Checked out the latest Synthetic Man vid and saw that the recently released (into early access) Deep Rock Galactic spin-off - Rogue Core - has female dwarves, and they are almost impossibly awful.
It's one thing to force female representation. It's one thing to deliberately uglify your female characters, even. These things? They look like fucking trolls. They are legitimately hard to look at.
The dwarves of DRG were never hot or cute, but they were aesthetically pleasing to the eye - as if crafted by some sort of artist with a modicum of talent. These new, female dwarves aren't just ugly - they're shit. They are the product of an unskilled, untalented person.
And the best part? Because any criticism of ugly female characters is automatically attributed to chuds, and because owning the chuds is always paramount, there is no way to communicate to the devs that these female models are simply bad.
Also, the classes in this game are gender locked. So if you don't want to look at these abominations, then your lobby is locked out of two of five classes.
Also also, I looked up the voice actress for the new female dwarves. She's a fat girl with a cute face. She's exactly what they should have used to model the female dwarves. So once again, western devs can't even give us beauty on par with the IRL source material lol
Oh yeah, the game looks trash. I've sunk hundreds of hours into DRG, and I have no interest in this stupid spinoff.
Its just a knockoff of Deep Dives with DEI and shitty mechanics from other games (like Hero Shooters) that don't belong tacked on because some fat cunt on the team thought it looked cute or some crap.
I did one search, first thing I found looks like Steam banner. I have to go throw up now.
Okay...now that I'm back, I never played the first one just because I was never sure if it was for me, but my understanding it in general it was a fun well put together game for a ton of people. So, of course they had to ruin it. Want to like a game? Be the one person that plays it so they won't bother to update it for modern audiences.
A lot of indie devs are one-hit wonders. They stumbled into an amazing game but can't seem to replicate that first big success. For example, The Binding of Isaac dev spent 12 years on a followup, Mewgenics, and it just kinda sucks. DRG is one of the greatest co-op games of all time, but I have no faith the devs can do it again.
Female dwarves being ugly has always been a trope.
I haven't looked at the game though. I believe you in that they aren't doing ugly in a fun way.
They’re Completely ignoring the shortstack angle, that would be a license to print money.
Dungeon Meshi shows you can even draw a sturdy, stout dwarf woman without her looking like La Creatura.
Paradoxically, Dragon Age Veilguard has a very attractive female dwarf companion character. If the wokest studio in existence can do it, anyone should be able to.
Oh yeah, Harding is perfect. Of course they made is so she gets nigged by that Quanari tranny if you don’t romance her.
Three acceptable possibilities of female dwarves:
I'm in favor of option three. It's funny.
Yeah, it has but a good twist to that would be how you "never see female dwarves in public" and then having it where it's because female dwarves are actually super hot and the male dwarves are the ones who spread the rumor to keep alien species away from trying to bang their women.
It's like no one has any imagination anymore. You could even make it where only the male dwarves have the dwarf-gene and female dwarves are basically full-sized humans which is why you never see "female dwarves" because there technically are none.
You never see female dwarfs because they're awful fat screeching feminists that make dwarfs ashamed of having two sexes.
Leftist women are dwarves?
Explains the beards, actually.
Necromunda does something like this from the other direction with House Escher: each House has its own gimmick and theirs is "punk girls" because of a genetic defect or in-vitro exposure to some persistent chemical agent that disproportionately affects males.
It's not just that they're ugly, although that's also unnecessary. They actually look poorly drawn/modeled. Like they were created by some new hire that no one vetted.
They look the albino version of the dwarf queen from Rings of Powers.
That’s not the worst of the game’s problem. Only a few new guns over DRG, the character’s unique stuff is just hero shooter abilities, there is no reason to keep playing past a weekend, and in-round power ups are unique to the group (ie, someone will get shafted every time.)
Don't see a problem at all with female dwarves being ugly TBH, but gender-locking classes sucks. Should be easy to have a head swap with M/F heads.
They aren't just ugly. They're poorly modeled. Amateurish. But no one can communicate this to the devs without being called a chud. It's hilarious.