One Last Thing (SWTOR)

[rowyn]

I forgot to mention this in my giant post yesterday, so it gets its own post. Another thing I like about SWTOR:

 

The clothing is androgynous.  All of it.

 

Everything the women wear looks exactly the same on the men, and vice versa.  If it looks like a shirt + vest on a man, it looks like a shirt + vest of the same cut on a woman.  If it looks like a floor-length skirt on a woman, it looks like a floor-length skirt on a man.

 

So far, all of the PC clothing I've seen has been modest -- not just "no cleavage", but no skin showing below the neck.  (Almost everyone wears gloves, even).  The most revealing clothing available is tight pants, and even those look like pants, not spandex.  That's pretty much it.  There are some NPC dancers and background characters in slave-Princess-Leia-style outfits, but I haven't seen anything like that on the players.

 

The only downside is that the clothes are pretty much all in neutral colors, and the 'skirts' are tailored to look like the jedi robes from the movies.  So neither men nor women can really look feminine.

 

Minor quibbles aside, I just love the design choice. The avatars look great and nobody looks like they're running around a battlefield in lingerie.

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Comments

[argonel.livejournal.com]

I ran into a jedi that was showing some skin. Even then it was tasteful not battle lingerie. As I recall it was a leather vest and shorts/skirt combo.

I also ran into a bug in beta where a specific pair of pants didn't appear on my smuggler. It is notable that her underwear was visible and appeared to be highly functional, not lingerie.

[rowyn]

I think the 'underwear' is shorts and a tank top. Lut saw a bunch of players running around with their companion in her 'underwear', which is sort of annoying, but given that the underwear is more tasteful than Lara Croft's outerwear, it doesn't really bother me. :) And I haven't noticed people doing that in live, so maybe they changed it ... not sure. I haven't tried stripping my avatar or my companion.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Could be a bug where it doesn't finish loading the companions' armor by the time the companions get to you, so it just displays the basic model.

[rowyn]

That would explain why I haven't noticed it in release, if they fixed the bug. :) Or possibly it's just that I haven't really seen any female companions, actually ... my only character in the "companion" range is 16th, and at this level the companions are: male human, male cat-guy, lizard-person (masculine looking but who knows) and I think a droid for the jedi knights?