There's a difference between criticizing a character's model, as in there's something janky with how she was put together vs 'this woman is unattractive' with the implicit assumption being that, for some reason, she should be. I'm actually not sure which one this thread is supposed to be though.

Long as she has a nice body, I can deal with the unibrow.

I guess my reasoning is that if she was just straight up ugly, people wouldn't talk about changing her appearance. If she's an ugly character, there isn't really meant to be that physical appeal. You don't see an ugly person in real life and say "boy, I wish he/she looked hot."

I guess that's partially my point. The people that want to change her appearance don't necessarily see her as ugly, but rather that she has some features that are either off putting or kinda weird looking.

The people that just straight up say she's ugly...well, they think she's ugly.

The way I look at it is that people have different tastes. Sure, crying and complaining that the character doesn't look like a super model is dumb, but honestly, who cares? Ya, they need to work on their presentation, but yelling at them over the web won't change them.

I won't say anything about uncanny valley until we see something better than a compressed and janky youtube video; I'm fine with all the character animations and lip-syncing we've seen in the videos so far, though, so I don't really expect I'll care that much. But the physical attributes others are complaining about, like her mouth and eyebrows, are what make her unique in the first place. I like her appearance.

I like her appearance too,just the chewing tabacco look whats get me abit and how the lip is far apart from teeth area.

She actually reminds of Selma Blair a little.

Maybe the uncanny valley is by design! Because she's an early model synth...

Hey I tried.

Complaining about lip sync and facial animation alongside with huge palms that look like paws != calling a character ugly.

You do not need to be a rocket scientists to understand that, come on people.

My country doesn't actually have a word for unibrow so they're usually just called "Brezhnevs"
And yeah no those aren't Brezhnevs. But that was actually the first gameplay vid I've watched with female closeup and I like how hair actually has a little movement this time. Plus you can wear hats with hair now? Yey!

Pretty much this.

The mouth is not natural. If that's due to it being a YouTube video or not is up for debate but I'm expecting a swarm of bats to come flying out of that hole at any moment.

This is where the real oddness is coming from:

http://i.imgur.com/CkDp5FP.png

It creates the illusion that we're seeing a skull wearing a loose-fitting latex mask. I imagine they can tweak this rather easily in their lip-sync code.

1 billion internet money dollars says the game is gonna ship without that being fixed.

The creepy stuff probably has to do with her facial animations. Bethesda done goofed.

After finally checking the vid, her face does indeed have a somewhat masculine look. Replace her long hair with a baldie, and Piper can pass for a dude facewise. Bethesda has always featured ugly face character models. Oh well, at least it's better than Oblivion's atrocities.

Either that or "Fallout 4 delayed for 2 weeks".

*ducks*

hawt

Guys I've figured it out.

https://youtu.be/mbsYPXAJhxU?t=133

Ok, that's enough jokes at Piper's expense .

One positive to take from this video is that the mo-cap looks awesome, and the voice-acting is head and shoulders above anything I've ever heard in a previous BGS title.

Sure, Piper looks a bit. She talks a bit, moves a bit, and she probably fights a bit and eats a bit too.

She's her own woman, not just a potential love interest designed as the "perfect" female with slave qualities.

I didn't know Preston Gavery had scars to be honest. And I payed no attention to the Vault Tech guy. Everyone looks okay to me.

yeah, she is pretty rough and not too attractive. I have seem some reviewers who can't wait to romance her....I think these kids don't get out enough....lol. That said, I don't care what she looks like, I am more concerned about how annoying she is. Moira annoyed the hell out of me in fallout 3 and this one from the brief trailer has the potential to make me want to shoot her.

She looks natural. She's attractive because she looks...well...genuine. Something Bethesda games' characters never really had.

So don't call me a kid pls.

"She's too rough-looking"

"She's not attractive looking"

"She has an ugly unibrow"

"She's too fake-looking"

Pointer #1- Of course she looks rough. It's the frickin' apocalypse. If she looked like a modern day (our world, 2015) actress, all cleaned and prepped, I would think she was out of place. Honestly, how old are most of the people in this thread? Thirteen? Fourteen? She's living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, somehow I think physical beauty would be so below on the totem pole of priorities that it would be non-existent.

Pointer #2- Hate to bring the gender wars into this thread, but is it just me or are we ignoring the fact that Howard and Garvey aren't exactly attractive themselves in the footages we've seen them in.

Though I will say that the lip synching does make things kind of bizarre.

Same here. It is a big improvement to Skyrim characters.

I think some of this is just because of the build-up. People have been wondering what she'd look like since that Quakecon demo. People were expecting one thing and if she didn't meet that standard, the reaction is going to be of a higher contrast than if the first time we knew she existed we'd also seen a picture or video.