Do you consider these bad character designs?
I'm actually not familiar with that character(I was more upset by someone calling her outfit a "prostitute costume.") But these fighting games tend to have very over the top presentation for some characters and not all of them are going to dress practically.
I'm not saying you need to like the design. Nor am I saying it's not sexualized, because it obviously is. I just don't buy, "it doesn't tell us about the character."
I'm not an expert on visual designs, but sure, I'll give you my takes.
In terms of costume, this one doesn't do anything special. However, the design is saved by his expression and his stance. They spark of personality, and I can make some pretty good guesses about what's he's like without knowing anything about him. Good design.
I don't like this one. I can't tell anything about her from her expression or pose, and there's nothing particularly interesting about her outfit either.
This one is all over the place. Is he supposed to be some sort of butler/ninja combo? What would that even mean? Is he taking a call right now, is he attacking someone, or is he just running to give people his business card? The only thing going for this design is that it's somewhat distinctive looking, but when it's this confused, does that even matter?
Legit question are you a man who has watched straight porn on a porn website?
It doesn't matter particularly that the middle character is also supposed to be a man. He's drawn with purely female visual cues, and suffers from the same pitfalls that plague female characters.
But practicality is only one of the points of character design. It's not even the main issue that I brought up: my main point is that character designs are supposed to communicate and that a woman in a cocktail dress and heels doesn't communicate anything useful. It's also much more common for male characters, who are designed for uniqueness/coolness, to still communicate something useful through their facial expressions and poses. This tends to be true even when their costumes are boring or ugly.
That's not really the reason why male characters are more varied in fighting games and the like. The real reason is that there's a different focus in design goals when it comes to male and female characters.
Thats not true.
Real-life female boxers, kickboxers and soldiers, to the best of my knowledge, wear outfits almost identical to their male equivalents. Women in the British army and RAF have been wearing roughly the same uniforms as their male peers for a long time. It's easier that way- part of the point of a uniform is unifying the look your personnel. That doesn't really support your point when Cammy in Street Fighter rocks up in a leotard despite female uniforms and PTA gear existing. It's done for sex appeal rather than no prior example of western female military gear existing.
I wasn't aware Butler was a fighting profession. And this is weak on multiple levels. One, fighting games do not need to and have not limited their costumes to what people would realistically wear in a fighting tournament. Flamenco Dancer is not a fightng costume, but it would be recognizable as something rather than a random collection of strategically placed leather strips. Two, women have been in warrior positions since always and if you insist on historically accurate representations to excuse placing a female character in something other than a thong, how about Viking? Or World War 2 pilot, or current day MMA fighter or boxer or any military uniform? There is no excuse for men being dressed one way and women being dressed another, and that doesn't even preclude sexy outfits.
That's not objective at all. Fighting games have been around for thirty years. UK female military staff have been in uniforms for over a hundred years now in various roles. Funnily enough, it was easier to use the same (scratchy, mass produced) material in different cuts than to assign the women leotards and lingerie.
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well then maybe you shouldn't compare esrb ratings to the fucking islamic state mister empath
Just to sum up, you were originally claiming that men had more historical uniforms, and that meant more recognisable 'professions' for male characters.
Yea for sure. It's def interesting to read differing opinions, even from like minded people.
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