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greatatlantic

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Keep in mind most programmers and designers have never actually seen real women, let alone women in combat situations or using live weaponry. Since the majority of RTS games are not known for their realism anyways, I think there are other things that should take priority on the fix list. That said, it does annoy me when I constantly see rediculous "armor" and things like that in games. In combat, breasts are a hinderance that need to be kept out of the way, not something left half exposed to look at while you try and cut someones stomach open.

Also, maybe this should go in the General Gaming forum?
 
Well, think about it. Is your enemy (a male) likely to attack a woman with breasts that appear to be attempting to jump out of her chest?
 
CCR has a point. Breasts aren't a hindrance - they are a powerful psychological weapon.

@Greatatlantic: OMG TEH HAWT!!!1
 
John Uskglass said:
Well, think about it. Is your enemy (a male) likely to attack a woman with breasts that appear to be attempting to jump out of her chest?
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If the woman has weapons that appear to be attempting to jump into your chest, I'd say yes.
 
I'm just reminded of Dennis Leary's line about making World Peace...

"...look at the tit!"

If you don't laugh, then you need to listen to his stand-up Lock and Load. :D
 
I suppose thats one way to look at it. Also, it is only one game and thats probably looking for a quick and cheap way to get an edge in sales. As for the "combative advantage", I don't think thats why they included that unit, or boxart, or whatever. I thinks its a deliberate effort to increase sales. And what happens when a company tries to make a game around simply getting good sales, instead of good gameplay? First, you get a terrible game; second it sells well.
 
well ermm i just thought i'd add whats wrong with having scantily clad women in games. Who is complaining it doesnt affect gameplay at all they are merely units.
 
William J Shimmin said:
well ermm i just thought i'd add whats wrong with having scantily clad women in games. Who is complaining it doesnt affect gameplay at all they are merely units.
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Firstly, scantily dressed women are unrealistic. A game that draws its inspiration from a particular time period should also have characters that wear clothes that were commonplace in that period. For example, Rayne's skimpy leather outfit hardly screams 1940s, and NWN's Aribeth looks more like a prostitute than a chaste servant of Tyr. Even more importantly, half-naked chicks are used extensively in advertising (You are more likely to buy a game if one look at the cover makes blood rush from your brain to... someplace else. Don't bother denying it, it's nothing to be embarrassed about - if anything, it says more about despicable shrewdness of publishers than about your naivette.) or, worse yet, as a cheap substitute for actual game content. Example: Dead or Alive series.
 
William J Shimmin said:
well ermm i just thought i'd add whats wrong with having scantily clad women in games. Who is complaining it doesnt affect gameplay at all they are merely units.
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Not to beat a dead horse, but on its surface there is nothing wrong with having them. I've been around a little too long, though, for it to make any game more appealing in my eyes. I just fear we are going to get water down real time strategy games meant to appeal to the "mass market", whatever that is. And gameplay will suffer. Yet, like I said earlier, it is just one game that hasn't even been released yet. I'm still open for a pool about Tony Hawk: RTS, though.
 
greatatlantic said:
Also, it is only one game and thats probably looking for a quick and cheap way to get an edge in sales.
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only one? alas my friend, you are mistaken...

take a look at 50% of the RTS games that'll come out in the near future. you'll see they use scantly dressed women as well.

for example, look at the new Settlers game screenshots: the hero archer thingy: OMFG b00bz!!!!1!!!one!!!eleven!!1111! *drewl*

i'm afraid that this will increase even further in the future. it's another characteristic of our current marketplace. management thinks it'll sell, so they insist on it, even in serious games...
 
lol sorry to get your hopes up, i meant "The Settlers: Heritage of Kings", but i don't think thats an actual settlers game...
 
SuAside said:
lol sorry to get your hopes up, i meant "The Settlers: Heritage of Kings", but i don't think thats an actual settlers game...
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It is done by Blue Byte. However I played the Demo and it is not like any of the previous Settlers games. Well you do place buildings, thats alot like the series. However, gone are the intricate system of buildings and service areas. Gone are the 27 buildings required to make bread. A Settlers game without a massive 2 week step by step process to make bread? I know, it just doesn't feel right.
 
Well, I can't say that skirt/belt didn't raise an eyebrow. At first I thought the picture was fine until I noticed that. They could have got away with her wearing little, it's not like they went in for lots of heavy layers of clothing, but fucking hell. Those clothes go above and beyond the needs of ventilation. They easily could have got away with a skimpy bra and a proper skirt and no one could complain. Although topless for peasant women back then was apperently not out of the question they'd still wear a damn skirt and I somehow doubt it'll be in many games unless they want to be rated "adult only". Who is going to sit there with a hard-on for tiny RTS units in micro skirts anyway? Stupid. It's already pissed off some folk here.

The sad truth, AKA Marketing GENIUS:

Average Game + T & A = AWESOME GAME = $$$

You can bet that there will be a few people who will be persuaded to buy it solely due to the art on the box, and a large number will turn heads and pick it up in the shop to look at it, when they'd have passed by if it had a monument, or a guy on the front.
 
Fez said:
You can bet that there will be a few people who will be persuaded to buy it solely due to the art on the box, and a large number will turn heads and pick it up in the shop to look at it, when they'd have passed by if it had a monument, or a guy on the front.
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Yeah, I'd be tempted to measure how well it sells compared to Rome: Total War, described by IGN as the best RTS ever... to be taken with a grain of salt. Anyways, it did feature a guy on the front cover. Big, tough, legion looking guy.
 
Well sometimes you have to appeal to the gay demographic. They like to get damp in the crotch too.
 
Wow, hawt computer chick on the left. I'm getting it.

Do you people think that the whole "hot chick" thing in regards to computer games applies more to 14 year olds, or older audiences?
 
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