Mortal Kombat X Female Characters Will

Mortal Kombat X Female Characters Will Be More Realistically Proportioned (via Gamespot)

From the article:

The female fighters in NetherRealm’s upcoming Mortal Kombat X will be more realistically proportioned than they appeared in 2011’s Mortal Kombat reboot. The developer talked about its approach to female characters during a Mortal Kombat X Twitch stream today.

“The mantra for this game has always been realism; heading towards a more realistic look,” NetherRealm’s production manager Spiro Anagnostakos said. “So the same thing applies to the proportions where we try to bring things back in per se to where they should be.”

Another NetherRealm developer said women will look “more like women do” in the game.

“Exactly,” Anagnostakos replied.

So I thought this was news that people who read this site might find interesting.  I think it’s pretty cool.  I hope there’s a variety of athletic body shapes in the game for men and women.

What’s also interesting (and a little concerning) is that in the comments are a number of guys complaining that now that the female characters have less exaggerated proportions they “look like dudes”.  It’s concerning how the normalized portrayal of extreme exaggerated women’s bodies in video games and other similar media seem to have so skewed their perceptions of how women’s bodies look that now when they see a fit idealized woman’s body that doesn’t look like this, the character looks like a “man” to their eyes.  

Anyway, just saw the news and thought it was something neat people would be interested in. :)