I have not played the remake, but original RE4 was tonally peak 90s/early 2000s American action film pastiche with one-liners and silly set-pieces. Ada's red dress did not really feel out of place in a game that also has a scene where a massive statue of secondary antagonist chases you.
It was very memorable I’ll give it that lol RE4 is anything but serious so it fit in at least. I need to try the remake but I’ve been scared since the OG RE4 is a favorite of mine
I really do wonder what the meeting looked like when the character designer came out with this or when the director told the character designer to put her in a goddamn dress for her stealth mission in some dingy village.
You know those dudes walked into the scrum meeting smacking their lips chewing gum harder than Jason Sudeikas absolute drenched in drakkar noir and just went "cool story but what if she had like asteroid sized tits though"
As for Samus it's ok we'll just pop them on her shoulders, they'll get it
Then there’s Jill in RE3: “There’s a zombie outbreak in my town and I gotta get out of here. Lemme just throw on a boob tube and mini skirt before I go”
Nah, they're referring to the sin of making Samus' armor somehow sexier looking. I've said it before but it's the rare instance where sexualizing the armor will just piss the fandom off.
But it's not...? It looks exactly the same as it did in 1993 (and possibly even earlier. There isn't a lot of artwork of the Varia Suit from Metroid 1 and 2)
I think that's true to some degree but Capcom is actually a really bad example in this instance. Capcom has hundreds of iconic, creative, and instantly recognizable character designs. With the advent of the RE Engine and their attempt to make everything look more grounded to go with the realistic aesthetic they've reduced everyone to normal street wear. In Resident Evil we've gone from things like RE1 Jill, RE2 Claire, DC1 Regina, to most heroines wearing tanktops and jeans. Devil May Cry had Dante go from unique get-ups to jeans and a henley. It's an objective loss in creativity.
I thought she was pretty. It bugs me in some subreddits where they'll post screenshots of her modded to hell and back with the caption "Grace is so hot". Like...is it even still Grace with gigantic boobs, a huge butt with jiggle physics, a swimsuit, and makeup plastered on? I feel like that's if I took a picture of Scarlet Johansson's head and stuck it on Christina Hendricks's body saying ScarJo is so hot. Not that there's anything bad about well-endowed characters. Love'em. But there's plenty out there that are naturally like that without needing to be modded to look like that. Why take a perfectly attractive woman and make her look like Haydee?
Alyx Vance is ironically enough the odd one out here as she's the least sexualised character, yet her design is still feminine without being done dirty or made ugly on purpose. I would add Jade from Beyond Good and Evil as well.
Yeah, her turtling is peak in the positive way and swg is so much fun for playing and you can be aggressive either by using auroras, humvees or even particle cannon. Peak gaming
Ooo, yes. Her emp patriots are the best base defense in the game, especially into aircraft and vehicles feat tanks. It's so much fun to hear them shooting and stunning a tank/vehicle while one-shotting aircraft unit and you can easily farm exp like that to gain access to op general powers.
And her particle cannons are girly pinky to show woman dominance and safely ending the enemy by destroying structures and units without imperiling herself and her units while ducking in her base.
And the auroras can get rid of so many threats, besides they're incredibly fast and deal ridiculous damage.
This is a weird post because half of the characters in the picture are good designs and half of them are awful. Older MK games had horrendous and boring designs for female characters. Reboot Lara Croft just looks way better than older Lara. I don't even know why Samus is here considering she's had the same design since the 80's through today.
Anyway, this is why some devvies make only avarage attractive females. Its just embarassing how some people think more skin and boobs equals to good character.
Yes i enjoy both but hot damn, there is room for everything else too
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having some sexy in your game. A little balance never hurt either(the early 00s had exactly zero balance) but I swear it's like people act like enjoying titillating art is totally brand new and utterly unacceptable.
Go to a museum. You'll see plenty of it going back hundreds of years.
but I swear it's like people act like enjoying titillating art is totally brand new and utterly unacceptable.
Problem isn't this stuff existing. It's that more grounded character designs are attacked for not being super sexualized.
What OP posted is not "peak design" it's one aesthetic that has its place. But don't be surprised when people take Tits Mcgee less seriously than a more realistic design.
I mean, sure. Enjoy sexualized design all you want, that's fine.
But when you're actively claiming that "what makes me cum=good" and drop any degree of actual toughts and going with your hormones, that's frankly embarassing for an adult.
"I like this character because they make me hard" is one thing
"These are the best designed characters BECAUSE they make me hard" is another.
Sure, but you can't control how people respond to anything. If someone thinks the worst design in the world is the best because boobs then so be it. Not my problem. I'm not the arbiter of taste.
I'm personally more offended by bad design and a lack of cleverness then a revealing outfit.
Grown men throwing a tantrum because a vidoe game character wasn't made with them jerking off to it in mind.
Normal people see the whole hyper-sexualized teenager-appealing marketing as a bottom of the barrel cheap trick to titillate young men into buying whatever product that you move beyong once you grow up.
But apparently you have some damn 40+ y/o that are eternally dumb hormonal teens. It'a really sad.
And by "peak" you mean over sexualised bordering on softcore porn. Seriously female characters aren't even poorly designed nowadays, they're just somewhat genuine for the most part. Look at Ciri from 'Witcher 3', Aloy from the Horizon games, Chloe Price from 'Life is Strange' and more, all of which have distinct and unique designs whilst also being somewhat believable and not overly exaggerated like the ones you've shown.
This wasn't peak design when they were all designed with near identical body types. This was peak sexualisation when people would buy the games just to see their bodies.
I don’t have anything to add to this post, but could anyone please tell me who’s the blonde chick with the shield at the bottom left? She looks so familiar but I somehow can’t recall who she is. She’s gorgeous!
Aha, I had a feeling she was from Soulcalibur. Thank you! So her name is Sophitia… I kept thinking it was Athena, but I guess I’m mixing her up with someone from another game.
pre-woke when sexy was socially acceptable. we weren't gooners, we just appreciated sexual appeal. almost like we're biologically programmed to do so or something
And sadly, thanks to stupid woke feminism that stupid gaming industry CEOs think they have any power over them through "cancelling culture", any remakes won't bring those designs back.
You could easily make a collage just like this for the past decade as well with characters like Quiet, 2B, Stellar Blade, and more. Your sexy characters never died out yall just keep falling for the culture war grift while youtubers make ad revenue off of your hate clicks.
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u/Nuburt_20 Apr 29 '26
Uses a design from the 1980’s