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All the tech they have to give an accurate depiction of the characters and they wanna lie about limitations even though mocap isn’t anything new and been done for years.
Ubisoft: "Players have to get comfortable with not owning games." Players: "Ubisoft has to get comfortable with people not buying or subscribing to their games."
We all know no matter what people will still buy their games atleast just to try it in hopes there’s a “change”. Despite all Ubisoft controversy people for some strange reason still wanna but the new AC red hoping “they got it right this time” 😂
Once again…we’re not allowed to have ANYTHING nice. They make things we won’t like, then blame us for them failing…this is already a played out scenario
@@daMillenialTrucker I get where you’re coming from, but then we’ve got this decade long struggle to get some media that we actually like, and isn’t just pandering to an audience that either doesn’t exist, or definitely doesn’t spend money! Id rather it happen much quicker! 🤣
@@GIBBO4182 my brother in Christ, what we do is start our own companies, parallel economy, that's how we win. We make our own media stations, our own game development studios and completely dump the ESG money grubbing greedy companies. The split in that manner will ensure that we never ever have to deal with the progressive companies trying to subjugate us, the consumer, with their weird ideology.
@@GIBBO4182, discard that expectation now, you only serve to hurt yourself with it. Nothing worth doing ever happens “quicker”. To implement change, especially positive change, takes months and even years to work towards. We’re here for the long haul, so keep your wallet closed, and play the games in your back log instead of buying the trash the AAA industry is selling.
The whole making-female-characters-ugly-to-fit-reality thing feels like companies are not only saying that women can't be beautiful, but that _this_ is how they see real women.
tbh just make em normal like their actors look. overly good looking characters in dire situations like in the game steller blade kind of less immersive as well. but i would definetly take that over these weird looking characters.
It's an odd thing to speak on. One the one hand, you're saying the companies are outing themselves saying they see real women as ugly and that women can't be beautiful. Then completely missing the irony that in doing so outs yourself by showing you don't find real women beautiful unless they are within the scopes you consider beautiful. Which also leaves one to understand, that maybe you believe your standards are fact while the whole beauty/hot/ugly thing is subjective to the core. Companies aren't saying "Women can't be beautiful.", they're saying we think this kind of woman is beautiful; the average, well kempt, natural human-looking woman, is beautiful.
Back in the PS1 era, Cid from FF8 was famous for looking very similar to Robin Williams. A polygonal character from 1999 can ressemble a real life actor, but games 25 years later can't? That's one of the most ridiculous excuses of the year so far.
VFX artist here. That Iron_Stylus dude is just making excuses to obfuscate the truth by using highly technical language. There are numerous ways to filter out noise and to tone down how environmental changes and lighting affect a model without destroying the model itself. She was made ugly on purpose. Period.
It's just stupid cuz lighting is going to affect your materials. It's not going to affect the actual Geo. However they are cherry picking to prove a point. What looks to me is there's different versions of her from different points of development and they're all stitched together. I just hope the freaky chin version is from an older build.
Stellar Blade used a Maxim model, and Korean women mocked these people for saying that it was not a real woman. These Korean women wondered if they have ever seen a woman.
On top of all of that they want an EEF ton of money up front, an EEF ton of money for DLCs and then an EEF ton of money to rent it AND they have publicly stated they don't want the "wrong kind of player" (me). Well I guess their wish is my command.
There are 3 major reasons to skip that game entirely: 1. Ubisoft. Remember they told us we should get used to not owning our games. Add to that that it will be riddled with micro transactions. 2. “The message” doesn’t matter which umbrella it falls under whether it’s Sweet Baby Inc or Bridge, I disagree to pay to get spat in the face. 3. Disney will still make money from this and I am not ready to forget they sat on Sound of Freedom for years.
I think it's more of untalented, unskilled, disliked woke liberals. Wait...they are the definition of unhinged corrupted tyrants. Evil sounds about right.
I never thought I'd see the day when literal biblical evil was spreading throughout the world. That type of thing always seemed to be more fitting for books and movies. I'm not really a religious man myself, but what I see happening now definitely has me reconsidering.
Well evil creates sin, and sin on at least the short end creates a good time(not saying it’s worth the price you will pay)so evil creates a good time, so it can create
@@GigglingStoners Why not? If the game turns out to be actually good? I would absolutely buy it! But chances aren't that big, after all its an Ubisoft game, so will likely contain a shitton of fetch and grind quests in the open world.
