Dat Asynja – Badass goddesses for the sexy gods
Remember Dat As, the sexy male Norse god pinup calendar we featured last year?
Well, it got a very appropriate female counterpart – one with Norse goddesses depicted at their most badass.
Full images can be found in the artist’s dA gallery here.
~Ozzie
Warhammer Total War 2: Dark Elf Sorceress
thenightmarerider submitted (and Ozzie re-bingo’d):
I was watching the Dark Elves trailer for Warhammer Total War 2. I heard a fantastic feminine narration over the the dark elf on the right kicking ass. Then it zooms out and shows that the feminine voice was actually the dark elf on the left.
No bingo, but damn is it ever terrible! I can just think of the many excuses people would have for this as well. “It’s just like the tabletop game!” or “Dark Elves are Sadomasochists!”Apparently only the female dark elves enjoy receiving and inflicting pain so much that they wear as little as possible? Yet another case where it would be more practical for a spellcaster to be naked.
https://youtu.be/zB6FaGBz0Lo Here’s the video link for the full trailer. It looked so amazing until the Sorceress came and spoiled it all!
It actually does get a bingo when treated with the most recent version of the game card! Let the dancing Vegeta commence!
Seeing this game’s penchant for big, silly headwear I wouldn’t be surprised if the defense for her armor was that the costume direction is “supposed” to be ridiculous… Amazing though how it always turns out to be the skimpy kind of ridiculous only for women.
~Ozzie
Jennifer Scheurle on Twitter
This whole thread is definitely worth reading for a better understanding of The Creepy Marketing Guy and why so many games, particularly in early campaigns, seem to rely on generic strategies like sex sells.
So the next time you see a promotion for a game that seems to focus entirely on boobs, butts and explosions then you can be sure that it’s because the marketing guys are getting paid for the campaign, not the sales of the game, and they probably got to interfere in the process of game development, messing with the original vision of the developers, to make that happen.
– wincenworks
Weekly livestream #14
Join us as we continue this week’s theme by attempting to fix some of the most shameful bikini barbarians (bikinirians?) we had on the blog!
As usual, we’re starting Saturday at 9 AM PST / 6 PM CEST
See you there!
~Ozzie & -Icy
How all male video game armor needs to be
The male armor video games really deserve!
…except why isn’t every link of that mail sticking to his skin as if it was painted on? What do you mean that’s how real materials work on real people?
GASP! Did all that sexy female armor art lie to me?
Naaah, it must be because that’s a masculine body. Clearly feminine anatomy is magnetic with empowerment. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
~Ozzie
h/t: @edwardyvette
Tidy Up Tuesday #68
A few subjects we addressed before:
- When is it okay to have a female character in less than practical or protective armor?
- Fallout 4
- The Sovereign Armor
- Pec/belly/butt window Superman
- Nipple cape Superman
- “Asia is a magical land where everyone’s okay with blatant sexism in media!” rhetoric
- Why any random muscular half-naked warrior does not yet count as a counterbalance to sexualized half-naked warrior ladies
~Ozzie, – wincenworks & -Icy
R.I.P. Bingo.
Ah, Kanpani Girls, how we missed you. It’s been over a year since we last saw you, and you certainly have gotten…. sigh. Even though her heels aren’t that tall, it pisses me off that they added heels to historically flat footwear. I’m sure they help with agility or something. I also filled in “random patches of skin uncovered” because there was actually effort put in into showing some stomach. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Did we mention this game has “defeated” sprites for its eyecandy mercenaries?
But this is a deep strategy game, you guys. Very Serious Business. Especially with how the game actually looks:
Man, that brown and red outfit sure reminds me of something…
Original Character™
do not steal.
-Icy