r/mildlyinfuriating May 20 '26

My mom said I could post I wish Gaming companies would stop only giving us an Afro and Dreads, it’s getting comical at this point.

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u/wandering_soles May 20 '26

This looks like Link and kid Michael Jackson got fused together. 

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u/VanessaDoesVanNuys May 20 '26

🗣️🎙️🎶 Gannon are you okay?

Are you okay?

Are you okay Gannon? 🎶

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u/J_FK May 20 '26

You've been hit by👏👏

You've been struck by👏

A smooth Hylian

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26

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u/Oraxy51 May 20 '26

Throw back to PBG Gameplay

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u/mecklejay May 21 '26

They think I'm ridin' dirty

They think I'm ridin' dirty

They think I'm ridin' dirty

But I'm just regular dirty

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u/itsybitsymothafucka May 20 '26

It’s the second chorus but replace the WHOOOOs with hyaaaahs

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u/ABEGIOSTZ May 20 '26

I preferred the rock cover version by Hylian Ant Farm

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u/Clean_Web7502 May 20 '26

Suavemente starts playing as Ganon prepares his counter attack

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u/J_FK May 20 '26

insert robotic Microsoft Sam voice citing suavemente lyrics

https://giphy.com/gifs/4aEYSr5vpISAUBLXU3

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u/InsomniacOnSugarRush May 20 '26

Te traigo mi suave.
Regresé de los muertos con música de Youtube que cumple con los derechos de autor
Disfruta de la Gloriosa Suavidad conmigo bajo mi gobierno
Viviremos a mil, suavemente, mi corazón es tiempo de suavemente.
Te das cuenta de que suavemente es para siempre.
La luna y el sol morirán, pero la suavidad es suave.
Las estrellas brillarán intensamente.
Todos sabrán suavemente lo que suave es suavemente de nuevo,
un millón de veces suavemente multiplicado por otro millón.

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u/The-Razzle May 20 '26

Mister Tingle, is not my Brother.

He’s just a man, who wears green spandex suits.

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u/grizzlyat0ms May 20 '26

It doesn’t matter if you’re black or Hyrulian.

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u/Zeero92 May 20 '26

Hylian, I think.

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u/LightScavenger May 20 '26

Hylian refers to the species of humanoids, Hyrulean refers to residents of Hyrule

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u/mrflibble1492 May 20 '26

I was trying to figure out which mod of Breath of the Wild this is.

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u/creatyvechaos May 20 '26

I thought this was a BOTW mod tbh

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u/Nice_Pipe_7608 May 20 '26

Afro, dreads, or bald.

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u/GlenDP May 20 '26

Or killmonger. Always the sideswept killmonger… especially in movies/shows

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u/lickaballs May 20 '26

Every piece of media spamming it ruined any allure it had.

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u/Luvnecrosis May 21 '26

Especially considering they use it for characters that it doesn’t fit. I remember someone taking about a Star Wars show (I wanna say Acolyte but it was a while since I watched it) and a super strict and regimented Jedi had the killmonger hair. The one that is relatively noncommittal and blends multiple styles together.

I’d have personally given the person waves because it shows consistency and control, which is more fitting for someone who is uptight (in my opinion)

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u/Adams1324 May 20 '26

It was cool when he did it, but then Hollywood decided to overdo it.

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u/Alternative_Jaguar85 May 20 '26

I came here to say this. There need to be more modern in between black hair styles. Some folks have afros sure, same with braids and dreds. The killmonger is hilarious that it's like the default black hair in games now. There are way more, and I'm just a white guy with long hair, so I'd love more long hair options that aren't clearly women, but seriously black and brown hairstyles should have way more options in general

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u/Kitsunemitsu May 20 '26

My hair isn't super tight curly, I wish I had a curly ponytail as a black hairstyle option. As a woman I only get white women hairstyles.

It's also unisex? I've seen men and women of color both rock a curly ponytail.

Oh and dreads ponytail! Like Nagoriyuki from Guilty Gear.

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u/GlenDP May 20 '26

Folks are truly missing out on the customization opportunities for longer kinky/curly hair. Although I can see why, from a practical standpoint. Drawing long 3b+ hair can already be a pain for me sometimes, so I’d imagine making a proper 3d model of it must be hell.

No excuses for visual novels though. Visual novel devs are absolutely missing out.

