drkory submitted:
Screenshots of my character in Skyforge. In this game there is no armor but costumes, I’ve taken screenshots of some examples. The first one is the least skimpy although it has boobplate. All available costumes come with high heels. The last one is leaving me speechless especially because of the fact that this game takes pride in “boobs jiggle physics”. It’s hard to believe how someone can fight in that thing without their jelly boobs jiggling out.
There are many videos on Youtube where you can see how the physics work, here is one where you can also see a few male character models and the double standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZJ5sKsQ0_k
Oh Skyforge, will you never stop finding new an exciting ways to combine elements of different genres together while still implementing horrifying ideas on female armor and double standards?
No, seriously will you? Because the amount of work being invested in being terrible is kind of astonishing.
– wincenworks
Given Hideo Kojima’s tendency for wildly excessive verbosity in his convoluted (and sometimes self contradictory) dialogues – I’m kind of eager to see how many squares of the Rhetoric Bingo it ticks off. Will it be all of them? Only the release of the game will tell!
– winceworks
The thing is, we never doubted that there will be AN explanation for Quiet’s costume (Kojima claims about it wouldn’t let us forget). We just KNOW it will be… “uh, strange”, as the journalist above diplomatically puts it.
That design, as any bikini warrior garb, is simply too inherently silly to justify.
~Ozzie
So apparently some of the Fallout fandom was upset that we called out Fallout Shelter and insisted that the Raiders were based off those in Fallout 3 and hence perfectly gender equitable. This is of course, ridiculous for several reasons – the first and most obvious being bikini armor with a lipstick and a stylish bob haircut doesn’t really scream “raider” to anyone.
But more importantly, while there were gender equitable raiders in the Fallout franchise, they weren’t the Raiders (with a capital R) from Fallout 3 – those were practically iconic example of double standards. As you can see the example above, the Blastmaster Armor, doesn’t even have iconic aspects of the outfit (such as the tire tread pauldron or the firefighter mask) on the female version! Because why have a woman if she’s not pretty!
For the outfit to be gender equitable it would have to look less like that, and more like this:
So remember, just because you remember a few outfits in a game being pretty awesome doesn’t mean it has problems, big ones – and that other games in the franchise might be even more problematic. Also remember that the apex of gender equality in armor in the Fallout franchise was the original games. The games that weren’t afraid to show you female characters like this:
– wincenworks
