Perhaps I'm just weird but I just really don't get it. Day after day I read people's comments, which often enough amount to verbal orgasms over the supposed hotness of this video game character and I just don't see it.
Perhaps its her body type. Many have noted that she is designed to be realistically proportioned after super models and I rarely find super models attractive. My wife enjoys (okay maybe I watch it too) America's Next Top Model each week and I just don't see what is so gorgeous about these twig women who look like I could snap them in two. I am not a weakling, but I'm also not Conan the Barbarian so I should never be able to see a woman and think how easy it would be to do that.
Perhaps its her character type. I'm generally not attracted to female characters that are explicitly designed to be the wet dream of teenage boys. I just finished two weeks of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 literally devouring my life (read my post on guide writing) and I found the female characters in that to be more ridiculous looking then attractive. Bayonetta, though obviously proportioned differently just strikes me as another shade of whore. Her whole character is designed around turning you and that strucks me as a turn off. A woman shouldn't have to try to turn you on, she just should naturally.
For instance, I've been loving Uncharted 2 lately and I find Elena's character design to be very attractive. She's designed to be a real character, which is a lot sexier in my mind then a character's whose sole purpose is to give you a boner. Some may argue that Bayonetta is just meant to be an over the top game of tits, ass and killing stuff. Good for you if you like that, but I just don't see the
appeal.
Honestly though, the thing about her that puts me off the most is her glasses. People have commented on her resembling Sarah Palin and yes, while there is that element, I just find her glasses to be particularly off putting. They look unnatural as if they shouldn't be there whereas I imagine the developers were hoping for more of "Hey, a girl with glasses" response. I do like a girl with glasses. My wife wore some for me once and well, let's just say that was fun, but honestly Bayonetta to me looks more like that woman in all those old movies who is supposed to be ugly, so they make her wear glasses.
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Yeah I completely agre with you, Elena is definitely better than Bayonetta, I don't know why Bayonetta is so popular though...
Meh...Elena is definitely way too annoying for my tastes, and talks like she has cotton in her mouth and is always on ADHD medicine.
Bayonetta also sounds hot: that could partially be it.
I JUST realized who Elena sounds like:
Fucking Jessie from Toy Story 2.
UGH.
You should check out Jim Sterlings blog on this subject.
@dapoisoned1 For starters, Bayonetta is pulling a game rather than being a supporting actress.
She gives off that dominatrix feel to me, which is really attractive to me.
That's the exact same reason why I like Liara from Mass Effect and Alyx from Half-Life 2, and exactly why I don't like any female Japanese video game character, because I can't think of any that look anything like a person and not a hentai character.
I don't know if she qualifies as attractive (she has both good and bad features), but she scares the hell out of me. Attitude like that I find off-putting in both genders. It's why I prefer the standard "conflicted hero" stereotype from the Final Fantasy series or the devoted and fun personality from many Western RPGs if I'm looking for attractive but strong women.
What a weird conversation ... Hell, I still wish Platiunum was working on Okami instead of this, so I'm incredibly biased.
I think Bayonetta has some creepy uncanny valley thing going on. She's gigantic, strangely proportioned, and her only distinguishing features are her hair, glasses, and cliche mole. Without them, she'd look like every other lecherous woman that crops up in anime-influenced games.
I don’t find her that attractive myself but I guess you’re never gonna find a woman who appeals to everybody.
The annoying thing about her sexuality being marketed so heavily is that when I buy the game (for the Devil May Cry like action), I get the feeling that the person behind the counter will just think I’m a randy loner.
I think they added the glasses so that she looked "intelligent" as opposed to the usual "beautiful and stupid" look.
Me, I have no idea why men are attracted... but I'm not a man.
If any guy dare says it's the fact that she is naked and just wearing her hair - well... I suggest that they not complain when the girlfriend or wife doesn't bother shaving her legs for a few weeks! (and can braid her underarm hair!)
:)
I don't get Bayonetta either. I think it might have something to do with me getting laid all the time but I'm just not sure.... Also her game looks sub par compared to games I've been playing lately like Borderlands.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. i would have thought that was obvious.
Oh, I wasn't the only one who found Bayonetta unattractive? Good, I was wondering what was wrong with everyone.
It's all in the walk, man, that goddamned ass swaying hypnotizing walk.
@psycho terror2: This.
Although I haven't found Bayonetta really appealing myself.Come to think of it, I don't know how many action women wear glasses.
"... I suggest that they not complain when the girlfriend or wife doesn't bother shaving her legs for a few weeks! (and can braid her underarm hair!)
:)"
I don't. But that's just me :-)
ANYWHO... I don't get it either. Part of that is because I'm just anti and when I hear everyone else practically creaming themselves over something, I automatically either dislike it or am more likely to criticize it.
I also want to say, WHAT SUPER MODEL DID THEY BASE HER OFF OF? Almost no one has an ass that big with a waist that small and if they do they are not a super model.
For the record, I actually like skinny women and I don't think Bayonetta is ugly at all but she doesn't warrants the fapping epidemic she has started.
Then again, age may be a factor. I'm 28 now but if I was 16 I would probably fap to a stick figure with boobs...