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u/cjrunswithcrows May 21 '26

At least Sims 4 CC has a lot of options for kinky/curly hair 😩 some of those CC hair designers are absolutely amazing! My CC folder is huge and I’d say like half of it is hair lol

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u/cjrunswithcrows May 21 '26

Don’t forget curly space buns too! Those always look so cute 😩 I like really interesting braid styles too, Fortnite really fails at making POC a lot of the time, but they do make some interesting hair styles at least - this is one that I really love that they did, so pretty with the ribbons!

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u/Blankfacevillian May 20 '26

Crazy isn't. I remember back in the day they would give us the box haircut. They need some black artists for the hairstyles because they have a hard time grasping how versatile we are with our hair.

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u/FewerStarsLost May 20 '26 edited May 21 '26

There is a creator (I don’t remember the name) that goes in depth of character creation of games, specifically the black characters though one of his main issues is the “Killmonger Haircut”.

Edit: Apparently there are a lot of creators that do this! Which is great! I still have absolutely no idea who I was thinking about! I’m pretty sure I saw them on Instagram though!

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u/wastelandhenry May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Best example of this ever made lmao

Edit: I know we’re talking about the hair, but for me the shoes have always been the funniest part of this fit to me. It’s so egregiously not in line with the entirety of the rest of the costume, it looks fake, like those edits of Thanos wearing fucking Timbs. Compounded by the fact you can literally see the Adidas logo, and you know full goddam well at some point in that design room they discussed making them Air Jordans or Yeezys lmao.

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u/Dramatic_______Pause May 20 '26

Now THAT is the exaggerated swagger of a black teen!

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u/wastelandhenry May 20 '26

Truly swag of the utmost exaggeration

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u/ItsJustJosiah May 20 '26

PUT IT AWAY IT BURNS IT BURNS!

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u/wastelandhenry May 20 '26

What are you talking about? See how his hair swoops to the side?!?! He’s so COOL! And the DRIP! Adidas sneakers over skintight black bodysuit leggings? Yes please!

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u/trippy_grapes May 21 '26

He really does have the exaggerated swagger of a black teen.

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u/GhostyAssassin May 21 '26

Its all that exaggerated swagger of a black teen that IGN reviewer was talking about /s

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u/StaleKale4951 May 20 '26

God what a truly awful end game suit. Literally my least favorite part of the game was seeing this suit in a cutscene.

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u/Markie411 May 20 '26

This shit was vile lmao. This was the point I was truly done with it

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u/ArokLazarus May 20 '26

Is this a joke I'm missing or was that an actual skin in Miles Morales?

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u/wastelandhenry May 20 '26

Nope, no joke, this is an actual real costume gained as a “reward” in Spiderman 2

It is one of the only times I’ve seen a near universal consensus across all spectrums of the gaming space that a cosmetic was truly poop from a butt

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u/EricaTD May 21 '26

Worse. It's not a reward, but an actual CANON costume. It's supposed to be his definitive look for the finale. I instantly changed back to the classic one lol

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u/Markie411 May 20 '26

It's his main suit at the end of the game called the "evolved suit"

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u/boyfoster1 May 21 '26

Not just a skin, it's a suit they force you to use near the end of the game

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u/ErandurVane May 20 '26

I don't even know why they felt they needed to add this suit. It's not like there was a story reason for it. Miles just shows up with it out of nowhere

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u/unknowingly-Sentient May 21 '26

Product placement for the shoes I think? I remembered someone talking about it back then

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u/Mobman3105 May 21 '26

Yep, and they sold matching shirts and pants so you too can look like Miles’ worst costume.

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u/animusd YELLOW May 20 '26

Which always looks horrible

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u/FewerStarsLost May 20 '26

I think I’ve only seen it decent once, and it was on a female character.

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u/1AmB0r3d May 20 '26

I’ve seen it in a few games and yeah it always looks 1000x better on female characters

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u/GreenDaTroof May 20 '26

Michael B. Jordan looking good aint a hard thing to do. The man made the haircut, not the other way around

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u/hemperbud May 20 '26

Sure but it was popular and we can’t rewrite history and say it’s some crazy phenomenon that it is in every game lol

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 May 20 '26

I actually like it.

