Good graphics = ugly characters?

I have noticed something over the years. As graphics become better in video games, the characters you play as get uglier and uglier. Look at Marcus Fenix, look at all those characters in various Western action games, and you will notice some pretty damn ugly people. Of course, the reason for all this is because graphics have improved to the point where we can see skin pores in Battlefield 3 on max PC settings. But you know, some developers exaggerate these features too much. Not everybody on Earth has ugly blemish, skin pores, acne, zits/pimples, wrinkles, scruffy neckbeards, scars, freckles, rough skin and all that ugly stuff. So why do developers keep adding all these "features" in all our games, to make our characters look hideous? Why can't I play as a handsome character? Why are female characters the only ones who are beatuiful, while male characters look like cavemen who haven't bathed in 5 years?

When I played Skyrim, I decided to play as a Khaajit instead of the human-like races. It was funny to play the game, comparing my beautiful tiger face to all of the ugly human characters I meet in my travels. Tiger beauty >>> human beauty :P

So, what do you guys think? Do you prefer playing a handsome character? Or do you prefer to bypass humans altogether and play other races like tiger-men, lizard-men, wolf-men and all that? :)

depends , FF13 had nice graphics and i didnt notice any ugly characters :D

I think you are comparing the wrong things here. The theme and genre has more to do with it than the level of graphical detail.

No, characters in games just stopped looking like featureless, generic anime/cartoon characters(not including JRPGs). Look outside your basement for once, and you'll see that most people in the world are hideously ugly.

I think you are comparing the wrong things here. The theme and genre has more to do with it than the level of graphical detail.

GD1551

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

I think you are comparing the wrong things here. The theme and genre has more to do with it than the level of graphical detail.

PandaBear86

On the flipside though this gen has games like God of War 3, Castlevania:LOS and the Uncharted series where the characters are not ugly.

A bit of variety would be nice. Playing as chiseled hardmen with gruff voices is getting pretty tiresome.

No, characters in games just stopped looking like featureless, generic anime/cartoon characters(not including JRPGs). Look outside your basement for once, and you'll see that most people in the world are hideously ugly.

DerpyMcDerp

[QUOTE="DerpyMcDerp"]

No, characters in games just stopped looking like featureless, generic anime/cartoon characters(not including JRPGs). Look outside your basement for once, and you'll see that most people in the world are hideously ugly.

PandaBear86

JRPG's are more like real life since all guys have vaginas and all women are twelve years old yet smuggling the Himalayas under their tops.

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"][QUOTE="GD1551"]

I think you are comparing the wrong things here. The theme and genre has more to do with it than the level of graphical detail.

GD1551

On the flipside though this gen has games like God of War 3, Castlevania:LOS and the Uncharted series where the characters are not ugly.

Kratos is f**king ugly.

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"] I think all of those factors contribute, including graphics. Action games on PS2 and original Xbox had some average-looking characters, but hardly ugly. Not many characters from last-gen games are anywhere near as ugly as Marcus Fenix.sakura_Ex

On the flipside though this gen has games like God of War 3, Castlevania:LOS and the Uncharted series where the characters are not ugly.

Kratos is f**king ugly.

Yeah but everyone else (except hades) isn't.

Mass Effect lets you look alright/good regardless of gender, just a fairly normal sized human... Though I wish the alien races were playable as the main character, that'd be sweet.

One of the biggest reasons I lack interest in the Gears franchise has been their art style they use for males, I don't want to play as some unrealistically hulking mountain of flesh, it would bug me to no end. That and I don't own a 360 and don't play shooters on consoles in the first place... so it's basically my 3rd biggest reason.. and I generally don't like TPS' 4th biggest reason now...

Average women aren't super models. Games aren't just like one of your animes where men look like women and every woman looks like a porn star or an underage 8 year old school girl. Western developers aim to create believable characters, not walking breast(or pedophile wank material) and yaoi fangirl bait. The majority of real people are not beautiful and as such to be believable characters, they should not look like super models.

DerpyMcDerp

FF13 doesn't really have undera.... oh wait, yea it does. I was going to correct you on that part, but then I remembered Snow and Sara, how vile.

