On Customizations And Body Types
Warning! Trope!
Keep in mind, first off, that even in games where I can customize my characters, I never attempt to create "myself" in the game: For one, I almost never play humans.
That said: on principle alone I agree, wholeheartedly, with this article. I find it fundamentally weird that you're more likely to be able to play a blue alien (with the standard-issue Heroic Build, of course) than to be able to play a fat character. (Totally not grumbling here about how my draenei priest is supposed to be pudgy, or that my mage is skinny and flat-chested,* or that the retvindicatrix is rawboned, even if their damn models don't reflect it because that wasn't an option, no siree...)
Now, I've still got some degree of hope that Blizzard won't screw up female pandaren (all noise from self-entitled nerds aside). But even so: I really need to go back to school and see about making this a reality (and potentially making some smug douchenozzles eat crow).
*Yeah, I know: In before a metric fuckton of snide remarks about both of those two. By way of reply: see previous.
Keep in mind, first off, that even in games where I can customize my characters, I never attempt to create "myself" in the game: For one, I almost never play humans.
That said: on principle alone I agree, wholeheartedly, with this article. I find it fundamentally weird that you're more likely to be able to play a blue alien (with the standard-issue Heroic Build, of course) than to be able to play a fat character. (Totally not grumbling here about how my draenei priest is supposed to be pudgy, or that my mage is skinny and flat-chested,* or that the retvindicatrix is rawboned, even if their damn models don't reflect it because that wasn't an option, no siree...)
Now, I've still got some degree of hope that Blizzard won't screw up female pandaren (all noise from self-entitled nerds aside). But even so: I really need to go back to school and see about making this a reality (and potentially making some smug douchenozzles eat crow).
*Yeah, I know: In before a metric fuckton of snide remarks about both of those two. By way of reply: see previous.