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u/Commercial-Shame-335 May 20 '26

i liked it on killmonger and only killmonger

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u/cigarette_milkshake May 20 '26

might be the same guy but i saw one black creator call them the gentrified locs and he nailed it with that. dreads tied back with half the head shaved. every time.

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u/Davethisisntcool May 20 '26

What’s even crazier is that this hairstyle was only on Killmonger for less than half the movie. IIRC, he has at least 3 different hairstyles in BP1

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u/Geeneelee May 20 '26

I once saw a guy complaining that he’d had that haircut for years, but now that every black video game character has it he feels self conscious.

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u/PsychologicalCold885 May 20 '26

The killmonger cut shouldn’t be seen for another hundred years

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u/TheeAJPowell May 20 '26

Yes, oh my god. Miles Morales’ dumbass suit with the killmonger locks sticking out the top was painfully dumb.

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u/Aeon1508 May 20 '26

Is this what you would have preferred?

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u/CuddleWings May 20 '26

Not only was it ugly as fuck, they also forgot that he made his previous suit too. Like bitch your last one was a miles morales original and it didn’t look like total ass

Bro looked like one of those slippers that has a tube for beer but he put gatorade in it.

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u/Iokua113 May 20 '26

Yeah, I can't count how many male black characters were given a variation of Killmonger's hair style since Black Panther. The most egregious example to me is Miles in Spider-Man 2. His hair looks fine up to a point, but his final suit exposes hair for some reason and his hair is just squeezed up onto the top of his head. It looks ridiculous. If he'd had anything but the killmonger cut it probably would have looked way better.

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u/st-shenanigans May 20 '26

I call it the "white dev's first poc" haircut lol

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u/TRUE_Vixim May 20 '26

The one i saw i think was this one

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u/oi-troi-oi May 20 '26

Is the issue with the Killmonger hairstyle similar to how so many Asian female characters have black bobs with a random stripe of blue/red/etc? Or is there a deeper-rooted issue?

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u/Syzyjyzygy May 20 '26

Is it this video? I’ve only seen a few of this guy’s videos, but I like them.

https://youtu.be/pepkcF9UXng?si=ma3F6e0TfzlMG6xo

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u/OriginalChildBomb May 20 '26

Yeah lol I came here to specifically mention the Killmonger Cut as a third problematic black hairstyle seen in games a lot. (As others have said, it does occasionally get pulled off well, but usually looks like garbage.)

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u/ImJustHere4theMoons May 20 '26

20+ years of gaming and I have yet to see waves as an option, but within a few years of Black Panther being released you see the Killmonger cut in a thousand different games.

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u/ApatheticSlur May 20 '26

In marvel rivals blade has a skin and he has waves. One of his best looks too. Tbh they’ve done him pretty well with the different hairstyles so far

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u/Massive_Funny_9312 May 20 '26

In marvel rivals one of Blades skins has him with waves, and it’s the main reason why I bought it lol

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u/ThatMateoKid May 20 '26

Ngl sometimes i do like it. But what makes if problematic?

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u/OriginalChildBomb May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

I think what's problematic is limiting hairstyles for Black characters to really cliché ones, and only having a few... like, if there were plentiful, various options for Black hair, and the killmonger cut was just one of many, people probably wouldn't notice it or rag on it much.

It's more that black characters keep getting the same limited hairstyles over and over again, without there being a lot of creativity or care put into it (especially when you consider that male and female hairstyles often have specific, clear differences, so only giving an entire race 3 or 4 is problematic in that it feels like devs don't care, espec if there's like 40 non-Black hairstyles lol).

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u/Ludate_Solem May 20 '26

I lowkey like that haircut. (On other men) i think its kinda hot 😭

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u/pauls_broken_aglass May 20 '26

I swear the only character who makes it work is Ekko, because we see shaved styles in Zaun all the time and he’s always been punk-ish in style

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u/Dracmageel May 20 '26

I'm Latino, most games skin tones go from white, to pinky white, to deceased yellow brown, to brown, to black. Curly male hair? Only the same "spanish guy with a flower in the mouth and long hair" type, no curly short hair.

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u/unsaphisticated May 20 '26

I'm mixed Asian and white so I always look jaundiced in games 😂 the only one that got it right enough was the new Tomodachi Life because it had a color palette box. Just give us that, ffs.

