I hadn't seen these comments beforehand. 

It was apparently Eurogamer, not Digital Foundry. 

This gets to what I saying in the last sentence in my post above though. Is it a common issue? Or is it just a few cherry picked people expressing it? 

Like I said before, you can find someone saying literally anything. That doesn't mean those are widely expressed views. 

And vice versa. The fact that I haven't seen people/have seen very few people make those complaints also doesn't mean it's not a common complaint people have. It's just not my understanding of the issue at hand here. 

We are all in our own bubbles. Its pretty easy for stuff to be missed and it's also pretty easy for misunderstandings to happen. 

I do try to get out of my bubble, and check to see what r/conservative and other conservatives groups think of things. And sometimes it seems like they make a big deal out of things I don't think are important, or they have a wildly different interpretation of what something meant. (Like how someone could argue that "eat the rich" literally means they want to eat Bill Gates and co. Even though the vast majority of left wingers would understand that it's not literal). 

I dont go anywhere on reddit, and recently made a list of things to do to hopefully make myself "happier". One was less politics, and one was more video games (which is why i've been posting again). 

Anyway, the comments by the IGN Italy guy saying the model wasn't realistic, followed by the backlash that it WAS a real woman was the loudest conversation I heard about the game. Hard to believe you never heard that if you follow gaming, but I'll take your word for it. Maybe it was only on X/Twitter and gaming website comments you dont read. It was everywhere I looked though. I think the model even had to turn off her instagram or X or something? Impacted her somehow I think.

Wish they would've put as much attention to her personality in the game to how she looked, otherwise the game was pretty decent.

Anyway, the comments by the IGN Italy guy saying the model wasn't realistic, followed by the backlash that it WAS a real woman was the loudest conversation I heard about the game. Hard to believe you never heard that if you follow gaming, but I'll take your word for it. Maybe it was only on X/Twitter and gaming website comments you dont read. It was everywhere I looked though. I think the model even had to turn off her instagram or X or something? Impacted her somehow I think.

Anyway, the comments by the IGN Italy guy saying the model wasn't realistic, followed by the backlash that it WAS a real woman was the loudest conversation I heard about the game. Hard to believe you never heard that if you follow gaming, but I'll take your word for it. Maybe it was only on X/Twitter and gaming website comments you dont read. It was everywhere I looked though. I think the model even had to turn off her instagram or X or something? Impacted her somehow I think.

You do pretty much the same thing as me here. This comment is not directed at Curl, you're obviously not asking him why there's a "war on attractive female characters".

Curl didn't say anything about Bayonetta. So why do you get off on bringing up unrelated subjects?

I dont go anywhere on reddit, and recently made a list of things to do to hopefully make myself "happier". One was less politics, and one was more video games (which is why i've been posting again). 

Anyway, the comments by the IGN Italy guy saying the model wasn't realistic, followed by the backlash that it WAS a real woman was the loudest conversation I heard about the game. Hard to believe you never heard that if you follow gaming, but I'll take your word for it. Maybe it was only on X/Twitter and gaming website comments you dont read. It was everywhere I looked though. I think the model even had to turn off her instagram or X or something? Impacted her somehow I think.

Wish they would've put as much attention to her personality in the game to how she looked, otherwise the game was pretty decent.

Eve has several in-game body models depending on the outfit.

Some are a close match to Shin Jae-eun's body proportions, some are a bit... souped-up.

I can't imagine they changed the character model based on the outfit. That would be an insane amount of extra work. Though they may have added "padding" or things of that nature to the outfits to make her model look different in those outfits.

Oh, Battlefield!  Yeah, Battlefield, THAT'S what we were talking about, wasn't it?  Yeah ... no.  We weren't talking about Battlefield at all.  Were we?  Do you remember us talking about Battlefield?  No, seriously, were we talking about Battlefield AT ALL?  Nah.  Then why did you bring it up?  What did it have to do with the conversation?  Go ahead, I want to hear about it. 

And, yes, I've seen people talk about unrealistic beauty standards for Stellar Blade, though, amusingly enough, those comments stopped after IGN France had to apologize and it was revealed that Eve was based on a real model.

"PLEASE don't support Stellar Blade.

The game is an insult to women and feminism, setting unrealistic beauty standards that we as a society should not encourage."

"The game's creator adds to this by expressing his desire to see characters much more beautiful than himself in video games, reinforcing sexist stereotypes and unrealistic beauty standards."

And there you are being dishonest again.  I talk about how you QUOTE people then change the subject but of course you leave out where I said "quote" and pretend that I'm talking about people bringing up different topics in the thread at large.  Bloody hell.  Stop it.

Welp, that's it. Firewalk Studios has been shut down:

https://checkpointgaming.net/news/2024/10/sony-officially-shuts-down-firewalk-studios-after-concords-failure/

Hardly surprising given the sheer scale of the game's failure. Hopefully other devs are paying attention and learn from this whole debacle.