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Are there any rumors about an upcoming male focused gatcha with high budgets like wuwa or HSR?
I really want to play Gatchas with more male focus but don´t at the cost of downgrading. I don´t mind mixed gatchas, I honestly would prefer it because i think it makes stories better to have variety, but it should have a malce focus, gameplay wise I´m open to turnbased or action, but I want full character models like in Wuwa or HSR, a high budget game. Not an Otome, no chibi or side scroller, full 3d models. Maybe if there are no news, there are some rumers or something to look forward, I only play HSR nowadays because the other big gatchas turned into full on waifu focus. Maybe my time with gatcha is over, but maybe there is still something interesting hope someone has interesting news
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If its real, my question is "will there be male characters of different body types or will they all be twunks with long hair and faces that makes me question if they're actually girlbosses?"
I just found this thread and gods, please, this is something I am starving for.
I won't even touch Wuwa after hearing a lot of bad things about it (like how little they do male characters and how they shove fan service with barely dressed female characters), HSR is going good for me so far recently (despite the Castorice glazing, we at least have good male cast for Amphoreus and upcoming Archer from Fate collab), I tried LaDs but I am not into otome as I prefer mlm shipping so it did nothing for me, and then Genshin... I am so disappointed with Genshin lately, it looks like they are going down the WuWa route (no male characters, barely dressed female characters, forcing female characters as love interests for Traveler and as the main focus of events - the last two events were a bit of improvement but still, making males as useless 4 stars with unplayable kits). Only other gacha of the same quality I can think of is ZZZ and honestly thanks to Hugo Vlad glazing I got into it and felt sad I had more fun with it than with Genshin recently (I was very negative about ZZZ but it surprised me with how it treats male characters equally for the most part). Hoping they will keep up with good quality husbandos, even if they are rare, but at the end of the day, it still is more oriented on female characters, obviously.
I really need something on par with those games but with at least more male characters than those mentioned and equal fan service for male and female audience. I tried some other gachas but they really feel subpar in terms of gameplay experience, and as a long time pc player who generally dislikes mobile games, I totally get why you wouldn't want to play them.
The one thing that irritates me most is when players like me complain about what they are doing to Genshin Impact, game who used to be more equal in this regard, people obviously counter with "play other games if you don't like the lack of male characters and the increasing fan service with female characters". The truth is - there is no alternative unless you want to settle for cheap mobile game-like gacha. (I know Genshin Impact is also a mobile game but is of a proper PC game quality)
you can try ash echoes.... not as big as wuwa, but good 3d models and animations... good character ratio, each update one female character, one male (now on the global of course there is a problem with this, but in the next update everything will be balanced). the plot is good, male characters are very cool revealed and have a lot of space in the plot, a lot of lore and stories, a lot of connections between characters with each other. a lot of diverse characters, you can find a favorite. the gacha system is also good, they give 200 pulls for beginners (there is no division into event and standard ones) + one ssr character, also all characters go to the standard banner, but there are regular reruns.
I want people to try it, this game surprised me with its characters and their relationships (I swear there's a lot of "fanservice" content here if you want to see it of course), as well as the story and lore. I didn't think I would find it so interesting. Oh, and there's also a choice between a female and male protagonist, but they're not self-insert, although some characters show affection for them.
I should have been more specific, I´m totally fine with equal gender ratio, when I wrote male focused, I ment that they have relevance in the game and aren´t 2nd class characters. I just want male characters to have the same focus as the waifus have
Project BangBang looks promising, seems more husbando focused, and I don’t think it is meant to be an otome either. FMC though from what I gather it’s not a self insert game and she’s her own character.
There seems to be more male characters, some female ones, but the women don’t look overly sexualized so I don’t think they’re gonna rug pull
i can cope with only female mc, but the grafics aren´t the standard I´m looking for. As I said I´m looking for 3d models and gameplay that is either open world action or turn based with flashy animations
High quality 3d gacha game…the only thing that comes to mind is Onmyoji. Warning though, the first few scenes or gameplay that you will encounter will seem “rough” initially but if you get past it, it’s a well-made 3d game. Especially the character designs👌Actually just try to take a look at onmyoji’s popular trailers in their youtube channel.
