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Lambonius - 03 June 2013 10:19 AM

If you don’t know what I mean, do a little googling.  It’s obvious once you recognize it.

I did a little googling, and I found a lot of this:

But the woman in that Tex-screenshot looks more like someone who looks like what she does as a result of age, excercise, a very strict diet and wearing make-up. But I may be wrong. Cosmetic surgery isn’t very common where I’m from, so it’s not really my field of expertise

Lambonius - 03 June 2013 10:19 AM

I’ve got no problem with “sexy” or “mature” women.  What turns me off is the classic fake “plastic surgery look” that all these women have.  If you don’t know what I mean, do a little googling.  It’s obvious once you recognize it.  I find it just as unsettling in big budget Hollywood stuff, too, by the way.  Give me natural older beauties like Jane Seymour, Kim Basinger, or Maryl Streep, who have let themselves age gracefully, rather than having some hack shoot them full of chemicals or put them under the knife.

It’s in your head, seriously.

It is cyberpunk noir, of course the femme fatales will wear loads of make up and very cliché sexy outfits. I am not seeing plastic surgery and honestly Meryl Streep (who I admire and love) is not such a good match for that kind roles - though I enjoyed her a lot in Death Becomes Her. The kind of charisma these Academy winning actressess with careers decades long is also going to be pretty hard to capture in a screenshot.

I am starting to find it rather offensive really how easily you judge a woman to be a fake and an imposer, and how you can’t stand females that aren’t to your own tastes. Even if you don’t like something, do you really have to be so insulting with your phrasing?

Lambonius - 03 June 2013 11:52 AM

Is there really something insulting in the phrasing of that last quote?  Maybe you’re misinterpreting my tone.  I was genuinely trying explain where I was coming from.  I thought I WAS being careful with my wording, actually. 

You are seriously pretending that you didn’t realise the insulting part being for example:

Lambonius - 03 June 2013 01:10 AM

You’d think they could have found female actors that didn’t look like they had been run through the plastic surgery chop shop, ridden hard, and put away wet.  I can only imagine the acting caliber of these beauties.

And that’s not the only place where you have used a tone quite far from neutral expression of one’s opinion. It’s degrading and in this instance it’s even aimed towards a real human being, not just design.

Lambonius - 03 June 2013 12:07 PM

millenia - 03 June 2013 11:58 AM

And that’s not the only place where you have used a tone quite far from neutral expression of one’s opinion.

I see nothing in the forum rules that requires neutrality of tone in the expression of opinions.

Frogacuda - 03 June 2013 01:23 PM

millenia - 03 June 2013 08:25 AM

And yeah, the acting, in Tex games it’s always been from decent to great. Average voiceacting is worse than the acting in most FMVs.

I wouldn’t go that far. There’s some bad acting in there. But the whole game has a campy B-movie vibe to it that it embraces, so it isn’t as jarring as it is in games that actually try to take themselves seriously.

I think that’s probably the thing Lambonius isn’t picking up on. They’re supposed to be cheesy. They have a story and they have their dramatic moments, but they’re comedies with a silly bent and they don’t shy away from a little camp.

Well yeah, probably an exaggeration on my part, average voice acting isn’t horrible either. And I love the cheesiness of Tex. This whole cyberpunk noir is my favourite “genre”.