mZuzek said:
Captain America's superpower is his physical strength that he got from his transformation so in his case yeah. As for everything else you said... honestly I'm done here man, I'm out of energy for this. |
And if Superman wasn't of the peak male physique? If Batman had a beer belly and didn't take care of himself. If Black Window wasn't toned up or was a skinny model, if Bruce banners transformation was a big lanky green string bean, would you believe it for a start? Would it have the same effect on you? Or would you feel like they aren't cool or hero like, what If they were dressed like garbage men from the 80's with no thought in design, like this...
But more than that, I never realised how important good, interesting design was until Concord, not to just character shooter but to everything. You want to be with the characters or be them and that's so very important. Beauty comes into that very heavily and our definitions of beauty are physically fit people who are good looking. It's all so very simple.
I'm playing FF7 remake now and while I agree with Andrea, he says "True beauty is an expression of the heart. A thing without shame to which notions of gender don't apply". It has to be situational, you have to have the character for the role they play and you have to have them astethetically pleasing and if not, you have to go extra lengths to make them look badass or have a reason they don't that fits with the story and from situation to situation. With FF7 remake everyone is really hot apart from Wedge, he's over weight but they nailed his role perfectly without dipping into severe stereotypes. You can't have Wedge as the leader of the group with a mini gun on his arm, no, they chose a peak male for that and for good reason. I also agree that things can be taken too far, like Stellar Blade, at times it is way too much if you put Eve in a bikini fighting monsters, it makes no sense and is really jarring but it's nice to have the option for people who are into that and roleplayers. Thankfully they provide all sorts of outfits for her, ones that make her look badass and ones that she could use when she's fishing and it's up to the player to choose what outfits suit her in what actions but she always remains physically fit and really believable in all situations and on that point, sometimes it makes sense to have a very muscular female, for example Abby in TLOU2 makes sense as she wants the best chance at surviving not only in the world but in her fight against the ones that killed her father, infact Ellie could have done with some muscle on her even though they tried hard to make her agility her fighting edge but in having her in fights they broke immersion, one punch from Abby and she's done but, they didn't remove beauty from either character, they both look good.
Dragons Dogma 2 and Dragon Ages Character creators are great, Dragons Dogma is fantastic in detail but not great for people who wanna roleplay as ultra sexy characters. Thankfully I wanted to role-playing as a beaten down beastkin in DD2 at the time but trying to make my pawn have a proportioned female body was very tough because of the starting body shapes, they were shaped like neathandrethals and the men were no better, no classically toned bodies whatsoever.
Cyberpunk and Baldures Gate 3 get it, you can make your character look as weird or as beautiful as you wish or you can make a Demon women with a penis and it's all cool. Particularly Cyberpunk which chooses gender off of the VA, that was a touch of genuis and everything else is at your discretion. I just want that variety, the ability to make the character whatever way I desire to role-play or to gawk at. Not to be forced to make a standard looking character that is supposed to be the chosen hero but looks like he or she, just came out of a cave in 10,000 BC.
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 09 December 2024