@@GigglingStoners They literally make their games to be unattractive to the "wrong type of gamer" (me). If they don't want my Eve. L. male gaze that is NP. They obviously don't want my money either.
I don't care if my staff is diverse, as long as they're qualified for the damn jobs i assigned them i have no problem having a team of pure white straight men.
Rememeber back in the day when parents use to say "video games are evil and promote violence?" NOW they're trying to hijack the gaming industry to promote wokeness.
Okay I'm sure every kid back then is fully grown adult now and can start telling/teaching their own kid, "Video game are woke and need to go broke. That's is not a game you supposed to spent money at."
The unfortunate thing is that we are forbidden or ordered not kill evil as well. We just have to wait for evil to commit suicide or have Jesus Christ cleanse the earth for us when He returns.
@@ProtectorKing23 because when we respond to evil by trying to destroy it we stoop down to its level or it envelops us. evil can only destroy itself, while the good and righteous must just watch and protect the innocent.
@@ProtectorKing23gatekeeping! The sentinels must stand guard not to let the corruption through any seeps and holes; through the gates! The gate must stay closed to those unworthy! Protect the things you love by holding those who dont out! Imagine some cool scene or something. Have a good day anyone who reads this.
In 1977 I went to the theater to see the opening day of Star Wars. As a life long far ... I will no longer support the franchise and that means I won't be sharing that love for it with my kids either, so they are losing multiple generations of fans. Nice work Disney.
It doesn’t matter. Actual sales have become one of the least relevant metrics. Customers like us are only a small part of the product now. These are all investment schemes, a financial bubble to keep billions spinning. For huge scale investors it’s a “the last one to close the door is the one to get screwed”. Of course, for most of the population, it’s indifferent who will be the last one to close the door. When the bubble bursts we all suffer.
Equality is overrated to begin with. The best way to take away all value a man has is to make him equal to another man. Egalitarianism is the opposite of individuality.
@@dorugoramon0518 "The Revolution does not need scientists," said a French judge and had Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, beheaded. Three months later they beheaded HIM. Fifteen months later they exonerated Lavoisier. We remember the judge because he executed him.
“‘No’ says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor. ‘No’ says the man in the Vatican, it belongs to God. ‘No’ says the man in Moscow, it belongs to everyone.”
Lara was never a tomb raider in the direct meaning of the term (guys who rob grave sites purely for personal monetary gain). She hunted after mythical artifacts that belonged to long-extinct civilizations (as in no one at the moment), and then either kept them safe if they were dangerous or gave them to museums if they were not. Rather, a large part of the games is her fighting actual tomb raiders who want to either use or sell the artifacts for personal power or enrichment.
This morning i cancelled (Closed and deleting, just to clarify, not a subscription) my UBI-soft accoount, yes, the games are lost but i rather throw it all away and show them, "Im done with you". There's nothing they can do from this point to make me go back. The've gone off the deep end.
All the more insulting, since he designed Leona, a fairly well-liked and quite attractive champion, and based her on his wife. Not to mention that he designed both Ahri, probably THE most popular champion design in the game (last I played it anyway) who is literally a sexy fox-woman with powers of seduction, and Sejuani, who notoriously was initially designed wearing bikini armor despite living in an arctic environment due to IronStylus not getting the memo before shipping her out. IronStylus is a hypocrite, plain and simple.
@@humrH2360 True. But I meant more in the sense that there are plenty of artists that work hard and would love to be in the position of working for a big company, either designing characters or bringing a character or actress into 3d space. But his excuse was "Boohoo, it's hard and we're incompetent, deal with it." While proceeding to spew out ideological non-sense as extra excuses that go right against that very argument.
Literally there's about 100x effort put into "female looking models" than any other thing in forever ever that has ever had effort put into it. Its insulting that "women Re harder to emulate" is being touted out these days. Lol just quit cos you're shit.
I’ve never seen such a concerted effort to try and stab the Invisible Hand of the Free Market with the knife of ideology. Maybe during the Cold War or Cultural Revolution but in those instances, the “knife” wasn’t being held BY the ones doing the stabbing! Profit and serving the customers is now secondary, even tertiary. So many organizations now don’t care if nor how much money they loose. It’s insane!
