it's not even realism. Many games now have female or both male and female chracters that look less attractive than people in real life.
When I go out in real life, at work or on the street I see attractive and unattractive people, but in many Western games, AAA or not, all or virtually all characters are unattractive.
It's a fantasy world that is worse than reality!
Even the few that make it through not looking like hobgoblins (of which an exceedingly small number are western) are still messed with. Great example being Tifa from FFVIIR being changed because of "Ethics" departments among many other Japanese games and characters. They get covered up, shrunken, "redesigned", etc.
Not to mention games that are already released and they actively GO BACK to change later. Stupid garbage like Skullgirls removing .5 second panty shots after the game has been out for years.
It's even happening to games that are specifically sold on "sexy". Blade & Soul and other games like it that were marketed heavily with revealing outfits, etc. have been censored time and again. I take a strict principled stance with games that censor. It doesn't matter how much or what it is. I do not buy or spend money in them at all.
It doesn't have anything to do with it being sexy ladies either. I do not want censorship period. It just so happens that it is the sexy ladies they are targeting. Even if I wouldn't enjoy a male character running around in a banana hammock, I wouldn't pay for a game or play a game if they censored it. Likewise, hypothetically as an example; if someone made a game with a lot of religious elements and I did not care for them, I would just not play the game rather than demand it be censored. it's getting very hard to find games that aren't messed with in some way. I've had to give up pretty much all major companies already and mostly subsist on an all indie and a very small number of kickstarted games diet.
I do not trust any companies right out of the gate anymore and do not just buy things willy-nilly. I research first and try to make as sure as possible that it hasn't been messed with. There may be an occasional thing I have no way of knowing that sneaks by, but if I don't know, I can't do anything about it. If I do know or if I find something that was not mentioned in any of the research I did, the game will either not be bought, refunded if possible, or just dropped and never touched again. The only way I would buy a game early nowadays would be if I had an actual statement from the developer telling me that it was not altered in any way, a statement saying it would not be altered in response to calls for it (This is where Em8er fits in), or it's something so innocuous that there's an exponentially tiny fraction of a percentage it would ever be touched even by the hive mind of woke. Something like Mario Golf.
I'm sick of this garbage. It's been happening far, far too long, has infected so many things that I cared about, and forced me to have to give them up. The mental toll of having the hobby you've had since you were a child be slowly rotted away and stolen is immense. Frankly, I wouldn't be upset if many of these companies went belly up and had to start over, scorched Earth, at this point.