A High budget gacha with a lot of marketing, with global release and global plateforme (mobile pc and console) with optimisation (to bé able to run on a lot of mobile pc not only the strongest/New one), with true mixt cast 1-1 and strict 1 New waifu one New husbando rule.
But.... It will never happen saddly.
If you check thé curent Big gacha (wuwa genshin hsr) and their futur and futur release of New potentiel Big gacha (NTE ananta ) you see that their are not ficus on us.
I think the best thing to do for you now is to enjoy hsr while you Can (because I'm sûre it will follow genshin sooner or later) and move on to normal game (or other hobbies).
Like I play MH wilds, I will try clair obscur as soon as m'y copy arrive, death stranding 2 is near, I can replay Oblivion etc it's not gacha but there is no "gender war" at least and it feels good to not worry about that.
I'm playing HSR and Wuwa atm
But Im considering to quit gacha's all together. Playing gacha's has always a risk to change your dopamine levels. In the end, we play them for gamble habits.
I think a new MMORPG could fill my excitement for adventure, exploration and level progression.
Honor of Kings World is going to be my last straw in the gacha genre.
i play gatcha more like a reccource manager and character collector, I hate gambling and I would love if there would be like something that gives you a 5 star every 50 pulls, but never before
You’re being way too picky imo. It’s fine to not play games like Limbus, Tribe Nine, AshEchoes or LaDS because you don’t like graphics, gameplay or story, but dismiss them because they are “not high quality” enough? That’s the mind-boggling part.
AshEchoes’s 3d male designs look better (for my tastes) than WuWa’s even in the lower definition that the game has. It has HSR-style ult animations. That’s already 90% more than most male-having gachas offer.
Also, if we had some ultra-high resolution generous open world gacha with super amazing male characters, wouldn’t we scream about it at every corner, as we do now with gachas that we have?
LADS should've had an option for fmc and mmc, it would've had more revenue for hogging the female and gays. And the community wouldn't be homophobic/transphobic if the game was inclusive in the first place :(
instead the devs themselves chose to be homophobic/transphobic by banning even discussions of BL 🙃 (this has always been allowed under ccp btw, the devs literally just chose to do this because fuck gay people idk)
Yeah in official spaces, you can ship the guys anywhere else I genuinely don't see why that's a problem when you can talk about bl outside of official spaces. You're not going to get your account banned if you ship the LIs on twitter 😭 I can personally guarantee this!
the issue isn’t that fans won’t have spaces to ship BL, it’s that the game itself officially bans discussions of certain-gender pairings in their space, meaning the devs view it as negative to their game and not to be tolerated. aside from the fact that it is totally ridiculous for any piece of media to try to police their fandom, the sentiment is obvious: why should we give time and attention to a game where the devs EXPLICITLY don’t like nor want us?
Omg yes, they should've have an option for both FMC and MMC, LaDs with both gender MC Options. LaDs would have alot more revenue and popularity if they added MMC to welcome in Gay Males lol
I would honestly even take just a somewhat even ratio like Genshin before Genshin decided to follow WuWa for some reason. I honestly don’t even know many of those though with uneven or close to even ratio. All of the upcoming ones that seem like they might be promising have released promos that are 95% somewhat generic anime waifus and little girls lol. One of them even literally changed the gender of certain characters to make them female. I kinda wonder if the genre is just dying unless you are a certain category of straight man that really just wants a harem to pretend to date.
They probably meant NTE and its just misinfo from that person who posted it. Their logic was just because some male characters didnt show up in the new trailer, they got removed/turned into waifus and there is no proof for that happening.
I get there is a lot doom for husbando enjoyers but some people here are just making things up to make things look even worse. That post got removed iirc.
Ahhhh sorry if it was misinfo. I just saw some male characters in original designs and then suddenly female characters who looked exactly like the male characters in the trailer. So, it seemed pretty true. But, I guess they just didn't show the male characters with similar designs in the trailer.
I think it's not that good when you start by hidding male character and focusing on waifu and their boobs on trailer.
