[Thia]

Killer said:

If you want to see some revealing armor look at Blade & Soul that NCsoft is making.

YouTube- Blade & Soul Gameplay (HD)

Ok that looks like it will be good...i guess we can except it around 2020 :P

[Daecas]

I'm surprised so many people don't seem to mind the female plate armour, have to agree wit hthe OP - plate armour should be plate... armour... as in fullfill the purpose of protecting someone from physical attacks, for that it should be a suit of plate, and thus not skimpy. With cloth and leather, go nuts, w/e, but plate and to a lesser extent i suppose chain, should look like it would actually protect someone.

[dragon3355]

Plate armor... Ohhhh. Cover the girl in dishes :D That's plate armor for ya. Wash em!

[h0ly_r0ll3r]

There's a few simple reasons why female armor doesn't cover as much as male armor. 1) Females are weak, they'd never be able to cook or make babies with such heavy armor on. 2) Females can't beat the Male fighters either way. Their only hope is to distract them with their lovely lady humps, thus their need for skimpy armor. 3) It's a video game, get over it retards.

[Disquette]

~Polaris Nova~ said:

If you disagree, its quite sensible to say why :P

That is my personal opinion, and on a serious note I do think women are sexualised in different ways for the very reason I mentioned.

So there :P

ps I want more revealing *male* armour :-D

Despite how I may have come across earlier, I agree. Not that I want more revealing male armor personally, but if that's going to make the game more attractive to more people, then I'm all for including it. Best of luck, I do hope you get it. Salaciousness can't be just one sided, now can it ;)

And, I respect your right to believe what you do regarding the underlying reasons. It may be right, I'm open to that. However, my boss is female, my employees are female. I depend on them both above and below me to be very smart and capable. If they aren't, my job is in jeopardy. So, while you may be right in a general sense, I can't really associate with it. My whole financial well-being depends on women being extremely good at what they do.

This post has been edited by Disquette: 15 November 2009 - 08:13 PM

[ジェイ]

Cocowoushi said:

Because this totally isn't the norm these days?

Can we GET to the important thing here... WHAT GAME IS THAT IMAGE FROM?

[Snoop62]

??? said:

Can we GET to the important thing here... WHAT GAME IS THAT IMAGE FROM?

Ive seen that before its either from TERA or Blade and Soul

[Faliandra]

Snoop62 said:

Ive seen that before its either from TERA or Blade and Soul

it's tera online.

[Snoop62]

Faliandra said:

it's tera online.

Ty Faliandra, would have looked it up myself but comps at work have very very limited access :cry:

[Raelyth]

For my first post to these forums, I'm going to announce that I voted "yes". I will also announce that I am a stay-at-home mom in a middling decade of my lifespan. I play a male templar, predominantly (just because his RP personality wouldn't work as a female), but I have a female cleric also.

(NOTE TO FLAMETHROWERS: Please read the entire comment before working your magic.)

I concur with the folks who've said that plate-mail bikinis are totally impractical. Yes, they are. Granted, we're in a magic world, but I really would prefer (myself) neck-to-heel in metal, JUST IN CASE. You never know.

And the comments about "distracting the baddies with your body while you get the advantage"? That's silly; if the same principle is held on their side, it's nothing they haven't seen before. They're less likely to go "hubba-hubba-wha?" when they see your charming little tummy and legs, than to chop you in half and move right along to the next target--especially if it's another chick showing HER tummy and legs. Besides, if the HHW reaction were one that actually worked consistently, you'd have historical records of large and successful armies of naked chicks conquering the world. My education may be faulty, but I don't recall a unit on the Great Amazon Empire.

THAT SAID...I concur that the armor here is not as bad as in other games. "Less bad" is not "not bad", but I agree that I don't feel quite as...used in this game.

Furthermore, I really don't care if people want to dress their characters in Verteron's Secret paraphernalia. Go ahead; knock yourselves out, if you really think that you can't enjoy gaming without taking it all off. I'd just like the option to wear MORE myself, please. (Yes, I shall convey this to NCSoft as well.) Options are good; look at the awesomeness of just the character-creation flexibility.

