Just how important is the design of the main character for a game to be a success?

I'm playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and I'm enjoying, yes I know it was a success but why is Aloy so ugly? I just feel bad for the developers working their ass to make a big game that could have a cool looking protagonist and then you are forced to make the main character ugly because a feminist/tranny just said so.
Just imagine Nier: Automata with an ugly 2B

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Depends on the game.

Fairly important. The protagonist is usually the eyes through which the story is told, and therefore the player needs to natively 'want to be' that person, at least to a degree. Not full-on "Self insert", but nobody wants to be a fugly "Sera" tier character, or some kind of pink-haired aposematic SJW nonsense.

Well zero dawn was a commercial success so it must not be that important. I couldn’t personally care less about the design of the main character as long as the gameplay is good.

Is it required to be successful? No, other elements can easily win out like gameplay, story or graphics. Is it a huge asset? Yes, the main character is what will get the most exposure in advertisements. This is why even games with a custom MC will usually have a default look used in all the advertisements. This is why something like Mass Effect even had its default Shepard head based on a real person, despite many players going for a custom look.

I'd also say it is more important to some games than others. A boring military FPS can have generic mc shootpants. But a fighting game needs and entire cast of great character designs, that can appeal to an audience while also being a fitting representation of a play style.

the real life model is actually very pretty, so the uglyness in Horizon was deliberate.

Yeah, don't get me wrong I'm not asking for a hot babe (I'm fine with designs like that woman from Remothered) but sometimes I feel they are really forcing designs to look ugly. I can't see girls wanting to cosplay as Aloy for example.
Yeah but being a new IP and all that I feel like they wasted an opportunity to make a charismatic design. Kratos has a recognizable and attractive design no matter if he is ugly, but he works, but Aloy is just ugly for the sake of being ugly Mass Effect Andromeda style
I'd say attractive designs works and help, just look at Bayonetta, Shantae, 2B...

>I can't see girls wanting to cosplay as Aloy for example.
just google aloy cosplay, there are plenty of examples

If it's male IDC, as long it's not an obese fuck
If it's a girl , she has to be cute if not I won't bother playing

>I'd say attractive designs works and help, just look at Bayonetta, Shantae, 2B
all of those games combined sold less than HZD

>but why is Aloy so ugly?
she's not. she's not that classic model good looking but she is like real life cute.

she looks like that american shooter. you are gay lol

>but why is Aloy so ugly?
I think she looks OK

Extremely. Just look at Oddworld. Abe is memorable not because his game had the best gameplay but because everything about him and his world oozed character. He wasn't some big tittied anime girl either so it's not because Aloy is unattractive, its because her and everything that isn't the environment or dinosaur robot looks fake and plastic.

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This
devs choose the horrible model instead of something you know normal i believe devs cant stand the idea of beuty on hyperrealism
Imagine if michael angelo was like This
>can make perfection
>but he refuse because is doesnt look real and a ideal body tipe dont exist

She wasn't ugly but she wasn't good looking either. HZD's main problems are its shitty predictable story and poor dialogue in general.
Also she's a boring mary sue, her personality is shit.

None of those games are big budget playstation 4 exclusives either. Niggas were fucking thirsty for games and the rest of the game was well polished. That doesn't mean OP is wrong in being off put

Aloy was cute in clothes that disguised her disgusting plank body.

been playing this too, and is there any facial animations for aloy or is it just done very little? cause when ever she talks, she just has her mouth slightly open lightly shakes her head. is this normal?

the side quests tend to have less animation work
the main story is a better done, once you contact Sylens is when it picks up

I haven’t played the game, but it’s clear that there’s a lot of design talent and effort on th visuals in it.

The humans look the worst in the game, and I’m sure it’s deliberate. Flawed humans in the wasteland, and the machines. I think alloys face is deliberately intended not to be memorable or iconic.

At least it’s not subnautica tier.

That game can get waway with a terrible mc design more because it’s first person and he’s silent.

I don’t mind Aloy’s looks. Hell, she looks better than most characters in the game. Not every protagonist has to look like a generic anime girl or a swimsuit model, and if anything, the fact she has such average features makes the average joe playing the game relate to her more.

I'd say Sony really needs to fire a lot of SJWs that are just there to make sure everyone looks bland and boring. Sony Japan needs more love but maybe they are too PROBLEMATIC for them.
It doesn't help that they can't make female protagonists because they have some tranny forcing them to make them look as ugly as possible, so Sony will never have a charismatic female MC as the lead (not even small projects like Primal, Rule of Rose, Siren...)
Yes, I know there is Ellie but they also bullied Amy Hennig because they wanted to make her a lesbian. Even her girlfriend looks fucking ugly on purpose

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Sony's Hq is in California now, cute girls are dead and I have a bad feeling about next gen.

>Flawed humans in the wasteland,
even then, there's still good looking people around
Talanah, The Sun King, Nil, even Erend
they aren't exactly some gritty primitives burnt by the sun, scarred by battles, and covered in shit

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I think looking exactly like her actress would have been reasonable, and probably cheaper.

I disagree with the relate to her more. She’s a barbarian tribes woman with a hell of a lot of her own dialogue, not a sims character. Lots of edgelords relate to kratos, and they don’t look at alllike him.

