I assume those captions refer to survival… The guy fights his own way to endure the battle, while the lady has to have a soul of a hero, because she wasn’t given clothes of a hero.
Also, the “most anticipated MMO of 2015″ being a game with the same “sex sells” advertising strategies as virtually everyone else
in the industry
(including most games on the list) tells us a lot about the expectations among the gamers who voted on this.
~Ozzie
Every time I look at the one on the left I just imagine her thinking, “If I say yes… will you give me a new outfit?”
– wincenworks
I feel like the problem with unnecessary sexy womens clothing in many
games and comics is relatively well known and untill yesterday I would
have said that we are making progress in this area. This changed today
when I received an answer to a question that I had send Bigpoint, the
producer of “Drakensang online”, a free fantasy MMORPG.The question I send
them asked something like “hey team, why are women now expected to fight without pants all of a sudden? I hope this is a halloween thing because I don’t really like it. I thought you were doing really well when you added more skintone options some time ago. It would be cool if you told me what changes you made in the male costume for halloween, I wasn’t really able to make anything out. Cheers, [my name]”The answer they send, you can see above. It says: “Hello, a lot of users asked that it become better visible if a character is male or female. That is why this change was made. With kind regards […]” etc.
I don’t even know if I should be angry about this or just sad. Before female and male characters had basically the same clothing. There is no good reason (as far as I know) why gender should be made more vissible. Also, hoovering your mouse above a character will give you their name
and a (often gendered) title. This is much easier than zooming in to
spot the boob-window. You can see the changes in the pictures above. (The characters still look like before in the character menu, that is where I was able to make the before pictures.)I really want to make a point to Bigpoint about this, so pleas reblog or like this post if you agree with me. If you play the game, it would be awesome if you left a message in their feedback-forums or tell them what you think via their support page
A propos gender signifiers in warrior costume design… Now this case tells us a lot about the studio’s approach to creativity.
Developers got asked to differentiate gender of the characters, so removing women’s pants and adding cleavages was the best solution they could come up with? Really?
Assuming there truly is a huge demand for making female and male costumes more distinct, couldn’t they accommodate the designs in a more dignified way?
And if they really had to remove some items to make character’s sex/gender obvious, why not men’s shirts? Why it’s the female characters who need “adjustments”, while male ones remain the default?
But considering Drakensang’s track record, we shouldn’t be all that surprised.
Thank you @lunaia for bringing this issue to us!
~Ozzie
Here’s a Question:
If female character costume designers for video games and superheroes like the female form (and boobs in particular) so much, why is that they’re always putting them in harm’s way?
That’s a very good question, actually. Somehow fictional boobs and butts are precious enough to show them off whenever possible, but not precious enough to preserve?
~Ozzie
Here’s a Question:
If female character costume designers for video games and superheroes like the female form (and boobs in particular) so much, why is that they’re always putting them in harm’s way?
That’s a very good question, actually. Somehow fictional boobs and butts are precious enough to show them off whenever possible, but not precious enough to preserve?
~Ozzie
Okay, so Street Fighter has never prioritized realism in their games, and we’ve talked before about how many costumes for female fighters are burdened with are an extension of the bikini armor problem.
However, given how they’re selling up that Laura is the first grappler with a projectile attack – they could at least give her something to strap her boobs down with. Sure Zangief may be empowered – but at least his swinging bits are held in place!
– wincenworks