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Why do western devs make female characters uglier in their games?

I have no issues with woman protagonist. I just hope they dont make them ugly, lesbian and butch.

Hey man, I don't think everyone in the industry is trying to outdo Cuckman (or at least hope so) when it comes to this topic, she can't be lesbian, unless they pull some random bs and we end up with something as retarded as this:

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Even female fans want something pretty to look at.
For all the talk of "incels" and "chuds" and "gooners" and whatever lame and fake insults the wokies use, this is totally accurate.

In every game with hot characters: Leon Kennedy, Lara Croft, 007 First Light -- female streamers tend to get a bit hot and bothered and cheeky when attractive characters are on screen.

Non-jealous, well-adjusted women love the attractive characters as much as us guys do. So when you wokies call us these names, just know you're calling normal well-adjusted women the same thing, which means you're completely embarrassing yourself and outing yourself as a cornball loser, and in their eyes you are not to be taken seriously as a man. Hope it's worth it. :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
I think in the case of this new God of War it's definitely a lack of make-up - they seem to have done a pretty good job of modeling her, but it's the same as Intergalactic, you take away all makeup and beautification women usually use and it doesn't look good. Her skin and hair looks ratty. So I do think wokism plays a role because they probably feel it would be sexist or something to doll them up a bit when it's just normal lol.

For me, the craziest new one is Jean Grey - she is hideous, and again like with Mary Jane - that character has always been attractive. Like wtf is this.

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I agree with this. You want to talk about shitty looking models wtf is Insomniac smoking with this? When they aren't doing cutesy characters on Ratchet their shit is all over the place. The only thing they nailed was the OG Spiderman Peter Parker and they even had to go back and fuck that up.
 
Hey man, I don't think everyone in the industry is trying to outdo Cuckman (or at least hope so) when it comes to this topic, she can't be lesbian, unless they pull some random bs and we end up with something as retarded as this:

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Fuck me... Ana De Armas has let herself go a bit... or is it just Sony studios making her more accessible?
 
Anyone who uses the word woke thinks games have some imaginary political agenda, feel like they're owed the same character in a long running IP for forever, or need woman to have an inherent sexual attractiveness are dumb fucks and a waste of space.
 
Tbh we should give credit where it's due, Aloy looks much, much better than most other recent protagonists Playstation has.
Only sending cutscene cuz saw other characters posted here with their cutscene or photo mode mesh.

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Photo Mode Mesh below (I think)

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Anyone who uses the word woke thinks games have some imaginary political agenda, feel like they're owed the same character in a long running IP for forever, or need woman to have an inherent sexual attractiveness are dumb fucks and a waste of space.
You need to add "In my opinion"... to yout post. I would still be incorrect, but at least a little more factual.
 
Tbh we should give credit where it's due, Aloy looks much, much better than most other recent protagonists Playstation has.
Only sending cutscene cuz saw other characters posted here with their cutscene or photo mode mesh.

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Yes she looks slightly less ugly then the others, a real treat for us.
 
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Anyone who uses the word woke thinks games have some imaginary political agenda, feel like they're owed the same character in a long running IP for forever, or need woman to have an inherent sexual attractiveness are dumb fucks and a waste of space.
Okay reeturner, thanks for the checkbox :messenger_robot: gaslighting.

See you again in another 9 or 10 years?
 
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Anyone who uses the word woke thinks games have some imaginary political agenda, feel like they're owed the same character in a long running IP for forever, or need woman to have an inherent sexual attractiveness are dumb fucks and a waste of space.
Is CliffyB right here?

 
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Yessir, everyone is a "dumb fuck®" and a "waste of space ®"

How is it that the supposedly tolerant ones are always the most intolerant ?

Some introspection would actually do you some good
 
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Every form of media and even sports are doing this

They're looking at their franchises or "money makers" and going "hey we already got this demographic, how do we go beyond this?"

