Carrying on from http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1489003-praise-for-esos-wonderful-representation-of-women/


And yet...

First thing I see when I go to nexusmods.com to see what's what is a close-up of a pair of boobs.

Second thing I see is the no. 1 downloaded mod in the past 2 weeks is a female armour set with the word "cleavage" actually in its title. 260k views and 41k downloads in under two weeks.

Third thing I see is the three toplists hyperlinks. The third is "Most endorsed files of all-time (non-advlt)". There are so many advlt ones that they need to create a separate list excluding them.

Now obviously I know they're not all saucy and I was just having a laugh when I said the top mods were 101 boob enhancers. While I (like the OP) appreciate the TES titles giving a better representation of women than the norm for RPGs, I had to and still do disagree with the sentiment expressed by someone that they deter the perverts. Thanks to the moddability of the games - a neat feature that I'm sure has contributed significantly to their popularity - few other games can reach the levels of 'perversion' that the TES titles can.

The saucier mods for Skyrim go above, beyond and reach into alternate dimensions compared to other RPGs. In some cases to the extent of qualifying unequivocally as pormography. And the developers profit from this. Not from the mods obviously but the people downloading these mods still have to buy the game and may do so only / largely because they know they can make it so boobtastic. It gets past any concerns about ratings because the game is completely vanilla. The x-ratedness comes entirely from third-party content which isn't sold and therefore not subject to much regulation.

I agree with Aeon in the original OP

I'm not a female but that doesn't stop me from saying that I think they did a pretty good job of representing women in the ESO universe.

People like big boobs, men and women both.

What's new?

You know what? I don't think guys who want to look at big boobs and cleavage are perverts. I think they are heterosixual guys. Doesn't mean I like developers to assume that all gamers are heterosixual guys, because we aren't. Mods are the right place for that kind of thing, or at most, transmog.

@killerdude, that's true but you can tell if a male makes a female character. Hopefully I don't get banned for saying this but usually a the guy makes the female character "[censored]ty" like for the most part naked and yada yada yada but women make their female characters more appropriate I guess. At least from what I've seen. But from a guy's perspective, I like boobs pretty big but not to the point where they're extremely fake, so I'd say decent.

Also, I'm going way too into this where it's just inappropriate, sorry.

The last thread was starting to wander a bit off topic a few times.

Discussion about how females in other video games over the years would be for the Community Discussion forum.

If you want to discuss how armor looks in real life, start a thread in Community Discussion.
Evaluating females in mods for Skyrim belongs in the Skyrim forum.

I believe the original topic in the first thread was about female representation in ESO. Let's tick with that topic.

Just an idea to keep everyone on the same page since the OP here is nothing about the original topic.

@Pluto, agreed.

Back to the topic at hand, I agree that ESO's depiction of women is pretty good compared to other games. It's nice to have a faction with a female monarch.