Gemma's design makes no sense for a smith.

[The Hand]

If you want lewd smith do apron with side boob and cleavage i don't mind sexy. Her hair is INSANE for a forge with all those moving parts and just smith work in general. That little braid? that will catch on fire, her belly showing is bad for smithy, no hair covering.

She looks like she was made with another role in mind.

Edit: You can say it's a game, It's not real,etc all you want it's just weird to me as they keep trying to move towards being more serious and realistic in some places but they make this bizarre design for a smith. She would have been better as a handler or something else with that design. She reminds me of the one bounty lady from world.

Edit 2: Again I don't mind how much skin she's showing it's more how it's showing for her role. If she was Handler, Bounty lady like world, or something else it wouldn't bug me at all. It's just an argument of I don't like it because it does not fit her role. Anyone arguing otherwise is missing the point.

She doesn't have the giant mitts of Little Miss Forge who has straps for lifting her overalls which COULD protect her in the forge. Mitts young smith in Iceborne has and I think even the original smith has, BOTH have belly protection which if your not aware is where sparks are most likely to hit. BOTH don't have hair dangling right by working parts (beard for original World smith is arguable). The young hunter even has his hair back it's much shorter and the guys in the back working use leather aprons.

They cared in World. They had a design that made sense. If you want sexy smith it's not hard and I like that too. Gemma is just awful design for a smith.

What the hunter wears does not affect her. Little Miss Forge at least had a GIANT hammer, Mitts, and overalls that could protect her. Hell Little Miss Forge didn't have a stupid half jacket thats going to trap hot air blasting out the forge and sweat her out.

Edit 3: Layered Armor and your Hunter creations are your choices in how you engage the world. You choosing to not engage in any level of realism to the games world (or lack of choice in regards of maintaining enjoyment) isn't an excuse for an NPC who is shaped by developers over several hours of work from multiple people to match the world.

Also how often is video game logic known to not be an excuse? Seems dishonest to try that. And even with that logic remember Cool Drink is a thing to prevent damage from heat. I'm quite sure plenty of you would be very engaged in watching an animation of sweaty Gemma gulping down a Cool Drink to stay cool. But Cool Drinks don't stop burns so even then.

Edit 4: Because many seem to unable to comprehend this I will clarify. It’s not purely about realism. It’s more about the departure from previous design within the games universe for the other human blacksmith’s.

Especially when Gemma has a much larger focus on her than any other blacksmith in the series as far as I can recall.

[YMD]

Originally posted by Mister Cebion:

Originally posted by scylla:

not really, complaining about sexualized designs (which gemma's design objectively is) is pretty low-hanging fruit. any time there's an opportunity to do so somebody's going to take it.

would argue there'd be some validity to it if monster hunter weren't already a franchise obsessed with designs like this, i mentioned the kirin armor earlier but a lot of female armor likes to show skin in a similar fashion (even guardian arkveld's armor can't help but show off some midriff despite going for a sort of wintery viking vibe lol). at this point though if it's something that seriously bothers you you're probably better off just playing a different game.

h0ow can someone be this prude?

i would agree if she had a bikini on but its NORMAL western outfit. normal girl here in germany run arround with far less and its normal lol

She isnt even looking that good its a normal cute woman your hormons cant deal with

Yea, wait till you see South Korean women lol.

[CALIGARI]

Originally posted by Mister Cebion:

Originally posted by scylla:

not really, complaining about sexualized designs (which gemma's design objectively is) is pretty low-hanging fruit. any time there's an opportunity to do so somebody's going to take it.

would argue there'd be some validity to it if monster hunter weren't already a franchise obsessed with designs like this, i mentioned the kirin armor earlier but a lot of female armor likes to show skin in a similar fashion (even guardian arkveld's armor can't help but show off some midriff despite going for a sort of wintery viking vibe lol). at this point though if it's something that seriously bothers you you're probably better off just playing a different game.

h0ow can someone be this prude?

i would agree if she had a bikini on but its NORMAL western outfit. normal girl here in germany run arround with far less and its normal lol

She isnt even looking that good its a normal cute woman your hormons cant deal with

don't think i said anything to indicate i was a prude, "if you don't like it play a different game" feels like a stance someone like that wouldn't take. i'm just acknowledging her design for what it is.

[Surge44]

she hunts and kills 30 foot monsters too

[Mister Cebion]

Originally posted by scylla:

Originally posted by Mister Cebion:

h0ow can someone be this prude?

i would agree if she had a bikini on but its NORMAL western outfit. normal girl here in germany run arround with far less and its normal lol

She isnt even looking that good its a normal cute woman your hormons cant deal with

don't think i said anything to indicate i was a prude, "if you don't like it play a different game" feels like a stance someone like that wouldn't take. i'm just acknowledging her design for what it is.

thats what being prude is.

disliking when a woman showing too much for your own comfort and calling it sexualized while it isnt.

Its not like she moans and strike poses while smithing

[YMD]

Originally posted by Mister Cebion:

Its not like she moans and strike poses while smithing

she should. 10/10

[Mister Cebion]

Originally posted by YMD:

Originally posted by Mister Cebion:

Its not like she moans and strike poses while smithing

she should. 10/10

i would agree but he would be right then lol
I think ppl nowdays complain far to much about game disign and forget its a game not IRL
Do they complain in Tekken that Guys beat woman?

