Barbarella!

[Kinnison]

Are the Sexes going to be wearing different items. I mean a breast plate for a male is going to be a lot different then a breast plate for a woman, especially if the designers and artists are male, and get paid for making them buoyant:thumbup:

[LarryPaul]

Good question. I'd like to see different designs on the same item, depending whether your char is male/female. Or is that sexist?

[Kutsa]

If there aren't different looking armors for both, why bother drawing the bewbs in the first place? I think the looks will change according to the gender.

[Dacar92]

Oblivion changes it, based on the sex of the character. That is the only game I can recall that changes. Shouldn't be too difficult, I wouldn't think.

[ThulRasha]

There probably needs to be a different 3d models for every armor item for every class for both male and female. The 3d chestplate that fits the wich doctor can't be worn by the barbarian, else he can't breathe. The same textures may be used, mapped onto different 3d models.
With 5 classes you would need 10 models for every unique looking armor item.

So to answer your question, yes they will be wearing different items.

[ael]

Oblivion changes it, based on the sex of the character. That is the only game I can recall that changes. Shouldn't be too difficult, I wouldn't think.

WoW changes it too. (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/armorsets/)

I think its a safe bet to say that armor sets will have both male and female versions.

[NKlint]

Well, it would certainly be a little awkward if a male barbarian were wearing a female breastplate. Unless he has some moobage.

[Kinnison]

Oh yes the rendered model would be diff.

But what about actual items that are Sex-specific. Females could have special breast plates, and males have cod-pieces :crazyeyes:

[Schwalker]

The first Barbarian wearing female armour wouldn´t have to pay for drinks in my neighbourhood considering it´s "camp" attitude..lol

[Dacar92]

The new set would be called the Immortal Queen.

[Denton the Nietzschen]

That would be a great idea.:thumbup:

I rather doubt that Blizzard would mix up the models. What a silly mistake that would be....

[stillman]

Here's what I hope will hapen: A plate drops. It's the female version of Silks of the Victor (for example). Ah shucks, my male barb can't wear it. But there was an equal chance of the male silks dropping too. So if a player who likes playing different barb builds is smart, he will make one male barb and one female barb so no matter what gender the armor is, one of his barbs will be able to use it. That way, we'd see a roughly 1:1 ratio of male to female chrs in the population.

If they make it so that the armor morphs into male or female armor depending on the gender of the wearer, well there wouldn't be much difference between male and female. Blizzard would have doubled their work on character design for nothing more than a purely cosmetic choice for players. That's kind of like drawing 10000 different snowflake designs just to make the weather look better.

I'm a bit opposed to giant wastes of memory space, so IMO the body armor at least should be part of the luck system. If you are lucky, the coin being flipped in your computer lands on heads and gives you the "male" version of the armor when it drops for your male barb. I think it would add a great deal of emotion to the game if you are very high level and a godly unique armor drops and it happens to be female armor and you are a female barb. Likewise, I think it would add strong emotion to the game if it were male godly armor and your female barb can't use it so you feel like the unluckiest player sometimes.

By the way, I think the name you're looking for is "Barbie".

[Dwovar]

I already hated the 'class specific items' from Diablo 2 LoD. Seriously, only the paladin can carry those special shields because....... why? Are the barb's fingers just too damn meaty to fit into the grip of the katar? Sure, no one gets the skills unless they're the right class, but if I find an awesome helmet that just happens to be shaped like a wolf's head, why can't my (axe wielding-ergo wolf clan) frenzy barb put it on? Is his head to fat? Is that how we measure things? Paladin's have the smallest forearms, sorceresses have the smallest fingers, druids have the smallest heads, barbarians have the other smallest but in a different way shaped heads?

It was crap.

So to move on, gender based items would irritate me to no end. I would like to reduce the feeling of 'unluckiest player in the world', not increase it. It's like automatically halving the already slim chance that I'll find the item I've been looking for for so long.

I figure if it's really a big issue, the blacksmith can rework it to fit. And since you're saving the whole damn world, they can do it for free.

What I really (god help me) want to avoid is the booby-armor. I don't mean armor built to properly protect a woman's body. No, I mean the World of Warcraft "how'd these greaves turn into a thong" armor. I can't look at a WoW female PC and think "ah, that is well designed to protect your vital organs." Instead I wonder "was that designed to get free drinks at the bar?" If I have to beg I will beg, but let armor be armor. No peep-holes, no thongs, no assless chaps. Maybe, just maybe, we can design a game that doesn't scream to the world "Hey! Video games are made by horny guys that wanna whack it to the jiggle of thier amazon!"

[Kinnison]

Most gamers are guys, and a lot of gamer chicks I know play for both sides. They want to see the tight jiggly parts. Heck, even a girl will swoon at seeing a well muscled chest with firm moobs

But at least... let there be an option to convert Class-specific and maybe Gender-specific items to a different class/gender.