Princesses in TW

**miho** · 11-13-2005, 17:12

I've kind of grown fond of my little princess and I'll keep her for a while.

Originally Posted by Deus Ex

Besides, back in those days for many royal families - the available gene pool was pretty small - so I think that it is probably more historically accurate that most princesess (and princes) were not all that good looking - Besides, it didn't matter so much how you looked - if your daddy was a king - then you would get attention.

Yeah I know they were mostly ugly. I'm just saying that the game would be more aesthetically pleasing if they were better looking.

**lilljonas** · 11-13-2005, 17:45

Don't see why this would be a big deal. And after all, yes, few of the guys would be seen on a catwalk either... if it's T&A you're after, go play some Dead or Alive instead!

**Ludens** · 11-13-2005, 21:59

Originally Posted by lilljonas

Don't see why this would be a big deal. And after all, yes, few of the guys would be seen on a catwalk either... if it's T&A you're after, go play some Dead or Alive instead!

I agree. The number of games with unbelievably beautiful women and ridiculously muscled men is already too large. The beauty of a game lies in its engine, not in its characters.

**lilljonas** · 11-14-2005, 02:11

Exactly, a lot of moderately (or less) looking characters actually lends a game more realism in my book. Look at a collection of medieval portraits, and you'll see that few of them would be working as models in our days.

**Ciaran** · 11-14-2005, 12:47

Apart from that, when do you actually need to call up he princess´s portrait? You move them about on the map to marry them off or maybe to spy, but that´s it. They don´t gain valor, so there´s no need to check whether they went up in that department.

**antisocialmunky** · 11-14-2005, 12:53

One of the cardinal rules of game making is that characters should look as decent as the technology you have can make them :-p.

I personally don't have problems with it. Every so often oyu get a pretty one. I remember I had a few cute ones when my Spanish King pumped out 8 princesses all named Isabella. My randomized timer must have been on the fritz that day.

**Vladimir** · 11-14-2005, 14:20

Well let's see: no concept of proper nutrition, no fresh fruit year round, vegetables were cooked so long all nutrition was wasted, horrible living conditions, primitive medicine, and "pure" blood = supermodel?

What did you expect? A beautiful woman is and always has been a beautiful woman. In medieval times the most attractive women were the ones that had huge...tracts of land.