Nothing says quality gameplay by assuring people that you don’t have to worry about actually playing! The game plays itself while you’re not playiing!
But it comes coupled with reassurances that if you do deign to actually learn to play their game, there’ll be more boobs.
Oh well, at least this bizarre combination of bikini armor, promises of gameplay and promises that you don’t need to play is unique right…
Oh…
– wincenworks
Freya from Battlerite totally proves this is a very creative game… she’s such an original Viking/Norse lady with her flimsy bikini top, two Mjolnirs and horned headpiece totally not similar to what Marvel’s Loki wears in their female form.
Gotta say, though, from waist down the design would be fine… too bad the artists are firmly in the club of designers who think that Vikings invented either the bikini or metal boob cups.
~Ozzie
If New Exiles taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t design a character’s costume where it looks like you forgot to give them a bra and just scribbled on two gold discs at the last second and that you shouldn’t wait until your second last issue to break out imagery like this:
– wincenworks
@edgion-the-great submitted:
Some ‘beauties’ from Game of War: Fire Age.
Male armour thrown in for comparison >_>
Also the top left one has that weird metal armour that moves with her as she breathes (And when she breathes her boobs expand)
Game of War – because why have design quality when you can just have the most expensive ad campaigns and create a game where the main source of revenue is letting the richest 1-3% bully the other players.
– wincenworks
It’s kind of worrying that there’s literally a “publisher” on steam who seems to be signing on indie developers trying to get their first break in games with but only if the can put ridiculously sexualized armor on the art.
Yes, we’ve featured Storm of Spears and The Chosen before, but at least their cover art seemed to have something to do with their content – this one doesn’t even seem to have women as gladiators… just male warriors and women servant/people who agree to marry you.
Still got to have bikini armor though, otherwise how will people know it’s about gladiator stuff? Well, the good news it seems this strategy is working about as well as you’d expect… even though though they keep returning to it.
– wincenworks
@3dphoto submitted:
The two “android investigators” available as KS exclusives look strangely dissimilar.
More fun here (see “Diver”): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diemensiongames/deep-madness
(it’s a co-op board game, which comes closest to “RPS” in your tag list. Mayebe time to add a “board game” tag?)
We received this submission a while ago but wanted to wait until the Kickstarter had expired. Not only is this game a textbook example of double standards, it’s also a textbook example of the creativity we see in so many of these productions:
The canonical blonde Black Widow is Yelena Belova and a completely different person to Natasha Romanov (played by Scarlett Johansson in the movies) and looks, almost exactly like this model:
So I’m not sure if they just outright stole or if they had the some genius idea for how to make them “totally different” that Marvel did. Either way, she’s still a better design than the fore-mentioned “the Diver”:
Even there shameless Ripley rip-off has to have boobsocks:
And the worst part is, based off the default Investigators that come with the game’s most basic package – it looks like they started with an intention to make all the designs actually just… be good.
I guess somewhere along the way they got led astray by Creepy Marketing Guy and lost in an old myth with no basis in reality.
– wincenworks
(Also in response to the suggestion in this submission, we’re now using the tag “tabletop games” for all board games, tabletop wargames and the like.)
Okay, so Titan Brawl is really perplexing to me because on one hand I have to say it looks like they’ve made a knock off a knockoff…. hurrah for creativity.
But for the mini-gun wielding heavy… I feel like there was almost an attempt at diversity here, but that it was so poorly executed that it seems more like the result of using a spinner than any attempt to plan a design.
– wincenworks
In case someone would think last week’s Zombicide Paolo Parente expansion bingos were unusually sexist for the game, here’s another bikini warrior from an expansion by a different guest artist, Neil Adams.
To be completely fair, Zombicide expansions are a huge mixed bag when it comes to creativity. Mark Simonetti’s one, for example, features three great female character designs:
While Edouard Guiton’s has a non-sexualized lady next to a sexualized one:
And those are only a few examples from the medieval fantasy-themed Black Plague option for Zombicide.
This game, no matter the version, is sure to provide us both with bingo material and positive examples for future posts. No sexy male heroes so far, though.
~Ozzie