Newsfiend
06-08-2009, 11:35 AM
Caidoz wrote:
Some people are fans of the more realistic weapons like the original ones in this thread, but unrealistic fantasy weapons have a much bigger following. The more ridiculous the better. Like Xena's chakram - I couldn't make up a weapon that asinine, but it has a HUGE following. The same applies to EQ... people were irate when they found out that the weapon Seru was wielding, Sword of Truth, wasn't player usable. If it was the middle ages and you asked a blacksmith to make you something that looks like that, he'd hit you over the head with his hammer. When TSS was new, tons of people wanted the runic green legion longsword. They were going for over 250k on Drinal, despite weapons with the same ratio going for like 5k. Why? Because of its look. And again, if you brought something like that to a real fight, the only way you'd win is if your opponent was laughing too hard to defend themselves.
Also, on the subject of weapons being too big to wield, I'll say the same thing I say everytime someone points out the Buster Sword: Video games very rarely take place on Earth. They're almost always on some fictional planet, and it's almost always very small compared to Earth. As such, it will have far less gravitational pull. Meaning... you guessed it... things will weigh a small fraction of what they would here.
i agree that there is a place for both http://www.mapfiend.net/eq/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif
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Some people are fans of the more realistic weapons like the original ones in this thread, but unrealistic fantasy weapons have a much bigger following. The more ridiculous the better. Like Xena's chakram - I couldn't make up a weapon that asinine, but it has a HUGE following. The same applies to EQ... people were irate when they found out that the weapon Seru was wielding, Sword of Truth, wasn't player usable. If it was the middle ages and you asked a blacksmith to make you something that looks like that, he'd hit you over the head with his hammer. When TSS was new, tons of people wanted the runic green legion longsword. They were going for over 250k on Drinal, despite weapons with the same ratio going for like 5k. Why? Because of its look. And again, if you brought something like that to a real fight, the only way you'd win is if your opponent was laughing too hard to defend themselves.
Also, on the subject of weapons being too big to wield, I'll say the same thing I say everytime someone points out the Buster Sword: Video games very rarely take place on Earth. They're almost always on some fictional planet, and it's almost always very small compared to Earth. As such, it will have far less gravitational pull. Meaning... you guessed it... things will weigh a small fraction of what they would here.
i agree that there is a place for both http://www.mapfiend.net/eq/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=151573&post_id=2212305#2212305)