>tfw you free your mind from the shackles of muh historical

As long as this is a 'you do you' post and not a 'aesthetics a best'

Some people like accuracy the way you like aesthetics

Me? I'm not satisfied unless all my knights are mounted upon enormous but realistically rendered cocks

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I prefer armor that looks protective while retaining a distinctly fantastical look for the character wearing it.

Stuff like EVERYTHING FROM THE DARK SOULS SERIES and the better suits in Witcher 3 are great in this regard.

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>>50172553
I don't care much for historical accuracy, but I'm not also the kind of guy to approve of everything because "muh fantasy". My measuring stick is mostly this: would someone want or need to wear this?

This is why I dislike bikini chainmail but am much more lenient to equally scantily clad barbarians and mages.

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Scrawlings of armor from the 16th century probably had massive codpieces

>>50172574
>Me? I'm not satisfied unless all my knights are mounted upon enormous but realistically rendered cocks
I don't like the Final Fantasy aesthetic too much, but you do you.

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Warhammer does a good job of finding a balance between form and function with a lot of feasible designs that are just fantastically ornate.

Empire particularly.

>>50172657

That shield is making me have a special feeling in my sweatpants.

>>50172625
that is thought to be because of syphillus causing their dicks to swell

>>50172672

Something's causing my dick to swell too, and it ain't syphilis.

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>>50172693
>Her face when she sees your codpiece

>>50172595
Something something Butterfly set.

Bu´t yeah, as long as there is a reasonable amount of sense in a design, I don't mind.

>>50172657
I've never actually seen distressingly unfeasible armor outside of the cartoon armor you'd find in stylized games

>>50172699

S-Shut up, Corrin.

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>>50172553
I don't know realism would be effortless.

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>>50172553
As long as it looks actually protective I don't particularly care. The only stuff that really bugs me is when self-proclaimed 'knights' in a piece of fiction walk around in a set of armor that barely even covers their vitals. Eastern stuff can be really bad about this; I've seen several pictures where combatants walk around with their midsections just completely bare but they still bother to wear shin and armguards for some reason.

>>50172657
>giant ass mega wtf stupid ornate bronze head eagle helmet that you would bar,y be able to see out of.
>stupid ass spiky sun shield.
>swirly sword.
>Ornate shoulder guards.
>Battle cape.
>those gloves.
>those boot spikes.

Fk off anon.

>>50172767
'Knight' doesn't mean 'guy in plate armour' though.

It's a title that has nothing to do with what you wear. Most knights could just afford better equipment than most peasants.

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>>50172595
This t b h.

I have a special fondness for armor that bleds historical and fantasy but isn't just using medieval plate armor but instead the sorts of armor that would benefit adventurers and their active, always-on-the-move lifestyle more. I've always been a fan of roman-esque fantasy armors because really. If it works for an entire legion of professional soldiers who march across the known world to enforce their empire's laws on natives, it'll work great for adventures who similarly travel across the world to beat up natives and take their shit.

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>>50172595
>EVERYTHING FROM THE DARK SOULS SERIES
Hell, yes

>>50172791
>boot spikes
Do you mean the metal stuff that's laid against the boot for design or are you complaining about spurs?

>>50172627
>tfw I like Final Fantasy aesthetic but my imagination only works towards realism.

Fuck. My. Life.

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>>50172791
>swirly sword
While stretching it out into a sword and making it more western with the hilt, the "swirly sword" has a RL basis and is a weapon that has centuries of history, if not more.

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>>50172767
well if you carry a big shield, you don't need that much to cover your belly, while you need to cover what's stick out, head-arms-legs
but i see what you mean

>>50172808

Ornstein is a triumph of fantasy armor design.

>>50172937
In all the contortions that could happen during a battle, that just makes me think he's going to stab himself on one of those spikes.

>>50172971

It's a lot less spiky in-game, and the spiky bits that are present don't get close to any points of movement.

