Alright. So. I started playing Fantasy Life recently. I got my character all dolled up and shit, went to the market to get something cute, bought a skirt, and found out I couldn't equip it. After some research I found that the pants equivalent of the skirt was inequipable to female characters. :dry: Would it really be that bad to have characters wearing clothing typically associated with the other sex? Have any of you run into any RPGs that are rather liberal with their wardrobe allowances? (My character now has no pants equipped, and is running around town in their underwear, which is clearly more acceptable than a boy wearing a skirt)
That double standard... Bullshit isn't it. A microcosm of why transgender females aren't seen as real women and transgender males are just crossdressing butch lesbians. But as far as that goes? Well there are only so many models that can be visible online at a time, but really how hard is it to place a skirt model over a larger character model?
In Runescape you can wear plateskirts, way back when I used to play. You can also wear dresses as Trevor in GTAV, and cross-dress in the Saint's Row quadrilogy, if those count.
Animal Crossing newleaf lets you crossdress all you want :3 I really wish more games were like that though, I'd have played a boy in Pokemon X just to crossdress if that had been an option xD
It would also depend on the engine of the game and which it was designed in. That's why in Fallout you only had costume/clothing choices that were set and this was specifically due to the engine, design and programing of the game. For example I couldn't put on a vault suit with Legion armour overtop, or wear a Boomer jacket with NCR pants. I think in games such as Fallout, Fable, Mass Effect, Dragon Age or basically any RPG style of game where you essentially make the character YOURS, I'd like to have more options of male clothing that females can wear, or feminine clothing that male characters could wear, along with some gender neutral clothing. BUT in the case of a game like Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto, Halo or COD it wouldn't work. Could you imagine Master Chief or Franklin from GTA V in a dress? Not saying its bad, I am saying it totally depends on the game.
Depends on the game, characters, and such but in general it's a massive oversight to have gender-locked clothing options. Animal Crossing: New Leaf was great in this regard and even had supportive messages from villagers when you wore clothes typically associated with a gender other than the one you appeared to be.
That's so silly; what's the harm in crossdressing? Ugh. One of the games I play has clothes that only males or only females can equip, and I find it somewhat annoying. However, I've never desired to wear something that only male characters can wear; if I did that would really irritate me. >.< One of my friends on that game is a guy and he switched to a female character because he said the male clothing was boring.
