Bikini Armor is something of a staple of chud discourse and many gamers will refuse to play games that don't feature it, but at this point it is something that future game devs predicting a pro-chud vibe shift will include in their games. Especially games being developed in 2024 where chuddery was at it's most potent. Yet somehow I still think that bikini armor propaganda will still be a potent force in future politics now that even centrist men will berate you for not having hoes in bikini armor.
I frankly think it has a place in games, but only where it really makes sense and I might as well get some male cheese cake as well
its kinda weird how games are so behind the times though, isnt it? movies stopped doing corny shit like this all the way back in the 90s, yet gamers seem to live in a completely different world and the industry has to appeal to them
Chuds both sides the subjec:
- bikini armor not in the game: complain that the game is woke / prudish for not showing enough skin
- bikini armor in the game: complain that the game is woke / gooner for showing too much skin
Devs are too busy making things to give a shit about twitter discourse. Bikini armor is fun when it fits the tone, and in many games it does. The game will be deemed woke regardless for having a woman in it.
I'm pretty sure I only see that in games made in Asia nowadays I'm gonna be honest with you
>>46492I'm not sure when some faction of the right embraced scantily clad women, but I preferred the old prudes. I think I remember some Obama era article talking about the "Hooters right." Now we get weirdos walking around with dirty anime hoodies.
>>46492>2nd picim trying to figure out what that guy even enjoys. is he a personification of cranky kong
>>46494I think it was because a lot of early gamergate content farms were primarily railing against Anita Sarkeezian and similar, who happened to be SWERFs; a very sex-negative flavor of feminist. As a matter of sophistry, the rantsonatubers would take a sex-positive angle to debate her line-by-line, dialectic-ing into existence a weird sex-positive flavor of right winger.
>>46495I think that's just it: They've built a worldview that leaves no room for enjoyment.
>>46496Like the way content farms worked back then was they'd take a video, let it play, pause it, play a pre-recorded sigh from a soundboard, then debate that clip that just played and unpause. Sorta like how streamer commentary works these days, and is likely why people don't streamer commentary as weird as it is: the rantsonas primed them to accept the spacebar commentary format.
>>46488also wtf is this shit LMAO
>Yet somehow I still think that bikini armor propaganda will still be a potent force in future politicsget a life loser. i swear this board is just ex-/pol/tards who just flipped their own internal logic instead of eliminating it altogether
pic very related
>>46499>i swear this board is just ex-/pol/tards who just flipped their own internal logic instead of eliminating it altogetherTo be fair, that was pretty much what the original leftpol board on 8chan was. It's better now, and even better than it was last year, but that is the history of the board.
>>46488The problem isn't bikini armor, it's that most games featuring it use it as out-of-universe titillation for males and for women to do the fantasy game equivalent of dressing up in lingerie, without including any of the consequences.
Making it establish shamelessness as a character trait of savage barbarians, or otherwise having the writing accomodate sexy armor despite real-world standards of modesty, makes the entire concept salvagable at least.
>>46501I usually see people go at it from a "it's enchanted so it doesn't need to cover that much" angle, but then they just treat it like normal armor rather than having the fact that it's armored by a different mechanism than normal armor have any noticabale differences other than stats.
I like how arknights does this distinction, where arts damage and physical damage are seperate and nullified by seperate stats with different calculations involved.
- defense subtracts from physical damage, but not arts.
- arts resistance reduces arts damage by a percentage equal to itself, but doesn't do anything about physical.
So it makes the two damage types feel different. Like there's a real reason to pick the gimmicky magic-only armor while also not making actual armor useless.
>>46504This logic is still off though, because non-contrived magic armor would just be regular clothes. I'm talking about the fact even many ero-games have the heroine monkeying about in a chainmail bikini with no one in-universe batting an eye. It always takes me out of the experience.
>>46500not true, leftypol started as a bunch of super educated /lit/fags
>>46507Offtopic, but I get sad when I see some old leftypol memes referencing obscure marxist theoreticians or frankfurt school academics and such, when if you post something like that today you get bunch of illiterates calling you CIA idpol liberal.
>>46507uygha it hasnt been 2016 for a whole decade now
>super educated /lit/fagsyou mean memecommunists who thought figures like land or fisher were the hottest shit lmfao
>>46509>referencing obscure marxist theoreticians or frankfurt school academicsyep this is exactly the pseud garbage im talking about
>>46510>glownonymousOpinion discarded
>>46509>frankfurt schoolOld leftypol called them libs and CIA more often
>>46495/v/ doesn't actually like video games. That's it
>>46488I think bikini armor is largely a staple of yesteryear and probably isn't coming back except as very explicit chud pandering.
This is because bikini armor has never really made much sense. If you want to make the character in a sexy outfit, why put them in armor at all?
>>46524Artists don't give a shit about twitter. Bikini armor is camp, and while the west is slowly forgetting what camp is, it'll always have a place, regardless if chuds complain about it being woke / too sex positive or begrudgingly accept it.
>>46524they should make the men even sexier
Some media will be more realistic and some will be more fantastical. The complaining about women in bikini armor can be answered by sexualizing/objectifying male characters too. The real problem is when artists design "realistic" or "practical" armor that makes obvious sacrifices in function to cater to sexiness. Stuff like cleavage windows or breastplates that don't cover the stomach.
Bikini armor is not about stimulation. It is about misogyny, "true female purpose" rhetoric.
Bikini armour is stupid. Games should have aesthetically pleasing and creative sexual elements, not bikini armour which as a concept smells of overweight 40 year olds.
>>46526You actually make a good point. I hadn't considered fantasy camp.
>>46532Well, if we're talking camp fantasy, the men were always intended to be hot. The difference is that what makes a hot man and what makes a hot woman are different things. Of course, bikini armor works well on women to make them hot because to serves to show off their figure (not to mention a lot of skin) which is key to making a hot girl outfit. With guys, it's different. I would argue that the "hot guy" is almost always portrayed fully clothed, with their clothing designed to say something about them. So, the typical camp fantasy "hot guy" wears a full set of armor that covers their entire body, but that armor is designed to look in a way that implies strength, ruggedness, power, authority, danger, virtue, or whatever else the character might have going on, but never, ever wears a helmet of any kind to hide his handsome face and has long, flowing hair that is either shoulder-length or flows down his shoulders and on to his chest. What's more, the armor is typically made to imply a muscular build underneath.
>>46488>For every biking wearing booba bitch there should be a shirtless lean twink that looks like a male character from Fruits Basket.speak for yourself, i want guys that look like he-man
>>46701Men both irl and in video games need to dress sluttier.
So much crying and gnashing of teeth over zero suit samus but solid snake's hipline of the year ran so she could walk.
bikini armor's inclusion or absence is now rightfully interpreted by most players as representing the target audience a game is pandering towards, so nowadays you're only ever going to see it in MMOs and gacha games were the target audience are retarded nerds that are willing to shell out actual money for a chance of dressing their characters in bikinis, instead of downloading porn like a normal well-adjusted person, and any game that wants to cater to as many people as possible will understandably shy away from it
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