i am actually So Angry at the forum topic about female armor being “too concealing” lmfao
women don’t exist for you to ogle even in video games! shut the fuck up! 🙂
So… against my better judgement I went looking and I found this thread. In which the author proposes he’s not satisfied with the many existing options in clothing (even though you can literally just wear the armor on top and tell the game to make it invisible) and nobody understands what he’s asking for.
Probably because what he asks for shifts constantly as he gets more and more negative feedback from people pointing out how absurd his request is. The two pics on the left are early examples of what he’s asking for, the two pics on the right are modifications to pics of armor he’s done to illustrate what he means. See if you can spot any differences:
This is not to propose that he’s an evil mastermind that planned this all along, but rather that ridiculous armor, particularly ridiculously revealing female armor, has become so institutionalized in pop culture that people literally do not see the absurdity of these requests or even consider that maybe the whole premise if flawed.
So general unhelpfulness of thinking that not on the same level of Tera Online is going to reassure anyone; it’s pretty terrifying that we live a world where people genuinely think all armour should show off skin.
I was coming of Fable and feeling pretty good about playing a female character that could look and be whatever, however, and whereever I wanted, and needed a new RPG.
Oh, this Lost Odyssey thing is supposed to be pretty awesome.
Hey it even looks like there’s a chick on the cover. Let’s take a look at the characters…. oh.
God, this requires a bingo. This is one of the most ridiculous costumes I’ve ever seen.
The other women on the main cast don’t fare much better, although nothing is as WTF as that.
This one looks relatively bearable… until you see it from behind.
Here, have a random boob window!
And just to make us feel all fuzzy inside, here’s a sexualized child:
I decided not to buy the game.
The most horrifying thing about this game is that it was published by Microsoft exclusively on the X-Box 360, that’s the forerunner to the X-Box One – a console that’s for the WHOLE FAMILY to enjoy!
While checking up on this game I didn’t find a single mention by a professional reviewer about the costumes or the worrying sexualization of a child – but I did find a refreshingly honest review by a user on MetaCritic (of all places), here’s the most important part:
That is not to say there aren’t some definite no-nos (blackface, cosplaying inherently offensive characters, cosplaying something raunchy at a family event, etc), but I can absolutely nothing wrong with wearing a non-character specific costume intended for a gender other than your own.
