We are making games, and the game is also affecting us in turn... Recently, a fashion up host on Bilibili suddenly became popular because her appearance is similar to the female protagonist Tiffany in the game "Final Fantasy 7", and even more so than many people who deliberately imitate their costumes. For a moment, this news quickly spread in the gaming industry, and fans who liked Tiffa rushed to leave messages under this UP social account. Within a day, her account gained over 100000 followers, and currently has 332000 followers, attracting the attention of some foreign game players.
The reporter learned that "Final Fantasy 7" was a role-playing game released by a Japanese company in 1997, and it was re released after being remade and optimized in 2020. Tiffa is one of the female protagonists in the game, who fights monsters and upgrades together with the childhood male protagonist (player controlled character).
How to describe Tiffa's popularity in the gaming industry? According to records, she has won titles such as first place in the world's most charming game female lead drama, first place in the world's sexiest game female lead, and first place in the world's most beautiful game female lead selection.
The production company projects the pursuit of beauty onto Tiffa, so she seems to possess the image and characteristics that all goddesses should possess. The character introduction of this game states: Tiffa has the appearance of an angel, the body of a devil, a bird like voice, willow eyebrows, large eyes, thin lips, combined with a standard melon seed face, wide double eyelids, high nose bridge, all the beautiful features of Western women gather here, and also has a long black hair of Eastern women.
A game player who was following this incident told reporters that he saw Tiffa's shadow on the UP owner. As a loyal player of this game, just seeing it makes me happy. It's really similar, especially in terms of eyes and hairstyle. "" It's so beautiful. "" It turns out that someone can really look so beautiful. "" Pretty is so standard. "The comments section of the up main video is full of such comments.
Why is' modeling face 'so attractive?
In the game Final Fantasy 7, the character that players can manipulate is the male lead, who is introverted, silent, and insecure. Like many boys, he yearned for powerful power when he was young. And Tiffa is his childhood sweetheart and the only person who understands his true past. His feelings for him are not as simple as being a childhood friend.
It is precisely because of this setting that players of Final Fantasy 7 are easily drawn to the virtual human Tiffany. Generally speaking, the longer you stay in the pit, the deeper your feelings will be.
But apart from emotional factors, it has to be said that the perfect appearance set by the game company for Tiffa is indeed very attractive. She is the standard "modeling face" we often refer to now. Originally, modeling faces was often used to describe celebrities, idols, or artists. It refers to a facial appearance that meets the aesthetic standards of the public, has a clear facial contour, can absorb and absorb various makeup, and has a relatively three-dimensional facial features, just like what comes out of game modeling. In fact, the virtual human Tina, who is truly built on data models, is truly her "modeling face" in terms of appearance.
The appearance of a virtual human is synthesized from digital information, so it can avoid human shortcomings. The nose, eyes, mouth, etc. can be pinched into particularly beautiful shapes. For example, a producer who had previously interviewed the Yangtze Evening News said that their team customized facial features for their virtual humans based on big data calculations. The values were determined based on the shapes and characteristics of netizens' favorite facial features, and after continuous modification, they finally assembled an image that meets the aesthetic needs of most modern people.
Also, do you know? Your aesthetics will actually be influenced and changed with your investment in the game.
German philosopher Hans Georg Gadamer once talked about the overcoming of subjectivity by games: people tend to be immersed in a state of relaxation when playing games, and this relaxation is not achieved through a completely free and idle state, because once they participate in the game, they must obey the rules of the game and regard the purpose of the game as their own goal. So there is not a player as the "main body" in the game. It's more like the game is playing us than we are playing the game. In this way, although it is people who created the game, the game may not be completely controlled by us.
This is also true when it comes to game characters. In games such as Final Fantasy and Sims, production companies try to make modeling characters closer to humans and the real world when launching them. However, when players play, become addicted to, and have emotional attachment to the game over and over again, these seemingly human characters can in turn affect the player's aesthetic.
This is also one of the recent academic discussions on the "alienation effect of games on humans". Over time, game players will gradually become accustomed to the aesthetics of the virtual world and incorporate these aesthetic characteristics into the real world, believing that people who look like game characters are very beautiful.
