Attractive characters improve games. True or false?

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TallSilhouette said:

People like to look at good looking things and people, but it's hard to relate to characters that look like porcelain dolls. Concord went too far in trying to make a lot of their characters look like 'ordinary' people that I had no interest in playing as, but I'm not necessarily interested in playing as a combat stripper, either.

Yeah, but a lot of it comes down to tone as I said. First and foremost the character design has to fit the general tone of the game. Lady Dimitrescu fits the setting, the tone, the general vibe of Resident Evil pretty well, but she would be totally misplaced in Monster Hunter which has more silly character interactions. A character needs to fit their game first. And yes, we generally prefer to look at pretty people, but even an ugly character can be good, if it fits the setting well. This can be said about the Souls games, most characters look deformed and somehow offputting. But it fits the setting and the tone.