@ Holy
Borderlands? High five
she has a tiny head.
You know what Bayonetta and her small head reminds me of?
Ugh.
I hate how much her back is arched. HATE IT.
I didn't see it, until I played the demo. Then fap.
Everybody has their own tastes. Asking someone to EXPLAIN why they're sexually attracted to something isn't going to make things any clearer for the other person most of the time.
I don't get it either, but I assume it's just one of those man-things I'm not meant to understand.
There is only one reason I find her physically attractive anymore, and it's the fact that her shadow has butterfly wings.
Beyond that, I love her attitude more than anything from the way she'll use an angels staff to "pole dance" a group of enemies to death, to the way she proclaims "I should have been a pole dancer!!!" when you get a platinum trophy in the demo.
I honestly think Elena is boring, unattractive, and the least likable Uncharted character. Bayonetta is generally fappable but definitely not the best thing ever. She's hot because she fulfills so many fetishes in an extreme manner.
Actually, as an edit to my last comment, I also find her ass very attractive.
@Magnalon: No she does fucking not.
Elena is awesome, and has a voice that is not like a chainsaw wearing a lion's tongue condom raping your ear.
Jessie is the exact opposite.
On topic, yeah, I like Elena more than Bayonetta as well. I think Bayonetta's attractive, but not as hot or ugly as people are making her out to be.
She looks the way she does because she is aimed at a particular group of gamer, the 14-25-ish male. Even if the game is balls terrible it will still sell because teenage boys and grown up men who haven't quite matured yet will play it for the sex factor. You can actually picture how it will play out if you try hard enough, a bunch of single guys all sitting together on a Friday night playing Bayonetta and making cracks about how they would do this or that to her if she were real.
ugh.
It's basically along the same lines as most shows on G4 or Adult Swim, you can tell who they are catering after.
Her hair irritates me. It's taller than her head. So is her neck, for that matter. Giraffe lady.
Mommy issues.
Big boobs and a nice ass, need more be said? Well maybe the whole glasses look, which to be honest I find very attractive, I don't know why, it just does. You could rule this world with the right set of mamary glands. I'm not drooling all over her like some are, but if you can't understand why some men find her attractive then maybe your balls haven't dropped yet, j/k.
I don't really care for her in terms of looks, but it doesn't really bother me that she is being whored out constantly. I find the ridiculousness of it all amusing.
Besides, the game looks like it's a blast to play.
For me she's a mess of attractive/unattractive features:
Love her ass.
Hate her lower back arch/twist/deformity whatever the hell is going on.
Love her broad shoulders.
Hate her small head and giraffe neck.
Love her knowing eyes.
At first I like her smirking mouth but now I feel it's making her look like a moron.
Love the long her.
Despise that the lovely long goes between that fine ass, because that means she has scat hair. No thanks.
I've given this way to much thought. The game had better be good.
*lovely longhair*
Fail again. Bollocks.
Also forgot to say overall I no longer find her attractive.
Elena's lovely until she speaks btw.
Heh, poor Elena.
I don't think her voice is that annoying. It's not like she's Fran Drescher or something. I actually found Chloe to be more annoying in Uncharted 2.
She's attractive. She certainly isn't hard to look at, even if she isn't the sexiest or most human woman to be featured in a video game.
I think the point is that her personality and "clothing" and proportions are meant to be so over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek that it's just goofy fun. I doubt the mass amounts of crotch-shots in the trailers are meant to be making guys (the lovable Jim Sterling being the exception) drool in admiration.
This is from the guys who made the game where you throw guys at a giant dartboard and cut them in half with a chainsaw attached to your arm.
Heh, now chainsaw death, that's classy.
Just because she isn't Asian doesn't mean she's not hot. Just kidding but seriously.
Her measurements are more realistic and less Barbie-doll-esque. Plus the attention to feminine details in her eyes and lips make her hotter than most female characters.
Even if she's not your type I think its because she 'acts hot'. Confidence tends to make people you're not typically attracted to hotter.
Alex Vance.
Bayonetta is a strong femme fatale that can kill 10 guys in a split second or so.
Her proportions are a bit scewed tbh, but I've seen worse. :p
And Elena looks like a guy in that picture! XD
So Bayonetta wins this round!
I think Chloe is hotter than Bayonetta. That's a serious piece of ass. Bayonetta looks like a washed up porn star, which I don't find too attractive because I cant help but think how many people shes had inside of her. :S
I did a whole article explaining why. Pay attention!
"Elena is awesome, and has a voice that is not like a chainsaw wearing a lion's tongue condom raping your ear. "
Mind blown.
Firstly, Freefall closed the books on this one.
Secondly, Elena is the only videogame character that has ever come close to giving me a nerd boner.
HER FACE IS JUST SO GODDAMN EMOTIVE.
Because Jim can crush her while making furious Nicole Wiebe sex with her vagina.
Personally, I don't like how Bayonetta looks. She has the body type of a giraffe and her voice is kind of annoying. Her head seems to be too small and her tight outfit looks corny.
I think the game is going to be ridiculously awesome. However, Bayonetta herself just looks ridiculous.
she has nice lips that look like they could suck my weiner good. basically