Female Characters Will Be More "Realistically" Proportioned

[Victoria]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mortal-kombat-x-female-characters-will-be-more-rea/1100-6425276/

Apparently, NetherRealm Studios -- a company with a proud history of never caving to the "video game violence" whiners -- has given in to the SJW crowd.

Here we have a game that is about brutally murdering other people and disemboweling them in the most graphic ways... and somehow, that's not the most offensive thing about the game anymore. It's the female characters being designed to be attractive that is the problem. A game with sorcerers and centaurs, sentient robots and four-armed human-like creatures, a game where people shoot fireballs out of their hands -- this game is too "unrealistic" not because of all of these things -- but rather, because its women have large "assets." Yes, that's just the thing that needs to be fixed to make Mortal Kombat a more "realistic" game!

This game is yet another casualty of the Western gaming industry which no longer sees women with large secondary sexual characteristics as being "realistic." To every woman with a large chest or hips, the American gaming industry has deemed you to be subhuman. In the eyes of the American gaming industry, women with large assets are fake women now. Yes, out of the 3.5 billion women on Earth, there can't possibly be a single one of them who has naturally large breasts and hips. Sexism is more alive than ever in the gaming industry. According to video game developers, if you have large breasts, you are FAKE.

Indeed, women like Hitomi Tanaka (who has a black belt in karate I might add, look it up) clearly do not exist, and thus any game portraying a woman with large breasts who also has fighting abilities is being "unrealistic."

Interestingly, it would seem all human males continue to have steroid muscles. Curiously absent from these character redesigns is any mention of making the male characters "more realistic." Apparently there are no men who lack giant visible muscles. According to NetherRealm Studios, all men look like Jax and no women look like Kitana.

[Nyx]

Publicado originalmente por Kawalorn:

Publicado originalmente por ☜✯☞ rekingball ☜✯☞:

it seems to me that nrs got a lot of ♥♥♥♥ for their mk9 models, but for some reason decided to "realistically proportion" the females only

NRS didn't get ♥♥♥♥ for models, they got ♥♥♥♥ for FEMALE models looking like men with boobs, THAT'S why they are changing only females. Sigh... people not even doing proper research before joining the discussion...

They looked that way because of THEIR FACE ALONE.... which is funny because they cared so much about making Kitana’s body more "realistic" that they actually forgot to fix the face.... it got slightly better, but IT STILL looks like a male face.

[Brandon]

Publicado originalmente por jest:

Publicado originalmente por Tibbers:

] Your tastes for costumes in the game are really not as important as you would like to think they are.

They're important enough that you feel the need to jump in NRS' defense after my every post. :)

I suppose the costumes are fine if you don't mind your MK character looking like they were dragged out of a season of the Walking Dead. At the very best they're boring and forgettable, with pieces lazily put together from an asset store.

http://assets1.ignimgs.com/2015/02/12/kitana1jpg-b6dfd4_400w.jpg

The original concept had some amazing, memorable pieces. Naturally they picked the most unflattering one that gives her some baggy parachute/diaper looking thing. In 2015 female skin is offensive, so they all need to be in pants, t-shirts or armored workout bras.

Calling you out for your BS isn't defending NRS. They don't need me to defend them anyway, they are all grown up.

And you're still crying about the costumes not being snazzy enough? The original costumes were stupid too. Kano's costume looked like a sushi chef in MK1, and Sonya looked like she was about to record an aerobics video. MK2 wasn't any better, with the women basically wearing a swimsuit. It wasn't until MK3 that they decided to put some effort into it. And you know what? MK and MK2 were still freaking awesome games. So go fap to a fashion catalog to get it out of your system or something, and enjoy the damn game.

[OneWingedJehuty]

OP, nice post. I wholeheartedly agree. Although Kitana's face looked pretty fudged up when she removed the mask, the other female characters looked good and were good to look at. I appreciated the larger-than-typical-Hollywood-breast sizes on the women in MK9. My one gripe was that they all appeared to have the same base model body type, so none of them differentiated from this body type. I wouldn't have a problem with some of the women being thicker or thinner, taller, smaller, wider, etc.,. But now I agree, with MKX we have the opposite of the MK9 problem. In MK9, they were all overly busty women. Now they're all Hollywoodized petite B and C cups. Again, variety is the spice of life, but if I can only have one way or the other, I'd prefer MK9's.

In addition, you make a good but short point on the fact that the men are practically exploding with testosterone-fueled Hulk muscles. Okay, maybe not Hulk muscles, but certainly ripped studs who can give The Mountain a run for his money. I would tend to think, if Johnny's daughter is old enough to be in the military, Johnny ought to be looking a little less muscular. From what I've seen, he looks incredibly young still (maybe this is related to the plot in some way).

In the end, it's not going to change my opinion on buying the game - I'm planning on putting in the preorder right now - but it is sad to see, and agree with you, that NRS is trying to avoid the SJW attack by slimming down their women to meet the demands of whiny asses.

[xenon]

Publicado originalmente por Kawalorn:

Publicado originalmente por ☜✯☞ rekingball ☜✯☞:

it seems to me that nrs got a lot of ♥♥♥♥ for their mk9 models, but for some reason decided to "realistically proportion" the females only

NRS didn't get ♥♥♥♥ for models, they got ♥♥♥♥ for FEMALE models looking like men with boobs, THAT'S why they are changing only females. Sigh... people not even doing proper research before joining the discussion...

