Why is the female armour always a dress?

[Sparky]

Like the guys get to look decked out but the girls just get a bunch of (mostly) ugly dresses. Like it's %90 thigh-highs and massive skirts which doesn't really make sense. Dresses only work because they're elegant but it's really hard to rip a dragon in half, wrap it around your body as armour, and make that look elegant.

Is it just me? Am I dumb?

Edit: Just to be clear I'm not talking about realism or immersion! Just the 'rule of cool'. I don't think the female armour looks very good.

Edit 2: No really guys, I don't care about realism or anything like that. I literally just want cool/good looking armour. I like thigh-highs, mid-riffs and stuff like that when it looks cool. I just think the armour design is lacking.

[CourtesyFlush09]

it's a MH tradition/weird Japan thing

[MrLuckless]

Your fighting giant monsters with weapons that are by all rights too large to be reasonably carried let alone used by a human, but no, it's the battle dresses that pull you out of it? The armors were designed to look either cool or appealing, sometimes both, it's not that hard to grasp.

[StarExile]

Just use layered armor? There is some basic looking belts you can replace skirts with

[The Sandal Bomber ™©]

I love my butterfly dress though.

[Sparky]

Originally posted by MrLuckless:

Your fighting giant monsters with weapons that are by all rights too large to be reasonably carried let alone used by a human, but no, it's the battle dresses that pull you out of it? The armors were designed to look either cool or appealing, sometimes both, it's not that hard to grasp.

I know. The dresses aren't cool or appealing though, they mostly just look derpy. There's a few good ones in there like the shrine maiden sets, but the rest don't look very good. I don't care about the realism at all.

[Sparky]

Originally posted by StarExile:

Just use layered armor? There is some basic looking belts you can replace skirts with

Well yeah, but like, almost none of it looks good.

[Sparky]

Originally posted by The Foot Long Fart™©:

I love my butterfly dress though.

The butterfly dress is pretty great :p

[Haka]

Yes.
Wearing dresses into battle is completely immersion breaking. Next they'll wear high heels into combat too! Who the hell writes this stuff, thinking people would wear high heels into any type of combat?

Who would believe something so crazy? Next you'll tell me that Persian Mounted Archers were the first to wear heeled footwear so they could stay in the stirrups of their horses better while standing to fire! Better yet, you'll say that the absolute PARAGONS of masculinity, AMERICAN COWBOYS (yeehaw) have heels in their FREEDOM LOVING Cowboy Boots for the same reason!

Now if you'll excuse me i'm going to go back to playing a real game where I swing a 300lb melee weapon and not some fantastical and unrealistic garbage where their gear is completely unsuited for, and would indeed make combat impossible.

[Haka]

Originally posted by zxzc77:

I know. The dresses aren't cool or appealing though, they mostly just look derpy. There's a few good ones in there like the shrine maiden sets, but the rest don't look very good. I don't care about the realism at all.

Sorry about that, my boomer cousin got a hold of the computer.

[Nauct]

Females have a good mix of armor. Edgy, dress, bikini styles, short shorts, crop tops, any skin showing combo you want.
Males just have big armor.

[Hoernchen]

Some of these dress armors are from old monsters so the armor has not changed from version to version. Rathian Armor for example looks the same in every version

[©ThΣKämikαzeMΏήkΞ¥s™]

Not at all! But i am really hoping for a stygian zinogre in the next expantion, because i want it's armor set. :3 u know why.

[MegaClaus]

thats why i always play male in all games (if possible), almost everytime the armor sucks on female characters, too cutsy and silly especially in monster hunter.

[MegaClaus]

Originally posted by Nauct:

Females have a good mix of armor. Edgy, dress, bikini styles, short shorts, crop tops, any skin showing combo you want.
Males just have big armor.

and thats all they need, just looking badass is enough.

[Sparky]

Originally posted by Nauct:

Females have a good mix of armor. Edgy, dress, bikini styles, short shorts, crop tops, any skin showing combo you want.
Males just have big armor.

I want some big armour too tho