Miscellaneous Links from 2013

[AndrewRogue]

I find those generally hit and miss. There are some very nice looking ones (dig the Zatara), but a few (khakis Wonder Woman) look pretty eh.

That said, and I think I discussed this with Ash, actually turns to far the other direction. The degree of fully clothedness actually almost feels a bit silly to me. It was part of the challenge to him, admittedly, but if people are gonna hold it up as a political statement, I'm gonna say it does feel going around to the prudish end of things.

[Grefter]

As a design point though it shows that the characters are still recognisable as who they are even dressed that much.  Iconic swimsuit costumes being necessary for visual reference is kind of debunked. 

Anything to get Wonder Woman in pants though, I will take the kakhi trousers over 1940s circus performer getup.

[NotMiki]

The khakis probably seem off because male superhero costumes almost invariably have form-fitting leggings.  Especially the JLA lineup.

[Hunter Sopko]

It's not that they're khakis, it's that they are BAGGY khakis. Given the rest of her costume, it just looks bizarre.

[AndrewRogue]

I just don't think the khaki's roll with the upper bit of it. I dunno what it is, it just looks like cosplay gone lazy.

[Meeplelard]

Just gonna echo that Wonder Woman's looks the most off of them.   The pants just really don't match her outfit at all, and that alone just messed up the look.  A few other things look off but can't quite say why.  Yeah, "cosplay gone lazy" fits that description.

Power Girl is another case that feels off, I guess feels like they put too much on her that wasn't necessary.  Like if they just took her standard outfit,  put the blue undershirt thing she has in that image to cover her iconic hole, and put on pants, that'd be enough, but they went the extra length and...eh, dunno, feels off, can't say why.

Most of the others are fine though.

[metroid composite]

Power Girl is another case that feels off, I guess feels like they put too much on her that wasn't necessary.  Like if they just took her standard outfit,  put the blue undershirt thing she has in that image to cover her iconic hole, and put on pants, that'd be enough, but they went the extra length and...eh, dunno, feels off, can't say why.

Interestingly enough, I didn't know what power girl's default outfit looked like, so I looked it up, and in browsing found an alternate outfit that actually made it to print and is actually pretty sensible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Worlds_Finest.jpg

[Grefter]

Checking stuff, that was her New 52 redesign.  Got rolled back to boob window Feb this year.  So lasted about 12 months.  Longer than pants/jacket Woner Woman did.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

You mean the blatantly ripped off of Rogue outfit?

[Meeplelard]

Power Girl is another case that feels off, I guess feels like they put too much on her that wasn't necessary.  Like if they just took her standard outfit,  put the blue undershirt thing she has in that image to cover her iconic hole, and put on pants, that'd be enough, but they went the extra length and...eh, dunno, feels off, can't say why.

Interestingly enough, I didn't know what power girl's default outfit looked like, so I looked it up, and in browsing found an alternate outfit that actually made it to print and is actually pretty sensible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Worlds_Finest.jpg

It's odd because I keep remembering "She got a new outfit in New 52" (if temporarily as Grefter notes), yet I keep forgetting it's actually a sensible outfit as you illustrate there.

[AndrewRogue]

What are we defining "sensible" as here?

[Grefter]

You mean the blatantly ripped off of Rogue outfit?

You say that like it is bad thing.

http://www.geekosystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/new-wonder-woman-costume.jpg

Take 90s Rogue outfit and get rid of neon green and you have a kind of legit costume.

[NotMiki]

That...is a fantastic costume.

[Captain K.]

Interestingly enough, I didn't know what power girl's default outfit looked like, so I looked it up, and in browsing found an alternate outfit that actually made it to print and is actually pretty sensible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Worlds_Finest.jpg

That's not Power Girl.  Boobs are *way* too small.

[Grefter]

Which one Jim?  The Power Girl new 52, Wonder Woman one that was >:Oed out of existence before it saw the light of day (or normal Power Girl)?

[metroid composite]

What are we defining "sensible" as here?

Something that could be worn while doing athletic activities.  (Specifically ones that might involve combat).


The combat part makes it a little unusual that her arms aren't covered, but otherwise that looks like a pretty reasonable athletic outfit.  Like...if I had one of those that fit, (and somehow didn't look really bad on me) I could be talked into wearing that while doing something athletic.

[Hunter Sopko]

Which makes the baggy khakis on WW even more baffling, really.

[metroid composite]

Which makes the baggy khakis on WW even more baffling, really.

You can do athletic combat activities in baggy clothing.  Look at US army outfits:

http://www.militaryspot.com/images/acu1.jpg

Not exactly form-fitting.

[Shale]

http://www.bof6.jp/pc/

It's a smartphone game. That plays like Maple Story. Life is suffering.

[Grefter]

http://comicsalliance.com/sailor-moon-doom-2-video-game-mod-video/

Abandon all hope,  the Ko has won and his dark works are come to this world to collect the debt of blood owed from the deals none of us made.

If you accept his dark gift in worship you may ensure that you are amongst the first; for the risk is to become one of the last.

[Meeplelard]

http://www.bof6.jp/pc/

It's a smartphone game. That plays like Maple Story. Life is suffering.

Capcom of Japan needs to be smacked...repeatedly.  Finally giving something people have been asking for about a decade and it's in the most middle fingery way possible.

[AndrewRogue]

Do we have video of gameplay or something? I've found one off-hand comment that it looks like a tap based Maple Story, but can't find any actual... anything, really.

That said, it'll prolly turn out like that shitty PS2 dungeon crawler/survival hybrid game. Fucking Capcom!

[Meeplelard]

It's possible it just ends up being an FFD style RPG, which would be nice, but the word "online" is hard to ignore.

If this was a Spin Off, I'd be like "oh look, Capcom's just teasing the fans with another Breath of Fire Mobile Phone game, whatever, nothing to see here" but calling it BoF6 just...ugh.


Yes, BoF5 did seem bad on paper, but at least it showed effort and was put on a console that made sense (PS2.)  People who wanted BoF6 are people who are going to be identified as "not casuals", so why put it on probably the most casual on consoles (Tablets and Smartphones)?  It really comes off as "playing it super safe by making a low budget game that hopefully will break even because people have been begging for this game!"  If it ends up being an FFD style game, then I just question "Why isn't this on the 3DS?"

[Anthony Edward Stark]

BoF5 was the only good Breath of Fire game.  That the fanbase rejected it is an indictment of them, not that game.  If I was Capcom, I'd give them the middle finger too for wanting to go back to their boring-ass generic shitpile.

[AndrewRogue]

Yeah. BoFV getting such poor reception was a serious shame. Hell, that game would have been pretty good for a direct follow-up title.

Or, ironically, a browser MMO.

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