What's up with people dressing up female characters really skimpy?

[phantompally76]

When I was younger, I would always play female characters in MMOs. So did all my friends. Looking back on it, I have no clue why. It certainly wasn't for any of the reasons proponents of sexykawaii always give ("If I'm going to have to stare at an ass for 60 levels, I want it to look hot" or "female models look better than male models" or "chicks with swords are big bewbs are the win"). Honestly, in retrospect, I think it was really weird, and borderline creepy. These days, all my toons are males, so I guess I grew out of it.

 

That said, whenever I play MMOs I automatically assume every female character I encounter is a very immature male or a very disturbed male. Is that unfair? Absolutely.

[gilaphreak]

When I was younger, I would always play female characters in MMOs. So did all my friends. Looking back on it, I have no clue why. It certainly wasn't for any of the reasons proponents of sexykawaii always give ("If I'm going to have to stare at an ass for 60 levels, I want it to look hot" or "female models look better than male models" or "chicks with swords are big bewbs are the win"). Honestly, in retrospect, I think it was really weird, and borderline creepy. These days, all my toons are males, so I guess I grew out of it.

 

That said, whenever I play MMOs I automatically assume every female character I encounter is a very immature male or a very disturbed male. Is that unfair? Absolutely.

Lol, you forgot the "Because people give me free stuff" line. :)

 

I've heard that one several times from guildmates.

[Ceruulean]

Haha, so true. I knew a cousin who was playing a girl in some MMO, and when I asked him, he said, "it's cause people give me free stuff"

[lofgren]

When I was younger, I would always play female characters in MMOs. So did all my friends. Looking back on it, I have no clue why. It certainly wasn't for any of the reasons proponents of sexykawaii always give ("If I'm going to have to stare at an ass for 60 levels, I want it to look hot" or "female models look better than male models" or "chicks with swords are big bewbs are the win"). Honestly, in retrospect, I think it was really weird, and borderline creepy. These days, all my toons are males, so I guess I grew out of it.

 

That said, whenever I play MMOs I automatically assume every female character I encounter is a very immature male or a very disturbed male. Is that unfair? Absolutely.

 

Maybe in your case it was weird and borderline creepy, but I don't think that is always or even frequently the case. One reason that I have heard is that playing as somebody radically different from yourself in a really obvious way liberates you from worrying about how the character you choose to roleplay reflects upon yourself. I have observed this myself in tabletop games.

 

I play males most of the time but I like to switch it up, especially when I am playing a character outside of my "comfort zone" (ranger type character in most games).

[TheFuzzler]

You see it in many games to some degree: guild wars 2 for instance... hell have you seen scarlet blade. Honestly though I kinda agree, I don't mind playing female characters and some of the nude mods were fun at first but now it's just plain creepy seeing unrealistic rendered women in these frankly rediculous 'armors'. This site is bordering on a porn site, and if you find that last statement offensive ask yourself: would you show this stuff to your mother? like I told my girlfriend "It's like, Did the internet suddenly run out of porn?". I've been hoping since 2012 that nexus would make an effort to seperate the mods into 2 categories Pervy and not-pervy. Not "adult and non-Adult" but "pervy and Not-Pervy". I also think one of the reasons that it's so rampant is because there's very strict rules on what you can actually say on nexus if you have anything nasty to say about some of these images you just have to suck it up and let it go.

 

I don't think anything is going to change you don't have to agree with it just accept that this is what nexus is and if you want mods this where they get posted and that's it.

-Ben

[lofgren]

There's lots of stuff I wouldn't show my mother that isn't porn.

 

One thing I found creepy about the the nude mods was that even with skimpy clothes you still have all of these clothed women around. And then you kill them and take their stuff. And now you are surrounded by hot, naked, dead chicks. Like being able to damage children, it's the kind of thing that wouldn't bother me if the original game had that content, but I feel a little weird going out of my way to install it as an extra.

[gilaphreak]

You see it in many games to some degree: guild wars 2 for instance... hell have you seen scarlet blade. Honestly though I kinda agree, I don't mind playing female characters and some of the nude mods were fun at first but now it's just plain creepy seeing unrealistic rendered women in these frankly rediculous 'armors'. This site is bordering on a porn site, and if you find that last statement offensive ask yourself: would you show this stuff to your mother? like I told my girlfriend "It's like, Did the internet suddenly run out of porn?". I've been hoping since 2012 that nexus would make an effort to seperate the mods into 2 categories Pervy and not-pervy. Not "adult and non-Adult" but "pervy and Not-Pervy". I also think one of the reasons that it's so rampant is because there's very strict rules on what you can actually say on nexus if you have anything nasty to say about some of these images you just have to suck it up and let it go.

 

I don't think anything is going to change you don't have to agree with it just accept that this is what nexus is and if you want mods this where they get posted and that's it.

-Ben

It's called "Adult" and "Non-Adult" to separate the X-Rated content from the PG; which is more commonly known as "Adult" content. They're just calling a spade, a spade here.

