That's probably the thing I like the least about the game from what we've seen. Fanservice concerns aside I think these characters look super bland, and now we know that their designs were intentionally made super simple because they need to act as coat hangers for the dumb jackets. I'd rather classes not change their look at all if it meant we got more interesting designs.
Unfortunately I think VoidofLight is right about this; there might be a villain or two we haven't seen with some cleavage but I think that'll be about it. In my opinion any hope of significant alternate costumes went out the window once it was revealed that swapping around the Old Navy jackets was part of the class change mechanic.
I mean even it being optional isn't fully accurate since XB1 didn't have fashion gear originally, so you could end up with bikini Sharla or Fiora just picking the armor with the stats you like best. I'd imagine a lot of people just stuck with those looks rather than picking more modest armor that they thought was worse.
I say you're glossing over it because your posts make it seem like those games had no sexual content whatsoever, when you could have your whole team in more revealing outfits than anything in XB2 (obviously the body proportions in XB2 are more exaggerated, but I don't think there's much in that game which compares in terms of amount of skin shown). Speaking as someone who enjoyed running the aforementioned bikini squad, I do hope it's in there in some capacity even if it's out of the way. It would be disappointing if something you've been able to do since all the way back in Xenosaga was removed thanks to the backlash to 2.
First, I've read a ton of ESRB content descriptions and I can tell you that neither Eunie or Ethel's level of cleavage would have been mentioned on their own, they show like two square inches each. At worst they would have used something like moderate cleavage like you see in the description for Triangle Strategy, but Widowmaker from Overwatch shows more than both combined and it isn't mentioned at all there. It's probably safe to assume there's something more revealing in the game.
Second, I think you're glossing over the amount of revealing armors and swimsuits in XB1 and X. It's true that the defaults aren't very revealing, but a bunch of the alternate armors are, and you can play almost the entirety of XBX with a four woman bikini squad if you want to. Not getting those would actually be a departure for the series, not a return to the way things were.
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@VoidofLight
That's probably the thing I like the least about the game from what we've seen. Fanservice concerns aside I think these characters look super bland, and now we know that their designs were intentionally made super simple because they need to act as coat hangers for the dumb jackets. I'd rather classes not change their look at all if it meant we got more interesting designs.
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@Arawn93
Unfortunately I think VoidofLight is right about this; there might be a villain or two we haven't seen with some cleavage but I think that'll be about it. In my opinion any hope of significant alternate costumes went out the window once it was revealed that swapping around the Old Navy jackets was part of the class change mechanic.
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@VoidofLight
I mean even it being optional isn't fully accurate since XB1 didn't have fashion gear originally, so you could end up with bikini Sharla or Fiora just picking the armor with the stats you like best. I'd imagine a lot of people just stuck with those looks rather than picking more modest armor that they thought was worse.
I say you're glossing over it because your posts make it seem like those games had no sexual content whatsoever, when you could have your whole team in more revealing outfits than anything in XB2 (obviously the body proportions in XB2 are more exaggerated, but I don't think there's much in that game which compares in terms of amount of skin shown). Speaking as someone who enjoyed running the aforementioned bikini squad, I do hope it's in there in some capacity even if it's out of the way. It would be disappointing if something you've been able to do since all the way back in Xenosaga was removed thanks to the backlash to 2.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Will Reveal Some Skin, Unsurprisingly
@VoidofLight
So two things here.
First, I've read a ton of ESRB content descriptions and I can tell you that neither Eunie or Ethel's level of cleavage would have been mentioned on their own, they show like two square inches each. At worst they would have used something like moderate cleavage like you see in the description for Triangle Strategy, but Widowmaker from Overwatch shows more than both combined and it isn't mentioned at all there. It's probably safe to assume there's something more revealing in the game.
Second, I think you're glossing over the amount of revealing armors and swimsuits in XB1 and X. It's true that the defaults aren't very revealing, but a bunch of the alternate armors are, and you can play almost the entirety of XBX with a four woman bikini squad if you want to. Not getting those would actually be a departure for the series, not a return to the way things were.