The hilarious front line in the tragic war against ridiculous female armor
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Last year a How Do I Armor? specifcally on leather armor, this year Skallagrim did a series of videos examining how a sample of the thickest, hardest leather available holds up against a variety of attack types. Including axes:
Crossbows:
Firearms:
Notably this leather he’s testing is extremely thick (6 millimeters, for perspective – leather used for saddles is usually only 4 to 5 millimeters thick). It can be dyed, painted, gilded and embossed, but it certainly can’t be sculpted into skin-tight body hugging fetish attire.
Well not without crushing, pinching and chaffing the wearer to death anyway.
“Sword of Chaos combines the elements of fatal attraction and chaotic violence into a unique and astonishing visual feast. Immerse yourself in a world of violence and unleash your inner wildness. Sensing, Tasting, Hacking, Slashing and Fighting dominate your every move, as you fight to destroy all that stands before you!“
And here I thought that Fallout 4 was the only RPG with cannibalism being released this year. Of course, that’s not surprising given how truly creative and original this production is.
And apparently no expense has been spared regarding quality either…
I’m really hoping that mainstream games will start to notice this trend and be inspired to distance themselves from it bikini armor.
Can we talk about The Mandate for a little bit? I mean, the concept is one of the two games that I have been dreaming of since I was about eight, of an empire in turmoil and you as a captain given a mission to reunite it – which you can choose to do, or you can decide to become a pirate, or join the rebels, or align yourself with a reformist faction, or carve out your own empire, or anything else the devs think of.
Combat is both infantry boarding teams and space fleets of about one to five ships of various sizes, with the ability to actually have a boarding action happening at the same time as the fleet engagement, on one of the ships involved, and with the boarding team’s actions affecting the ship action!
And apart from the game itself, which looks shaping up to be wonderful, the devs have built a character modeling system that can handle nearly any body type, and have taken care to model women as respectfully as they have men. I mean, look at this article – they have no Creepy Marketing Guy! That’s amazing!
And in all of it, they’re putting women in all the roles men can have – from boarding team, to engineers keeping the ship running, to captains. The leader of the empire, Empress Anastasia Romanov, who ascended to the throne just in time for the Rebels to strike, is portrayed as a stronger ruler than her father and one who realises that there will be hard work ahead of them.
The everyday uniform your captain wears is a light hardsuit, capable of keeping you alive when the bridge is holed and the atmosphere vents, and look at it! It looks like actual functional (if stylised) armour – but the male version looks near-identical, and the stylisation is to make it look like an 1800s naval uniform, not for any ‘sex appeal’!
I mean, just read this quote from the earlier-linked article:
“Perhaps there are meticulously theorized marketing implications for gender representation in games, tacitly discussed by marketers with twirly moustaches at board meetings,” he says. “With 48 percent of all gamers being women according to ESA it seems a little misguided to actively aim to please only half of your potential customer base while alienating the other half. Besides some guys prefer to roll female characters… In any conceivable version of a space-faring future for humankind, there would need to be women…”
How awesome is that?
Just thought I’d share.
I highly recommend that everyone check out the art e-book that is freely available on the web site. It’s full of awesome imagery and on par with many art books that I’ve paid for.
Well that’s something I didn’t know I always wanted to see in DBZ…
I’m both surprised and relieved that so far we didn’t receive any misguided messages suggesting that shirtless Goku is sexualized because muscles. As a wise blogger once said, Dragon Ball Z is a quintessential male power fantasy. Warrior men in the series are roughly as “objectified” as Kratos or Conan.
It took a whole boyband song and sexy synchronised dance number to turn those proud Saiyans into pure fanservice! Merely tearing their shirts wouldn’t do.
