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eschergirls:

red-queen-on-the-heathen-throne submitted:

This is the Gunslinger class image from Revelation Online. A guy in a
Guild Wars 2 Facebook group recommended this. Why, I don’t know, there
is zero resemblance to GW2 here.

…on second thought, GW2 also has centaurs, at least. And guns, I
guess? But at least when GW2 does boob armour, both sides are the same
size, and no-one in Tyria has sticks for arms. How does she hope to fire
anything with THAT stance and THOSE arms? And why is her head so small?
To match the tiny top hat? Why anything in this picture? ôO

For bonus hilarity, the German version of the site translated her
class as “Scharfschütze” -> “sharpshooter”. Someone looked at this
and thought “yep, that’s what a proper sniper looks like”.

And they were so proud of her, they used her as the header image,
too. I think? It’s a little hard to tell, to be honest, the faces look
nothing alike, the guns seem to have turned from weirdly thin shotguns
to some sort of flintlock pistol, and those ridiculous shoes are a bit
distracting.

She’s less a centaur woman than an emu woman.  Maybe this game is meant as a dramatization of the Great Emu War*?

*yes this is an actual thing

I’m not sure what part find most amazing… that they seem to have tried to spin this costume into quasi-steampunk without adding goggles and pointless cogs (how is that hat staying on her head?) or that she is, by far, not the most ridiculously clad class option:

They didn’t remember to give the “Swordmage” a sword.

– wincenworks

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Allegedly this is a comic based off the Mars Attacks property… you know the one where our world, the one we live in, is invaded by whacky aliens?

Yeah, it seems that the comics don’t really care for that whole “relate to our world” angle and instead want to blend whacky aliens with cliche comic costumes and over-sized swords.

Interestingly, in the very first page the protagonist’s “dream” shows in a far less sexualized costume… I sense the meddling of Creepy Marketing Guy.

– wincenworks

Wasn’t Mars Attacks born out of love for 50s horror movies and comics, especially schlocky ones and keeps referencing the 50s/60s aesthetic? This costume here isn’t even a reference to that era of sexism in depiction of women. It’s just random “gritty” late 90s/early 2000s-style black leather and random straps thing.

Saddest part, it’s still an improvement regarding how the comics in the franchise looked in the 90s, around the time Tim Burton’s movie adaptation came out:

~Ozzie

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You guys like horror stories right? I’ve got one for you.

Once upon a time, in a video game development studio that had a fairly hefty publisher, they were making a game pitched as a serious dungeon crawler RPG game and their executives signed off on all these designs.

And the scariest part is… it’s all true.

– wincenworks

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Since League of Maidens is such a creative game*, I decided to bingo their obviously most original character, Wonder Woman, I mean Wendor Wamon, I mean Athena (wut, another one?).

Putting the question mark on No head protection, because of how small and unhelpful in fight that tiara is and on Boob window, as the straps between her boobplate and necklace do form a window of sorts.

~Ozzie

*Even their name is totally creative, evoking similarity to League of Legends, League of Angels as well as Justice League (well, they do shamelessly ripoff DC and Marvel heroines)… Though it seems no-one in their marketing team checked what search results “League of Maidens” tends to give first. Or maybe somehow they’re just okay with being associated with Nazis, who knows?