Maybe that's sort of a cheap and shallow way to create a character that's balanced in between the "winner" and the "loser". Handsome but short. Big cock and small brains. Popular with girls despite shallow personality.
I don't know. To me that would seem to just be doubling down on making him as unlikable as possible, at least in my eyes.
And i think that the easy, or even lazy thing to do would be to just create a game where all of the men and women are just the same height. And if that were the case, it honestly wouldn't be noticed all that much, I think. Not as realistic, but not standing out as being out of place either.
But so many of the games clearly go out of their way to make the guys small that I have to think that at least for some of them, they're pouring their own insecurities into the game as a way to "prove" that small guys can date or hook up with anyone. And if that were a minority of games with a particular fetish in that regard, then so what. But its so, so common, and that's what gets me.
And the flip side of that is that so few games feature women who are short and curvy in relation to the MC. Short and tiny sometimes, often in a character who feels way too young, unfortunately. But when in reality there are tons of women who are considerably shorter than an average sized man, and with that often comes a certain curvier body type, available ones in these games are so rare that they're almost unicorns. And even weirder, when a game does feature these types, its often one where its entirely first person perspective, so you rarely if ever see her and the MC side by side.
