The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
So, it seems the line of games that pitch themselves as icons of double standards with bikini armor that you don’t actually have to play (hurray?) we have Dungeon Rush… which seems an odd name for a game where the primary mechanic is wait.
Also I can’t be the only one who sees tiny throwing knives like that and immediately puzzles over whether they’re poisoned or not…
– wincenworks
Zgirls is a strange game that can’t decide whether it’s supposed to be an tactical army builder or an unlicensed ripoff of High School of Dead (renown for it’s supersonic boobs scene – nsfw video here)
Indeed it seems the only thing is sure of is that during a zombie apocalypse the vast majority of women would customize through clothes to present their boobs as aggressively as possible.
– wincenworks
It’s not really clear what heroes defy, but so far it seems to be Blizzard’s claim that they’re trying to represent female characters better.
Honestly, with all the appeal that Heroes of the Storm has going for it, if this was the best campaign their marketing people could think up then they should probably find a new agency.
– wincenworks
It’s kind of worrying that there’s literally a “publisher” on steam who seems to be signing on indie developers trying to get their first break in games with but only if the can put ridiculously sexualized armor on the art.
Yes, we’ve featured Storm of Spears and The Chosen before, but at least their cover art seemed to have something to do with their content – this one doesn’t even seem to have women as gladiators… just male warriors and women servant/people who agree to marry you.
Still got to have bikini armor though, otherwise how will people know it’s about gladiator stuff? Well, the good news it seems this strategy is working about as well as you’d expect… even though though they keep returning to it.
– wincenworks
@infinitoaster submitted:
Apparently girls don’t have skeletons. Only boobs and butts.
The differences between genders is pretty bad for almost all the classes for this game, but this one was by far the worst.(From this game: http://www.dofus-touch.com/en)
Amazingly even though the male skeletonSram’s Shadow (presumably) has no genitalia to conceal, he still gets bigger and comfortable pants than the female generic sexy witchSram’s Shadow.
I wish I could be surprised that this comes from that this comes from the creators of Wakfu and that they well… chose this as a promotional image:
Even before we consider the “touch” aspect, that’s some serious @eschergirls anatomy she’s got going on there.
– wincenworks
@thetaleofthedragonage submitted:
Look at these. Please, just look. This is ridiculous.
Worst part is that not only does this go with @eschergirls proportions and the weirdest looking wolf ever drawn (seriously, it’s like they google “bad taxidermy” to get reference images) but this is actually not their worst design. I present to you, the “Dragon Lady” hero who is “tank”:
Not only does she have nipple armor, but she seems to have armor that forces her to maintain that weird and painful looking posture. In fact most of the female characters out of their totally original, not lazy rip offs at all, line up seem to be stuck in this pose and have their gear designed around it.
So basically they made a horror game without realizing it.
– wincenworks
Allegedly this is a comic based off the Mars Attacks property… you know the one where our world, the one we live in, is invaded by whacky aliens?
Yeah, it seems that the comics don’t really care for that whole “relate to our world” angle and instead want to blend whacky aliens with cliche comic costumes and over-sized swords.
Interestingly, in the very first page the protagonist’s “dream” shows in a far less sexualized costume… I sense the meddling of Creepy Marketing Guy.
– wincenworks
Wasn’t Mars Attacks born out of love for 50s horror movies and comics, especially schlocky ones and keeps referencing the 50s/60s aesthetic? This costume here isn’t even a reference to that era of sexism in depiction of women. It’s just random “gritty” late 90s/early 2000s-style black leather and random straps thing.
Saddest part, it’s still an improvement regarding how the comics in the franchise looked in the 90s, around the time Tim Burton’s movie adaptation came out:
~Ozzie