Horizon Fans Can't Believe How Short Aloy Is in PSVR2

I'm very tall myself so I wasn't too surprised but yeah, she's definitely not very tall and I'm guessing the protagonist is

I noticed but I'm about 6'3" so it's not out of the ordinary to me, plus there's lots of people taller than me lol

She seems about right to me. I’m 6’4” and my wife is 5’6” and Alloy is a similar height. Bit of a coincidence seeing as I’ve just met Alloy in the game for the first time just now

I just started Call of the Mountain, and holy crap what an amazing looking game. I regularly find myself just staring at random things, like the fabric of a character’s clothing or the vines on a wall. I haven’t met Alloy yet, but when I do I hope she doesn’t think I’m staring because she’s vertically challenged.

Player: "Hi, I'm The Mountain."

@KaijuKaiser Maybe you are statistically more likely to read PushSquare if you are 6'3" or over 🤷‍♂️

I'm also 6'4 and my wife is 5'3 so that's probably pretty accurate. Hopefully get to play this at some point In the future!

So she's a short-neck then?

Yeah, is the main character meant to be taller? I'm 5'6'', so seeing her be shorter would definitely maker seem just tiny to me, especially in the main character is supposed to be over 6ft. She'd look under 5ft then.

Just commenting to let everyone know I'm 7'9"

i'm 7'6 and she looks small

I think Aloy is super cute, a trillion times sexier and cuter than RE8 LadyD. I can never understand the Internet sometimes, saying Aloy is to fat and ugly, then the next minute saying Lady D from RE8 is sexy, I don't get it

@Jey887 I too am over 6ft 3 🧐🤔

She's a lot taller than I thought she was!

Sounds about right for aloy.im 6 feet 1.and its all gravy..word up son

I can't believe there's an official article for this. I thought I was the only one that noticed this! She's not just short, all her features just seem tiny. Which makes sense with her acrobatics that she'd be built with a gymnasts physique, but I never pictured Aloy to be a munchkin from her 2D adventures, lol. It's one of those "never meet your heroes" moments, all thanks to VR!

I had an impression from main games that she’s short so no surprise for me. It fits her character as well.

@KeldorTheCursed Preach. I'm 6'2". I'm the shortest male on my dad's side of the family (but the tallest on my mom's). My entire friend group,... we're all over 6' save for one of us who is 5'10"-ish. (One of us is 6'5".)

I was always used to being the "big" guy and for whatever reason, my work place has LOADS of tall guys. At least 2 people I work directly with are over 6'5". It's great. I love feeling tiny some times. Lol

Graphics look like a bad ps3 game. Pass.

She is not a bad height for a woman if indeed she is 5 feet 6 inches. That is actually above average for her gender if I am correct.

And since everyone is doing it, I am 5 feet 11 inches. Thus, I am nothing special

It might be the tall protagonist but she doesn't look 5'6 in this game, she looks more like 5'1 tops.

@Bricktop33 That's why VR has a hard time selling to anyone who hasn't tried it. A 2D picture of a 3D game just doesn't show you what the game actually looks like, and the perspectives are distorted because they're "distorted" in 2D renders because they're intended to be seen in stereo. This, Kayak VR, and (from what I hear ResE8) are some of the best looking VR games available. This game, while it has flaws, is truly stunning in real stereo, but how do you convey that with a 2D image that doesn't look like a "bad PS3 game"? You really can't.

@KaijuKaiser

I’m 5ft 10in.

I’m average height for an American male.

@Eadgar

That’s about right for an average American woman.

I think the true average is 5ft 5in these days for American women anyway.

I like reading about average heights from different time periods. During World War II the average American soldier (which was pretty representative of American men at large due to the massive numbers conscripted) was 5ft 8inch.

Which means as a people we have grown two inches in height. Since the average now is 5ft 10in.

Thank God I hit 5ft 10in. I’m average instead of below average. Still doesn’t help on dating sites though. A lot of women won’t even look your way if you’re below 6ft 1in. But I’m the idiot who is overly honest on my page. I just hate being dishonest.

@KaijuKaiser

Depends on the part of the world they are from.

If they were all Japanese at that height I would be questioning their honesty.

