So, I decided to try out @bikiniarmorbattledamage‘s female armor bingo. Here we have Headhunter Nidalee from League of Legends, a purchasable customization for the champion Nidalee (who doesn’t have a single non-sexualized appearance option available). Above is the splash art, and below is her in-game model.
She’s supposed to be a badass shapeshifting assassin, and while her cougar form captures this, her human form most certainly does not.
Note the spine-breaking pose, the ridiculous top, and the loincloth.
(Cue “But it helps with her agility!”)
A perfectly timed reminder of why we’re so excited about the
Illaoi, the Kraken Priestess. Hopefully she reflects a shift in Riot’s art direction.
– wincenworks
So, speaking of games that claim questionable links to mythology, War Gods was a game which didn’t even bother to look into mythology during character designs.
Who produced this tacky Mortal Kombat ripoff? Right up to getting the same model as Sonja Blade? Midway, the same major development studio that made Mortal Kombat!
– wincenworks
I never got around to bingo-ing the Amazon from Dragon’s Crown, seeing as:
a) her anatomy and posing are a MUCH more noticeable issue (hence she’s been featured on @eschergirls frequently)
b) her outfit is a very plain (if gravity-defying) scalemail (?) bikini
But seeing as we brought some new attention to that character with a post on a figure that makes all the problems with her design tangible and 3-dimensional, I figured “why not?”. At the very least we’ll learn how much a generic, non-fancy bikini armor scores on average.
I checked “Looks nothing like male version of the same outfit”, because while there are obviously no male Amazons, her male playable equivalent, the Fighter, wears a full suit of armor, including a helmet that obscures his bishounen face. If they were equals, he’d look closer to this:
(artwork courtesy of invaluable @psdo )
Guess that’s my second Dragon’s Crown Bingo this month, oh well. Both those designs are terrible in different areas.
~Ozzie
more Dragon’s Crown on BABD | more Female Armor Bingo on BABD
Last year a How Do I Armor? specifcally on leather armor, this year Skallagrim did a series of videos examining how a sample of the thickest, hardest leather available holds up against a variety of attack types. Including axes:
Crossbows:
Firearms:
Notably this leather he’s testing is extremely thick (6 millimeters, for perspective – leather used for saddles is usually only 4 to 5 millimeters thick). It can be dyed, painted, gilded and embossed, but it certainly can’t be sculpted into skin-tight body hugging fetish attire.
Well not without crushing, pinching and chaffing the wearer to death anyway.
– wincenworks
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