Anyway, DMC3 doesn't have those issues, and it's certainly Japanese... and there are only like what... 4 people in that whole game? So I think it's acceptable for the only woman to be somewhat 'attractive', plenty of women are.

Dante
Vergil
Lady
Arkham/Jester dude/Slimey goo thing. That's it, right?

With the Western thing though, little bs imo, they may not do the pedophile thing (thank god), but they do hyper masculine constantly, Gears, GoW, Darksiders, and then you have the constant attractive model type women, it's just fanservice, they don't want ugly things (but somehow want Gears men?? I don't get that crap) to look at all day. I think the only place you find more 'average' people is in western RPG's of various types.

Marcus Phoenix is the only truly ugly protagonist I can think of (who is human and not super-stylized). Most of them really do look like supermodels, considering the situations they're in.

No, characters in games just stopped looking like featureless, generic anime/cartoon characters(not including JRPGs). Look outside your basement for once, and you'll see that most people in the world are hideously ugly.

DerpyMcDerp

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"] I think all of those factors contribute, including graphics. Action games on PS2 and original Xbox had some average-looking characters, but hardly ugly. Not many characters from last-gen games are anywhere near as ugly as Marcus Fenix.sakura_Ex

On the flipside though this gen has games like God of War 3, Castlevania:LOS and the Uncharted series where the characters are not ugly.

Kratos is f**king ugly.

LOL !!!! :D

[QUOTE="sakura_Ex"]

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

On the flipside though this gen has games like God of War 3, Castlevania:LOS and the Uncharted series where the characters are not ugly.

I_am_a_PS3_FB

Kratos is f**king ugly.

LOL !!!! :D

He sure looks better than all the Gears of War Characters thats for sure

I have noticed something over the years. As graphics become better in video games, the characters you play as get uglier and uglier. Look at Marcus Fenix, look at all those characters in various Western action games, and you will notice some pretty damn ugly people. Of course, the reason for all this is because graphics have improved to the point where we can see skin pores in Battlefield 3 on max PC settings. But you know, some developers exaggerate these features too much. Not everybody on Earth has ugly blemish, skin pores, acne, zits/pimples, wrinkles, scruffy neckbeards, scars, freckles, rough skin and all that ugly stuff. So why do developers keep adding all these "features" in all our games, to make our characters look hideous? Why can't I play as a handsome character? Why are female characters the only ones who are beatuiful, while male characters look like cavemen who haven't bathed in 5 years?

When I played Skyrim, I decided to play as a Khaajit instead of the human-like races. It was funny to play the game, comparing my beautiful tiger face to all of the ugly human characters I meet in my travels. Tiger beauty >>> human beauty :P

So, what do you guys think? Do you prefer playing a handsome character? Or do you prefer to bypass humans altogether and play other races like tiger-men, lizard-men, wolf-men and all that? :)

PandaBear86

Depends on the game, and the developer. Japanese developers for instance keep their characters, particuarly their females, always looking good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cu_bag57zQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85h5LEAN0HE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaUnBfvCN-U

[QUOTE="I_am_a_PS3_FB"]

[QUOTE="sakura_Ex"]

Kratos is f**king ugly.

megaspiderweb09

LOL !!!! :D

He sure looks better than all the Gears of War Characters thats for sure

Kratos is f**king ugly.sakura_Ex

He's just a pale Vin Diesel. In real life he could easily be passed off as attractive.

[QUOTE="sakura_Ex"]Kratos is f**king ugly.Cherokee_Jack

He's just a pale Vin Diesel. In real life he could easily be passed off as attractive.

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"]

I have noticed something over the years. As graphics become better in video games, the characters you play as get uglier and uglier. Look at Marcus Fenix, look at all those characters in various Western action games, and you will notice some pretty damn ugly people. Of course, the reason for all this is because graphics have improved to the point where we can see skin pores in Battlefield 3 on max PC settings. But you know, some developers exaggerate these features too much. Not everybody on Earth has ugly blemish, skin pores, acne, zits/pimples, wrinkles, scruffy neckbeards, scars, freckles, rough skin and all that ugly stuff. So why do developers keep adding all these "features" in all our games, to make our characters look hideous? Why can't I play as a handsome character? Why are female characters the only ones who are beatuiful, while male characters look like cavemen who haven't bathed in 5 years?

