We’ve featured Duelyst before, so the quality of the designs isn’t the surprise – it’s them being praised like they’re something exceptional. In the interest of fairness, let me share the positive example from the article:
And there are a couple that are not quite as terrible.
But seriously, if this is the best character art video games can produce we need to try switching them off and then back on again.
– wincenworks
On Sunday I featured a Bingo on Magic: The Gathering with some commentary that was a little confusing, so I’d like to take the time to clarify now. As the bingo covered, this was a design from ten years ago:
It was compared to some more recent designs, which were quite practical, but some people were confused by my comment that Wizards of the Coast keeps going toward but never quite committing to real progress and failed to elaborate further.
See the images at the top of the post? They’re all promo images from a recent campaign Shadows over Innistrad – the premise being that the “angels” (who are exclusively sexy ladies) have turned on the populace.
It was promoted in variety of places, including Twitch, and had a trailer which reaches it’s climax with the phrase “on bloodied wings…” and this image:
If you look, you can see some blood on her wings… but that sure isn’t the focus of the picture.
Potentially so far… and yet we have to go back to sexy ladies with wings in ridiculous sexualized armor as our concept.
– wincenworks
– by
team couscous“for mobile action rpg, O.N.E.
Corecreative co.”im surprised her tit didn’t explode like an overstuffed melon when it got cut because its EXPOSED
Her body looks disturbingly distorted. Wondering why no one is questioning how hard they tried to push her boobs fully out but you know that’s not how it is realistically positioned. Her head looks like it dropped down and she has no neck. Her arms look more like wings than arms. What do you think? @boobsdontworkthatway @bikiniarmorbattledamage
This one is kind of amazing in that apologists can’t even make the “it’s for agility” argument – right next to her is an equally agile male opponent in full plate with a comically large warhammer.
And as for the overly aggressive cleavage, well it’s a pretty classic example of how these designs don’t seem to fit with any concept of armor or even just practical attire. If you don’t have boobs for yourself, earlier this year a Twitch streamer
Raihnbowkidz
announced she was retiring as a “boobie streamer” and that released a video showing how much effort went into her appearance including what’s required to aggressively present cleavage.
The language she used was less than ideal, but it did a fairly good job of covering that this kind of presentation never happens by accident and is often less than comfortable for the boobs owner. (And of course, please do not read the comments on the video – just don’t do that to yourself)
So really, when a design is approved with this kind of ridiculous high profile cleavage window – it showcases how little concern was put into literally anything else other than a fixation with boobs. Hence why the woman in the pics is more endangered than protected by her own kit.
Which is to say that not only does this kind of design express that nobody could think of a more innovative concept for the character than “she’s a sexy lady… and um badass” but they also couldn’t think of a way to express this without going to the most ridiculous and overdone design elements.
Such is the creativity that defines so much of video games.
– wincenworks
As seen in this eschergirls post, it’s a character from Tree of Savior. According to image file name, she’s called Dame Circe, which along with the glowing smoke in the background, suggests that she’s a knight and a magic user at the same time. How does it explain her having one of the most ridiculous attires out of many weirdly-dressed female NPCs in the game is beyond me.
Maybe she really does breathe through her skin I mean, derive power from her breasts, as @eschergirls suggested? Nonetheless, we will probably never know how does this thing hold up.
~Ozzie
PS: Is that a Soul Gem right under her cleavage?