insomniacapples submitted:
I’ve been playing Toukiden: The Age of Demons for a while since I’ve been on a “hunting” game kick since Monster Hunter isn’t enough. I really enjoy the historical and mythological themes and the armours in Toukiden are quite sensible (well for the most part) for both genders. But when I looked into the DLC for more fashionable armours (cause sometimes I wanna look cool and DLC is good for that) I was a wee bit disappointed with these two (the other two can be viewed here and here which are okay for the most part). Cause those puffy pants tucked in boots exclusive to the guys are my jam. And if I was playing as a guy I would have liked to be in cute heart shaped armour with diamonds to show my foxy side… Oh well.
I look at these outfits and two things baffle me… the first is how the designers seem to have a full blown obsession with showing off the woman’s shoulders, stomach and thighs.
The second is the absurdity that it seems these two somehow got the same hair styles and decided to over compensate by trying to dress as radically different as they could manage while keep with a theme/color scheme.
Adventurers are very silly people – but I’m glad that most of the outfits are relatively equal across genders.
– wincenworks
folksongsandfairytales submitted:
I never would have thought I’d be able to submit a Smite goddess as a positive example, but the newly released Bellona has blown me away. not only is she covered in practical armour, it’s an accurate (if stylised) depiction of Roman armour!
She’s not even in heels, which is the one problem with Smite’s other positive example Artemis. Here’s hoping that this marks the start of more badass armoured goddesses and less sexy spider ladies.
Which this is pretty decent armor, the guys at SMITE still manage to raise a couple of major concerns with me:
Bellona only has two “looks” released at the moment… both essentially the same model with a re-texture and SMITE has this tendency to well… let’s look at Artemis’ alternative looks:
The other concern is of course… the entire rest of the game. Bellonna, aside from being a really obscure deity, appears to have been added as cheap expansion product…. so much so that they didn’t bother to find out that she actually did have a pretty major temple.
So overall, I really like the image but I really don’t want anyone to interpret this as anything resembling an endorsement for SMITE. I am in fact suspicious that the reason this looks so good is they didn’t want to take the time and spend the money to ruin the design (yet).
– wincenworks