Has the image of video game characters changed

[tony12]

It's certainly something that's on the mind of developers these days. You can't go very far on gaming sites without reading about the topic and developers frequently weigh in with their thoughts. I suppose you could call The Last of Us as a turning point or an indicative milestone, but if this is the kind of stuff that makes you cringe (reasonably so), then I'd say we still have a ways to go.

No I personally don't care if they tried to make a teenage character cool because she was bubbly and walked around in a bikinni all game long. Or if they tried to make a teenage character look cool by sharpening her knife, shooting bows and arrows, and cussing a lot.

I was just pointing out the contrasting characterization between Rikku and Ellie and if a lot of games have gotten away from over sexualizing their characters.

I guess you could say though that characters like Ellie are still sexualized as well but just in a different way than all the skin showing characters they have had in the past.