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Really? Cause it looks to me like it's impossible to tell from that picture just how wide the heel is at the base although the angle suggests it's narrow. It could be wide enough so that it's not a stiletto at all. Besides, what about all the barbarians fighting on frozen tundra? Being able to easily dig a heel into the ice might even be an advantage.
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Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
I jumped back to the first post in the thread just to verify. The "barbarian" in question is definitely wearing stilletto heels, albeit a bit thicker than typical pump heels because she's wearing boots.
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I don't know. My first thought was "They couldn't pick a better color to show it off in?"
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Originally Posted by Calibre
My take after seeing that female 'barbarian' nonsense:
Gotta be a snarky joke. It dismisses decades of comic book and fantasy barbarian art in blatant deliberateness. It simply HAS to be a joke or when we all woke up this morning we found ourselves in an alien, bizarro dimension only we haven't figure it out, yet. Cal |
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My very first character, Maiden Canada, was/ is a 15 year-old girl. I made her an Inv/ SS Tanker because I liked the idea of this skinny little girl that villains would constantly underestimate, who would be (in my mind at least) nearly on a par with Superman. After all these years, she remains one of my two favourite characters. Slightly more than half of my characters are female and they all tend to be melee types.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Idle side note: I don't know when this started, but mine are almost entirely the reverse. Almost all of my strongest, heaviest fighters are women and most of my lighter characters are men. If I had to put a reason to this, it's because I find the "big strong man" concept more than a little boring, bland and done to death...
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I'm simply going to add on to this thread with a plea to the devs:
I would like more non-sexualized costume options for my characters, please.
Ok. On to the meat of my post. I play females, I only play females. I'm weird that way, I've tried making males and they simply never get played. It's awkward staring at the wrong gender when I have the choice. This means I am incredibly jealous at the completely unused portion of every Booster pack I've purchased (which is all but the animal one). Especially the Steampunk pack. That jacket? Those boots? Speaking of the male versions, of course. I WANT THEM. Badly. Very badly. I would get far more use out of the male Steampunk options than I have gotten or will ever get out of the female options, if only they were made available to females.
I do have some characters with heels and sexy outfits, and I am definitely not asking for production of that sort of style to cease. But, please, give me other options. Give me fancy shirts and not just skimpy bustiers. Give me flat boots, or short chunky heel boots, with fancy fold down tops like the steampunk male sort. Make thigh-high boots like that, without tall heels. (If you ever saw a picture of Isabela from Dragon Age 2, her boots are awesome and I want them, please).
I am hoping that Freedom will bring in more options, especially now that they don't have to be bundled into a pack, and hopefully with less gender restriction. Please.
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My take after seeing that female 'barbarian' nonsense:
Gotta be a snarky joke.
It dismisses decades of comic book and fantasy barbarian art in blatant deliberateness. It simply HAS to be a joke or when we all woke up this morning we found ourselves in an alien, bizarro dimension only we haven't figure it out, yet.
Cal