The comparison with the Vanquisher is fun because the two characters have a similar look and are wearing similar gear. I wanted a female version of the male dude. That character in the top right looks as though she’s going to strip, or go to a BDSM party, or pose for a pin up. I really wasn’t over-reacting when I said I hated them. You can see that the dude is getting gradually more assassin’s creed-like over timeĢ. The guy at the bottom hunter is the demon hunter from the end of beta, and the other chick is the Vanquisher from Torchlight. The top two characters are the level 1/ starting male and female demons hunters.

So without more ado, this is the demon hunter.

This is a roundabout way to introduce the topic of Diablo 3, which I have been playing some more this weekend as and when the servers allow it.

In fact, if Blizzard had only made their original male blood elf model look more like Ezio (which admittedly would have required a time machine since TBC was released first IIRC), I bet none of the beta testers would have whined about them looking gay. I think we should applaud this diversity, since some of us like our guys lithe and … err… assassiny. I have a theory that while female models in games pretty much started out based on underwear models and haven’t moved on significantly from there (depending on whether you think Sonic is female or not), graphic artists are now tending towards two male forms for all portrayals of men in games.

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