june gloom on 2/7/2012 at 08:18
holy shit a woman in 40k without torpedo-sized tits
could GWS be recognizing that 40k isn't the sausage factory it once was? one can only hope
icemann on 2/7/2012 at 14:22
Well considering their all clones you've got to give them some slack :p. Going from what I remember reading ages ago.
faetal on 2/7/2012 at 15:44
If you were going to genetically design a warrior, you wouldn't give them extra weight to lug around.
DDL on 2/7/2012 at 16:49
Isn't she imperial guard, though? (i.e. just some random schmuck grabbed off a handy planet and conscripted)
Anyway, Dethtoll: applying the same constraints (i.e. giant tits or no) to "a computer game" and "plastic models about an inch high" is...not exactly fair.
You might as well say "holy shit a human in 40k without a fucking giant head and hands", because to make faces and digits recognizable on that scale they always have to exaggerate, and then the concept art for the next set of models tends to mimic the previous models -either for consistency or because that's what the concept artist was raised on- and so on. I mean, look at any dude in terminator armour: unless they have magical two-foot-wide armpits, there's no way they can put their arms into those suits. "Big tits" just falls into the same 'exaggerated physical characteristics' category as all the rest: need to make a model recognizably female? "Big hair and tits."
GW is fairly understated on the whole "men are giant hulking tanks, women are wearing bikinis" front: humans are pretty much all hulking tanks (male and female), eldar are all wearing sex armour (male and female), orks are..genderless, and so on. Hell, some of the chaos demons are hermaphrodites, so if it is sex-pandering, it's..weird sex pandering.
Generally 40K is far far less about sex than it is about killing fucktons of stuff in ludicrously impractical and unsustainable ways.
The real difference here appears to be that the game is attempting to actually make people reasonably proportioned all round: the protagonist looks like he has a human-sized head, for instance.
Out of curiosity, faetal: have you encountered any terminators yet, and if so: do they manage to make them look in any way feasible?
june gloom on 2/7/2012 at 16:58
I'm not... exactly talking about the little figurines?
Like I was looking for artwork of Adeptas Sororitas and it took me 15 minutes to find one without tits you could sail around the world with.
Malf on 2/7/2012 at 17:05
I played this a while ago and still fire it up on occasion for some Ork bashing.
DDL, it's a bit spoilerish, soooo no, there are no Terminators throughout the game. There IS a Titan, but unfortunately you don't get to smash things with it.
It has a very good weight to it overall, and while yeah it could learn a few tricks from Batman, it's still satisfying enough.
A pretty good story too. The protagonist is made reasonably interesting through his actions and the interactions with his squad members.
faetal on 2/7/2012 at 17:27
DDL, do you have a link so I can have a look? It'd be interesting doing a hypothetical analysis of fitness on one.
faetal on 2/7/2012 at 19:35
All about the armour surely?
