Caly submitted:
So this is a cinematic trailer for a card game called WAR 1937 that is coming out. It’s so ridiculous and silly that I can’t help but laugh and cry at the same time. How are developers still getting away with making this kind of stuff?
What did I just watch? O_o
Someone… anyone?
~Ozzie
Wait, did someone watch Kill la Kill and think that the concept would work better if it was rendered in high definition and without the sense of goofy self awareness?
– wincenworks
(Also we’ve been informed by a number of followers that the “setting” for this game is the Nanking Massacre, an actual horrific real life event – the tastelessness just keeps on compounding)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
That time bikini armor went real life. Who could have guessed that this was actually a side project by a guy who was trying to make a game that turned into a legendary crowfunding disaster?
Their website is archived here, including a page where they later explained why these was “high-function” and “protective”. Because the corsets were (allegedly) made of the same materials as military webbing. What part of the soldier’s kit is webbing you ask?
This didn’t however, stop them being promoted as protective and even bullet-proof (check out the New York times column on them) even though they were essentially an awkward alternative to a tactical vest. (Notice for the most part the models use everything but their corsets to carry their gear).
So it’s actually kind of a good thing that people weren’t receiving their orders, otherwise there could have been people out there expecting to get real protection out of what basically amounted to an overpriced, “empowering” nylon corset. Because “empowerment”.
Do you see what bikini armor has done to this world?
– wincenworks
Looking at the Steam trailers you would never guess that Defiance had a rich lore involving numerous types of aliens, politics and a diverse range of characters – their main priority in the latest trailer seems to be reassuring you that you can play as a sexy young woman and always be reminded of it by seeing her pigtails at all times.
And yet, her costume is dramatically better than that of the signature character in the first trailer… who seems to be there mostly to assure us there are women with cleavage and the game is “edgey”.
And in case you’re wondering, yes the tv show has weird boobplate gear.
– wincenworks
Looking at the Steam trailers you would never guess that Defiance had a rich lore involving numerous types of aliens, politics and a diverse range of characters – their main priority in the latest trailer seems to be reassuring you that you can play as a sexy young woman and always be reminded of it by seeing her pigtails at all times.
And yet, her costume is dramatically better than that of the signature character in the first trailer… who seems to be there mostly to assure us there are women with cleavage and the game is “edgey”.
And in case you’re wondering, yes the tv show has weird boobplate gear.
– wincenworks
Spin Angels a comic about secret agents working the Vatican… who apparently have updated their dress code to include mandatory bared bellies. Initially it was published by Marvel and now is being republished by Delcourt (a major publisher in France).
They may choose a different cover, but by the fourth issue Marvel’s “progression” of desperately attention seeking cover art reached a stage where it doesn’t even really fit on Bikini Armor Battle Damage anymore…
Spoiler: This didn’t save the comic.
– wincenworks
(edit: We have been informed it was originally published by a different French publisher, Soleil, under a different title in French. Apparently there is no end to the optimism that somehow this marketing strategy will work this time. h/t: Haplo)
