Just Nut Up And Do It

[Dogstile]

I approve of the ideas in the original post.

The only thing I love more than video games is TNA. Putting the two together is awesome. I understand this makes me a disgusting immature douche bag. I'm fine with that.

No, it makes you a dating sim fan. Nothing wrong with that. Go play your dating sims, have fun with it. Stack 'em up in a big pile and roll around in them for all I care.

That's the thing though, I find dating sims (and rape sims while we're on the subject) to be boring, awful affairs. I need my games to actually be, you know, a game. I just don't mind skimpy outfits and/or gratuitous nudity in my mainstream games. I actually like both!

So buy a split screen a run some porn on your left, and a game on the right. Boom. Problem solved, you can be fondling your nether regions while outsmarting a cloud of 1's and 0's.

You realise what you're saying is "I don't like it, so most people don't like it, stop liking what I don't like around me" right?

How about if you don't like it, you don't play it. Plenty of games out there that don't feature skimpy outfits.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

Wait, wait, wait... That's serious promotional art? Do you see how she's holding that sword? I know I'm not the only one seeing that.

Wow.

CANNOT. UNSEE.

I am amazed that I managed to miss that.

[...] the promotional art looks like an unofficial sex parody of an MMO.

Are you serious?

When i first saw that artwork my first though was that this looks like a more elaborate version of SFW Porn (you know, these pics where a porn scene is cheaply MSPainted over, creating a non-adult context)

I mean look at it.
Her whole posture is taken from a porn 101.
1. She's bent over with her arse pointed up as if she was waiting for the next male actor to show up.
2. Her eyes are somewhat unfocused and looking off-screen, creating a longing look.
3. Her mouth is slightly opened as if she was about to moan (out of pleasure or craving).
4. The way she's holding the dagger [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GunInMyPocket] and the position she's holding it in.
Bonus Points for the winding snake thingy between her massive breasts.

I kinda expected the lingerire&bathrobe-clad elf in the background to hold a whip for additional fetish fuel, but caressing a really long staff aint that far off.
Also, she looks like they were doing this every other day.

I find it rather funny though that TERAs promotion almost exclusively shows female characters while male characters are actually wearing similar outfits ingame.

[sub]On a side note, are those hooves or just rather fantastic shoes?[/sub]

 

[ThePS1Fan]

I'm fine with it. Kinda. I find it really annoying to use these things as your only way to market an otherwise really cool game just to get the douches who would play game just for this to buy it. Especially an MMO where interaction with said douches is pretty much unavoidable. Although if it's just there then cool whatever, they're boobs not the spawn of Satan.

 

[Brad Calkins]

I'm fine with it. Kinda. I find it really annoying to use these things as your only way to market an otherwise really cool game just to get the douches who would play game just for this to buy it. Especially an MMO where interaction with said douches is pretty much unavoidable. Although if it's just there then cool whatever, they're boobs not the spawn of Satan.

You may very well be the most reasonable woman I've ever met.

...Who are you?

 

[ThePS1Fan]

I'm fine with it. Kinda. I find it really annoying to use these things as your only way to market an otherwise really cool game just to get the douches who would play game just for this to buy it. Especially an MMO where interaction with said douches is pretty much unavoidable. Although if it's just there then cool whatever, they're boobs not the spawn of Satan.

You may very well be the most reasonable woman I've ever met.

...Who are you?

Not a woman to start

I'm just a guy. A guy who does like boobs and games a lot, and finds it cool when these things meet. But I also understand that there is a time and place for everything.

And if the most reasonable woman you've ever met is actually a dude on the Internet I fear for our race, I truly do.

 

[Brad Calkins]

Not a woman to start

I'm just a guy. A guy who does like boobs and games a lot, and finds it cool when these things meet. But I also understand that there is a time and place for everything.

And if the most reasonable woman you've ever met is actually a dude on the Internet I fear for our race, I truly do.

Me too

 

[Ryank1908]

This is honestly the reason I don't give a shit about Tera. It can be as good as it wants - from where I'm sitting (which is uncomfortably when I see Tera promo images) they're pushing tits in my face because they don't think their gameplay will sell enough as it is.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I'd buy this game just to piss you guys off.
Who gives a fuck what some people want to play as?
Stop pretending to be Mary Whitehouse.

I think it's amazing you think anyone on this forum would even be aware of what games you were playing, let alone "pissed off".

