/vr/ - Retro Games

If you wouldn't fuck the Elder Scrolls Arena chick, you're legit homosexual.

Most of them were actually quite beautiful, idealized even. I don't think BG2 is a good example, considering how weird-looking most of its portrait art was.

>>4955664
western sim and realism obsession.

>>4955664
>all women who aren't depicted as plastic gooks or anime girls are ugly
back to /v/ with you, champ

Probably wasted on you child molestors

>>4955664
>all women who aren't depicted as plastic gooks or anime girls are ugly
basically this, in other words this is a bait thread. not bumped and sent to feds. god bless.

>>4955691
>>4955710
>likes ugly western mandykes
>thinks he isn't the one who belongs on /v/eddit

The reason we saw less of them around was because Japan dominated the gaming industry back then. Maybe they weren't as purposely ugly as they are now, but they were never very attractive in general.

>>4955748
Most female characters of yesteryear were sexed up and attractive. I honestly don't know what the hell you're talking about.

>>4955691
>>4955664
The generic anime look at least sets a decent minimum standard.

>>4955954
it doesn't, believe me.

from the mid-90's and onward, the majority of all anime girls have looked like ayy lmaos.

>>4956010
>ayy lmaos > cavewoman

>>4955779
Western "realistic" illustration art always had uggo women, and a lot of fantasy media used such art.
Your example there is clearly modeled after western comic book art, which was usually relatively sexualized.

>>4956010
Anime girls "look like aliens" because they have neotenous features. The question you should be asking is why do aliens look like overgrown fetuses instead. It wasn't even anime that came up with this kind of character design btw. Pic realted.

the beauty standard most developers grew up with doesn't really correspond to nowadays

>>4955664
Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II had some godawful portraits. Icewind Dale on the other hand gave us this.

>>4955664
naw, that's just BG
they had fucking retarded portraits

>bringing the 2nd worst recurring /v/ thread here

t-thanks

>>4955691
This. People thought they were beautiful before they became weebs.

>>4956010
I don't mind Larry Elmore style even though his women do look a bit masculine at times. I fapped to the Dark Queen of Krynn box cover as a kid. I also don't really mind the BG2 portraits, they're not really sexy but at least have some positive aesthetic qualities.

On the other hand, I'll take anime girl #10,252 over frog-faced Miranda Lawson any day.

>>4956598

>Dark Queen of Krynn box cover

>>4956608
fucki'n dragonlance. <3

Western female characters had a different style of attractiveness, something more subtle if you will. Pic related is a good example of this. I want to say 2013 is when the west was officially terrified of making attractive female characters, with Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite causing quite a stir; her boobs had to be toned down from the reveal trailer, and Levine has said he wasn't fond of people finding her attractive enough to draw porn of her. Pretty much the same reaction that CN had when they realized how popular Gwen was in R34.

>>4956045
too bad the games were shit. At least it's easy to replace the portraits in BG

>>4956598
>>4956608
I also fapped to it. Good times!

>>4956605
>>4956607
I watched some of a KQ7 let's play yesterday and they mentioned how rare it was for a middle aged woman to be a playable character. I couldn't think of any others. Can anyone think of any?

>>4956045
Holy shit

>>4956643
I dont think people give a fuck now. I know game studios cow tow to the sjws who dont really buy their product anyway. It seems the normal person is getting sick of all this "im offended" shit. Go cram a cock in it you thin skinned panzies. Hell kids cant even lose in sports with pride. "You get a participation trophy and you get two because youre black, and you get three because youre mexican and your parents are gay, aaaand tou get -1 because youre white and your parents are still together." This years e3 was an sjw nightmare. I dont really care, i like good female protaganists and i like playing female characters in games where you can choose, but it was such an in your face brainwashing tactic, too bad there are still people dumb enough to get butt fucked up the dick by politically correct bullshit. Lara croft, samus, julie(zombies ate my neighbors), jill valentine, claire redfeild, aya brea, mrs. Pacman. Thats just a handful of the great female video game protaganists. Why does it need to be 50% or more of women in everything? They dont make up a majority of people who play videogames. Its a fucking cold day in hell to feel blue!

>>4955664
Women in western games are still for the most part pretty ugly. At least the Japs are courageous enough to give us nerdy guys what we want.

>>4956076
BGI Imoen wasn't that bad. It's just 2 that had a god-awful artist who loved to put gaudy stuff in awful haircuts.

>>4956045
I dig the artstyle they used for this game's characters.
And let's not forget about the cute female cleric.

>>4956656
Eh, I felt Icewind Dale was a better overall experience than Baldur's Gate. At least you were going from dungeon to dungeon, as opposed to walking (at a very slow pace) through empty stretches of wilderness. The writing was more mature too.
>>4957363
All women in Icewind Dale look fantastic. But what's better is that characters as a whole look like actual people living in the setting as opposed to LARPing faggots from Baldur's Gate.

>>4956045
all of the portraits supplied with IWD were great, I though the Baldur's Gate 1&2 portraits were serviceable

>>4955664
Women in eastern RPGs are designed for nerdy guys to lust after. Women in western RPGs are designed for nerdy girls to imagine themselves as.
Which is why they're badass, heavily armed, but average looking.

>>4958132
I liked the exploration of Baldur's Gate, even though there was lots of empty space. It just had that hiking in the wilderness and stumbling upon monsters and treasures I enjoyed.
Mind you, I also like Icewind Dale for its customization and the dungeon crawling: they just are very different games despite using the same engine and the same setting. Both have their merit, imho.

ID's characters have somewhat generic designs, but the execution is flawless. And even the males look great and imposing.

>>4958223
I maybe weird for being the nerdy guy lusting after the badass, heavily armed girls. Shar-teel was my BG waifu.

>>4955664
If you didn't notice, EVERYTHING in WRPGs and other western games is usually ugly as fuck. There reason for that, westerners can't draw for shit, especially americans. You generally need to finish something like art school to get into artistry, and this stuff is outright despised in US.

>>4958496
There are plenty of good western artists. The problem is the taste and motivations of western RPG producers.

>>4958496
>westerners can't draw for shit, especially americans.
obsessed weeb spotted

>>4956598
>child wants an alien over an earthling

>>4956912
Was she even middle aged?

>>4957358
2 was far better than this piece of shit.
>>4958496
>weeb shitposts

>>4957087

>>4955682
Daggerfall had mostly cute (pixelated) girls too

Most westerns games went for the wannabe realistic style, that's why.
There are exceptions, mostly games that went for a more cartoonish style

>>4955664
Uhh no, well at least not intentionally, "sexy under dressed female character" was pretty much a pre-requisite in almost every 90s/early 00s videogame.
>>4955682
>>4961310
They got rid of all the hot bitches in Morrowind and they never returned, shame.

>>4955664
>Women in western games
>Western women
>ugly?
Asian women are just better anon.

>>4956045
what happened to her torso?

>>4955664
The problem is that some artists often either base female character on a botoxed face-surgered into oblivion pornstars or can't sculpt an attractive female face for the life of theirs.
this is prominent in games, comics and any other visual artwork, 80-90% of women are butt-ugly.
Animu girls are standardized so even if they often suffer from same-facedness, that same-face is at least decent.

Imoen in both BGs achieves exact looks the artist was going for though - neither ugly, nor beautiful plain commoner girl.

>>4961816
she's halfling

Here's my favourite 90's game girl: Rynn from Drakan. looks great both in artwork and in game.