I'm kind of with the OP, in some respects.

Male character model is ugly, nobody really cares.

Female character model is ugly, everyone loses their minds, makes a joke, points it out, has a laugh.

Because female video game characters are meant to be pretty. Almost all of them are. Not necessarily sexualised, but certainly attractive.


BUT, that doesn't mean there's not a legitimate issue with character models, at time, especially back in MK9. I'd swear many of the designers had never seen a human being's body before. Arms attached strangely, hair going crazy, and Kitana with features that did not match in the slightest...and EVERY female had a very strong jaw....


In saying that, there's no reason to freak out about any girl in this game yet. Cassie's odd animations have been and still are improving, and Kitana is much better.

And also, let's remember that the two pics that are the worst - the Cassie and (maybe) Sonya pictures for the factions portraits - are just that..... portrait photos. They're not the real character models with normal lighting.

Hell, look at Sonya's 'vs' picture from MK9. She looks like a psycho, upper-lip-missing monster in it, but even if you don't like her in-game model, she doesn't look anything like her awful VS picture.

The "females were made to look attractive or to be eye candy, that's why nobody complains about the male characters" thing needs to stop, because i keep seeing gay men talking trash about the female faces, and not a word about the males.

I, for one, as a gay guy, (another one), don't complain about the male faces as much simply because - ugly or not - they are better modelled. They might be ugly, but ugly and well-modelled are not mutually exclusive.

But the Kitanas and Jade's of MK9 I thought were genuinely poorly modelled, and looked so bizarre compared to what we are used to.... And as much of a Sonya fan as I am, they DID do something weird with her jaw/chin in VS DC and MK9.

But that's an issue I have with modelling, and not so much as 'ugly'. I don't care if Sonya has a 'man-face', because not every woman has to look the same, and not every woman has to have delicate beautiful supermodel features.


(Although I don't know why they can't just give her Kerri Hoskins face.... ah the 90s)

fucking thank you someone said it.

all this feminism and sjw stuff go to tumblr with that crap.

Oh my God, people actually still use the term 'SJW"?

How awkward for you.

go on twitter, tumblr and social media and see how awkward it'll be for you.

Yes, and funnily enough all those people who use the term are just as silly as you.... Wonder how that happened.

Try making some sense, if you live under a rock that's not my problem

No rock. I just understand that anyone who uses the term 'SJW" without irony has all the intellectual capacity of a blueberry scone.

Kano, Stryker, Young shang Tsung, Nightwing, Kratos (lol) aaand Kenshi all looked good.

Clearly you havent seen the constant crying of feminists and white knights on social media. blueberry scone oh my so much sass don't brake a nail now.

And now he brings out White Knight. Pretty soon you'll be able to call out internet man-child bingo.

You truly are stupid, if you can't see it going on, but please carry on making no point what so ever. Continue your valiant fight for womenz and menz equality in video games! you're a hero

This is why politics and video games make no god dang sense.

Exactly my point. People need save it for other mediums not drag it into every game. Sadly its hard for some people to grasp what i am speaking about.

It's not because the faces aren't attractive, it's because NRS has a ton of trouble making feminine faces. Some males have very ugly faces, but at least the faces look masculine. The female faces(most of them) don't look feminine at all. Couldn't care less if they are unattractive, but they need to actually look like a female face, which they don't.

Although I have less of a problem with the MKX ones, most look good so far.

I miss King of the Hill so much.

In mk9 the only face that looked a bit odd was Sonya i will admit, it wasn't ugly just a bit weird looking during cut scenes.

Nonsense.

Art, pop culture and entertainment don't exist in a vacuum. EVERYTHING is related to politics, even the choice to not be political.

Why should one of the biggest media and entertainment forms our society enjoys be exempt from politics and serious discussion? Because manchildren don't want to be told that maybe-sometimes-just-possibly games can be a tad problematic in some regards?


Overall this thread topic is hardly the worst thing ever to happen in a video game. Some ugly character models aren't the harshest things ever.


But I genuinely don't understand this bizarre idea that because it's a video game we can't expect a certain calibre of non-douchebaggery.
Movies, books and visual arts are discussed thematically, politically and in regards to gender, sexuality and other issues. Why on earth should video games not be the same?

Unless, of course, you're admitting that too many gamers are too insecure, childish and sensitive to handle such discussion?

Dammit Bobby

lol but Mk 9 overall the bodies and faces were horrible, but from what i've seen in MKX they improved everything drastically

Isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder?

Kung Lao looked like a monkey more than Liu did dude. lol

No, it's really not. It's a fighting game, political correctness doesn't need to exist in a game where I fight to the death against someone.



But does it need to exist in a fighting game? Seriously?



Because when I play video games, I play them for fun, not for educating me about the real world. If I want to get a better understanding about the real world and its problems, I'll go to my parents, or people who don't sugarcoat bullshit.



It's not the worst thing to hit in a video game, yes. I'll agree to that.



Because it's a game, why should it be taken seriously?



Because if I want to fire up a game that has me blasting soldiers' heads off, what political correctness does it need to have along with it? Games are exempt because that's what they are. Games. They don't educate unless you're literally playing an education game.

If I'm playing a game that has me brutally killing people, why should politics come anywhere near it?



Well, I've seen a bunch of them the last two days... Hell, lemme refer to you the reactions of many gamers who have seen Feminist Frequency.

I am all for serious discussions and such, but for a game like this... there's no need. It's basically pointless if I'm ripping heads off.

Quoted for Truth.
Bonus points for King of the Hill

Wait, you people haven't heard of the "gender equality" patch on every MK game? Toggle it on in your settings. All the female characters will be in CEO positions while the men clean their boots with their tongues.They added this setting when every sexist disguised as a feminist would not shut the fuck up about terribly designed female characters being beautiful.