Bayonetta has a mode where you can play with one hand. I suppose it makes sense now...Twad said:
Impractical Character Designs
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Actually, Enzio is more practical because he could be seen as a rich guy, which was generally more common in the time period.Jiggabyte said:
thenumberthirteen said:
the Helghast need these masks because the atmosphere on their planet is somehow toxic-or they cant breath earths air anymore because of mutation-at least thats how the masks were explained when Killzone1 came out.
Although a special set of "googles" worn during the fight might give you a "bad field of vision" they are there for a reason and stuff like "night vision", "distance counters", eye protection etc. might make no sense inside a shopping mall but are important during warfare.
I think most of us and even Yahtzee make a mistake when we compare clothes of fictional settings with clothes ppl. wear in our real world because most (not all!) of the clothes and equipment worn by heroes makes pretty much sense inside their own fictional universe.
Oh posh, once she got her black top on I thought the design was rather excellent.MiracleOfSound said:
As opposed to that buoyant bag of bubbles that was Miranda.
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The topic was practicality, not design. Right, sorry.
There are a ton of characters with horribly impractical character designs. Most often found in anything Japanese: Pick a female protagonist from Final Fantasy, pick a male one from 10-onward, pick anyone from the Soul Calibur series who isn't Nightmare, Siegfried, or Hilde (all wearing armor, which is the practical thing to wear when fighting with gigantic blades)
These styles are meant to be cool to look at, but probably wouldn't be very productive in an actual combat situation.
This isn't just the domain of games, how many action movies have we seen where the protagonist wears civillian clothes and a pistol, instead of full body armor and an assault rifle.
These styles are meant to be cool to look at, but probably wouldn't be very productive in an actual combat situation.
This isn't just the domain of games, how many action movies have we seen where the protagonist wears civillian clothes and a pistol, instead of full body armor and an assault rifle.
Actress Jean Seberg; most famous for her role in Jean-Luc Godard's A bout de souffle.MiracleOfSound said:
Was later the victim of a vicious slander campaign devised by J. Edgar Hoover, which eventually drove her to suicide. Or a staged murder. The stories conflict.
I liked Jack's design. She's proud of her tattoos and doesn't really care about death or anything, so a lack of armour is understandable. Especially for a biotic, who should be shielded by their barriers in ME2. At least her Loyalty outfit gives her an actual top instead of just straps.MiracleOfSound said:
Thing I admired about Jack is that she isn't made to look particularly feminine. The other females in the game have their skin-tight bodysuits, yet they're somehow worse than a woman with literally a strap for a top.
The designs do tend to suit personality and like you said, they didn't get nuts until 10. Even in 10 though, Lulu's costume is the only party-member whose costume makes no sense; the clothes on the towns folk in that game are just plain stupid. What really gets me are characters with outrageous arms and other muscles. I find it really distracting when the guy has arms the size of an average man's torso.Jiggabyte said:
I think that truly impractical or impossible designs are the mainly the province of fighting games. Even the love-to-hate Lara Croft's costume makes sense. Her legs are vulnerable, but then the jungle is hot.
Jiggabyte said:Inspired by this thread [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.176414-Most-impractical-JRPG-weapon].
I was just looking over the character design for Lulu from FFX, and realised just how goddamn impractical her outfit is for anything.
I mean, seriously, how many belts is she wearing? And she's battle-ready, right? She's wearing heels and a fur coat, and little else. Not most protective thing for someone who is going up against the embodiment of evil itself. It's not even really ablative (heavy fur and, you know, the skirt made of belts), which should be priority for a spellcaster who's ditching protection.
In fact, a lot of games suffer from this problem. Yahtzee wrote an article on it not long ago with some good examples [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7071-Extra-Punctuation-Darksiders], War being the main one. Nobody needs that much armour, especially when none of it really goes together more than being a random assortment of scrap metal.
So, what do you (yes, you) consider bad character design? Examples? Any particular games or designers? Or maybe I should shut up and let you post already.
(inb4 JRPG hate)
It's totally hot though.... so who cares. Lots and lots of FF chars are completely impractical, actually most videogame characters are in some way or another, if you really think about it. But it's fantasy, so I'm all about the belt skirt. Maybe she's really into S&M or something.... that's the first thing I thnk of when I look at her.
Thats not impratical but really If you're going to wear soo little why even bother at allPimppeter2 said:Because somebody had to do it.
Alex Mercer from Prototype actually wears clothes that look like a sane human being in 21st Century western society would wear in public. He wears jeans, sneakers, a white shirt, grey hoodie and black leather jacket. Which actually is a fairly neat contrast to when his ARMS ARE BLACK CHITINOUS CLAWS.Wraithsight said:
Lets not forget games where you can customise your clothing and general appearance, such as GTA 4 or Saints Row.