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Do you hold the appearance of the main character in Returnal against the game?
Hobbygaming
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Its good for people in the know but you can't not also post the audio from that one lol:
and the followup:
Bonfires Down
Member
azertydu91
Hard to Kill
Yeah because of how the game plays and the number of ennemie it makes it hard for me to mastubate on her space flat ass while playing.Honestly if the character is as ugly as Susan boyles but the game is awesome and plays great I won't care.
akaFullmetal
Member
No, I'm not shallow and need to look at a Barbie to enjoy a game. I rather have someone looking realistic and gritty in a game like this who is trying to survive.
Goalus
Member
The reason for that is probably the same as why a man can behave like a total dork but still be cool if he does it in a "skilled" way. The same would be much more difficult for a woman. I don't know why that is, but it seems to be the reality.To the people saying 'it's not that she's a woman, it's just that nobody wants to play as unattractive older characters', I would point out that nobody minds when it's men:
It's all in the wrist
Member
It's a person. They could make this woman Samus in Prime 4 for all I care.
Calling 911 Melts Beams
Banned
what? no of course not. i love willem dafoe
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
Not every female lead has to look like an ultra-sexy supermodel.
prinz_valium
Member
No. Unlike infamous second son or the last of us 2, she isn't unlike able
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
LOL @ spit game. Yeah I think they are going for the "everyday girl gets transported to a fantasy place" type story. And 100% Uncharted based. I completely agree. Not surprising considering who's writing the story.
ToxicWeeb
Banned
Yes, I absolutely hold against it. She is hideous lol. Why would you ever do that on purpose? You want the main character of your game to be cute, charming, desirable. You want people cosplaying the character that you created. Who will ever feel anything towards that old hag?
"B-b-but not every character needs to be attractive!!". True, it's fine when it happens once in a while. The problem is that the plague already spread in the entire western gaming industry. Any type of fanservice is haram. Attractive female characters are haram. It's a systemic problem. So yes, this character was only created because the progressive religion demanded it, pretending otherwise is disingenuous.
In a true free market games like Returnal would simply crash and burn, unfortunately banks fund wokeness with billions of dollars, Sony doesn't care whether it is a flop or not. At least I can find personal satisfaction knowing I'll never give a dime to play these types of games.
"B-b-but not every character needs to be attractive!!". True, it's fine when it happens once in a while. The problem is that the plague already spread in the entire western gaming industry. Any type of fanservice is haram. Attractive female characters are haram. It's a systemic problem. So yes, this character was only created because the progressive religion demanded it, pretending otherwise is disingenuous.
In a true free market games like Returnal would simply crash and burn, unfortunately banks fund wokeness with billions of dollars, Sony doesn't care whether it is a flop or not. At least I can find personal satisfaction knowing I'll never give a dime to play these types of games.
tommib
Member
Mind your manners, young man. Or I’ll tell your mother all the things you write on the internet and she will be sad.
Swift_Star
Banned
Why would that bother someone?
Imp the Dimp
Member
If anything I can't take all the 10/10 top model characters seriously. Please provide us with actual human beings we can connect with. I have no idea how a gaming community, which is probably above average in terms of obesity frequency, would connect with giga Chads and Stacys. None of us look like this. The Returnal MC looks just fine.
. Tell me you've not interacted with women in any meaningful capacity ever without saying it.
You're absolutely fucking delusional lmao
. Tell me you've not interacted with women in any meaningful capacity ever without saying it.
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BigBooper
Member
Then where do babies come from?
She is really modeled after that Green Greta, isn't she? Really looks like her with 10-15 years of added anger and age.
Deerock71
Member
It doesn't. It's not making me spend any money on it, which is always a good thing. Create more Karens as lead characters in your games, devs; I might be able to retire a few years earlier than I was planning on!
Banjo64
cumsessed
Likewise; if everyone is a ugly cunt, then no one is an ugly cunt. Except this bitch.
