Building the Perfect Videogame Babe

[SomeUnregPunk]

Give her breasts bigger than her head, hips slightly less wide than her chest, and thin out everything else. Give her little muscle mass and throw some dirt and grease on her. A new video game girl has been created!

 

[Oneirius]

You mean that there is actually more to creating a female video game character then deciding what cup size she is going to have and how it is going to react to game's physics?
wow.
I pretty impressed here.

 

[VanityGirl]

the perfect video game girl with have abnormally large boobs, a perfect hourglass shape with blonde hair, a non pointy (birdlike) nose, and big Angie lips with a J-Lo ass.
That's a perfect woman in a nutshell.




Oh.. and she'll have a "great personality" *rolls eyes*
BTW, my formula would actually make a pretty kickass girl.

 

[Oneirius]

What is your formula? I am intrigued by chance to hear a woman's opinion on the subject.

 

[InProgress]

You mean that there is actually more to creating a female video game character then deciding what cup size she is going to have and how it is going to react to game's physics?
wow.
I pretty impressed here.

You confused western publishers with Japanese ones. Western people add to that formula the 'Want to see how annoying I can be?' gene.

 

[Oneirius]

You mean that there is actually more to creating a female video game character then deciding what cup size she is going to have and how it is going to react to game's physics?
wow.
I pretty impressed here.

You confused western publishers with Japanese ones. Western people add to that formula the 'Want to see how annoying I can be?' gene.

You can't blame them for that. I mean, they want to create "sexual tension" and show that their girl is "witty/independent/strong of character".
Then they let you put her in a french maid costume as a prize for beating the game.

 

[Asehujiko]

I think this thread has derailed big time.

That said, I did laugh when I saw they picked Maria Sharapova is a Video Game Babe.

Also, you've linked to Naomi Hunter instead of Kendra Daniels.

Blame Maxim's crappy site that prevents links to the other 16 pages of carefully selected winners first screenshots they found in google when they typed in "game babes" because it's a slideshow hosted on a single page.

 

[VanityGirl]

What is your formula? I am intrigued by chance to hear a woman's opinion on the subject.

i just said it in the post above this quote.

 

[meatloaf231]

Zoey is a hottie?

I thought the most natural, normal-looking yet pretty girl has been made in 2004 - Alyx from Half Life 2.

This. Alyx is the best female character in a game that I can think of.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Maxim... isn't that a porn magazine?
My brother has 'Maxim' DVDs which he doesn't hide very well which look like porn.

It's basically porn for cowards. But either way, they seem to do this every now and then (not just Maxim, but other magazines and sites) where they cater to the 'geek audience' and do a videogame-babes type poll or list, this isn't actually the first.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

the perfect video game girl with have abnormally large boobs, a perfect hourglass shape with blonde hair, a non pointy (birdlike) nose, and big Angie lips with a J-Lo ass.
That's a perfect woman in a nutshell.

You lost me the second you included anything of JLo. That's like using expired mayo on a $100 steak.

Nadya (Octomom) Suleman's face, Sally Struthers's ass, Roseanne Bar's gut, Paris Hilton's snatch, and Alanis Morisette's voice. By your features combined, I am CAPTAIN FUGGLY!

(Though Roseanne's gut, Oprah's legs, Struthers's ass, Dolly Pardon's chest, and Kathy Kinney's face (Mimi from the Drew Carey show) would probably combine to create Captain Planetoid)

Oh come on! At least include part of Rosie O'Donnell to make it look fucking outrageous or something!

 

[TiteAce]

Umm... Alyx Vance has allready been created

 

[Spirit_Of_Fire]

That girl from Dead Space is quite hot, but then you realize that she was a backstabber then that feeling just goes away.

 

[WinterSoldier]

What's with the gravity defying unzipped jacket?

 

[PhoenixFlame]

Maxim is bullshit. Always has been, always will be.

... in my humble opinion.

Well, to continue the derailment for just an instant, it depends on what you're reading. There's a fair amount of T&A and cheap male goodness, but they did a great interview on Mickey Rourke a while back and I enjoy their casual, don't give a fuck writing style. Keep them away from video games, though. Anyone rating 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand higher than Killzone 2...

Anyway, this was an interesting read. I think that a lot of the nuances of character design are lost on players. That being said, developers should also stop pandering to the lowest common denominator when they're designing their video game females - that is, unless it's of particular trademark to your design.

Speaking of which, can you imagine an equivalent entry on Team Ninja's female character design?

-Chest slider all the way to the right.
-Hip slider all the way to the left.
-Add "bounce" physics function
-Randomly color hair and fit impossible designs for clothing
-???
-Profit