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Repaired!

repair-her-armor:

Dit submitted to repair-her-armor:   

I made a zbrush sculpt from one of your blogs stuff

Hi RHA!

I made a zbrush sculpt from one of your blogs, few months ago. here you go

http://drawcrowd.com/adityalokabc44/projects/mjiwodmxlteyltgtmjc?pos=6

i also repaired it a bit.

http://drawcrowd.com/adityalokabc44/projects/mjiwodmylteyltgtmjc?pos=5

I hope you like it.

Cheers!

Holy cow. I come back (sort of) from my hiatus to see this…! This is amazing! Seeing design being done in such a professional matter makes me realize that truly, indeed, this would definitely be something I’d see in games today. Think a MMORPG, a fighting game, a fantasy comic book heroine, an alternative costume for a “sexy pirate”. And to see this on a realistic woman makes things even more clear to me. There is so much potential in the design, it is absolutely beautifully done but, well, let’s just say imagining my privates having cold metal clinging to my body like that… *shivers*. Not to mention the questions I had for it in the original post.

The repaired version, though… I might just have literally dropped my jaw to the ground right now. I want to know more about this mysterious figure. I want to know what her story is, who she is, what she’s up to! Her outfit makes me so curious. And I genuinely would pay money to see this character star her own game. Can you imagine; an assassin that just left a masquerade? An adventurer entering the battle scene? Hooo boy. I need this.

(Also, from a character designer’s perspective; the repaired version is pure genius in terms of silhouette and placing of colors.)

Good work on this!

That’s one seriously impressive translation of Tica’s cartoon parody into a 3D render. A render that is creepily plausible in video game standards.

Oh the gold-plated merkin!

In case anyone wondered why we opted for the cartoonishly exaggerated winners in our horrible female armor design contest… that is why. Some of the more detailed entries, while gorgeous in their own right, hit a bit too close home and set off the Poe’s Law alarm, just like Dit’s sculpt does.

Also 100% agreed on the fixed redesign. THAT character deserves her own game.

~Ozzie

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The Good The Bad and the Ugly of Video Games

Really not happy with the summary of Mario – however I feel that the fact that everyone gets what they mean when they summarize Samus as being novel for ‘not being half-naked’ says everything important about mainsteam video games.

Also, as someone who was really excited to play the first generation of FPS games – I can’t help but feel that they sort of set the the standard for this sort of generic hero.

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Meanwhile, Jurassic Park: Trespasser, one of the first FPS games to star a female protagonist didn’t give her a face and had a… unique way of displaying the health bar:

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Yeah.

– wincenworks

edit: Now also tagged for ableism in the “Good” panel. Sorry we failed to tag the post initially and thanks to readers for pointing that out.

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Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

(Link is arguably NSFW due to “totally not nudity” sexualized design)

The link doesn’t work anymore, so here’s the character’s Wikia page

cryosession submitted:

…is a legitimate nightmare design. How…I can’t formulate words to describe just how…not-good-and-definitely-not-sexy this is.

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This is by far one of the worst cases of sexualized exotification of Kali (again, a major figure in a religion practiced by a billion people) with transparent disclaimers of “well it’s technology not the real Kali” and “well it’s an Indian character”.

The character herself basically an almost white passing ripoff of SiN’s Elexis Sinclair  (the Bianca Beauchamp version) with a Kali “battle form” that makes SMITE’s rendition look sensitive and nuanced.  Oh and she swears like a sailor because “edgy”.

The game is free to play (competitive) with the model of getting people to pay to unlock characters.  According to Steam it has mixed reviews with a lot of the negative reviews focusing on the price to unlock characters and lack of people to compete with.

Basically their game isn’t’ going well so they decided to try to make it more like SMITE, Soul Calibur and SiN.

Then they’ll go home and wonder why people have many negative opinions of video games and mainstream developers.

– wincenworks

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Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

Rise of Incarnates’ Newest Addition…

(Link is arguably NSFW due to “totally not nudity” sexualized design)

The link doesn’t work anymore, so here’s the character’s Wikia page

cryosession submitted:

…is a legitimate nightmare design. How…I can’t formulate words to describe just how…not-good-and-definitely-not-sexy this is.

image

This is by far one of the worst cases of sexualized exotification of Kali (again, a major figure in a religion practiced by a billion people) with transparent disclaimers of “well it’s technology not the real Kali” and “well it’s an Indian character”.

The character herself basically an almost white passing ripoff of SiN’s Elexis Sinclair  (the Bianca Beauchamp version) with a Kali “battle form” that makes SMITE’s rendition look sensitive and nuanced.  Oh and she swears like a sailor because “edgy”.

The game is free to play (competitive) with the model of getting people to pay to unlock characters.  According to Steam it has mixed reviews with a lot of the negative reviews focusing on the price to unlock characters and lack of people to compete with.

Basically their game isn’t’ going well so they decided to try to make it more like SMITE, Soul Calibur and SiN.

Then they’ll go home and wonder why people have many negative opinions of video games and mainstream developers.

– wincenworks