Calling 911 Melts Beams
Banned
i need the internets to know that i wouldnt have sexy intercourse with this configuration of polygons and textures
Swift_Star
Banned
You can have both. Let’s have both.
Swift_Star
Banned
If that take incels away from gaming, good.
But you really should sort out your priorities. If character appearance look is above gameplay, artstyle and story, this hobby clearly is not for you.
Deerock71
Member
I'll spend my money however I like. Video games it is. Oh wow- this hobby is clearly for me!
Belthazar
Member
"Daddy, what does 'woke' mean?"
"Well, son, it's a subversion of the natural order is what it is. The natural order being that the only sensible lead protagonist in anything - be it films, books or video games - is a straight, white cis-gendered and preferably western man of around 30-50 summers. If you see a woman - especially an ugly one - a man of colour, or god forbid one of those gays in a leading role, well... that right there - that's 'woke'. There ain't no sensible reason anybody anywhere in the whole wide world would want to put people like that into anything other than a supporting role. Every sensible creative, working under his own steam, would rather tell the time-honoured story of the glorious white man than that of any other. The only reason they'd even consider doing otherwise - of putting some woman in those shoes - is all the pressure they get from liberals and students and those damned do-gooders in the media."
I'm only caping for common sense. The idea that the only stories creatives are interested in telling are those of straight, white tough-men and that the only reason they try to do something different is the 'woke' agenda doesn't hold any water. We've had decades of square-jawed marines, unhinged vigilantes and brooding hairy dads... if developers aren't bored of retelling the same story over and over again, I'm sure as hell bored of listening.
To the people saying 'it's not that she's a woman, it's just that nobody wants to play as unattractive older characters', I would point out that nobody minds when it's men:
This has to be the best post I've seen in this website
Swift_Star
Banned
Are you sure? I think it really isn’t. And yeah, you can spend your money the way you want to and trying to sort your priorities out should be your number one activity right now. I’m sorry to break this out to you: but gaming is becoming more and more woke. Everyday and diverse people are going to become more and more common. If that makes you stop playing games, then the hobby isn’t for you. It is what it is.
Arcadialane
Member
Every good game has been made by an incel. Nerdy dudes who spend all their time learning to programme and wanted to make cool shit for other dudes.
Nothing great, meaningful, or innovative is going to come from career women/men and suite types who work in large multi national companies, that are basically factories assembling focus tested games together.
Gabe, meier, kojima, carmack, todd howard etc, all incels.
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Ironbunny
Member
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
No.....i hold the fact that there aren't shortcuts to get quickly back to boss fights after i die against it. Even the Soulsborne games do that.
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Azurro
Banned
I prefer an aspirational approach to designing characters. I want to play as characters I'd like to spend time with, characters that are cool, attractive, stylish, you know the drill. I don't need to see ugly and/or fat people in a game, I don't need to see ugly bastards represented in a game there's enough weirdos and ugly people in real life, no offence intended.
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Rhazer Fusion
Member
Nah. Space Karen is cool with me. I actually don’t mind seeing an older or mature character for once.
The Cockatrice
Gold Member
She was good, nice ass, pleasant voice. 5/7 would bang her even tho she has, uhm, issues.
Spaceman292
Banned
They're all married with kids you incel maniac
ToxicWeeb
Banned
Yes, we can't ""connect"" with pretty characters, but I can surely connect with an ugly middle aged woman lmao.If anything I can't take all the 10/10 top model characters seriously. Please provide us with actual human beings we can connect with. I have no idea how a gaming community, which is probably above average in terms of obesity frequency, would connect with giga Chads and Stacys. None of us look like this. The Returnal MC looks just fine.
You're absolutely fucking delusional lmao
It's FICTION my friend, we don't want "realism". We like to see pretty characters and people. We want movies with attractive actors and actresses. Even if I was fat I wouldn't want to see myself as a character the vast majority of time.
