Female = Shrek

[Digital 0sm0sis]

Re: Female = Shrek

While I like the realism in a way, I am far too used to the female representation in games to be "decent looking" (for pixels atleast) I noticed this same comment made by quite a few people on different Fable 2 boards and they were critisized for wanting the wanting the females to be sexier when its just pixels, but what shocked me most was that a fair few of them were females themselves not wanting to play as the op said as "Shrek" (no-one has quite put it so well as the op of this thread though). Porblem is theres not much LH can do to change this now though (apart from adding an option to turn off the physical character development).

Similar subject and covered in quite a few differed threads on this and many other forums is the choice of life partner (female or male, male especially from what I have seen and read) is rather poor, apart from the hookers (female) there are no real decent looking spouses in the game... the only one I wanted to marry is Belinda from the beginning of the game and I have never found another person ingame with the same model and face

 

[DarkDecapodian]

Re: Female = Shrek

Hehe...somehow, I suspect neither gender of hero was designed with sexiness in mind, so much as to become an oversized, blue-line crossed hulk with which to pummel your target of choice with. Indeed, as mentioned above, barely anybody in the game qualifies as presentable, let alone beautiful. Ah well, spouses tend to be something of a burden in Fable II anyway.

 

[Mieko]

Re: Female = Shrek

As I said: The female character shouldn't be taller than the male and have >that< much muscles. The 5 stars skills are too extreme.
But I liked my female character when she had around 3 stars in constitution and 3 in the size skill. They did it right, what they did wrong was let the skills make "her" >too< strong and tall. A bit less tall and strong would have been the perfect maximum.

But the possibility to turn the princess character into a warrior princess is the only right thing they could do.

 

[TaterSalad]

Re: Female = Shrek

From an subjective standpoint they did something highly respectable.
They didn't pander to stereotypes and hormone-injected meathead expectations that males of the species in the gaming world can't get enough of.
They didn't say, "Oh let's make her a sexy lady because they'll whine if we don't."
I like that. I like it a lot, even if it is a bit icky sometimes.

From an objective standpoint they should have understood their clientele enough to know that the gaming industry is classically a man's territory and men like sexy model ladies with big tee-tees and the slender frame of a yoga instructor.
A bit of control in regards to this would have been preferable, but instead they chose realism and dismantled the stereotype of the Red Sonja-esque warrior creampuff, and apparently haven't succeeded totally...

 

[Zjuggernaut]

Re: Female = Shrek

After you get back from the Spire, with no Physique, you look really skinny.. With 1+ Physique you look fat. Honestly, you can't win.

 

[TaterSalad]

Re: Female = Shrek

After you get back from the Spire, with no Physique, you look really skinny.. With 1+ Physique you look fat. Honestly, you can't win.

Agreed on that.
THAT is too much, definitely.