But considering the Western world’s height average now, it’s fully believable. Since as the average height goes up the height of “above average” goes up.

6ft + fellows belittling themselves, I see what you’re doing I’ll just big up myself then and we can call it even

Just a 6'2" short arse here 😂

@KaijuKaiser haha best post I’ve seen in a while

I am sure I wasn't the only one who tried to grope her haha

Among trying to slap numerous characters

@Bricktop33 yeah OK.....so you've not played it then

This is the problem, you notice these things more when you play in VR. I'm four hours in and I'm beginning to think they aren't real dinosaurs.

@Bricktop33 I would love see the PS3 that managed these graphics and graphics are half a small part of the complete experience.

@NEStalgia Yeah, people tend to forget that in VR you literally see twice the resolution compared to these images, because there's one going in either eye. The output to the TV is only one of them, because the system isn't going to allocate more computing power towards producing a better looking picture for the telly.

No offense, but anybody that thought Aloy was tall just because of her actions in both games is a bit off their rocker. It's quite obvious she's not a tall girl in the games, as several of the characters are taller than she is when she is talking to them.

Since we're going that route now (haha), my wife is 5'4". She fits right under my chin during a hug like we're Legos 😆 I'm American if that makes any difference. I don't always feel tall because there's several customers that come into my store that a quite a bit taller than me. Must be something in the water 😆

But yeah, I never thought Aloy was taller than average. She was almost always shorter than the characters she would talk to in the games.

@Octane Yep, half resolution, and distorted perspective. If only 3d tv caught on, selling vr would have been much easier lol. It's just impossible to tell people how great it looks from awful 2d images. Even if you ARE a VR fan watching 2d images inside the hmd is can be hard to get a feel for what it REALLY looks like... I saw a 4x6 picture of the grand canyon once. Always thought it would be bigger.

@Gremio108 But the animatronics are so believable!

@KeldorTheCursed that makes total sense assuming your store is court side at Madison Square lol

@NEStalgia I promise it's not 😆

Hey Siri, what are all of the abovementioned heights in metric? 😅

I’m a 181cm Aussie here is all I know… 📏

Everyone looks smaller in VR. It's the same for people.
You need to see how porn looks on VR. 😂

As surprising as it is, I'm more surprised by how many tall people comment on this website. I should know I'm 8' tall

@Nem We all have PSVR here. Did you mean: beams of light?

i’m 6ft 1000 , i broke the average internet guys height record

Apparently i am 6'5. I didnt know that (1,96 in normal measurements )
She didnt look extraordinary small to me as almost everyone looks like that to me

@Bricktop33 In the headset the game looks better than horizon zero dawn on ps4 to me, and better than shadow of the tomb raider or jedi fallen order. It clearly surpassed ps4 quality in my opinion. Though, the background (images) are a bit washed out. Not sure whether that is an artistic choice (e.g. to make the foreground stick out), or whether that is to avoid aliasing.

@Fath ...I am the seeeee. You can't take that away from meeee....

@OrtadragoonX Don't feel bad about your height, there's plenty women out there that don't care. Dating sites are shallow af in general, see that more as a sidequest without expecting anything. I'm 5'8' and never had a girl turn me down for it. Not saying I have top tier looks or mad game or anything but I've been around. If I got rejected, it was usually for my personality, but that's a whole other story lol.

this brings up an interesting point that I'd never really considered for VR - partly because I don't own a VR headset but even if I did, I'm fairly tall. Should there be some sort of "tallness setting" in VR games as standard? Just feels like people should be able to have the camera at their desired height if that's what they want (so that people can see their VR games from a familiar perspective, but also so they can see them from another perspective if they prefer). It doesn't even seem like it'd be that much effort, it's literally just a setting for "camera height while standing" - possibly character scaling too.

Then again, I'm not a game dev so this whole comment might be a load of rubbish

I just wanted to grab her by the hip and lift her up for some strange reason

What is this, an Aloy for ants?

@danlk1ng A lot of games do have that. I can't think of which ones right now, but I've seen several, Star Wars is one of them, so I think it's just a dev thing, for if their world is meant to be seen from a specific angle.

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