 

[Danzavare]

I always thought that best solution was to have specific 'sexy' armour sets (For both males and females). If it's somewhat restricted, the contrast would surely make it more noticeable and more effective. In a crowd of fully dressed warriors, you're sure to raise an eye at the one scantily clad person. When the game world itself treats armour made up of a single shoe lace as appropriate warrior attire it just makes everything feel stupid. It's just so contrived that I find it hard to imagine anyone being interested in it for more than a moment.

Forcing it in seems more alienating and nonsensical than anything else. I imagine designing every costume like the pictures in the first post would deter players but I can't imagine that kind of look would actually do anything to draw anyone in. After all, its commonplace and you can get better/more explicit material for free on the internet.

I don't think sex appeal needs to be scrapped, but they need to be smart about how they use it. There are much less jarring ways to go about this.

 

[Ryank1908]

This is honestly the reason I don't give a shit about Tera. It can be as good as it wants - from where I'm sitting (which is uncomfortably when I see Tera promo images) they're pushing tits in my face because they don't think their gameplay will sell enough as it is.

Funny thing is from everything I have heard the actual gameplay is top notch. Also they might not actually be worried about that and instead just really like tits. This is an Asian mmo you know.

I know, that's the weird thing. Everything I've heard about it is good but it's just such a bad way of advertising (for my personal tastes) that it puts me off it. It focuses way too much on something that isn't a main reason for me to play the game, so it's just not memorable for me.

 

[Smeatza]

After doing a bit of research.

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It certainly seems the female outfits are geared towards the more impractical, seductive end, but it's not all bad.

Still, I'll never understand how not playing the game yourself isn't enough. Why people feel the need to get offended over such trivial things is beyond me.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I must be the only person who doesn't love boobs, ass, and even boober ass in games and films...

Not true, I'd don't care for them either. Ok that's a lie, I do like boobs and ass, what I don't like is the gratuitous display of boobs and ass like in the picture in the OP.

 

[anthony87]

So........what's the problem here?

 

[cahtush]

Hate thing like this. The thing i hated the most about ME2 is the ridicilous outfits of Miranda, Jack and Samara. Especially Mirandas. It just completly bring mr out of the experience. Compare it to ME1, there everyone had armour.

 

[Scow2]

Hate thing like this. The thing i hated the most about ME2 is the ridicilous outfits of Miranda, Jack and Samara. Especially Mirandas. It just completly bring mr out of the experience. Compare it to ME1, there everyone had armour.

Miranda: She likes her body, and likes showing it off. She's not the type to favor heavy armor anyway (It interferes with biotics?), so if she'd rather wear a comfortable(Hey, it's the future!) skin-tight suit, then let her.

Jack: She's a loud rebel who wears an outfit that's designed to show off her tattoos. She's the fucking most powerful biotic ever, so she doesn't need armor (Lack of a "Barrier" ability seems to be a gameplay oversight, since she uses it plenty in cutscenes), and she's the most powerful biotic ever, so she doesn't need to even wear clothes if she doesn't want to. "I can blow you all to pieces with my brain. Don't tell me what I fucking can or can't wear."

And Samara... Aliens have wierd fashion sense, and she's not as socially inept as Liara was. Even if she does have a stick up her ass. Also: Don't watch Star Trek.

 

[repeating integers]

Hate thing like this. The thing i hated the most about ME2 is the ridicilous outfits of Miranda, Jack and Samara. Especially Mirandas. It just completly bring mr out of the experience. Compare it to ME1, there everyone had armour.

Miranda: She likes her body, and likes showing it off. She's not the type to favor heavy armor anyway (It interferes with biotics?), so if she'd rather wear a comfortable(Hey, it's the future!) skin-tight suit, then let her.

Jack: She's a loud rebel who wears an outfit that's designed to show off her tattoos. She's the fucking most powerful biotic ever, so she doesn't need armor (Lack of a "Barrier" ability seems to be a gameplay oversight, since she uses it plenty in cutscenes), and she's the most powerful biotic ever, so she doesn't need to even wear clothes if she doesn't want to. "I can blow you all to pieces with my brain. Don't tell me what I fucking can or can't wear."

And Samara... Aliens have wierd fashion sense, and she's not as socially inept as Liara was. Even if she does have a stick up her ass. Also: Don't watch Star Trek.

Personally, I think the decision to give Jack no upper body clothing was more motivated by a desire for the game designers to show off their l337 tattoo work than anything else. By gaming standards, she's barely got any breasts to show off.

Miranda's stuff I can sort of accept, based on her personality (though I should point out I couldn't ever find it in myself to complain about it, no matter the justification), but she really should wear something different into combat as she's not as powerful a biotic as Jack.

And Samara... well, yeah, same as Miranda really, except given her personality you'd think she'd wear something boring and practical all the time.