I love Guild Wars. I just bought heart of Thorns and I am greatly enjoying it. While the game has many great examples of female armor, sometimes not so much. This is focusing on the heavy armor class, because Light Armor is too easy of a target
The Vigil armor. The Vigil is a faction dedicated to eradicating the Dragons that are destroying the world through uniting the races of Tyria. If you join them, like the other factions on this list, you can get their special armor…which is not so great for ladies, because apparently the Vigil, which is not only lead by a woman but a Charr, a race “Forged in the crucible of battle”, only supplies boob window armor.
Next, the heavy armor for the Order of Whsipers. The Order of Whispers is an ancient secret society that has been influencing the leaders of Tyria for centuries. And they make bad armor for their agents. While a bit of extra work, this armor set could be nice but, no, boob window. This seems to be intentional, as this is the concept art for this hot mess.
Thanks, Anet, and Hello Esher Girls.
Finally, the Durmand priory. A faction dedicated to scouring ancient relics and lore for ideas on how to fight the Dragons, with an oddly low scoring armor. Weird.
Anyway, if anyone asks why I always play Charr, a catlike beast race with little to no sexual differences, this is what i‘m going to show them
I get the feeling that someone at Guild Wars decided that they wanted them to be “sexy” but didn’t want them to look conventionally “sexy” so they decided to do things like put windows on the side of the belly and above cleavage.
Presumably they were hoping the shift would distract people from the obvious gaps in the armor and exposed vital areas.
I love Guild Wars. I just bought heart of Thorns and I am greatly enjoying it. While the game has many great examples of female armor, sometimes not so much. This is focusing on the heavy armor class, because Light Armor is too easy of a target
The Vigil armor. The Vigil is a faction dedicated to eradicating the Dragons that are destroying the world through uniting the races of Tyria. If you join them, like the other factions on this list, you can get their special armor…which is not so great for ladies, because apparently the Vigil, which is not only lead by a woman but a Charr, a race “Forged in the crucible of battle”, only supplies boob window armor.
Next, the heavy armor for the Order of Whsipers. The Order of Whispers is an ancient secret society that has been influencing the leaders of Tyria for centuries. And they make bad armor for their agents. While a bit of extra work, this armor set could be nice but, no, boob window. This seems to be intentional, as this is the concept art for this hot mess.
Thanks, Anet, and Hello Esher Girls.
Finally, the Durmand priory. A faction dedicated to scouring ancient relics and lore for ideas on how to fight the Dragons, with an oddly low scoring armor. Weird.
Anyway, if anyone asks why I always play Charr, a catlike beast race with little to no sexual differences, this is what i‘m going to show them
I get the feeling that someone at Guild Wars decided that they wanted them to be “sexy” but didn’t want them to look conventionally “sexy” so they decided to do things like put windows on the side of the belly and above cleavage.
Presumably they were hoping the shift would distract people from the obvious gaps in the armor and exposed vital areas.
In the 90s Capcom was adapting Stardust Crusaders story arc from Hirohiki Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure manga into a fighting game. They wanted to feature Midler, one of very few women antagonists in the story, as a playable character. However, in the manga Midler kept very safe distance from the protagonist and we never fully saw her, besides one panel after her defeat
As you can see, she is wearing a normal dress here. However, when adapting het to video game, Capcom had a problem with the fact we never saw her face. But instead of doing a sensible thing and asking the author to draw a face they could put on her original design, they asked him to completely redesing her to look like a belly dancer. And the results you can see above. When I first saw it my reaction was somewhere along those lines:
From a sensibly-dressed character who keeps her opponents at long distance, she turned into a character who goes into close-quater combat almost naked.
And for bonus creepy points, another character featured in the game is Alessi, who can de-age his opponents and turn them into children. If Midler gets hit by this power, she turns into a little girl wearing the very same costume.
