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Knight Online is, according to its Steam page, a groundbreaking MMO about the eternal struggle between humans and orcs. WOW, much groundbreaking indeed!
About as groundbreaking as having browser ads with a lady in ridiculous boob armor with lots of exposed parts right next to a guy in a huge, intimidating and completely covering armor. No-one must havedonethatbefore! This game so clearly is a product of unrestrained creative freedom!
Um… I guess at least they’re consistent with their shameless terribleness?
Obviously, all the effort that came into creating such original game (which was in development allegedly for a decade) will be repayed with tremendous popularity, right?
~Ozzie
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Knight Online is, according to its Steam page, a groundbreaking MMO about the eternal struggle between humans and orcs. WOW, much groundbreaking indeed!
About as groundbreaking as having browser ads with a lady in ridiculous boob armor with lots of exposed parts right next to a guy in a huge, intimidating and completely covering armor. No-one must havedonethatbefore! This game so clearly is a product of unrestrained creative freedom!
Um… I guess at least they’re consistent with their shameless terribleness?
Obviously, all the effort that came into creating such original game (which was in development allegedly for a decade) will be repayed with tremendous popularity, right?
~Ozzie
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I believe the second image was submitted to BABD ages ago and I never got around to come up with commentary.
The thing is, Codename: Kids Next Door, as a cartoon with a silly premise played up to 11, has a sense of self-awareness.
Not so much in fantasy/sci-fi settings that otherwise take themselves seriously.
Another advantage KND’s bra armor has over all that “mature” media that has battle bikinis? Boys wear it too, boobplate and all.
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Meg Foster’s costume weighed a reported 45 lbs., and the actress sustained bruises to her groin from the breastplate she wears throughout the film. Constructed of fiberglass, Foster has said the breastplate restricted her movements a great deal, which is why Evil-Lyn is never show sitting during the film. Foster as also said that the discomfort from the costume helped inform her performance, as the weight and design of the costume forced her to puff out her chest during every take, thus generating the character’s slinky posture.
But people assure us that designs like this are totally practical for real armor…
While Rebecca’s cheerleader outfit seems like a terrible idea during a bio toxic zombie outbreak, I think we can all agree that Billy is empowered for the job
I’ve logged on into my steam account, got a link to the new Resident Evil’s pre-order page with this picture in it, and… May we discuss how refreshing it is to see a girl getting a normal (albeit a tad short) cheer leader costume, and a beefy dude getting this ridiculous belt bikini for his impressive pecs? I don’t really follow this franchise, but if there’s more of this in it, it may be worth following.
While it is nice that the RE guys remembered there is a definite demand for empowered men, it’s kind of telling that they had to give him that over the top gun to remind people “just because he’s sexy, doesn’t mean he’s not badass”… meanwhile Rebecca is literally Capcom’s cheerleader and merchandise model.
It plays in the late middle ages and it’s about “fixing” the mistakes that your ancestor made after fooling around with eldritch knowledge. It’s pretty hard, your heros are basically a bunch of dirty jerks with lots of bad quirks and they go insane as often as they die in the dungeons (And they don’t get up once they’re dead).
The game is dark, but it has a pretty neat art style and cool mechanics! You have 14 classes and big chunk of them are female. The classes above this text are all the female classes in the game (Yes, even the plague doctor) and they wear pretty neat armors! You can change their skin and armor color at any time but there are also classes who are POC by default (Like the arbalest).
I think that’s pretty cool because many people say that there should be no POC in Fantasy games because… People of color haven’t been invited yet? Most Fantasy games play in a Europe-like setting (This game too, BTW)? Anyway, I just thought that this character design was worth sharing and I just wanted to hear what you guys think!
I have complicated (yet mostly positive) feelings about Darkest Dungeons, particularly whenever I consider posting about it on a blog devoted to female armor. It’s currently in Early Access, but official release is on the 19th so I guess it’s safe to comment on it.
With the exception of their insistence on all female adventurer breastplates have ridiculously high-profile boobplate they do pretty well, and the female adventurers without breastplates are excellently presented From what I’ve played, there isn’t really any issues associated with gender beyond some of forms of insanity using the standard gendered terms.
But it does have other issues pop up here and there, such as one of the early enemies you meet being Cultists. And well, they look like this:
So it does dip into the “evil is sexy” trope as well… which is kind of odd given the whole theme of the game is that evil is so terrible it will drive you mad.
Neither of these elements is bad enough I’d refer to it as a particularly negative example, but both of them seem to be included completely arbitrarily and seem at odds with the rest of the game.
