Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[MilkieTea]

I've been powerlevelling my Black Mage with Trusts yesterday. Normally, I don't have motivation for that, but the current world state and news have me... scared and a little bit overwhelmed, so I started to use FFXIV as escapism.

Yeah. I’m probably gonna retreat into FFXIV tomorrow once i get my new PC. This entire thing feels like a fever dream.

[Caurcas]

DS1 really didn't have much outside of armor apart from some of the witch/princess sets some of the npcs had. DS2 had the Smelter armor and the desert sorceress stuff. 3 also had the sorceress stuff and witch stuff. Bloodborne was pretty much all unisex long coats. Demons' actually had genderlocked gear. You have to give it credit, it's a series that sticks very hard to its aesthetics.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Built the Baund Doc. Pictures cannot properly convey just how eye-gougingly 80s these colors are.

[RobynDaBank]

The conversation a little above about female armour, I think Monster Hunter got it right in some cases. There's probably sets I'm missing that hit the cliché skimpy points for the female version, but RN I can remember none. Perhaps the Kirin set? Wasn't it revealing for guys too? The Nargacuga armour was sexy for females, but honestly that looked too cool so I excuse it.

[Thaciscokidd]

That Baund Doc is fabulous!


In related news just found out that SRW W got a full English fan translation. With the (hopefully not) Final Original Generations SRW on the horizon its cool that this one got translated since it should be included.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

The conversation a little above about female armour, I think Monster Hunter got it right in some cases. There's probably sets I'm missing that hit the cliché skimpy points for the female version, but RN I can remember none. Perhaps the Kirin set? Wasn't it revealing for guys too? The Nargacuga armour was sexy for females, but honestly that looked too cool so I excuse it.

Lol, that Kirin set showing a little skin on males was just the exception that proves the rule. I'd rather give the females some pants instead anyway.

Alas, selling waifu ASSets is easy money.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Re: male/female armor design - gotta say, I'm glad there are some franchises (such as Soulsborne) which stick heavily to a chosen aesthetic that works for all genders, rather than divides masc-options into pure, functional armor and femme-options into "skimpy battle bikini with frills".

As a girl wanting to (usually) play female characters, it's incredibly tiring when my only options are various levels of skimpy or otherwise lovely armor sets ruined by not even tastefully-designed skin showing. Look, I'm a heavily femme-leaning bisexual - I appreciate T&A as much as anyone, and sometimes I don't mind the armor sets if I'm making a character I want to look at and ogle a bit while I play! But T&A out-skin everywhere-body suit type 'armors' aren't the only thing ladies can look good in.

Dunno about most of you, but to me there is nothing hotter than a woman in full plate mail. I will die on this hill.

[Illmaeran]

Dunno about most of you, but to me there is nothing hotter than a woman in full plate mail. I will die on this hill.

Femroe starting racial gear.

MEDIC, WE NEED A MEDIC FOR KAORU!!!

:P



Being serious for a minute, I've grown quite fond of seeing my Femroe in the traditional chainmail outfit 99% of Ishgardian soldiers wear. She's got a generic "light armor because boats" outfit that I appreciate, but it's hard not to like a Goddess in full chain mail; particularly in the frozen wastes of Coerthas.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Femroe starting racial gear.

MEDIC, WE NEED A MEDIC FOR KAORU!!!

:P



Being serious for a minute, I've grown quite fond of seeing my Femroe in the traditional chainmail outfit 99% of Ishgardian soldiers wear. She's got a generic "light armor because boats" outfit that I appreciate, but it's hard not to like a Goddess in full chain mail; particularly in the frozen wastes of Coerthas.

Femroes certainly have some of the best starter gear imo, but they also become 100x hotter to me when they're in a full set of heavy tank armor. xD Armor just does wonders for people's silhouette - and the more grungy and battle-worn it is, the better tbh.

Which is part of why I super appreciate the aesthetics of Soulsborne armor sets (and man, some of what I've seen from Elden Ring so far is already blowing a lot of the old stuff out of the water). That said, Dragon's Dogma also had some really nice armor sets!... you just had to find them, and layer well.

[Merrigan]

Dunno about most of you, but to me there is nothing hotter than a woman in full plate mail. I will die on this hill.

I'll die with you for this.

Can we talk about the possibility of making muscular chicks too? I know it's perfectly stupid, but this cosmetic option is what made me choose one race over another.