>>50172997
>any points of movement
any expected* points of movement

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>>50172865
Or maybe the extremely European looking guy's wavy bladed greatsword was inspired by a European wavy bladed greatsword instead of something from a different culture halfway to the other side of the planet?

>>50172595
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>>50172767
If you're a hedgeknight and only expect to fight duels or brawls, covering your shins and forearms can be more than enough because you can use your limbs to parry slashes.

When people start shooting at you, you're fucked, though.

>>50173052
that's called flamberge

>>50172553
100% on point my man
armour is a part of the character design and setting design, and therefore should reflect that, complaints against armour should be levied when it's out of place

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>>50172791
>anon claims it's fantastically ornate
>point out its fantastically ornate elements

Wew lad.

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>>50172595
>Metal masks/face-coverings of any kind
Gives me fucking LIFE

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>>50174766

There are only two places metal masks work really well; a single named character who just really loves his job, or an experienced yet ultimately disposable mook (like the Immortals from 300.)

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>>50172806
Worth noting here that lorica segmentata was only worn for a small portion of the Empire's existence; lorica hamata was the much more common and longer-lasting choice.

Still looks fucking sexy, for the record.

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>>50174766
For some reason, I am unable to play a fantasy character who doesn't wear either a mask or a face-concealing helmet. It's just SO GOOD.

>>50172808
>Shitstein and Smugly
Why did you pick one of the few ugly designs?

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>>50172808
>Dat hunched scarf/neckwrap
>The simple but tasteful golden bracelets/anklets
>The Star Platinum mane
>The leather and scale skirt
>The way his hand shakes right before he plunges his swordspear into his dying dragon buddy ; ~;
Makes sense that his protege would be so fucking stylish

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>>50174807
You can use them to invoke dehumanization in any situation ( also uniformity depending on the design). Tonally similar to gas masks but without the utility.

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A E S T H E T I C

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>>50175030
UWOTM8

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>>50175177
>military style knight

MASS BONER

I am all over weird Knight looks

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>>50173081
>Not deflecting bullets off your sword.

Do you even fantasy?

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>>50174868
While true, the concept is similar. Lighter armor, easily donned by a single soldier and capable of being worn for long marches. It's prime adventurer armor and it's a shame there's not more "adventurer" art using similar. It seems to tend towards cloth/leather (skimpy or otherwise) or full blown plate.

>>50175177
I have to admit, I really dig this mesh of fantasy and modern(ish) military. Makes me think of something like a fantasy WW1.

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>>50175306
>them two sharing looks knowin' the ass in the middle is gonna get iced on his first day he keep guffawin' like that

>>50175110
REMOVE DRAGONS
REMOVE SNAKE MEN
REMOVE TRAITORS

>>50175342
Muh dick

There is nothing more GOAT than black armour trimmed in gold. Absolute fucking patrician.

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>>50175461
Regardless of whether it's realistic or not, I'm a fan of hulking armor and dark knight styles.

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>>50175461
>There is nothing more GOAT than black armour trimmed in gold. Absolute fucking patrician.

Oh?

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>>50175461
>>50175536

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>>50175536
I have no armored Pacha for you in return. But I can offer this.

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>>50175577

Always happy to help a man with great taste.

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>>50175577
Tabards over plate is great too and highly underrated.

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>>50175626
I know, right? It adds something classy to the ensemble. And it allows you to tear it off when shit gets real.

>mace-wielding Knight of Cards

I'M EDGING HARD HERE DON'T STOP

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>>50175643

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Would love to see some more this, but the medals can be enchanted.

>>50175643
this dog has no chin

>>50175342
That guy is fucking fat, or that plate armor is just plain wrong.

>>50175896
It's the padded jacket he's wearing underneath.

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>>50175945
Literally nobody did that. Why the fuck would you do that.

