Comments on: [Rift] And if you get bored with the fashion disasters, you can always go get dominated by a shagwolf http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/ MMOs and game design Wed, 22 May 2013 22:20:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: spinks http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/#comment-14806 Mon, 30 May 2011 08:15:07 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=5482#comment-14806 This is true. There are plenty in perfectly reasonable clothes and maybe I’ll show some of those next time.

One of the nice things about the new cosmetic clothing/wardrobe is that you do have a lot of control about how your character looks. So frex if you pick up some leg armour which looks like skimpy bikini bottoms when you put it on, you can always have some kind of robe or something to cover it.

I think what got me about the woman on the left is that not only is she in a bikini top and loincloth (not actually a crime against fashion in itself) but she also has these weird shoulder things going on, and then the thigh high stockings and bracers. You can see how the guy next to her has clothes that match and she doesn’t.

]]> By: kiantremayne http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/#comment-14805 Mon, 30 May 2011 08:09:12 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=5482#comment-14805 In fairness, Rift has plenty of more modestly clad females as well. These ones are just part of a minority of the NPCs, that, errr, stand out :)

]]> By: uzbeck http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/#comment-14804 Mon, 30 May 2011 08:01:51 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=5482#comment-14804 I know at least one player who has bailed on rift over the ‘huge boobies on display please players’ syndrome. And before anyone says said player was male.

Girls in full armour can look sexy without having to have chain mail bathing suits guys.

]]> By: Utakata http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/#comment-14803 Mon, 30 May 2011 07:10:10 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=5482#comment-14803 I think this is sad, because the first screens of RIFT, long before Trion called it RIFT, female NPC’s where clothed and figured very moderatly. Kinda how they look in the first Dragon Age. It’s too bad that “fan service” has crept into their design direction when it was never needed.

]]> By: Grimmtooth http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/#comment-14802 Sun, 29 May 2011 14:50:02 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=5482#comment-14802 I hate to make the obvious Penny Arcade reference here, but, gosh, did anyone give the devs any shit over this? Or is it just more obviously a joke if said with an accent and using “shag” instead of “dick”?

(which is to say, not only can you make it up, but you can get dragged through the sewers over it, as well!)

]]> By: Duncan http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/#comment-14800 Sun, 29 May 2011 10:14:08 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=5482#comment-14800 I think her outfit looks fine!! :P

]]> By: Sven http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/rift-and-if-you-get-bored-with-the-fashion-disasters-you-can-always-go-get-dominated-by-a-shagwolf/#comment-14799 Sun, 29 May 2011 09:56:40 +0000 https://spinksville.wordpress.com/?p=5482#comment-14799 That’s the thing about Rift. The characters are realistic looking enough that you actually notice stuff like this.

Welcome to the Uncanny Valley MMO.

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