Ok I’m new to Guild Wars 2 (this is my first forum post and I’m still patching the client), but I just had to throw my 2 cents into THIS discussion.
I would like to begin by saying I disagree with almost everyone on this topic……..now that we have gotten that out of he way here are some reasons why:
a) Female Objectification
Why people still follow this tired old horse i’ll never know. Why is it wrong for say Nariko to run around in her floaty outfit and yet Kratos gets away with charging minotaurs essentially in his undies. People, men are men and women are women, and both have hormones, pretending that they aren’t there won’t make them go away so if some people would rather look at a pretty lv 60 uber mage is that so disgusting that we have to protest about NON STOP in EVERY FORUM on the web.
b) Armor realization
I have seen a lot of posts here about the reality of medieval armor. Take a moment to say that to yourself slowly “reality of medieval armor”. Living in the 21st century there is no reality of medieval armor, such kinds of protection are severely outdated. The reason they are outdated is BECAUSE they are hard to move in. (NO one does back flips in full plate mail, in fact medieval knights didn’t even know what a back flip was)
c) Fun Factor
You’ll have to excuse me all the caps so far but just once more. IT IS A GAME. it is this point that validates everything that arena.net has done. In real life medieval armor is stupid, hard to move in and offers less protection than say Kevlar. But since this is a game we can make it cool, very protective and pull off the aforementioned back flips. simply put it’s allowed because it’s fantasy i.e not real. (yes even the duct tape feather armor)
To sum up my comment is less on the post and more on the reaction to it. Seriously it’s a game people have some fun and stop being so uptight about everything.
As for my opinion. I for one would like a game to have lots of variety as to what you can make your characters look like what you want them to look like and if others want to stare ……… so …… what.
Well i think my patch is done so i’ll see you online and let the hate mail begin