(01-14-2014, 06:23 PM)Hammerskjold Wrote: I mean here is a char sheet sample from the original game, and I just realized that one of my favourite childhood game had almost everyone attired in pseudo BDSM gear. Well at least I still remember the He-Man cartoons didn't have any S&M inspired clothing. Uh...I'm pretty sure it didn't right.
Golden Axe looks fine to me, and always has. Both genders (and the dwarf, I guess?) are given distinctive, but equivalent treatments. Both cheesecake, both pretty sexualized, but basically just going with the "mostly naked barbarians" thing, girl in a bikini, guy in a speedo. They both get roughly equivalent poses. It works, in a corny '80s kind of way. The sexual dimorphism is kept to levels not that far from reality. Everyone looks like they could actually support their own body mass - comfortably, even!
Are you not getting how I can like the designs on Golden Axe, and find the ones for Dragon's Crown sexist? It doesn't seem that tough to me.
Here are Tyris' poses:
Why not do that? Powerful, practical, heroic poses. (They could be a little more iconic, a little less rotoscoped, but why mess with success?) The kind of thing an action hero would do. Nothing in there looks stripperiffic, even if she is in a bikini.
-Jester