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[kruis]

Imagine if that was Eve from Stellar Blade, shit would have broken the internet. Sony should just start farming out character designs to 3rd party Asian studios.

Yep, if Druckman had gone full throttle on the 1980ies retro look with an attractive female protagonist oozing both brawn and charm without the woke trappings, everyone would be raving about this. But this trailer doesn't ooze any charm, it just oozes...

 

[diffusionx]

A character design that is the likeness of the voice actress doing the voice for said character. In fact, rendering wise this is up there as some of the best character rendering ever created in game (if it is indeed realtime). It is VERY close to the voice actress so to say this character is ugly is basically saying the voice actress is ugly (which she most certainly is not)

it's still a character design. The character in game does not actually exist. This is just a fact. But it's not like these companies don't take liberties when the actress is attractive, as Ubishit did with Star Wars.

 

[nial]

Astro Bot was likely done before he was promoted.

The game didn't start development until 2021.

 

[Imtjnotu]

They just made sure protagonist is ugly as as a sin, despite having asian genetics.
Here for comparision some top asian beauty for u, so u can compare:

And yeh, some horny gaffer will claim they would bang even that baldie, and its fine, bro's bang anything on slow tuesday

If your wife or girlfriend looks nothing like these models, what are you tripping for?

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Chuck Berry]

Where's my Asmongold vid? I want more gasoline spilled onto this

 

[OccamsLightsaber]

it's not "someone", like this is not a real person, it is a character design.

Oh I'm sure ND withholding the identity of the real world actress to protect them from nut jobs like you.

 

[RaduN]

He wrote Abby to be strong and resilent like a cyborg in tlou part2, that is not good writing, u can argue huge amount of performance enhancing drugs gave her increased strenght and endurance but where are side-effects aka masculine voice, and why does abby's skull suddenly gets stronger from steel?

That's not the full extent of the problems with 2s attempt at being a full circle revenge story.
It is the inability to do proper, believable, creative characterisation. Joel was good though, for the little he appeared.
Also the fact that it copies the main plot points from TWD (1 does it heavily as well), really show the limits of the writer's talent.
The lesbian angle was just...there.

There was a solid base there, not original though and not well further developed.

 

[diffusionx]

Oh I'm sure ND withholding the identity of the real world actress to protect them from nut jobs like you.

The real person is not the same as the character.

The character design was a series of intentional choices, like when Naughty Dog decided to give one of their females a set of arms, shoulders, and traps that would make male Olympic athletes jealous with envy.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I do commend ND for going future sci-fi, when a new Uncharted or Last of Us are sitting right there.

 

[Bartski]

Me, before the game was even confirmed being ND.



And yes I'm proud of it.

same, sounds like she's also voicing her

 

[ManaByte]

when a new Uncharted

Which 100% wouldn't star Drake.

 

[ReBurn]

They just made sure protagonist is ugly as as a sin, despite having asian genetics.
Here for comparision some top asian beauty for u, so u can compare:

And yeh, some horny gaffer will claim they would bang even that baldie, and its fine, bro's bang anything on slow tuesday

I think that's an assembly line. They're just making the same one over and over.

 

[Boglin]

If your wife or girlfriend looks nothing like these models, what are you tripping for?

Come on. The dude has the right to express what type of female he finds attractive just as much as Drunkmann does.

 

[diffusionx]

They just made sure protagonist is ugly as as a sin, despite having asian genetics.
Here for comparision some top asian beauty for u, so u can compare:

And yeh, some horny gaffer will claim they would bang even that baldie, and its fine, bro's bang anything on slow tuesday

*unzips dick*

 

[Loomy]

Which 100% wouldn't star Drake.

Drake was old by the time UC4 started and much older at the end of it. Definitely not swinging from vines anymore lol

 

[ManaByte]

Drake was old by the time UC4 started and much older at the end of it. Definitely not swinging from vines anymore lol

Uncharted 4 set up his daughter for the next game, if one is made.

 

[Icymanipulator]

Generated some alternative character designs.

The first one looks great! She’s genuinely attractive, nice

 

[touchfuzzy]

If anything it's nice to see Naughty Dog having some fun again. Not in love with the character design but I'm way more interested in this than another dour violent Last of Us game.

 

[XXL]

Regardless of what you think of this game......the "this will be the next Concord" takes are kind of delusional.

Naughty Dog are huge and TLOU Part 2 was extremely successful.

 

[Ponderling]

ND gone bipolar and created the antithesis of Nathan Drake with their new [pronoun placeholder] protagonist.

 

[adamsapple]

*unzips dick*

Don't you mean unzip pants?

