Current Events > Discussion: do you honestly believe women are getting uglier in video games?

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ZannoL
03/13/23 2:48:38 PM
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Some people say women are no longer designed to be as attractive as they once were. Where do you stand?



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CRON
03/13/23 2:50:20 PM
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Character designs are becoming less exaggerated and stylized and it's mainly due to motion/facial capture becoming more widespread and affordable.

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Irony
03/13/23 2:51:46 PM
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CRON posted...
Character designs are becoming less exaggerated and stylized and it's mainly due to motion/facial capture becoming more widespread and affordable.
So you're saying actual women are becoming more ugly?

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MarthGoomba
03/13/23 2:52:08 PM
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Nah

Ryza 3 is out this month and she's looking better than ever

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TomClark
03/13/23 3:01:55 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/2/AAABqgAAERjE.jpg

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masterpug53
03/13/23 3:06:28 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/5/4/AARIckAAERjG.jpg

It's all fun and games until you remember that there's some capital-G Gamers out there who would rather get off to this than FF7R Tifa.

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AloneIBreak
03/13/23 3:06:36 PM
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I like that meme where Aloy is really fat. Makes me laugh every time.

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snake1989
03/13/23 3:08:24 PM
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Yes and no. Designs (especially in Western games) generally focus less on blatant sex appeal than they did in the 90's/2000's, i.e. skimpy clothes and ridiculous proportions.

But it's not like the average character is less attractive per se, and better visual technology makes them seem more real and less like a pixelated cartoon. It seems like many characters from modern games have much larger, more devoted followings of horny fans than I ever saw back in the day, even for Lara Croft.

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xlr_big-coop
03/13/23 3:10:42 PM
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Yes, without a doubt. They can excuse it in any way they want but character design is different from what it was before. No, not talking/complaining about huge titty monsters, most characters lack femininity, let alone beauty.


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ellis123
03/13/23 3:11:37 PM
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It's more that the average gamer is becoming more porn addicted. And to kinkier stuffs that don't actually have to pretend to have anything resembling an actual human.

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boxoto
03/13/23 3:11:56 PM
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no.

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Oh_Boy_
03/13/23 3:16:32 PM
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Only in certain western made games which have character design guided by ESG rating.
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RyuForce
03/13/23 3:22:58 PM
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No but people overexaggeration details and visual changes that don't match what they desire. I.E. Tifa's chest in FF7R and Aloy's updated look.


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party_animal07
03/13/23 3:23:56 PM
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Not really. I think they just look more like the average person now. People thought Jill in RE3make was ugly/masculine while I thought she was pretty *shrug*

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Mibahlzitch
03/13/23 3:24:10 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/7/AAEl66AAERjT.jpg

When you've been trained by cartoons and anime to find this the height of sex appeal you find things like not having eyes half the size of your face, having skin with texture and having a nose as turns offs. It's no surprise that graphics advancing to make people look more like real people is an issue for some.

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Questionmarktarius
03/13/23 3:26:16 PM
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Meanwhile, in Japan...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/8/AAEhCpAAERjU.jpg
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MuscleRobo
03/13/23 3:27:39 PM
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You'd have to be insane to not realize they're purposefully making them less sexy. Have you seen the original Alloy design vs the final product?
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rexcrk
03/13/23 3:28:47 PM
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Honestly it seems like it. This is one of the issues I had going to Arkham Knight from the previous games. It seemed like they went out of their way to make the women less attractive. And not so much in a way that they were just making it more realistic because they couldve kept the designs similar while still making them a little more realistic (like going from Kingdom Hearts II to KHIII).


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Mibahlzitch
03/13/23 3:28:51 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Meanwhile, in Japan...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/8/AAEhCpAAERjU.jpg
Thanks for making my point about how you love them with no nose and boobs so large they appear to be bigger than the rest of her body combined. Do you really find a woman that would need to bring a wheelbarrow to cart her massive boobs around attractive?

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NordicValkyria
03/13/23 3:30:29 PM
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party_animal07 posted...
Not really. I think they just look more like the average person now. People thought Jill in RE3make was ugly/masculine while I thought she was pretty *shrug*

The REmake one is so much prettier and still looks like a real human.
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Euripides
03/13/23 3:31:31 PM
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Option C: Who cares, it's just pixels

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WhisperWolf2005
03/13/23 3:32:39 PM
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In western games yes
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Questionmarktarius
03/13/23 3:32:59 PM
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Mibahlzitch posted...
Do you really find a woman that would need to bring a wheelbarrow around to cart her massive boobs around attractive?
It's fiction, who cares?
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Nemu
03/13/23 3:34:07 PM
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We're definitely in an uncanny valley area with a lot of games, but that's not a gendered thing. This insistence of motion capturing faces and making some faces more "realistic" has led to some goofy ass looking characters.
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andel
03/13/23 3:35:43 PM
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i have never and will never understand people that care about videogame women being 'hot'. like, it's a videogame. if you want porn you can find unlimited amounts of it for free within seconds.

