A sneak peek at Guild Wars 2's PvP Scholar armor [Updated]

@(Unverified)
How do you know how individuals commenting here dress in real life? There's nothing hypocritical about it. For all you know they're wearing t-shirts and jeans. Hey, for all you know they don't have daughters, and they don't let them dress in skimpy clothes, how about that?

Is this like the "but in real life girls wear revealing clothes all the time!" argument? Because I always thought it was a little weird that by that logic we didn't have male characters running around in basketball jerseys and jeans instead of plate mail. Give me a break.

@Irem
Because if you aren't covered head to toe is hypocritical. And the last time I saw, not many clothing stores sold those type of outfits.

This is also about people such as yourself pushing yourself and your values on everyone else. Anyone who wants to can do a quick search and see some of the armor designs and know that they don't have to wear skimpy armor if they do not wish to, but of course people would rather act holier than thou than do that.

And I doubt since this debate is beginning the same as it did for WoW that will end any differently, and they being that people will demand that NO ONE be allowed to wear cute or sexy clothing in game.

And many in this comments for the article talk about male devs when it was a woman who designed much of the clothing for GW2.

People like you just make it almost not worthwhile to play games anymore.

@Irem They do in Aion. /wink

I don't think we are using "realism" in the same way.

For example, let's say the ingame story featured a mother who had lost her son in the forest and the mother didn't express any concern whatsoever over the loss of her boy.

If her lack of concern was due to an evil enchantment that would be "realism" in a fantasy setting although unrealistic in the real world.

If her lack of concern was totally unexplained and she was portrayed as healthy her lack of concern would be "unrealism" in both a fantasy setting and in the real world.

So the word "fantasy" allows for fantastic elements but it doesn't allow for illogical elements. Much of the objection to typical female armor is that it is so slight as to not be armor at all, but instead, the wild fantasies of some repressed bondage freak. It would be nice if the developers would adhere to realism and leave their sex fantasies at home - and consider what a woman would actually want to wear into battle.

@(Unverified) Thank heaven for small mercies!

@(Unverified)

Is one armorset enough data from which you can draw a conclusion on the matter? (There are plenty of armorsets online by which you can test a hypothesis)

@(Unverified) There is concept art for a wide variety of armor styles for GW2, not all is cheesecake stuff. It's just that the skimpy stuff seems to get more screenshot time.

Er...the only time the word "realism" has been used in this particular thread is when you used it. Just now.

@DeadlyAccurate Sonofa--! That was a reply to a reply in the comment I made earlier. Could someone delete this?

@h4ngedm4n It is!

GW1's Elementalists wore lacy lingerie.

At the time I was coming in from playing Unreal Tornament RPG mods (they're kind of cool, I used a Septic Flak Cannon of the Unholy) so it was a nice break from heavy combat armor and fatigues.

@alyosha17 Considering that many eastern designs are WORSE, I think your comment is a bit off-base.

@alyosha17 /coughs

http://www.arena.net/blog/the-fashion-of-guild-wars-2-an-interview-with-kristen-perry

I'll leave that here...

BTW, Kristen is herself a woman, so rather than objectifying I would hazard to venture she is instead celebrating beauty.

Sad that you see it in such a negative light.