Making a character attractive is a necessary strategy for overcoming the uncanny valley. People are more forgiving of the uncanny valley effect if the character design is pleasing in other ways. If you’re trying to perfectly model a very average looking person, that’s going to combine with the uncanny valley effect to produce an extremely unattractive character.
It’s almost like older devs knew the score and created accordingly.
Making a character attractive is a necessary strategy for overcoming the uncanny valley. People are more forgiving of the uncanny valley effect if the character design is pleasing in other ways. If you’re trying to perfectly model a very average looking person, that’s going to combine with the uncanny valley effect to produce an extremely unattractive character.
It’s almost like older devs knew the score and created accordingly.