A bit of my thoughts on Valeria's new design from the trailer. You don't have to agree with me, I doubt I will say anything groundbreaking, I just discussed it with a friend a little and decided that My Opinion Is Always So Awesome I Should Share It With the Class™ (no, I curse my tongue daily). Originally planned to post my thoughts on this with some Valeria art, but I'm about to graduate and I'm NOT ready at all so I have no time for drawing
for the screenshots thanks to other people on Tumblr. Also warning I'm not a native English speaker and I decided to mention it only when I realized I was putting too much commas everywhere again
Okay, I really like Valeria, like, I'm like a sponge trying to absorb all the possible information about her character. I can't just shit-talk about her for that reason, but damn, between 2nd and 4th game I'm picking the 2nd.
I feel like her getup got more practical, I can respect that, more prepared. The hair throws me off somewhat, to be honest, but from what I know slicked back hair is the norm for women in USA military, so logically it's so it won't be a liability in the battle. Unusual for me, a little bit isn't as pretty but an understandable choice!
As someone else said, not every character has to be a conventionally (hope that's the right spelling) attractive, and I agree. But with this design, feels like they tried to sit on both chairs. Yes, it's about her face. Can't say for sure how much they changed her features, I think I miiight have issues with face recognition, but my friend confirmed it and we agreed that she looks like someone straight outta Instagram story. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. But she's fully geared, obviously knows she will be fighting and sweating and shit and she's in full make up. Makes me want to make a video "GRWM for a war" with her taking a hour to apply it all on top of her gear.
Actually, I could understand her in make up like this, but not in this scenario. Cartel leader who has a bunch of money, can afford a lot, wearing make up in her daily life? Sure, not bad. But even in MW2 she was looking natural, and she was dressed quite casual in comparison, since from what I remember she wasn't that prepared to get her ass kicked. Now, she's fully geared up (again), ready to kick ass and possibly get hers kicked too, and she's in full motherfucking makeup. Girl, I understand you wanna die beautiful if anything, but seriously. At this point could have done your hair prettier then.
But there's one good detail I would like to mention, and it's her belt. I know many couldn't even recognize the new Valeria in the trailer, and I wasn't 100% sure myself, but I saw the belt and my doubts disappeared. Here it is, since it's not visible on the first screenshot
I just loooove that she has something you can clearly see it's her. Again, it's my opinion, but my fingers itch to make more art of her with this belt, I adore the shape, it gives me off some brutalism. Actually, I suck at fashion and genres and whatever, I know I can't describe it properly, but it's something that looks "heavy", not necessarily literally, and it makes me associate it with an occupation like Valeria's, something you would need a firm hand for. The skull on it is something worth to mention too, since it has ties to Mexican culture and looks cool in general.
She also still has her broken rosary on her! Pointing it out because I didn't even notice it at first. I'm just glad she has something from her old design on her <з I'm certain people discussed the meaning of broken rosary and the symbolism of it before, since it's not a new thing for Valeria, so I have nothing to add on this.
I crave the public approval and validation, so I'm launching this little poll in hope that people will agree with me.
In conclusion, I have mixed feelings about the new Valeria, and I had seen that many people do too, including the friend of mine when I showed them her MW2 look (they mentioned her cheekbones in the new trailer). I can guess some of the negative emotions come from the fact that it simply looks different from the old Valeria, but it's also understandable why the change is not appreciated. Maybe the change was just made in the wrong direction, maybe it just feels unusual. Maybe it's just ass, but I'm too afraid of being wrong to outright say it, sorry. Sorry. Don't throw tomatoes at me please.
[Upd.: I can't say the new Valeria looks ugly. No, she's beautiful, she looks more like her face model, but she looks different and people didn't recognize her at first. I think I forgot to mention it, it would be fine if it was a brand new character, but not Valeria. That's the issue.
I had seen someone mention that Price changed too and no one really cared, but for me it's the fact that Price still has his defining feature - his fucking beard that already covers a good chunk of his face. I recognised him easily. Valeria's defining features for me would be her face and her outfit. Both got changed, so people couldn't recognise her.
