#sexism in games

This character, in the original game, had a pretty decent design. Now, in the sequels, she’s dressed in things like this (though there are many outfits and by no means have they all been revealed), and has some pretty horrible poses as well. Not to mention the camera angles.

My reaction is… disappointment, mostly. And disgust. And irritation. She was originally a fairly strong character but now look what they’ve done.
You’ve already had the napkin-skirt one on this blog but these outfits are getting ridiculous.

There are so many things wrong with these that it’s proably not even worth the effort to list them all.

To put it mildly I am extraordinarily skeeved. On one hand not every outfit is quite this ridiculous and it’s still up to the player what to dress her in. Unhappy as I am that some of the outfits are basically lingerie, at least you (probably) have the choice to never see her in it. On the other hand, combined with the animations, its a betrayal of her character for the titillation of [some of] the audience. And you all know how I feel about that.

Also from what I’ve seen, a few of the outfits are just ugly and broken. If you recall the question I posed a while back about value of customization vs. quality of customization options, well, I’m of a mind that if the cost of more options is a lower quality for each then I’ll take fewer options. So… bad times all around.

Bonus skeeviness from the developers.