Mischief Maker wrote:

From the Insomnia.ac review of GTA4:

What bothered me right away about this game, from the very first trailer, was the protagonist: an ugly East European thug with a disgusting accent. I just could not see myself spending 20+ hours controlling him. I am physically unable to play videogames as an ugly character (and this includes fighting games, something which puts me at an immediate disadvantage, since half the character roster in the typical fighting game is usually beyond repulsive). It's not just the fact that I am good-looking and would therefore have trouble identifying with an ugly character -- even if I were ugly I'd want to control handsome characters (or at least I think I would -- do ugly people identify better with ugly characters? -- a question for the artfags.)