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[levyjl1988]

Ugly video game characters do not sell.
WTF is with these developers? Honestly, these publishers should fire all these character modelers and hire competent people.

Seems like there is a trend in the video game industry.

Now it's Dead Space Remake.

The Original:


The Remake:

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The same shit happened with Alloy in Horizon Forbidden West.

The Upset About Aloy's Appearance in Horizon Forbidden West Explained

This week showed players a new look at the upcoming Horizon Forbidden West, but some fans are upset over Aloy's updated character design.

gamerant.com

The same shit happened with Mass Effect Andromeda.

Verifying Device

The same shit happened with Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The 2013 original version character model is much better.
(2013)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

The same shit happened with the Avengers game, but then they fixed it.

Before

After

Marvel's Avengers game: Does Black Widow look ugly?

Square Enix have finally shown off Marvel’s Avengers game, and there’s only one thing people are discussing: does Black Widow look friggin’ ugly?! Rather than...

www.hitc.com

The same shit happened with Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite.

‘Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite’ Gives Its Weird-Looking Chun-Li Her Promised Makeover

Since being unveiled late last year Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite has been criticized for its bland art style and wildly inconsistent characters models. Some characters, like Chun-Li, looked so wonky rumors spread Marvel was insisting Capcom characters be uglified so their heroes look better in...

comicbook.com

Hey developers did you know that if you don't make your fucking characters ugly you will actually make money!
Just look at Sonic the Hedgehog.

With the rising cost of video games, games would sell more if you don't make your character models look fucking ugly. I don't want all this woke crap in my video games /rant

 

[FearlessBelgian]

That inclusive to include ugly women in video games. Thanks to the woke.

 

[feynoob]

This isnt a new game. Its using old assets. Unless its complete remake like demons souls, you wont see huge upgrade.

Plus games are games. When did we start caring about looks?

 

[VEZ1R]

Male characters generally fine but beautiful women can't be strong and brave everybody knows that. If you wanna create strong and independent female character then she should be ugly as fuck. That is the way. Modern audience way.
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[Rockman]

OP is not wrong. Aloy looks like she's allergic to penis, er I mean peanuts. Look at all that swelling.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[DForce]

Seek help.

 

[ChiefDada]

"Blah blah blah WOKE blah blah..."

 

[Philfrag]

Whenever I see this topic pop up on here I want to commit Gaf suicide. Please go and make a youtube comment instead.

 

[Davesky]

The next wave of woke culture should be exciting.

 

[Valedix]

Notice how majority of your comparisons are women and then sonic lol. Grow up and cry on twitter or reddit.

 

[tusharngf]

this is from HEAT

I think we are getting old.

 

[Kataploom]

ESG score... The higher the better so some investors will put money on your company, that's why you see many woke failed products insisting

This isnt a new game. Its using old assets. Unless its complete remake like demons souls, you wont see huge upgrade.

Plus games are games. When did we start caring about looks?

It's otherwise... Demon souls is an actual ps3 game with ps5 graphics and this one of fully remade afaik

 

[Kilau]

Have you seen people lately? Folks out here gettin whacked with the ugly stick daily.

 

[Kacho]

People will tell you you're overreacting or that it's not worth caring about but I'm with ya.

Simping on tiddy streaming e-girls is all the rage but don't you dare put attractive women in our games.

All you can you do is vote with your wallet, broheim.

 

[-Zelda-]

Interestingly enough, the woman from Forspoken translated very well. Guess it's not as woke as others have stated. Frey actually looks like her actress and the actress looks good.

 

[Andrew Evenstar]

have y'all seen the majority of western girls today lol? seems about right.

 

[Hoppa]

Didn't Bayonetta just come out? Go play that

 

[LRKD]

Yes they are, most devs nowadays have an agenda. And I suppose it doesn't hurt sales enough to matter, and the focus audiences don't complain enough, so it just keeps happening. Send mail into publishers and developers telling them you are sick of ugly characters, and perhaps even vote with your wallet and maybe it'll change. But as it is now, not enough people complain, and too many people still buy it for it to even change.

 

[Jormatar]

The word ugly losing its meaning day by day.

 

[Swift_Star]

This again?

