Left handed personality request

RAGUNAnoOne · September 2016

Basically add a personality that mirrors our characters and all animations essentially making them left handed. Please consider this. @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_DaryaK

Danikat · September 2016

I would love this. I haven't bought any personalities yet because none of them suit my characters (and all the animations seem weirdly over-acted) but if this one was available I'd definitely buy it.

One of my characters sort-of is left handed because she dual wields and I always put the sword in her left hand and the dagger in the right. That's following on from Skyrim where I did it by accident - I was playing on the Xbox and you pressed the bumper buttons to equip weapons, because I'm left-handed in real life I'd always push the left one first so her main weapon always went into her left hand.

I suspect it might be surprisingly hard to do though. The simplest way would be to mirror image the entire character but that might cause weird issues. The only game I've heard of that did something like this was Twilight Princess - in the Gamecube version Link is left-handed, in the Wii version he's right-handed and supposedly it was easier for them to flip the entire game than to change the character. I'm not completely sure that's the reason but it definitely is true that the Wii version is a mirror image of the Gamecube version.

nimander99 · September 2016

I would love to see this, I'm left handed and very rarely have I ever been able to play a left handed character.

WhiteMage · September 2016

I'm not left handed and I probably wouldn't use this but I still think it's really cool. Switch the hands and stance on everything, from combat to emotes.

MornaBaine · September 2016

As a lefty myself I admit this would be really neat but I don't see it happening.

RAGUNAnoOne · September 2016

Danikat wrote: »

I would love this. I haven't bought any personalities yet because none of them suit my characters (and all the animations seem weirdly over-acted) but if this one was available I'd definitely buy it.

One of my characters sort-of is left handed because she dual wields and I always put the sword in her left hand and the dagger in the right. That's following on from Skyrim where I did it by accident - I was playing on the Xbox and you pressed the bumper buttons to equip weapons, because I'm left-handed in real life I'd always push the left one first so her main weapon always went into her left hand.

I suspect it might be surprisingly hard to do though. The simplest way would be to mirror image the entire character but that might cause weird issues. The only game I've heard of that did something like this was Twilight Princess - in the Gamecube version Link is left-handed, in the Wii version he's right-handed and supposedly it was easier for them to flip the entire game than to change the character. I'm not completely sure that's the reason but it definitely is true that the Wii version is a mirror image of the Gamecube version.

Yeah I still don't get why they did that as Links actions weren't even dependent on how you swung the remote unlike Skyward Sword where it made sense to have him right handed.

Danikat · September 2016

I don't understand it either. I'm left-handed in real life and I hold the Wiimote in my left hand but it's never bothered me that it was the opposite way round to what was on screen. As you said it wasn't precise enough to matter.

But I find it interesting for discussions like this because it's the only example I know of where a character has actually been converted from one to the other. Although of course I don't know if their experience applies to other games, it might depend on how they're programmed.