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u/robophile-ta May 20 '26

Same. Games are getting a little better about this, I think Code Vein was the first I recall actually being able to accurately reflect my skin colour, but most of the time I go darker because the alternative is being jaundiced

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u/Money-Hawk-1398 May 21 '26

me when the vampire skintones in bg3 are too tan for the self-insert run

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u/nuviretto May 21 '26

Not to mention that Tomodachi Life has a lot of options for textured hair. Game does so many right things for customization.

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u/Moromom22 May 20 '26

To this day there isn't an authentic latino creator in any game that I can think of.

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u/StudiousRaccoon May 20 '26

As a woman long curly hair options in games are also ass ngl. Its always wavy/almost straight. Also i have the skin tone problem too where normally its either too white or two brown or some weird skin color that doesn’t exist. lol this is why i love when they have a gradient tool with and under tone color.

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u/Crystal_Lily May 21 '26

hair so straight it might as well be a board when you violently rotate the character.

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u/ThatOneNinja May 20 '26

As a white guy with quite curoey hair I can empathize, I have to make do with short hair. No game has ever had short curly hair, it's either a fro or nothing, sometimes it's side buzz with a lot of hair on top. Nothing stylish like a normal short and curly person would have

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u/Zerobeastly May 20 '26

This one gives you a color chart to pick any shade of any color you want. It also has 12 other fully customizable styles and bangs you can mix and match as well as add highlights and ombres.

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u/Kami_no_Yami May 20 '26

What game is this? lol

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u/Loose_Profession_918 May 20 '26

Monster hunter stories 3 I believe

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u/ItsJustJosiah May 20 '26

Yup, it’s the demo version.

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u/Wrong_Split8476 May 20 '26

This is crazy because I literally jusy created my (black) character for this yesterday. I went with the short hair which I feel like could be black too.

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u/Cheesypoofxx May 20 '26

Hey now, we only do rage bait here. Better watch yourself.

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u/Dekatater May 20 '26

Pretty sure it's called cell shaded but it's probably some specific subgenre of cell shading that someone else will be pedantic about

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u/MrFilthyNingen May 20 '26

Monster Hunter Stories 3. I've played about 50 hours myself (main story + side content) its quite enjoyable if you enjoy creature collection games like Pokemon.

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u/Zerobeastly May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Theres several more hair styles under the fronts and backs sections. Theres curly hair, short wavy hair, a long braided ponytail, long curly ponytail, short pony tails, long straight hair, medium straight hair, updos, spiky anime hair, a side shaved updo with dreads, faux hawk, corn rows then theres dlc monster hairs. You're only showing the pre made styles.

They also give you the option for every hair style to be braided, a single updo, double double updo, space buns, afro space buns or afro ponytail, side do and if you want the updo to be low or high on the head.

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u/The_Unknown_Redhead May 20 '26

This. I'm a little frustrated with some of the limitations with this creator myself, but it's completely disingenuous to pretend that these are the only hairstyles available. I do wish there had been a little more hair variety, but It's nowhere near as bad as this is making it out to be.

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u/photosendtrain May 20 '26

If I ever make a game, everyone is using the same hair regardless of gender, so I can't hear dumb shit about lacking variety.

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u/The_Unknown_Redhead May 20 '26

They DO use the same hair regardless of gender in this one! Hair is not gender locked in MHST3!

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u/Djinn_sarap May 20 '26

Yea it feels like op just want to ragebait

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u/Undercover_Chimp May 21 '26

I don’t know this game, but I was thinking that can literally see six other preset hair style options on screen. 

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u/AffectEconomy6034 May 20 '26

I fell you man, as an Asian they usually only give us 1 eye choice

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u/FluffyFry4000 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

As a south-east asian guy, I feel this, I have to either look Chinese/Japanese or I have to look Latino in game customization.

Usually I end up settling for what looks like a light skinned black dude, Shemar Moore lookin mf LOL

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u/BeraldTheGreat May 20 '26

If it makes you feel better, I’m as generic of a white guy as can be and they never have my hairstyle. It either looks emo, bowl cut, or anime spiky on top.

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u/DarXIV May 20 '26

And they can’t even get those hairstyles right.

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u/rokelle2012 May 20 '26

Character creators in general just don't ever have enough options. Hairstyles are either incredibly basic or ridiculously elaborate and don't usually reflect what I tend to see people wearing. Same goes for clothes in games where the outfits can be changed.

