03-02-2014, 06:38 AM
I'm just gonna say about topless male characters that most often, due to how much more likely it is for a game to be targeted at a male audience than female, they are not scarcely-clothed for the same reasons that female characters are. They're not designed that way because it's sexually appealing to the people they're trying to sell it to, whereas female characters are. You could say that often it's to emphasize how badass they are, because wow they can go into combat unarmored and put up a hell of a fight. You could say that female characters might be viewed similarly with the whole badass thing, but then regardless you still get stuff like tops that can barely be considered tops and would actually just be incredibly uncomfortable to wear in real life, especially with the breast size often crammed into these outfits.