A male protagonist should always look like he either just fucked a bear, or got fucked by a bear. The one on the left meets both of these criteria and is passable.
I bet the people who do this aren’t very attractive. So weird…
Wait, this isn’t lemmy shiitpost?
The funny thing is that conventionally its the left one that was attractive. Todays standards for men are actually more traditionally feminine. I dont really care but its funny to find gaping holes in logic like this.
Allow me to introduce you ~☆The Scarlet Pimpernel☆~
Todays standards for men are actually more traditionally feminine
*giggles in baroque and rococo*
Do you mean like men liking blue, instead of pink? As traditionally blue is a gentle colour, meant for girls, whereas pink is strong and vibrant, and meant for boys.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1650–1700_in_Western_fashion
Unironically didn’t like this game because I couldn’t customise my character. Like ffs a skill check for a tie? Really?
Harry is someone that already exists and has relationships in the world, usually those sorts or RPGs don’t let you customize much. It’s like Geralt or Link. But you do get to develop your personality more through dialogue.
As for the tie skill check, the rest of the game is better about saving skill checks for more difficult tasks. It’s just there at the start to reinforce how much of a mess your character is. You can come back later when the negative modifiers clear and it’s easier.
Idk I’m still not convinced I would enjoy the experience if I sunk more time in. Everything I did was sooooo tedious and hard to do. I got to the point where I have to get a guy’s body out of a tree and just could not do it failing multiple times using multiple methods entirely arbitrarily. Like why set up some sort of crime I need to solve if I am going to not just hindered, but entirely blocked from taking the most basic of steps.
Fr I have never felt less agency while playing a video game. Let me do things damnit!
Insert joke about communist developers taking away muh freedum
Get up now, grab one from the dresser and tie a full Windsor, one try, no YouTube tutorials.
See why the skill check?
I tied one every day for my high school uniform.
You’d probably pass the check then. I wouldn’t.
Good thing that skill check exists then I wouldn’t want players to be able to complete mundane tasks without interrupting the flow of gameplay
My first death in this game came from succumbing to a massive heart attack while trying to acquire/equip said tie.
Actually would’ve given me an aneurysm and caused me to die irl
This is my favorite internet gag lately.
i still haven’t finished this game because i don’t want it to be over. even though i haven’t played it in months, i can take comfort in knowing im not truly done with it
There’s more to see if you go through it as a different “character”
my problem goes deeper than you might initially expect. i have made many many characters for this game. however, none of them have finished it
Have you ever thought about finishing them off at the same time?
I’ve seen some documentaries about this.
I sympathise with you here, and I won’t urge you to finish it (because I know it’s not that simple), but I do hope that you are able to some day, because the ending of the game is one of the things that is dear to my heart in the game (I am curious at what the furthest you’ve gotten in it is). It’s not even that the ending is good — the reason I love it is because of how it hurts: it hurts because it means the game is finally over, and it also hurts because the characters in the game don’t get the closure of an ending. Disco Elysium actually feels tremendously hopeful to me, but it’s a weary, desperate kind of hope, because Revachol is sick and struggling; Martinaise, depressing shit hole that it is, reminds me of home — I say this with equal parts bitterness and affection. You would probably take away something different from the ending than I did, which is why I hope that you are able to experience it some day.
Un jour je serai de retour près de toi
Hearing the first three notes of Instrument Of Surrender is still enough to send me into a melancholic episode.
I still haven’t finished this game because the variety of choices and behavior gives me paralyzing FOMO
yeah i have been having that problem too. i kept making new characters and reloading saves to see what would happen. i know it ends up making the experience worse but i just can’t help myself. i need to know. i also need to have all the fun stat boosting items and then i find myself optimizing the fun out of the game.
You can replay it, you know.
I wish i took my time with my first playthrough more. I enjoyed it too much that i rushed through.
god, thanks to these meme, i hate all people equally again
There’s no forcing. I actually didn’t look in the mirror my first playthrough and I stand by that choice
Wait a minute, he looks different if you don’t look in the mirror in his apartment? I think it’s time I replay this game…
Original portrait:
After looking at the mirror (don’t):
Shaved:
If you manage to get rid of the Expression:
Shaved, no Expression:
For some reason you also get a custom portrait if you go fascist enough:
And shaved fascist:
Neat!
I don’t know why but the blurry portrait creeps me tf out
Not different, it’s just fuzzy and you can’t make out the face, I did the same thing in one of my playthroughs
🤯
Not sure if thats a parody of Gamers complaining about “ugly” women or if they are serious and also stupid on the same level
Yes
Pretty sure that’s a parody, in response to where folks edit women in the same manner, like this shit: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-hire-fans-lol-meme-the-viral-dei-copypasta-being-used-to-criticize-the-witcher-4-haters-explained
Am I alone in finding the “fan” image for Ciri even more off-putting than the original one, even if Ciri was doing something where attractiveness was relevant? People who wear that much makeup end up in the uncanny valley for me.
She looks weird and vacant, like a literal sex doll. But I suppose that’s what they want
Original Chuddish: “Hire fans lol”
Translated to English: “I’ve never once seen a real woman from up close (they always run away and call me a freak)”
So poes law is alive and well.
I’m pretty sure it’s a parody, but it’d be hilariously unhinged if it became real.
Games are fantasy and I fully support whatever you like to see. Want to see skimpy women? Excellent! Want to see Giga Chad dudes? You go girl! Want to see beat down dirty protagonist? That’s a-ok!
This whole fighting and shaming for fantasy role-play needs to stop.
I actually thought this kind of degenerate nonsense was someone joking but today I saw a mod for Baldur’s Gate 3 to make Gortash “handsome,” so I’m obviously out of touch.
Gortash actually is supposed to be younger and more attractive, according to the narrator at several points.
OG joel looks better. Only reason the new guy at the top looks better is because hes vaguely reminiscent of luigi
Good call!
I didnt see shit
That’s came to my mind too. Seems like I’m not the only one who noticed it.
I’m glad I’m not the only one with that thought!
In my game I got him to stop grinning…
Shaven, Expression-free Harry gives me some early Sam Vimes¹, (and by extension Harry Callahan²) vibes:
There might actually be a good cop under all that pain and damage.
1 — From Sir pTerry Pratchett’s Discworld books. 2 — From the Dirty Harry film series.
I only see a disco man, as handsome as Hjelmdallerman himself, doing THE EXPRESSION. I bet he is doing the fuck a lot.