Zero Dawn was shilled everywhere, it had a fuckton of ads everywhere, so it's perfectly reasonable to assume that look don't matter as much in this case.

I have not played Horizon or Darksiders 3 because the MC is ugly.

So a lot.

I'm also playing through H:ZD now and so far the main character the worst thing about the game. She's boring, badly voice acted and her design is so basic she looks like a random npc.
I still like the game but my enjoyment would be doubled if the MC was better.

>I know there is Ellie but they also bullied Amy Hennig because they wanted to make her a lesbian
Hennig had nothing to do with The Last of Us
she only wrote/directed Jak 3, and Unchatered 1/2/3 for Naughty Dog

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I love the game, but will admit that Aloy stands out even among the rest of the cast
Erend looks like some pretty boy warrior straight out of Game of Thrones compared to her

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Ally isn't ugly, and anyone who thinks she is is a retard used to animu grills.

She is about as boring as a plank of wood though.

Do you think she looks worse than her actresses?

>Ally isn't ugly
She isn't attractive

are we now pretending Anthony Burch's sister isn't some 56% mutt

>not playing a game because protagonist doesn't look like a fake doll
Please have sex

Did you even read the OP?

If you could change her hairstyle in the game, she could look way better. That grandma hair isn't very good looking and looks better in the stylized character designs that Loish initially designed.

I'm not responding to OP, but to the incels in the thread.

>fake doll
Just how fucking ugly are you

No I'm here just to falseflag so that people would hate the game and its fanbase even more than they already do

Of course you will, it's the internet, you will get every relevant image. But Aloy was not that popular, 2B became one of the most recognisable female characters of this generation, Aloy only gets brought up in threads like this to discuss how ugly/plain she was.

>Yes, I know there is Ellie but they also bullied Amy Hennig because they wanted to make her a lesbian
what are you even trying to say here?
you are clearly just making shit up

Your reality is warped as fuck if you think Aloy is ugly.
Most characters people complain about look fine. See /s/ for what Yea Forums finds attractive, mostly disgusting non-human plastic containers with 0 personality.
Stop watching porn.

If it's a shit game, very important

currently playing as well, why the fuck is her head and jaw so HUGE! bothers the hell out of me when she turns her head

You are acting like if women didn't choose Leon over Claire for looking hot as fuck

imagine being so fucked in the head by your porn addiction that you think the most important part in games are the female characters

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No. I think they started with birch, and made her look modestly worse.

So some women can't be shallow?
If that's their only reason they're just as pathetic.

Because her jaw is so defined, the hairstyle she currently has doesn't fit her at all. Hairstyle where the sides of her head are shaved would compliment the shape of her jaw and look way better, even if that kind of hairstyle is overused.

The only thing I can recommend is getting the medium or heavy Carja Blazon outfit as soon as possible

>0 personality
So only ugly people can have a personality?
I'm a girl and I like good designs and not for fapping material

Birch is only the voice actress.

So all people who are not walking around like Korean love dolls are ugly?

Why are you so racists toward them?

>I'm a girl and I like good designs and not for fapping material
please marry me

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What is wrong if they choose someone they like to look at? Stop being so afraid of sex

Yet all of them keep getting fanart, threads and other, while Horizon has been forggoten by most people.

This is not to imply it was a bad game in any way, but at least it had nothing memorable besides maybe the setting

She isn't really ugly but more average.

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Plastic isn't alive.
Nothing, but this goes both ways. If you don't know what that means don't bother replying.

I remember when a japanese girl came to my country all white roasties like you were jealous as fuck because her skin was amazing.
Maybe you should eat more fruits and vegetables

Since when am I a girl?

This, the game did really good but they missed a good opportunity of making a cool iconic design. This doesn't mean = plastic doll like resetera is crying here, just something cool and iconic.

Also I didn't mean Korean as in race but as in their plastic surgery, you got me wrong.

As much as I don't like a character's design, if I end up liking the game, I always end up having a positive association with the character. I hated Persona 3's MC character design when I first started out, but by the end of the game I loved it because whenever i saw him, I thought about how great the game was, so I ended up coming around.

For Horizon, as much as I liked poking fun, ultimately it was a matter of it competing with Breath of the Wild. I ended up preferring BotW because of the amount of freedom of movement. When I see her, I don't see the physical features more so that I see and think of how limited your mobility is in comparison.

>plastic
White women use a lot of make up and they don't look like plastic dolls, this is because asians take a lot of care of their skin. It's easier to find an asian woman in their 30s looking better than most white women in their 20s.

See

But who the fuck was talking about plastic dolls or ugly trannies like Aloy? The middle exists

Agreed, just look at the OP's design, is a lot better. And no this is not about wanting to fuck a character is about aesthetics, I love Link's design in BoTW and I don't want to fuck him

Aloy IS the middle.

Then that’s even worse. Her motion actress is miles better than alloy

The middle of alloy and doa then. With that much design talent there’s no way alloy should be so dull.

If she's the middle then i'd love to see what the other side of DOA is.

Seems like original Aloy was too problematic for someone in Sony

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