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Horizon: Zero Dawn - Early Aloy Concept Art (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz to c/gameart@sopuli.xyz

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[–] sharkfinsoup@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago

Damn this artwork reminded me why I love this series. The armor design is so unique and well done. It's so cool to wear the bones and skins of the beasts you slay but those bones and skin are just chunks of metal and wire. I'd love to see more!

[–] BubbleMonkey 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m glad they went with the more realistic and less sexified version. Aloy is an absolute gem of a character, and having her be less of a normal person wouldn’t have fit nearly as well with the overall vibe.

(That said I’m not sure how to feel about the Lego version..)

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is hardly sexified. The game simply went photorealistic instead of stylized.

The only difference here IMO is a thinner build and cartoony cutesyness. The Aloy we got was given the prerequisite build of a rock-climber, and was definitely made more stoic in demeanor.

The armors are basically one to one.

[–] BubbleMonkey 3 points 4 months ago

You say stylized, but it’s the same thing. The posture on the right isn’t even possible for humans.

I stand by what I said tho, the realism did a lot more for the series than “stylized” would have.

[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

She truly is the porrage of video game characters

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where did you get these? I'd love to see more. It's interesting how much stayed the same for the final game

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The official art book.

I will be posting more from it.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thank you <3 I'm going to have to see about getting it for myself

[+] Prunebutt -7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Don't let the incels see this. They'll never let you hear the end of their "man-jaw" accusations.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was hoping I could post this without someone making it about the toxic bullshit that some people can't help but start up when it comes to Aloys appearance, but here you are.

[+] Prunebutt -12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't act like the people making fun of the incels for poisoning that topic.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The topic itself is poison, and didn't need bringing up.

Cool games are cool games, and cool art is cool art.

[+] Prunebutt -10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

It was a joke. Do cool games and cool art prohibit these?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was like you once, and still find myself getting baited into rage-commenting.

You perpetuate the things you hate by being unable to let go. This post wasn't about incels but you just had to bring them up, souring the mood. Worst part is that it wasn't even a good joke. We're talking low hanging fruit to the point of picking up rotten fruit off the jungle floor.

Hatred is a lot like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die. Treat yourself better.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No.

But I can still tell you off for souring my mood by making one in bad taste.

[–] Prunebutt -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You obviously had it on your mind before, so chill down.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm aware that some people get weird about how she looks. That in itself isn't a problem. I just ignore that shit.

That's not an option when someone makes a snarky comment about it on my post, in a community I moderate.

Or it was, ignoring it would have involved removing your comment and being done with it. But I've seen you around on Lemmy and decided you're worth giving the benefit of the doubt.

Was I wrong?

[–] Prunebutt -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good for you that you don't abuse your power as a moderator, I guess.

Was I wrong?

Umm... is that a rethorical question? I'm not used to this... dramatic way of speaking on the internet.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm not done yet, because I was wrong.

My hope was that I could make you see why your comment was in bad taste. Instead you're fighting me.

The arrogant commenters analogy hits home. You went for low hanging fruit so easy to reach it was rotting on the forest floor, then brought it back to camp expecting everyone to want a bite.

We don't. In fact we're offended you even touched the thing.

I'm ending this discussion here, you're welcome back after your 7 day ban.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those same incels use the same excuse for misogynist hate. Don't act like it being a joke absolves it of all consequences

[+] Prunebutt -6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The consequence of... making fun of incels and mentioning a topic that was on OP's mind anyways?

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

on OP's mind anyways?

What?

[–] Prunebutt -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They wrote

I was hoping I could post this without someone making it about the toxic bullshit

which implies that they were already thinking about it.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wow. That's a reach.

Can you genuinely not empathise with the position of someone who loves a piece of art and wants to share it, but can't because of a tired two year old piece of drama that we can't get rid of?

You just drag a franchise down, you limit natural marketing, you associate it with negativity. You allow the incels to win by talking about its controversial points rather than its positive ones.

The game expands on an already incredible first title. It was a graphical powerhouse at release, the combat feels better, the acting is amazing, the enemy and character designs are stunning. But no, we need multiple comments on this post overcompensating for the inane takes of some touch-starved losers

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

It's cool game art and you brought up bad shit.

[–] HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I hate that people make this Horizon's legacy. It's a great game, and I loved playing through it, it's one of the very very few games I played through twice.

But apparently we can't just appreciate some honestly pretty wicked concept art without turning it into the "Culture War™".

I've only just started Forbidden West and I'm enjoying it so far, but it's really off-putting that the main discord I hear is left-wingers complaining about incels complaining about Aloy's face. Is there genuinely nothing more noteworthy about the game?