Female Fantasy Armor Rant

[Skm1091]

Has anyone noticed that female armor in alot of video games are little more than metallic underwear. Now I don't mind (they are games afterall) but from the (practical side in me) this has to be the worst armor design in history.

I mean look at them. They have almost all vital organs exposed, which mean as an armor they are pretty darn useless.

The only people I can see wearing these would be gladiators, they are supposed to look flashy afterall.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

I'd say they all kinda sorta ARE gladiators since they're purpose is to entertain us so you answered your own question.

[Wroclaw]

   I'm pretty sure there have been game devs that figured out somewhere along the line that most of the people buying their games were teenage boys, so they worked harder at appealing to teenage boys, resulting in a dedicated fan base of teenage boys and a positive feedback loop that would marginalize everyone else.
   There are games that avoid the female armor trend or leave the bikini as an option (ex. Skyrim, Dark Souls, WoW, Fire Emblem), but I'm disturbed by the fact that this isn't an expectation for most non-satire/non-porn games.  I think there was a controversy recently about the female options in Dragon's Crown - it looked like a decent enough game otherwise.  I don't care for shallow sex appeal, but even if I didn't mind it on its own, it's pretty toxic in the same environment with a sensible story or emotional character development, and it makes the gaming community look like sociopaths.  While Bikini Samurai Squad might be entertaining in some sense of the word, I would never want games in general or even the majority of games of one genre stick to one form of entertainment, and I would vastly prefer games be designed where I can play as a girl or have female party members that make choices like reasonable humans.

Relevant: [spoiler][/spoiler]

[tnu]

Is that Aela from Chrono Trigger?

[Skm1091]

Is that Aela from Chrono Trigger?

No her name is Raquel Welsh

And it's a still from this film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Years_B.C.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

   I'm pretty sure there have been game devs that figured out somewhere along the line that most of the people buying their games were teenage boys, so they worked harder at appealing to teenage boys, resulting in a dedicated fan base of teenage boys and a positive feedback loop that would marginalize everyone else.
   There are games that avoid the female armor trend or leave the bikini as an option (ex. Skyrim, Dark Souls, WoW, Fire Emblem), but I'm disturbed by the fact that this isn't an expectation for most non-satire/non-porn games.  I think there was a controversy recently about the female options in Dragon's Crown - it looked like a decent enough game otherwise.  I don't care for shallow sex appeal, but even if I didn't mind it on its own, it's pretty toxic in the same environment with a sensible story or emotional character development, and it makes the gaming community look like sociopaths.  While Bikini Samurai Squad might be entertaining in some sense of the word, I would never want games in general or even the majority of games of one genre stick to one form of entertainment, and I would vastly prefer games be designed where I can play as a girl or have female party members that make choices like reasonable humans.

Relevant: [spoiler][/spoiler]

The thing about Dragon's Crown, as I pointed out in my Objectification vid, is that the ENTIRE game is built on comical exaggeration of features.  The whole thing is tongue in cheek and really not supposed to be taken seriously.