Japanese games make male characters too pretty, western games make female characters too ugly, I think I just am a fundamentally unhappy person who is compelled to complain about shit
I think that’s a pretty interesting point that’s never brought up in Gamer Discourse. They complain how western game studios make women fat and ugly and angry while Japanese games game women feminine and busty and attractive and gushing with joy.
But they never talk about how western game studios make every male character gruff, masculine, angry, and muscular while Japanese games generally have them be twinks or just “anime guy” with some VA who’s emulating a high school boy’s voice.
Edit: re-read your comment and realized you basically said what I said with fewer words. I thought you said something else and I tried to expand on it lol
ngl it is pretty fucked up that even after 13 years of modding ecosystem development it is still extremely difficult (unless you replace the head mesh entirely) to make pretty boy characters and custom NPCs in Skyrim
Yeah at least all the faces in (Vanilla) Oblivion are equally weird and goofy looking lol and I do remember there being some anime ish character mods for male characters too
I just realized I make all my characters look freakish and generally unpleasant to look at, especially in online games.
like beady-rat eyes, busted skin, cro-mag brow. in ark I made the eyes tiny and as wide set as possible. short and squat, paunchy, neckless.
it's always some combination of like derelict missing link meets yikes.
the payoff is like cut scenes and shit, because there's a generally a subtle implication in those scenes that the player character is sexy/attractive/desirable and it clashes hard with my bipedal disaster to add unintentional amusement.
Same. If a a game gives me a slider to adjust any part of my character's appearance I will treat it like an on/off button. It will end up all the way to the left or all the way to the right.
Lower jaw forward/back is not a spectrum. It is a binary.
i remember in second life if you moved all the sliders to the left your person would look like a hunched over little goblin with a huge mouth and it was perfect
I love it when men tell women what women find attractive/s
Do these guys know why boy bands and bishonen are popular?
HAVE THEY NOT SEEN HOW GIRLS REACT TO LINK?!?
Personally I'm not into meatheads or twinks. I like somewhere inbetween. Even then looks aren't really a priority for me, if a dude genuine and shares my beliefs that's the most important thing for me.
Give me a scruffy couchguy communist that wants to hang out and hug