>>50175968
>nobody did that
>what is a doublet

>>50175896
He could just be jacked

>>50172553
Aesthetic has it's place but so does realistic. If I want to see a scruffy warrior who makes 1 copper a week punching rats then I want realistically shitty chainmail on him. If I see Sir Paladromus Coriander IV of Elystria, knight commander of the Order of Angelus Knights, I want to see an overly elaborate white and gold armor shining so bright with pointy bits and lion/eagle motifs that my eyes start to hurt.

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>>50175989
Doublet is virtually skintight and very, very thin but made out of tough stuff. It is in no way comparable to a motherfucking gambeson, which contrady to popular belief was NOT commonly worn under armor because of the whole "I don't want to die of heat stroke" issue. Maille and plate typically was worn without a gambeson on, because most of the time you didn't actually need it anyway with plate armor.

Plate armor is basically a second skin. It's actually the thin anime-esque armors that closely hug the body that get it more right than the giant bulky suits common in fantasy. The only exception should be the breastplate and plackart, which should be sloped and globe-shaped so it can collapse without also collapsing your chest.

>>50176028
realism can be part of a setting's aesthetic

>>50172553
I just care that it looks practical and realistic, so post stuff like that

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Honestly, no matter what aesthetic an armor set is going for, if it comes with a mask then I'm completely on-board with that shit.

>>50175177
source

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>>50172808
Armor with animal-styled helmets get my dick ROCK HARD.

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>>50176400
my gf plans on dressing up as pyramid head, I might be in for something weird

Any love in this thread for the onion knights?

>>50176332
Is it actually possible to effectively block a strike like that without having your sword knocked out of your hand? It seems like a really awkward position.

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>>50176385
Berserk was a fucking GOLDMINE for that shit, especially when Griffith's apostle army gets in on the fun.

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>>50176476
Not to mention everything to do with the skullknight. If liking skull/skeleton motifs in armor makes me an edgelord, than an edgelord I'll be.

>>50176497
sourse

>>50176552
One of the Berserk movies. The TV series are both much lower quality. If you want to watch them, the old one is a slideshow with fantastic stills and the new one is CGI garbage that improves towards the end but is still shit.

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>>50176476
>>50176497
The armor designs for Berserk in general are amazing. Miura has an attention to detail that I wish all artists had.

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>>50176552
The Skull Knight from Berserk. More specifically, the gif is from the Egg of the King three-part series.

>>50176574
What I love about Miura's armor-design is similar to what I like about *Souls stuff is that you can tell that despite the stylisation and unique looks of each suit of armor, Miura clearly did his research on how plate armor works and struck a nice balance between cool looking and grounded/practical design.

Which is another reason among many that I'm not fond of the 2016 series in that just about all the non-named knights all use the same model. At least in Egg of the King they went out their way to give variation for the mooks.

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>not posting the GOAT

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>>50176607
>>50176574
YES YES YES

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Can we get some defiant/dying knights?

>>50172672
Well being that syphilis is thought to have reached Europe because of contact with the Native Americans (in the same way they caught smallpox) that seems less than true

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>>50176574
Post more Berserk armor plox.

Also Chaos Warriors best Warriors.

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>>50176792

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>>50176792

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>>50176792

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>>50176864

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>>50172791
A relevant image

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>>50172625
This is pretty much the reason I think boob plate would be feasible in a fantasy setting with women in the military. Not ubiquitously but some.

>>50176428
The second best NPC in Dark Souls? Of course we still love him!

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>>50176907

>>50175289
I'm actually pretty sold on this design. I mean, yes, that lance is ridiculous but it could easily hold a shape charge and therefore be mostly hollow.

That, and there seems to be a bayonetted gattling gun chained to the back.

But anyway, a giant beastie implies massive blunt force impacts and low velocity penetrations and in that plate armor excells.

>>50176028
>1 copper a weak punching rats.

Chainmail is too good for him. Give him a quilt with armholes.

>>50176099
Well fitted plate armor fit like a second skin. Mass produced munitions plate was pretty clumsy but not extremely heavy. 30 lbs give or take.

