The bigness!

I'd say no, with exceptions. Look, there's plenty of MMOs out there with that design aesthetic, particularly the terrible cartoon aesthetic that typically goes with it. Same goes for the overly detailed idea of style that most fantasy MMOs go for. There's elements of it here, which is fine, but for the most part, I'm glad this game doesn't look as over blown and stylized like those other games.

Now, if our Devs decided to go big, but kept it visually similar to what we already had, maybe. Also, I wouldn't hate if they pushed the height slider up to Fake Nemesis size. I probably wouldn't use it, but I don't think it wouldn't fit in the game, seeing as there's plenty of in-game characters that are already that size and bigger.

Somebody upthread mentioned that things in-game are already a little bit too big, particularly, in the case of things inside bases. As for that? Yeah, I kind of wish the Devs had the time to take a look at how oversized the game currently is.

"You call those dual swords?

THESE are dual swords."

Now why is it we can't have swords that big?

My opinion?

I've suggested "Strike Gauntlets" as a set and customization option for Shield Defense that are comprised of large hand type armor. Although I'd really enjoy some large gloves for that suggestion, I'd settle for Dwarf/PPD gauntlet sized hands as being perfectly acceptable.

You can even explain the size as being more than just for looks as Shield Defense has a big AoE attack and an aura that increases your damage.

I also suggested a melee set, Death Scythe, which would use a big body-sized scythe as its weapon. I also suggested the secondary effect of that set being a kind of inverse Claws discount that increases END and Rech cost but having improved base damage.

While big, oversized weapons may look comical to some in that it may not do proportional damage for its size, where's the reverse consideration (obviously the Red Cap Dagger shouldn't do as much as the Rikti, right). As is, if we want to do big damage and look the part, the options aren't quite sizing up. I'd love it if they introduced sets with custom options that include bigger sizes with damage/effects to reflect that size, having just the look for some characters would be a nice consideration.

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Originally Posted by Mirai

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Big weapons are stupid, unwieldy and cumbersome and look bloody awful IMO. The broadsword currently available is already too big.

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

Seeing as how I want Dual Blades to have the option of the Rularuu Broadsword Skin, how the only way I'll play Broadsword is with the Legacy Broadsword or the Rularuu Broadsword skin, and I use Match Compensators for Dual Pistols because they're the biggest you can get, i have to AGREE!

I want some bigger weapons!

I love how CoH looks more serious than the other game, but even still, I think it can stand to give a few bigger weapons. It's a comic book staple that works when the art with it works.

I have faith BABs can pull that off.

And that's with keep with current weapon animations.

I think there is a bigger that could be achieved well in this game.
I don't think it is nearly as large as some of the examples here, but I do think there is room for some more.

I'd like to see the huge models able to be a bit bigger all around (Especially with the hands and feet and head).
And really, I'd like that for all models. We've talked about that... glove and boot options for truly massive hands and feet. That fits the general CoH style.

I definitely would love to see even taller options for characters... but I don't know that it would ever happen (It opens up a lot of problems... mostly by closing off doors, since they'd be too small).

As for weapons, that pic of the thin girl holding those two silly fantasy swords... That is just a bad example. It looks bad.
Sam's follow up with the Mutant Pack swords is not anywhere near as ridiculous, in my opinion. The swords just are curved and shaped in a better way than those from whatever game that other one is from. And the way they are being held just looks completely different.
I have no idea how they animate in the other game and all and that pic may just be a bad representation of it... but only having that to go by, those are my opinions on that.


I think expecting or wanting some major size beyond what we have for this game is likely unreasonable, just from the standpoint of the technical hurdles and it not being bloody likely that they'll try and shoe-horn such things in. We're never going to see huge Transformer-types as player characters in CoH. (I know, never say never)

I'm not a fan of the ginormously over-sized weapon style... However, I am not opposed to it existing in this game for those who want it, so long as it fits within the artistic style that does exist throughout this game.
That style is broad, indeed, but it still exists.

So, I don't have much to say about this other than... I think there is room for more bigger stuff... but probably not too much nor too big.

Another problem I would have with "big" weapons is that we would probably only get one big model per weapon, so only one big sword, only one big mace (as if they aren't big enough already), only one big gun, etc. And the one big sword we get might not be aesthetically pleasing to everyone because of other design decisions. If they made it look like the legacy broadsword but bigger, for example, it would be horrible to me since that sword looks like one of those boffer swords they use in Live roleplaying, that is made out of plastic foam.

And people get onto me for saying I'm against something that doesn't effect me

Still for the bigger weapons!

This poses an interesting question,

Do you think it's possible they could create new model pieces to give us the 'bigness'? Probably more difficult with heads but we could have a new model type, 'Giant' for gloves and boots. And all that model would be is the aesthetic of simply big hands and feet to make up for the small size of the default extremities. It would require having to remap all the textures but it could give us what this thread is suggesting.

I say heads would be more difficult mainly because there's differences between a normal head, and one that uses hats, helmets or even the monsterous models. A 'Giant' category head would pretty much have to be what Masks (with hair) already is, just bigger. Unless the devs put in the extra work to have 'Giant hat' and 'Giant helmet' categories on top.

I'd love to have giant hand and foot options where it's bare, no wraps, just skin!

Meh. Big is for wusses. I'm all about the tiny this year.





The results will be huge I tell ya!

Curious, how big is this 'Fake Nemesis' anyway that could be clipstastic with doorways anyway? How much bigger are they to an eight-foot character?