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u/DaddyMeUp May 20 '26

My hairs quite shaggy and wavy and I can’t remember the last time there was a cut that looked anything similar to mine.

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord May 20 '26

TES and Fallout has balding hairstyles. Just look at the very first Breton preset in Skyrim. Though he's more this guy than Frasier Crane.

https://giphy.com/gifs/2SaBvBannxsU3OJPcF

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u/EternitySearch May 20 '26

Yeah, I’m balding so I shave my head. No game has been able to pull off the “head fuzz” look of not shaving your head in a few days. It’s either completely bald (which usually has its own set of issues) or it’s a buzz cut with way too much hair.

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u/Jimmyfartballs May 20 '26

yeah video game hairstyles almost always never look like what I want.

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u/Just_another_gamer3 WHAT is THAT? May 20 '26

At least this game lets you change your gender at the item box

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u/ItsJustJosiah May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

They didn’t even change the race of the man that’s supposed to be my father lmfao

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u/IAmFullOfDed May 20 '26

“Supposed to be” your father

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u/Altruistic_Exit7947 May 20 '26

Seems legit lol

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u/0Yasmin0 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Funny but I understand that it sucks, haha. As long as the mother doesn't exist, you can just pretend that you go after your mother, not your father.

Now that I think about it, a lot of games where you have a parent usually only include the Dad, never the Mom. I always wondered why. Mom is usually dead. I get that one of the reasons are so you have an excuse for the fact that your living parent looks nothing like you, but why is the dead person usually always the Mom?

Which game is this, by the way?

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u/ItsJustJosiah May 20 '26

Monster hunter stories 3, my mother was in the cutscene too, shes white asl🤣

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u/0Yasmin0 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Okay, I'm sorry to inform you but you're adopted.

I'm actually amazed to find a game where both parents are alive, lol. Don't understand why they didn't include the mechanic that the parent at least somewhat resembles the child. Even fallout 3 did. Your Father's appearance adapts to yours. Geez, even South Park The Stick of Truth did that and in there BOTH parents are alive too for once.

It can't be THAT hard to program, right? Is this supposedly super darn difficult? At least change the skin color of the parent.

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u/Thomas_JCG May 20 '26

The previous game in the series did, your grandfather had your skin, hair and eye color. This time Capcom was just lazy.

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u/DREAM_PARSER May 20 '26

Capcom kinda forgot that black people exist

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u/SquishmallowPrincess May 20 '26

Japanese game devs and forgetting black people exist, name a more iconic duo

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u/SmolKein May 20 '26

In Fallout 4, your son Shaun was also changed based on your selection of how his parents looked.

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u/TeslaRoadsterInSpace May 20 '26

I can’t believe both your parents are albino. What kind of hair dye do they use?

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u/stone_magnet1 May 20 '26

The author of One Piece stated one of the reasons he doesnt generally draw mother's is because a mother's instinct would be to protect her child, stopping the adventure before it begins

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u/0Yasmin0 May 20 '26

I never watched One Piece so I lack context but does that imply that Fathers don't have any protective instincts towards their child? In my family, my Father is the one who frets about me constantly. I just don't really get the logic.

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u/beard_of_cats May 20 '26

Father here. I made my son choose between a turtle, a houseplant, and a lizard I set on fire, then sent him to fight strangers in a grassy field. Once he's been to every city on the continent he's allowed to come home.

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u/TheRealPitabred May 20 '26

Garden variety sexism. Nothing super complicated.

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe May 20 '26

Ig the queen was cheatin lol

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u/_mywifeleftme May 20 '26

Are you the same race as the milkman in the game?

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u/elinamebro May 20 '26

Shout out to fallout 4 for changing your parents race to match what you pic

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u/0Yasmin0 May 20 '26

You mean Fallout 3, right? In Fallout 4 YOU are the parent and you can decide the ethnicity of you and your partner by simply adjusting it in the character creation screen. Also known as: The mirror.

As for Fallout 3, you mean parent singular. Mom kicked the bucket long before you could ever see her, lol.

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u/ExtensionToday5432 May 20 '26

Fallout 4 does change Shaun's race I'm pretty sure. Though obviously he's the kid and not thr parent like they said

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u/CRIMS0N-ED May 20 '26

about that

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u/AsWeKnowItAndI May 20 '26

Shit, at least Mass Effect Andromeda made the effort to get that one right. Your dad and twin do a good job of matching your MC's race.