You get what you pay for, essentially.

What I hate is when realistic and fantasy armour clash.

Every foot soldier as far as the eye can see has realistic armour but then the protagonists sidekick is some bitch with her midriff showing and has a boobplate

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I used to be a pleb that knew nothing about armor, either it was full plate or civilian clothes/robes.

But as I learned more about history I actually started to like armor more, especially all these types of medium and light armors. Like gambesons, brigandine, and so on.

>>50176984
[autistic screeching]

>>50176462
Not really, you need lots of strength or a little extra speed behind it, so it generally isn't super viable. Also, it takes time to turn the point upside down which makes the move that much worse.

>>50177553
There's about as many kinds of armors as there are weapons to defeat them. Because everything was handmade, you'd see variation even in the same class of armor.
>>50176462
You could lessen the strike and if the tip is in the ground you could stop it cold but that kind of guard was intended for strikes to the leg. Swung at torso level, that blow has enough weight to break through the block. That and she(?) is blocking a two handed blow with a single hand an head on at that.

>>50176462
It's a common fencing technique, it works because moving into that position knocks central thrusts off to the side, holding that position to block would be stupid though.

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>>50172553
I cribbed so much from VHD for my setting.

>>50177583
>>50177676
It's not a block anons, it's a parry for thrusts to the lower body.

It moves the thrust away from your core either averting the blow entirely or making it easier to dodge.

Blocking with a rapier would generally be a bad idea anyway especially against a blunt two handed strike. That's just begging for a broken sword.

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>>50177915
So much of this makes me think it would never work and yet so much of it makes me think it would.

>>50177925
I can't help but compare that to pic related.

>>50177979
>It's not a block anons, it's a parry for thrusts to the lower body.
That's the intended use but it looks like she's trying to block a swing from a staff.

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>>50174766
I've always wanted to see a classic 15th century sallet-type helmet where the bevor was molded like the lower half of a face.

>>50177990
Why? Unlike that walking display of shame in the ranks, >>50177925 is at least within regulations

Short hair to avoid lice and getting it stuck, armor unmodified, proper stance and equipment

Meanwhile your horrid display has a dirty barbarian woman breaking formation, not wearing her helmet, not being properly equipped, utilizing her shield the wrong way and exposing her gut. She should be the target of a solo decimation with extreme prejudice and wrath of Caesar.

>>50178060
The quality of the former when compared to the latter is actually part of it.

Both have roman motifs and the art style is similar but >>50177925 is just SO MUCH BETTER than>>50177990

>>50178003
It looked like she dodged and parried a thrust to me.
So it's either pants on head retarded or perfectly accurate.

>>50178060
>She should be the target of a solo decimation
They're gonna kill 1/10 of her?

>>50177896
D is a well-dressed motherfucker, even if he does look like he came straight out of Hot Topic.

>>50178151
That would be 5-7 kilos of meat off her, so yes.

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>>50176607
You know that the *Souls series of vidya games was inspired by Berserk, right?

>>50178206
I've heard rumors but no confirmation.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was, though.

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Less platemail! More light/medium armors!

>>50178126
meh, could go either way, really.

>>50176638
> That special feeling when reminiscing about the first Dark Souls.
> All that fun going in blind.

Have some nostalgia music. https://youtu.be/L6JH0EfTIKw

>>50178279
What is this platemail you speak of?

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>>50178343

>>50178273
Hidetaka Miyzakai, director of Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne absolutely loves Berserk. Everythng from the Dark Sign to Artorias is inspired by that particular brand of medieval grittiness. Sure, the actual Brand more or less is in Bloodborne, the Hunter and Heir runes very very heavily resemble Berserk's Brand of Sacrifice. Also Ludwig looking like Rapehorse.

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>>50172803
I know, but if you're going to bother arming yourself, you might as well protect your gut. Eastern fighters (in media) have a long history of armoring everything but their midsection and head and it just looks kind of weird to me. Like, they don't even wear a proper vest or anything to dissuade bladed weapons, it's just bare of protection.

