Boobies and all things wonderful

[Oatik]

www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?feature=3433&bhcp=1

Sadly this is just about box art and MMO marketing, no real boobies were hurt in the making of this article.

[Morreion]

That was a trip down memory lane, all of those games from the past displaying their charms...

[Morreion]

Anti-Aliased: Boobs and you (Massivley)

While our interactive media may have started with a slightly overweight plumber as the titluar hero, we've certainly turned to making sure all of our character models feature strong, burly, and oversexed men who's muscles can give a woman's breasts a run for their money. I mean, look at World of Warcraft, for example -- a game that we normally don't consider sexually charged. How realistic is their depiction of men compared to the average guy?

Yet, we don't riot in the streets when we see a burly man as the typical video game character. We don't declare him to be sexually charged because we as a whole have assigned different values to the male and female anatomies.

Last week, many people used words like slutty, pornographic, oversexed, and trashy to describe the female characters. I bet if anyone would have described the man in the photo, it would have been words like, muscular, powerful, strong, and other words that carry neutral or positive connotations.

Is this bad? No, I wouldn't go so far to say bad. But it is a little unbalanced when you think about it.

[Regolyth]

Hehe... I never got that Evony ad. The sexy lady caught my eye first, obviously, which got me to read the title of the ad. It advertised a RTS game. I wondered what this woman had to do with that, but didn't care enough to click on the ad to investigate further. I see now that it was just a ploy. Advertising is a strange world, indeed.