Yeah the idea that you must be a cum brain pervert if you like the characters showing more skin or being more conventionally attractive is bizarre. I don’t think this is really a problem with MK1 though, most of the characters look good, but I hate this argument. We expect characters we are a fan of to look a certain way and most MK1 characters look awesome.
The same-ness of the women has a lot to do with the fact that 3 of them are a mom and her twin daughters, who would understandably look and dress quite similar. The body suits are kind of weird though, looking at MKX Kitana, Tanya, Mileena, Cassie, Sonya, Jacqui, they all look quite different from each other. I think this game will have pretty good customization though so that could solve a lot of this. They will all surely have cool alternates as well, and klassic skins, so I’m sure we can personalize whatever character we use to a degree.
As for male and female body standards in general, it seems like NRS is only interested in portraying more realistic bodies for women only. Every girl in this game looks like something any woman who works out and had an average ish frame will look like. Iv only been lifting for 5 years so I’m not the greatest ever, but I’m jacked compared to normal people. All of this to say, Sub-Zero’s physique is not attainable naturally for anyone living presumably in the frozen mountains of China, especially since his training wouldn’t involve purely traditional weight training. And that’s a GOOD thing, gaming characters like these should be idealized and a power fantasy, and shouldn’t represent something realistic. It’s escapism. As you pointed out, only the men have any diversity with their body type, which is part of why and how they stand out from each other more than the ladies. I gravitate towards Sub because I like lifting and the jacked gigachad ninja appeals to me, but other guys might gravitate towards the scary monster Baraka because he looks unique and cool as fuck, or the super imposing Shao Kahn, and others might gravitate towards the skinnier and nimble looking Cage. I’m not trying to say they have a political agenda or anything, the women are still pretty and all that shit, but I do think they kind of put themself in a box creatively.
yep, great stament of yours, I happen to agree with
in the 80's and 90's years there was a motto inside the entertainment industry , and a reality well accepted by overall almost everyone, that "Sex sells" and so, pratically majority of the movie, music and game industry was built under this rule
Not forcing something explicity pornographic, that was not the point, but, in the old times, putting sexy and sensual references and suggestive lust, this was seen as a normal stuff to deal with, and compatible with the lascivous nature of the human being, that , yeah, normally pay for being amused and entertained from the cruel reality of the .... real life, that is tough, boring, cruel, unfair and etc a lot of times
Deny this, even today, is like trying to hide the sun with a net, but, with the woke wave and political intromission, and very dark and evil behaviour control protocols that the goverments and those with power , a lot of power, are trying to input forcely and artificially, of course that any attempt to put, in a natural or organic way, even minor and minimum sexyness and erotic suggestive references in any kind of art, is seen now as totally villanious behaviour, as not part of the current status quo, and as totally offensive to the ultra feminism wave, and all these kind fo shit and annoying new wave, new era, bla bla bla social movements around the ocident society
I admire the Japanese developers, for, sometimes, just give a big "fuck off all of you" middle finger to all this Ocidental woke madness, and so, truly put their original vision in their projects, and go ahead with that for their mangas, games, tv shows, etc
