Please dont ruin it with annoying characters...

[Twisted]

It already looks fishy (pun intended) with the characters shown in the teaser which are boring, un-appealing and not charismatic. its a sea adventure game, if you choose to show characters they have to be memorable and like-able, and if not so please do not show them at all. they are so immersion breaking that it literally ruins the game imo.

Please dont go with the recent failing trend of annoying dialogue and ugly humanoids - that would be an insta no-purchase from me.

[Sero]

You in particular will get mutes with opaque visors.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Originally posted by Sero:

You in particular will get mutes with opaque visors.

Perfectly fine by me over bad character designs. Leave it up to the imagination is a better option, though we all know that's not going to happen given the companies obsession with bad character designs.

[The_Dipl0mat]

...So, couple questions. How are/aren't the characters charismatic when there's 0 dialogue from them. Why is it important for a character to be appealing? Look at Ryley from Subnautica. For sea games, we also don't need the characters to be appealing (look at Dave the Diver for example)

Lastly, how are the characters breaking immersion? They appear to be in the typical diving gear we've seen in previous games, operating a vehicle with an aesthetic similar to Alterra


Plus, personally. I feel like the two characters we've seen look kind well, regular people. Kind of cute. But not ugly, not super models

[Twisted]

Originally posted by The Seraph of Tomorrow:

Originally posted by Sero:

You in particular will get mutes with opaque visors.

Perfectly fine by me over bad character designs. Leave it up to the imagination is a better option, though we all know that's not going to happen given the companies obsession with bad character designs.

Exactly ! ty, i prefer it a 100%, Satisfactory style, as oppose to silly cartoonish characters

[Twisted]

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

...So, couple questions. How are/aren't the characters charismatic when there's 0 dialogue from them. Why is it important for a character to be appealing? Look at Ryley from Subnautica. For sea games, we also don't need the characters to be appealing (look at Dave the Diver for example)

Lastly, how are the characters breaking immersion? They appear to be in the typical diving gear we've seen in previous games, operating a vehicle with an aesthetic similar to Alterra


Plus, personally. I feel like the two characters we've seen look kind well, regular people. Kind of cute. But not ugly, not super models

Thanks for your input, so for your questions, they look very cartoonish imo, very bland and un-appealing, not memorable, dosent look like "bad-asses" if you get my vibe.
They look like teenagers out of a TikTok vid, not like some space travelers that happened to crash on a distant planet and are now forced to explore its seas to survive... they look like they have been dropped on the planet rather than have any "survival" elements to them, which kinda made them though.
Maybe its just me, but i ask myself those questions when i see characters in game, "How did they get to a space ship ? (in order to crash on the planet), do they fit the space traveler vibe imo? do they look strong and though as i would want my character to be ? or do they look silly and cartoonish which is immersion breaking for me.

[Sero]

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

...So, couple questions. How are/aren't the characters charismatic when there's 0 dialogue from them. Why is it important for a character to be appealing? Look at Ryley from Subnautica. For sea games, we also don't need the characters to be appealing (look at Dave the Diver for example)

Lastly, how are the characters breaking immersion? They appear to be in the typical diving gear we've seen in previous games, operating a vehicle with an aesthetic similar to Alterra


Plus, personally. I feel like the two characters we've seen look kind well, regular people. Kind of cute. But not ugly, not super models

There are two options, either it's because they are not white or that they are not an empty shell. I honestly expect them to be empty shells considering this is going to be 4 player coop.

[Sero]

Originally posted by Twisted:

Thanks for your input, so for your questions, they look very cartoonish imo, very bland and un-appealing, not memorable, dosent look like "bad-asses" if you get my vibe.
They look like teenagers out of a TikTok vid, not like some space travelers that happened to crash on a distant planet and are now forced to explore its seas to survive... they look like they have been dropped on the planet rather than have any "survival" elements to them, which kinda made them though.
Maybe its just me, but i ask myself those questions when i see characters in game, "How did they get to a space ship ? (in order to crash on the planet), do they fit the space traveler vibe imo? do they look strong and though as i would want my character to be ? or do they look silly and cartoonish which is immersion breaking for me.

You mean just like that truck driver in the BZ trailer?
Chances are they have intentionally landed on that planet, chances are you will not be playing either one of them.

