The human female Follow

Nice "Deer caught in the headlights" look.

A 250lb woman would be more than a handful........

Blizzard just added this gif concerning the female model.

I was wrong about the model being skinner. I guess defining where the muscles are gave the illusion of her being skinnier side by side.

Recent gear hasn't been bad. There's been the occasional exposed sternum or navel, but as a whole it's been pretty modest.

That said, with Transmog being an option you see boobplate everywhere.

That's true. But having REAL options is important.

Partially for males like me, who get driven up the wall by gear that utterly breaks any attempt to be realistic.

But more importantly for female gamers. I know a lot of them, it's a statistically relevant group, and pretty much all of them die a little inside every time an upgrade amounts to 1-2 pieces of fabric and a string. Particularly when they're playing melee characters and not casters.

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I realize the "But" makes it sound like I'm disagreeing with you somehow. I'm not. I meant it more like "Be that as it may, it's still nice that..."

Edited, Jan 27th 2014 12:51pm by idiggory

Most of the female gamers I know don't necessarily scoff at the idea of said armor existing, it's more an issue of being forced into it (particularly in games where there are established models you can't change).

And WAY too many games (cough Tera cough) have such an over-abundance of sexy armor, because they're clearly only targetting the male demographic. So then the female gamers not only feel awkward, but also alienated. Which makes it a really stupid design decision in the first place - nothing like making a decision to alienate a solid 30-40+% of your market, when the male population was pretty much guaranteed anyway.

If they're ugly. Link 'em and let us decide.

But yeah TERA, that game set any visions of emerging armor equality back a good decade on its own.

I think that pretty much nails it.

When you're playing a game, you don't want to feel constantly objectified by the game design, particularly not when the population of mouth breathers is already disgusting.

That's a good way of putting it, but it causes me to ask this question:

Why is it that almost nobody complains about these "power fantasy" males, but yet soooooo many people complain about sexual fantasy females?

Is there some reason why one is OK with most and the other, not?

Don't get me wrong; too much of anything can be bad (yes, I'm a guy who... has limits as to how much sexuality I want to be bombarded with, there's a point where too much becomes "meh, already seen this"), I'm just merely curious as to the reasoning behind the discrimination between the two.

The mentality makes sense; the guys want more sex on average, the girls like to see powerful men who can get things done (at least, that's the average; there's people who go against this).

Even though I'm a guy IRL, I'd have to say that if I'm to play a male character... I'd rather play one that gets crap done. Don't have to be ridiculously ripped, but yet.... there's a reason why I lost interest in Final Fantasy games lately. The skinny emo-heavy boytoys just.... no thanks.

As for female characters, welll......

*grins*

I can't help it, I like a girl who looks decent, but can get crap done. Fem!Shep in Mass Effect. A Female Boss in Saint's Row 3 or 4 (Female Voice 1 of course!). The girls you do _not_ want to mess with, but yet still look reasonably well (without needing skimpy armor).

And I always end up putting straight long black hair on these girls too. I guess that's just how I like em.

Wow. You actually managed to put zero information into your post while at the same time being extremely condescending. Good job!

From a straight, male perspective, yes, but what about from a straight, female perspective? Or a gay male/female perspective? Would they not have different perspectives?



Um, what?

Female Pandaren are considerably cuter and more attractive than female Worgen, Forsaken and Tauren.* And male Pandaren are probably more power trip inducing than male Gnomes...

*In my opinion, of course.

Edit: I give up; I can't find a sexy picture of a female Worgen.

Edited, Jan 28th 2014 12:32am by Mazra

Complicated really. Two things that come to mind when I think about it.

- Power fantasy style males tend to be also sexual fantasies. Female characters who are sexual fantasies tend not to be a power fantasy. For example, one of the top sexual fantasy female characters is the blood elf female.

- Muscular males tend to rank fairly high on what a female would find sexual. So for male characters, they can actually achieve both the power fantasy plus the sexual ones. Mind you, I don't think females look at a dwarf or orc male and get a raging lady ***** but if you notice all but two have defined muscles and one of the two has pecs.



I agree. There is a reason I enjoy playing a female pandaren in WoW.