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Saints Row goes for broke. (media.communities.win)
posted 4 years ago by boiswithatimemachine 4 years ago by boiswithatimemachine +80 / -0
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– FromTheShadows 18 points 4 years ago +18 / -0

I "love" the way she stares at the camera looking all smug, wanting you to think that she's some kind of badass. Lady, it doesn't work that way. You need to already have an imposing appearance for that pose and expression to work, and you with your scrawny build, perfect skin, and hair that looks like it's just been styled at the salon by some lispy gay guy doesn't scare me. Not to mention you didn't do anything cool to deserve it; you sat around in complete safety with a big gun while your friends did all the heavy lifting. You didn't earn the right to mug the camera like that.

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– Kweebecker 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

I'm all for unblemished, unrealistically clean female characters. When the setting calls for it. Xenosaga is my usual go-to example: Only one female character is actually 100% human. She is NOT the one who looks badass, and in fact in most art looks nervous (or pin-up). Storyline-wise she bemoans the fact she isn't as easy to clean as the robotic party members, her cleanliness is a minor plot point. The Badass belongs to the psychopathic babyfaced Terminator-wannabe robot... It ALSO never does the camera-smug, because part of its badass nature is the fact it's a Terminator-wannabe, it showcases the badass through actions, not through dreamworks-tier smugging.

A street walker (no euphemisms, literally, "one who walks the streets") of some major city, who does dirty deeds, should for narrative sake have some dirt upon them unless it's a plot point otherwise. You don't need to be obese and hulking, but your expression should match what the character is trying to portray, and appearance is part of expression. If this is a street surgeon or something that needs to keep clean, could make sense, but you'd go for a different hairstyle then, either something even shorter, or something long that can be tied up. And the facial expression would be odd, then, but I suppose could exist in some contexts, like an "I told you so" to an injured protagonist.

Saint's Row The Third has five people on the cover art. All but one are looking away from the camera, distracted by something to the right. One side character is smugging the camera, and looks like a joke because of it, like they missed a cue. The one woman on the cover isn't smugging, but rather looks disgusted by something near her feet. The man beside her looks disappointed by whatever is at her feet, while a third is observing it dismissively, gun out. It tells a story in one frame.

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