AliciaDurge wrote: ↑
April 9th, 2024, 15:10
Seriously tho, I don't like the unrealistic armor where you can just stick a sword through the ribs and the female pc going around in bikini armor should die due to it. Same goes for male pc going around with skimpy armor, but it's rarely that way. Not every female character needs to look like a run away model while going around killing enemies, there is a time and place for that. Disclaimer btw, this is just my opinion and I just use mods if I'm turned off too much by the unrealistic armor in games. I sometimes like to make my pc look like a pretty girl or boy, but usually I like to run with a realistic armor. Tho if it's planned for women to go around looking like run away models all the time, at least it should be made equal. Let male characters have skimpy armors too, please.
I mean, on the image you posted, exactly none of that armour is realistic. For the man, his neck is completely exposed, his torso armour would restrict his movement, and he has absolutely no armour on his thigh, where the Femoral Artery is - it would be easy to kill him with very little effort. As for the Slopdivers gear - those huge plates glued onto the gloves without actual support are ridiculous at best, and the shoulder pads would do nothing except make it harder to move - and as a result, likely get you killed.
Here's a list of some actual 'REAL' armours - Art used in the first two since it's not easy to find surviving sets of pre-14th Century Armour.
All that said, there is nothing wrong with games having unrealistic armour, but the idea of men and women wearing the same armour is goofy anyway, since even the basic bone structure would impair them if they were using rigid armours that were designed for men - not to mention in most cases the significant size difference. I'd go into more detail, but I don't want to. So I won't.
Suffice to say, the Slopdivers gear looks hideous, and having women look identical to men is goofy, and helps feed into the notion of wokeism.
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