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[powder]

There's a picture on a corkboard in the trailer that seems to show her with hair and makeup.

Honestly, though. I would like to have an arsenal of wigs to collect. There's plenty of women out there who keep their heads shaved and do wigs. I don't think they'll let you dress her up, though. I do think there's a bit of "stick it to em" going on here where letting you doll her up would be like ceding a Rare Incel Victory.

I don't think it's going to affect the game much for most people, but annoying to think that kind of approach may be affecting decisions. It would be a really easy way to please more people and I would hardly even call it a compromise for anyone reasonable on any side of it.

I thought somewhere they confirmed she has hair in the beginning of the game but the coomers are gonna lose their mind when it turns out to be braids or cornrows.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

It makes sense she shaves her head when going into an unknown planet, for the same practical reasons dudes shave in the military.

It's not about her hair or her not-very-femenine proportions, but her overall vibes.

 

[realcool]

music goes from ambient drone to "metal" religious choir and then to rock

I'm curious if the music is being crafted with the same bold ambition to embrace 1980s retrofuturism as the visuals are. It doesn't seem like it, or else it would be discernable enough for the leaker to point it out. Then again, maybe the euphonics of the 1980s isn't as easily discernable to the leaker as it is to me. Who knows if this is even real, anyway? My curiosity still stands, though.

 

[simpatico]

Fake

I think it's a 2027 title actually.

If Naughty Dog can't produce out a TLOU sequel while this HBO series has a wider audience hyped about it, what are they even doing? 2027 for Intergalactic would be a huge L. This game needs to be content complete months ago with teams already shifting to a lean TLOU 3 quickie. Remember when the entire gaming industry forgot to release Marvel games during the MCU fever dream era? This is a smaller version of that if they can't get a TLOU out the door between now and 2027. First Concord, soon Marathan, Insomniac is tied up making Wolverine for who knows what reason. Sony could really use a first party W.

 

[Crayon]

If it was a male character acting the exact same way, it would be just dull and tropey. That it's a woman is pissing people off. I want to expand on that though, because I'm not saying it's pure misogyny. - The sensible complaint imo is that that dull and tropey man character is somehow laundered by being cast female. If it had been a man, they may have been expected to get something more going on with a character than the one-dimensional edgy attitude.

They are good writers, and they're surely going to develop the character more, but all we have is the trailer. All they showed is a too-cool-for-school/hard-boiled/*yawn* character.

Now I do think there are plenty (read: some, not all) of guys trippin because the character isn't hot enough for them. Or more sadly, that it's a black woman (don't tell me otherwise). But I think a ton of it is coming from a valid place of creators trying to make female characters but not having the balls to make them interesting, with flaws and self-doubt etc. It's tiring and it's way out of touch. It's not bold or new anymore. It's been a long time. Even though a bunch of these critics may be on the anti-woke pipeline and overacting, there's validity to at least some of it.

You know what's a great female lead? Hannah. The one in my avatar. The game's writing is horrific and her voice acting is frankly insane and sounds like a cross between Schwarzenegger and Tommy Wiseau. Should be awful. But when a thug calls her bitch three times like it's her name, she doesn't get "Activated". She doesn't go into a speech about how this bitch can do anything a man can do or something. It goes right through her because it's just words. Warns the guy she's going to waste him and follows through.

You get to see her girl talk. How she's been on a couple dates but feeling disinterested. You get to see her do a little sass in the mirror to herself even though she doesn't put much effort into her appearance. And you get to see that she's been trying to play mom to a kid in a shelter and doing a shitty job of it and feeling sorry for herself instead of making a change. All this with actual shitty writing and acting, because they sketched out a character who makes problems for themselves or just doesn't know what to do sometimes. It's way more relatable and it's actually super interesting to relate to someone who is not like you. ie: a woman when you are a man.

So I'm a little scared nd is going to fall into that trap of making a boring ass character that may get a pass because it's a non-sexualized woman. (Hannah btw in non-sexualized) But, I won't write them off just yet. I only got around to tlou recently and am super impressed with what this studio can do in terms of storytelling. There's probably nothing for me to worry about. The trailer raised an eyebrow but I'm not going to run off extrapolating a 30 hour game off of it.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

It makes sense she shaves her head when going into an unknown planet, for the same practical reasons dudes shave in the military.

It's not about her hair or her not-very-femenine proportions, but her overall vibes.

well, we know this is not true.