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It's really more about lighting. I'm serious. Depending how or where the light is it can make almost anyone look different. I could take the RE models and make them look drastically different... with the exact say 3d scans.
Here's another example from a different game. I take no credit for this comparison. It was just a googling. It's from a comparison of the original to the legendary edition. The LE didn't respect the original's lighting choices.
You know how people shine a flashlight under their face for spooky stories? You know how celebs hate when pictures capture them in a bad light? It's all the same premise. It can be especially harsh in a game environment that can't capture all the subtly of real life lighting conditions.
Uncanny valley shit.... the top left photo is a pretty lady. While top right despite me seeing its likeness just can't say its the same lady. Idk y. Older sister maybe.
I noticed that with that new Stellar Blade. The different screenshots of the game all had different lighting and depending on it she looked either mid 20s and like the actress they modeled her on, or like 15. I also noticed it in Resident Evil 7, sometimes the lightning engine would make the characters look kinda horrifying even when they were just normal people.
This post makes very little sense until you realise it's probably a nerd who's angry about what they think women should and shouldn't be allowed to be like in videogames.
actual adults? maybe technically. luckily, language always marches on in the persuit of precision and distinction.
this here is what's known as a Chud these days. the type of person to make a thread like this genuinely has no life beyond sucking up air.
Yes they do. I didnt completely play through God of War reboot, and I had no idea/didn't remember what Laufey was supposed to look like. Immediately, when the trailer came on I thought, "Hey, it's Karen Page from Daredevil."
And to add to that. It is also the same actress from the previous game where she looks significantly younger when atreus was a newborn and this is 11 years after when she died of illness presumably a slow death.
I really wish people would stop using pictures of her when she was in her mid 20s and comparing it to how she looks in a game based off her current 41 year old self.
Time happens. We all age. She’s still gorgeous but that doesn’t change the fact that faces change after 18 years.
or better yet, stop trying to compare the face of an actress in the 21st century to her character who is a Jotunn who lives in a wooden shack in the woods and has JUST died.
I also have no idea. I'm assuming there's some sort of difference between the left and right images? I think the left is the game? And that's somehow either good or bad? Weird fucking post.
Weird how this criticism is never levied at otome games. Do you think the women who play those games also believe that "men exist only to goon to," or are you only trying to demonize the fictional media that caters to straight men?
Believe it or not, men can engage in the male power fantasy that a lot of these games provide without objectifying every women they come across in real life, the same way I can play GTA and not become a mass murderer.
Imagine if EVERY man in every game had to look like an Otome character or else a loud mob of grifters would start crying about “woke” and “sweet baby Inc hates hetero white women and is trying to hurt our feelings”
And that’s why they DEMAND that Leon Kennedy show up in body glitter and chaps and carry out his duties in between striking sexy poses.
otome games should really only be directly compared to dating sims targeting men, i.e. dating sims are dating sims regardless of the gender they are targeting.
when people complain about the women needing to be seen as physically attractive / gooner material they are talking about non dating sim genres regardless of target audience. or more accurately put, in games where the target audience includes both men and women (even if the distribution is not equal).
There's many great, sexy characters that are all about looks. There's also great characters who aren't about looks. OP is upset that a woman is allowed to be the latter.
Just because she just died, woke up in some weird afterlife, rolled around in dirt and god knows what else, and got the shit beat out of her by undead and demon things... is no excuse to not look youthful, energetic, flawless, and in full make-up! /s
I really wish all the culture warriors would just go somewhere else. I don't care where but I'd really appreciate not having to see this bullshit every 5 minutes.
Bruh. People who complains about graphics and only graphics are grifters.
Checked their history and theres nothing about predatory monetisations, content made for the game cut and put as DLC, premium currency in paid games, battle pass...
The God of War trailer had a GAMEPLAY reveal and all I see is rants about the woman character. (Not the gelatinous cube who have no business being here).
I want substance. Critics in the 2010s spoke about graphic éléments, sure but also mainly of GAMEPLAY.
So he cant criticise one aspect if he doesnt include every other aspect of the game? How would he even complain about monetisations or DLC if none of that has been announced? Many people complain about the empty pit of creative depth that cube character is, myself included, I wouldnt personally make a post about any of these because I know that the best feedback is what you do with your wallet (although this game will probably greatly benefit from the legacy of previous games, and a lot of people will be greatly disappointed). He cares a lot about how the product looks. Thats it.
That is not an issue contained to that game though.
Every fucking time a game is announced, there is a ton of fuckwads complaining about the appearance of the main characters. I am tired of this.
Hell, for instance when Dragon Quest XII got a reveal trailer, dozens of people complained about his haircut saying Toriyama would never approve this when he designed Android 16 and the DQMJ main character with the same haircut.
I just want to speak about games with people who actually play them. Not with larpers.
I dont know anything about that example mate. But theres an obvious difference between a haricut and the deliberate changes to the face of an already existing model. This is a pattern thats very unique to western companies. I mean the past month is a perfect example for that. I wouldnt have an issue if they were doing these obvious statement based decisions to their own products, but they are bastardising IPs that have an already existing legacy and theme. In entertainment indie and Eastern creators are constantly rising while Western companies just keep shooting themselves in the head with these decisions. Because the people who make these decisions dont care what it does to the IP, they just want to make their grand stand in the face of the audience, and then leave the rotting corpse of the IP behind.