 

To want it classified as "pervy" is kind of immature, in my opinion. You either like it, or you don't. Either way, the mature reaction would be to simply ignore it if it's not your cup of tea; not get the community to change their outlook on it because you think it's weird.

 

I think it's a good thing to have mods of all varieties. I would rather a site have everything for everybody, rather than demanding it to be tailored to my needs.

 

To be honest, if we were going to get into the whole immersion sharpshooter thing here; wouldn't all characters be naked underneath their clothes? If it wasn't such a taboo subject, and given the blackball AO rating by the ESRB; Bethesda more than likely would have implemented nude bodies whenever clothes are removed in the vanilla release.

[TheFuzzler]

 

You see it in many games to some degree: guild wars 2 for instance... hell have you seen scarlet blade. Honestly though I kinda agree, I don't mind playing female characters and some of the nude mods were fun at first but now it's just plain creepy seeing unrealistic rendered women in these frankly rediculous 'armors'. This site is bordering on a porn site, and if you find that last statement offensive ask yourself: would you show this stuff to your mother? like I told my girlfriend "It's like, Did the internet suddenly run out of porn?". I've been hoping since 2012 that nexus would make an effort to seperate the mods into 2 categories Pervy and not-pervy. Not "adult and non-Adult" but "pervy and Not-Pervy". I also think one of the reasons that it's so rampant is because there's very strict rules on what you can actually say on nexus if you have anything nasty to say about some of these images you just have to suck it up and let it go.

 

I don't think anything is going to change you don't have to agree with it just accept that this is what nexus is and if you want mods this where they get posted and that's it.

-Ben

It's called "Adult" and "Non-Adult" to separate the X-Rated content from the PG; which is more commonly known as "Adult" content. They're just calling a spade, a spade here.

 

To want it classified as "pervy" is kind of immature, in my opinion. You either like it, or you don't. Either way, the mature reaction would be to simply ignore it if it's not your cup of tea; not get the community to change their outlook on it because you think it's weird.

 

I think it's a good thing to have mods of all varieties. I would rather a site have everything for everybody, rather than demanding it to be tailored to my needs.

 

To be honest, if we were going to get into the whole immersion sharpshooter thing here; wouldn't all characters be naked underneath their clothes? If it wasn't such a taboo subject, and given the blackball AO rating by the ESRB; Bethesda more than likely would have implemented nude bodies whenever clothes are removed in the vanilla release.

 

 

"I would rather a site have everything for everybody, rather than demanding it to be tailored to my needs."

"Either way, the mature reaction would be to simply ignore it if it's not your cup of tea; not get the community to change their outlook on it because you think it's weird."

 

At no point did I mention anything along the lines "let's stop these people". My Position is very simple; the skimy content checkbox which is nice when searching for mods is cool I love it. Let's just make that checkbox appear on my Profile preferences instead and make it apply to ALL images and mods on the sites. It makes me feel uncomfortable, and I don't want to see it and I know a lot of other people don't want to see it, yet currently it is everywhere. I don't think the request to be able to block something is immature in any way.

 

"It's called "Adult" and "Non-Adult" to separate the X-Rated content from the PG; which is more commonly known as "Adult" content."

the problem here is I want to see the "adult" content like the gore mods. I just don't want to search for them amongst all the skimpy outfits.

 

"wouldn't all characters be naked underneath their clothes?" erm.. What does this have to do with anything? If you look up the question isn't about being naked, it's about dressing up really skimpy.

 

I think the thing that really creeps me out more than anything. Is every now and then when i'm downloading an innocent mod and you got to images and click the 'from users' tab and off of a sudden there's this thing wearing an elven micro bikini or something and has a caption that says "Vikki thanks you".

 

"Bethesda more than likely would have implemented nude bodies whenever clothes are removed in the vanilla release." this statement is based on what exactly? O.o

[MikeDavis]

I think he has do to something with lack of woman in real life.

Edited July 4, 2014 by MikeDavis

[cera9]

I'm a female myself, I'm not really sure where I stand on the female mods subject. I think regardless of your own gender, unrealisticly goodlooking girls can be fun to play I guess. Personally I don't like anything super skimpy and I'm also not a big fan of an overly sexual appearance like in the first post. I really like that Skyrim has true lore and feels very immersive, but that would also make me a hypocrit because my own character doesn't look anything like a true nord:

 

http://i.imgur.com/VIhXtWh.png

 

 

 

 

When I first started playing skyrim, I played a wood elf and made her as evil as possible, because for one I didn't really care about player aesthetics. I had a lot of fun playing as a criminal elf. As I played through the game though, I got bored of playing someone so ugly, the only thing that had kept me playing as her was the roleplay aspect and I'm a bit of a troll so it was funny to me. In the long run, starting over as a modded nord female actually made me play skyrim twice as much more. It's just appealing, that's all. I think everyone just has different levels of appealing, and some of them have very extreme crazy levels.