GDLYL wrote:
Do you know what a toned female looks like?
They look like all sorts of things. Depends on the female and the body. Unlike you, I don't think that "healthy" and physically active only has one body type. Everyone is different. There are lots of chunky women who are very physically fit.
Look at my favourite Olympian, gold medal speed skater Christine Nesbitt.Those are "toned" legs. That's a toned body - an olympic medalist's body. That's what someone who is physically active and at the peak of their game looks like. Muscles are not skinny.
Also I don't know if you actually looked at the pic of my XIV char - but there isn't one bit of "tone" on her. Just skinny like sticks. No muscles.
Women also don't have gigantic busts and tiny little waists in real life, unless they pumped them full of silicone. Besides, explaining things from a game with "well in real life if people ran so much that's what they would look like" is asinine. This is a fantasy game. Cat people don't exist at all. If I want to look chunky in a game where everyone runs, so be it. I don't see why you are against having options. I'm fine if you want to make a creepy skinny female character with huge bazongas, but I want to make a character
I can identify with, not one that fits
your sexist stereotypes about what healthy/athletic/toned women look like.
Again, my main point is, I'll be incredibly disappointed if the devs put a boob slider in and don't offer other customization options, including the option to put meat on my character's bones. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect that they offer more customization options meant to appeal to all types of gamers, (including, GASP, women) not just dudes who want to play big chested skinny women in games.
I can't understand why anyone would argue against allowing -more- customization. I'm certainly not arguing against the boob slider. I just want more control over how my char looks - and I don't want to be forced to be unnaturally skinny just cause I pick a female char.
Edited, Feb 19th 2013 10:09am by Olorinus