Fight-the-Streets said:
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. |
Yea alloy just looks lame to me. I would buy the game day 1 if they had a different main character. they are even trying make kratos look weak and killed off the best character they had which was Joel In one game cause he was too bad ass.