Female:
While I am head-over-heels smitten with
Final Fantasy X-2's Yuna(her personality and disposition are what make her so irresistible) and
Street Fighter's Chun-Li(those hips, those thighs), I'd have to go with Hammer, a supporting character from
Fable II, as the pinnacle of physical beauty in video games. She's brawny, but in a really quietly pretty sort of way. Very salt-of-the-earth, you know.
So! To summarize!
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Male:
I'm not really too into the menfolk(although I kinda sorta am), but I can appreciate a man who tends to his appearance. That said, my tastes in men are simultaneously various and very, very picky. So, with that in mind, I've narrowed it down to three.
Bronze: Victor Sullivan(Uncharted series)
He has a sort of rugged charm about him, you know. His typical swarthy grin, constant cigar-chomping, and coy lewdness suggests all the good things about "the good ol' days when men were men" without most of the racism, sexism, and general fuckery. Yeah, he's a dirty old man, but he's a good guy, and he keeps up well.
Silver: Adam Jensen(Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
Sometimes, aesthetic beauty and sex appeal can be garnered just from looking like a total badass. I don't know of any man in video games who looks or sounds more unabashedly
cool than this bad ************. Also, I have this weird fetish for bionics, it seems. I'd probably give it away to Nathan Spencer, too. Dreadlocks and all.
Gold: Hope Estheim(Final Fantasy XIII)
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I want to screw him. That would be creepy. I just want to hold him and protect him and feed him pastries. That's not creepy at all.
...okay, it's a little bit creepy, but at least it's creepy in a "latent maternity" sort of way.
Hope, in my mind, is like a magnolia blossom that's fallen from its tree. With his bright, expressive eyes, feathery hair, and porcelain-doll face, he is utterly breathtaking to look at, but I can't shake the feeling that if anybody else touches him, he might break. Fragility is beautiful in and of itself, and I can't think of any male characters in games who are more fragile, or more beautiful, than Hope.