Is it important for video games to have sexy or attractive characters ?

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Is it important for video games to have sexy or attractive characters ?

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People bitched a lot about both Minthara and Shadowheart being ugly and having man chin.

I don't see it either.
 
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It depends on the story. I’m cool with most stories having attractive people it’s easier on the eye for most people. If though let’s say your making a narrative game like a twin peaks videogame you would want the characters not to be pretty people because that’s a lot of the aesthetic of a small town. If your doing it though to force people to “accept body positivity” or whatever that’s gay. I don’t play a game because the main character looks like me, I’m the type of guy to make nightmare creatures in saints row.
I'm Retarded? said:
I guess we should just delete the entire horror genre in all media forms then.
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I think there can be beauty in horror, it just depends on how purposeful your decision making about making the game is. Usually when you use that quote you just mean “have some actual talent sprinkled in” or else you get modern goy
JoshPlz said:
I'm sure the untapped market of morbidly obese negro women will make them billions and not alienate their actual customers.
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Kiwi farms presents NIGGER EATING CORNSTARCH THE VIDEOGAME! It could be a Mario inspired side scroller but you can’t jump and pinkos are the main bad guy.
 
Because if I'm going to be staring at something for ten hours, I want it to be something I enjoy looking at.
 
It's not important that every game have sex appeal, but it is important that artists have the freedom to make what they want.
 
Forget the beauty vs ugly argument. Devs must allow gamers input on all character designs throughout the development process. Only then will characters truly represent and capture the diversity of gamers.
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It depends. Even ugliness has its place in media, but if you're really trying to sell a game to as many people as possible, then it helps to have good looking characters in those games. It's the reason why a game like Stellar Blade is listed as the 2nd most pre-ordered game in 2024, and why people took one look at the protagonist of the open world Star Wars game and clowned the fuck out of it.
 
i only care in the sense that attractive characters make shitlibs cry and they seem to like the ugly characters so i want all characters to be attractive.
 
It's important that people who make art for their audience get to make the choices they want. That is the freedom of expression.
If you want to make ugly or beautiful characters guess what, you're actually measured by the same stick. You're going to be judged critically by aesthetics and execution, and youre going to be judged financially by how much attention, time, and money people put into it.
if you're a pragmatist its a no brainer. Sex, violence, and excitment. Thats what the most base and arcane form of instinctive entertainment is. Did the horror thing scare you and startle you? Did the romantic story make you feel the love and/or betrayal? Did the war story make you feel sad and remorseful about the glory and the guts amongst the violence? "Is it important" is really up to the artist and then the audience in that order.
 
It’s less about characters needing to be “sexy” and more wanting them to be aesthetically pleasing. Aloy from the first Horizon game was bundled up in furs and armor but she had an attractive feminine face. She wasn’t wearing boob-plate or anything outrageous, but they still had to ugly her up and turn her into a tranny looking they/them monster.

I actually don't like “sexy” character designs and never have. Shit like Bayonetta or the classic bikini armor has always seemed needlessly salacious to me, and even something as relatively tame as the original Lara Croft design would take me out of the game(this bitch with DDD tits being held back by nothing but a sopping wet tank top is doing backflips and shit?)

I don’t need female characters in games to exist as jack off material, but I don’t want seeing them to trigger an instinctual “what the fuck is that” response in me either.
 
Gog & Magog said:
Forget the beauty vs ugly argument. Devs must allow gamers input on all character designs throughout the development process. Only then will characters truly represent and capture the diversity of gamers.
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this but unironically

give games incredibly detailed character creators so retards can play as heckin genderqueer gayniggers if they want. it speaks volumes that when given effectively infinite choice, gamers enthusiastically choose memes and body horror over furthering the cause of racial justice one single-player session at a time. almost like these shrill faggots demanding representation in games... don't actually play games at all...
 
Yes. Video games are ESCAPIST fantasy. If I wanted some fat ugly lard or some homely looking cunt, I'd go outside. That's not the point of fantasy. The point of escapist media is to escape from the ordinary. If I wanted a realistic woman, I'd go outside.
 
Video games are a visual medium so on some level they should be pleasing to look at, unless the developer is intentionally going for an unsettling or garish aesthetic (like Space Funeral). There's nothing wrong with a little titillation via character design.
 
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