As an unholy mix of League of Angels marketing and ripping of World of Warcraft, Magerealm inadvertently creates a great example of so much that is wrong with the video game’s industry.
And when I say ripping off World of Warcraft I mean it, someone took the time to apparently work out how to avoid a lawsuit while adding a Panda Monk character class but never bothered to consider a female character that isn’t dressed in some fantasy war parody of lingerie.
– wincenworks
What I find the most amazing about the first image is that, even despite their genericness, the male characters are at least easily distinguishable from each other.
Female characters, though?
They didn’t try to make the bikini armors diverse in any significant way, let alone the characters who wear them. Even the poses are identical!
Are we entirely sure those aren’t just slight recolors of the same exact image?
~Ozzie
(ht: nosetothewind94)
One of the things I regularly come across while looking around the Internet for BABD related materials are the wallpapers and promotional artworks of games that were discontinued without ever leaving obscurity.
Perhaps one day someone will be brave enough to study these artifacts of bygone projects, quantify their traits and write an academic paper about the common failings. Then perhaps we will finally have an answer to the question of whether it’s a good sales idea to have ridiculous double standards in your gender representation.
(The answer is no)
– wincenworks
Liberating indeed…
Source: Commissioned comic, Part 1, Part 2
The saddest part about this is that she’s actually lucky that they gave her a helmet.
– wincenworks