Augemitbutter
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Heels aside, Charlotte's not bad:
EDIT: This isn't from an RPG so I'm an idiot, btw.
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Most Practical Female Armor in RPGs?
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My Mount & Blade: Warband character.
The only correct answer.
Awesome. I was somewhat aware there was a SamSho RPG but the only character I 100% knew was in it is Galford.
Dreams-Visions
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armor that doesn't offer leg/thigh protection shouldn't even be posted.
Actually, if you disregard Marisa, Tana, Amekia and Eirika most of the FE8 females have modest clothing.
and tbh most of them aren't wearing armor, so a short skirt isn't as offensive.
tearsofash
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What is FE everyone keeps referring to? I keep seeing people talking about it...
RaySpencer
Member
Fire Emblem.
I've always thought that Agrias from FFT was a good representation of a female knight with good practical armor in video games:
Agrias is great and easily the best woman in the game, but I think that Meliadoul's armor looks better.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
I prefer my female RPG characters with as little clothes as possible.
Dreams-Visions
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Yeah, I think this could be practical in the right situations...
the fuck
Korean game.
ComputerMKII
Banned
If only there was a video game...
Canis lupus
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Lol.
Meccanical
Member
Get out of here with that.
Femmeworth
Banned
At least her scars from the breast augmentation are covered.
Yeah, I think this could be practical in the right situations...
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
Souls games.
Executioner Miralda (though she's a headswoman and not a proper soldier):
Selen Vinland:
Lady of the Darkling:
(It's so practical her scabbard floats in the air!)
Executioner Miralda (though she's a headswoman and not a proper soldier):
Selen Vinland:
Lady of the Darkling:
(It's so practical her scabbard floats in the air!)
chickdigger802
Banned
Yeah, I think this could be practical in the right situations...
Surprised that there are no Tera 'armor' posts yet.
Scarmor.
I was strongly considering it.
Cow Mengde
Banned
The "correct" FE answerP)
<3 <3 <3 Titania
She's got style, beauty and grace... and is arguably the most attractive FE female in the series. And she does this while completely covered up (its magic I tell you...)
Her only problem is that she's literally TOO BADASS.
If you're not careful, she'll solo the entire enemy army early on and your other dudes won't get any XP.
This !
Specialy because of
The armors look the same for men and women, and you can't tell if there's a male or a female below.
Can't get more realistic than that
I don't have any Tera art, but how about some Vindictus?
First of all, please don't post like 10 of those huge pictures like in the Vindictus thread.
Second, Vindictus is totally weird. I play the Fiona (female sword and shield) class, and her best armor sets while leveling up seem to alternate between legitimate awesome and protective looking armor and "LOL BIKINI TIME!"
Cow Mengde
Banned
That's exactly why it's awesome.
Wait... which ones are skimpy for Fiona? I mean yeah some show a little skin, but I can't think of one that's meant to be completely skimpy. Evie, I agree. One of them was wardrobe malfunction the armor.
Also, what's going on with Kingdom UnderFire 2? I've been looking for some semi-RTS/brawler action for a long time.
Femmeworth
Banned
Indeed, it's a shame that her best role is as a meat shield. :\
Yeah, I think this could be practical in the right situations...
Talking about all generation long vaporware.
Samurai_Heart
Member
The games I think is on beta at Korea to be released end of 2012 or the begining 2013, and they are making the PS3 version after, i believe.
On topic what's the opinion on Monster Hunter armors?
On topic what's the opinion on Monster Hunter armors?
While not perfect, most are very good at avoiding the bikini and still keeping some gender diferentiation
Samurai_Heart
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Those were the one most covered up there are others that shows stomach etc, but same goes for the males :/
Last Hearth
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Practical is boring. It's a game so screw practicality and give me interesting.
ihearthawthats
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i agree.
if you want the most practical, you're probably going to be looking at a female using the same armour as males, in other words, "female armor" not existing at all.
SatelliteOfLove
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Etrian Odyssey once again to the rescue!
EO1&2 Protector
EO3 Hoplite
EO4 Fortress
The dress goes on the outside of the legguards, both feminizing hard plate and obscuring the limbs ala hakama pants.
Historical precedence and I don't want the drive for less mindlessly fanservicey armor turn rabidly PC and generally stupid.
EO1&2 Protector
EO3 Hoplite
EO4 Fortress
The dress goes on the outside of the legguards, both feminizing hard plate and obscuring the limbs ala hakama pants.
Historical precedence and I don't want the drive for less mindlessly fanservicey armor turn rabidly PC and generally stupid.
encephalon
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Arianrode
chickdigger802
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Arianrode
That hair isn't really battle friendly. Just imagine some of it getting caught in your armor and you turn your head.
shrudder*
Wuthering_Heights
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Jeanne D'arc
<3
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah, those are all very good female armor.
chickdigger802
Banned
Eh, most armor throughout history didn't provide leg protection. The only warriors in history who had heavily armored legs were mounted knights and Samurai to a lesser extent. Your basic footman couldn't afford it, and couldn't really move well with it, they would be more likely to have greaves, a helmet, maybe gauntlets and bracers if they could afford them, and a big ass shield. Maybe they'd have a mail coat or a breastplate, but not much else.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
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Not armor, but I appreciated how tasteful Raquel's clothing was in WA4. And well, she doesn't need armor; she's that good.
Explicitly sexualised stuff can be off putting. But a lot of the complaints in this thread seem, if not stupid, then misplaced. Largely because they take the armour in question entirely out of context of the setting it was designed for and apply "real world" "practicalities" to it. Most of the characters featured here are explicitly superhuman or have access to magic, etc. When your primary defence relies on stuff like that then armour understandably becomes largely a fashion statement. There's also a fairly strong argument to be made that "practical" (how vague and lacking context is that) armour designs are simply boring to a large percentage of the audience this stuff is aimed at
Lol.
My main problem, really, with this outfit is that 1) her sword is impossibly useless. Like, a frilly gunblade, what? And 2) The pauldrons. What do they attach to? I'm confident that, in game, they don't.
Now, for every CRAZY female armor in a Final Fantasy, there are one or two decent ones. For whatever freak reason, Akihiko Yoshida never bothered to do a full body sketch of Meliadoul Tengille, but did one of friggin' Luso. Nevertheless, there's some good fanart for you:
She might not have as much mobility, since her armor is kinda one part nun, one part knight, but she does solve that pesky problem of long hair. In fact, in-game, Meliadoul has her hood on the whole time.
To my surprise, though, Ravness Loxaerion's armor is in fact pretty stupid. I thought she had pants on:
Ozma, of the same game, looks okay, despite her Liefeldian feet:
Qun'Mi of Final Fantasy Type-0 has a pretty decent outfit, considering she spends more time as a pilot than in hand-to-hand combat:
Judge Magister Drace of Ivalice shows us, though, that while she may not be one of the Armored Big Guys (Garland/Golbez/ExDeath/Gabraanth), she can still rock full plate:
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