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Why does Sony make female characters uglier in their games?

I don't think it's deliberate in this case. It's still running on that PS4 engine
She is haggard/run down a little since she just died. 🤷‍♀️

However, the moment she sees her reflection in the sword or another object, she's going to have a self pep-talk and utilize her magic to fix herself up.

"Oh no, Faye, you're a hot mess. Let's clean yourself up." - she mutters to herself as she fixes her hair, applies magic concealer and adjusts her dress around the waistline.

If they were being true to a woman's perspective, ofc.

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This is GAF. The majority of these people merely cosplay as contributing members to society. I wouldn't set your bar as high as expecting them to know anything about women.


Men aren't biologically wired to be retarded but here you are talking in broken English and throwing around ex dee's like a twelve year old 😭 Surely that get's the ladies wet.
Im not native english speaker, learned the language mostly playing games/from entertainment, didnt visit any english speaking country even for a day btw, my only trip outside poland was actual pilgrimage in late 90s to italy/vatican to see the polish pope(saw monte casino monastery too, pretty awesome stuff) :)
Chances are ur knowledge of lauganges other than english i speak is if not 0 then close to 0, but thats fine.
Call me names all u want, once again, as long as u cant call me a liar it speaks for itself :P

And yeh, when ppl are zealots subscribed to modern day secular religion 2.0 aka feminism/wokeism they tend to get offended by science, and biology is hard science, next time u know some ppl will get offended hearing 2 plus 2 equals 4 xD
 
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This but unironically. MS quite literally has written, documented policy about female character design. Wouldn't be surprised if Sony had the same sort of mandates as well.

You wouldn't happen to have a link to this would you? Is this public knowledge? First time I've heard about this from MS.
 
Because real actresses wear 20 layers of makeup and have photographers took out and shot if they shoot them from the wrong angle.

That means, Giant goddes that survived her own death and controls magic HAVE TO look "grounded", with no makeup etc.?

In the Witcher universe women controlling magic used that power to make themselves look 10/10 all the time:

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The only thing salvageable from the lastest State of Play was the Rayman Legends remake (hopefully it's good but given Ubisofts recent track record I wouldn't bet on it), everything else was the same old Triple A third person Cinematic slop games, that had already overstayed their welcome back in 2015 and should have died with the Last of Us part 2.

Seriously how the f***k do normies keep getting hyped for this trash ? I almost fell asleep watching the first 5 minutes of that Wolverine gameplay right at the beginning of the presentation ( the less is said about the new Queen of War game the better ).

If this was an Xbox or Nintendo direct everyone would be rightfully mocking this joke of a gaming presentation, but because it's dear old Sony consoomers will somehow find new and innovative ways of shilling for all this slop, it's all so tiresome...
 
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"buh buh she doesn't have makeup on in the game"

When the fuck did people start wanting absolute realism in their movies and games? Especially a game about ancient gods killing each other and using magic lmao. Sony can go with whatever direction they want, but they are intentionally avoiding prettying up their female characters. 10-20 years ago games would make the character hotter than the actual model, not uglier and flatter.
 
That means, Giant goddes that survived her own death and controls magic HAVE TO look "grounded", with no makeup etc.?

In the Witcher universe women controlling magic used that power to make themselves look 10/10 all the time:
I don't care either way but neither Witcher universe or God of War universe are anything I would look up to.
 
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The only thing salvageable from this event was the Rayman Legends remake (hopefully it's good but given Ubisofts recent track record I wouldn't bet on it), everything else was the same old Triple A third person Cinematic slop games, that had already overstayed their welcome back in 2015 and should have died with the Last of Us part 2.

Seriously how the f***k do normies keep getting hyped for this trash ? I almost fell asleep watching the first 5 minutes of that Wolverine gameplay right at the beginning of the presentation ( the less is said about the new Queen of War game the better ).