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FL81
03/13/23 3:36:32 PM
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only in western games tbqh

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GrandConjuraton
03/13/23 3:36:39 PM
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andel posted...
i have never and will never understand people that care about videogame women being 'hot'. like, it's a videogame. if you want porn you can find unlimited amounts of it for free within seconds.


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Mibahlzitch
03/13/23 3:36:48 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
It's fiction, who cares?
The modern games you are complaining about are also fiction. Don't see why I can't also have an opinion about a fictional woman if you can.

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Questionmarktarius
03/13/23 3:36:54 PM
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from another thread:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/1/AAEhCpAAERiH.jpg
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MuscleRobo
03/13/23 3:37:52 PM
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andel posted...
i have never and will never understand people that care about videogame women being 'hot'. like, it's a videogame. if you want porn you can find unlimited amounts of it for free within seconds.
That's like saying "Why care about clothing, it all keeps you warm." You do realize people enjoy aesthetic right? Is your entire life spent either "Looking to beat off" or "Not looking to beat off?"
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viewmaster_pi
03/13/23 3:38:40 PM
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i think it's mostly in western games, and devs are afraid of crossing a line and being judged for making a character that's "too sexy" or whatever. i don't think they're intentionally being made uglier, or that any even are particularly ugly, i think it's just that more and more western devs favor realism, with cutting edge GraFfiX and face models and motion capture and blah blah blah.

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Robot2600
03/13/23 3:39:25 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
from another thread:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/9/1/AAEhCpAAERiH.jpg

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MarcyWarcy
03/13/23 3:39:35 PM
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probably. i do not find women attractive, but in general we are moving away from characters being 3d animated flawlessly sculpted people towards more realistic face scanning.

but tbh i dont care. if you want your women to be idealized beautiful homunculi just play an anime game or whatever, they still have big boobies and buff hunks

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EndOfDiscOne
03/13/23 3:48:10 PM
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Ashley in RE4

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Questionmarktarius
03/13/23 3:49:17 PM
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Mibahlzitch posted...
The modern games you are complaining about are also fiction. Don't see why I can't also have an opinion about a fictional woman if you can.
One of the strange upsides of Switch gaming is that those "realistic" games don't bother to show up.
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RchHomieQuanChi
03/13/23 4:04:02 PM
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It's just that female characters are now being designed without being incredibly fanservice-y

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ellis123
03/13/23 4:05:28 PM
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Just use the capitalism test: companies will continue to do the things, or will start doing things, that will make them the most money. If they make realistic games that is what makes the money, if they make softcore porn that is what makes the money.

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cjsdowg
03/13/23 4:06:52 PM
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Yes in games out side of Japan. We can debate if it is good or not or why they are doing it but its happening.

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HairyQueen
03/13/23 4:53:02 PM
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When straight male gamers have been catered to their entire lives by game devs, anything that resembles more realistic representations of women (instead of fan service sex dolls) faces a lot of cringey outrage tbh

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Lairen
03/13/23 4:55:53 PM
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The uglier girls are in games the hotter actual attractive women are.....

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KFC_Burner
03/13/23 4:56:40 PM
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For western games yes. Anime games haven't really changed.
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LeCh0nk
03/13/23 5:08:57 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/7/AAZjY6AADafj.jpg

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refmon
03/13/23 5:13:43 PM
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LeCh0nk posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/7/AAZjY6AADafj.jpg


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mybbqrules
03/13/23 5:33:45 PM
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CRON posted...
Character designs are becoming less exaggerated and stylized and it's mainly due to motion/facial capture becoming more widespread and affordable.
This.

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mybbqrules
03/13/23 5:36:13 PM
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NordicValkyria posted...
The REmake one is so much prettier and still looks like a real human.
People bitched about Jill in the RE3 remake because she wasn't wearing a tube top and miniskirt in the zombie apocalypse.

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Prestoff
03/13/23 5:37:13 PM
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In a way "yes", but I honestly think it's for the better or worst depending on the game in particular.

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Punished_Blinx
03/13/23 5:50:54 PM
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Sometimes it's funny to look back at what was considered 'sexy' 20 years ago

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/0/AACT2jAAERk6.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/1/AACT2jAAERk7.jpg

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ZannoL
03/13/23 5:51:35 PM
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Punished_Blinx posted...
Sometimes it's funny to look back at what was considered 'sexy' 20 years ago

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/0/AACT2jAAERk6.jpg

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