Oh, I think you're right, I think it might have been called Wings! There was definitely a diary that recorded your combat achievements in it. I think that's really, really cool that you guys would have a real veteran pilot at those conventions. But yeah, I agree there's definitely such a thing as too much realism in a game. Even in a historical game, let alone a fantasy game!bellanca6561n wrote: »I never played that game, but from your description of it I'm actually very curious to try it. I don't think I'd necessarily enjoy playing it, but I'm sure I'd find it very interesting. I'm much happier playing games with a healthy dose of fantasy in them, but when it comes to a historical game with a high realism component, I'm always curious. Of course, I'm typically the guy who watches Braveheart and complains that the real William Wallace was a noble who wore full armour and such... I have real trouble enjoying any form of entertainment based on actual history if I see anything in it that I know is historically inaccurate. That's a large part of why I usually prefer fantasy for my entertainmentbellanca6561n wrote: »Um, no. You're very very misinformed on this. Full plate weighs less than the full combat gear of most modern soldiers (you're typically looking at roughly 50-60 lbs for full plate, vs around 90-100 lbs for typical modern infantry combat gear). On top of that, unlike mail or modern gear, the weight is relatively evenly distributed around the body, which makes it much less tiring (as long as you're used to it - if you're not then the very fact that you've got added weight on your arms and legs is going to tire you out faster). During the time period when both mail and plate were common, a man wearing plate could wear his armour for much longer than a man wearing mail before being too tired out by the weight to fight effectively, even though the mail typically weighed somewhat less.Still, a full plate wearer, no matter the customization and craftsmanship, will drop dead after a 100m-run. Give him 500m if he is highly trained. It's no wonder that heavily armed fighters were usually mounted or using war carriages. Every foot soldier was clad in something like "medium armor", even if that consisted of a mail shirt.
If a 120 lb female US Army second lieutenant can run a full marathon (that's 42,195m) wearing an 85 lb bomb suit, a trained knight wearing a 60 lb suit of full plate can definitely run over 500m without dropping dead.
You also have no understanding of medieval warfare if you think that foot soldiers always wore "medium armour" during the era of full plate. Do a little research on the Hundred Years War and the War of the Roses and you'll find that battles often consisted of thousands of men-at-arms on foot in full plate, typically alongside archers and cavalry. Often the majority of the foot were in full plate, and infantry charges (which would be over distances greater than 100m) were common.
Me too, UrQuan....couldn't have made it through school without the middle ages. Oops, picked that up from another of your posts.
But this is a dangerous road. When War of the Roses was released - the game I mean - folks went wild about its realism.
My thought was, oh god, I hope the hell not. I mean, hours and hours of hacking and hewing, trying like mad, using those weapons, to make someone die.
It wasn't pretty or easy. Nor was the game. Imagine this, an online game where it took some work to get an opponent down. Then, for full credit, you had to ram whatever pointed weapon you had into any gap you could find in their helmet - ram right into the eye socket, yes sir!
And, as the victim, you lay there helplessly, hands raised as if pleading for mercy, as you saw the person straddling you body shove a sword into your face as the screen went black.
Oh, what a community builder that tender title was.
Do not imagine, do not entertain the notion that realism is what you want here. It was not an entertainment activity. It was gruesome, it was slow agony in most cases, and it stank.
And the vast majority of soldiers who perished died of disease.
No. Online fantasy roleplaying games are about ritual. And ritual is the enactment of a myth. Thus what we're discussing here is mythology and the imagery that either serves that mythology or detracts from it.
Side note: my all-time favorite air combat game was a World War I dogfighting game for the Amiga (I've long since forgotten the name), and a huge part of why I liked it was because your character, as a pilot, was mostly responsible for the maintenance of his own plane (as was common then), and if you didn't raise your maintenance skill your chances of having things go wrong in-flight were increased. It may be frustrating as hell when your machine guns jam in the middle of a dogfight because you didn't maintain them properly, but dang if that isn't a good reflection of what actually happened!
And yes, I've been a history geek (especially with regards to medieval history) ever since I was a kid. Based on that, maybe it's a little odd that I ended up in an IT career where I could be considered an entirely different type of geek...
I think I recall that game....the part (I think) I remember is that your combat accomplishments were recorded in a diary you kept. Wings, I think it was called.
I worked on Air Warrior for many years and that audience also thought they craved realism. And the subject matter was sacred there too because the appeal of it, for many, was to get just a taste of a harrowing experience that actually happened. The average age of online gamers then was 37 thus they were realistic about what a computer game could deliver.
And, at every Air Warrior Convention, we'd have a pilot who was a veteran of that war. It wasn't easy to convince them always but they were always startled by their reception and the questions asked in the Q&A. They were not expecting "computer gamers" to know so much about history and ask such intelligent questions.
