Rebecca Mayes Muses: The Mirror

[skyfire_freckles]

Thank you, Rebecca. This was awesome. I loved the video, and how images from games were interspersed with real actual people.

Aye that was a nice song.

Although, I concede that if everyone looked normal, it'd be a kind of boring game, or at least affect the over all feel of it.

How can a greater variety be boring? The whole point is that you get one beautiful/desirable shape, and every character must look like this. Regardless of hair color and clothing, having only one body shape (or a select few) is already boring. Variety would then make this aspect of gaming more interesting.

I lol'd when the lyrics went 'your beautiful' and a picture of the predalien from AVP popped up.

This made me smile too, but consider this: The only ugly things are the bad guys. Fat, nasty, flawed. While I agree that Darkspawn are icky, I know some very nice people who look a little like ogres.

I find it odd that you mentioned Space wizards 1&2, since they have customizable characters.
I managed to make my Shepard look like a less smiley, less handsome version of me.

Even the tools you can use to customize your character aren't enough. In the Sims, when you make your character overweight, women get big hips and men get big bellies. What about hippy men and top-heavy women? I and my husband both have funny lip shapes that aren't supported, and my niece's extremely outward-tilted eyes were impossible to make.

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

Beautiful and poignant. These just keep getting better and better.

Cheers!

 

[dududf]

Aye that was a nice song.

Although, I concede that if everyone looked normal, it'd be a kind of boring game, or at least affect the over all feel of it.

How can a greater variety be boring? The whole point is that you get one beautiful/desirable shape, and every character must look like this. Regardless of hair color and clothing, having only one body shape (or a select few) is already boring. Variety would then make this aspect of gaming more interesting.

Because a every teenager would wear a hoody, and would look normal, not out of the ordinary, not something to catch my eye.

It'd just be same ol' same ol'.

Video games should not strive to be as real life as possible, or else it'd suffer from the boringness of real life.

Would you like everyone in the age of 13-19 look like this?

No I'd rather something different, perhaps unusual.

I would want to play something that looked DIFFERENT from normal, it'd add some visual appeal to the game.

 

[RatRace123]

That was awesome, maybe Rebecca should do more songs about gaming culture as well as games.

A poignant (and incredibly catchy) message.

 

[Rhythm]

I really liked this one. Lovely lyrics.

Thank you for brightening my day ^^

 

[Wandrecanada]

Beautiful song. It reminds me of the feelings that your Sims video elicited.

PS: Kudos to the male harem dance troupe!

 

[capacollo]

Well said. and nice tune ....

 

[Pills_Here]

That was a fucking wonderful song. I think Rebecca Mayes just made my list of female musicians who I'm secretly in love with (right after Liz Enthusiasm).

 

[Criquefreak]

Can we give her an award for this? Or maybe use this video in a Clockwork Orange-esque plot involving video game development firms, because this point really needs to be more enforced. Yes, I understand the budget constraints and many other complexities involved in making games, but I am so beyond tired of having to play as 'men with boobs' or characters more suited to a job in a strip joint than a contributor to a quest to save the world.

 

[Samcanuck]

You Rebecca are a beautiful person. In personality and outlook. Great song.

 

[DevTrek]

I'll tell you what's beautiful: Rebecca Mayes!
Seriously though, a fine composition. I agree with what has been said plenty before, but do think it should be recognized that Hollywood perpetrates the "perfect looking body everywhere" at least as much as gaming. It's a part of the escapist (wink wink) nature of media. Still, it'd be nice for the message that you don't have to look perfect to be interesting, fun, and entertaining to get out there a little more.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I wish her songs were available to download from somewhere.

 

[tendo82]

If Beth Orton and Dido made video game review songs I have to imagine they'd sound something like Rebecca Mayes.

 

[LTK_70]

Holy crap. One song that's not about a specific game and it turns out to be a statement about physical character portrayal in games. That was amazing.

 

[Firmanter]

I think this is my favourite so far, completely took me off guard. Bloody brilliant. Cheers very much from a fellow west country inhabitant.

 

[Chunko]

I think this is one of the best ones yet. Keep up the good work.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Catchy and definitely truthful in it's message. The video was in some ways a little cliche though given the subject matter.. even if I wouldn't have had any better ideas myself.

 

[martin's a madman]

5 stars!

6 stars. I win.

 

[ghostrider409895]

How do you decide if you are good enough? Is it the judgment of your neighbors and the comments of your friends? Is it conforming to society, becoming a plastic copy of everyone else in the world?
The true measure of you is to look in the mirror. You have to like yourself; because that is the one person you are always with. Sometimes even when the whole wide world is just putting you down, you cant back down. You have to say to yourself that I am enough, and that is enough for me.

 

[LorChan]

+ 1 Million awesome points and an internet to Rebecca
Just... true. I have little to say, but I can agree. Breaking the mold doesn't make you ugly.