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.
While I don't care for ultra-sexualized characters, male or female, and things like chainmail bikinis, skintight catsuits, and midriff-baring armors annoy me, the opposite of making characters, namely female characters, as sexually unappealing as possible is frankly worse (especially since the males in those media tend to be conventionally attractive). It's a failed Brown M&M Test that tells me the devs are intentionally making the game to appeal to hypocritical leftist lunatics (and for ESG funbux), and to spite the old, traditional, majority audience. It's bad enough and so prevalent these days that I'm now perusing stuff I wouldn't consider in the past because of how blatantly horny they are because I at least know they were made with some effort to be entertaining products, and not to spit on me for merely existing.