 

[Rob_27]

Looked ok and then it showed some kind of gameplay at the end. That didn't look like my type of thing. But I will hold judgement for now.

 

[Coherenthy]

Just give the MC a helmet or something and I'm good.

 

[Loomy]

Uncharted 4 set up his daughter for the next game, if one is made.

Pretty much. Would be interesting to find out what motivates her if they go in that direction though. Grew up in a rich family so it wouldn't be for the money.

The other option is to continue with Chloe and Nadine. That wasn't a bad combo.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

"Why is everyone just reacting to the character design?" -- the thing is, the whole trailer was nothing but a kind of fetishistic salivating over this character. There are times when you can too uncomfortably feel a director's distinct fetish, the gaze of the camera, and this is one of those cases.

It's basically a mini-porno for a certain type of man who finds this particular female fantasy erotic. We open to her shaving her head with a shot gazing over her scars, tattoos, manly shoulders... basically the only idea behind the shot is "power androgyny." Then the conversation with her handler is nothing but a series of "I'm too badass to care" tropes with shots of her muscular arms and attitude, on and on to the point where it starts to get embarrassing to watch.

Don't let anyone try to tell you "not all female protagonists need to give you a boner, just let her be!" because it's 100% a lie to suggest that the badass-lesbian-androgynous heroine is anything but a different 100% sexual fetish. And some of us will never give a dime to a game if it's going to end up in the pockets of a sad man/team who enjoys that kind of thing; we find them fundamentally gross.

 

[PeteBull]

What a shitty counterpoint, you will say the exact same thing over every first-party game you actually liked. Gran Turismo 7? Helldivers 2?

Herman is CEO from June 2024, from that time we know his beloved baby aka concord- got most massive flop in history of games, and another flop- lego horizon, too
Astro is high quality but lets judge future sony output under hulst, like we can under druckman- tlou2 was big downgrade over first part in everything but graphics and animation, Factions got canceled, now this game, so far looks pretty terrible imho, let them show TLOU3 or more gameplay from this, and we can judge properly

No need to be politically correct- ND's( aka Druckmanns) decision of making terrible design protagonist gonna cost this game big chunk of sales, i wish it was strong masculine man instead(like Joel, or Nathan Drake), coz i wish the IP and dev studio all the best, but its not up to me to make the game good, i can only judge if i like it/if its good from my pov, that is that

 

[EN250]

Generated some alternative character designs.

AI is gonna nuke so many jobs is not even funny, good lord, that's better than the standard design by committee trash assigned to black/mixed female characters for the past 10 years or so

 

[Sophist]

good models, textures, lightning and all but the animations... when the girl enters the pilot room and go down some stairs, she's moving her arms like she's skiing or something.

 

[OccamsLightsaber]

They just made sure protagonist is ugly as as a sin, despite having asian genetics.
Here for comparision some top asian beauty for u, so u can compare:

And yeh, some horny gaffer will claim they would bang even that baldie, and its fine, bro's bang anything on slow tuesday

The real person is not the same as the character.

The character design was a series of intentional choices, like when Naughty Dog decided to give one of their females a set of arms, shoulders, and traps that would make male Olympic athletes jealous with envy.

How else would she have been able to bash Joel's head in, it just wouldn't be realistic.

 

[proandrad]

Pretty much. Would be interesting to find out what motivates her if they go in that direction though. Grew up in a rich family so it wouldn't be for the money.

The other option is to continue with Chloe and Nadine. That wasn't a bad combo.

Sam and Sully would be goated.

 

[Kacho]

I wonder if we'll see a delay to 2028 at this point and Druckmann is being pulled into a meeting to avoid another Concord.

I very much doubt it. Companies and studios are always up their own ass with what they make. "We believe in our vison blah blah blah"

 

[Loomy]

Sam and Sully would be goated.

Between Sam's cigarettes and Sully's cigars, you'd be playing the game through a haze of smoke! lmao

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

AI is gonna nuke so many jobs is not even funny, good lord, that's better than the standard design by committee trash asigned to black/mixed female characters for the past 10 years or so

The thing is, it’s not that humans are incapable of making attractive characters. It’s that there’s some design by committee making the deliberate choice to make them non-feminine and unappealing to the male gaze.

If you gave those dipshits AI, they’d keep telling the AI to make it look more androgynous and less sexualized until it looked something like what we got.

 

[Trunim]

After the mess called Starfield, finally we'll get the space game we deserve.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I’m surprised that the Porsche spaceship didn’t breakdown on the way to the planet though. I hope she’s with the AA.

Because it's a Porsche, not a Volkswagon/Audi or Mercedes.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

The world wants more ugly main characters, dammit. It's an easy fix too. Like just make her look kinda like she really looks.