But still you had to be careful with realism...particularly non-tactical realism, nuisance realism, systems management realism or you'd have a customer base of ten.
What was important to get right was aircraft performance. You need to employ the same tactics if you were in a Messerschmitt 109 fighting a Spitfire as the real pilots did. Yes, a Focke Wulf 190 had very high lethality but it couldn't turn with a Spitfire. That sort of thing.
Simulations were the foundation, particularly in high performance graphics and back end technology, of contemporary MMOs. But people nowadays prefer fantasy for many reasons.
And when I hear a fantasy gamer bring up the subject of realism.....yeah....I can feel one of my eyelids start to twitch
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Is there any particular reason why she couldn't come here and say it herself?ChuckyPayne wrote: »My wife asked me to write to you.
Sylveria_Relden wrote: »In case you haven't noticed... this is ESO, not "that other game". (That said, since you've got more choice in that other game maybe you should be there and not here? I mean, if you're not satisfied and all that)
As far as "choice" goes- there's plenty of motifs, costumes and other "choices" available already. Sure we could use a few more- but I've yet to see a reasonable argument as to why "chainkini" and "boobplate" should exist in this game.
I agree that the half-naked thing is creepy. This is not Barbies Online- it's ESO, and if you want a game where you can play "dress up"- it's out there already. (try Skyrim with mods, or whatever else you enjoy where you can do the naked thing)
I also agree that beauty doesn't mean skimpily clad armor- and that simple designs and such can subtly bring a different feel and tone. I'd vote for more intricate designs and so forth, but I certainly wouldn't vote for bikini-clad armor just because there's a bunch of pervs who want to see more "skin" in their game.
Sorry if that "offends your sensibilities".
bellanca6561n wrote: »Sylveria_Relden wrote: »In case you haven't noticed... this is ESO, not "that other game". (That said, since you've got more choice in that other game maybe you should be there and not here? I mean, if you're not satisfied and all that)
As far as "choice" goes- there's plenty of motifs, costumes and other "choices" available already. Sure we could use a few more- but I've yet to see a reasonable argument as to why "chainkini" and "boobplate" should exist in this game.
I agree that the half-naked thing is creepy. This is not Barbies Online- it's ESO, and if you want a game where you can play "dress up"- it's out there already. (try Skyrim with mods, or whatever else you enjoy where you can do the naked thing)
I also agree that beauty doesn't mean skimpily clad armor- and that simple designs and such can subtly bring a different feel and tone. I'd vote for more intricate designs and so forth, but I certainly wouldn't vote for bikini-clad armor just because there's a bunch of pervs who want to see more "skin" in their game.
Sorry if that "offends your sensibilities".
I think we've covered the reasons on all sides but mostly we've seen where folks' trip wires are.
What stuck me about it all was how emotional a subject this is....I certainly felt it to my surprise.
I never could play that other game because the art style seems a bit Disney-light to me or, rather, what we now associate with Disney. Not Walt Disney who was a singular innovator, constantly imploring the brilliant team of artists he assembled to do better by saying, "Plus it!" constantly when he wasn't satisfied.
It would be inconceivable to me, personally, to regard that image as revealing anything. Hell, they could be nude...they're cartoons....well....to my eye
Clearly MILLIONS of people see it and that game very differently.
While I think this discussion more or less ran it's course, I am still astonished how adamantly some are opposing freedom of choice. Why do so many feel that the game will be somehow diminished if there would be a choice available to have a more skimpy outfit (and I don't mean the bloodelven plate-kini up there, mind)? Only a choice? If everything stayed the same and a few more options were added on top?
EDIT to make it clear: I'm talking clothing/armor for both genders.
Sylveria_Relden wrote: »In case you haven't noticed... this is ESO, not "that other game". (That said, since you've got more choice in that other game maybe you should be there and not here? I mean, if you're not satisfied and all that)
As far as "choice" goes- there's plenty of motifs, costumes and other "choices" available already. Sure we could use a few more- but I've yet to see a reasonable argument as to why "chainkini" and "boobplate" should exist in this game.
I agree that the half-naked thing is creepy. This is not Barbies Online- it's ESO, and if you want a game where you can play "dress up"- it's out there already. (try Skyrim with mods, or whatever else you enjoy where you can do the naked thing)
I also agree that beauty doesn't mean skimpily clad armor- and that simple designs and such can subtly bring a different feel and tone. I'd vote for more intricate designs and so forth, but I certainly wouldn't vote for bikini-clad armor just because there's a bunch of pervs who want to see more "skin" in their game.
Sorry if that "offends your sensibilities".
Ruze is a veteran of the PC Beta, lived through the year one drought, survived the buy-to-play conversion, and has stepped foot in the hells known as Craglorn. He mained a nightlbade when nightblades weren't good, and has never worn a robe. He converted from PC during the console betas, and hasn't regretted it a moment since.