And that's not double standard only stupid people using arguments they know don't make sense (gameplay realism is separate from graphic realism) just so they can nitpick on something.

really?
piss off
mk9 male models were just atrocious, I'd say worse than mk9 female models.
the body proportions of females weren't horrific, it's just the fact that all of them looked the SAME. while males not only looked flat out wrong (those shoulders alone out wrong everything that was not right with female models), they ALSO looked the same. they were 2 base models used if you didn't know that.
"man face" does not explain why they're changing females only under the "realism mantra" or "looking like women proportions", when MK was never you'd call something realistic in any sense. yeah those sprites from early games? digitally altered, otherwise they'd look atrocious. hence it's not "realistic" in there as well.

if mk9 female models looked like "men with boobs", the heck are mkx females then? dwarfs with toothpick arms? call me crazy but the latter isn't any better than "men with boobs" as far as "gameplay realism" or "graphic realism" go.

but keep pretending you're so smart and edgy kid

[RhodosGuard]

So,....this thread still exists and people are still discussing?
God, what have Video Games come to? When my Dad first told me about what Video games were and what to do with them "DEMAND BOOBS EVERYTIME" was not among any of this.

just please, the only thing you can atm complain about is that they are not coherent with their character design, but just adjusting their looks to match Setting, Character and Theme of the game is nothing to discuss about.

What you do is just as bad as what those feminazis do: without any logic besides "You bow down to them and expose your Sphincter for them to penetrate" you dont have ANY Argument to prove that reducing Boobsize is something they shouldnt have done.

So deal with it or dont buy the game. If you want to see big tits, well you know, the Internet was made for Pr0n.

[Psylent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg

[DiasFox]

Its embarrassing at this age of gaming. Main concern on games these days are related to "boobs" or "not sexy enough".

[Курение в неположенном месте вле]

I'm not complaining, as long as females are beautiful. I don't support "objectivisation" concept of you know whom, as it is utterly BS worth concept.
But I like how females in MKX looks. And, if you remember, characters was captured directly from human actors, so MK originally had such realistic looks. I will not complain if they make them almost naked having E sized boobs either, as long as they remain beautiful.
Agree with males, though, too much useless muscles, but some should keep it (Torr/Kotal Kahn etc).

[RhodosGuard]

Publicado originalmente por KOTEK:

Agree with males, though, too much useless muscles, but some should keep it (Torr/Kotal Kahn etc).

Useless Muscle? Torr is just a Giant. And Kotal Khan? Dude this isnt even near to "too much (useless) muscle"

THIS: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=174703
is too much useless muscle

[xenon]

looks like scorpion
or subzero

[RhodosGuard]

Yeah oc 100% match FBI solved the case. Comparing the bodybuilder with Scorpion they were able to deduct that corpion killed and ate 100 children in uptown New York
[/sarcasm]

[Kawalorn]

Publicado originalmente por ☜✯☞ rekingball ☜✯☞:

really?
piss off
mk9 male models were just atrocious, I'd say worse than mk9 female models.
the body proportions of females weren't horrific, it's just the fact that all of them looked the SAME. while males not only looked flat out wrong (those shoulders alone out wrong everything that was not right with female models), they ALSO looked the same. they were 2 base models used if you didn't know that.
"man face" does not explain why they're changing females only under the "realism mantra" or "looking like women proportions", when MK was never you'd call something realistic in any sense. yeah those sprites from early games? digitally altered, otherwise they'd look atrocious. hence it's not "realistic" in there as well.

I don't care what you think about male models. You argued that they changed only female models when people complained on models generaly which is a lie. People kept shouting about female models on the most part.

Sure there were some complains about male ones too (espiecially the "they look all the same" part) but they were DROWNED under the "women have male faces" shouts. Hence why they are concentrating on females.

BTW they fixed male models too. Look at Ermac, who is MUCH leaner than other males, or Ferra/Torr who have very unstandard body types.

Nice moving goalposts since you can't defend even your own argument.

Publicado originalmente por ☜✯☞ rekingball ☜✯☞:

if mk9 female models looked like "men with boobs", the heck are mkx females then? dwarfs with toothpick arms? call me crazy but the latter isn't any better than "men with boobs" as far as "gameplay realism" or "graphic realism" go.

What, didn't you never see a woman in your life that you think they wouldn't seem small next to bulky men? Maybe you should go out more?

Publicado originalmente por ☜✯☞ rekingball ☜✯☞:

but keep pretending you're so smart and edgy kid

Nice one coming from the guy who said:

Publicado originalmente por ☜✯☞ rekingball ☜✯☞:

really?
piss off

Learn to communicate on a higher level than a 5 year old, then come back to me.

[xenon]

Publicado originalmente por Kawalorn:

I don't care what you think about male models. You argued that they changed only female models when people complained on models generaly which is a lie

Sure there were some complains about male ones too

People kept shouting about female models on the most part.

spot the idiot

What, didn't you ever see a woman in your life that you think they wouldn't seem small next to bulky men? Maybe you should go out more?

Learn to communicate on a higher leven than a 5 year old then come back to me.

http://myreactiongifs.com/gifs/nicolascageconfusedemotions.gif
man this is wall of fame material right here

[Kawalorn]

Publicado originalmente por ☜✯☞ rekingball ☜✯☞:

spot the idiot

I spotted him. It's the guy who doesn't know what "on the most part" means.

Oh look at the kiddie, he has so little to say he can only throw pictures at me without context.

Gratz for admiting you are incapable of deflecting anything I said.

[xenon]

haha ok
so much for "lying" when the idiot contradicts himself