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vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I never understood the hate for Aloy. She was at worst bland with a pretty heavy helping of “I’m better at everything because I’m the main character”, but she’s hardly alone in that, and it doesn’t usually attract that much ire.

I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The degree to which people will idolize God of War’s Kratos and shit all over Horizon’s Aloy is crazy, given how these are functionally the same character.

I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.

She didn’t look like the silhouette on a truck’s mudflaps. So she’s hideous by default. But then nobody seems to qualify as “hot enough” anymore. Sidney Sweeny isn’t hot enough. Taylor Swift isn’t hot enough. Ciri from the Witcher isn’t hot enough. Freya Allan from the TV Show of the Witcher isn’t hot enough. Fucking Jessica Rabbit isn’t hot enough.

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SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
She doesn’t have massive tits and dresses like you’d expect someone surviving in a robot dinosaur apocalypse to dress. So, not porn/isn’t sexy, therefore game bad.

It boggles my mind that people fucking care. It’s not like porn isn’t freely available on the Internet, and porn of those characters specifically isn’t easy to find. But if you’ve seen some of the criticism coming from that crowd about Ghost of Yotei it’ll make sense.

What’s sad is Yotei has plenty of faults they could criticize instead. But they can’t see past women as purely an object for sex so here we are.

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krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Also Aloy was fucking hot.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Freckles AND a jawline? Unplayable.
  
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  - Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Second hand too busy to properly operate the controls eh?
    I get it, I get it.
    
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That fits pretty much every game where you control a main character. MCs rarely have a suitable explanation for why they’re so special beyond the rule of cool. Why can Gordon Freeman take out teams of special ops? Because he’s the MC. He’s a pretty bland character that doesn’t say anything, but he’s loved by millions.

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