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@cypheroftyr (twitter | twitch | @ineeddiversegames) provided some screenshots of Eliza, the pre-order bonus character from Tekken.

Apparently they feel that this sort of thing will encourage people to pre-order, even though they’re planning on making her available, apparently as paid DLC, a mere 30 days after release. 

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Clearly they think highly of their target demographic.

– wincenworks 

Of course! Absolutely generic pale lady with no unique characteristics other than horns (do any of her features convey that she’s a vampire?) is so totally worth paying upfront for game to make her playable for free! 

Legit business strategy right there.

~Ozzie

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robertskitch submitted (and Ozzie bingo’d):

Hi, I was playing ’Lost Lands: A Hidden Object Adventure’ (a free-to-play game on Steam) and thinking that one of the characters had armour that wasn’t exactly practical, but then I came across this gem where the character actually comes out and says it. 

It’s okay though. She gave me a quest where I had to get her a helmet and shield to make up for all that…

Yet another hidden object game with a disappointingly bingo-worthy costume… Pretty sure she’ll stab herself to death if she as much as leans down. 

You know guys, if you want to have a fetch quest related to ridiculousness of female armor in games, maybe treat it with humor like Borderlands 2 did? Not with the “we know that you know that we know how awful her bikini armor is, so maybe instead of us fixing it, you go find her a shield and a helmet?” attitude. 

And as a cherry on top, she’s just another female archer clad in green boobplate. Gee, haven’t seen that before*, how creative! 

~Ozzie

*Yes, that green archer lady trope is so prevalent I gave it its own tag.

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cheezbuckets:

lindira:

Fantasy does NOT have to follow real world rules. Fantasy does NOT have to relate to some real world event, country, concept, law, or history. Fantasy does NOT have to mirror any particular time period or country, even if you’re basing your world on a real world one. There is NO SUCH THING as “historical accuracy” in fantasy as it relates to the real world.

THE ONLY THING Fantasy has to do to be believable is follow the established rules OF ITS OWN WORLD. Fantasy can literally be anything you imagine it to be.

If your fantasy world excludes people of color or those belonging to the LGBT+ community, if it’s grossly misogynistic and white cis-male centric, that’s because YOU made it that way. Stop blaming “historical accuracy” or “believability”. It’s not the genre; it’s YOU.

@bikiniarmorbattledamage I believe this is highly relevant to the rhetoric you guys often combat.

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Indeed all of this relates to all the stuff we talk about on BABD.

In the same vein, “that’s how this particular fantasy setting works” is just as bad excuse for gross in-story stuff as “that’s the way real world was once”. 

Ultimately, no matter the justifying rhetoric, it’s the creative decisions that will be under scrutiny, not some superficially “objective” rules regarding a fictional setting.

~Ozzie

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Weekly Livestream #8

So I totally did not finish the entire planned redesign of the Oracle from Paladins, to nobody’s surprise (but to my sadness) so I’ll be continuing that.

As usual, tune in to https://www.twitch.tv/icysketchbook on Saturday at 9 AM PST.

-Icy

Similar case here. I didn’t manage to refine my take on Angela, so the next drawing session will be commited to touching up/changing parts that could be done better. 

See me at https://www.twitch.tv/ozziescribbler, Sunday 10 am CEST.

~Ozzie