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MK11 female designs are... extremely underwhelming

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Colour me surprised that the two most boring characters in the game have the most boring aesthetics. They're literally "military but with SASS" and there's honestly not much you can do with that.

Sure, maybe give them some gym clothes. But how do you even make that interesting in a game when you can play as a haemomancer, Edenian assassins, monstrous bug lady and robo cryomancer? The military armour was the only viable "battle" option.

Jax and Johnny don't even really come into the argument either, being an actor and having enormous metal arms free up a lot of design potential.
 

pure.Wasted

'ello baby, did you miss me?
I'm most likely in the minority when it comes to liking Cassie's space suit looking outfit. The chin attachment kind of completed the look for me too, idk why.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't HATE the space armor. The problem is it takes up 3/6 of her skins. Im sure that if she had 50 skins, I would be criticizing the ones I passionately dislike, but she doesn't. All she has is this. Which might be kinda cool but it isn't Cassie.
 

Gamer68

Fujin!
From what I've seen, it's more like Cassie and Sonya have extremely underwhelming designs -- not the female characters in general.

I've seen some really good skins and/or gear for Jacqui, Skarlet, Jade, Frost, D'Vorah, Kitana, and Cetrion. That's literally the rest of the female characters.
 
I just don't get why they are so afraid to have some fanservice for the female characters here. Even MKX, where they started tone it down, had some. Most of their outfits have them covered from head to toe. I mean, I don't hate all the outfits. The ones Kitana and Skarlet have are okay, but they don't need to have all the outfits like this. It looks especially jarring next to male characters, most of which can be shirtless, and in some cases, pantless.

I prefer the MK9 and MKX outfits, overall.
 
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methademic

UPR Methademic
SJW ALERT, SJW ALERT!! Didn't take long for someone to get triggered here lol.

WTF is a "weeb"? lmao...this another made up term or something kid?

Found the first troll here.

Ignore my previous comment, since you clearly misread it.

:D

To educate you since you clearly misread what I said and didn't even look at my my avatar? lmao...fail. I said nothing about cleavage. Where did I say anything about that in my prior post? lmao...these people. Do you people always put words in people's mouths? I mean at least try to post a good argument if you're going to try to be funny, at least read what I say please. Wanting classic costumes does not translate to "owee I want boobs" there's porn and women for that, but there's something called oldschool fans and different tastes as well as umm MK lore? Derp.
Ahh yes the ol buzzwords SJW this triggered that. One snowflake away from the incel trifecta.
 

MKF30

Fujin and Ermac for MK 11
"Weeb" is a term reversed for people that obsessed with Japanese culture and always prefer subtitles over dubs. Using it for an NRS title doesn't fit at all.
Thanks for the definition, then yeah that really don't make sense. Can't say I'm surprised in it being used incorrectly. :D



Ahh yes the ol buzzwords SJW this triggered that. One snowflake away from the incel trifecta.
At least SJW has an actual meaning and is used properly in this case and isn't just a made up word like " incel" what can I say? I looked up the term "incel" and nothing about that describes me. Just seems like a desperate counter and SJW would use honestly. I just call shit how I see it but it's all good, only a true snowflake would be intolerant and twist what I said to begin with. The other word makes just zero sense since Darc posted the definition.
 
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Of all the characters, they had to give Cassie shitty costume design & boring color palette, and they even took away her mkx undercut lol.
I like Cassie's base costume. What I don't like is that her other skins look like they belong to her mother. Cassie is closer to Johnny and has a personality more like him. Why is doing Sonya cosplay with her alt skins?
 
Jacqui's skins are alright. I think the NRS employees kinda overhyped them. Like 3 or 4 different employees had a little twitter convo about how she has the BEST skins in the game and how her skins made them want to play Jacqui. Her skins are kinda like Taco Bell lol. She has a Special Forces and a Kronika-esque skin repurposed in multiple ways like Taco Bell and their ingredients. Her Kronika skins look a bit generic like some of the other female characters with the similar loin cloth/chest area.
 