Perfectly suitable.

 

[nial]

Herman is CEO from June 2024, from that time we know his beloved baby aka concord- got most massive flop in history of games, and another flop- lego horizon, too

What does this have to do with anything? You guys would rather make a pointless wall of text than to admit that you're wrong, lol.
Lego Horizon also costed like 50 cents to make, it's not more of a flop that something like Drawn to Death last gen (and this was a much, MUCH worse game).

 

[Chuck Berry]

Because it's a Porsche, not a Volkswagon/Audi or Mercedes.

With how the protagonist looks, it should've been a Jaguar

 

[Loomy]

The world wants more ugly main characters, dammit. It's an easy fix too. Like just make her look kinda like she really looks.

Perfectly suitable.

She also kinda looks like this. They obviously had options and chose the one they wanted.

 

[captainnapalm]

One thing that's not in doubt - that Trent Renzor soundtrack is awesome. Carries the whole trailer. What a shame it's wasted on Neil Druckmann's latest butch creation.

 

[FoxMcChief]

AI is gonna nuke so many jobs is not even funny, good lord, that's better than the standard design by committee trash assigned to black/mixed female characters for the past 10 years or so

Good.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

"Why is everyone just reacting to the character design?" -- the thing is, the whole trailer was nothing but a kind of fetishistic salivating over this character. There are times when you can too uncomfortably feel a director's distinct fetish, the gaze of the camera, and this is one of those cases.

It's basically a mini-porno for a certain type of man who finds this particular female fantasy erotic. We open to her shaving her head with a shot gazing over her scars, tattoos, manly shoulders... basically the only idea behind the shot is "power androgyny." Then the conversation with her handler is nothing but a series of "I'm too badass to care" tropes with shots of her muscular arms and attitude, on and on to the point where it starts to get embarrassing to watch.

Don't let anyone try to tell you "not all female protagonists need to give you a boner, just let her be!" because it's 100% a lie to suggest that the badass-lesbian-androgynous heroine is anything but a different 100% sexual fetish. And some of us will never give a dime to a game if it's going to end up in the pockets of a sad man/team who enjoys that kind of thing; we find them fundamentally gross.

I really don’t know. Sometimes I think that they just really love forcing their toxic male audience to eat shit and pretend they like it. It’s a power thing. Like “hey, we fetishized this deliberately ugly and non-feminine character, now you better show us all how righteous you are by pretending she’s just as great as those big titty waifus. You wouldn’t want women to think that you’re some shallow pig, would you?”

 

[StreetsofBeige]

She also kinda looks like this. They obviously had options and chose the one they wanted.

Practically a shaved head and double nose rings. That's sure someone to bring to a family dinner.

 

[DForce]

Ripley was (still is) a beauty woman, that thing of the game is a non binary cis transgender male thing

Big stretch.

 

[Shrap]

Maaaaan why do devs have to keep coming up with these pretentious ass secondary titles - "The Heretic Prophet"? What does that even mean? Intergalactic is enough and a single word title is far more attention grabbing and marketable.

Protag is ugly but who cares, I've played plenty of games with ugly protagonists. Every time I look at Aloy I see the mexican boxer Canelo Alvarez for example. It doesn't hurt my enjoyment of a game and I'm glad ND are working on a brand new IP. Should be a good time.

 

[OccamsLightsaber]

"Why is everyone just reacting to the character design?" -- the thing is, the whole trailer was nothing but a kind of fetishistic salivating over this character. There are times when you can too uncomfortably feel a director's distinct fetish, the gaze of the camera, and this is one of those cases.

It's basically a mini-porno for a certain type of man who finds this particular female fantasy erotic. We open to her shaving her head with a shot gazing over her scars, tattoos, manly shoulders... basically the only idea behind the shot is "power androgyny." Then the conversation with her handler is nothing but a series of "I'm too badass to care" tropes with shots of her muscular arms and attitude, on and on to the point where it starts to get embarrassing to watch.

Don't let anyone try to tell you "not all female protagonists need to give you a boner, just let her be!" because it's 100% a lie to suggest that the badass-lesbian-androgynous heroine is anything but a different 100% sexual fetish. And some of us will never give a dime to a game if it's going to end up in the pockets of a sad man/team who enjoys that kind of thing; we find them fundamentally gross.

Speak for yourself

 

[PhillyPhreak11]

A chick shaving the hair off her head. Where have I seen that before?

 

[FoxMcChief]

A chick shaving the hair off her head. Where have I seen that before?

Any action movie where a woman wants to seem tough.

 

[Shtof]

How can people be so salty over a video game character? But tbh, I think Neil loves this stuff. Making them seethe on such a scale must be mesmerizing.