[CALIGARI]

Originally posted by Mister Cebion:

Originally posted by scylla:

don't think i said anything to indicate i was a prude, "if you don't like it play a different game" feels like a stance someone like that wouldn't take. i'm just acknowledging her design for what it is.

thats what being prude is.

disliking when a woman showing too much for your own comfort and calling it sexualized while it isnt.

Its not like she moans and strike poses while smithing

i never said i dislike it? i'm fine with her design. i'm just also able to recognize she's showing a lot of skin and is also the only character in the entire game with jiggle physics lmao. you're getting worked up over nothing man.

[SoulReaperAxel]

Originally posted by Катюша:

They'll sell bikinis for her soon, don't worry. Trust.

mods are free

[Elazul]

Dude I'm crafting a set of armor for my cat and she's sharpening a blade. Who cares?

[The Debauchery]

Originally posted by The Hand:

If you want lewd smith do apron with side boob and cleavage i don't mind sexy. Her hair is INSANE for a forge with all those moving parts and just smith work in general. That little braid? that will catch on fire, her belly showing is bad for smithy, no hair covering.

THANK YOU!
You are totally right... which is to say WE are totally right... because I've been saying the same thing ever since I first saw her.
To be quite honest though, her hair looks utterly stupid regardless of her role. If I'm being quite honest it looks like she has NEVER washed her hair, and just found new, disorganised ways to tie the filth back every time it irritated her.
But the main point is definitely that she could never do her job with hair like that. One spark and those greasy braids would go up like a bomb fuse.

Not only that but the counter-criticism of this thread by the randoms mostly amounts to "Fantasy therefore nothing needs to be realistic" ... which is a very common brain-dead take. Too many people don't understand the cardinal rule of "LIKE REALITY UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED". In other words if something isn't like reality then it should be highlighted, explained, or at the very least acknowledged as being so. Real elements even in fantasy and sci-fi are required to make a work relatable. That is why most of the hunters are human, for one example. If we were playing talking tree-people then players would begin to lose interest as they couldn't relate to it. There has to be enough realism to let people understand what they're seeing and get some sense of what is different. If we simply reject reality because fantasy, we're rejecting the only things that make any sense in the setting.
That is PRECISELY why gross failures like Gemma's hair are so offputting. There isn't any explanation for it, any justification for it, and it doesn't make local sense in the setting either. It is just nonsense.
And unlike huge monsters flying (square cube law go byebye) or swimming in rock, or how huge the weapons are, or how there is no fall damage but monsters can still be damaged by knocking them into the terrain.... Gemma's Hair is completely superfluous to the game.

[olbaid49751]

Originally posted by The Hand:

If you want lewd smith do apron with side boob and cleavage i don't mind sexy. Her hair is INSANE for a forge with all those moving parts and just smith work in general. That little braid? that will catch on fire, her belly showing is bad for smithy, no hair covering.

She looks like she was made with another role in mind.

Edit: You can say it's a game, It's not real,etc all you want it's just weird to me as they keep trying to move towards being more serious and realistic in some places but they make this bizarre design for a smith. She would have been better as a handler or something else with that design. She reminds me of the one bounty lady from world.

Edit 2: Again I don't mind how much skin she's showing it's more how it's showing for her role. If she was Handler, Bounty lady like world, or something else it wouldn't bug me at all. It's just an argument of I don't like it because it does not fit her role. Anyone arguing otherwise is missing the point.

She doesn't have the giant mitts of Little Miss Forge who has straps for lifting her overalls which COULD protect her in the forge. Mitts young smith in Iceborne has and I think even the original smith has, BOTH have belly protection which if your not aware is where sparks are most likely to hit. BOTH don't have hair dangling right by working parts (beard for original World smith is arguable). The young hunter even has his hair back it's much shorter and the guys in the back working use leather aprons.

They cared in World. They had a design that made sense. If you want sexy smith it's not hard and I like that too. Gemma is just awful design for a smith.

What the hunter wears does not affect her. Little Miss Forge at least had a GIANT hammer, Mitts, and overalls that could protect her. Hell Little Miss Forge didn't have a stupid half jacket thats going to trap hot air blasting out the forge and sweat her out.

Bro, literally our characters can walk on lava. Seriously, you're complaining about a piece of clothing. Are You okey???

[Stimoceiver]

i didnt see the "edit 2:" lmao this guy is a redditard, now the post makes sense

[Shoah Kahn]

Gemma's was not designed to be a blacksmith, as much as to be an NPC for annealing the hot, throbbing iron of coomers.

[Lycaon1765]

I made this observation to my friends when I said "I like how only me and Olivia are dressed for our jobs lol", it's funny to me. Like, I know alma isn't a combatant, but since she rides around with a hunter it would probably be wise to wear SOME protection just in case something were to occur.

[Burns]

Just want to add how annoying and offensive it is to be shouted "HELLO" every few seconds when browsing and figuring out builds. I swear I'm about to murder this b***h.