I saw Brianna Wu mention this blog post just now... and then I saw... the comments are from here!
http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/106906034228/wtf-is-he-wearing-ewwww-that-design
Do you agree the comments are silly, GAF? Or that the blog arguments are silly?
So Final Fantasy finally (all puns intended) decided to fully embrace its female-gazey nature and released initial promo pics with a male character not being cool and stoic, but under-dressed, sexy and vulnerable? Me like!
Aaaaand some gamers knee-jerk reaction is Eeew, how is that supposed to be a man?! Im never playing this!? Me no like.
But all the same, Im not particularly surprised either. Sigh.
While screencapping the worst comments from that forum thread, I also noticed lots of other posts being like "I dont mind sexy male armor, BUT this particular one is just a shitty design, period.", which is an argument far removed from the reality of current game industry.
The thing is, were waaaaay past the badly designed sexy female armor quota, so theres lots of badly designed sexy male armor quota to meet. And until balance of the two is restored, I dont really think anyone is in the position to request male sexyness to be up to some arbitrary design quality standard.
Ill also hold my final judgement of the whole games art direction until we get to see female characters for comparison. After all, FF titles provided us with some major Female Armor Bingo material before.
http://bikiniarmorbattledamage.tumblr.com/post/106906034228/wtf-is-he-wearing-ewwww-that-design
Do you agree the comments are silly, GAF? Or that the blog arguments are silly?