As said before, having similarly revealing armour for male characters would just be fair. I don't know why it isn't done. Perhaps there's not enough demand for it?
Who knows? I don't think it's a demand issue, it's more a social one. If you look at fashions, men's clothing tends to cover, women's tends to reveal. You get the idea. But there's no real reason to reveal anything. Even just some cloth padding can be useful as armour.
This "who knows ?" is not necessary : Everyone KNOWS that development teams are mainly consisting of male people. So why would a man want "revealing armor" items for men ? Unless they are gay, maybe ...
Point is, most RPGs are just written so that they are written for male protagonists. See the Gothic series, for example.
Even neutral, gender-irrelevant RPGs are relatively seldom to find.
RPGs are mainly written so that they represent a kind of "rite of passage" or "Hero Jorney" for men - and not for women.
No-one in the industry knows wht a women's "rite of passage" or a women's "Hero's Jorney" would look like - because there just don't exist stories or even social scientifc studis for them.
The "Hero's Journey" is basically a male tale. There just doesn't exist a proper female equivalent to it - and most designers just don't care, since dev studios are male-dominated anyway, so why should they bother ?
Venetica and Kult are rare exceptions. And yet men decide "not to play games with "only female protagonists", meanwhile greatly ignoring that 99 % of ALL RPGs have "only male protagonists". That's sexism in just aother form.
And good-looking female in games meanwhile bad-looking males in the same games - tht's a form of sexism, too. Or even lookism.
Rhoda/Rhode should imho have been the blonde from the early screenshots - because that would hve broken the sexism. A good-looking AND highly successful hunter ? Well, that wouldn't have been expected. But instead the blone became a waitress in the local tavern. Quite a return to the old cliché. And she even complained about men string at hear - meanwhile a blonde Rhode would have just landed her fist into the face of a man staring at her.
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screenshots - because that would hve broken the sexism. A good-looking AND highly successful hunter ? Well, that wouldn't have been expected. But instead the blone became a waitress in the local tavern. Quite a return to the old cliché. And she even complained about men string at hear - meanwhile a blonde Rhode would have just landed her fist into the face of a man staring at her.