The characters from the cinematic trailer have never been the player character.

I find it funny that you believe that only bad-asses can be lucky and have their radio break. Ryley was a glorified janitor.

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by Twisted:

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

...So, couple questions. How are/aren't the characters charismatic when there's 0 dialogue from them. Why is it important for a character to be appealing? Look at Ryley from Subnautica. For sea games, we also don't need the characters to be appealing (look at Dave the Diver for example)

Lastly, how are the characters breaking immersion? They appear to be in the typical diving gear we've seen in previous games, operating a vehicle with an aesthetic similar to Alterra


Plus, personally. I feel like the two characters we've seen look kind well, regular people. Kind of cute. But not ugly, not super models

Thanks for your input, so for your questions, they look very cartoonish imo, very bland and un-appealing, not memorable, dosent look like "bad-asses" if you get my vibe.
They look like teenagers out of a TikTok vid, not like some space travelers that happened to crash on a distant planet and are now forced to explore its seas to survive... they look like they have been dropped on the planet rather than have any "survival" elements to them, which kinda made them though.
Maybe its just me, but i ask myself those questions when i see characters in game, "How did they get to a space ship ? (in order to crash on the planet), do they fit the space traveler vibe imo? do they look strong and though as i would want my character to be ? or do they look silly and cartoonish which is immersion breaking for me.

Does Ryley look like a badass to you?
They appear to be certainly less cartoon themed than the protag of Subnautica.

EDIT: Fixed phrasing

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by Sero:

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

...So, couple questions. How are/aren't the characters charismatic when there's 0 dialogue from them. Why is it important for a character to be appealing? Look at Ryley from Subnautica. For sea games, we also don't need the characters to be appealing (look at Dave the Diver for example)

Lastly, how are the characters breaking immersion? They appear to be in the typical diving gear we've seen in previous games, operating a vehicle with an aesthetic similar to Alterra


Plus, personally. I feel like the two characters we've seen look kind well, regular people. Kind of cute. But not ugly, not super models

There are two options, either it's because they are not white or that they are not an empty shell. I honestly expect them to be empty shells considering this is going to be 4 player coop.

I hope they're an empty shell as well. I don't wanna get interrupted talking to my friends by the character we're playing as. Especially considering there's a high chance we won't be near eachother

[Orkhepaj]

+1 we dont need diverse characters and dialogues
just an ocean with fishes

[PortalShifter]

Oh no, non-white people as characters!

How will you ever survive this?

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by PortalShifter:

Oh no, non-white people as characters!

How will you ever survive this?

To be honest, it's quite weird seeing the rightie poutrage about this. I thought the grievance was "forced diversity which is shown by shoving it into places where it doesn't make sense". But this is Subnautica, where all the main characters have been diverse. Ryley is asian, Robin is black. One of the previous survivors in Subnautica before the Auroras crash was I believe a Hungarian crew.

Then there's the complaints of "they don't look human" which, also seems weird. Not just because there's various art styles that depict humans in different ways, but also that they look noticeably more human than Ryley looks. It's just so obviously manufactured outrage at anything not white

[Dyna]

Surely it has a character creator so you can make whatever you want.

[Orkhepaj]

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

Originally posted by PortalShifter:

Oh no, non-white people as characters!

How will you ever survive this?

To be honest, it's quite weird seeing the rightie poutrage about this. I thought the grievance was "forced diversity which is shown by shoving it into places where it doesn't make sense". But this is Subnautica, where all the main characters have been diverse. Ryley is asian, Robin is black. One of the previous survivors in Subnautica before the Auroras crash was I believe a Hungarian crew.

Then there's the complaints of "they don't look human" which, also seems weird. Not just because there's various art styles that depict humans in different ways, but also that they look noticeably more human than Ryley looks. It's just so obviously manufactured outrage at anything not white

what is diverse in an asian or black? they are the most numerous by far

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by Orkhepaj:

what is diverse in an asian or black? they are the most numerous by far

Boils down to a bunch of nuance basically. But the proper reason I pointed that out is because eternal victims get upset and scream at any character who isn't white for being "too diverse" and then chalk up poorly disguised racism to "forced diversity" or some other nonsense