Girls in videogames
I’m not goin’ to talk how female characters are dominating the videogame worlds and all that fluff. Personally I don’t see anything wrong with looking at beautiful women. But what do I see is a difference between Western(European) and Asian approaches. They both using female body features as attractors but the results are so different.
Take a look at Jill Nabato, a character from the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII game:
Where is your attention focus? Glasses, face or something else…?
The same works for in-game models though they have more technical restrictions (poly count etc.). Few days ago I was amazed to see this:
TERA is one of my favourite Korean MMO’s speaking of visuals (frankly I don’t play games), and it’s great to see some good character design and modeling work. I strongly recommend you to check the official website for more cool stuff from TERA.
And it’s off topic, but how do you feel about zombies?
Some time ago I saw a videogame called Undead Knights. It’s a PSP action-horror game developed by Tecmo. The gameplay is a bit unusual: your characters are kinda dead and have to fight against the living ones turning them into zombies. The process is straightforward hack’n’slash but you can grab and throw your minions onto the enemy or bosses (these big dudes are also can be raised as zombies). Well it’s not a zombie flick but a fantasy tale with a story and drama behind it. But seriously speaking the thing that caught my attention was that shot from an official trailer:
After all, it’s Tecmo.
Oh and if you aren’t afraid of bunch of dead dudes populating your browser then visit the japanese website for Undead Knights.
Silent Hill games were famous (amongst other things) for conceiving female characters with the idea of “casual girls that you might meet in the street when you go to the market” in mind. It’s quite fresh to watch them in a different way when playing a game (I’m a bit tired of all the sexual marketing role they play in the videogames)
And honestly, what first got my attention about Jill Jabato was her resemblance to Scarlett Johanson! Second is quite obvious
It’s a very sad and dissapointing tendency… Instead of attracting players by an inspiring story or good gameplay, they just bluntly focus on girls with these huge… er..
Despite her sexy top the focus is on her expression, her concentrated, fascinated, absorbed and relaxed expression with no tension in her lips, make my eyes go there in the first place.
In games for me it is ok to see some sexy females in it but it is more important that the story and characters are balanced and convincing. Too much relying on female skin for selling a game makes it a cheap form of entertainment.
I’d like to see so much of the inner character that the outer character isn’t that important anymore. I think this makes things much more interresting.