There are a lot of games I won’t play because they over sexy the female armor to the point it’s just laughably unrealistic and negatively distracting.
I love seeing sexy women, don’t get me wrong, like Aloy always had the midriff-exposing gear skin on so I could see her belly during conversations, but that gear was still practical. Maybe risky for one of the more vulnerable areas, but something I could see existing irl.
Fanservice games that over-sexy the women just scream “this game isn’t very good and is banking on teen/ya boys being horny”. Not a good look.
Counterpoint: “NieR: Automata”
There’s a tradeoff between sexiness and realism, and different people like different amounts of armor best. I like fanservice in general, but I’ve certainly seen “armor” that even I think is going too far.
They’re banking on more than it being just teen/ya boys.
It’s interesting how people scrutinise every inch of female armor but if a male barbarian is wearing a loincloth in snow nobody cares, if a Knight wears plate armor with abs nobody cares, gladiator wears nothing except for waist armor and shoulder pads nobody cares.
I don’t think people are usually complaining about female barbarians being half naked. But when you have a guy in plate so heavy that you can’t see him under it standing next to a girl in a metal bikini and they’re supposed to be the same class, that’s pretty weird.
Almost like old-school Fantasy was grognarded by grogs with nards. (Sorry, Grog, you’re orders of magnitude better than your forebears — and, yes, of course Critter’s “better than four bears!”)
Hasnt been common for years, at least on western RPGs
Generally that’s still aimed at the male gaze, not the female gaze, hence it’s not actually having the shoe on the other foot.
Oh yes, girls dont play God of War, forgot that
At first I thought it was a magic tabard that lets you see through the armor.
You could us Sequester to make your armor (or select parts of it) invisible until damaged. And armor doesn’t generally take damage. But it costs 5,000 gp per cast. At least it doesn’t cost XP like in 3.5.
There’s just something about an armored woman…
I prefer my snusnu barbarians.
I like Dark Souls armor. You can’t even tell it’s a girl in there. Then again, some of the men look and sound like women and barely have anything on. Like Gwyndolin.
…you have my attention.
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