I'd be lying if I said I didn't like the bikini armor. I tend to prefer my fantasy games and art with scantily clad women with impractical fantasy armor and clothes. Does it make sense? No. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't think it looked fricken awesome.
But then again I've always been one to pick aesthetics over realism. I mean...sometimes I just don't want realism in my fantasy. How much fun would the game be if we had to take a piss every time we drank potions? Or if we needed to take showers to keep people from not talking to us, or sleep every so often or our characters pass out from exhaustion. I'm not saying it's not possible to make a game with these features I'm just saying at some points realism gets in the way. The point at which that happens is drastically different from person to person.