I pre-ordered "The Last of Us Part I" Deluxe Edition (what can I say, I absolutely love Part I, and Sony made the price decision), and I'm hoping things will look better by release time, but if the character models look like this, and it's not a glitch or something they'll patch out, then anyone who gives this game a a high review was either paid too, isn't truly a gamer, or is just a slave to Neil Druckmann, because they believe he is a great SJW or something. It's supposedly a "Remake" with enhanced graphics to make it look 100x better.yet, the trailers only seem to make it look worse and worse, just based on the character models. Why can't they just design characters from a well-intended starting point and make initial revisions before the game launches instead of rewriting what's been done to known characters ten years later? I dunno if uglifying entirely new characters in future games is really going to be a thing, much less amount to a discernible difference in how audiences take to certain characters, so I guess we'll see how it all pans out. Like if his intention was to go for a grittier approach to more resemble us ugly normies/aliens/gremlins, then I'm not sure if this is a trend I want to see more of.
It's an apocalypse, there weren't -that- many characters. Granted, it's been years since I beat the game, but still. I don't even remember any overt sexualization in the first game whatsoever for its female characters, which makes Druckmann's revisions that much stranger. Hell, I'm pretty sure that's one of the things Naughty Dog consistently gets right across franchises. Like, you can have good female characters that aren't ugly and aren't sexualized. While yes, there absolutely is a tendency to sexualize women in gaming/media in general, this is a completely different thing than actively making your female characters ugly. Without getting bogged down into all of the debates around that though, it does sound like Druckmann misunderstood what criticisms people actually have about how women are depicted in gaming.
It was interesting, because I do think that games/most mediums suffer from the Hollywood tendency to make everyone good-looking or at least not ugly. Specifically, if characters should be intentionally drawn/portrayed ugly. I know we all like to critique Druckmann on principle here, but I actually gave this issue a fair bit of thought.
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