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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Counterpoint: "NieR: Automata"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

They're banking on more than it being just teen/ya boys.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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!")

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Hasnt been common for years, at least on western RPGs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh yes, girls dont play God of War, forgot that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's just something about an armored woman...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I prefer my snusnu barbarians.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

...you have my attention.

[–] therealjcdenton 2 points 11 months ago

Zoowemama regular armor