Kern has revealed.
Catventurer: Because I think this is more of a case of ideal versus realistic body standards.
Quite many real-life actors look quite "ideal", ie. more beautiful or more handsome than most of us. Say, Ryan Reynolds, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Olivia Wilde, Sydney Sweeney etc. They have the looks, both masculine and feminine, and at least for me that is not a problem, e.g. I don't feel bad and body-shamed for Ryan and Henry looking more handsome than me. Said actors are simply pleasing to the eye in their roles.
Yes yes, there are also lots of actors and actresses that don't fit similar beauty standards (Steve Buscemi, Melissa McCarthy) who have mainly become famous for other reasons than their looks but that is beside the point when talking about games deliberately making female (and only female, not male, like you can see in Star Wars Outlaws) characters look uglier and more masculine than their real-life counterparts.
And then the developers/publishers have the audacity to claim that is not intentional and it is due to technical limitations of scanning human faces to games which just makes women look uglier, which is easy to prove to be a lie, like e.g. male characters in Outlaws oddly not having similar "technical issues" looking like their real-life counterparts.
Catventurer: Most of those non-androgynous female Pokemon characters have unrealistic and completely unobtainable body shapes. This is especially true for anyone with morbidly obese fat girl hip bones. Yes, I really am talking about the bones themselves being far too big for the person to meet acceptable beauty standards and not actual body fat.
What you're calling androgynous look like girl characters with more realistically obtainable waistlines.
And this is where I need to remind that while Pokemon is a game with young children in mind as the target audience. It's better for young girls if Pokemon isn't yet another world setting where only hot girls are allowed to exist because they are being trained to measure their society worth entirely by their looks and not what they will accomplish.
You are basically proving the original point there. So you feel it is quite ok to force some kind of political agenda to games as some kind of social engineering experiment, ie. can we make small boys prefer uglier girls in real life too, if we show them enough ugly women in games?
My view is that leave such ideological culture war shit out of games, movies and other entertainment, and let people look at characters that are pleasing to their eye.
It is a similar "problem" how many young women have unrealistic expectations what men should be like and how they should behave. e.g. expecting men to have six or seven figure income, men acting as romantic fools whose only interest in life is the said woman (a female power fantasy of men wanting them and fighting for their attention, as in e.g. Twilight movies or various romantic novels aimed at women).
Do I feel such "unrealistic" stories should be abolished from women, so that they get a more realistic view on how real men behave (snoring and farting in the bed) etc.? Not really, let girls and women have their fantasies of men who never snore nor fart.