Yes, Female Armour Is Somewhat Inadequate
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Ohhh, right in the shiny part!
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I literally loled at that point.
What do you want Luke Plunkett? Do you want the women to sacrifice mobility and end up getting killed?
That’s it isn’t it, you hate women and want them all to die?
I thought as such.
I really wish whomever is incharge of art design would grow up and realise that “Sexy” and “Slutty” aren’t the same thing.
The speed they gain from the conservative design helps them capitalise on the distraction said design causes in their enemies.
To quote Garrus Valkarian, “I had reach, she had flexibility.”
I’ve always had a problem with the ridiculous ways armour is depicted on the female form.
Cliched as hell, they’ll run around in a fur bikini with maybe a crotch plate or steel bra.
Why is it so hard for designers to see a fully tanked up female warrior is hella hot?
And the Japanese are worse! Always the same “cute” design! And voice acting!! Gaaaaargh!!!
ANDERI ANGRY! ANDERI SMASH! NOW ANDERI TIRED…
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Japanese men (for the most part) prefer submissive and ‘innocent’ girls, which is why their voice actors deliberately use high pitched voices and sound like 12 year olds. And heavens alive if you let them get hit in combat, because they’d make a sound like they’re being raped by their parents’ murderer.
Dragon Age has done reasonably well on the armour front, not letting “design” choices get in the way of things like… protection.
ME however, decided that “unique” female looks (Jack especially) are more important than say, practical combat kit.
But then again, just about every MMO out there has their share of scantily clad women of all species, armour or no.
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Female Hawke is pretty sensible. But serial offenders like WoW with the infamous boob armour defy reason. Yes. They made specially crafted boob slots out of steel where realistically any sword or lance would conveniently slide right into the cleavage and crush the sternum.
If I cant beat the angry spider monkey in my pants while playing, i aint interested…
Seriously though, as an artist myself I cannot bring myself to draw cheesecake because it doesnt make real worl sense.
Also, I killed off Ashley in Mass Effect.
I’ve always said that if I have to look at my character’s bum for an extended period of time, I may as well enjoy it…
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That was the reason Tomb Raider has a female lead.
The first Tomb Raider was originally to have a male character.-
See the TVTropes page for a heap of examples: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainmailBikini
I’m trying to think of examples of games which DO use practical armour (aside from Mass Effect/Dragon Age), but I’m struggling. Arena Net stated that Guild Wars 2 will have armour designs to suit ‘both tastes’, I guess that’s *something*.
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This, In every game that has the option to play as a female character, I will pick it.
C’mon people. Rule of sexy here.
I want my game chicks to be hot and semi naked!
Im not here to argue the wrong right of this. But surely developers do what most people want? And if people dont want it… they wont buy it. That said if the majority of people want something else, its up to game developers to do that and of course thats what Developers DO do, cause its what makes them money.
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Well said.
Vid was hilarious and as a consumer I like my female chacters to be dressed in skimpy outfits =) -
Thing is that most people don’t buy the games because the female characters are in skimpy clothing, we buy them for the plot or gameplay. Some people consider the skimpy clothing a bonus, some a detriment, I’d really like to see a well conducted survey on this… I’m a bit curious as to the results. Personally it depends on the character for me, if a woman is a warrior I’d rather them be armored appropriately, if its an enchantress or something similar then sexier clothing works well. Additionally, having a mix allows for another way to character build.
I’m all for both genders being able to have the sexy armour/practical armour. Take Bloodrayne, just wouldn’t be the same if she was wearing armour. Admitedly, I can’t think of a male example, but if it did happen (Don’t say Duke =P), I wouldn’t mind.
It’s kind of amusing that a woman running around in very little armour always brings out a big discussion but you throw a male barbarian running around in a fur loincloth into a game and everyone is cool with it. Or how about the “Pirate Pete” look with the shirt that reveals half of a guy’s chest with his tight emo pants? Dante certainly didn’t get any flak for running around bare chested in DMC 3. The Prince of Persia did a very slow undress over the course of Sands of Time and everyone was cool with that. Solid Snake has a very tightly molded camouflage suit that we don’t complain about.
I think us males should start protesting against shirtless men in games and stand up for men’s lib! Besides, I don’t want to play as someone that looks better than I do.
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SHHH!!! Stop bringing the hypocrisy to light! XD
Ill take whatever shirtless men i can get in my games, and long live molded armor! Secretly pleasing to the female eye for years 😉
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Yeah, men are sometimes sexualised too – Dante in any DMC is a great example. Ladies certainly have no problem with that. However, how many sexualised female characters can you think of compared to men? And how many are fun and sexy, versus unrealistic outfit just for the sexy?
As a female gamer, I like good looking men in games. I also appreciate good looking female characters, and really have no problem with them pushing reality a little bit in order to get a sexier look. It’s just ridiculous when characters in combat are wearing stupidly useless clothing in terms of protection, all to expose more skin and look hotter.
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