It really doesn't take me out of the experience or anything, but it just seems highly inefficient.
Poll: Do you hate sexy armor on female characters?
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That's about how I feel about the matter. If it's a game that's meant to be taken fairly seriously, then it is somewhat annoying. But most of the time I don't have any problem with it. The alternative is basically covering up everything (if it was going for realistic, it'd normally include the head), which would normally lead to bland character design or storm trooper syndrome.Zhukov said:
One thing though; if female characters get armor meant more towards being fashion then function, men should too. I'm not talking something like a banana hammock being used in place of full armor. But it's a bit silly to put all these female warriors dressed in nothing really functional standing next to men wearing giant suits of armor (Dragon Age brings that to mind). Mass Effect seems a bit more along the lines of having everyone besides perhaps Shepard wearing pretty casual outfits. At least it seemed that way to me.
well if were talking about game armour and i see no reason why we shouldnt then armour should look good the stats arent tied to the graphic so teh graphic may as well be aesthetic. if that means making it sexy thats fine. i think the problem comes from more the portrayal of women purely being there to be a sexy object of male desire. if they are valid characters that just happen to be sexy as all hell then theres no issue.
Agree completely I'm playing video games not watching porn, if its goal is to be porn it does a shit job. ¬.¬
I hate shitty character design. Most sexy armor also happens to be shitty character design. I'm an artist, so I feel pretty strongly about crap art.
Thanks for all the replies everyone! Since the poll got so many votes I'm gunna use it in my Psych class for one of the papers we have to write 
It's really interesting how closely the voting has been tho.
It's really interesting how closely the voting has been tho.
I'm an artist, too. Back in high school I used to make some money by drawing all my friends favorite video game/comic/anime characters. After I was able to improve my own style in college I got requests for characters I had made. Here's the thing tho. (I'm talking about only female characters in this) I might have gotten less than 10 requests for my characters dressed in say, normal clothes. But I got bout 50 asking for "draw that asian girl with pigtails in a sexy school girl outfit" or "draw that red head in a nurse outfit". It irked me at first because I felt they really didn't want a drawing of THAT character just a sexy pose. But after a while I started to like drawing them like that. Eventually I made a good friend a 10 page collect of all his female WoW characters in the armor he picked out. To this day it was one of my favorite projects I've ever done. Sexy doesn't have to be whorish, it can be done in a powerful way, too.Chemical Alia said:
Personally I don't mind "sexy" armor on a female character. You CAN go too far but even then it's not enough to make me not like a game.
One thing I will ALWAYS prefer is that armor looks different for each gender. If I'm playing as a 120 lb amazon in Skyrim she shouldn't be wearing the same plate mail as the 240 lb orc I just killed.
As for combat stilettos I find them silly but in a good way. To me it's like, of course this girl is tough. She's doing everything a male character would be but she's doing it in 4 inch heels. lol
One thing I will ALWAYS prefer is that armor looks different for each gender. If I'm playing as a 120 lb amazon in Skyrim she shouldn't be wearing the same plate mail as the 240 lb orc I just killed.
As for combat stilettos I find them silly but in a good way. To me it's like, of course this girl is tough. She's doing everything a male character would be but she's doing it in 4 inch heels. lol
I don't hate it, but as the user above says: where is my sexy man armour? I mean honestly... what are those bound-to-be chiselled abs covered for? Protection? Blah!
Yeah... can't argue with females like to make their characters an individual, and probably going to spend more time than your average male doing it.deadish said:
However, it's not exclusively a female thing - I play DCUO, and the males also like to have their unique-looking characters.
My personal feelings is that I don't mind either way, but sometimes it does go overboard.
With WoW it was kind of weird, because the SAME piece of armour would be VERY different on the diff genders. If it's revealing on the female, then make it show some midriff/chest on the males kkthx.
One of the things I really like about DCUO is that you can choose to look like any piece of armour you've collected, with certain restrictions on the weapon (e.g. you can't use a bow and have a mace for the look). That way, you have to earn certain styles, and have more variety as the game progresses, but you don't have to get lumbered with a really ugly piece. Problem with a lot of WoW-likes, you get stuck at some point with an ugly armour set, thanks to stats.
With WoW it was kind of weird, because the SAME piece of armour would be VERY different on the diff genders. If it's revealing on the female, then make it show some midriff/chest on the males kkthx.
One of the things I really like about DCUO is that you can choose to look like any piece of armour you've collected, with certain restrictions on the weapon (e.g. you can't use a bow and have a mace for the look). That way, you have to earn certain styles, and have more variety as the game progresses, but you don't have to get lumbered with a really ugly piece. Problem with a lot of WoW-likes, you get stuck at some point with an ugly armour set, thanks to stats.
I hate it. It's my rage button. My frothing rage button, and on SC4/5 I get a lot of flack for my characters dressed like they're going into battle instead of a fashion show.
I think there is only ONE instance of so-called 'sexy' armor that I actually liked. That was ninety-nine-nights 1's Inphy.
I think there is only ONE instance of so-called 'sexy' armor that I actually liked. That was ninety-nine-nights 1's Inphy.
In cRPGs - i'm ok with it. Actually i like my heroines to run naked from time to time.Riki Darnell said:
In tabletop RPGs, tv shows, movies and other works of fiction - i absolutely, totally hate it.
Probably it's because i don't expect too much realism in cRPGs...
Well as I stated earlier there are plenty of fantasy males that have an aversion to shirts (usually barbarians). Also, a man in shining fullplate is essentially the man in shining armor stereotype that women apparently like. So it is there to a certain extent, its just not as blatant as it is with female characters.CkretAznMan said:
There's a time and place and context is important, etc, etc. I mean, if the art direction is already stylized it really shouldn't matter, and if the art direction is more grounded then yes it will look silly, but in general whatever. There also plenty of ways for a character to be 'sexy' without wearing something skimpy.