He'd rank ESO:TU (in it's current state) a 4.8 out of 5, loving the game almost entirely.
Wintersage wrote: »I would like more masculine light armor, myself. I'm tired of wearing dresses.
MornaBaine wrote: »"That Game" was the first MMO I played. I thought it was cute. I now consider it the gateway drug to better MMOs. LOL
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There's hundreds of armor sets in WoW... tons and tons of examples of non plate bikinis. Yeah, grats, you found one... but at least WoW has CHOICE.
ChuckyPayne wrote: »My wife asked me to write to you.
As women in general, love to dress up. They like the beautiful feminine clothes. This is same in the game.
Argonian Cloth Lvl1 armor or the Dark Seducer costume is feminine armor.
It was pretty much the lineup the rest of armors is not feminine.
Of course this is a subjective opinion with a woman eye.
Do you have any example on feminine armor??
I'm ok with feminine armor as long it is not some bloody bikini plate armor like in WoW serious i so hate armor look like this
serious that is so bloody stupid.
Ya this picture is a good example that "less" is not always more. As a former BE player I must admit that my chars always had their precious a bit more covered than the young lady on your picture.
I'm not here to bash people for their personal preferences; I think that more revealing armor can be done well, such as with some Bosmer armor and the old sea drake costume. But I am opposed to the idea of adding chainmail bikinis and magical thong armor into the game, especially when there are so many other MMO's that have it and look so silly. Dark Seducer and Golden Saint armors are already available, and with a solid reasoning for why they exist and why they don't look as functional as other armor.
This may be an MMO, but more than that it's an Elder Scrolls game. If you want more revealing armor, it has to fit the artistic style of The Elder Scrolls.
bellanca6561n wrote: »Well, this little dropped piece can make a person forget the old Orc heavy chest piece.
The Encasement of Anguish....though seeing it on my Templar, Sela, brings me anything but
It looks more a bright, bright silver in the game and makes Selas skin look coal black.
The most provocative example I've seen was on a light skinned Dunmer gal with a Pact tattoo in the center of her chest.
I have found it on the very first anchor in Deshaan, with my nightblade, around the time I was level 16. It was restricted to level 18+. I kept it and waited until I could wear it and now I am incredibly happy about that. It is also the only piece of low level equipment I have retained until today.MornaBaine wrote: »You have NO idea how I long for this piece! Which General does it drop from and where?bellanca6561n wrote: »Well, this little dropped piece can make a person forget the old Orc heavy chest piece.
The Encasement of Anguish....though seeing it on my Templar, Sela, brings me anything but
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It looks more a bright, bright silver in the game and makes Selas skin look coal black.
The most provocative example I've seen was on a light skinned Dunmer gal with a Pact tattoo in the center of her chest.
I have found it on the very first anchor in Deshaan, with my nightblade, around the time I was level 16. It was restricted to level 18+. I kept it and waited until I could wear it and now I am incredibly happy about that. It is also the only piece of low level equipment I have retained until today.MornaBaine wrote: »You have NO idea how I long for this piece! Which General does it drop from and where?bellanca6561n wrote: »Well, this little dropped piece can make a person forget the old Orc heavy chest piece.
The Encasement of Anguish....though seeing it on my Templar, Sela, brings me anything but
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It looks more a bright, bright silver in the game and makes Selas skin look coal black.
The most provocative example I've seen was on a light skinned Dunmer gal with a Pact tattoo in the center of her chest.
Sadly, I can't help you with the general's name, but as I think they are kind of region dependent, maybe Deshaan will help you farm it.
Each pre-vet zone has only 4 generals, but in vet zones all generals can appear at any dolmen. So it won't necessarily be Deshaan for you, it could be any vet zone.MornaBaine wrote: »I have found it on the very first anchor in Deshaan, with my nightblade, around the time I was level 16. It was restricted to level 18+. I kept it and waited until I could wear it and now I am incredibly happy about that. It is also the only piece of low level equipment I have retained until today.MornaBaine wrote: »You have NO idea how I long for this piece! Which General does it drop from and where?bellanca6561n wrote: »Well, this little dropped piece can make a person forget the old Orc heavy chest piece.
The Encasement of Anguish....though seeing it on my Templar, Sela, brings me anything but
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It looks more a bright, bright silver in the game and makes Selas skin look coal black.
The most provocative example I've seen was on a light skinned Dunmer gal with a Pact tattoo in the center of her chest.
Sadly, I can't help you with the general's name, but as I think they are kind of region dependent, maybe Deshaan will help you farm it.
Thank you so much. For me, Deshaan is Cadwell's content so it'll be VR gear at least. Yay!