mfad•10mo ago

Clothing in video games - Topic of the day 3/9/25

We have so many options these days in video games for what to wear. How do you like to style your character? Do you like to change styles or keep the same one throughout the playthrough. Is your character a reflection of self or a role you want to play?

Sal•3/9/25, 4:01 PM

Guys only want one thing meme

nowhereface•3/9/25, 4:02 PM

Lmao I just got back into Style Savvy on my DS a few hours ago, how fitting
I usually try to match the vibe of the game so the character doesn’t look misplaced in the scenes if that makes sense?

In games that specifically focus on outfits like Style Savvy or the Nikki Games I usually dress my character in outfits I would like to wear myself

nowhereface•3/9/25, 4:04 PM

At this point I would like to note that I ate with this:

Waxx•3/9/25, 4:05 PM

it depends on the setting of the game, if it's somewhere i think "oh i wouldn't mind being here" then i will style my character somewhat after myself if possible

Waxx•3/9/25, 4:05 PM

but having the freedom to pretend being someone else can't be undervalued imo

Waxx•3/9/25, 4:08 PM

i also am very new to thinking about fashion and style in general so being able to experiment with things in a video game setting gave me some baseline concepts of things i liked and didn't like without having to trial run it in the real world, i don't know how true that would ring for anyone else though

lyon•3/9/25, 4:09 PM

oh this is just an excuse to dump my ff14 screenshot folder

lyon•3/9/25, 4:09 PM

thanks guys!!

lyon•3/9/25, 4:10 PM

before i do, because i’m eating breakfast and don’t have the folder available atm, i do also want to say - i like dressing my little guys like they belong in the setting

lyon•3/9/25, 4:10 PM

i roleplay a lot in my mmos, and usually the fastest thing to suck me in is the setting

lyon•3/9/25, 4:11 PM

so i like to make it clear where my little guys are from, if i can, and what they do with themselves with just their clothes

lyon•3/9/25, 4:12 PM

i do it in housing, too, when applicable

Waxx•3/9/25, 4:13 PM

im jealous of the customization available in that game

Waxx•3/9/25, 4:13 PM

it never was my style but a lot of my friends play it and are always showing off their fits and their interior decor

WWaxx im jealous of the customization available in that game

nowhereface•3/9/25, 4:13 PM

Which game do you mean? Infinity Nikki?

Waxx•3/9/25, 4:14 PM

FF14

nowhereface•3/9/25, 4:14 PM

Oh I‘m blind

lyon•3/9/25, 4:14 PM

14 has a lot of good tools it just sucks that to get body diversity you have to mod the shit out of it

lyon•3/9/25, 4:15 PM

and also that the devs get real picky-choosy about when they want to accurately depict textured hair

Digs•3/9/25, 4:19 PM

https://tenor.com/view/souls-gif-7260961535391655465

Tenor

GigerGirl_LV426•3/9/25, 4:23 PM

I was gonna say, fashionsouls / souls games come to mind

GigerGirl_LV426•3/9/25, 4:23 PM

Monster Hunter too, making cool looking armor is so much fun

stevie•3/9/25, 4:34 PM

https://tenor.com/view/monster-hunter-wilds-mhwilds-mhw-hop-on-monster-hunter-wilds-hop-on-wilds-gif-10113460229452832402

Tenor

za warudo•3/9/25, 4:41 PM

Fighting games have some great designs. See classic KOF and Tekken

Sam•3/9/25, 4:41 PM

oh hey
this is kinda my thing since... i study game design :bloberm:

Sam•3/9/25, 4:42 PM

Zza warudo Fighting games have some great designs. See classic KOF and Tekken

za warudo•3/9/25, 4:56 PM

Some examples:

za warudo•3/9/25, 4:56 PM

lyon•3/9/25, 4:57 PM

...i need to sit down and just gpose for the next like hour, it's occurring to me that i have no current screenshots

lyon•3/9/25, 5:01 PM

in the meantime! here's some old gposes of my foppish gay nobleman from not-france

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lyon•3/9/25, 5:01 PM

his name is xavierre, he's a class traitor using his noble station to help usher the collapse of nobility for a more equal existence

lyon•3/9/25, 5:02 PM

~~you can tell these are pre-dawntrail though cause his ears have no subsurface but it's fiiiine~~

James•3/9/25, 5:05 PM

The original plan for Cyberpunk 2077 had four distinct subcultures with their own fashion, design and even architecture. It got somewhat diluted in the final game but you can still see elements of it

lyon•3/9/25, 5:05 PM

i wish they had leaned more into it

lyon•3/9/25, 5:05 PM

entropism’s workwear influences are fun to play with

Weeg•3/9/25, 5:27 PM

I used to go crazy with the runescape outfits

Weeg•3/9/25, 5:27 PM

But

Weeg•3/9/25, 5:27 PM

Best fashion game ive played was warframe

Weeg•3/9/25, 5:28 PM

Not analogous to real life clothes ofc but it was so fun picking different helmets and armor and little ornaments for your frame and the colors were so customizable

Weeg•3/9/25, 5:28 PM

It was so fun

lyon•3/9/25, 5:34 PM

okay i'm gonna go slight spam here since i'm actually trying to show the entire fit

lyon•3/9/25, 5:35 PM

so all of these are for my current (rp) main, who comes from limsa lominsa, aspires to be a pirate captain, because slavery is still a problem and sometimes the only way to solve stuff like that is outside the law's reach. also he's damaged

lyon•3/9/25, 5:37 PM

here's his main fit for his main job, this took me some 20-something hours to assemble because i couldn't get his gauntlets to drop in the dungeon they're from.

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lyon•3/9/25, 5:38 PM

the one time i'm sharing something that uses mods outside of hair + texture details + body scaling, because i tend to prefer vanilla mashup mods when wrestling with glamour. nine times out of ten, what i'm using is already available in-game, and if it isn't, it's made from things that are