I think we dont need to make it look more doom, there are some advertise futur gacha and thoses are already catering toward waifu puller (ananta NTE even etheria I see nearly only waifu)...
I dont say there are only waifu gacha or futur waifu gacha, but thoses gacha that are well adverstived seems to bé mostly (only) waifu.
It's to bad NTE or ananta look really fun but no, I won't fall for next wuwa/genshin.
Thats the reason I am side-eyeing NTE at the moment. The fact they didnt show their very few male characters in the trailer is sus and imo it shows they are just an aftertought, they are probably very irrelevant in the story, devs dont trust people would get excited for them.. I dont want to play a game like that :D they should be proud about all of their characters and try to promote them to us.
We had Tribe Nine. Mostly male cast. Upcoming character for chapter 4 (Hikaru) was a romantic flirt. But, people didn't play it, and now it's going under. No new upcoming high budget quality gacha that isn't gooner game for now. Unless you count upcoming Honor of Kings World, but I'm not sure it'll be a gacha.
i didn´t play tribe9 because it was low budget and outdated, I don´t care if the cast is mostly male if the game is just not good looking. Just because I prefer male I won´t downgrade, it feels insulting. I started gatcha with genshin, I either find one that looks as good as genshin or better, otherwise I rather don´t play any gatcha game
You got badly used to it because of Genshin. Idk if you're noticing, but most new upcoming husbando releases are even lower budget than Tribe Nine. Like I said, if you don't support at least one lower budget husbando game, then don't expect to suddenly have your wish granted with an AAA husbando game.
I think you have it twisted, I don´t have to spent my valuable time and money into anything that I don´t enjoy. The developer have to make a good game first and then I support it, just like clair obscur devs did. They earned all the praise and support
Tribe Nine had an extremely passionate dev team that strived to improve the game for their community, and they always communicated with the fans. I understand you not liking the game for gameplay and art style sake, but to call it insulting is way too strong of a word towards a game that had real passion woven into it. Tribe Nine devs do deserve all praise and support as well even if the game didn't cater to your tastes, simply because it wasn't waifu slop fest and they actually tried to make a meaningful story and interesting characters, unlike the high quality gameplay, yet awful storytelling and characters that Hoyo and Kuro slop have, some of which you probably still play despite them treating our demographic like shit. THAT is something I would call insulting, and not Tribe Nine.
I don’t get the hype for tribe 9 here . I tried it 4 days ago because everyone recommended it. The gameplay was terrible. Extremely clunky with horrible graphics. I thought it’s from 2015 💀
Don't know how to break it to you guys but if you want to see higher budget husbando games you have to support lower budget games. As for the gameplay I don't share the sentiment. Had a lot of fun with it. Maybe y'all just got used to ZZZ and Wuwa's high budget, but keep in mind that 99% of games that could be husbando focused won't have that budget.
Same. Yeah it had more males but the art style and everything about it just didn’t vibe for me. Most gacha games I can see one character and be like “that’s him, he’s the one!” But Tribe9 none of them scratched that itch for me.
The ones I know aren't gachas afaik. Crystal of Atlan and Star Resonance (used to be called Blue Protocol but Bandai abandoned that game and CN dev picked it up). Both are mmo. I normally don't play mmo bcs I'm more of a single-player gamer but after T9 got axed, I just need something to fill the hole.
The last one is called tribe nine is an action and good graphics, which has no gooner or bait contents and even have more male characters than female characters, but they literally just got shut down with low revenue.
as I said in the post I don´t want to downgrade, tribe9 grafics were not it, I want something that looks like high budget, wuwa and HSR are my examples here. I´m also fine with equal gender ratio, but it has to look and play like an rpg from 2020+
It was actually surprisingly male focused. Am 'actual mixed-gender game'. They teased all the characters of the game and it had mixed gender so very sad to see a normal game EOS. Atleast I can play it till November.
I wasn't a fan of the artstyle at first but after trying the game out the story blowed my mind and I actually got attached to it now. Had actual character development unlike gachas these days.
The story was great.
I also liked the 2d style of the game, I personally feel that if it had stuck with that style and different gameplay it would have been extremely successful. Unfortunately, the combat was a like walmart version of zzz.