Professor Oak

Are you a boy or girl?
Yo, Ive held saying this bluntly back, but tonight Im on one.

Sex is okay. Being sexual is okay. Liking sex A LOT is okay. Being gay is okay. Being straight is okay. Being both, or trans, or pan, or asexual is okay. The idea is to include everyone and not to exclude anyone. If you are hate talking toward people who want to see tiddies and that juicy bootae, youre just another part of the thought police. I like to think, somewhere, theres a world where guys are fighting for characters like Jax to not have abs because it portrays an unrealistic body standard and objectifies men. Honestly, I myself am a classical feminist. Any person, man, woman, even Mileena player be able to earn anything they are capable of earning and respect them and treat them as they wish to be treated. But that does NOT mean, I am to pretend I dont want to see them Naked. Especially if its just some game Im playing PURELY FOR ENTERTAINMENT. Also, its not even weird to be turned on by picels. Some people atre genuinely into hentai and the like. Its certainly an option on tabs when Im on Pornhub. Theres a market. Lets all be adults. This game is rated mature, lets act mature. Men are half naked. Liu, Jax, Johnny, others, so women can be too. Its fantasy. To please us. Game of thrones doesnt HAVE to show tits and sex and John Snows ass, but it does. Because people love it. I want Mileena with big ole tidders and idc who knows it.

Rant over.

Also, surprise, Cetrion is the most boring character in the whole damn fighting game universe.
 
If you haven't seen them yet, here are Cassie's skins in MK11. And they're bad. Really bad.

Remember how stylish and fun Cassie was in MKX, between her eye-popping black S-F outfit, her hot jacket and gym shorts outfit, and her weirdly classy Hollywood "undercover" skin? That's all gone now. Her default is a beige combat outfit, a variation with slightly less armor, and another variation with a generic jacket on top of the armor. Then she has a space suit (non-canon by the way) and two more variations on that space suit.

Because nothing screams Cassie Cage like a beige color palette, or a turtleneck space suit.

And if you think that's an isolated incident of a female character's outfits not showing their personality, or being otherwise generic, look at this:



Wow. Many unique design. Such personality.

We have three female Special Forces characters in the game, who have pretty much interchangeable Special Forces armor outfits.

And before you say "well of course, they're all in Special Forces." No, motherfucker! Johnny's in Special Forces too, and this game gives him more variety and personality in his outfits than he's ever had before. Jax is in Special Forces too, and between his stylish leather jacket and metallic arms, no one's confusing him with anyone else. Liu Kang and Kung Lao are both Shaolin monks, that doesn't mean they look alike. Shao Kahn and Kotal Kahn are both Kahns of Outworld, it doesn't stop them from wearing COMPLETELY different armor and looking like COMPLETELY different characters.

Then we have the issue of "Injustice" designs creeping in on MK. Cetrion is already the most controversial character in MK11 and a lot of that has to do with her appearance, which focuses almost entirely on visually telling us her powerset, and tells us almost nothing about her personality as an individual. Jacqui and Frost both have sleek "Kronika's Army" design skins that look like they would fit better in Injustice than in MK. Then we have Skarlet's weirdly weird Eastern European goggle-hat default, which while certainly being distinct, is neither cool nor makes any kind of story sense.

I'm looking at characters like Noob Saibot, Scorpion, Kabal, Erron Black, Kano, Johnny, Jax, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Shao Kahn, Kotal Kahn, Raiden, on the male side of the roster, whose visual designs are all so wildly different from one another and all exude personality... and you want to tell me these female characters exist in the same game? And had as much work put into them? That's just sad, man. The female characters of MK deserve much better than this.

I have more to say but I'll leave it here for now. And before anyone tries to make this to be about skin, it's not fundamentally a question of more or less skin. D'Vorah's entire body is carapace, and her primary outfit is still one of the best female designs in MK11. The used-to-be stylish, now-ragged black cloak alone tells the story of everything she's been through.
What do you mean? Mileena looks awesome!
 
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