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.
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.
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.