Friday, April 30, 2010

I ought to be excited...

They've released more information on Guild Wars 2—some details on how combat is going to work, and some information on the first class. I ought to be excited, because I've been looking forward to this, but sadly, I'm not.

And it's for what I'm sure some people would consider a really stupid reason, which is this: the first class they released information on is a revamp of the Elementalist from the first game, and (much like the Elementalists in the first game), the human female is only wearing clothing by the loosest definition of the word "clothing".

And if that's what the human female soft armor is going to look like, I'm not going to be playing a human female soft-armor class. Especially when the male Elementalist shown is covered from head to toe, it irritates me when the woman's outfit is a bra and what from the back looks like a long skirt but from the front looks like a loin cloth.

I realize this is only one piece of armor, and I should wait and find out more, but it really, really taints the good information for me when the publicity for the game focuses on boobs. The human race stills show women in heavy armor that covers virtually nothing it ought to, and this is just more of the same, and it's really turning me off.