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Attractive character improve games (with cosmetics)...

True 38 67.86%
 
False 16 28.57%
 
No opinion 2 3.57%
 
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chakkra said:
mZuzek said:

This isn't a good point. Sure I'm gay and I like my men to look masculine. But having a type doesn't mean that I think all characters should be made to look that way. If I need fictional characters in a videogame to look attractive to my tastes specifically, yeah, that's super insecure.

I really don't know much about LegitHyperbole, but I'm willing to bet that he was complaining mostly about women looking like men here; which, let's be honest, is a trend that western developers have gone way overboard with.

My recollection is the main complaint was that he couldn't get the "back arch" he wanted in female characters in Dragon Age. 



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Torillian said:
chakkra said:

I really don't know much about LegitHyperbole, but I'm willing to bet that he was complaining mostly about women looking like men here; which, let's be honest, is a trend that western developers have gone way overboard with.

My recollection is the main complaint was that he couldn't get the "back arch" he wanted in female characters in Dragon Age. 

I mean, to be fair, they kept bragging about how "inclusive" their character creator was, so I think it was a fair question why women with large breasts and butts were not included in their "inclusion".



mZuzek said:

This thread in a nutshell

I propose an experiment to you: Please show the photo below to a few people who know nothing about video games and ask them which one of these characters is a woman, and let's see what responses you get.  Note: I do love Cloud and Pinocchio; Joanna? not so much..



Imagine bigots getting the point.



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chakkra said:
mZuzek said:

This isn't a good point. Sure I'm gay and I like my men to look masculine. But having a type doesn't mean that I think all characters should be made to look that way. If I need fictional characters in a videogame to look attractive to my tastes specifically, yeah, that's super insecure.

I really don't know much about LegitHyperbole, but I'm willing to bet that he was complaining mostly about women looking like men here; which, let's be honest, is a trend that western developers have gone way overboard with.

No, that's not the point of the thread. Women can look hot with manly features and men can look hot with womanly features.

I find women with squared faces to be more beautiful. 

And men with more feminine features

What I'm complaining about is simply a diversion away from beauty. Adding realism that goes to far and removes beauty or a trend to make character more boring and less pronounced or appealing aswell as the whole body positivity movement which celebrates unhealthy physiques. Simply put, the better looking the character the more it improves the gaming experience and when characters are bland, boring or ugly it takes away from that experience. Aloy in Forbidden West is more real but she is less beautiful so not once did I bother about her cosmetics or photo mode like I did religiously in Zero Dawn. That said, Jin in Ghost of Tsushima isn't exactly a looker but somehow he ends up looking bad ass most of the time. 



mZuzek said:

Imagine bigots getting the point.

Oh ffs. Stop. Everyone's a bigot because they like attractive people. Not even the guy above with the problems with chins is a bigot, he just likes what he likes and is upset that he's not getting it. 



LegitHyperbole said:

The gameplay great, people are loving it and I was having fun. What I take issue with is the speed and pace of the game, they choose to slow it down for some reason and the complaints I have are very minor little tweaks like the character move speed, TTK and what not. All design choices but not mechanical failures. Looks like they spent a LOT of time on these 33 characters which is a wild number and getting them half way balanced before release. I'm sure they'll tweak the game as players demand. 

I can see why they would slow it down though.

See high TTK means less reaction time, and less reaction time means casual folks will just get smoked by a combination of players with quicker and higher response reflex times, as well as a mindset for min/maxing strategy (going for Heroes that kill quicker, or are generally stronger), which when combined, can create a horrible time for the casual/ not-overly competitive crowd.

I'm getting older myself, and my reflexes are not what they were way back when CoD MW1 originally came out, and I do think I would instantly drop a game, if the TTK was as quick as E-sports level micro clicking (It'd make me feel unwelcome and make me feel like I need to be a sweater just to keep up, and imo, no game should really be fostering that mentality to begin with, as it forms toxic behavioural patterns). 

On the bright side, the fact it's F2P and you have access to all heroes is a good thing, it's what the default should be for all F2P games honestly. The only part we have to worry about really is them "balancing" the heroes over time (it's a new game, but you will eventually start playing musical chairs soon enough, it is inevitable), as well as the price tag for skins (hopefully they don't copy Blizz and charge £30-60 a skin).



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.

mZuzek said:
LegitHyperbole said:

The women look feminine and the men look masculine

This is just insecurity, right?

No. It is a Hero shooter. They simply should look like Heroes and not everyday Joes or bums off the street. It is the way things should be with a cast of super heroes. 



LegitHyperbole said:
mZuzek said:

This is just insecurity, right?

No. It is a Hero shooter. They simply should look like Heroes and not everyday Joes or bums off the street. It is the way things should be with a cast of super heroes. 

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