Attractive characters improve games. True or false?

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SvennoJ said:

mZuzek said:

Are superheroes super because they have muscles or because they have superpowers? Are superpowers reliant on muscles?

Superheroes play a fantasy role. People fantasize about good looking heroes, or playing as idolized good looking heroes.

Superpowers rely on fantasy, muscle tone is part of that fantasy.


Anyway broad chins, dunno why that's not a part of femininity. Nadja is one of my favorite characters atm

Watch the latest episode, fucking incredible. (S6 E9) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt33029995/?ref_=sr_t_3
The budget they must have had for that episode for costumes and make-up alone.

Muscles are hot on women as well


Ilona Maher should play Abbey in Tlou2!

Not Kaitlin Dever

She needs to bulk up.


Same applies to games as to movies. Attractive characters attract the audience. People pay more attention to fit good looking people, simple fact of biology. Want to sell more games/movies, make it more attractive to the majority.

The thing I don't understand, is why did we end up replacing actual women like Linda Hamilton/Sigourney Weaver, two actresses that played women with different types of strength of character? (Sarah Connor had a slightly physically built appearance and Ripley had more mental fortitude that you would normally see coming from heroic men).

I still to this day, idolise how great those two characters were in their respective franchises. They overcame the odds in their own ways, and they grew better as a result in a more organic way (a slow build-up from a femme damsel into a more independent and resolved woman). Current day femme characters like Rey didn't earn what they tried to obtain, and thus people like me feel less of a bond/attachment to said characters in multiple ways (Rey acts like a know it all, gets saved by deus ex machina time and time again, is always pitied, etc).

I do agree with your say though, we do need some more women with a more fit appearance. You can still have curvy gals with a bit of a build to them, but at the same time, we don't always need to have the same chin type and the same gaunt looking facial structures either (which is something Hollywood needs to learn, not us, because our tastes in appearances will naturally vary).