New game idea, follow Assassin's Creed IP and the next "assassin" in the game will be Hippocrates, healing the ill and doing no harm to his patients. Pirates of the Carribean, a group of people build a hostel and provide services for the needy in Liechtenstein.
I did not see a female character. What ya talking about, this is 100% a full on male + Ubisoft trained me to not own games, so, I'm quite comfortable not buying it.
Look at all the characters scanned for Squadron 42, Jillian Anderson, Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, John Rhys-Davies.....all near perfect duplicates and easily recognizable. And the hand signal...all I can think of is Dude, where's my car? ZOLTAN!
@reikanou-issen very much still a thing. It's in final polish before release. They stopped selling it in the store. I can only guess because they will start selling it at full retail this fall.
@@gravdigr27 well that's interesting then. I've been eyeing the game since years ago, I planned to upgrade my pc if this game (or the whole star citizen game) ever fully released lol. It will be fun if they can manage to cater disappointed starfield playerbase with timely release.
Just like Rey replaced Luke and other Jedi, Mam' Solo was designed to replace Han Solo at all costs. Star Wars has been hijacked by petty women and they want to make it a female franchise which was originally a boys franchise.
It was a very, very successful IP. And as with all incredibly profitable properties it attracts people who couldn’t care less about what really made it successful, but only the smell of money. Kind of like vampires with blood. And those without talent and actual passion will gradually bring more and more like them eventually kicking the actual creative force out. And then those IPs eventually wither and die slowly - because you can’t fake soul, creativity and that sum of all of those small little details that someone who loves such concepts adds into it when making it, and that other people who love it as well can see and feel. And that is what brings them into those IPs. There is a connection there. And again, like vampires (and abusers), when those IPs die they’ll try to make sure their own victims believe it was their fault (internal dev teams: didn’t work hard or good enough ; customers: are all bigots, racists, etc). And as the IP/company goes through that slow death they will already have their next step to a different company ready, despite making motivational speeches for everyone on the production side to continue working completely under an illusion. So when the blood is dried up, they pass on to the next victim. Now, for how long will this be economically speaking sustainable? I don’t know.. I think we are all feeling the effects in the west gradually.
I’ve never seen such a concerted effort to try and stab the Invisible Hand of the Free Market with the knife of ideology. Maybe during the Cold War or Cultural Revolution but in those instances, the “knife” wasn’t being held BY the ones doing the stabbing! Profit and serving the customers is now secondary, even tertiary. So many organizations now don’t care if nor how much money they loose. It’s insane!
“If you liked the product we used to sell you, then you are a bad person. If you DON’T like the product we want to sell you NOW, then you are even worse.” Gosh, please take my money…. When does this cycle end?
They’re trying to confuse the meanings of equality and equity. They’re on the topic of “what does equality mean to me” and then they go on to describe equity. They are not the same thing, but they want you to think they’re the same thing.
Thing is why are they fighting for equality in games. Gamers never said anything. we were just chilling in our little ol corner of the world playing our shit and here they came bullying and fucking shit up smdh
@@madprophetus these particular issues are more the cause of suits though, not really creatives (although certainly there are many assholes in such areas as well). The “creatives” here are basically brain washed and their good intentions played completely to serve a corporate investment scheme.
@@MeggaMann_theBlueLion I mean in the past it was undeniable that the levels of female objectification in gaming (and most media) were pushing girls out. Just talk with most women who had contact with games and many will tell you that they used to feel games were not really made for them as well. And of course, there was also male objectification, but never in the same level (and even intent). With that said though, it’s not with ESG ratings and other forms of attempting to force social changes that things will move forward in the most balanced way. Because monetising ethics kills it from the start. It makes them void of authentic meaning by making them financial assets. That is playing social engineering in order to serve investment schemes.
We play retro games because we AGREE, the new games are shit. The absolute newest game I have right now is BG3, I'm eyeing HellDivers 2. Other than that, I got a Retroid Pocket Flip loaded with old arcade games, an N64, PS2-PS5, PSP Go, PS Vita, GBA SP, 2DS XL, a Wii, and a Switch OLED. I'm a dragon, sleeping amongst a horde of games!!
The most played games of all are all at least 5+ years old, the vast majority of them far older than that. These new games are made for absolutely nobody.
That Madame Solo dude looks like one of those puppets from Team America. I kept expecting it to say 'durka durka' Also, Alone In The Dark just came out last month. They nailed the look of David Harbour and Jodie Comer. I think they're a western studio, so there is no excuse for this bullshit.