Personally, she doesn't look like she aged so I can't accept this argument? Looks more like she had a plastic surgery and definitely has a lot of make up on her face she doesn't need. So I feel like if her face looked more like it looked back before, it would be fine!
And, adding to my words about her looking more like her face model, whether it's bad or good. I don't think it's good that you can't recognise a character from the same franchise by their face, seriously. If you know what Valeria's VA looks like, you would understand that, yeah, it's her.
But the usual player shouldn't research the behind the scenes stuff just to know if that really is the same character and why it looks different. That just sucks if you have a story, a few games, and your player has to check the original VAs for information why the hell the characters changed so much and how you were supposed to know.]
New Valeria design: better or worse
Better
Worse
idgaf/see the results
Voting ended onJun 5
Huge gratitude to anyone who have read to the end and didn't throw me into the wood chopper, will be glad to hear your opinion too, even if it scares the shit out of me
I'm actually fucking clicking "post" with my hand over my heart because I'm THAT nervous I can not mention how stressed this made me for some reason
Korean location and story! (I'm into Korean pop culture and quite familiar with the vibe and it's so spot on)
New main character unlocked - Sergeant Jae.
New North Korean supreme leader, and it seems that his first agenda is invade South Korea and hauled ass to do it. (Backed by Makarov? He's said to be really young so he's gullible and easily influenced by Mak.)
This is an all-out invasion and might go into WWIII.
Saw a North Korean female officer looking for "a defector" in a North Korean village. It's giving the "Alone" mission ngl 👀.
Price is a fugitive after killing General Shepherd and doesn't care about the rules anymore. Soap's death hit him the hardest it seems 😔.
Price teams up with Valeria Garza. There was Laswell's voice saying that he's carrying a weapon "the kind we denied exists." He might use it against Makarov (?).
ALEJANDRO AND RUDY POTENTIALLY COMING BACK??
Laswell is certainly asking for Ghost and Gaz's help to STOP THIS MAN NOW.
Ghost vs Price I'm SITTING IN FEAR. Are we going to play as Ghost to fight Price or playing as Price to fight Ghost. I DON'T LIKE THIS I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS 😭😭😭😭
Ghost in his OG attire is BACK though!! He's so hot I can't--
Ghost's patch caught my eye. It's a British flag patch but with SAS's logo on it. Not the 141. TF141 might be disavowed like in the OG's.
In this month I've watched Inside Job twice I'm fucking obsessed. For now I'm holding back from ranting another shitty analysis of Ron x Reagan to my partner but I know I will do it soon
is there a term for anesthesia junkie because god I sure do love when I bite down the painkiller pill in two and it numbs my tongue and I love when I can't feel half of my face after a dentist appointment and when anesthetic ointment gives me that cold fresh feeling
Something something so romantic an sweet about haveing a usually cruel and cold f/o who stants above everyone else, and yet, takes care of u and showers you with affection, obly you. Liek you're speiceal.
Something something so romantic an sweet about haveing a usually cruel and cold f/o who stants above everyone else, and yet, takes care of u and showers you with affection, obly you. Liek you're speiceal.
Okk Shaw and Rights (not ship art ❌) 💗💗💗💗 I hope to draw Rights more but I can not draw her very well I am very sorry Rights… (I can only lock in for Shaw 😢😢😢) also Rights objectum canon trust trust she gave me a vision and told me to spread the word❗️❗️❗️💯💯💯
genuinely hit that level of boredom where I lost actual interest in everything and it makes me want to kms it's like a restlessness itching deep in my bones I desperately need a fixation on smth
I want a painkiller that completely numbs your body. Like a local anesthetic but in a pill and for your whole body. So it works on all pain from sore muscles to stomach ache. Please. I will sell my kidney for it.
looking at all the posts other yumes make with their ships and sighing really heavy. Might kms later because I wanna more pretty stuff with my ships too