Interestingly, while this outfit has been featured in one of manga artbooks, leading some fans to declare it canon, the anime adaptation, which is known for it’s strong loyalty to the source material and listening to author’s input, restores her original looks, while giving her a race lift, suggesting this is the one author prefers.
Video game fans consider Capcom removing R-Mika slapping her butt from Street Fighter or Blizzard removing Tracer’s controversial pose from Overwatch an assault on creative freedom. They defend Quiet’s ridiculous outfit to the point of yelling that people who mod the game to replace it are “playing it wrong”, because it’s “straying away from Kojima’s vision”. But somehow they are not up the arms at Capcom forcing Hirohiki Araki to stray away from his vision? Go figure…
I… don’t want to know what was Capcom’s in-studio explanation for making her look like that.
~Ozzie
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The Nerdwriter’s video is primarily about the infamous ShirtGate incident, but the same analysis applies to so many people who smugly post familiar rhetoric regarding the depictions of female characters, declaring themselves right and others wrong often based off nothing more than that declaration.
Innuendo Studios (Ian Danskin) also did an in depth video series about those who are angry at the existence of criticism, specifically about the harassment that Anita Sarkeesian has endured since Tropes vs Women in Video Games took off. If you haven’t seen it, here’s the whole series.
Sadly, plenty of people either just don’t care what’s right and are more interested in maintaining dominance by default than they are about anything that’s ever going to be said. These people are largely the ones who try to seek out and weaponise Angry Jacks, and the ones who manufacture misinformation for their “cause”.
Attempting to engage in meaningful conversation with them, especially in their communities rarely does anything but make them feel that they’ve expanded their platform and hence gotten more “wins”. This is why you often see people like this desperately craving “debates” (winner to be decided by them or their friends, based off what they wanted to be true from the start).
So, if you’ve tagged us in to a conversation and hoped we’d join in – please understand that we haven’t got anything to say that wouldn’t be wasted on that audience. Everything we could say to them has been said, usually many times. This is the Internet after all.
If anything, they will simply interpret a specific response from us as an opportunity to try to hijack our platform and boost their audience, or simply assert that they’re our nemesis and thus instantly important.
Ultimately, that’s what’s feeding their habit – the search for bigger audiences, bigger wins and more validation. If they can’t get that, they take joy in knowing they’re wasting time that could be spent working on problems in a more general, helpful sense (especially if they have nothing else to do).
They won’t be getting a direct answer from us.Though we’re going to continue building commentary, resources and information on all the general issues around today and new ones as they arise and to call out key figures who actually already have high profiles and big influence.
We’re also going to continue to support others who do the same and hope that eventually social media platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, etc will start taking harassment seriously.
The important thing to understand about these people though is, that not only can’t they be persuaded (without having a deep personal change of their own), but they can’t advance or provide anything useful either.
By declaring victory for simply existing and refusing to consider any hypothetical or viewpoint other than their own, they’re inherently limiting their thinking, their contributions and themselves. By not even taking the time to understand before responding, they’re creating a no benefit scenario:
This is what happens when you choose harassment as your primary means of communication and dive deep into the No True Scotsman Fallacy.
So, while we do encourage you to call out people you see spreading harmful misinformation, if their response to that is to smugly reply with claims of victory and nonsense – remember what they’re seeking is equal parts maintaining the status quo and personal validation.
They’re also seeking to antagonize others simply because without some sort of scandal (or more commonly a faux scandal based on misinformation) to expand their audience, their default status is well…
Actually that’s not fair, Abraham Simpson III is far too good a person to be in that crowd. Sorry about that, Abe.
You play Scarlet Witch, I’m a comic book person so I’m familiar with the character. The character in the films not wearing the outfit I was accustomed to. Is it true you were told right away that you didn’t have to worry about that?
You play Scarlet Witch, I’m a comic book person so I’m familiar with the character. The character in the films not wearing the outfit I was accustomed to. Is it true you were told right away that you didn’t have to worry about that?
