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Detroit Beyond Human sells over 10 million copies in over six years (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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[โ€“] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a scene in the game where the character is taking a shower. The shower stall is glass, and the glass is frosted from around ankle height to neck height.

I haven't played the game myself, just came across the scene on YouTube several years ago, so I don't know how justifiable the choice of the scene is in the first place. At least, from a technical point of view, it makes sense to me that they modeled the full nude body so that the frosted glass would blur what we "see" in a realistic way. It's a lot easier to model something and then have the glass blur it, instead of directly modelling the blurred version for example.

Personally I think most of the creep factor comes from the fact that this character is explicitly modeled after a live human being who presumably didn't sign up for that.

[โ€“] paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Lol that's absolutely not an excuse, or else we would see dozens of games with this happen every year. Somehow almost every game to every feature tastefully censored nude scenes managed to do so without modeling genitalia, but Beyond: Two Souls is an exception.

In a world where modeling costs money, studios are looking to spend less time modeling than they need to. Not more.