That video is fucking stupid. Akira doesn't have a monopoly on retrofuturism or red jackets. And comparing riding off on a bike to flying in a ship just because they're red.....Are you seriously watching that video and turning round here to say "Yes, this is storng evidence"? Really? You've seen about two seconds of that…
With intergalatic, once the game comes out we'll know more about the character and why they went with that design. The trailer doesn't reveal a lot, but it seems the plot for the game has leaked (though reports are suggesting its fake) so probably best to just keep things level until more is released. The most I'd say is…
This is a good perspective. None of the other human characters in the game share these features though including Kay's mother so the devs made it exclusive to Kay. Also Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Rey and many of the cast of Star Wars Rebels, Mandalorian and Ahsoka lead similar lifestyles and none of them had make…
Do you really believe 450,000 gamers are that sore because of her character model? Really? It's culture war nonsense. I'd put money that the game is on that "woke game detected" list because she doesn't look enough like a sex doll for some people. Ubisoft put out that statement to try to manage the capital G gamer…
The video does make a lot of valid points about taking feedback when approaching character art and design. Being aware of this it does help with creating and posting art for portfolios that candidates will use to apply to these studios. For example when the advice is to match the existing quality in current game releases,…
Going through Kay's backstory, I thought to explain her facial transformation as an adult as a result of a lifestyle. Ubisoft does say that she had a hard life of petty crime and the years were not kind. I though maybe she had an additiction, like gambling alongside dependency on meth or heroin that altered her facial…
Intent doesn't matter. It's like firing a gun; if you were aiming for, I don't know, a rampaging school shooter, but you miss and paste one of the kids, nobody's really going to care that you were trying to shoot the bad guy, are they? You can talk as much as you like about the intention of your words, but you don't get to…
I'm cool with waiting on any replies/responses that add to the discussion. Interestingly the topic wasn't initially meant to engage in a discussion on the character design, more about overall design decisions that led to the game product underperforming in the market. But referencing the character in the context of larger…
Those are a whole lot of assumptions. As the topic states and the video I linked elaborates the character design is the least of the games problems. But if we do want to go into the design being an issue, it's not reactionary to have a discourse on it. My main issue was how the devs decided to do the character the way…
I think Michael was echoing Alex_J's sentiment, that you tend to type long posts which do not seem to make a coherent point. Besides being long-winded, you seem to focus on social media controversies that are not created nor debated by actual game developers. So for most Polycount members it's really just a lot of hot air.…