Attractive characters improve games. True or false?

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SvennoJ said:

Koragg said:

Not necessarily, usually when there's a character creator I make my character look like a walking monstrosity. Like in souls games lol

Everyone is attracted to different things :p

With character creators I usually made my character short and anorexic with minimal clothing, just so it takes up less screen space and I can see more of the game. That's for 3rd person games. Plus I'm no good at making attractive people in character editors anyway lol.

Last time I made an effort (Fallout 4)

Sorta my face shape with more hair and a beard. At least he fits into the game setting.

Actually I tried again with BG3 but kept losing the result due to bugs, starting over, eventually gave up on the game anyway.


Yet when given the choice, I'll pick the character that looks most attractive to me. If they're gonna be in front of my face all game, better be good looking. (First person doesn't matter)

And in VR doubly so. It may not be 'right' but Mia looking pretty does make me want to protect her more, adding to the urgency in the game. Where in RE4 afterwards, Ashley looks too plastic, I had no concern for her well being at all lol. (She's an annoying brat on top of that as well)

It's very hard to make good stuff on BG3. Especially for elves. You have to change things then check all angles and change something else, spent so long on my male half elf and then as soon as he gets shown in the in game cutscenes he looks completely different. It's like they used different lighting in the creator, biggest gripe with that game so far, he looks so funky I wanna scratch my playthrough and start again, probably will with the origin characters actually. 

Speaking of VR, is there any hot characters in PSVR 2 games? I'm trying so hard right now not to give in to the sale and buy the thing as I really wanna save up for an Asus ROG and I'm already spending sp much on ps5 games, I can't stop buying the damn things even though I play a little then move onto the next one. 

BTW, your F4 character looks like he fits in a post apocalypse, there's a lot to be said about consistency like that and immersion but having an older character I assume would not suit that stories premise too well... or maybe more so, perhaps meeting your son as an older guy is more powerful...