The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect Andromeda thread

"Sword fighting in high heels is stupid. It is stupid in book or game form." 

It is stupid, doesn't mean it's bad. I've gone round and round with people who complain that Andromeda is not realistic enough, and Ryder, with her personality, would never be a leader of a squad, but sexy swordswomen jumping around in high heels is somehow totes cool! I'll make sure to mark that down in my journal of rhetorical paradoxes. 

Too bad Anita is not. 

/shrug Not specifically to you but just to the topic as a whole I don't mind a little sexiness being put into video games or movies or books or what have you.  When you are dealing with a fantasy or sci-fi setting the whole thing is usually ridiculous to begin with.  Both sci-fi and fantasy genres are big enough to include all kinds, if a creator wants to create a world where everyone walks around in these giant suits of armor that a real human wouldn't even be able to move in, that's fine.  If a creator wants a world where women can wear high heels or bikini armors, I'm fine with that too.

People that try to claim one is more stupid than the other considering everything else going on around them just strikes me as silly when I see it.   "oh yes, lets make sure everyone is properly attired before I sling my magic missiles at them and stab at them with my +1 Sword of Truthiness".

No shit-talking Yen's alternative outfit here, please. It looks SO much better than the default one. Seriously, the black/white one looks butt-ugly. Don't care that its canon. It's hideous.
The Triss one on the other hand... ugh. Especially hilarious since she's in Novigrad incognito. Her W2 outfit was AWESOME. She looked so much better before all around.

And Ciri's outfit is great, love it. Somebody so powerful could still kill everyone with her face in the mud.

/shrug Not specifically to you but just to the topic as a whole I don't mind a little sexiness being put into video games or movies or books or what have you.  When you are dealing with a fantasy or sci-fi setting the whole thing is usually ridiculous to begin with.  Both sci-fi and fantasy genres are big enough to include all kinds, if a creator wants to create a world where everyone walks around in these giant suits of armor that a real human wouldn't even be able to move in, that's fine.  If a creator wants a world where women can wear high heels or bikini armors, I'm fine with that too.

People that try to claim one is more stupid than the other considering everything else going on around them just strikes me as silly when I see it.   "oh yes, lets make sure everyone is properly attired before I sling my magic missiles at them and stab at them with my +1 Sword of Truth".

Thank you. Why is she even relevant?

Then she should be tripping over her feet all the time during fights, and face planting in the mud. 

The reason I brought it up was that it is a clear case of crafting a character's look to please a predominantly heterosexual male audience. Same goes for the alternate Yen/Triss outfits which max out the sex and cleavage (which I why I never used them in game, they just look silly). I don't really care myself, but carefull clearly does, and I am not so much of a fanataic as to dimiss every other person's concerns, and right to have them, because they are not my own. I'll will say to anyone who does not thinks that Ciri has high heeled boots to appear sexy to the player that I have a bridge outside Novigrad to sell you that, under which, is definitely not infested with trolls. 

Then let us lay down our foils and meet in amity across the field of conflict, bonded over our shared love of stupidity in fantastical fiction. 

1. I won't read the whole thread right now, but I'm quite sure that carefull didn't have any problem with how Ciri looks after reading the last page alone.
2. Do you think that homosexual female gamers wouldn't find Ciri attractive?
3. Do you think that heterosexual female gamers wouldn't like to roleplay as Ciri because of her looks\dressing?

I don't know for sure and obviously everyone has their own preferences, but powerful, good-looking, bisexual female protagonist who wears whatever she wants and still can kick ass isn't what I would associate with patriarchy or even pandering to heterosexual male audience. 

And I mean it, even on CDPR forums mostly men were complaining about impractical shoes. That's actually something that men tend to do in my experience

But... this makes no sense. You see more of her boobs in the default outfit. And more of Ciri's too than Yen's other outfit because she wears a scarf...

Agreed about Skyrim. 99% of all modded outfits look totally out of place and I REALLY don't like that. Same for pretty much all hair mods.