Regular armour looks chunky? If anything a well-fitted harness does the opposite.....it tends to make people look sort of like stick-figures (especially their legs and arms.)

Breastplates should never be flat, they are often ‘pot-belled’ as some like to call it. A flat breastplate is worse than a boobplate.

Nice reply but not entirely accurate. A blade slicing through flesh does not really undergo violent deceleration (change in velocity.) if the edge alignment is good. When hitting a steel breastplate though the shape isn’t really relevant...a sword can not bite into a 1-4mm thick hardened steel breastplate regardless…

So what, it allows people to see the character’s tits? Why do you care?

The first and the third are NOT armour...they would do nothing to protect you. Leather is not armour....leather...is NOT armour. Fur is not armour, fur is NOT armour.

Plate armour was often very pot-bellied, very rounded, very pronounced. She’d have little issue with a historical set.

Deflect the blades to the side?....A breastplate completely mitigates the effects of blades even if completely flat. A hardened 1mm sheet of steel will stop almost any blow from a sword. The challenge for the breastplate was the LANCE, the LONGBOW and the MUSKET. The Polaxe and Warhammer also definitely gave armour a…

The armour in that series is complete rubbish though.

You don’t need to make a ‘boob shape’ for a Breastplate....I suggest you look up historical Gothic and maximilian armour...you’ll notice a ludicrious bulge around the chest area for all sets. A historical breastplate is already ridiculously rounded to more easily deflect arrows and musket shots.

Yes but the armour on Dark souls is rubbish 99% of the time. There’s very few sets in the game that are even remotely accurate (the ‘elite Knight armour doesn’t even have a steel breastplate? What the hell were they thinking?)

How is that any different than what the other person was bitching about earlier? That’s just sexism and racism played out differently. Again artistic freedom should always take precedence though, people bitching about this rubbish need to do something of their own I think.

That’s a very narrow way of looking at things...and I can’t help but feel you’re projecting. I think that argument is less common than you’re making it out to be. Also ‘badass’? What’s ‘badass’ about the cowardly kings and lords that are usually presented in fiction who aren’t even willing to take part in the combat?…

Swords do NOT bite into steel.....the ‘ridges’ you see is referred to as ‘fluting’ it was actually a later period design that can be seen on for example maximilian armour. It was designed to strengthen the armours integrity when faced with bludgeoning attacks as older variants were a little more prone to denting. It’s…

At least this person is wearing...what looks like metal. The fluting on this armour looks completely impractical and poorly done though. The mail looks like rubbish (it’s not riveted, the rings are thin and tiny...) The lack of a neckguard is troubling as well....as is the state of the armour, didn’t they look after…

Don’t use the term ‘platemail’...please!

The person who published that original article didn’t know anything about historical armour, historical fighting....basic physics or steel. Their idea of falling off something and breaking your sternum is lubricious...especially when wearing not only the steel ‘boobplate’ but also a 20-40 layer Padded jacket or…

The armour in that picture is even more impractical and rubbish than the standard boob plate is. I haven’t played Dragon Age but if the armour in game looks like that I might just skip it. Look at that silly leather with all of those straps! Why can’t they wear a steel breastplate? Why isn’t there any neck guard, no…