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Agreed about Postal, but in fairness, we don't know if Dragon Crown is a crappy, mediocre, or good game yet. If it winds up being a good game then I wouldn't let the art style, which I find ridiculous, stop me from buying it. I'll let the fact that I don't own a PS3 or Vita stop me from buying it, but if I owned one of those devices and it was a fun game that appealed to me, I'd likely wind up getting it and putting up with the art style. Conversely, I'm highly unlikely to buy a game on art style alone, even if I really like the art style. Art style does add or take away from a game a bit, but it's very far down the list for me and it certainly won't trump story, character depth, or gameplay.

It does but it is a creation of my imagination, as are all of you, the Earth, the universe, etc. The entire multiverse, including these boards, every person I have ever "met" or heard of, every solid, liquid, and gas, heck the very concept of solids, liquids, and gasses, they were all created by my imagination as a self contained universe. This is my own private playground, or my own private hell. Outside of me, there is nothing, or everything, or a completely different concept that cannot be defined by nothing, everything, or anything. I'll never know, because this self contained universe is all I'll ever know.

Personally, speaking strictly of fantasy art styles of scantily clad women, I prefer something more, and I hesitate to use the word, realistic looking, like the work of Boris Vallejo: Note: I had to search a good bit to find Boris Vallejo pictures that I could actually post here, most of his work feature ample amounts of nudity. Anyway, I find pictures of women with realistic proportions far more attractive and arousing that the ridiculously exaggerated style of something like Dragon Crown. But hey, if people like that kind of extremely exaggerated style then that's their prerogative.

Dragon Crown can use whatever art style they want. I personally don't find it the least bit appealing and think it looks ridiculous, but I'm sure there are those out there that think it's cool. At the end of the day, rather than go on a crusade, I simply vote with my wallet. If a game doesn't appeal to me, for whatever reason, I just don't buy it.

Obviously, this means the moon is hollow.

Ooh, it's in the middle of downloading a 1.5 GB patch. Could this be the long awaited balance update? Surely it's not one of the regular patches, those are usually like 50-100 MB.

Here she is on another box cover, this one significantly more tame: Check out those astounding hardware requirements: "Supports EGA, CGA, MCGA, VGA, and Hercules monochrome graphic cards". VGA!? What sort of billionaire has one of those?

Me likey. That last, pure scenery, picture is straight up breathtaking: I would love to have a high res version of that.

It's one of the more infamous box covers in video game history: Roberta is on the far right, for those wondering. She was quite attractive back in the day. More importantly, she created one of the most iconic and beloved video game franchises ever. Another fun fact, this was so far back, they weren't even called Sierra yet. Sierra On-Line, I miss you so much! /sobs uncontrollably

I personally am neutral on KoA:R's art style. I neither like nor dislike it. I like the gameplay well enough, unfortunately the world is just so dull, which is why I generally lose interest rather quickly.

I prefer to leave my helmet on, but it's nice to have the option. Helmet on: Helmet off: Hopefully some day I find different armor than the ridiculous boob plate I'm wearing. It will almost undoubtedly still be boob plate, but hopefully it will be cooler looking boob plate.

There actually was quite the uproar when Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards (LSL1) came out. Ironically, it's that very uproar that helped launch the franchise. When it first launched, LSL1 sold quite poorly and it looked like that was going to be the end of the series right there. Then rumors and accusations got thrown around about how shocking and offensive and pornographic the game was. Media outlets ran with it without doing their due diligence (Leisure Suit Larry was NEVER a porn game), as is customary for them (because who needs research, right?), and the attention created a buzz which spurred the sales of the game to take off. Long story short, the game wound up selling very well in the long run and started a beloved and very successful franchise. You have to have tittays/boobies/knockers/honkers/bazongas/headlights in Leisure Suit Larry, it's crucial to the game. In fact, it's pretty much what the entire game is about. Leisure Suit Larry is about a horny lovable loser with a wildly inflated opinion of himself on a quest to get laid. That's the premise of every single real Larry game (read: LSL1-LSL7). Larry meets a wildly attractive (usually voluptuous) woman. The wildly attractive woman won't give Larry the time of day. Larry finds out what she desires and figures if he gives her what she wants she'll give him what he wants (nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean? say no more). Larry sets out to acquire what the wildly attractive woman wants. Hilarious antics ensue. That's the script of every real Larry game. Sexual desire and the female body are the central theme of the game. The point is this, I feel it's quite fine to have cleavage, ass, even full frontal nudity or straight up sex scenes in a game where it fits appropriately with the plot, setting, and/or theme of the game. What irks me is when cleavage and ass get shoehorned into a game, crammed in there with no sense or reason other than attempting to entice the horny guy beating off in his mom's basement demographic. I don't find it offensive, I just think it's cheap and trite. If you have a character who is a harlot, then by all means have her be falling out of her dress, it's how she makes her business. Likewise, I have no problem with a scantily clad amazon who relies of quickness, agility, and the ability to quickly climb trees when hunting or fighting for defense, rather than armor, or a sorceress who relies on magic for protection and might find the seduction and/or distraction factor of LOOK AT ME BOOBZ of greater advantage than a cured hunk of leather between her and a sharp blade. On the other hand, trying to pass off a chain bikini as "armor" is just plain ridiculous. Boob plate is a little better, since it actually does put a piece of steel between you and the aforementioned sharp blade, but the very nature of its design would cause blows to deflect toward your sternum (read: bad for your health), rather than away from your body (read: good for your health).

Yeah, healers pull way too much aggro at the moment. Supposedly the balancing update will address this. Also, they will be reducing the cooldowns on most of the GWF skills. Personally, I don't think the GWF is underpowered, but if they want to buff my class up a bit I'm not going to argue.

No, not really. It's a mediocre game that happens to have a sex kitten with a chainsaw as the main character.

DeathQuaker, you're making sense. I'm not sure that's allowed in this thread.

Slide into NSFW? We've been bordering on that territory since the OP.

The fact that this thread has been allowed to go on for SEVEN WHOLE PAGES without a picture of Morrigan from Darkstalkers is a TRAVESTY! I cannot allow this to continue.

Do they have an Error 37 reference?

In theory it's supposed to bring about equality and fairness, in practice it's the very definition of discrimination. Two wrongs don't make a right, and all that jazz. Back on topic, LadyCrimson, what's your attitude toward assless chaps? That one is sort of unisex, works on both genders.

In fairness, an undeserved sense of entitlement is hardly a penomenon exclusive to the female gender. Now, getting back on track with the silliness, I'll concede LadyCrimson's leather thong for the guys as long as the females are forced to wear nipple tassels: Note: They don't HAVE to be Hello Kitty nipple tassels, though that would be a plus.

Ooh, so that means in the future we'll get some games with a distinctly Arabic/Persian/Middle Eastern feel? Cool, I'm sick of the pseudo medieval European setting.

Hopefully the balance update helps some of the more tank type companions to pull aggro more effectively. They're still likely to go down fairly quickly because they're stupid and won't get out of the way of big charge up attacks and AoEs like (good) players will.

Oh man, Zardoz. That movie tried to be all artsy and profound, but instead would up being hilariously cheesy and ridiculous. On the plus side, it featured plenty of nudity.

What about mankinis? Can we have male characters wearing mankinis?

Noted. Record updated. I don't fear their bodies, but I do fear women.