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

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She looks like a rape charge if she regrets her decision in the morning.
 
For the retarded "bad tech" excuses, here's the side by side of Hayden Panettiere from Until Dawn that was made 13 fucking years ago:
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Talks about "bad faith morons" then pretends a screenshot from a late 2024 remake is from "13 years ago".

The true bad faith morons would be posting screenshots like this of Sam and clowning

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This is not only about Sony. It's American HR problem. None of the American HR influenced studios are allowed to create a videogame without an ugly male wannabe girlboss stereotype. Every American studios and American HR influenced studios are the same. They have to obey to woke ruleset.

Rules are:

- You are not allowed to create good looking feminine female characters (like Capcom ladies).
- Every game has to have masculine male wannabe girlboss stereotype.
- Every male character has to behave like they are under HR supervision.
- You are not allowed to create characters like FC3 Vaas or GTA5 Trevor. Because these characters repesents toxic masculinity. For this reason every male character has to be HR approved politically correct male feminists. Even if narrative of the game demands otherwise.
- Traditional gender norms are not allowed. Men can not be traditional men and women can not be traditional women. They have to obey modern American woke identity politics.

Under this ruleset you can not create an authentic and relatable narrative and worldbuilding. These rules inevitably makes your game unauthentic, cringe and stupid. Every American studios suffers from this, not just Sony.
American game studios have the least creative freedom on the planet right now. Even chinese studios has much more creative freedom. Let that sink in.
You nailed it. Topic closed.
 
This is why:


Talks about "bad faith morons" then pretends a screenshot from a late 2024 remake is from "13 years ago".
So they picked the wrong screenshot, doesn't matter, the point is her 2015 face is exactly her face just with worse tech. They didn't intentionally fuck her face up and it wasn't "impossible" to scan an accurate image, even back then.

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That's from the 2015 credits. Who does that look like? That's right, it looks just like the actress who played the character. Now why is it that in 2015 they could do this, but in 2026 it's impossible for Microsoft or Sony to make a female character that doesn't look like the fucking Swamp Thing?
 
Why?

Because the entire western games industry has been co-opted by radical progressives.

Whats funny is the games that push this nonsense don't sell well. How many great franchises have to fall on the sword of feminism and other subversive ideologies?
 
This is why:



So they picked the wrong screenshot, doesn't matter, the point is her 2015 face is exactly her face just with worse tech. They didn't intentionally fuck her face up and it wasn't "impossible" to scan an accurate image, even back then.

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That's from the 2015 credits. Who does that look like? That's right, it looks just like the actress who played the character. Now why is it that in 2015 they could do this, but in 2026 it's impossible for Microsoft or Sony to make a female character that doesn't look like the fucking Swamp Thing?


off topic :
I was watching the Gears of War special yesterday and every time that Rayner person appeared on screen, something felt extremely off like my brain couldn't quite process what it was for a few seconds each time.
Then I found out the person had transitioned and suddenly it made sense.

Moral of the story: when your brain or gut instinct is trying to tell you something, it's usually worth paying attention to it.

In other news :
regarding the " ugly" squad chick now :
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Pretty sexy lady if you ask me and I would definitely would, then again, I'm not the most impartial judge since she strongly reminds me of an (Egyptian) ex-girlfriend (which was crazy but incredible in the sack - like most crazy chicks are)
 
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This is why:


This dude probably works mornings as Mike, then after lunch he throws on some women's clothes and does another full shift as Kate. That way there's never any crunch problem 'cause it's basically two people working for the price of one.

Crunch problem solved, just turn all the employees into part-time transvestites.
 
This is why:



So they picked the wrong screenshot, doesn't matter, the point is her 2015 face is exactly her face just with worse tech. They didn't intentionally fuck her face up and it wasn't "impossible" to scan an accurate image, even back then.

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That's from the 2015 credits. Who does that look like? That's right, it looks just like the actress who played the character. Now why is it that in 2015 they could do this, but in 2026 it's impossible for Microsoft or Sony to make a female character that doesn't look like the fucking Swamp Thing?

That's the thing. Her face does look like her scan:
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Not 100% like for like pics but a hell of a lot better than what some are doing here to troll. you can see the scan is fairly accurate.

People don't compare in good faith and point out differences. They don't try to find the best comparisons to see and discuss possible inaccuracies. They don't consider it's a pretty impressive gameplay model, when discussing the actor they use pics of her from 15 years ago and pretend it's her now, when discussing tech they find a screenshot from a couple of years ago and pretend its from 13 years ago. They pic glamour shots and cherry picked ugly expression screenshots to complain and compare against. What they do is shit like this:
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And act like they're arguing in good faith. That's Until Dawn 2024 remake up there too, not the old one.
They're mostly clowning with things like that. If they wanted to discuss inaccuracies in the model they would compare fairly, if they wanted to discuss tech they would mention that often Haydens animated eyes/mouth just looked off in the original until dawn and very uncanny valley, because in reality animations were actually very limited 13 years ago.
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Her mouth/eyes did this thing where the middle stayed or the sides went too far up/down due to limited rigging.
 
That's the thing. Her face does look like her scan:
And? Shift Up doesn't just scan an actress's face and call it a day, they put the character's best face forward. Just as most adult women don't leave their house without makeup on. The argument isn't realism, the argument is that no one is asking you for realism when it comes to demigods. The game is deliberately making her look her worst because we know game studios used to not do that.

