Oh, I got a few silly comments from people calling it 'unfeminine' and being a bit funny because they can't see boobs. From what you mentioned, it was voted file of the month at one point, so I imagine you were hearing from folks, good and bad. Talk to me about the response to the mod. I wanted it to be clear that it's not about boobs and butts, it's for people who want the armor to at least make some sense. It's kind of a response to basically every other female armor replacer being called 'sexy' or 'skimpy' something or another. You decided to call the mod 'unsexy.' How come? Why use that particular language? One of BlackBaron2's other mods is, well, a sexy male wizard. It doesn't make any sense, and if the excuse that 'sex sells' held up, you'd see guys running around in undergarments with decorations, too. If you play as a guy, you get full coverage mostly, or something that at least kind of makes sense for the setting, but if your character's a woman, you get stuff like metal lingerie and bikinis and bare minimum coverage. Has this kind of thing-making armor for women sexualized for no particularly good reason-bothered you for a while now? It's not unique to Oblivion, that's for sure. I really, really got irritated with those things. Well, that and the iron set that turns into boobplate with a miniskirt for who knows why. But I'd always hated the weird 'huntsman outfit,' which turns into a bikini and chaps with a loincloth when you put it on a woman, and the shoes look like ballet flats, too.

I was inspired by Calyps and Nuska's Heroic Form and the associated armor conversions for Skyrim. Waypoint: What prompted you to make this mod in the first place? Was there some kind of breaking point with a piece of armor in the game that made you throw up your hands? (The one comment that really stuck out to me was a player saying they couldn't figure out why they didn't like it, except that they're 'probably too used to the regular boob armor by now,' so it's probably 'ingrained in my brain.' Hm.)Īs part of my ongoing series of interviews with mod creators-I recently talked with the creator of Doom 3's duct tape mod and the person behind Fallout 4's toilet paper flipping mod-I got in touch with Unsexy creator BlackBaron2, who was still making clothing-related mods for Oblivion, as recently as mid-2015. 'This mod is great, though this is more like 'realistic' than 'unsexy,'' said another. 'As a woman myself, I tend to find most of the skimpy fetish clothing and armor rather silly in that it completely breaks immersion,' said one player. Folks who downloaded the mod were deeply appreciative of it, too. Given how often modders are tearing the clothes off of video game characters-the amount of horniness hiding in the mods for Stardew Valley left me shaken and almost permanently scarred me-it's struck me to find one going in the opposite direction.

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