The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
So, while Valve itself has a pretty good track record for female characters such as Chell and Alyx Vance… it seems when allowing others to use the Counter-Strike And apparently it gets worse once you start playing:
This is from the publisher that brought us Vindictus, Ghost in the Shell: First Assault and Riders of Icarus so it’s not a really that surprising. Though what continually surprises me is that the same publishers also produce the rather excellent Dirty Bomb.
– 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
If New Exiles taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t design a character’s costume where it looks like you forgot to give them a bra and just scribbled on two gold discs at the last second and that you shouldn’t wait until your second last issue to break out imagery like this:
– wincenworks
@edgion-the-great submitted:
Some ‘beauties’ from Game of War: Fire Age.
Male armour thrown in for comparison >_>
Also the top left one has that weird metal armour that moves with her as she breathes (And when she breathes her boobs expand)
Game of War – because why have design quality when you can just have the most expensive ad campaigns and create a game where the main source of revenue is letting the richest 1-3% bully the other players.
– wincenworks
i had a lot of fun with this
I genuinely think Camilla and Xander fit each other’s brand of empowerment great.
Especially the crotch hole.
~Ozzie
See it says “All New X-Men” but this is honestly the most 90s comic cover I’ve seen since… well the nineties. The saddest part being that if we assume the cover girl is in fact, Goblin Queen… she is both far better dressed and yet somehow less impressive than her original incarnation:
Maybe in another thirty-three years we can get an incarnation that is both majestic and has a viable costume.
– wincenworks
@the-hittite submitted:
Magic: The Gathering’s Commander decks are going to be released soon, and as usual with Magic, the women commanders are something of a mixed bag. Presented here without comment. If you want to learn more about these characters and the stories behind them check here.
Bonus male empowerment:
Sadly, while taken as a whole Magic is a major mixed bag, it’s pretty clear from a casual examination of their site shows which side of the fence the marketing crew is on:
Sigh.
– wincenworks
@universe63 submitted:
Just in time for Halloween, Sideshow Collectables presents the Hellraiser Hell Priestess…
I know it’s not armor but I HAD to Bingo it. I wasn’t sure how to call the garter/stocking leather boot-ish things that don’t actually go all the way down the leg. I also debated on the Skin tight square and the “How does it attach” (mostly due to those aforementioned stocking things) Given it’s Hellraiser, “Sharp Ornamental edges…” was kind of a given.
It’s kind of amazing that even the 90s comic was more committed to genuine “in your face” body horror and some originality that gave Clive Barker’s Cenobites their charm… this one looks like they decided that what horror fans really want is Lady Death cosplaying as Pinhead with a tiny bit of body horror hidden away on her back.
So it doesn’t scare anyone who wants to fap to it.
– wincenworks
red-queen-on-the-heathen-throne submitted:
This is the Gunslinger class image from Revelation Online. A guy in a
Guild Wars 2 Facebook group recommended this. Why, I don’t know, there
is zero resemblance to GW2 here.…on second thought, GW2 also has centaurs, at least. And guns, I
guess? But at least when GW2 does boob armour, both sides are the same
size, and no-one in Tyria has sticks for arms. How does she hope to fire
anything with THAT stance and THOSE arms? And why is her head so small?
To match the tiny top hat? Why anything in this picture? ôOFor bonus hilarity, the German version of the site translated her
class as “Scharfschütze” -> “sharpshooter”. Someone looked at this
and thought “yep, that’s what a proper sniper looks like”.And they were so proud of her, they used her as the header image,
too. I think? It’s a little hard to tell, to be honest, the faces look
nothing alike, the guns seem to have turned from weirdly thin shotguns
to some sort of flintlock pistol, and those ridiculous shoes are a bit
distracting.She’s less a centaur woman than an emu woman. Maybe this game is meant as a dramatization of the Great Emu War*?
I’m not sure what part find most amazing… that they seem to have tried to spin this costume into quasi-steampunk without adding goggles and pointless cogs (how is that hat staying on her head?) or that she is, by far, not the most ridiculously clad class option:
They didn’t remember to give the “Swordmage” a sword.
– wincenworks
