It's a little bit tiresome at this point, but it doesn't really hurt anybody.Why is it tiresome?
Anything is better than the dark-haired (or bald) white guy with stubble in his 30sWeird thing is characters generally had hair until the PS3.
Weird thing is characters generally had hair until the PS3.Its because when the shift for more realistic games really started taking off during the 360 and PS3 generation so has the need to really, really care about hair clipping through clothes.
Who?Oh, you know the ones.
From my time lurking the more weebier boards on this site and on reddit, the thing about gamers that usually complain about something like this is that its not that protagonists are female that mainly has them hot and bothered (well you do actually get that woman hater every now and then)........its that they aren't "traditionally attractive" like female MCs normally were until the change for dialing down on eye-candy priority happened. (From western developers. Asian devs kind of just do their own thing regardless still).
Like they are pissed that western devs aren't designing them like this anymore...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/87a9279a.jpg
(Not saying I agree with whatever it is they complain about. I just lurk in enough dork places to kind of know what that side of gamers is complaining about. Kind of like the whole sony censors *insert niche game here* thing).
Like they are pissed that western devs aren't designing them like this anymore...If I learned anything from the Perfect Dark topic they would be pissed at her chin.
The female stuff is clearly baseless but Sony does have a documented pattern of having it out against smaller studios.Oh nah, not denying that is does happen because it definitely does. Its just one of those "is it really worth caring that much?" kind of things which is why I brought it up.
If I learned anything from the Perfect Dark topic they would be pissed at her chin.Yeah thats usually how it is, lol. Any kind of in their eyes "flaw" is going to be picked apart, even if its one of those bad camera angle/shot type of deals.
Oh nah, not denying that is does happen because it definitely does. Its just one of those "is it really worth caring that much?" kind of things which is why I brought it up.
Like yeah, it is true that western devs (at least the bigger publishers. Indie devs like eastern devs kind of just do their own thing) has decided to opt down on the cheesecake factor that used to be common, but to be upset enough to whine about it time, and time, and time, and time, and time etc. etc. again, it gets old. There is other options if one must have their attractive female characters (just buying japanese/chinese/korean and indie games if the issue truly is that bad to complain about it in every stream chat, like what was going on in both the state of play and xbox reveal's chat).
Reason I brought up the sony thing because its pretty much the exact same type of situation. Yeah, we all know it happens, but at this point sony might not ever change their policies to how it was in the past so instead of complaining that it happens just move on and buy these censored games on steam or nintendo's platform. It just gets old hearing about it all the time like dudes intentionally need to work others up into a frenzy of anger to do......what exactly?
Its because when the shift for more realistic games really started taking off during the 360 and PS3 generation so has the need to really, really care about hair clipping through clothes.That actually makes total sense.
Hair clothes clipping and dedicating more resources to hair physics are the exact 2 reasons a dev will tell you why they don't create a whole lot of long hair styles for characters like that these days.
Japanese, chinese, and korean devs tend to prioritize style more than realism so the reason we tend to see their dev's games get long hair is because if it clips through clothes and is barely animated worth a damn it is worthy sacrifices for looking cool.