Attractive characters improve games. True or false?

[The_Yoda]

mZuzek said:

LegitHyperbole said:

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. 

No. That's your definition of beauty. Or the definition of beauty society put in your head. Not everyone is like you.

I would not be 100% certain that it is completely a societal definition.  Have you ever read up on the link between the golden ratio and what many people find to be aesthetically pleasing ... 1.618 it may be as much mathematical as societal.  That said "to each their own" of course.  I just always found it interesting that the golden ratio even ties into "beauty".