This isn't a gotcha thing I'm doing, I was watching this AI vs artist Arch was doing where he did one before with black April O'Neil and he's done another with dark skin Velma this time. Some flaws here and there but a massive improvement over the HBO show, at one point, he puts out the idea with what I like to refer to as 'milfy Velma' was having it that she was detached from the group, is a reporter herself and events brings her back with her old friends, so like the show just, not shit.
One of the immediate things that detached me from even trying to watch it was how ugly the self insert Velma was yet if this AI made hotter Velma was in it, I might at least give it an episode.
But a key part of this is that watching shows is passive, you're not interacting so for games it depends for me. Does it fit the setting as if it's a game about giant mechs then it isn't really a factor. If there's character customisation beyond just selecting outfits, then it becomes a big factor as if I want to create a really hot character, the game itself shouldn't limit me. Same as if there's 'romance' choices and all of them are fugly.
I've gotten to the point where having attractive guys but ugly women in a game is a massive red flag for me as then it means this is a self insert game and there's likely to be a lot of ideology in the narrative too. So just want to hear your guys takes if having attractive female characters even affects the shows and games you play/watch.
Not having hot girls? Not much.
Having INTENTIONALLY DISGUSTING whores being passed off as "normal?" Very much!
Yep - as soon as you see something like that, you immediately know what the intent is, and what it implies for the content of the game.
Hard pass.
This is the correct answer. I am anti-"anti-reality" not "anti-reality", and reality has more than its fair share of uggos. It only becomes anti-reality when you try to pretend an uggo is attractive, not there mere existence.
Would be interesting to see someone try to use a "not conventionally attractive" woman and through writing make her attractive to the audience.
The inverse is also true.
Are hot girls required? No.
Does having hot girls make me feel it's less likely to be woke trash? Yes.
Basically it's a scale of "modern beauty standards" (avoid) > neutral (neutral) > hot girls (good sign.)
This is a perfect answer. I also think like that
This is my position too. I don't need hot girls in games, and I even get annoyed by them if they're inappropriate for the setting and tone. I don't even mind 'normal looking' (as in non-supermodel) women. But games with deliberately uglified or mannified women like the new Fable and the second Horizon game? REMAKES that make the women uglier like Dead Space? I don't want to touch those games.
Oh yeah, raceswapping goes in the trash too.