10 Most Bizarre Gaming Features We Just Accept
4. Female Armour
This one is perhaps a controversial entry, and is prevalent in many forms of media besides just gaming.
The representation and relative effectiveness of female-specific armour.
We all love acquiring, forging, and upgrading our armour sets in fantasy series' like Dragon Age and Final Fantasy.
The more work we pour into our armour, the more resilient they are to damage, the more menacing they appear to our enemies, and the more badass they look in screenshots.
From helmet and pauldron to greave and sabaton, we are indestructible.
Unless of course we're female.
Female armour looks like it has been designed by a 13 year old boy who happened to sneak a peek at his older brother's internet history - by accident, of course.
From Tyris Flare in Golden Axe to Shahdee of Prince of Persia fame, stopping off at Soul Calibur's Ivy and Ninja Gaiden's Rachel along the way, the choice of PPE on show here is frankly astounding.
Gone is the full-face helmet and five inch thick cuirass, and in their place are strings, lace, and ribbon covering nothing but the unmentionables.
The most baffling part about the whole thing?
Most of these "armour" sets actually give quite impressive stat boosts, but that's beside the point...