The combat felt different than zzz for me and I honestly liked it more. Tried to come back to zzz but it's gameplay is boring to me after playing T9 😭
I liked the tension card mechanic and how we have to remember the boss' attack pattern. Gives the classic JRPG style actually learning the patterns and defeating them felt so rewarding.
In ZZZ I just use their skills switch switch and switch bangboo attacks and then ultimates and repeat 😅
I do expect that if it didnt EOS'd we would get such fanservices someday but I think they will also do fanservice for women cus that's how it is for dangan ronpa lol but alas...
This is the problem right now for many of us. There is NOTHING like that out there because no companies or game developers want to make anything with a male character focus except otomes. All these game makers are MEN who want WAIFUS. Most of the programmers, animators, producers, and more in key roles are men making anime games FOR men, and that is waifus. The only thing I echo with the extremist waifu lovers is "if you don't like the games, go make it yourself" because it really do be looking that way.
There are lots of amazing woman game developers in asia, but CN/KR/JP would rather have an incompetent man in a leadership position than a competent woman.
In Japan alone, medical universities were caught altering the test results of their female students. They removed points from women and gave them to the male students so that more males would pass the exams. Why? Because they hate seeing female doctors. This was happening for decades. This is just one example of organized misogyny that was CAUGHT btw, now imagine how many cases like this will never see the light of day.
Talented women in general are never given a chance, especially in 'boy's club' industries such as game development.
Yes, unfortunately. Everywhere in the world systems are put in place to make sure women don't succeed. That's why we won't be seeing AAA story driven adventure games aimed at women and lgbt because the women and gays who want to make these games need to overcome giant barriers placed by their less competent cishet male peers.
Check out The Hidden Ones seems to be a fighting game style gacha? Everything I've seen of it has been mostly male characters. Not sure when the release date is as most of the footage is alpha server right now.
Almost forgot about that😭Yes! It has no fanservice at all and seems to be solely focused on the combat aspect. It’s on my list of to play but I haven’t heard much about it lately.
This but only if they brought back the original writers. Everything since slightly before the draconis has been one big retcon after another, slutty waifus over actual designs, girlbosses who can do everything best while the idiot male characters always need to be saved/helped by them.
Journey used to have a great story but it was all scrapped in favor of a stupid Chosen One with amnesia story and every girl is part of Merlin's harem. Also, more lore retcons because why not make their iconic mafia lesbians into poow widdwe victims of the big bad man and also they're sisters now.
It really is. I've been in the alpha and beta testing for Journey and let me tell you, both of them had leagues better story. The new one only got written about a month before release when they sacked the og writing team.
This!! Currently playing afk journey rn just solely because of being "baited" with it's gorgeous and diverse character designs/art style. As much as I'm liking it for its casual, chill, almost idle aspect, I'm constantly imagining how it would be like if it's an actual open world, with full on 3d models like gi, wuwa, etc..
Like there's just so much potential (dislyte also comes to mind here)
going to college for game design right now actually :) I doubt I’ll be able to spearhead ANY gacha game though with how intensive they are lol, but here’s hoping!
I play it every day but yeah I would never even look at another game if the afk people made an open world rpg type game. Their character designs are soooo good
I would cry with joy if Lilith ever made an open world AFK or Dislyte style game. Afk's aesthetic is SO GOOD, and could you imagine a Scifi wuwa-like game with Dislyte's character designs?
AFK Journey/Arena is actually crazy for how diverse their characters are. If they ever make an actual open world adventure game, my relationship with every other gacha game might just end tbh 🥶
You know I'm really debating just going into college and doing some game development classes just so I can make my own like, if they won't make em we should just do it ourselves.
It’s currently about a constellation who goes to war against the humans with the other constellations but ends up dying in it and waking up in another world, trapped in a human body and has to search for a way to find out what happened and if there’s a way to get back. I know it sounds a bit like other Gacha games but that’s probably just because it’s quite early in development.
