What exactly are you asking?

If its why developers don't make the characters to look like fashion models its because that is not authentic to the stories they are trying to tell. Aloy is the equivalent to a nordic nomad. She isn't supposed to look like a 2024 millennial in NewYork who works in digital marketing for a living. 

Similarly something I've noticed with Intergalactic is that some portion of people don't grasp that women look different with and without make-up and that its a complete fair creative decision to not have your lead wearing make-up if it doesn't make sense for their personality or that moment in the narrative.



All of this just reflects a bit of immaturity about a segment of the gaming audience. When A24 announces their next big film, people don't stress over whether the characters are meeting their personal beauty standards. People don't watch shows like Breaking Bad and flip out because the female representation isn't feminine enough. It's a complete infantile portion of the gaming market who hasn't yet grasped that the medium is evolved and variety + authenticity is king. Emphasis on variety because there are still plenty of feminine female characters.

The fact that the only thing this trailer has to make people excited about the game is the studio's self inserted resume is frankly quite pathetic and sad...

The legit funniest thing I've seen on the subject is just before Dragon Age Veilguard released, people were using the custom character creator, basically sliding everything to the left and then saying "East game makers" Showing Eve, then "American game makers" showing their created monstrosity. It was stupid and it's done fit their narrative. Some people have already decided so much about this character in Intergalatic from what is a 15 second clip and a few voice lines. We know nothing and it was just a CG trailer.

The Instagram issue has come up a lot before, British media mentions it from time to time. The look of models in magazines certainly did used to be a a big issue and now kids are shown so much more fake content via social media, it's odd that it doesn't come up as much in news media as it used to when it was just magazines.

From the trailer we saw amazing graphics, a somber atmosphere and sound, excellent art direction and design.

We were left with a mistery of 600 years about that planet, probably getting a banger soundtrack and get to wonder how can Naughty Dog do when it comes to sword fighting gameplay.

There is a lot to make me excited, and sure being developed by a studio that has nearly a 100% ratio of great games since they came to Playstation is one of them too.

I've seen similar caliber graphics in many other titles this generation. More of that does not exactly make me drop my jaw in excitement. Atmosphere and art are "realistic space cinematics 101" to me, but I guess to each their own. Sound is... ok, I guess? What qualifies as "excellent sound" in a trailer to you? Are you talking about the music? Because if so, I guess the retro music is cool. Not that it makes me excited about the game...

Hmm... I don't know. That "mystery" is completely decontextualized and has no meaning to me at all.

I'm sorry for not being intrigued about finding out how good a triple A studio that has been doing action games for 30 years can be at making a sword combat system. I don't know, maybe if they actually had SHOWN how it plays I would have something to be excited about.

But the truth is, they haven't shown a game. They have shown a random cinematic of their game, with zero gameplay and little to no plot. It's in space, it has a girl as a protagonist, there is a mysterious planet and some alien she's about to cut with a laser sword. That's it.

They'll be like "American Game Creators"

Oblivion is Woke.

yeah, it was pretty pathetic when everybody got all riled up by the E3 teaser for Metroid Prime 4 back in 2017. There wasn't any gameplay! Only a placeholder logo!! And when Nintendo teased Emio with that Smiling Man video back in June? We knew nothing about the game!! How pathetic! And don't even get me started on Final Fantasy VII Remake's teaser back at E3 2016 lol.

Yeah, there's little to be excited for it too.

I mean, its like the Beyond Good and Evil 2 trailer, doesnt mean anything unless we get more information and actual gameplay footage.

Can you please point to me where did I ever say that any of those examples are a masterclass on how to announce a new video game? I'll wait.

That was one of the least interesting things about the trailer to me.