The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
The AAA industry is so diverse and creative with their female-led action games, huh?
Found the first picture by as a one-off joke in badassoftheweek article and @wincenworks proposed we made more.
I’m disproportionally proud of how they came out.
Not pictured: Hot chick with a chainsaw (Lollipop Chainsaw) and Hot chick with a sword on a dinosaur (Golden Axe Beast Rider).
~Ozzie
– wincenworks
PS: Font credits:
My apologies for not including this earlier. ~Ozzie
The AAA industry is so diverse and creative with their female-led action games, huh?
Found the first picture by as a one-off joke in badassoftheweek article and @wincenworks proposed we made more.
I’m disproportionally proud of how they came out.
Not pictured: Hot chick with a chainsaw (Lollipop Chainsaw) and Hot chick with a sword on a dinosaur (Golden Axe Beast Rider).
~Ozzie
– wincenworks
PS: Font credits:
My apologies for not including this earlier. ~Ozzie
How would I respond?
I remember nearly two years ago, someone tried to tell us that women didn’t like Samus until got those (aesthetically awful) high heels and well it seems that that person was wrong. Very wrong. Profanity outburst inducingly wrong. It’s also more or less got it’s own Rhetoric Bingo square:
Consider:
While it is certainly true that some women greatly enjoy some heavily sexualised female characters (and we’re totally okay with that), the notion that somehow there isn’t a demand for different types of female characters and different armor options in games and other media is just absurd.
A three volume anthology of stories to provide “characters with feminist overtones” (many, many of them seem to be armored very much like men…) was fully funded! Over a quarter of a million dollars has been pledged to the project – that doesn’t happen unless there is massive demand.
There are plenty of women out there who want big, hulking suits of armor and the ones who don’t are hardly going to get mad at a game that respects the notion of gender equality.
– wincenworks
Hey there! I mentioned to my boyfriend (a pretty avid gamer) how ridiculous and useless female armor usually is in games, and he responded that “women would get mad if they wore the same armor as the men”. I’m not sure how one would prove such a claim, so I thought I’d ask here. How would you respond to that?
How would I respond?
I remember nearly two years ago, someone tried to tell us that women didn’t like Samus until got those (aesthetically awful) high heels and well it seems that that person was wrong. Very wrong. Profanity outburst inducingly wrong. It’s also more or less got it’s own Rhetoric Bingo square:
Consider:
While it is certainly true that some women greatly enjoy some heavily sexualised female characters (and we’re totally okay with that), the notion that somehow there isn’t a demand for different types of female characters and different armor options in games and other media is just absurd.
A three volume anthology of stories to provide “characters with feminist overtones” (many, many of them seem to be armored very much like men…) was fully funded! Over a quarter of a million dollars has been pledged to the project – that doesn’t happen unless there is massive demand.
There are plenty of women out there who want big, hulking suits of armor and the ones who don’t are hardly going to get mad at a game that respects the notion of gender equality.
– wincenworks
Crashlands (Steam) is a ridiculous game that is tongue-in-cheek about almost everything, and yet still seems to display a greater understanding of gender issues and armor than most.
– wincenworks
The fact that Manveer Heir is heavily involved in the development of the next Mass Effect game, and doesn’t tolerate sexism in video games, gives me a lot of hope for the future of the franchise.
Manveer Heir is one of the best things to happen to AAA games development. He’s been active not just on Twitter talking about sexism, but along with gaming sites (Rock Paper Shotgun) and on video.
He’s always calling for games to be more inclusive and for creators to listen to people from marginalized identities when they talk about their concerns and their experiences. And why?
Because he believes that video games and other media do matter and they’re the opportunity to make the world a better place.
– wincenworks
Now I dare someone to come and tell us that fiction is “just for fun” and we shouldn’t care about proper inclusivity in it.
~Ozzie
(h/t: @lightlunas)
The fact that Manveer Heir is heavily involved in the development of the next Mass Effect game, and doesn’t tolerate sexism in video games, gives me a lot of hope for the future of the franchise.
Manveer Heir is one of the best things to happen to AAA games development. He’s been active not just on Twitter talking about sexism, but along with gaming sites (Rock Paper Shotgun) and on video.
He’s always calling for games to be more inclusive and for creators to listen to people from marginalized identities when they talk about their concerns and their experiences. And why?
Because he believes that video games and other media do matter and they’re the opportunity to make the world a better place.
– wincenworks
Now I dare someone to come and tell us that fiction is “just for fun” and we shouldn’t care about proper inclusivity in it.
~Ozzie
(h/t: @lightlunas)
Medabots: Girls Mission Has Its Own Costume Break System
From Siliconera:
Medabots: Girls Mission is the series’ first CERO C rating, and Rocket Company’s latest info on the game shows us that it also has a new costume-destruction system.
By filling up your special attack meter, you can perform the “Medaforce” attack. In Medabots: Girls Mission, you can do a “Medaforce Burst” by filling it up to 200%. Additionally, while performing the finishing blow with it, a special command window appears.
By successfully inputting the command on time, you can perform a “Hyper Finish” that blows away the clothes of the opponent. Each girl and Medabot have their own special scenes for this feature.
The “Ogre Maxim” is a feature that vastly increases a Medabot’s capabilities. This can be used once per Robattle, and the lower the points for parts are, the more effective and longer the effects of it becomes.
The Ogre Maxim increases parts abilities, shortens cooldown time of the parts, and also incerases the Medaforce Gauge. Using this system can turn the tables of the battle.
Medabots: Girls Mission Kabuto and Kuwagata will release in Japan on March 10, 2016.
@whereismywizardhat submitted:
Medabots is a friggin kid’s show. WHO IS THIS FOR?!
Were you horrified by the weird unlicensed Pokemon-as-sex-objects game? Welcome to the next level!
For those not aware, Medabots was a cute game for children that was adapted to manga and anime from the 90s-early 2000s. The anime was localized for English speakers by Fox Kids and there’s a significant English fan group who campaigning to get everything localized and Nintendo is re-releasing the games that did get localized on the Wii U
Extra Credits did a great episode on children’s properties getting gritty reboots, but it seems that instead of going with the “gritty” reboot, they’re going with the “porny” reboot – specifically the “humiliate women by forcibly undressing them” route.
Now, before the comments section gets flooded with outrage about creative freedom and this is a Japan only game, I’d like to clarify a few things:
– wincenworks
6 BS Excuses Developers Gave For Adding Boobs To Video Games
Unsurprisingly five out of the six are in regards to attire (the odd one out is in relation to shower scenes) and none of these justifications are really that unusual.
Of course, we’ve already discussed the beyond questionable explanation of why were’s supposed to be ashamed of not supporting Quiet’s “breathing through my skin” lifestyle.
The most interesting one of the batch may be the one that’s tried a unique variant of “She was designed in a country where sexualization is cultural!” specifically…
It’s kind of the reverse of when people rush in to tell us that we shouldn’t question their strange belief that Asia is a fantasy land of boobs and anime.
– wincenworks