Has the image of video game characters changed

[tony12]

I havn't been into gaming for quite some time and I am not up to date on all the latest games (the latest games I did go through I just watched a playthrough off of youtube).

However I noticed a very significant contrast between these two characters created about ten years apart.




Edit. Had a pic of Ellie from Last of Us here. Didn't know how to put spoilertags so I just deleted the image.


Has the image of female characters really changed in gaming or do many of them still sexualized like Rikku was back about ten years ago. Or is a darker image like Ellie more popular than the hot beach babe type of character that Rikku was supposed to be.

I know Last of Us was a dark game naturally so you wouldn't see provactively drawn characters anyhow in that game but just curious if the animation style has really changed that much on what is considered the norm now.