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[–] 2ugly2live 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, yes. If she looks like a sex doll, she's saving the industry. If she looks like a normal person, the game is unplayable.

Imagine if women did this. "I'm not a middle aged father, I won't be playing The Last of Us. It just breaks my immersion, should have made Tess the main character. Also, you can see by the design of his nose bridge that they're making him less attractive on purpose. How can I play this game if he isn't a double cheeked up Adonis!?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, Ciri is hot af, so your first point doesn't even really fit... The whole thing is just a major self-report.

[–] 2ugly2live 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

~~I didn't say she wasn't hot, I said she doesn't look like a sex doll. There are posts around where people are already circling this, that, and the third on her face, like they did with Alloy a d whatever her name is from Star Wars. But people always complain when the woman looks normal, even if they're still attractive. Acting like that doesn't happen is being willfully obtuse.~~

~~So... Self report because you assumed normal equals not hot?~~

Edit: Misunderstood. Was snapping without realizing he was referring to the OP

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Easy there, take a breath. I was agreeing with you.

The self-report I was referring to is in the OP.

[–] 2ugly2live 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Gotcha. My bad.

Edit: Also sorry. Realize I didn't say that. Sorry for snapping at you for my lack of reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] Narauko 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let's be honest, this is most probably a riff on the semi-current push for greater diversity in games. That "could" be boiled down to "I don't see characters with my exact physical identity and want/need this representation", even if it's reducto absurdum.

[–] 2ugly2live 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't get why it's an issue period. I'm a black woman, I almost never see myself in a game unless it has a character maker. I have played game, after game, after game with characters that don't look like me and survived. It's very frustrating that just seeing a woman as the main character as immersion breaking when that was never a concern the other way around. I know they may not mean it this way, but it's almost like they can't see women as people to empathize. People played as a cat in Stray, a wolf in Okami, but they can't play as a woman because that's a step too far?

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 month ago

Even as a white man, characters in games do not look like me and never have. I don't have big muscles and flowing hair and all of that shit. I wouldn't look like a badass in armor, I'd look like Michael Dukakais..

And I doubt very many games would be all that fun playing as a doughy, out-of-shape, middle-aged white guy.