DjangoDrag Wrote:
My "view on a womanly figure" is far from distorted. Did I make any mention of her breasts or butt? No. Be careful with your assumptions.
I, for one, am a male that would like to see more natural-looking depictions of women in the games I play. This is simply not that. This is anything but natural. I even asked my wife to lend a second opinion, just to make sure I wasn't crazy. She agreed completely, making a pretty funny face when presented with image above. She pointed out her lats and abs in particular as looking very bizarre. What throws me the most is the limbs. They are ridiculous. It really just makes all the women in MK9 look like spiders or something. And when they stand next to one of the male characters, it further magnifies the issue. It just looks like their anatomy is scaled too large. Also, the statue's face is really ugly, but that is relative.
I liked the MK2 and MK3 women. They were okay being shorter than most of the men, and realistically proportioned. Why do the female characters all have to be so tall anyway? I can understand a few of them being as tall or taller than the average male character, but at least one or two should reflect an average female height. Ideally, I would like to see some female characters that look like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or better yet, Faith from the same show. Those are good examples, I think, of female superhero-type characters being well-proportioned.
It's funny how much of your post talked about making women in games becoming more attractive. I just think they look like men. Take from that what you will.
And don't talk to me about Nicki Minaj.
Well perhaps I was in the wrong for suggesting your particular view is distorted, so apologies there, but my post was mainly to highlight that Kitana only looks that way in the games due to the fact that developers are trying to make female characters "sexier".
Less clothing, bigger boobs, high heels in every outfit, clothing that only rips in provocative places when they fight...obviously sex sells in all industries and the folks at NRS are capitalising on that by over-sexualising their female characters. The reason it doesn't really work is because (A) they're using men for motion capture and (B) there'd be issues with hit boxes if the female characters were any shorter than the guys. It doesn't work for me, personally, but you only have to look at Kitana's Chapter in Story Mode on YouTube or even Jade's to see the comments from sexually frustrated fan boys noticing nothing more than their tumour-sized breasts.
I agree with what you say about her limbs and I'd agree with you women should look more natural in games. I think this statue in particular reflects her current game model, which is the root of the problem. If she looked like a believable woman in the game, perhaps the product would emulate that.
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