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.
Everyone's pretty much made points I already agree with but something I've found fascinating is how much I realise I do in fact care about character design and art styles. Not necessarily 'muh gud graphics' but styling definitely matters in a game and it's not just the fact that cringe millennial SJW employees are inserting themselves into all forms of media and looking incredibly out of place. It's not just the attractive women that bothers me about modern titles.
Even when it comes to hairstyles I find it all ridiculous, every time you see a black person for example they always have to have an afro or dreadlocks. Doesn't matter the setting or how retarded it looks they will always put them in. With women part of the uglification tactic is they even have them look like the modern SJW with noserings or whatever or maybe they'll throw in some tattoos. Medieval fantasy clearly modelled after Europe? Doesn't matter, military setting? Don't care, gief dreadlocks and disregard grooming standards. Oh yeah and it doesn't matter how silly it looks, we're going to have a pint sized female who doesn't even have a convincing physique lifting around big rocket launchers or machine guns with recoil that would probably send her flying backwards.
My favourite example of this will always be Wolfenstein and the heavily pregnant lady magically being able to vault over obstacles and fire a gun like it was nothing which told me that the devs who put that in either didn't care or had never seen a pregnant woman and how they move before.
And that god-awful "Skrillix" lesbian-cut that White and mystery-meat women have in just about every show/movie these days.