If this was an Xbox or Nintendo direct everyone would be rightfully mocking this joke of a gaming presentation, but because it's dear old Sony consoomers will somehow find new and innovative ways of shilling for all this slop, it's all so tiresome...
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I really don't think the in-game character has to look just like the model. They made Faye look more haggard than the actual actress, but I actually think it's kinda... fine. The only reason people are even taking note of it is because how absolutely off the rails games have been in this regard for the last 5-7 years. If we were in the same realm as Sony or the other western AAAs have been in, she'd be wearing a lot more clothing, have a Jay Leno chin, and have eyes that are both too close together and bulging out of her head. But they somehow resisted that urge this time.

Jean Grey is pretty bad, though.
 
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I think I'm more down to play Kratos's wife then the girl from Ghost of Yoda. That character I think needed a supernatural twist or a more fiery personality.

I can't blame people for "noticing" or thinking of modern politics when they see another one of these gender swaps. No one assumes it's for artistic reasons anymore.
 
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Hell yeah:

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I was delighted when pouty maid was the one they sent to the camp to sweep the dirt when you first get to Howling Hill. Considering she is the the first random NPC I think we all stopped in our tracks running by to take pics of outside Hillside Manor in Hernand, lol.

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This is the actress


This is the character model in game

Why do they make women look uglier? Is this on purpose?

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"Its just a bad angle"

The bad angle:

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Alright OP, you want an adult reply and not just mud slinging, here it is. I think a lot of it comes down to technology or better yet current technological constraints. Performance capture and laser scanning of people have come much further than lighting technology in games. I can bet you 1000 bucks that with path traced lighting and shadows and better subsurface scattering she would luck much closer to how you'd like her to look.

I think Asian devs get around this issue because they almost never try to portray realistic characters and instead they go for highly stylized looks which circumvent the shortcomings of current tech. Of course some western studios are better than others, CP2077 had fantastic looking characters, although if you look at the same character in the rasterized version next to the path traced version you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

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Look how much of a difference lighting makes and how "flat" she looks in the rasterized pic. The same thing happened with Control, etc. This is also why Naughty Dog never goes for fully photorealistic characters and they're always subtly stylised.

In conclusion real life still has the best lighting and even if you laser scan a person it does not guarantee they'll look great in-game.
 
Alright OP, you want an adult reply and not just mud slinging, here it is. I think a lot of it comes down to technology or better yet current technological constraints. Performance capture and laser scanning of people have come much further than lighting technology in games. I can bet you 1000 bucks that with path traced lighting and shadows and better subsurface scattering she would luck much closer to how you'd like her to look.

I think Asian devs get around this issue because they almost never try to portray realistic characters and instead they go for highly stylized looks which circumvent the shortcomings of current tech. Of course some western studios are better than others, CP2077 had fantastic looking characters, although if you look at the same character in the rasterized version next to the path traced version you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

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Look how much of a difference lighting makes and how "flat" she looks in the rasterized pic. The same thing happened with Control, etc. This is also why Naughty Dog never goes for fully photorealistic characters and they're always subtly stylised.

In conclusion real life still has the best lighting and even if you laser scan a person it does not guarantee they'll look great in-game.
I can tell by her rack alone that the only place in the west this could be made is Poland and maybe that's it. :pie_roffles:
 
After the internet backlash and the incomplete tacked on CC they added late in their development for the most recent showing. The "male" character even had the original chick's walking animations.

And we all said it would be delayed to 2027 after seeing it.
Lets be honest. That Fable character creator probably won't allow him to make the supermodel asian chick that he expects from SSM. Atleast Faye is based on an actual supermodel.
 
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Just showed my wife and instant reaction was "oh my god" not dramatically or anything just was surprised at the total way they pretty much did that chick dirty no matter the reason lmao

But at the end of the day it's whatever, I'll enjoy the game I'm sure these are just talking points to bs around with
 
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I am glad to see some developers are backing off on this. Sony hasn't quite got the memo yet. I agree that the GOW chick is a severe downgrade from the amazing actress. It is clearly intentional.
 
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