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I want my female character to have some sexy bikini mail pajamas. :3

And the dude can have a pair chainmail boxers too. The gamer gurls need something to look at too. ^^

Class/armour-type based. Chain-mail bikinis are ridiculous.

Try and keep both male and female versions of each class practical. Female barbarians with DD's in bikinis, no thanks. Male barbarians with so much muscle they would be out of energy after 2 swings of their weapons, no thanks.

I dont quite follow the logic in your example, unless your mobile wall of flesh is swinging a building around.

Mind you, I'd love to see real armor on the women.

It would make me infinitely happy if this game didn't follow the standard of men in actual armor that protects you and women in armor bikinis that could only stop hits if your attacker closed their eyes and swung randomly, and even then not much of the time. Basically, wherever on the cover/mobility scale you go for the male version, why not do the same for the female. Since you're (I believe) not restricting a character's stats/classes based on gender, there doesn't seem any reason why they can't wear similar armor.

Lady Aribeth is my favorite fantasy female hero. Perfect mix of practical and sexy heavy armor.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m177uyADXs1rq8jqio1_1280.jpg
http://wallpoper.com/images/00/33/88/71/elves-neverwinter_00338871.png
http://www.spacespider.net/specials/nwn-aribeth-005.jpg

Why no equal opportunity for the male protagonist? Why cannot we put him in bikini armor?

I exaggerated a bit with the "two swings" part. I meant that the barbarian that is depicted in most RPG's is very unrealistic. With that amount of muscle you would not have any endurance to last in a fight. If you increase your endurance to last in a fight, you wouldn't have that amount of muscle.

Think about the extremely strong people you know with endurance. They don't look like roid-heads, they are more like hockey players.

Of course, we are in a fantasy world, so maybe physics are different?

Borat style ?

You mean like a chainmail mankini?

very nice

There's always gonna be a person who says "well I don't like this" about a game and have conflicting preferences with other players. You cannot please everyone.

Yes exactly that

Pah My female lead will be wearing a turban and a mage robe since she will be a pure witch and my main man will be the walking tank!

Please give us both, sexy female armor and "realistic" ones. Maybe keep the skimpy ones as magic armor, if you really have to justify it.

pls dont make sexy armor you have a relistic gameplay (rain puts put fire)
bur no realistic armors, that would be bad and not believable. OF course they should look good on both genders but dont make it too unrealistic. like D2 or skyrim etc the armors are awesome in these games.

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.

Some random smexy artworks.

http://www.wallpaper-source.com/wallpapers/Fantasy/53693_Fantasy_Fantasy_-_Women_Wallpaper.jpg
http://www.wallsave.com/wallpapers/...-world-fantasy-women-animated-433823.jpg
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30900000/fantasy-women-fantasy-30961826-700-525.jpg
http://membres.multimania.fr/skanlon/pictures/Luis_ROYO/royo2.jpg
http://www.wallsave.com/wallpapers/...n-masa-st-resmi-fantasy-woman-675795.jpg

Don't ask me why some of those links have weird phrases in them...because I'm afraid to know lol.

I fall more on the side of sexy armor as well. Doesn't have to be a bikini but I'd like to know that my character is a woman. Unrealistic but its a fantasy game so its already not realistic.
But what I'd like to see even more then sexy armor would be a simple toggle for hiding the helmet (like in ME1). That way picking hair and hair color will matter for more then the 2 mins it takes to find a helmet.

Funny thing is that in REAL world sexy clothes exist and are NOT unrealistic !
But indeed, it is inappropriate/unseemly wearing such sexy outfit starting a fight! Arrows can easely go through her body and kill her in an instant !

But so far in my life I play rpg's because I wish/want to be in "another world", in a world of wonders, fantasy and new journeys of fantastic events !
Such new dimentions in games make them for me addictive!

The "Perpetum Mobile" of Joy & Happyness of exploring again & again the Divinity Universum make my Day !

http://9gag.com/gag/6713261
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTGh0EMmMC8
http://9gag.com/gag/5538797
http://9gag.com/gag/6596710
its exaggeration- for those who dont undetstand this
Of course they can look good or sexy but i think its kind of downgrading that man can have full armor protection and woman always show body parts. armor can still looking could without make it unrealistic.

That'd be the best compromise.

Just give both options and everyone is happy.

I'm more for the amror bikini too, but if other people are annoyed about it, give them the option to put on more clothes.