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:

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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

ayellowbirds:

pixiebutterandjelly:

Why is it always the woman wgo “wears the form fitting armor because she is more dexterous”

And the guy is in a huge hulkling piece of armor.

Give me woman in rediculous ornamental armor with with a hammer whos smashy bit is is bigger than her head.

And give me a lightly armored male rogue who is flexible always manages to dodge at the last moment….

Actually screw the guy. Make them both women. And they are a couple.

give me a polyamorous group of women in huge bulky armor. Polyarmorous.

Give me a whole knightly order of awesome paladins who are all girlfriends with each other and wear armor that, like real-life armor did, basically makes them into walking tanks.

– wincenworks

(edit: Slightly corrected image)

ayellowbirds:

pixiebutterandjelly:

Why is it always the woman wgo “wears the form fitting armor because she is more dexterous”

And the guy is in a huge hulkling piece of armor.

Give me woman in rediculous ornamental armor with with a hammer whos smashy bit is is bigger than her head.

And give me a lightly armored male rogue who is flexible always manages to dodge at the last moment….

Actually screw the guy. Make them both women. And they are a couple.

give me a polyamorous group of women in huge bulky armor. Polyarmorous.

Give me a whole knightly order of awesome paladins who are all girlfriends with each other and wear armor that, like real-life armor did, basically makes them into walking tanks.

– wincenworks

(edit: Slightly corrected image)

qsy-complains-a-lot:

samguayart:

funeral-wreath:

Four medievalist photographs by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Rose Lawrie in ‘Waiting for the Trumpet’, 7 July 1875. Wearing chain-mail specially made by Henry Holiday, illustrator of The Hunting of the Snark.
Evelyn Dubourg as ‘Joan of Arc’, 12 July 1875 (two versions)
Marion Terry as ‘Fitz-James’, 12 July 1875. Interestingly ‘Fitz-James’ is a male character from Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake; the photograph is inscribed with a quote from the poem.

UM. THIS IS GREAT. Reblogging for posterity + future reference.

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

Some basic truths remain eternal – one of those is that women in great armor look awesome.

– wincenworks

qsy-complains-a-lot:

samguayart:

funeral-wreath:

Four medievalist photographs by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Rose Lawrie in ‘Waiting for the Trumpet’, 7 July 1875. Wearing chain-mail specially made by Henry Holiday, illustrator of The Hunting of the Snark.
Evelyn Dubourg as ‘Joan of Arc’, 12 July 1875 (two versions)
Marion Terry as ‘Fitz-James’, 12 July 1875. Interestingly ‘Fitz-James’ is a male character from Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake; the photograph is inscribed with a quote from the poem.

UM. THIS IS GREAT. Reblogging for posterity + future reference.

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

Some basic truths remain eternal – one of those is that women in great armor look awesome.

– wincenworks