Warriorssssssss come out and playyyyyyyyyyy, WARRIORRSSSSSS come and out playyyyyyy yaaaaaaaa That’s all I hear every time I see the main woman character in Outlaws. She literally look just like the villain in the Warriors movie.
Looking at whats happening, you can and people will still buy it. There should be much more money lost than there is. Im a fence sitter on most political issues and I hear trash from both the left and the right. Many people trashed Trump and then he won the election. Same thing with Biden. Also never forget, there are some ugly people making thousands of dollars on onlyfans.
I may remember things wrong, but weren't Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones always about saveguarding artifacts from those, who would collect them for personal gain, or misuse them to attain power? Those 'modern' ideals we see are equal to: Finding a literal relic of gods with the power to destroy the earth and giving it to the local Warlord, because "it is not your culture's heritage".
Pretty much. I forget if it's in game or the movies that says the treasures Lara obtained were donated to museums. Probably the same for Indie since he remains a teacher throughout the series and is never shown to have much wealth.
Moreover, it's FICTION. I never needed to be told that grave-robbing and tomb-raiding in real life are bad things, that goes without saying. That's just basic human decency. That's why it's fun to have a fictional setting where you have an excuse to do the things that you wouldn't and will never do.
They must be delusion to believe gamers don’t have options with other games. And nothing is more asinine than a business choosing to antagonize their consumer base.
@@runeingebretsen8378 Pure coincidence I'm sure. It's not like companies have flooded their ranks with underqualified people in order to take adventage of DEI money...wait....maybe that isn't a coincidence...huh.
Yes, I (57 yr old married straight woman) have been saying that ever since the AC female MCs started looking, sounding, and moving like American football linebackers, the worst being Eivor in Valhalla. I'm so tired of this crap. I play video games to take myself out of my stressful life for a few hours and if the MC is female or I have the option to have a female MC, I want her to look like one.
I can't wait for them to all go under and get replaced by old school developers who actually like making games that the vast majority of gamers want to play.
So long as they stop with the battle/season pass Bolshevik, but that's where the money is nowadays and money is all games are about unless you're a small passionate team.
I think it's hilarious that the original PS1 Tomb Raider games feature Lara Croft as a well spoken, multilingual millionaire who travels the world to learn more about ancient cultures. She quite literally preserves artifacts in her mansion, and that's not even getting into her adventures in the books. Her work is often the defining thing that history books need to either confirm or deny an old prophecy, whether an event actually happened or if it's just a story. Hell, she gets Mjolnir and becomes Thora Croft. Do I need to say more on how awesome her old character was? Why can't we just backflip and shoot tigers in peace?
the best way to vote is not to give any money to these people. when the market crashes and they burn someone else will come along! one of the things I hate is them banning games from their consoles! my neighbor has filed a lawsuit saying flat out they are violating our 1st amendment rights!
So studios can't currently make female character's faces accurately match the real life models. Hmmm. I wonder why it worked with Margaret Qualley, Norman Reedus and Giancarlo Esposito. 🙄
Its not they can’t, they won’t. Real women should feel offended that they are essentially being told they are men because that’s how game studios see them.
These people have zero concept of “the customer is always right” and it shows so badly. Making content the main audience DOES NOT WANT is how you loose money
@@pc14thenumber9: Their primary funding sources are investment companies worth trillions of dollars pushing dei. It's the only logical explanation for why piss poor products keep being developed despite little to no interest from customers.
Technically, we can't blame they for this. For example, if i create a bullet hell game - i just deal with fact, that this is very niche genre, and i can't sold millions copies, it will be a miracle to sold 20k. So, if they don't want "all money in the world", they can create games for niche audience, not for us. They just can't right blame us, because we don't buy it)
13:50 so they didn't want to make a woman who is both strong AND beautiful, they'd rather make her look like a man because women can be either strong or pretty, not both.... 🤔 Is this a sexism or am I a sexism ?
