To be fair that does look bad, not on a character design level, but because it looks like this character was rendered by a Dreamcast
Which is usualy what pepole are really complaining about . But somehow instead of saying graphics look like shit pepole will complain that main character is ugly, probably beacuse they dont know any better. Its similar case with the little mermaid for example where first and foremost you will see that main character was black but when you watch a professional critic the first thing ypu will see is that the film is extremely dark. Sp dark that its hard to see shit and thats probably a bigger reason why pepole are complaining. Ultimately there is very little complains about race gender or whatewer the fuck is actually controversial at the moment when the movie is good.
As a person who has close relations with racism, this is lie and self-deceit.
Agreed, people weren’t mad because Aloy wasn’t ray-traced heavily enough, they were mad she matched the game’s art-style and aesthetic instead of looking like the babe with huge cans from Underage Panty Quest XVII or whatever
I disagree. Alghtough it might be country specifc for me. But generaly pepole dont know shit and atrribute bad movies flaw to being ‘woke’ whereas truth is its quite often the writing or technical issue ( but lets not kid ourselfs. The reason they atrribute race as an issue is actualy because they are racist ).
It is a screenshot from a youtube video posted by someone who had an inherent interest in making the character look bad. If you have watched the trailer you will know the picture is not representative of how the character actually looks in game.
oh fuck she has cheekbones, western society is now lost
New low point… Intimidated by the chick that’s actually interesting. Look how ugly shes is when piloting a spaceship and fighting bandits. No one could ever think that’s hot, riiiiiight ?
I’d hit that any day over a wimpy bimbo bitch.
Wow… Guess we are lucky PacMan is sexy AF otherwise no one would have played it.
Who cares about the face? It’s the 130$ price tag that’s really off-putting.
It is $70 for the standard edition, quit being disingenuous.
Collectors editions and the like have existed since the inception of video games.
70$ for a gimped version of the game. They deliberately took out content (season pass, 2 extra missions, etc.), make you wait an arbitrary amount of days longer to play and are not giving you the stuff that we used to get for free like art books.
Dont fall for their propaganda.
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Damage control. The publishers want to put the incels on blast to divert attention away from the price tag backlash.
WTF? I hadn’t heard that. Yeah, that’s something I might buy when it’s on sale for 15 Euro or so. I can wait.
I’m not going to buy it because it’s overpriced, has season passes, and will almost certainly be infected with Denuvo malware… because Ubisoft just has to ruin everything they touch.
The MC looks awesome, though.
And the game looks like it was designed by The Algorithm.
Meanwhile, Dark Souls players be like:
The peak of humanity. I think everyone agrees.
This is why Gwyn feared the darkness.
Man, the number of times I, a male gamer, have played as an ugly dude…
Wrong. You want to bang Mario. Say it.
No… He played as the ugly dude because he IS the ugly dude…
Which like… Same… 😞
Okay, so the hair isn’t doing her any favors, but so fucking what? That’s just personal opinion, and it’s no reason not to buy the game.
Speak for yourself, I love a woman with an Outer Rim perm
Women with any kind of visual character has become shorthand for “we’re about to push our political agenda down your throat and call you a bigot if you don’t pay us for the privilege”
so while it’s not great to judge a book by it’s cover … that’s the entire point of the cover.
Yeah every game I don’t buy screams “bigot!” As I scroll by it on steam… and the doctor says I need meds! Pfft
Braindead take
I get that’s the hype, but honestly, have you ever actually been called a bigot?
This shit gets astoundingly spicy, multiple groups planting extremely firm flags against each other. Somehow an attractive female character is a sign of the culture war. Both having one and not having one, it’s honestly very crazy and appears to be mostly a phenomenon on YouTube and Twitter/X.
But yeah, people be throwing every insult in the book at eachother, it was not uncommon to be referred to as a transphobic bigot on the last one of these (Hogwarts legacy). It’s not uncommon to get referred to as a misogynistic bigot on this one.
I’m trying not to engage, and if I actually want to play something that’s involved in one of these stupid fights (stellar blade now, Hogwarts then, or one of the games on the SBI detected group), I have to hide it on steam. Just cause I’m not sure if I’m gonna have to block one of my friends for being a fucking moron and both groups are rabidly angry at each other. Whether it’s legitimate or not, I don’t give a fucking shit!
Yeah it’s totally crazy anyone would call jk Rowling a transphobe! /s
JK Rowling is for sure a transphobe, the backlash against that game (sales Numbers showed how many people have a shit about that connection) was stupid.
The arguments were just something you agree with, I just wanted to play the game without engaging in the ridiculous and over the top backlash.
It’s all the same shit, someone doesn’t want me to play a game cause they have some fucking issue, and I don’t care what it is! Big tits, the involvement of story consultants, the writer of the original story went insane, none of those things affect the game for me.
You gave a transphobe money and you don’t care. That’s what you just said. Yeah, shocker anyone could get upset about that
Yeah see, you are one of those terminally online freaks who actually engage in this fucking nonsense. No one cared, everyone still bought the game, they just agreed with you to not get in an argument.
Same with these freaks against sweet baby Inc, or people against stellar blade because of the model, or some idiot getting mad the main character has a natural bone structure.
This shit only plays on these spaces, including Twitter and YouTube.
What are these people lacking in their life that the aesthetics of a protagonist in a video game is so important that they won’t play it.
yall really should be more upset that its an RPG type game in the star wars universe with tons of interesting aliens and races + new unknown main characters… but no you have to play as a milk toast human again. for a 70$ i expect there to be at least the “human” aliens. for a 130 though it would have to have playable ithorians, hutts, and B’omarr monks
It’s milquetoast fyi
The playable character actually eats milk on toast.
I’ve seen a couple of pics of the character and god damn she is soooooo my type. At that point I’m guessing every women that’s doesn’t look a 12 years old or have gigantic boobs and some asian baby face are considered ugly by “gamers”? Are all the gamer’s mom ugly?
Right! My first thought was that this character (I know nothing about this game/franchise) is hot as hell.
Nobody is ever going to be everyone’s type, so who cares if she’s not “hot” to these gamerbros. The writers, artists and devs are focused on making a good character and a good game. It’s not like this is a dating sim designed to provide fan service to a wide audience, I’m guessing based on the genre, this character is not there to turn you on, so who cares if she doesn’t.
If you can’t stand to play a game without a character you find hot in it, That’s what cosmetic mods are for.
Let the rest of us have our sexy soft butch women, and our realistic examples of what women look like.
Soft butch pan women tend to really do it for me. Not a fetish or anything, just an observation about myself.
They’re obviously going for a ripley-esque archetype which definitely does appeal to people.
Hot take: Others want games to be superhero stories and others want games to be normal people stories.
No need for conflict as people are different and seeking different things.
Yeah but the former is loud, obnoxious and misogynistic about it. Whereas the latter is only heard from to call out the former.
My Rocket League character is a normal super hero. The character development is fairly deep.
DRM on the installer and these superficial dumbasses are worried about this?
DRM and Rootkits: I sleep
Main character looks like normal person instead of a perfect 11/10 Greek goddess: REAL SHIT?DRM is very common these days and most people don’t give a shit.
Ugly people have existed way longer, but for some reason some still seem to care.
Am not arguing about that part
She’s better-looking than Luke Skywalker.
