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| the-pi-guy said: People aren't generally opposed to "attractive female characters", a lot of people are opposed to characters that they view as being overly sexualized. Even on ResetEra, there was a recent thread where Tetsuya Nomura was talking about having attractive characters, because people don't want to look ugly, and most people I saw over there were very grateful because "they're already ugly in real life". Elena in Uncharted is a very attractive woman (in my view). She's not overly sexualized. She doesn't have her tits hanging out for no reason. There aren't gratuitous camera angles that are on her ass for no apparent reason. It's also bizarre to me that the "eastern game devs" get praised, despite the obvious inaccuracy. There's nothing practical about showing your hips and wearing short dresses, while you're fighting. Are we okay with inaccuracies or are we not? Personally I think there is plenty of space for different kinds of characters. There is space for characters who are ugly and attractive, and there is space for stories that are focused on being accurate and on stories that are focused on just having a good time. There is space for male/female characters that are sexualized. |
I'm kind of confused about your message in the first part.
You're saying that the recent trend of making female characters less attractive doesn't actually exist? Are you saying that it's an illusion? You're maybe implying that the technology isn't as good now as it used to be so it's a lot harder to make a character that looks good? Is that what happened to Concord? Perhaps the event where people were upset because the main character of Stellar Blade didn't look "realistic" despite being based on an actual model didn't happen at all?
The fact that there ARE many characters popping up who seem to be made intentionally unattractive means that there ARE people who are opposed to attractive characters, or at least think that's what other people want. I don't know how you can possibly get around that fact when these examples exist.
As far as historical inaccuracies in completely fictional universes go, I'm pretty sure people are okay with that. After all, I've never heard developers claim anything about "ensuring an immersive and respectful representation" of a post-apocalyptic world or a fantasy kingdom with magic in it.
I get that you were trying to score some points there with another reference to something I didn't mention and haven't talked about but, honestly, that was kind of a silly attempt, especially since I don't have a problem with intentional deviations for the sake of the story. You and whataboutisms are like Rick & Morty at this point.
