>>4692247the only true video game icon that still wheels and deals nowadays that’s a real man is Master Chief, and even then he’s struggling from losing his mommy gf, to the point that he substituted her with a girl that is her, and he’s also had very little social interaction from being a spartan
Otherwise you have Samus, who is a woman, Doomguy, who has incel rage (probably the next masculine figure but he doesn’t talk much), Pikachu who can be a girl, Mario who is recently realized he won’t be able to be with the girl he always wanted to be with
Who else is there? Duke Nukem is dead, Uncharted is now gonna be movies, Megaman looks like a kid, very few actual large scale AAA franchises have gigachad protags. Gaming isn’t where the macho guys flood to, if they do it’s 2K or Warzone. I