Ffs stop whining and let developers do whatever they want.
Also, go make your games with sex dolls and porn stars if that's what you want.
Developers shouldn't be forced to appeal to your sensibilities.

 

[pramod]

Weirdly enough, you never see this phenomenon in Japanese or Asian made games.

There the women only get hotter and the boobs get bigger. And the men get so hot they start to look like women.

 

[ahtlas7]

Art imitating life. Have you gone out on the street lately?

 

[Danjin44]

You guys need to get used to fact that majority of western devs no longer interested having attractive character designs in their games because in their eyes it's "immature".

Does it logically make sense no, it's what it is. In day of age, I don't expect any attractive characters both male or female in western games.

 

[NomenNescio]

That new Nicole character model looks like the old hag from The Shining.

 

[legacy24]

 

[Swift_Star]

ESG score... The higher the better so some investors will put money on your company, that's why you see many woke failed products insisting


It's otherwise... Demon souls is an actual ps3 game with ps5 graphics and this one of fully remade afaik

"Everything I don't agree with is woke"

 

[Torrent of Pork]

As a homosexual male I'm eating like a fat fuck at a Vegas buffet with giga-Chad over-sexualized men in videogames, and even I can blatantly see the homeliness of women in modern games.

I'm not much to look at myself, I don't want to see ugly people in my escapist entertainment unless the ugliness has a point to their character.

 

[legacy24]

the Andromeda one is so funny how do you make a face look that stupid

 

[Kataploom]

"Everything I don't agree with is woke"

Not, I get what you say but it's not the case, this one is pretty obvious, they're not even trying

 

[Kacho]

the Andromeda one is so funny how do you make a face look that stupid

Bioware Montreal was woke but their ugly characters had more to do with a lack of talent. That studio hired people with no business being in game development.

 

[Power Pro]

I appreciate it when there are also women calling out the bull shit happening in the industry. Women looking beautiful is not only for the benefit of the "male gaze", but the thing is...people like looking at beautiful people, and they like being beautiful. Obviously not every one because we have this section of people who like to...self insert themselves in fiction and games, but as a self proclaimed ugly person, I sure as hell would not want to play a game if the protagonist looked like me. If I could flip a switch and be a much more attractive person I could be, I would. That's why I usually pick female characters in create a character games, because I like looking at something I find more attractive. A lot of games these days are making even that choice impossible because of how hideous they make females create a characters look in games.

As a homosexual male I'm eating like a fat fuck at a Vegas buffet with giga-Chad over-sexualized men in videogames, and even I can blatantly see the homeliness of women in modern games.

I'm not much to look at myself, I don't want to see ugly people in my escapist entertainment unless the ugliness has a point to their character.

This is also a good additional point. It's not just that they're making ugly characters in games. They're making ugly women characters specifically. Men are fair game, and it's bull shit.

If I've learned anything from the nutjobs on twitter, it's that we have a big problem where sexism, racism...they're not being combated, they're being promoted and in very specific directions. I had been told specifically by the type o person who support these decisions in games, that you can't be racist or sexist if it's towards a white male. You can't be sexist against the patriarchy, or you can't be racist against the oppressors I was told, with no amount of irony. This is really messed up. My point is, that yeah let's make the women uglier to combat the male gaze, but let's make the men sexier because you can't objectify a man supposedly. That's the mindset going into these decisions.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

They look like real people. The average person is …average so games are becoming at reflecting that. They used to be artistic renders of how artist used to think hot people look but since Mocap got better and facial scans these ugly peoples are who we see on the day to day basis. People who complain about these very average or even above average looking characters are self reporting. Wife's still exist. Go play JRPGs.

 

[Represent.]

Its more realistic. Whenever the cast is full of nothing but gorgeous hot women in space kicking alien ass its fucking DUMB and unrealistic. Devs are going for the grounded approach.

Seek help or watch porn. End of stofy.

 

[Nvzman]

I think its a mixture of game engines attempting and failing to look hyper-realistic which results in female models having weird man-like jaws and a result of western devs trying to completely 180 on the "sex appeal" that games had for a long time.

