like, look at that unrevealing protective bullet-resistant suit, mmhm
look at all that sass
“u wanna take this outside, punk”
dang
why don’t game companies do this more often
y would u need “sexy” armour when u can get protective full-body armour that’s already sexy and also sexier
I thought this would also be a place to point out that not only can practical armor make a female character even sexier, so can all other visual indicators of badassery:
Why do you guys just look at concept/promo art and not actual in-game armors? The actual armor within DIII is very well designed and not as sexualized as the samples you show. I feel it’s a disservice to your viewers that you don’t do more research..
Oh wow, you’re telling me that the promotional material Blizzard creates to market Diablo 3 are completely misleading and non-representative of the game… and not only has nobody mentioned this before but somehow it’s my fault?
Wow, I better look into that right away. Thankfully there’s always YouTube to provide us with Let’s Play videos so I can take screenshots that look slightly off since the live footage is always in motion and was never intended for still frames!
I bet the the in game models look completely different. I bet they’re huge and so detailed that you’d be a fool to look at anything but what the actual in game play looks like. It’d be ridiculous to propose that Diablo figures are displayed, by default, so tiny that you can’t make out any real detail beyond basic colours and silhouette right!?
Oh… well never mind! The first thing you do when you start one of these games is create a character. Obviously the Barbarian models in character creation will be completely different to those used in promotion and the ones that someone made gifs (from gameplay) of!
Oh wow… what a co-incidence! Oh well, there’s always the Demon Hunter right? It’d be ridiculous to think that they’d use that stupid stance where she poses one leg in front of the other, sacrificing her balance to flaunt her hips! Or have her arms posed to both look like a she’s trying to be an action movie star and draw attention to her boobs. That’d never…
Wait a minute… does this game actually have all the problems previous suggested? Is it possible I just use promotional art and cleaned up gifs because they are easier to read and communicates clearer?
Personally I am always reluctant to recommend any character as definitive judge of armor. Brienne is certainly awesome and the representation of her by Gwendoline Christie has been amazing, but not without some questionable armoring decisions:
Really I think the bigger factor involved should be, “How will this make people look at the my character? What will they see?”
Brienne is but one of many possibilities, and part of what’s fueled the bikini armor trope is that creators got lazy and decided there’s just one type of heroine. A sexy one, with long legs, tight clothes and big boobs.
So rather than simply replacing her with a big butch one, we should be looking at exploring all the different kinds of badassery we can have. History of is full of badass women, many of whom used weapons and armor entirely different to Brienne of Tarth. Fiction should also be filled with similar diversity – hence Bikini Armor Battle Damage approves of many armors that Brienne probably wouldn’t.
Women of different cultures, different time periods and with different access to materials or facing different types of opponents. From the pages of history, for example:
A gameshow that forces male nerds into the unnecessarily sexualized outfits female video game characters have that they defend as “practical,” and then makes them do agility training
this had sixty notes last night
SIXTY NOTES
Invitation to that show should be sent to everyone whose argumentation is worth playing the Female Armor Rhetoric Bingo with.
And yet, even with all three they could barely compete with World of Warcraft’s official merchandise:
Though I find it difficult to believe that this… thing… ever inspired anyone to rush to register an account. Seriously, I don’t even have boobs and it hurts just to look at it.