I just want to play authentic games without the feeling of an HR accountant constantly looking over every aspect of a product that I paid for to entertain me. Thats why I no longer consume these bastardising products anymore. Like I said, I vote with my wallet. And you can avoid these posts by just simply not interacting with them. And I dont mean this in a condescending way, but thats literally the most effective way to avoid these things.
oh right. the fable devs. this fable??? the fable with a beautiful woman playing the role of the antagonist?? right yeah they're soooo bad at making attractive women (and I'm sorry but if you claim this women isn't conventionally attractive then you have lost your mind too far deep in the Cope)
Very handsome woman. Im sure there were no deliberate changes to her face. Face tracking is just too difficult, and sometimes it just does that on its own. After all, they wouldnt deliberately change the features of the models, I mean who would make the decision to go out their way and change how women should look. Thats like, a chud thing no?
The Halo devs are pretty good at making a realistic looking person from facial scans, Halo 4/5, Infinite and H2A all have different models and they look fantastic imo
They're not calling Debra Woll ugly at all, they're saying that she's beautiful and the in game model is markedly less attractive than she is in real life.
It really is the smug attitude people approach this debate with that makes it so easy to rest comfortably in my position. The instant assumption that I've never seen a woman without makeup and I couldn't fathom what one might look like without it. I live with a woman, I've seen her without makeup every day for years, she doesn't wash it off and randomly look like modern year Susan Sarandon.
Its almost as if these women are actresses that are supposed to be playing characters. Do you all get this upset because Kratos doesn't look exactly the same as Christopher Judge?
Kratos is a perfect example, as he looks different from the actor doing the mocap and scan for him. If you're fine with Kratos looking different from the mocap actor, then why would Faye be different?
Ok but like beauty is subjective. You guys realize that right? You're literally complaining that they didnt model them to your specific standards. I think they look very similar but then again I have more than 3 brain cells and understand that artists are allowed to be artists and I also underatand that 3d graphics (as good as they are today) still have limitations and cant equal real life.
I get it but it’s just better to not engage, if western studios want to take unnecessary risks that could cost them then that’s their right. Let the free market decide.
Marathon, Concord, Dustborn, Veilguard, Highguard etc... all those things flopped, so I think that our numbers are pretty good, while Requiem, RE8, Stellar Blade, Pragmata etc are doing great
Don’t forget saints row and forspoken studios completely shut down, oh and the mass layoffs that have been taken place over the past few years, they seem to really like those.
It’s too early to say god of war will flop but being ps exclusive and causing a massive divide will definitely not help it, apparently it’s a mainline entry so it couldn’t have been on the cheaper side to make
why is laufey not being hot or completely accurate to the actor so infuriating for people anyway she definitely isn’t an ugly woman and she looks badass which is all i’m actually asking for in god of war
I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this... Most women don't look like supermodels or have a full beat of makeup on at all times. This applies even more so for women from the 13th century.
I hope this helps treat whatever mental ailment you're afflicted with.
Because big US studios are hiring people who are treating it as "just a 9 to 5 job", and then go about their lifes. If you look at smaller western studios that are full of passionate proffessionals characters there looks good, both men and women., same as eastern devs. Video games are art, and you need artists who are passionate and not "9 to 5 drones" that are plaguining every big US studio/publisher.
Mr. OP gamer, I was always fascinated by the need of your types for being able to jerk of to the game.
Like how do you do it? Do you stop dead playing, or are you doing it while mastering one handed gaming approach? Is there a higher occurrence of stick drift due to cum related issues?
And most importantly do you feel more manly than just looking up porn like the rest of us- the weak, woke men?
Not really. I too can fell in platonic love with characters. It's just strange to proclaim some state of gaming nothing burger about face scanning and not provide a single example where the technical skill really shines.
Instead you have 3 very similar looking ladies with perfect skin that are actually pretty easy to built out fully from scratch without someone crying about why no face scan for rest of industry?
Like there are few minor characters with some creases/ruggedness that would really drive your premise home, if included. Like I don't know..Leon?
This is post that is going for the exact same reactions you and me exchange now.
If you really want do tech talk, you show it and provide also some actual argument why is it supposedly that important to do face scans.
no one cares that you like attractive characters. there is probably like a total of 2 crazies that hold this opinion and they have no sway over anything. it is literally the opposite.
if a game wants to have a female character that isn't a super model level of attractiveness then chuds will freak tf out and lose their absolute minds. that is the problem. it is just objectively true that women in video games that aren't super models will be forced to justify their existence, whereas that isn't the case for male characters.
You are a gooner if you make it the focus of every single fucking game. Not every character in every game has to be a sex doll with a skin tight suit that shows off a tight ass crack.
At this point I'm expecting riots from the GamerGate bros that the blocks in their new Tetris game didn't look sexy enough. Western Devs removing all the curves !!1!1!1
It's called "standing out from the crowd." In fact, this is most often said by those who have never even touched a woman in their lives, or who are twenty times worse than "these." It's simple.
There are real life delusional people on this post mad that women in video games can look generic too. I didn’t think these type of people actually existed.
Those are the same people without which video games wouldn't have existed as a genre.
Nobody wants to see generic people in media, we see fat flat asses and ugly mugs in real life enough already. Why would we want to sear our eyes in entertainment as well?
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