KiwiQuiche wrote...
UndergoingMitosis wrote...
I think the real issue is that people (myself included) don't want to feel like a super model swinging a sword--we want to look at our characters and watch them move and feel *powerful*, and the current female models don't give that. It's not that anyone thinks femshep looks gross.
Indeed. A lot of people seem to be assuming I hate Shepard and think she's digusting; I don't, I just think her body type is extremely inappropriate for her job/storyline. Same with Hawke, hence the wanting a more muscular female PC for the next game, who looks like she could literally punch you out no sweat.
Inappropriate and appropriate change from person to person, no, 'I think s/he/it should look like this instead' statements should ever apply.
There should be no demand that a main character be skinny. There should be no demand that a main character be fat. There should be no demand that a main character be average. There should be no demand that a main character be slender. There should be no demand that a main character be curvy. There should be no demand that a main character be toned/athletic. There should be no demand that a main character be strong but husky. There should be no demand that a main character be muscular. There should be no demand that a main character be extremely muscular. There should be no demand that a main character have flat breasts, small breasts, average breasts, large breasts or otherwise. There should be no demand that a main character have nearly no bulge, a small bulge, an average bulge, a large bulge or otherwise.
The only thing asked, should ever be, "Please, may we have more customization of the main character's various features and aesthetics, including, but not limited to; their body type, body features, skin tone, eye color, hair color, hair style, hair length, height, facial features and so on and so forth." And it should never be asked of just one gender, but BOTH genders.
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Whether a main character is a skinny female bookworm with extremely pale skin, small breasts and long black hair or a large husky outdoorsy type with girl average breasts, tanned skin and short blonde hair or a dark skinned berserker nutcase girl with rippling muscles, tattoos all over their body and large breasts with braided red hair should be wholly up to the player. No demand should force everyone into the body type, or other features and colorings, preferred by another person entirely.
Now go through that all again for the male main character, because it's true of either gender. Not just one. Both. Yes, oddly enough, people interested in male character may want a different body type too - who would have thought?
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I make characters, I like making new and interesting looking characters and trying to figure out the personality and choices such a character would make to result in them looking as such. More customization is what I'll always ask for. I will never ask that one static be replaced with another static because the same problem results, that being, "Only some people are happy" whereas as more customization results in less people being left out. Unfortunately there will always be someone left out, but in adding more options that happens somewhat less at least. It's infinitely preferrable to just saying 'okay now your main characters are all muscular' or 'okay now your main characters are all curvy' or whatever the people in the next, "I think the main character should have this body type' thread want to spout.
Choices, more customization options. Not a new static form people are still forced into replacing the old static form people were forced into.
Modifié par Janan Pacha, 25 mars 2013 - 11:52 .