So games make ugly chicks to appeal to the west because apparently hot women are offensive

They make black protagonist to appeal to people of color

Sports are pushing women's sports because they need to grow that

Bud Light fucked up

Harley Davidson fucked up

Star Wars tried to approach women

Stars cancelled the new Spartacus because they said it wasn't catching enough women or POC in the views

And so on and so on

Ultimately, they're alienating their core fan bases to appeal to people that won't buy their fucking product anyways
 
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Is CliffyB right here?


Yes

This woke stuff was never a point of discussion in video games years ago but now it gets mentioned in conversation with every AAA game.

Its all very stupid, like your bashing a video game because the character don't look sexually attractive enough ... very weird.

Yessir, everyone is a "dumb fuck®" and a "waste of space ®"

How is it that the supposedly tolerant ones are almost the most intolerant ?

Some introspection would actually do you some good

So what would be the solution here? Make every main character a white dude or a hot woman?

Marvels Wolverine (featuring white dude) looks amazing but because Sony is also making a game with a basic looking women = "agenda"

Some of you have really got to go outside more and get some fresh air and take care of your mental health.
 
Anyone who uses the word woke thinks games have some imaginary political agenda, feel like they're owed the same character in a long running IP for forever, or need woman to have an inherent sexual attractiveness are dumb fucks and a waste of space.
It's time to take a break from the keyboard.

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He's 100% going to be "non-binary" or "gender fluid."

Bet.
Gel'der fluid

Not that any respectable video game plot of fantasy adventure shenanigans should have any business at all to be fucking around trying to exposit the sexual identity or preferences of a giant cube of goop. I mean what kinda hoops you'd have to jump through to try to force it's relevance to the overall plot...
 
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Because video games don't capture the real looks of people. Always comes off as uncanny and misses the mark (for faces) IMO

Feel devs should just stick to creating original characters instead of mocapping faces.
I disagree, I think it's the female devs and the jealous they feel for women more attractive then themselves. They are about taking the sexualization of the character away, including what they deem as attractive.
 
Anyone who uses the word woke thinks games have some imaginary political agenda, feel like they're owed the same character in a long running IP for forever, or need woman to have an inherent sexual attractiveness are dumb fucks and a waste of space.
So is your comment.
 
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Yes

This woke stuff was never a point of discussion in video games years ago but now it gets mentioned in conversation with every AAA game.

Its all very stupid, like your bashing a video game because the character don't look sexually attractive enough ... very weird.



So what would be the solution here? Make every main character a white dude or a hot woman?

Marvels Wolverine (featuring white dude) looks amazing but because Sony is also making a game with a basic looking women = "agenda"

Some of you have really got to go outside more and get some fresh air and take care of your mental health.

The solution is to create something, anything, with characters that fit their specific context/story with specific purposes, not to meet some quota and/or pander to an unexisting audience (like sales have proved).
If you have nothing of worth to show, a character's gender, sexuality, or color won't fix a thing.

No one cried foul about Tomb Raider, Bayonetta, Half life alyx, Resident evil (the whole 9 games), Nier Automata, Metroid, A plague Tale, Final fantasy or the other hundred of games that feature people of all colors and sexes...

Go find your Boogeymen and "racists®" somewhere else, and as for the "some of you" and "go outside" + "mental health" comments... try to use something somewhat original next time, people are fed up with "your" usual, tired, accusatory and holier than thou bullshit gaslighting.
 
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I love how the ignorant still believe that character models and their likeness to real people have anything at all to do with tech and are not simply 100,000% the product of the character modelling artist's (+ their respective Art Director's) direction.

News Flash...

It has absolutely nothing to do with tech, & is either artistic talent inadequacy, or (as in PS5 generation-Sony's case) pure [politically-motivated] artistic direction.

Technically it's actually easier than it's ever been to make character likenesses 99% accurate to the reference actor.

3D scanning technology wasn't a thing in the earlier years of 3D games, and the tech has come on leaps and bounds since then, not least of which it's become massively cheaper and more accessible with improvements and developments in AI-enhanced tools and technologies.
 
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Yes. Duh.