Take pic related. Poorly protected shoulders, no protection on her midsection, bare upper legs, tightly fitted chestplate with no crumple room. It's a joke of an armor concept that she can only get away with because she's fucking Lightning and an OP piece of shit, but it kind of begs the question why she bothers wearing it at all.

>>50176792
Horns on giant plate helms are just
fucking 10/10

>>50178744
It's fantasy, you retard.

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>>50178939
forgot to post contribution

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>>50178945
I know that, but the fact that Lightning just kind of half-asses her armor in a setting where plenty of characters either go balls to the wall, like pic related, or just don't fucking bother, like Cloud and his friends, makes her stand out and look kind of stupid.

Obviously FF is a total clusterfuck when it comes to visual aesthetic, but Lightning is a particularly bad offender in this case.

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>>50178744
>>50179027

Final Fantasy sucks at design.

Well, I'll revise that. Later Final Fantasy sucks at design. You get into Final Fantasy Tactics, and the designs are very good. There's two different worlds, here.

In FF14, they have high graphics, but have really overdesigned them, and put a lot more emphasis on hairstyle and... Well, just generic "style" than anything. Looking at the picture on the left, I want you to tell me what their role might be in the party, and what their abilities might be.

Okay, let's try FFT on the right. Look at these characters. Now, could you, at a glance, tell me what role they might play in the party, and what kind of abilities they might have.

While the FF14 character look like a boyband, there's little in the way of visual queues to tell you about them or what role they might play. In FFT, their whole design is centered around just that, even establishing overarching themes giving the species. The visual queues can tell you, at a glance, where you might want them to be on the field of battle, and how they might be used in the game.

I suppose it's the difference between designing a character to be acted and designing a sprite that's meant to offload as much information to you as possible, but overall, when we don't have words to tell us about the character and only have the design to work off of, a design that speaks to a universal or at least genre-common (like fantasy adventure) language gives us key clues into what kind of character might be depicted in these designs, and how they might act or be acted on.

Anyway, fuck Square Enix. Their designs are terrible.

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>>50179043

Larger FFT picture.

>>50179043
>FF14
15

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>>50177553
I really love brigandine, since it's metal plates inside a jacket it can have a lot of visual variety.

>>50179055

FUCK.

How many of these fucking Fantasies are they? And if it's supposed to be Final, how come there's a million of them?

>>50179066
If I recall correctly and this isn't bullshit, when they were making the first one their company was failing, so they called it that because it would be their final game. Then it was really popular and they made a lot of money off of it, so they had to make more.

>>50179066
Story goes that the original title was because the game was a latch ditch effort by Square on the verge of bankruptcy.

>>50177979
That is a federshwert not a rapier.

That said, you're right, it's not a block, you never just block with a sword. In this picture I'd say she was going in from right plow and her plans changed. She had to bring the tip down and she intends to use that momentum to carry the blade around the left side of her back for a downward strike from her right where he is open.

Just about the only obnoxious fantasy thing going on here is that she's using one hand as it severely reduces her leverage if he decides to bind her (but I wouldn't know how you'd accomplish that with a staff)

I'm not big on staff fighting but I do believe the posture he's taking is for using his staff at range, which he's failing to do. If I encountered this, I'd slide the sword up the staff and cut his fingers off.

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Personally I love some of the Infinity Blade armour designs. Aesthetic as fuck.

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>>50172791
>this fucking guy

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>>50176984
Anon. That is so fucking stupid but oddly brilliant at the same time.

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>>50172672
yes, but not because it swells, it's because syphilis is painful and uncomfortable, especially when it rubs against something

>>50178744
>tfw Fem!Cloud 2.0 has armor
>tfw she still can't pull a Snow Villiers and bring damage down to 1

Snow was the true protagonist all along, and we never saw it.
Sazh an incredibly close second, because he was legit one of the only three likable characters in that whole game.

