Just want to get an idea of our community on the subject of art style involving weapon/items carried. Personally I like weapons to be realistically proportionate to body size, of course some people preffer oversized items.
Of course all I want is to get an idea of people's preference and perhaps a game reference as to ones you liked or disliked.
realistic in general. i like all the weapons in the last stream with Cohh.
just do what they did in EQ vanilla. it looked perfect to me.
i tried the mmo TERA. i played up to 10 just to see what it was about. i deleted it mostly because half naked characters were weilding weapons that were like 12 foot long or more. just stupid. delete game.
Realistic size for everything please. Huge weapons block visibility and are very annoying. Huge mounts (when we have mounts) block the view enormously and are enormously annoying.
By realistic I mean realistic for the item, of course. A two handed sword for an ogre should be a lot larger than a halfling's dagger. A horse is larger than a rider and an ogre would need a *large* animal to ride.
Vanco said:I know it wont happen but be cool if like a Dagger for a human is actually a sword for a gnome or a mallet for a human is a huge mual for gnome
I like this idea a ton. An Ogre's short sword = Human's long sword = Gnomish great sword or something along those lines. It would go from a 1 Hander to a "Versatile" to a 2 Hander. It reminds me of early game D&D. An Ogre's great weapon should not be usable by small races at all.
Vandraad said:Great idea....until you go into an area populated by giants. Nobody could wear or wield anything they drop.
Maybe not what the giant was wearing no, but I could see them dropping gear that the last foolish adventurers were wearing when they showed up in giant country. Perhaps some are wielding smaller weapons which can be used by ogres as 2 handers. Maybe most of the best loot from them are actually stashed in their treasure room.
As for weapon normalization, the damage would be different based on how the weapon is wielded and by what size creature. The weapon would have the same name and graphic, but would essentially be a different weapon in its damage numbers, speed, and way it can be wielded depending on your race. I feel like you could build a balanced system around this.
Vandraad said:Great idea....until you go into an area populated by giants. Nobody could wear or wield anything they drop.
haha yes, on the other hand it could be a dual wiels for medium races and not usuable by small races, given reasons to help the big races go in those areas by smaller races, the opposite as well of course a gnome dagger would not be useable to an ogre except as a toohpick :)
skeaser said:Kittik said:Vandraad said:Yes, realistically proportioned please.
+1
If weapons and armor are anywhere close to FFIV I will not play it. Hence the reason I don't play FFIV.
Looks fine to me...
