So I was browsing Steam…
Liliana submitted:
And came upon this lady from Sacred 3:
Nevermind the awful anatomy, that’s some pretty good Bingo right there. But wait, it gets worse on Steam… because then I saw this game called “Dark Blood Online”, a F2P MMORPG (because there aren’t enough of those, apparently) featuring, ahem… this gem:
Yikes.
For fuck’s sake, can we at least keep that to shitty mobile knock-offs? ;_;
The saddest part of this is while the original Sacred was so terrible it broke bingo, it seemed there was a faint hint of improvement.
Appearances can be deceiving.
– wincenworks
Knight’s Fable
There’s another MMO by the guys that did League of Angels — Knight’s Fable: http://knight.gtarcade.com/ I have not seen a single reasonably-armored female character on their websites. Behold!
Look at all those pointy bits. Most of their advertizing involves the female characters, though there are guys. Strangely, their armor and clothing offers full coverage.
Lastly, here is one of their actual advertizements on Facebook, un-cropped and unaltered.
Yep. Makes me want to cheer. How about you?
O_o I… have nothing to add. You probably said everything that needs to be said about this game already, lysander-gustav.
~Ozzie
Protip: If your default marketing idea is “A sexy woman in an improbable costume, but leave most of her fact out…”
You may be super creepy.
– wincenworks
Lost Odyssey
actonthat submitted:
Bleh.
I was coming of Fable and feeling pretty good about playing a female character that could look and be whatever, however, and whereever I wanted, and needed a new RPG.
Oh, this Lost Odyssey thing is supposed to be pretty awesome.
Hey it even looks like there’s a chick on the cover. Let’s take a look at the characters…. oh.
God, this requires a bingo. This is one of the most ridiculous costumes I’ve ever seen.
The other women on the main cast don’t fare much better, although nothing is as WTF as that.
This one looks relatively bearable… until you see it from behind.
Here, have a random boob window!
And just to make us feel all fuzzy inside, here’s a sexualized child:
I decided not to buy the game.
The most horrifying thing about this game is that it was published by Microsoft exclusively on the X-Box 360, that’s the forerunner to the X-Box One – a console that’s for the WHOLE FAMILY to enjoy!
While checking up on this game I didn’t find a single mention by a professional reviewer about the costumes or the worrying sexualization of a child – but I did find a refreshingly honest review by a user on MetaCritic (of all places), here’s the most important part:
Well said. Well said.
– wincenworks