I might not interact that much with women romantically speaking because, you know, I'm gay. But I can guarantee you women themselves would rather have Samus than old ugly characters. It's no coincidence Returnal is a flop.
mortal
Gold Member
mortal
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TexMex
Member
Yes, I absolutely hold against it. She is hideous lol. Why would you ever do that on purpose? You want the main character of your game to be cute, charming, desirable. You want people cosplaying the character that you created. Who will ever feel anything towards that old hag?
"B-b-but not every character needs to be attractive!!". True, it's fine when it happens once in a while. The problem is that the plague already spread in the entire western gaming industry. Any type of fanservice is haram. Attractive female characters are haram. It's a systemic problem. So yes, this character was only created because the progressive religion demanded it, pretending otherwise is disingenuous.
In a true free market games like Returnal would simply crash and burn, unfortunately banks fund wokeness with billions of dollars, Sony doesn't care whether it is a flop or not. At least I can find personal satisfaction knowing I'll never give a dime to play these types of games.
I can’t even be mad, at least you warn everyone right there in your username.
Faithless83
Banned
Came for this, was not disappointed.Yes, I absolutely hold against it. She is hideous lol. Why would you ever do that on purpose? You want the main character of your game to be cute, charming, desirable. You want people cosplaying the character that you created. Who will ever feel anything towards that old hag?
"B-b-but not every character needs to be attractive!!". True, it's fine when it happens once in a while. The problem is that the plague already spread in the entire western gaming industry. Any type of fanservice is haram. Attractive female characters are haram. It's a systemic problem. So yes, this character was only created because the progressive religion demanded it, pretending otherwise is disingenuous.
In a true free market games like Returnal would simply crash and burn, unfortunately banks fund wokeness with billions of dollars, Sony doesn't care whether it is a flop or not. At least I can find personal satisfaction knowing I'll never give a dime to play these types of games.
"Unrealistic woman". Yeah, they don't need to super models, same as not every guy in games needs to be handsome/ripped to hell and back, but why did they choose an older woman on a run and gun game?
Where she runs and jumps all the time?
Because that's realistic AF, right?
It was supposed to be my PS5 launch title but I skipped it, was there a reason in the story for her to be an older woman? Because gameplay wise, that is a hard sell.
Are we forgetting the "GOW 2 Thor belly" debacle already?
Woman, supermodels or not, have bone structure of females... everyone, specially artists know that.
As a Sony fan, I don't like where this is going... good thing we still have japanese devs still not affected by "The agenda".
Hinedorf
Banned
I would absolutely admit as a hetero male I've always preferred my protagonist or role character to be male. It does initially bother me when I see video games staring female protagonists as part of me just considers is more woke culture as I am of the opinion that deciding the sex of the primary protagonist is being decided by people other than story tellers.
I would also counter that Horizon Zero Dawn protagonist Aloy I absolutely fucking love and wouldn't change for a single thing.
Protagonist sex has never been a deal breaker for me but as culture has changed there was the period where females existed as a princess to be recued, to a treasure hunter with big tits, to actually being respectable individuals that live on the depth of their own character and world. I can appreciate women have finally gotten much due respect in the video game world but it doesn't change the fact women as a whole are a minority to the video gaming community.
I would also counter that Horizon Zero Dawn protagonist Aloy I absolutely fucking love and wouldn't change for a single thing.
Protagonist sex has never been a deal breaker for me but as culture has changed there was the period where females existed as a princess to be recued, to a treasure hunter with big tits, to actually being respectable individuals that live on the depth of their own character and world. I can appreciate women have finally gotten much due respect in the video game world but it doesn't change the fact women as a whole are a minority to the video gaming community.
Lunarorbit
Member
Hahaha. Kareness. Definitely has the haircut to be considered a karen but she's a little too svelte. She could be a scandanavian Karen.
A Keren?
No her looks don't bother me at all. I've been meaning to play this. After far cry and deaths door.
A Keren?
No her looks don't bother me at all. I've been meaning to play this. After far cry and deaths door.
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