I have no idea what this game is but the person on the left looks like someone who's been in battle and is still in some sort of a battle and the person on the right looks like an influencer cosplaying the person on the left
I keep suggesting this game to people. The story is pretty short, mechanics straight forward and game play very linear. But it is a ride. Do not read about it; no reviews, no strategies. Put on some good surround sound headphones, turn out the lights, and let the game carry you away.
One of the few games I've finished then immediately restarted.
If you have the ability, and aren't prone to motion sickness, try the VR! It's excellently done and the head tracking fits so natively the immersion is disturbing.
It's also got a proper VR version. I know I'm speaking to an even smaller audience, but do not pass up the VR version if you are at all interested. The spatial sound in VR is even better. I can't wait for the sequel, I hope they also do a VR version for it, but I'm not waiting, I'll gladly play both if they do.
And yet this was the first game I rage-uninstalled in 20 years or so. I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't get past the first boss fight, which was Valravn for me. I'm probably missing something, but I absolutely hate its combat system.
What I think is funny is the character they're referring to isn't unattractive. I'd wager she's significantly more attractive than any of the guys commenting there.
So they took a perfectly fine character model, with a look that fits the tone and setting of the game, with a realistic face.... and somehow thinks it's an improvement to make her look like she sells bathwater to losers to fund her MAC cosmetics addiction.
with a ton of that crowd, they really have no idea what strength is. but they so badly want to appear strong, as they assume that will make others around them think they actually are strong.
it's a sort of projection. they're weak, so they worry that others will perceive them as weak. it locks them into a constant obsession with appearing strong, so people won't realize how weak they are.
the fallacy in all that is assuming that other people care, most don't, as most are locked into their own various insecurities and are usually worried about how they appear to the world.
real strength, and other qualities, isn't worried about what others think. it's like being cool. you're not cool if you have to go around and tell others how cool you are. if you're cool, others will recognize that pretty quickly. if you're not cool, no amount of faking it will ever make others think you are.
I was gonna say; isnt it basically a game about shit that should be ugly?
Fuck, let's go find+replace every not-completely-gorgeous dude in film with like four near identical impossibly good looking photo shopped models. Make the dean of A/C repair in 'community' just beautiful and jacked and expressionless because he just shot up ten gallons of botox.
Also, what's a fun ethnicity... The chad meme is a Turkish dude right? Let's just make all guys in film Turkish or, since we need two... Japanese? Brazilian? Doesn't matter, just pick two and no more white dudes. "Including" white people would be woke dei bullshit, let's not compromise our standards just to include people, and why shouldn't kratos be hot?
...Senua's story is not pretty. Senua's journey through what she perceives as a land of evil, magic and ruin is not pretty. She is not an airbrushed model. She is meant to be a picture of a person. Someone battling what she believes to be true, horrifying monsters while striving in grief to achieve something to ease her pain. Screaming to deities to aid her.
Calling her that is disgusting. Retouching her face to look 'correct' is both missing the point and spitting on art.
It’s also spitting on women as a whole for being considered a human instead of an object or mere concept that is only supposed to exist for an incel’s peen feels.
You win the fucking prize, I didn't even think to call out the "fixed" version looking at the camera instead of..... whatever she's supposed to be looking at
Not familiar with the game in question, but the photo on the left is not ugly. That's angry. Common misconception.
Meanwhile the picture on the right looks like a college student fell onto some war paint and Instagram filters. That's immersion breaking if this is supposed to be a crying/screaming/angry scene by a battle-hardened warrior, IMO.
Yeah, and that edit removes all of the feeling she's going through with the psychosis. The actress did such a great job with the first game, that edited face would not have fit what she was going through and did such an excellent job portraying in her acting.
Anyone else remember them noticing Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West had tiny hairs on her face? Apparently that meant she was trans. Sorry for not waxing in a robot dinosaur apocalypse, lads.
The same people who claim Stellar Blade's Eve is peak design because she's "based on an actual model!", also continuously rag on Aloy while forgetting Aloy was also based on an actual model.
If only gaming companies listened to the fans and made all the women characters look like Gerardo de Rivera we wouldn't be having this conversation every time a new game is released 😔
So the studio behind Senua's Sacrifice made a mocap headset that is like the iPhone face ID on steroids. The character on the left is the most realistic copy of the WOMAN who voices Senua in the game.
Damn right, I agree with them so much, every character is so ugly. Someone needs for run Doom guy through a KPop filter and get some pretty boys back into games, none of these ugly men.
It took 10 years for Skyrim Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Overhaul (CBBE) to have the male equivalent Highly Improved Male Body Overhaul, or HIMBO for short.
These guys have clearly never been breathing so hard you breathe through your teeth. High school me in cross-country could feel that picture on the left.
The artistry and ambiance are the excellent, and I'm enjoying watching the story unfold. Unfortunately, it's less a "game" than a walking simulator. Combat isn't difficult (and has zero stakes). Puzzles are visually dazzling, but braindead easy to solve. I don't even really feel like I'm exploring, because you're basically on rails.
Excellent experience, interesting view into schizophrenia, absolutely beautiful... just not much in the way of interaction. Honestly, I'd enjoy it more as a movie (or mini-series, since it's longer than a few hours if you let it breathe).
The woman is fine. I think the left one is an actor or based on one. And if the one on the right was real, she'd probably also agree that the others in the image suck.
Having played Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, in the beginning I admit I looked at her and didn't see "modern day beauty standard" but then one has to consider that it is a game set during a viking era. Then I realised I need to then consider that I cannot apply "modern standards".
I mean she wasn't ugly in my eyes, just I guess appeared somewhat plain which is not a slight against the actress but more as an aquired appreciation to how they designed her but when you really look at the details it is perfectly acceptable to see what they did get right. It is a person that has gone through a lot and of course she is going to look not "clean" considering what baggage she is carrying and where she is coming from.
It is not some future world were mud and dirt don't magically stick to your skin, it is a realistic portrayal of a person going through a lot of dirty places, being a bad ass and losing her collective mind with a story that explores someone with mental illness in a time when it was considered a "gift" from the gods if you were lucky.