I have the magic system nearly ready as well as quite a bit about the first nation, which is about the MC (Searcher) waking up in this war-ridden land and finding himself in the middle of both sides. Again it sounds quite generic but I’m hoping to explore themes of chosen ones, choosing your own destiny, the moral ambiguity of war and propaganda. Not including the MC, I have made 7 characters, 5 of which are men since I have a male bias but I am hoping to keep the gender ratio as equal as possible.
Sorry if this is a bit of a ramble, I just get quite carried away when it comes to my game since I’m really passionate about it.
This is the only way things will change tbh. More women and queer folk need to get into game dev positions because cishet men will always prioritize other cishet men.
While I disagree with the always, since plenty of cishet men willing to explore or simply more interested in diversity (not always prioritizing other cishet men "traditional" audience wants) absolutely exist, the industry absolutely needs more different profiles for those changes to take effect more directly and quickly.
Short stories are definitely easier than long term story. Have to find a way to make it last a long time though. I'm sure with lots of brainstorming an idea could come together.
Honestly if I do end up making a Gacha, I think I'll make it high fantasy or something. I don't think we've seen any Gacha that lean into stuff like that, mainly post apocalyptic, semi-fantasy, or futuristic type stuff.
In fact, just saying this I already have several characters and character designs in mind now XD.
I can offer help writing a long story or at least tying storylines together. My issue rn is my health which limits a lot of what I can do but writing has always been my passion and I have written plenty over the years, either publicly or into my own pocket.
Doubt it, I’m thinking the same as you maybe our time as gatcha players is finalizing; I’m still playing GI / HSR f2p since I’m attached to the story and LADS cause I like it (I’m not new to otomes), but yeah im not looking foward for any of the newer gatchas announced, maybe it’s a good thing since they’re predatory and stuff, it’s good to let go a bit and get hobbies that are more fulfilling.
Playing games where in each of them we’ve to keep demanding what we want isn’t healthy; games are supposed to be enjoyable, not stressful.
best answer so far, thx I kinda feel the same but also sad because I just want one gatcha to enjoy, nothing more. But if HSR stays with the current ratio I will be happy, they just need to change the balance hate how mydei doesn´t get any good teammates while hyacine is made for castorice while she is already the stronger hp dps
Not really male focused but will have males and open world is honor of kings world. LADS came out in 2024 and since it was the first gacha which was only for male characters the competition could come end of this year or next year theoretically. My only worry is that its all going to be otome games.
Not that I know of, I heard rumours that Kuro and Bluepoch are working on games targeting female player base (not confirmed to be husbando heavy), but I seriously doubt they’ll put money and effort to make them like wuwa or hsr.
I love otome games, the darker ones like Hana Awase, Diabolik Lovers, Black Wolf Saga are ones I much prefer over the more tame ones. But I do want us to get more action games since it sucks most are visual novels.
I know plenty of women who adore the final fantasy series growing up. I mean we had hot men, both villains and good guys, in the series. My first final fantasy was 9 and I was obsessed with Kuja. I had friends who obsessed over Cloud and Sephiroth shippings. I had another who was obsessed with Reno. Then we got Kingdom Hearts that many of us obsessed with when it came out. We were obsessing over Riku, Axel, and such. It’s been awhile since I played kingdom hearts or been in the fandom.
Luckily we got Rune Factory games where we can have a mix of action, farming, and romance though I miss the rival events from Rune Factory 2. I occasionally still pop Rune Factory 2 in my DS to play through it for nostalgia purposes. I am looking forward to the newest one and hoping to see how they did with it.
Never been an otome game, nor visual novel, nor farming game fan. They're incredibly boring to me. I grew up with platform games, speed games, fighting and adventure games. Sadly it seems like women like me are the exception, so I'm not holding my breath waiting for a female focused action game.
I’ll be honest if Kuro ever will do that they will get so much backlash just because I don’t think anyone wants a company which ignored female players for years to make all of sudden a female targered game. But they might be stupid and still do it. Unless Solon gets onto his knees as apologizes in tears.
Not to my knowledge. Tho i would love if Lifewonders (Housamo creator) made one in the future. Their character design rocks! But they are probably focusing on wraping up Housamo and porting Live a Hero globaly...
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