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What are your favorite pieces of functional female body armor?
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Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I love Saber's armors from Fate/Stay Night and spin-offs
Speaking of spin-offs, fate/extra has saber wearing this:
Absolutely absurd to go from reasonable armor to see-through skirt. Makes you wonder why she even bothers to wear armored boots.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I'm aware. I wore it on my female Arisen because of its stats (before finding dragonleather vest and later the patterned gambeson) but only because I could hide it with actual armour. Still gross though.
Indeed. I now go out of my way to hire pawns who are a) male (the gender ratio is so skewed, it's absurd) or b) sensibly dressed. Way too many bikini-wearing pawns. -_-Of course, most female pawns decline to wear anything over it, same goes for the Silk Lingere.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Not my favourite by a long shot but I liked the approach they took in Halo 3's multiplayer, where the player models were identical between male and female characters. They changed it up in later games to sexualize the female versions a bit, so maybe you can chalk this up to just not fully implementing it at the time, but it worked out for the better I think.
Lots of great stuff here, and I second (most of) the Monster Hunter designs.
But it's pretty hard to beat Samus Aran's iconic armor as viewed through a Retro Studios design lens:
It's armor first -- and absolutely distinct armor, at that -- with just the right edge of femininity
But it's pretty hard to beat Samus Aran's iconic armor as viewed through a Retro Studios design lens:
It's armor first -- and absolutely distinct armor, at that -- with just the right edge of femininity
daninthemix
Member
There's no way Samus' armour can be beat in this regard. So functional and unsexualised players thought she was a dude.
Brass Set;
Absolutely. Beautiful concept and very well realised.
You can't see an inch of skin, and yet it still manages to be sexy.
Everyone loves the Light Suit, but I feel the Dark Suit's industrial aesthetic is also pretty sweet.
I feel Halo 3 had the better approach. The spartan 2s practically don't look human anymore thanks to their ridiculous augmentations.
TheCongressman1
Member
Already posted but, they are the perfect examples:
Hilde
Samus
Hilde
Samus
jackissocool
Member
Whatever your feelings about Lightning as a character it's damn hard to deny she's got one badass design.
Absolutely love this!
Demon's Souls had distinct female-specific looks that were also 100% awesome (Although I prefer the male fluted armor).Unparalleled
Amazeballs
Member
Funny that you say that since...
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/7f...esign-works-translation-weapons-and-eq/99682/
It is, incidentally, a beautiful set of armor though.
Deified Data
Banned
Ew, I can still see a faint hint of the sinful female form in most of those armors.
Dark Souls does it right. A truly liberated female is neither seen nor heard.
Dark Souls does it right. A truly liberated female is neither seen nor heard.
Riposte
Member
"functional" is a whole other matter, but in terms of conservative displays of flesh, FFXIV has only been getting worse since its earlier days. The armor design has been making a greater shift towards gender differences and that has included more exclusively revealing armor for females (e.g., males wear pants, females wear skirts).
SneakyStephan
Banned
+10.000 respect points for even knowing ns2 exists on these forums
By the way, J. Shea wrote a great article(s) on character design in terms of internal consistency within the fiction, utility, and substance. Anyone interested in character design should read up on it.
On utility
On style
Lots more at the link.
EDIT: He/she also wrote this
On utility
On style
Lots more at the link.
EDIT: He/she also wrote this
Wow, I had no idea this was all available online! Thanks!
(I own the Japanese design works book but haven't managed to go through all the anecdotes/interviews just yet ^^
Hah, I also didn't know it wasn't originally intended to be for a woman. Just goes to show that gender really isn't important - good design is.
Much more boob armors and high heels that I expected =/
My vote goes to Meg from Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn.
Simple, pratical, heavy weaponry and on a girl withou a traditional body shape on games and STILL cute and girly.
The in game model is even better
If a person falls to the ground wearing boob armor they will DIE since the impact will be directed right into the center of her ribs. instead of distributed trough the entire chest/belly
Fire Emblem is my favorite game on this regard.... but this char specialy loose a few points because of the heels. But they are wide and small so she pass
Dark Souls is a close second place
Yes !
Can't beat this in sci fi.
My vote goes to Meg from Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn.
Simple, pratical, heavy weaponry and on a girl withou a traditional body shape on games and STILL cute and girly.
The in game model is even better
If a person falls to the ground wearing boob armor they will DIE since the impact will be directed right into the center of her ribs. instead of distributed trough the entire chest/belly
Not at all practical, but it sure is pretty.
Fire Emblem is my favorite game on this regard.... but this char specialy loose a few points because of the heels. But they are wide and small so she pass
Dark Souls is a close second place
Nothing beats this. Such a great design.
Yes !
Can't beat this in sci fi.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Nnngh. This is now my favorite, alongside Saber's original outfit. But this is actually more practical. Beautiful artwork.
Loved Titania's armour, but to add one that hasn't been mentioned yet:
Viola from Radiant Historia.
Came to post this. Awesome character as well.
ExFalsoQuodlibet
Member
Dark Souls armor design is godlike, really, anything from that game. Actually, the "functional" in the thread's title is futile to me: every armor (used in battle) that's not designed to properly protect his/her owner makes me cringe internally, I find it awful, so to me a good design implies being practical.
Every time I see one of those female armors with exposed cleavage I think that's a good sign the game is not for me.
Every time I see one of those female armors with exposed cleavage I think that's a good sign the game is not for me.