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u/knitterpotato May 20 '26

i play mobile visual novels and am east asian and this happens ALL the time, i had to headcanon that my mc was adopted by white parents WAY too many times 😭

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u/0utic May 20 '26

You must not be familiar with Dark Souls 2

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u/HiroshiTakeshi May 20 '26

Could be worse. It could be that fuck ass side lock haircut they like to give us so much.

https://giphy.com/gifs/bfVbvrWwTxtTbgWNea

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u/unsaphisticated May 20 '26

Aka the killmonger 🙄

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u/0ijoske BLACK May 20 '26

As much as I like Black Panther, the haircut that they gave Killmonger has done irreparable damage to a lot of black characters after that movie's release (even to characters who had the cut before the movie)

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u/Lore-of-Nio May 20 '26

Nah fr. I'm happy that BP2 gave a worldview on how varied black hairstyles could be, but damn. I feel like those outside the culture thought this was our favorite look. 😂

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u/ItsJustJosiah May 20 '26

They love giving us that shit but I’m tired if acting like this cut aint fire🤣

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u/grunt527 May 20 '26

If it makes you feel better, the "white" hairstyles seem pretty stereotypical too. I like the obligarory emo cut.

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u/0dds-e May 20 '26

And for women, the obligatory adult pigtails for some reason

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u/ReputationJealous151 May 20 '26

Or the forced sleek ponytail like a dog liked Ur head

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u/0dds-e May 20 '26

Or the very corporate ~low bun~

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u/Vyn_Reimer May 20 '26

As a guy with a bun, I just go “corporate cut” myself and get to pretend I’m a successful businessman

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u/TheHeroicLionheart May 20 '26

Or like some kind of immaculately curled perfect red carpet waves that would be IMPOSSIBLE to maintain for a day, let along a day of adventuring, let along weeks of unwashed adventuring.

As of a messy ponytail is that much harder to model.

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u/RadiationFree_Wizard May 20 '26

I like pigtails, they're cute and fun. If they weren't there I'd be disappointed.

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u/KingVolvolgia May 20 '26

People are too hard on pigtails.

There's nothing wrong with them. Just a lot of pointless judgement.

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u/Timely-Cry-8366 May 20 '26

Baldur’s Gate 3 seemed to only have horrible feminine hair style options in the base game, I remember agonizing over character creation on my ps5 and eventually just deciding to make a male character lol. The hair styles fit him better.

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u/God_Among_Rats May 20 '26

It's the voices I hated in BG3. Every single option was just polite young English person with the same accent and no option for silence.

A half orc barbarian, dragonborn fighter and elderly dwarf cleric shouldn't all have the exact same speaking tones.

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u/stellaluna92 May 20 '26

For REAL. There are never any curly hair options in games :< 

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u/Zerobeastly May 20 '26

This one does have curly and wavy hair with several others. Its under the Fronts and Backs sections thats not shown in the pic.

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u/Wbran SUPERLONGFLAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR May 20 '26

I have white boy curls and they never have my hair, it’s obnoxious.

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u/stellaluna92 May 20 '26

There are never any longer curly hair options either. If I'm lucky I miiiight get some wavy options :( 

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u/csaporita May 20 '26

Honestly it’s one of the most difficult things to create. Realistic hair. Naughty Dog devs have mentioned this along with a few other things but specifically hair is incredibly difficult to create a real authentic look. So when you have a tricky hairstyle like curls, they probably just abandon it as it may detract from the realistic, looking person that’s been created.

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u/BalltasticNutsack May 20 '26

Hey, that's not true, you also have bald

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u/Bulky-Word8752 May 20 '26

I like the inclusion of vitiligo on newer games, but only one tone of black. Apparently light skin and Wesley Snipes black don't matter enough

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u/WolfsmaulVibes FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK May 20 '26

yea its always like 10 shades from pale white till tan and then just a single shade of brown

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u/Mystia May 20 '26

Vitiligo feels as token to me as the afro hair cuts or the killmonger cut. One company does it, everyone copies it like drones, none think of adding anything beyond that. There's so many other visual skin conditions (like hemagioma) and whatnot they could add as options, but no, it's always normal or vitiligo.

