I assume it's The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
I would guess the publisher has mandates in many cases. Look at how EA games and almost by convention MANY publishers around 2011 tried to create characters that had the look of an attractive white actress with emphasised curves, and then in 2014 they totally flipped it on its head with characters that people called "ugly". Examples are your pilot in LucasGames's Star Wars The Force Unleashed who has these weirdly emphasised teeth or Yvonne Strahovski as Miranda in Mass Effect or Ellen Page.
Given what I hear a number of guys describe recent BioWare female character were they've designed them as not completely just about being attractive, as "shrek", "mannish", "lesbian" and a guy who actually made a gif to overlay a "male" and "female skull" on Cassandra from DAI's face to "prove" she was really a man, the people in charge of these companies are right to think so little of the traditional gamer. Luckily, they also seem to realise there are other audiences that may be just as important to target.
which sells more though?
There's a wide amount of men of different appearances and builds in games. Everyone is fine with that. The gaming landscape is changing and games are no longer relaying completely on the male demographic - I've seen Dragon Age Inquisition have studies which suggested that 50% of the audience was women. Do you think a game will still sell if you only make one type of female character making it very clear who exactly you are designing for? Excluding half the world's population is not good business sense.
Just because a man has an athletic body does not mean he is sexualized/objectified. Nathan Drake isn't scantily clad or with camera angles focusing on his crotch and ass. His body isn't even overly athletic, and he wears a long sleeve henley. I guess he has 2 buttons undone though, the tease.
Here's a thread were you might actually learn a few things (SPOILERS!! Women and men characters are nowhere near treated the same)
Sex appeal helps get eyes on your game, but the way you're framing it is reductive. Try to think more broadly. Where do you think sex appeal would have a bigger impact in a game's marketing? Say, a 3d fighter aimed at teenage boys and young men, or an adventure game aimed at an older audience of men and women? On the other side of the coin, would season 1 of The Walking Dead have been more appealing to young men is Lee was more athletic, more aggressive, and more violent like an action hero? How would that have changed the game?
I gave him the link to the Why Woman criticise Sexualised Designs thread? SO if he is actually being sincere, he can learn if he wants to. Given how many of those types of "Guy characters get sexualised too!" posts I;ve seen, it's more likely not sincere, but we can hope :P
One season for now, and a few movies next year. It's... just okay. Closer to the novels, but no real differences for now (no classic music, new OST by Sawano, the attack on titan composer). Mostly the same designs as the long Ova series, with a bit more color and (in my eyes) good Cg. And now I killed the thread...
For a long time now I've been a little miffed by that same kind of subtle sexualisation in practice with Rainbow Six: Siege's character designs and I've harped about it in the OT from time to time to some others' distress, probably. If you look at the vanilla characters, they're all more armored and their faces are concealed. Almost every female DLC character has foregone a mask or other protective headwear when anonymity is extremely important in the special operations groups these characters belong to. In addition often female DLC characters completely forego bulletproof vests, which isn't excused by their light armor gameplay rating, because many characters with a light armor rating wear vests. All the male ones do, in fact.
Here are pics of obvious examples that hopefully make what I'm talking about clear.
Vanilla:
DLC:
Technically, the face thing applies kind of to every character because vanilla Siege had pretty primitive facial animation. Since it's been upgraded DLC character designs have much more often been without concealing headwear, but that aside, there is a trend of female characters foregoing concealing headwear alongside the male counterparts of their DLC pack who come with them wearing masks i.e. Dokkaebi & Vigil, Finka & Lion.
They've also gone back to vanilla and old DLC characters to make them more attractive. The first character used as an example above, Twitch, has been wholly redesigned.
Note the slightly thinner, tighter, brighter appearance.
Valkyrie's old face was complained about and memed on enough for them to redo it. Solemnly tell me that's a bad face model. It isn't. It's not an attractive face by typical standards; I don't find it extremely attractive. It's a strong face. But it isn't a bad face model. C'mon. Therein lies the issue—these characters are the highest level combat forces operatives, attractiveness isn't really a requirement. Not they can't be pretty, but pretty is all people out there want and all creators out there give. And how important is pretty for Siege? A game ostensibly about soldiers tactically destroying and killing in a semi-grounded setting. That isn't a pretty thing by most standards, is it?
I wish I could remember a time where I'd find this revelation "mind-blowing" lol. (Not a dig at you, but yeah this is the least surprising thing ever for us.)
Probably a dumb question, but are there women out there with strong jawlines like the model on the left? It looks unnatural to me. A strong jawline seems like a male feature to me.
Yes, there are women with that jawline, it's not even that uncommon.
In addtion to that redesign, Twitch's face recently went through another revision in the Grim Sky update for those wondering.
It's a dumb question.
Sorry but they're right. I'm honestly baffled that anyone should even ask this question in earnest.