(FF13 could have been great, but the second half was a rushed job, Lightning was absolute trash, Hope was a lost cause, and the game should have ended at the first.

Machine Eidolons was a neat idea though, and I favored the Shiva Cycles the most.)

>>50179043
FF15 has just about no armor, because it's a game with beings that can summon lightning down on you and others can shoot what would likely be armor piercing bullets.

Don't forget that literal gods are in these games, with very physical existences, and a casing of metal will not save you from a massive one punching down on you.

Have you even SEEN the size of that titan in the preview? Please tell me how armor saves you in this case.

The name of the game is visual effects, combat system, and not getting hit.

If you want to wear armor in a game like this, try Dark/Demon Souls.

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>>50179568
Is this Rust? I remember they were going to add cardboard armour that looked similar to this. It wasn't going to offer much in terms of protection but you'd be able to draw on it so I can finally live my dream of being Sir Cumsi'shon, Knight of the Cut Rod.

Contributing some historical/fantasy stuff.

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>this entire thread

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>>50182153
Its an armour set from Infinity Blade II actually.

Edge Chronicles has some of the comfiest armour aesthetics. Too bad I don't have any saved.

>>50179043
>Now, could you, at a glance, tell me what role they might play in the party, and what kind of abilities they might have.
Let's see... Guy in the middle is team leader on account of being in the middle and in the front, skills are alternatively being an emo and being determined. Probably uses a sword because party leader and protagonists have to have swords because reasons.
Second guy from left punches things. HUEG ARMS and an open shirt says so.
Blondie to the left... hits things maybe? Or possibly healer because noone else looks like a healer?
Guy with glasses, 2nd from the right, smart guy because only smart people have glasses, scientifically known fact that. Uses either gadgets or magic depending on setting.
Guy to the right looks angry and mean, that means he will betray the party at some point.

>>50172574
The bird or the organ?

>>50172553
For best results have Fantasy informed by history to make something functional AND Fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DaGHL8WzM

>>50176850
lolno

>>50179027
While I agree Lightning is fucking awful, my autism demands I tell you that only a few Final Fantasy games actually share a setting. It's weird that they decided to give her half assed armor when her initial design wasn't armored though.

Judge armor is sweet though, good taste.

>>50176351
Ariel Perez.

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>>50183862
Yes?

>>50177235
The lance might also serve to get the attention of the enemy.

You get them to follow you, while your allies bring it down. Or you switch to your gun and shoot while riding Mongol-Style.

>>50176850
If they had a different helmet at least i would be able to stomach them.

>>50185385
got more of that?

>>50175643
I dislike that small-looking handle

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>>50185553
What's the problem supposed to be? I'm genuinely curious.

>>50185775
I can't unseen it now. kek

>>50185554
No sadly.

>>50172553
its beautiful

>>50176984
Sure, if you want a broken sternum.

>>50187093
How could you have apparent boobplate without that problem?

>>50186857
Reminds me of the Oina from Okami.

>>50187111
A-cups

>>50185857
Not really digging the whole helmet being the mask plus a crown, makes them look bald. At least give them a visor or something more like>>50174766 because they actually have a proper helmet.

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>>50172553
Sometimes pure fantasy is good.
Sometimes pure realism is good.
Most times a good mix is best.

>>50179043
I've noticed Final Fantasy does design best when you force them to work under tighter constraints too.
Been playing a pixelated mobile FF game and I'm honestly pretty okay with the protagonist's appearances. Even the emo katana user seems like a decent enough sort.
But as soon as I saw a trailer for the game with FULL THREEDEE CGI GRAFICS I considered stopping playing because holy shit they look like complete tosspots.

But I guess Japan likes that stuff.

any cool designs with the kettle helmet?

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>>50187914
Nothing fantastic but I love this.