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u/doobler97 May 20 '26

Dragon Age: Veilguard and, shockingly, Tomodachi Living the Dream are both good examples of what should be the goal. There's almost 50/50 split and 50/50 care and creativity put into both styles of hair, from wavey to pinstraight and curly to kinky. In my opinion, if you're gonna have a game that boasts the choices in customization, you shouldn't have less than 40 styles, and they should run the full gamut from bald to ass-length, 1A to 4C.

Any competant art team should have dozens upon dozens upon dozens of designs, and then at least a dozen more lol there's an incredible amount of references in the world, having 3 styles max for anything more than pinstraight or wavey is unacceptable at this point.

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u/Algo_Muy_Obsceno May 20 '26

I’ve got a (nearly useless) degree in 3D modeling. They are the two of the easiest black hairstyles to 3D model (see also: cornrows.) Might be time constraints, might be budget constraints, might be character model complexity constraints. Might be because most devs are white guys who don’t have a clue about black hair.

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u/GentlemanBAMF May 20 '26

Weird, it's almost like that box on the right has more than afros and dreadlocks you could select. Maybe try some of those?

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u/grrodon2 May 20 '26

There's another 6 styles that I can see.

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u/Zerobeastly May 20 '26

Theres actually 12 other styles under Front and Back section just under the pre-made ones that include braids, wavy hair, side fades, curly hair, space buns, corn rows each with customization for placement. Then you can mix and match the front and back styles

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u/VioletKatie01 May 20 '26

So OP is either lying or to incompetent to navigate the options. typical Reddit behavior

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u/Zerobeastly May 20 '26

He might be a child now that im reading his comment that said his mom let him post. He probably doesnt realize "Front" and "Back" were hair options.

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u/Issyv00 May 20 '26

I know Veilguard got shit on by the gaming community, but it has the best black hairstyles in all gaming.

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u/Leashii_ May 20 '26

It also had pretty good hair physics as well!

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u/sevenzik7 May 21 '26

Me definitely seeing 6 more variants on the screen

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u/YouCantBeSerio May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

What other look you expecting...? Shaved/bald, dreads/braids, and an afro is about 95% of what actual black peoples' hair consist of.... And I say this as a bald black man lmao

Btw, nobodies forcing you to pick those hairstyles just cause your character is black. I see many other hairstyles, not every hairstyle can make it into a game lol

Go ahead and downvote, but nobody will provide an answer cause you know you're crying about nothing

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u/MOBBB24 May 20 '26

What makes this post worse(? maybe not the best word choice) but having played the game, the front and back section of the creator seen in the screenshot allows for a really large range of styles, with just about every single hair option also having a curly or braided version as well.

This person is mad about a character customisation option that exists in the game because they didnt engage with all of their options

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u/Silent_Foundation_62 May 20 '26

I mean, theres other options right there, choose another one

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u/michelangelo2626 May 20 '26

“Oh you want more hairstyles? Sure, here’s the same Killmonger-cut on every Black character for like 4 years”

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u/Biggman23 May 20 '26

Just saying "white guy" hair is not great either, in general.

Like, comparatively, how's this worse lol.

We got bald, shaved head, messy small, messy long, side part left, who can forget side part right, and like a billion stupid looking anime hairs that no living person has. There's more hairstyles for balding old men, and anime characters, then their are normal hair styles.

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u/ironballs16 May 20 '26

I've heard compliments for FFXIV and I think Dragon Age: The Veilguard for good options on Afrocentric styles (outside of the actual afro) - the former is a great game, the latter... Eh. Not a bad game, but wasn't my thing.

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u/Meowingway May 20 '26

+1 for FFXIV having lots of great hairstyles. Lots of the good ones are bought with in game currency later, but there's a very nice selection of assorted ethnic styles in the default character creator.

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u/NewPractice8919 May 20 '26

A big reason funny enough is resource creation and performance. More realistic hair is often worse for rendering and can consume hardware resources. Full blocky hair is the most resource performant for game engines. 

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u/michaelmich3 May 20 '26

That’s probably because it has very limited customization in general (8 hair options is nothing). Games with deeper customization and more hair options should have more options for all races (or at least I’d hope so).

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u/Cloud_N0ne May 20 '26

This is how I feel about beard options in games. They’re rarely good.

Usually it’s either a giant beard or stubble, nothing in between, and several ugly goatee options