Like SHE BEAT HER OWN FATHER BECAUSE HE WAS A PIECE OF SHIT (at least if I remember the lore correctly, it could've been a man she was going to be forced to marry) AND THEN TOOK THE LEADERSHIP ROLE OF HER WHOLE FAMILY AND WAS GOOD AT IT, you just CANNOT tell me that that's a bad thing because "well she's hot so men will sexualize her" I thought the whole point was that women can be whatever they want to be without being judged by their looks, now all of a sudden it's bad because "well she's hot AND good at what she does" ???? So you're basically telling my girlfriend "because you can be whatever you want, we need you to choose to be either hot or be smart" ????? These people have no fucking idea how hypocritical they are being and then wonder why we're angry when they make everything worse for us. Is there a lack of diversity in body types in gaming and movies ? Yes there is, but you don't change that by making women ugly. You can be hot and built like a shit brick house. You can be smart and be curvy. You can be a strong woman without putting down strong men. Fucking idiots...
The argument that they make about "technology is hard" is sad and pathetic at this point. We all know that if a single modder will be able to change how she looks in the game, to something more appealing to the "male gaze", it's gonna be removed instantly. Like we see it happening in other games. There is always a excuse why it can't be changed. When i play a game as a male of female character, i want them to be attractive. If they wanna create ugly models for a specific audience(that does not even support them or play video games), then go for it. But stop forcing me to play as this shit.
Remember when Crystal Dynamics gave us Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain in the 90’s? How the mighty have fallen now that they are trying to make Lara Croft, a strong female character and an icon of the video game world, woke. Vote with your feet and close your wallets, lads. We won’t let these bastards win!
It all died with the GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition, then Saints Row, then RedFall... and you just count all the dots where it all leads to the total downfall of what we used to know as modern entertainment.
What’s crazy is Star Wars arguably has some of the most deep and complex lore in any franchise. It shouldn’t be this hard to make a decent game when you have the most dedicated fanbase of all time and limitless source material.
@@yourfeedYT I don’t play the table top as well. I mostly like learning about the lore. But I am looking forward to the game Space Marines 2. It’s coming out in September this year.
Why would they bother having a model anyways if the amount of tweaking they'd do would be the same as if they use a random person on the studio. Another way these people waste money on unnecessary things
The thang is they are fibbing to us to excuse their absolutely horrid behavior, also everytime you bring up we shouldn't buy new games for two years you should always add "except for Stellar Blade and other non woke games" because it doesn't help us if no one buys the games that actually show they care about their player base .
Would be hilarious if players find a way to completely subvert the new Tomb Raider tabletop game to play as 100% colonialists, stealing every artifact, and 'culturally appropriating' at every opportunity. I'd be interested in a game like that.
That was a lot of words by the white-knight. There is a simple rebuttle: A decade ago the men AND women looked good. Now the men still look good, the women look butch or fugly. That alone shows intent. As for in-game people never looking the same as their real-world models; we know that. But in Death Stranding Sam Porter Bridges, played by Norman Reedus, looks very close to the actor. Hell, 2007's Assassin's Creed II had Kristen Bell playing Lucy. Lucy was closer to Kirstin 17-years-ago than this actress is to Ma'am Solo now!
And they claim it's "fighting the male gaze" yes funny enough...nearly EVERY male character looks like a model.. but all the female characters now look just as masculine??
Coming 2024. Tomb Truther: I'm Sorry for All the Wrong I've Done. Don't forget the $299.99 Season Pass where Lara lectures you for 4 not so action-packed hours on how she learned from her mistakes and will show you how not to make the same mistakes she did.
The amount of studios involved in this "woke" social engineering project they seem to have is a little terrifying if I'm honest. I just can't understand anyone willingly going along with these crazies. Yet I'm the crazy one for thinking that! Everything is all ass-backwards up is down down is up type of shit going on.
(22:54) if she is not raiding tombs... Don't call it Tomb Raider then! Until a good Tomb Raider game comes out I'll just play the previous ones. Them: "It's not about the money ots about the Message" Me: I'll buy games from companies who care about their craft.
Strange that when the model is a attractive man, they can make the ingame model look exactly like the male model, but makeing a ingame woman look like her actual model that is impsiibly hard!!!
I'm gonna throw some positive memberberries. Remember Raziel? And Kain? From the Legacy of Kain series? Remember how complex and deep those two characters were? Remember Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed 2? Remember how he was strong masculine character with a sympathetic backstory, with peak character growth, and was fun to play as? Remember old school Master Chief from Halo? Remember how he was a focused, collected character who's only goal was to keep Cortana safe, save humanity and finishing the fight? Grummz is right. Stick to your backlog for a couple of years and they'll come around.
