Why are all the female characters (protagonist included) so ugly?

[Rabcor]

(To all the people talking about how pretty Judy and Evelyn are, I have not encountered them in the game yet, I've seen the promotional screenshots of them and they sure do look pretty in those, but just keep in mind I have not met those characters as I write this, these are my impressions from the first few hours of gameplay

PS: I really, legitimately want an official CD Projekt answer to this question... What sort of madness drove them to this?)

Man, this is a pretty good game, if we just look at the gameplay...

But the character creator was seriously disappointing, when I was trying to create a female character, we had options for most of the things I wanted to be able to change, but while flipping through the option for each individual feature, I couldn't help but notice that I was never happy with any option.

Even the color choices were dissatisfying, I was constantly just wondering why the hell we didn't get a slider, and why we didn't get the ability to use custom colors instead of choosing from a tiny pre-selected palette of colors for each feature instead...

It also struck me as quite odd that there was no option to have normal eyes, if you selected what looked like should have been normal eyes, you had like a dark grey sclera instead of a regular white one (maybe it's a bug? idk)

But the end result is that it's pretty much impossible to create a truly pretty character (at least female one, not sure how it is for the males), the best you can hope for is not ugly.

And then there are the female NPCs as well, I have not seen a single beautiful female NPC either, but I have seen a lot of butt ugly hags that look like they're in their 50s or 60s wearing skimpy clothes, I'm reminded of playing modded skyrim with skimpy armor mods and making the mistake of allowing old NPCs to wear them too, so you get like skimpily dressed wrinkled old granniies... That's kinda how it feels in cyberpunk for just about every female character.

Did CD Projekt decide to go woke or something? Who exactly is this game for, I was under the impression it was a game by adults for adults, as the lack of censorship and more mature or violent features would imply, but... What happened to the CD Projekt that made the witcher 3? where beautiful women existed, and women with appealing faces were abundant?

I feel like I'm getting mixed messages here... What is the lack of censorship even for, if none of what would normally be censored is something I'd actually want to see?

I just don't get it, before it's release we were getting all the right signals, that cd projekt don't give a flying ♥♥♥♥ about the SJWs, so what the ♥♥♥♥ is the meaning of this ♥♥♥♥?

I will not trust CD Projekt again, this is a serious red flag.

I mean look at this crap https://i.redd.it/ugmbpxmr0en51.jpg

What are they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thinking? What kind of idiot made this decision? And who were all the idiots that didn't refuse to go along with it?

Update: It's a common argument for people to say that this looks realistic, I have an easy counter for this, the world lore, hell, even on the character creation screen it says "looks are everything" in the society within this game, and technology is so far developed, that cosmetic surgery should be at a whole another level compared to today. Judging by the society and technology within the game, almost every woman should be as beautiful as Judy, or at least close to it, simply due to the importance of good looks to this society, and how easily available cosmetic enhancements should have become.

[Hex: BBL Sable]

This is the biggest simp post over video game girls ive ever read

[Weaselly]

One of those images literally says that it does not represent the final look of the game.

Haven't really noticed anyone looking especially ugly either, tbh

[Vatiwah]

Yeah.. character creation was rather not so great. Not too many choices and most of the choices are UGLY.. like freakishly ugly. Most of the NPC's in the game are UGLY. They are marginally better than grand theft auto 5 NPCs. Is this Mass Effect Andromeda again? lol. If the game is about humans being vain and superficial.. wouldn't humans want to look handsome/sexy/pretty?

Go check out Black Desert Online character customization. It is still one of the best character customization and that game is many years old. Probably 30x more customization.. cheek bones, eye angle, upper lip height/width/depth, lower lip height/width/depth, and etc etc.

[AdahnGorion]

Because you have poor taste and don´t like realism?
Just as guess, not an attempt to claim eternal truth

[Vanta]

what in tarnation is this thread?

[Cohen 🫃]

because in feminism women are supposed to emulate masculinity in order to create gender equality. as men have "power"

They believe women should be judged on merit instead of looks. feminity creates natural beauty which would signal weakness (feminine is more weak but more caring and nurturing. therefor all women should look like lesbian butches in order to be equal
(equally miserable imo)

[XTAKK]

I mean they don't look like hentai so that is probably why you are disappointed.

[Eastern Sky]

not going to read it but its has a long history of feminism fighting against having attractive women in video games as they consider it to be "materializing females"

as dumb as it sounds you might be brought to court if you make video game women "too" sexy in NA

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by Vatiwah:

Is this Mass Effect Andromeda again? lol. If the game is about humans being vain and superficial.. wouldn't humans want to look handsome/sexy/pretty?

Funny you should mention andromeda, I remember this meme

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7HmZBfXwAIwiyF.jpg

smh, it only adds to the disappointment. I trusted this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ company, and this was one of the reasons, they have proven their ability to make at least appealing female characters, maybe not the sexiest or anything, but that was never the point, we didn't need some bayonettas or 2Bs here, we just needed something that looked good...

And we did not get it, not a single female character looks good, I just... I do not understand it, why? Why did they do this? Who thought this was a good idea? Why did all the devs involved go along with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, especially after they worked hard to make pretty characters already.

I mean if you look at the trailers and screenshots used to promote the game, we can see that they already made pretty characters, they've just ruined it before release.

It's false ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ advertising is what it is.

[lxRs451]

Originally posted by Vatiwah:

Yeah.. character creation was rather not so great. Not too many choices and most of the choices are UGLY.. like freakishly ugly. Most of the NPC's in the game are UGLY. They are marginally better than grand theft auto 5 NPCs. Is this Mass Effect Andromeda again? lol. If the game is about humans being vain and superficial.. wouldn't humans want to look handsome/sexy/pretty?

Go check out Black Desert Online character customization. It is still one of the best character customization and that game is many years old. Probably 30x more customization.. cheek bones, eye angle, upper lip height/width/depth, lower lip height/width/depth, and etc etc.

Nothing can look as ugly as ME:Andromeda NPC's.

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by Darkie:

Because you have poor taste and don´t like realism?
Just as guess, not an attempt to claim eternal truth

Have you never seen a beautiful woman in real life? They exist, at least in the hundreds of millions...

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by Eastern Sky:

not going to read it but its has a long history of feminism fighting against having attractive women in video games as they consider it to be "materializing females"

as dumb as it sounds you might be brought to court if you make video game women "too" sexy in NA

Whether that's true or not, this game was not made in NA.

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Rabcor:

Originally posted by Darkie:

Because you have poor taste and don´t like realism?
Just as guess, not an attempt to claim eternal truth

Have you never seen a beautiful woman in real life? They exist, at least in the hundreds of millions...

It's a game about being in a massive, gigantic city. Not all women are going to be attractive. I thought a few of them were pretty hot, myself, but mileage may vary. I like the punk look, which isn't always "pretty".

Maybe some of the men would be more up your alley. /s

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by Rabcor:

Originally posted by Darkie:

Because you have poor taste and don´t like realism?
Just as guess, not an attempt to claim eternal truth

Have you never seen a beautiful woman in real life? They exist, at least in the hundreds of millions...

I reckon the ones you think about are full of plastic and makeup.. don´t worry, they will also be featured in CP2077.. I think this is a matter of taste.....
Personally I think most of what I have seen so far (both male/female) looks great and realistic

[Rabcor]

Originally posted by fox:

This isn't real life, its a video game. I honestly dont know wtf you are talking about, if you want the big boob anime waifu, go play code vein

I just explained how that was not what I wanted, the women in the witcher 3 for instance were completely fine.