Ugly Female Characters in Mortal Kombat 11

[Chris_Ceee]

From what I have been seeing so far (Sonya, Skarlet), the female characters in MK11 look outright ugly and certainly not feminine at all (they were not sexy in MK10 either, but at least not straight up ugly). Actually, they look very much like the females in Mass Effect Andromeda.
This, combined with the terrible rap "music" they played during the reveal, might make MK11 the first MK I am not buying. So sad.

[Tamago]

Atleast Soul Calibur has good loking characters and nice assets :-D

[Chris_Ceee]

Yes, SC6 has the most beautiful females and the best physics from the current batch of fighting games.

[OzzieArcane]

While I don't find Skarlet ugly. I do find Sonya hideous. Some of the women in Injustice 2 suffered from it as well. This tends to be an issue when companies go for "realism" instead of stylized. I know people may be quick to jump the gun and blame it on a certain group of people but this has been a problem with trying for a realistic look for quite awhile. I remember lots of the WWE games where the women in game looked horrible no matter how good looking the actual wrestler was.

[Chris_Ceee]

It is strange that Western game developers seem incapable of making beautifully feminine yet realistic girl characters.
But if I had to choose between beauty and realism, I would go for beauty anytime. In any case, I do not understand why games have to look realistic.

[Nic]

you can have beautiful realistic girls in games, many recent games have beautiful realistic characters like RE2 Remake and Red Dead 2, it's a problem with people in the industry being afraid of being called sexist because girls in video games are prettier than the small group people complaining on internet. It baffles me that studios actually listen to idiots like Anita Sarkeesian. Women can be strong and georgeous but the people on twitter aren't, therefor games aren't allowed to have strong georgeous women.

[Cosmocalypse]

Weren't they pretty ugly in the last two as well?

[Chris_Ceee]

In MK9, the faces were ugly and man-like, but the bodies were hot and the outfits skimpy. In MK10 the faces improved, but the outfits were down-graded.

[Parallelogram]

It will sound very strange, but i found Mileena wery appealing. Yeah, i know, teeth and all, but if you imagine her face without baraka teeth - it will actually result in pretty appealing asset :/

[Chris_Ceee]

To me it does not sound strange, I also think MK10 Mileena has a pretty face and I really like her personality... Overall MK10 Mileena is character I enjoy very, very much (she is one of the few fighting game characters I don't completely suck as when playing). The only bad thing is that her (default) outfit is not sexy.

[RetroRex]

While I do like hotties in my fighting games (Mai Shiranui, Sophitia, etc), I would say that the character designs for Scarlet and Sonya fit in with the dark and violent universe of Mortal Kombat.

[Chris_Ceee]

I think a girl character can be both beautiful and dark/scary at the same time. Look at Mileena in MK10... her face was quite pretty (certainly when her mouth was covered, but personally, as a huge Mileena fan, I even liked her face uncovered). Of course, her outfit in MK10 was way too tame.
To me, both MK11 Sonya and Skarlet have faces with too thick lips (looks like they got punched in the mouth) and man-like, wide chins. Not feminine at all! Not to mention the outfits...

[Jokerthefoolio]

This is a pretty interesting take, though me personally I'm pretty apathetic since I'm not a Mortal Kombat fan

[Valkenr]

[Merlin]

An oldie but a goldie.

[gbullock32]

While I agree, I have dated far worse. Not saying I am proud of that or anything.

[isturbo1984]

I'd be much more forgiving if I could actually stick my dick in her. But since its just potential fap material and nothing else... my standards are much higher. I guess I'll be going back to Soul Calibur then.

[JackofTears]

The last few years I've seen ugly, or at best mediocre, female models become the norm in most games I play (rpgs and adventure games). We all understand why this is happening.

[Chris_Ceee]

Then you must turn your gaze East. Japan, South Korea, China still make games with sexy cute -- and most of all, feminine -- female models.
As for Western, so called "AAA" games, I pretty much gave up on them. I either play retro games, Japanese games, or games from small Western developers (like the Shantae series). I wanted to buy MK11, but with the un-feminine girls, rap, no Mileena (well, that might be a blessing after all -- I don't think I could stand the sight of un-sexy, frumpy-dressed Mileena) that is very much in doubt.

[Baron Baldric]

From the same people who developed Injustice 2, NetherRealm Studios. They are masculinizing women in MK11.

[Chris_Ceee]

The difference between Injustice 2 and, for example, DOA6 (in itself not the pinnacle of Japanese character design and from a smaller company than NRS) is really stunning:

[Golden Dragon]

I can see why people view these fictional female character models as ugly. Rectangular head, strong testosterone jaw, reduced feminine body part sizes/yoga body, clothes mostly cover everything. Though sonya blade is an old woman by now....And clothes don't really matter since a feminine body will look good in most clothes.

So these women basically look manly or just not appealing. Unless you're into that sort of thing.

My opinions are based on a quick duckduckgo image search so I may be wrong.

[Chris_Ceee]

You are not wrong.

[Hopeless Wombat]

I believe MK11 takes place right after MK9. She isn't "new generation of fighters" just yet.

[Garrett]

Goddamn weeaboos insisting on parabolic arc jaws and chins that can cut diamonds... If you seriously think that Olivia Wilde looks like a dude, then... I have no disrespect for you because I don't hate gays. Seriously though, individuals have different bone structures. Just because a skull is more angular doesn't mean that it's a guy. When designing fictional characters there isn't just one explanation of motive. Someone can look the way they do because that's what the designer wanted. They can look the way they do because of incompetence and the artists being unable to make something better. Or it can have that dreaded ideological motive. Most importantly though, short hair on a woman is not to appease blue pixie cut feminazis with representation. It's easier to animate on a 3d character.

[Merlin]

you're screwing with me on that one is the botton left, that is absolutely a dude.

[Nic]

if they cut skarlet's hair because it is easier to animate, they need to fire the animator

[Erebus]

After looking at some trailers, you're right. The female characters look like a feminist designed them. Kinda like that blocky head Aloy. I don't buy that whole bit about going for realism because there's plenty of beautiful women out there and they're better looking than any game character.

[Chris_Ceee]

It sadly seems that this steroid/hGH jaw combined with frog-like eyes is what is considered good female character design in the West nowadays.
Oh well. For every Injustice 2 there is a DOA5, and for every MK11 there is a SC6.