When I played Skyrim, I decided to play as a Khaajit instead of the human-like races. It was funny to play the game, comparing my beautiful tiger face to all of the ugly human characters I meet in my travels. Tiger beauty >>> human beauty :P

So, what do you guys think? Do you prefer playing a handsome character? Or do you prefer to bypass humans altogether and play other races like tiger-men, lizard-men, wolf-men and all that? :)

Sailor_Enlil

Depends on the game, and the developer. Japanese developers for instance keep their characters, particuarly their females, always looking good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cu_bag57zQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85h5LEAN0HE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaUnBfvCN-U

What? This is some pedo stuff here, unless you are 16 or something.

I like playing as ugly characters because they look badass.

I think it more has to do with the style of the games. Gears of War and God of War have ugly characters because they are more gritty and gory. It would look kind of strange for some pretty boys to rip each other apart.

Anything is better than playing as 14 year old pretty boys wearing tight women's clothing. A.K.A. JRPGs. The honestly if they are going to do that, they should just make the protagonist female.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="sakura_Ex"]Kratos is f**king ugly.sakura_Ex

He's just a pale Vin Diesel. In real life he could easily be passed off as attractive.

How about The Rock?

How about The Rock?

Cherokee_Jack

No.

Now you're just pulling out random guys with bald heads.

Now you're just pulling out random guys with bald heads.sakura_Ex

I can't help it, they all look the same.

[QUOTE="Sailor_Enlil"]

[QUOTE="PandaBear86"]

I have noticed something over the years. As graphics become better in video games, the characters you play as get uglier and uglier. Look at Marcus Fenix, look at all those characters in various Western action games, and you will notice some pretty damn ugly people. Of course, the reason for all this is because graphics have improved to the point where we can see skin pores in Battlefield 3 on max PC settings. But you know, some developers exaggerate these features too much. Not everybody on Earth has ugly blemish, skin pores, acne, zits/pimples, wrinkles, scruffy neckbeards, scars, freckles, rough skin and all that ugly stuff. So why do developers keep adding all these "features" in all our games, to make our characters look hideous? Why can't I play as a handsome character? Why are female characters the only ones who are beatuiful, while male characters look like cavemen who haven't bathed in 5 years?

When I played Skyrim, I decided to play as a Khaajit instead of the human-like races. It was funny to play the game, comparing my beautiful tiger face to all of the ugly human characters I meet in my travels. Tiger beauty >>> human beauty :P

So, what do you guys think? Do you prefer playing a handsome character? Or do you prefer to bypass humans altogether and play other races like tiger-men, lizard-men, wolf-men and all that? :)

GD1551

Depends on the game, and the developer. Japanese developers for instance keep their characters, particuarly their females, always looking good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cu_bag57zQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85h5LEAN0HE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaUnBfvCN-U

What? This is some pedo stuff here, unless you are 16 or something.

Nope, that's Sega's Project Diva for the PS3. A musical video game (something akin to Dance Dance Revolution).

Obviously you haven't heard of Hatsune Miku or the Vocaloids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZO8J2moWA

Nope, that's Sega's Project Diva for the PS3. A musical video game (something akin to Dance Dance Revolution).

Obviously you haven't heard of Hatsune Miku or the Vocaloids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZO8J2moWA

Sailor_Enlil

Wat is this lol.

Chloe says hey. And the Uncharted series have no where near ugly characters.

No one really looks at faces in any games. Normally my recticle blocks his face and is pumped with bullets afterwards. There's also nothing to see when- FUS RO DAH. LustForSoul

[QUOTE="sakura_Ex"]Now you're just pulling out random guys with bald heads.Cherokee_Jack

I can't help it, they all look the same.

Look at Oblivion, those are some UGLY looking Characters.

I can't help it, they all look the same.

Cherokee_Jack

HAHAHAH no.

(can't tell if joke post, but to think that the bald guy up there looks anything like Kratos is hilarious, cause that implies that he looks like Goldburg. If that's true then Solja boy is Goku.)

I dunno. Bayonetta always looked pretty good to me.

Not all characters look ugly. Take Bulletstorm. The game's cheesy as hell. But, the characters don't all look bad.

the bald guy up there LegatoSkyheart

You don't recognize J Allard? :|