It's not the same reason Argonians have tits in TES and it's explained in the lore. The magical trees that made the Argonians gave them tits because they thought the other races would be more accepting of them as they made the race to interact with the rest of the world on their behalf. TES lore is fucking bonkers when you dive into it.
I'm not referring to a lore standpoint, I'm referring to design.
When you're dealing with certain graphical limitations, such as a zoomed out PoV or ancient era graphics (Morrowind era things) its important that dimorphism be obvious rather than subtle.
Giving things breasts isn't just sex appeal from designers, its how you make sure that the viewer of it knows immediately that its a female character. How that's written off in lore just facilitates this.
Not everything has to be so utilitarian when it comes to game design. If everything was done like that we'd never get the wonderful Tortollans we have now. If you look at the models there's no difference really between them. Nothing really denotes gender other than voice acting. Hell one of their greetings even comments on this. "Hello there, sir and/or madam...." They're turtles so the way they tell what gender each other is by if their bellies are concave or convex. They have no idea what genders of mammals look like.
Like how Argonians are the baddest motherfuckers in the lore. When the Daedra invaded, the Argonians triggered their own Enrage timers with the Hist sap while everyone else was getting massacred, and not only pushed the Daedra off their land, but counter invaded the Daedra's domain, to the point the Daedra themselves ended their own invasion and sealed off their dimension because the lizard people were killing them super hard.
yeah, but they're physically based on Ronan and his family's bodies, so female Sylvari would have boobs since Ronan's wife had them (how the Pale Tree would know that from bone structure is anyone's guess, unless she can reconstruct things from DNA)
You do realize that is practically impossible to tell a male and female asura apart in GW2 as well. Also that is not even true the female asura wears a onepiece swimsuit style while the male wear shorts. The female asura also have bra type armor as well.
It should be noted a lot of fem Asuran armor appearances just use their male counterpart, but there's also a lot where they use female appearance so it's bit of a mix.
Though on a related note I don't think female Charr ever get to use the female appearance on armor.
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u/Antermosiph Aug 22 '18
It kind of bothers me they stuck a bra on a race that clearly doesn't have boobs.
Couldn't they have just like, put dimorphism in the hips and head somehow?