Its an attention economy. And retard clicks are as good as anyone elses.
Marketing 101.

Cliffy knows this, he created his entire manlet "Dude Huge" image off of that 90s/early to mid 2000s edgy chad bro culture,

Now he's simping for what he perceives as the popular culture flavor the past decade. Ebb and flow.
 
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Marketing 101.

Cliffy knows this, he created his entire manlet "Dude Huge" image off of that 90s/early to mid 2000s edgy chad bro culture,

Now he's simping for what he perceives as the popular culture flavor the past decade. Ebb and flow.

I can't speak to his motivations, believe it or not I've never even played any of the Gears games, so beyond the odd sound-bite he's kinda irrelevant to me.

The only thing I've ever really given him props for is being honest enough to actually speak the truth about what most Gen X devs thought about the internet gaming community! Of course public support and lionization is great, but the dark flip-side, the nasty criticism, the constant threat of what happens when you inadvertently displease vocal online groups... who the hell wants that hanging over their heads when they're just trying to do a job ?

Being real, say you were an environment artist or a coder on something like that new God Of War game, you've put years of work into getting to a top studio on a big IP, and you have endless Youtube videos ginning up hate and anger purely because of creative decisions you were not party to, and because it fits into a pre-existing narrative that can be easily exploited for clicks.

How would you feel ?

You aren't going to feel any love for those who are profiting off your discomfort, that's for sure.
 
I can't speak to his motivations, believe it or not I've never even played any of the Gears games, so beyond the odd sound-bite he's kinda irrelevant to me.

The only thing I've ever really given him props for is being honest enough to actually speak the truth about what most Gen X devs thought about the internet gaming community! Of course public support and lionization is great, but the dark flip-side, the nasty criticism, the constant threat of what happens when you inadvertently displease vocal online groups... who the hell wants that hanging over their heads when they're just trying to do a job ?

Being real, say you were an environment artist or a coder on something like that new God Of War game, you've put years of work into getting to a top studio on a big IP, and you have endless Youtube videos ginning up hate and anger purely because of creative decisions you were not party to, and because it fits into a pre-existing narrative that can be easily exploited for clicks.

How would you feel ?

You aren't going to feel any love for those who are profiting off your discomfort, that's for sure.
Welcome to the creative world.

You get counseling and realize that your feelings at the end of the day are always a you problem. Nobody else's.
 
In hindsight rose from legend of dragoon(late psx era) was pure fire:
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And guess who was young promising producer of that game:
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Back durning his reign all wokesters were kept mostly in check :P
 
Welcome to the creative world.

You get counseling and realize that your feelings at the end of the day are always a you problem. Nobody else's.

Sure, people get on with it. But they don't have to like it!

Which is the point I'm making.
 
Sure, people get on with it. But they don't have to like it!

Which is the point I'm making.
They should tell their peers to stop fighting a cultural war passed off as "creative vision."

But then again, the ideological blackmail filtered through HR development has these western studios brimming with "toxic positivity." The industry has shown it has no issues getting rid of those who don't march in lockstep. No matter their tenure and credentials.

Hence the massive talent bleed the past decade.
 
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Every form of media and even sports are doing this

They're looking at their franchises or "money makers" and going "hey we already got this demographic, how do we go beyond this?"

So games make ugly chicks to appeal to the west because apparently hot women are offensive

They make black protagonist to appeal to people of color

Sports are pushing women's sports because they need to grow that

Bud Light fucked up

Harley Davidson fucked up

Star Wars tried to approach women

Stars cancelled the new Spartacus because they said it wasn't catching enough women or POC in the views

And so on and so on

Ultimately, they're alienating their core fan bases to appeal to people that won't buy their fucking product anyways

Gillette also had COLLOSAL fuck up.

In hindsight rose from legend of dragoon(late psx era) was pure fire:
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And guess who was young promising producer of that game:
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Back durning his reign all wokesters were kept mostly in check :P

Yoshida also gave us Stellar Blade.
 
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