So I got into the Blade and Soul Beta (was forum=152)Follow

Can't stand the character design and stylization. Way too oversexualized. I want to play a game, not watch pron.

Edited, Oct 10th 2015 9:13am by Catwho

I'm in the technical alpha this weekend and I've been really enjoying it so far.

The combat feels a lot like Tera but without the things that I hated about Tera's combat such as hard animation locks. I have some nitpicks with the interface and control scheme (I can't bind things to mouse4/5? Why?) but overall I'm enjoying the game.

One thing I will say is that the races have almost no variation between them. With the single exception of the Lyn, the races just feel like: Human, Big Human, and Porno Human.

Edited, Oct 10th 2015 9:54am by Callinon

It just occurred to me the beta is the day before Halloween. I think im going to make a character that's tall super thin with white skin long black hair and pure black eyes just to try and creep people out

I've seen quite a bit of it, but haven't had the chance to get my hands on it. I care far more about how it plays than how it looks to be honest. Oversexualized doesn't bother me because I can't look at my phone, turn on the TV or even walk out my door without being slapped in the face with it. I haven't seen everything there is to see but just based on what I see IRL on a day to day basis, B&S seemed pretty tame to me.

I'm a bit apprehensive about MMOs in general lately, but I'll probably try it out. I'm pretty sure that fallout will be soaking up the majority of my time in the near future though.

I guess this is just my feminine cis heteronormity showing through and biasing me against it and all.

I got nothing against boobs and hips, but it's like someone sliding a bowl of pistachio ice cream to me. I'll look at it, sigh, and shove it away again. I know other people find it delicious but it just doesn't appeal to me.

Visual style really does mean a great deal to me when it comes to MMOs. That's why I played XI over WoW for so long. It's why I didn't really get too deep into ESO or Wildstar. I have an overly broad and shallow personal Uncanny Valley sense, especially when it comes to female character designs. I don't even want to look at them, let alone play them.

I think it looks pretty fun, nice to see the combat and all, but it is pure vertical progression (according to Mr Happy's stream at least) and I just can't stand that anymore so I doubt I will try it.

I don't like the way they look either lol

I have build up a natural aversion to "free" games.

This is purely bias since i havent played Blade and Soul yet, but the overal quality is usually lacking in some way. Especially with PVP elements included. It's usually something like people who purchase ingame items having a major advantage over people who do not (but ok, that's semi-fair), or basicly the game not being playable beyond the basic elements and the rest being locked behind payment walls. Or an incredible grind fest on top of that too where progress is super slow. And in general, i find the playerbases to be full of young (rude) immature people who cant bring up the costs of a monthly fee. Even worse if there's PVP involved (Archeage comes to mind as having all of that... but Tera and Aion are guilty of this too)

Honestly, the only game i have ever played that's Free while offering the exact same quality as people who pay for things is Phantasy Star Online 2. The only thing that people who pay for it have over people who do not is the ability to vendor things to other players (which is completely unneeded as Meseta gathers up pretty quick regardless and you can buy 99% of all the items off the marketboards from other players regardless). It's still a grind fest however.

Will i try it? Yes, may as well.

Am i going to enjoy it. Probably not for more than a week...

I haven't been paying much attention to Gamergate lately. Are they seriously afraid it's going to become illegal to make games with boobs in them or something? Because that's unlikely to go out of style anytime soon.

I don't think that B&S would be viewed as oversexualized if people weren't so damn prude.

For what it's worth, I've been doing my part fighting for women's rights. At least, I did walk around with a petition for women to be allowed to go shirtless as men do without fear of being arrested for indecent exposure. I think that counts anyway

I'd also like to mention that you can have huge butts too. Let us not ignore this fact.

It's mostly Americans lol. (I would say the west but even the EU isn't as OMG SHE HAS BOOBS KILL THE DESIGNERS!) The eyes do bother me kind of but I'm used to that design because after you stare at zbrush for long periods of time, you get used to soulless eyes.

What could you possibly be talking about?



There's nothing remotely nightmare fuel about this. Nope... not a thing.

Actually during character creation, one of the lighting options really makes this face look creepy as hell. I didn't screenshot that. Didn't want my computer to be haunted or something.