Seriously, who says a lady HAS to be "hawt" in order to be valuable--or valued? (Hint: Only those who REALLY want to oppress women!)

This post has been edited by Raelyth: 15 November 2009 - 10:39 PM
Reason for edit: Clarifications

[Amadaeo]

The basic issue is that a) the gamer culture around these games is still weighted toward straight guys. Therefore, most of the armor choices will appeal to straight guys. If it appeals to anyone else, great! If not, well, hope some of the developers tossed a few bones to folks who don't like women objectified, and who like men who are. (Guild Wars, god bless you.)

Though some of the Asmo armor choices are, as I've said before, fairly objectifying re: their men, too. (So are the pants on one of the Elyos sets, hello, Jareth!)

In the case of asian games, it's also just b) the culture in general; women are still more objectified than they are here.

Where this can get most annoying on Aion, if you want your female character to be in armor as imposing as the men's, is the Daevanion armor. Making melee look like erololi maids-- well, I'd play one, but I can understand why it would annoy some people. Guys who'd mock that should be offered the male Paragon armor from Guild Wars to wear, and little else: I can guarantee that all but the most secure would be pretty embarrassed.

Anyway, I like T&A. My personal gripe is that men's flesh isn't as revealed as the women's in this game, frankly. And they could offer the girls a little more to cover up for the same reason they give guys armor that covers everything up: some folks don't want to look cute, they want to look like the main thing on their minds is not to crush you with their shapely, possibly-tanned, glistening thighs, but to crush you with their powerful, metal-clad fists. And they don't think that the fact that they have boobs has any bearing on that.

[RahaMies]

The way female armor should be done:
UESPWiki - Armor with pictures
Dragon Age: Origins Heavy Armor Concept Art

These are what I can call some armor.

[Thomasmgp]

Because no one wants to look at walking tin cans?

This post has been edited by Thomasmgp: 15 November 2009 - 11:19 PM

[Lythria]

Amadaeo said:

My personal gripe is that men's flesh isn't as revealed as the women's in this game

Sorry but I dont want to see some scantily armored guy with his swinging pipe going side to side when he runs.

[Raelyth]

Thomasmgp said:

Just in case anyone used the "Plate armor is very heavy so women wouldnt be able to move around as much as a man" argument in this 37 page thread and thats why they leave more uncovered is wrong. A full set of tempered steel armor weighed about 45 pounds. By comparison the typical gear worn by our infantry troops today weighs between 50-70 pounds. But seriously who really wants to look at walking tin cans?

First point: Well said. (And someone did bring it up.) It looks heavy, but it wasn't really.

Second point: If the objective is to bring all the boys to the yard, then looks are everything. But if the objective is to send all the boys to the graveyard, I'd rather be looking at a row of large tin-can imitators between me and the bad guys.

I may be strange.

[Amadaeo]

Lythria said:

Sorry but I dont want to see some scantily armored guy with his swinging pipe going side to side when he runs.

Let him keep the codpiece. How about some chest and thigh and arms and such?

[Jerk]

I see nothing wrong.

[CrashB111]

i have a feel that the vote numbers shows the numer of men playing this game.
IMO i voted no :D

[Raelyth]

Amadaeo said:

Let him keep the codpiece. How about some chest and thigh and arms and such?

Pfft. I can get that just by giving my hubby a particular look. :love:

What I CAN'T put my hands on readily is matching His and Hers gold-inlaid, jewel-studded adamantium plate armor.

...That and a grenade launcher, but let's not get carried away here.

[zagan]

I haven't read the whole thread.

But I take many people or most if not all the posters probably have never looked at fantasy artwork, all lot of these games and themes are based more on these images rather than what should be right etc.

You might want to look up the artist Boris Vallejo, this guy only does female fantasy art works he is considered to be able to do the most prefect females in this type of artwork in the world.

There are plenty of other artists out there doing this type of work in different ways

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