"But this is real" just leave us with "but If i want reality, I would touch grass and not pay you for the game."

In the end that is the goal. Games are meant to be made worse so that gamers will stop playing and go generate resources so that women can take those resources off them. The games are designed to fail. A pity gamers have alternatives now.
 
And? Shift Up doesn't just scan an actress's face and call it a day, they put the character's best face forward. Just as most adult women don't leave their house without makeup on. The argument isn't realism, the argument is that no one is asking you for realism when it comes to demigods. The game is deliberately making her look her worst because we know game studios used to not do that.

"But this is real" just leave us with "but If i want reality, I would touch grass and not pay you for the game."

In the end that is the goal. Games are meant to be made worse so that gamers will stop playing and go generate resources so that women can take those resources off them. The games are designed to fail. A pity gamers have alternatives now.
Shift up didn't even scan any actors face. They only scanned somebody's body.
 
Western developers hate women, change my mind

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Noooo, It's just a coincidence that almost all western games released after 2020 have female characters that look worse than models they are based on. Technology is bad or something... hahaha.

We lost that technology...

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She is not meant to look like a bimbo here but still looks good ^

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No one knows what happened

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Crystal Dynamics joined the "ugly" club as well (while Polish FWG remains based):

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That's the thing. Her face does look like her scan:
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Not 100% like for like pics but a hell of a lot better than what some are doing here to troll. you can see the scan is fairly accurate.
This image has been showed a couple of times and completely ignored and I agree, people are just disingenuous by posting photos of her from 20 years ago in full makeup, but its pretty darn close, as is Tati Gabrielle in Intergalactic (hair aside and even then in real life she sports the shaved head look occasionally, thats one of the best in game (if it is in game) models I have seen from a technical aspect). The fact that people instantly recognised that it was Deborah Ann Woll as Faye (many people reacting shouted Karen as soon as she appeared) tells you they have the likeness pretty accurate.
 
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This image has been showed a couple of times and completely ignored and I agree, people are just disingenuous by posting photos of her from 20 years ago in full makeup, but its pretty darn close, as is Tati Gabrielle in Intergalactic (hair aside and even then in real life she sports the shaved head look occasionally, thats one of the best in game (if it is in game) models I have seen from a technical aspect). The fact that people instantly recognised that it was Deborah Ann Woll as Faye (many people reacting shouted Karen as soon as she appeared) tells you they have the likeness pretty accurate.

WTF are you talking about?


And no one ignores it, it's just cherry picked. Her general skull and face shape is correct, but she still looks worse than in reality (even 41yo).

And what's wrong with makeup?

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Even Lara had makeup while exploring tombs, and this was in realistic games in the series done by CD?

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This image has been showed a couple of times and completely ignored and I agree, people are just disingenuous by posting photos of her from 20 years ago in full makeup, but its pretty darn close, as is Tati Gabrielle in Intergalactic (hair aside and even then in real life she sports the shaved head look occasionally, thats one of the best in game (if it is in game) models I have seen from a technical aspect). The fact that people instantly recognised that it was Deborah Ann Woll as Faye (many people reacting shouted Karen as soon as she appeared) tells you they have the likeness pretty accurate.
The director's intended message about the character is often overlooked, just as it happens in film.

I've seen male actors considered by many to be the "most handsome men on the planet" play roles where their physical appearance isn't ideal.

An example is Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon:

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Is this a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy?

Shouldn't the director have the freedom to choose how to present their characters?

Or are all the characters going to be extravagantly handsome and sexy?
 
Shouldn't the director have the freedom to choose how to present their characters?

Or are all the characters going to be extravagantly handsome and sexy?
You are free to star anyone for your creation, sure. Just don't expect anyone to pay you their money for your art. Art doesn't sell. You only get to sell what your customers WANT.

So have your artistic integrity, just don't be surprised to be starving and broke.
 
You are free to star anyone for your creation, sure. Just don't expect anyone to pay you their money for your art. Art doesn't sell. You only get to sell what your customers WANT.

So have your artistic integrity, just don't be surprised to be starving and broke.
But if we use your logic...

Do you know how many great movies we would have missed if we didn't base our opinions solely on box office revenue?

Look at the world's top-grossing movies.

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Avengers: Endgame
Avatar: The Way of Water
Titanic
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Do you think that's the pinnacle of cinema?
 
You mean like the images that make her look bad?

That you and your friends posted, actual bad real life pictures of Deborah? (so who hates women here?) This is a video game, they can make her model look better or worse in ~15 minutes using engine tools, they just don't want to because they prefer her looking like shit.

I just don't get why actresses agree to such treatment, normally women try to look the best on every occasion, my woman puts on makeup even when going to nearby store (5 min on foot). Of course there are exceptions like Kristen Stewart, but this is driven by woke agenda as well:



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But if we use your logic...

Do you know how many great movies we would have missed if we didn't base our opinions solely on box office revenue?

Look at the world's top-grossing movies.

Avatar
Avengers: Endgame
Avatar: The Way of Water
Titanic
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Do you think that's the pinnacle of cinema?
God of War is star wars and avengers 🤷‍♂️ , Its fast food game for the masses.

Look what happened with those movie IPs when they attempted to be anything else. They cannot afford it, especially when they aren't good at it.
 
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