Quote: Avaera on 04/24/2012, 05:03 PM

Could we please look into improved physics animation for, say, Castanic male bulges, and give them at least as much impact as the Castanic female chests?

I've never gotten that notion for some reason, that bigger bulges would equalize with bigger breasts. One could argue for bigger bulges on the basis of a more natural look alone, if such a thing applies. Breasts I see as, well, females got 'em (and men do too, though they are rudimentary). If the idea is to fight fire with fire then one should demand that the males have bigger breasts! I wouldn't want that, of course, so I hope it's enough to argue simply on the basis of what is natural or too exaggerated. Besides, the males do get bigger breasts in a way, but they get them in terms of pecs. It's not their fault that they don't jiggle.

This is a highly stylized fantasy MMO, a eastern MMO no less. Stupid costumes and ridiculously sexualized female (and to a lesser extent male) player models are the norm.

Although I do want to clarify something - while a lot of male character models are idealized - sorry no guy is going to look like "insert generic action game protagonist" without AT LEAST a personal trainer and several hours of gym time and a specialized diet - as well as steroids.

They are all ultimately what the character model designers think what we want to look like. They are supposedly, our idealized projections. It's why western games tend to have male protagonists who exhibit extreme machismo, while eastern games tend to have male protagonists who exemplify masculine beauty. Both cultures games usually have protagonists that exhibit what are typically male emotional ideals, stoicism, decisiveness, etc.

In other words, designers typically make male characters as guys who we would want to be like (or think we would like to be like).

Female characters on the hand, to put it simply not so much. They are, to put it bluntly, eyecandy, [filtered] and [filtered], or whatever fetish they are trying to include or appeal to. They don't design a female character as women who we would want to be like. They simply there to look good.

That is the problem that some people have.

This ,admittedly, doesn't have much to do with MMOs though, since avatars are usually just blank slates.

As for Tera, Castanics are the eye candy race, all they need are some more overtly muscled/bulkier castanic males and I think that would more or less do it for 99% of the males and females who play this game.

Female Aman should be a race that should be armored up like a tank when in metal armor just because they don't seem the type to mess around with looks and just want to be AWESOMELY ARMORED UP!!!!!!