Oh No, Gamers Are Being Weird About Aloy's Face Again
"What I am about to show you is, in my opinion, the future of video game graphics," Corridor Crew says as it shows a highlight reel of weirdly smooth humans caked in AI makeup.
This montage was shown in a new video titled, "We try putting photoreal faces in video games". Here, the controversial YouTube channel, who recently came under fire for its use of AI art, attempt to 'fix' video game characters with new AI technology. The results aren't realistic at all. They actually come closer to what gamers did before Horizon Forbidden West launched - covered Aloy in make-up and filtered her through the male gaze, believing her to be an example of a conspiracy from the 'woke mob' to make video game women uglier.
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As you'd expect, game devs and fans took to social media to poke fun at the video and its bravado. "Aloy! Don't forget your augmented makeup device out there in the post-apocalyptic Dinoverse," lighting artist Elliott McSherry said. "Today, the game dev folks join the VFX club of collectively sighing at the Corridor Crew's misplaced confidence that they're better than an entire industry, despite never working in it."
As you can see, her blemishes have been removed and her rougher skin has been smoothened out. She's even had her eyebrows done. "Realistic" in this case meaning a trip to the spa.
But it's not just Aloy that Corridor Crew have 'fixed'. They also tried their hand at Alyx from Half-Life, Nathan Drake from Uncharted, and Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 just to name a few. The results are incredibly cursed.
A lot of these tweaks also ignore the fact that video games are often styilised. Making faces look photorealistic in these scenarios veers straight off a
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