I understand making female characters in gaming less about their appearances and more about their personalities, but I'm going to be honest, that shit completely falls flat in most games too. Aloy is a good example, the Guerilla devs originally had her a bit more prettied up but then they said "she looks like she'd cry if she chipped a nail" (which imo is hilariously hypocritical of them to even say if they were trying not to be stereotypical) so they made her face look inhumanly ugly to the point where its distracting (like she looks like shes intentionally supposed to be ugly as hell). Then they give her a completely uninteresting generic hero personality. Its one of the reasons I dropped the first game after 10 hours, the plot is so goddamn boring lol.

 

[Kacho]

Whenever the cast is full of nothing but gorgeous hot women in space kicking alien ass its fucking DUMB and unrealistic.

Yeah I can deal with fighting aliens if the characters are ugly but if they're attractive it takes me out of the experience.

 

[PhaseJump]

I don't want all this woke crap in my video games /rant

 

[lachesis]

As I see my child's drawing (she was really into Manga - then moved on) - and other young illustrators work at work - I think they see beauty in different aspect than normal folks, or older ones like me - than not being able to draw/model.... so even though it's not all - it does feel like times have changed, at least more rapidly in the West.

 

[baphomet]

Imagine thinking those OG Dead Space models were even remotely good, let alone attractive, lol.

 

[Nvzman]

They look like real people. The average person is …average so games are becoming at reflecting that. They used to be artistic renders of how artist used to think hot people look but since Mocap got better and facial scans these ugly peoples are who we see on the day to day basis. People who complain about these very average or even above average looking characters are self reporting. Wife's still exist. Go play JRPGs.

Its more realistic. Whenever the cast is full of nothing but gorgeous hot women in space kicking alien ass its fucking DUMB and unrealistic. Devs are going for the grounded approach.

Seek help or watch porn. End of stofy.

If you think most of these game models look like "average" people, I would not want to live in a world with your eyes.
I'm fucking sick and tired of hearing the word "woke", but I really cannot help but think that the devs just intentionally go over-the-top uncanny valley ugly with some of these character models. If you are going to make your character look weird, make it like Frank West and have them at least be a good character that people are going to remember. Most of the designs now are incredibly generic as fuck.

 

[poppabk]

I don't get how people can see how stupid this looks in a CW show where everyone is way too attractive, but don't get that it also looks dumb in video games.

 

[Doom85]

People are never going to stop believing those fake Forbidden West pics, are they? Geezus fucking Christ.

 

[MarkMe2525]

There are plenty enough games for you to get your pervy rocks off to. Go play those.

 

[Deerock71]

These are woke models.

 

[Platinumstorm]

Are there not enough threads about this topic for you?

Please stop being so woke about this.

 

[Thief1987]

At least Chun-Li actually looks better on the second pic

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Uglier women make the female game designers feel better about themselves.

On the plus side, guys typically dont care. It can be a fat blob or dorky looking Half Life guy. Where's that image someone made years ago showing the box covers of 30 popular games and it was all the same looking kind of guy. Guys dont care. The better looking and stronger they are the better. It can those quirky Japanese shooter games from the 16 bit era with the muscle bound gay guys (I forget what that series is called).

For women, the stronger and uglier they are the better.

That's why you get topics in gaming always aimed at why women have to be sexualized (good looking), while you never get that for men even though the average guy in life looks nothing like the chilseled chinned, six pack abbed character who seems one part GQ model and one part military expert.

 

[Firestartah]

They look like real people. The average person is …average so games are becoming at reflecting that.

But if I wanna see real people or average people, I go outside. I play video games for escapism, to experience stuff I dont normally do.

I wonder if we will ever get games like Darkwatch or SiN Episodes Emergence. Yes its immature, but it was fun, unless you a woke nutjob ofc.

 

[Labolas]

You guys need to get used to fact that majority of western devs no longer interested having attractive character designs in their games because in their eyes it's "immature".

Does it logically make sense no, it's what it is. In day of age, I don't expect any attractive characters both male or female in western games.

Indie, older and smaller games are the way to go.

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

But if I wanna see real people or average people, I go outside. I play video games for escapism, to experience stuff I dont normally do.

I wonder if we will ever get games like Darkwatch or SiN Episodes Emergence. Yes its immature, but it was fun, unless you a woke nutjob ofc.

There are places for you to enjoy escapism up your alley. Every game isn't made for you. JRPGs are full of waifus. Why must every game cater to your taste?