| Leynos said: Sony has their Action/Adventure franchise and it's called Horizon. They sell fine but don't get the same critical praise. Even tho I don't value the TGA's myself it was kinda funny seeing it get passed up for every award for other games. Both times it got outshined by BOTW and Elden Ring as they offered better worlds to explore and do things in. They aim for high-quality visuals but the worlds have little in the way of interactivity. It serves more as a backdrop than an interactive world. Because of that, I find them kinda dull. Tho personally have many issues with HZD esp with the main character. |
Yes, I agree, I also don't like the Aloy character either (and it seems many do not like her). The creation of this character seems to have gone a long the following line: 1. They wanted a female character because they are still in the minority as main characters and therefore you can shine if done properly which leads to 2. Lara Croft: They looked at her and wanted to take her popularity but make here "political correct", i.e. desexualize her which 3. led to the look she has. I don't want to go into the discussion if she's pretty or not. I just want to point out that they used many characteristics that simply make her boring, without rough edges. But yeah, to everybody his own taste. I think in general it's pretty difficult to make good female (main) characters because it's easy to fall into one of the 3 traps: Too sexualized on the one end, too buttoned on the other end and neither/nor in the middle (= boring). Interestingly, we don't seem to have a problem with dull generic male characters, we are just used to them from decades of movies, series and games.
