How come there aren't any games from the alien's perspective and humans are the big bad?
>>736301143Harder to empathize with aliens, especially if they lack human facial features. "Humanity are the REAL bad guys" is also a hackneyed trope.
>>736301143in Alien Vs Predator you can play as the alien or the predator.
Oh shit, thanks for the reminder to go read howler
>>736301927>Harder to empathize with aliensWhy do people say this and then worship their dogs/cats?Aliens not being human is not a barrier to empathy or attachment. In reality it's just more work than putting humans as the main character instead of inventing an entire species and alien aesthetic.
>>736304662There's a reason I emphasized human facial features. Cats and dogs both have large, forward-facing eyes, rounded cheeks, a large head-body ratio, and a small nose and mouth compared to their head. Aesthetically speaking, it's much harder to empathize with alien space bugs with 8-eyed, grotesque faces and foreign expressions than it is to empathize with humans or dogs, whose faces we naturally find visually appealing and whose emotions we're hard-wired to understand. You can mitigate this by having human-like aliens, but that's retarded because it doesn't utilise their being aliens for anything interesting.
>>736305605OP pic has bug aliens that are clearly designed to appeal to the human eye without just making blue/green/red people.There are many ways to do this without creating a disgust response in the viewer. Stellaris has a good mix of appealing and disgusting species.I understand that humans like human features but that doesn't mean we only like humans slightly different features.