The fact that we haven't heard ANYTHING about Legacy of Kain for decades now maddens me. I'm 23, and I'm the only one of my group from HS that has played it, let alone heard of it.
@@aiodensghost8645 oh dude, I've beaten all of them like 10 times and could recite all of the lines by heart. They don't make games like THOSE anymore and they really need to now more than ever
As a woman, I don't believe the uglification of women will not stand. I will not buy this woke crap. I have preordered Stellar Blade and look forward to it's release.
Honestly the butt chin is the only thing that really ruins the girl in Outlaws. I have seen some screens and gameplay where she doesn’t look awful. But that chin is oddly pronounced at plenty of angles and just looks like Jim Carrey at the end of Me, Myself, and Irene.
Her nose and eyes look nothing like the actress they scanned. The point is, the actress is beautiful so they changed the character model to make sure it’s _not_ beautiful.
Anyone who's spent seventeen hours minutely adjusting the eighty thousand sliders in the character creation screen knows that developers can make a character look like a model. Who were they trying to convince? Production companies saying they can't accurately recreate a face in game is an insane argument to make to your gamer audience calling you out. More insane is that people have to find and compile examples of good static face models in games to make them stop.
Can you imagine telling someone you was in a Star Wars game, and you have to prove it by showing them the game…and them STILL not believing you, shows you how bad they f*cked up.
Yeah but I feel they being paid money to be 'protagonist' or certain character in the game and just leave the production end result alone with no complaint as agreement.
@@Lucaribrix Indeed. The actual model is quite curvy and beautiful. The character supposedly based on her likeness is flat, no hips, and with a face that looks like something i might have aborted out of the Fallout 4 character creation screen. How did they need an IRL model if they weren't going to actually use her likeness at all?
Ubisoft is another company I haven’t been really buying from lately. And more and more I find myself not looking forward to upcoming games. Now they are a don’t buy.
I find quite a few of their games decent,but honestly AC whoch the last 3 games are the only games where i’m like oh that looks decent,but at the same time boring. Farcry series has been ruined fully since Farcry 5 as except for side activities and dlc I found the story and world more boring then all prior titles. New dawn ruined it even further with a grind style of game even after doing everything on map and bullet aponge enemies. And after what they said about owning games people should never look at their games,but gamers are dumb and forgetful and want to run away from other things by going fully into gaming…no matter the mediocrity and awful practices from the dev.
Let's see if we calculate the output of woke delusions for how capitalism works, subtract voluntary purchasing from the consumer base to company, it'll equal to the saying: Go Woke, Go Broke
A few years ago we could excuse the devs with "the higher-ups made the devs do it"... but now, they push this DEI / ESG crap willingly out of their own volition, just sad
Up next: Rockstar games assures fans that Grand Theft Auto 6 will not involve any theft of auto vehicles and apologize for any crimes depicted in their prior games.
Hahahaha I wonder how would that turn out LMFAO. "Need for Speed franchise apologizes for encouraging speeding while driving and violence towards police and destruction of public property" 😂😂
Bro the riot employees rambling trying to make a solid argument saying it’s because of the “lighting” is actually quite wrong, all of this stuff about details and making sure lighting does this or that so that’s why the characters are “ugly” is such a stupid argument cause the solution to those problems while still keeping a high quality beautiful texture is…. Wait for it, texture baking, I’m a game developer and texture baking is an insanely powerful tool used to ad high quality realistic details to a low poly mesh, and the textures themselves can look like it has millions of polygons yet the mesh itself might only have around 50k polygons at the high end of main character models, so no take this from a game developer, the uglification of models to “improve lighting” or “improve performance” is just the stupidest thing I have ever heard ever.
I make videogame characters too, and I can tell you that making a woman's face sharper because of the light etc. etc. is BS, what about Eve for Stellar Blade or the old Harley Queen and poison Evy? Certain polygon is not been used due to the light refraction in certain areas, but use that as an excuse for emasculating a woman or a mesh character that is incompetent, and has no idea how to model. Today you just need to make a good UV cut to just copy and paste an image of the model to have the character ready, then I don't think Ubisoft today make a low poly game for £130. Now we know why Ubisoft fired 900 people recently
Seeing the model next to the game character reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite when Napoleon gave Trish the portrait he made of her. Someone should send that comparison to the Riot dev.
