Do female characters nowadays look bad? Like, their fashion and aesthetic is just generally lacking somehow.
i think people just lack the sensibilities for good character or fashion design while being into game development.
>>736603528Asians are the only ones who make good looking female characters but they are absolutely useless at stylish fashion. The japs from the 90s knew their shit. They probably researched fashion magazines or simply looked at what men liked to derive aesthetics. Modern otaku devs will only look towards anime or other video games for research which is why everything is lacking in appeal.
Improvements to face scanning technology have been the death knell for modern character design.
Yeah. I actually think much of it is a reflection of the state of the economy.
>>736604473life got harder for everyone, straight dudes just have the worst support system out of anyone because they were the ones that were expected to just tough it out with no help
>>736604473bait or retard? call it.
>>736604473My dude, OP wasn't even talking about sex appeal. Chill.
>>736604870You straight men can always support each other but for some reason you all hate each other, kill each other, shit on each other, etc.You have zero bro code or zero community. You see other men as competition and want to kill them instead of as friends.
>>736604946What possible reason would a straight man have to want women to "look good" in a videogame if you're not a porn addict chronic masturbator?If you actually cared about the game you would play actually male only shooters like call of duty and not games that let you run around as an underage asian naked girl like stellar blade.
>>736605023My guy (ywnbaw btw). You're trying too hard.
>>736605023>why would a straight man want to look at aesthetically pleasing womenare you mentally retarded
>>736605383Well by all means explain to me why for non sexual reasons you wanna stare at an "aesthetically pleasing" woman in a videogame?Surely you can come up with something that's not you being a lonely porn addict?Normal non porn addict men don't complain battlefield and old cod wasn't full of naked women.
>>736605383He's baiting, mate.
>>736605447ugly things arent pleasing to look atno one wants to look at your mangled ex-penis that you folded inside-out to make a pretend-vagina, for examplekys
>>736605520>ugly things arent pleasing to look atIs that why you incels kill yourselves so often? Because you're ugly?>no one wants to look at your mangled ex-penis that you folded inside-out to make a pretend-vagina, for exampleI'm not a tranny though? You guys wonder why you have no gf but all you do is masturbate to anime underage characters, post porn in 4chan and talk all day about trans women. Weird.
>>736603528I dunno about design in general, but Leifang's outfit was just a downgrade from DOA2 onwards. Her DOA1 leather sleeveless shirt and short might be a bit bland but at least she wears it well. Everytime you have a chinese character wearing qipao, the comparison to Chun Li is inevitable - and after all these years - no one, not a single other character wear it better than Chun Li.
>>736605703>Is that why you incels kill yourselves so often? Because you're ugly?projection
>>736605383Millions of straight men looked the monstrosity that was Tomb Raider's 1-4 Lara Croft and furiously beat their meat to her and considered her a sex symbol purely because of her huge jugs and most importantly, her demeanor.Lara looked like dogshit but had character, people weren't attracted to her because of her non-existent good looks but because she sold herself well as a character, the truth is you don't necessarily need "aesthetically pleasing" characters for either men or women to develop an attraction to them and you can see it to this day.Same reason why you can also have aesthetically pleasing characters that have little to no following because they aren't actually charming as a character, case in point Scarlet or Mara from Highguard being very conventionally attractive but completely forgettable because outside of the game itself being mediocre they are not interesting as characters.Kaoru Sayama is one of the least conventionally attractive women from Yakuza and yet she's one of the more popular ones because her character is what activates the neurons of a lot of men, hell Majima is a horse faced moron and yet he's incredibly popular especially with women because he's got the character to pull wagons of pussy.
>>736605023it's a heterosexual thing. you wouldn't understand.
>>736603528Lots of older game developers lived full, varied lives and had hobbies outside of games. These days, games are made by people whose only hobbies are playing games and Discord.
>>736606850your examples deviate from the standard patterns, and show it's possible sure, but there is a gulf from possible to feasible. they're basically the exception to the rule. for each one of those that succeeded, a thousand failed and got ridiculed for their horrible design with nobody caring about the gameplay or demeanor of the characters.
>>736603528photorealism and bad face scans
>>736605023how about you become my gf so i'm not pent up and horny then RETARDED WHORE
>>736607560It's not really the exception at all although I agree with you that it is inherently more complex than just slapping a pretty face on a barbie body, but if you get it right the returns are massive, and getting both is the almost impossible challenge.Look at Ashley from OG RE4, another female character that is actually kinda sorta ugly but is extremely popular with men and got tons of porn as well, Ashley managed to get all that attention despite her poor looks because of her character and the chemistry she had with Leon, making a character that feels emotionally relatable is extremely important in terms of attraction, good looks are absolutely important but not the end of all.Another example, look at the huge disparity in popularity when it comes to Dead or Alive girls, somebody like Lisa or Mila is consistently bottom tier in polls regardless of region while even a newcomer like Nyotengu is consistently top tier everywhere.You can't really say that it's because Nyo looks better than Lisa or Christie because ALL DOA girls are extremely attractive at a baseline, it's because Nyo has the character traits that girls like Lisa, Mila or Christie lack.Why did Honkers get so overwhelmingly popular from the get go? Because outside of being hot people like her bubbly and ditzy personality compared to the rest of the cast which is actually kinda samey and pretty nondescript, much like Marie Rose is extremely popular for the records, these girls stand out among a cast of already extremely attractive girls because their character is what makes them stand out, same exact reason why you some OC girls in Venus Vacation became way more popular than many OG DoA girls to the point that Tamaki got adopted in the mainline games due to her sheer popularity alone.
>>736604473If sex appeal in vidya is such a frivolous thing that no one should be mad about or take any action against, why are you so insistent on getting rid of it?