>>50187967
That'd look great with a coif

>>50172595
>EVERYTHING FROM THE DARK SOULS SERIES
This right here. The original Souls had everything you wanted. From stupid impractical yet really fucking cool like Havel's or O&S's sets, to good-looking yet "realistic" like Elite Knight and the stsrting sets, to something in between like onion armor and the Brass set. Even for weapons, too. Want to be the gritty no-frills sword-and-board guy? You can, and it's viable. Want to weild hillariously oversized shit like in Beserk? You can as well.

Dank Souls is probably the one game I can still gush over.

>>50187388
I faintly remember somewhere someone saying that while the west used better graphics to get closer to realism, the east used it to enable more out there designs.

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A think its a good idea to always to a bit of study on historical armour even if you are designing high fantasy stuff.

Its just good practice.

>>50188935
Aye, makes it easier once you understand how each piece works and where should be.

>>50187388

When you have so little to work with, you have to make every pixel count. Each pixel is in service to making each sprite recognizable in an instant. The boy band ones? The overdesigned, under-clothed characters? Render them down to pixels and try to tell them apart, or tell me what they do at a glance?

The art is in service to the Pixelated designs, featuring similar color palettes, obvious features, and consistent themes.

Which is actually a paradox considering the first Final Fantasy games. The concept artwork for the older Final Fantasy games reads detail and design into those simple sprites and pixels, and fleshes them out. It's what you're supposed to imagine when you're moving these pixels around. It's even illustrated in a strange, dreamlike way, with shapes blending into each other and details fading in and out of the form, it's like a brushstroke. Now they try to read all this detail into the characters proper, and it becomes kind of a mess.

>>50175643
It's not a mace, it's a club.

>>50187093
I'm surprised that no one ever comments on codpieces possibly leading to genital damage.

>>50180047
I never got very far into FFXIII, but based on the "prologue" Snow very much so seemed like the best character. (and in one of the trailer's for the later games he's super hot (no homo), runs a casino or something, and has ice-mage powers).

>>50190575
Are you sure it isn't a spade?

>>50176729
Anon said 16th century. So after contact with native americans

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>>50187093

>It's another "armchair [insert relevant profession here] on /tg/ pretends to know anything about anything" episode

>>50192338
that statement's with regards to your image, right?

>>50192338
That seems like the same principle onion knights armour works off. By being so rounded it's impossible to get a direct hit and attacks are more likely to graze. To be perfectly honest I'm not sure boob-plate has the curve required to produce that effect, unless it's obscenely large boob-plate.

>>50172553
>shackles of muh historical accuracy autism
In a world where several million people think that over-sized pauldrons and weapons with spikes coming out of fucking everything is cool design, historically accurate equipment is often a breath of air.

>>50194439
>In a world where several million people think that over-sized pauldrons and weapons with spikes coming out of fucking everything is cool design
judging from the posts in this thread that's not really the trend

>>50172553
if by "liberating" you really mean "comedy gold"

After all, I'd be personally awestruck in fear at how I might ever defeat OP's robed knight who's wearing a jousting helm with absolutely no peripheral vision, only forward vision when he tips his entire body forward, (since the neck is almost fixed in position,) and carrying a sword on his back that cant be drawn from there.
and has spurs on that will catch on his robes and trip him if he tries to fight on foot, since he's using a sword utterly useless on horseback.


Fantasy stuff is fine.
Fantasy stuff that doesnt work because it was designed by artists who've never learnt to use armour or weapons are comically bad. Just like fantasy cars drawn by people who cant drive are comically bad. or fantasy spaceships in a hard-sci-fi setting are comically wrong.

There are lots of things that you can do to designs. the problem is most of the artists dont do their research to know what they can and cant do without breaking the golden rule: "does it still work"

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>>50175342
Look like something out of EYE.

>>50194571
>There are lots of things that you can do to designs. the problem is most of the artists dont do what I like
Fixed.

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>>50176332
>Masks are hot
Yeah, you are absolutely fucking right.