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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 10 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.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

Counterpoint: "NieR: Automata"

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 7 points 10 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.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 21 points 10 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.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 32 points 10 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.

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 5 points 10 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!")

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Hasnt been common for years, at least on western RPGs

[–] Kanzar@lemmy.world 3 points 10 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.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Archpawn@lemmy.world 10 points 10 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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I prefer my snusnu barbarians.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

...you have my attention.

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Zoowemama regular armor