Let's chat seriously about PC Animals...
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I have enough experience with Furries to say that what you have said is not always necessarily so. It may be typical, but it isn't a requirement. Several Furries out there do depict themselves as "non-morphic", which means an animal body... but they can still talk and emote and whatever.
It shouldn't - furries are normally hybrids - they have human body shapes and animal heads, and act like humans.
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It'd probably be better to have some real Furries come in here and try to explain it. But if that happened, this thread would melt down into a flame war about it so intense that it would crash the servers forever, or something.
Like there aren't furrys already here....You know Bad_Influence goes all Hyde and sprouts multi-color fox ears with piercings, rainbow colored fur on his body, buckle boots with legwarmers and a bikini with an conspicuous bulge...It's pretty scary, actually
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Ooooh my!
Like there aren't furrys already here....You know Bad_Influence goes all Hyde and sprouts multi-color fox ears with piercings, rainbow colored fur on his body, buckle boots with legwarmers and a bikini with an conspicuous bulge...It's pretty scary, actually
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It's time to delve DEEPER into this....STEAMY paradise.
Goodness gracious, just imagine all the things that could happen to me in there! Oooooh!
Pass the Orangina.
It's ok, Influence. We all have other sides.
I'm female, thanks so your fantasy is going nowhere, unfortunately for you.
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So I googled 'orangina' and 'furry' to know wtf you were going on about.
Oh my, but who's to say you don't turn into a big, burly, speedo wearin, orangina guzzling, tale spin grinnin', male lumberjack PANTHER?
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I... felt uncomfortable after watching that commercial.
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Talking of Michelangelo.
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Just to reiterate this point... it really doesn't matter if a dog using a sword in it's teeth or whatever is totally impossible in real life. There are plenty of things in this game that are WAY less realistic than Super Dog, with the power of Super Gripping Action, striking down foes with his Super Sword in his teeth. Realism is frankly the LAST of my concerns in this game.
But let's be serious here, since the OP wants us to be. Anyone claiming that a winged pixie summoning walking plants and her ally a radioactive mutant that can teleport and give people shields of fire would have their credibility and realism taken away by a dog wielding a sword in its mouth really needs to reconsider their position.
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As to the discussion on the theme of the game, since we already run the gamut from space invaders who are actually humans from another dimension that have genetically mutated themselves into hideous super strong super psionic badasses, to crazy cultists that summon the undead souls of millennia old wizards and embed them into the bodies of innocent civilians they pick up off the streets, to demon-summoning strippers leading armies of demigods through the physical manifestation of a network of psychics' minds, to Roman dopplegangers of the modern day characters who interact with robots and aliens and nazis and vampires and werewolves and still manage not to TOTALLY REWRITE HISTORY, I think any argument you can make about what is and isn't thematically appropriate in this game is pretty much irrelevant.
Edit: P.S. a giant boobed doggy lady with rainbow furr is already completely possible with the costume generator, so that, also, is a bad argument.
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And that's justification for this? No. No. A thousand times no.
Edit: P.S. a giant boobed doggy lady with rainbow furr is already completely possible with the costume generator, so that, also, is a bad argument.
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Keep it to Life of Second Fetishes, people. As much as I liked Krypto, he was still just a poor attempt to appeal to a younger generation.
And I really don't want more four-legged PCs in Pocket D >_>
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That quote was in response to Bad_Influence's ramblings about rainbow booby dog girls.
And that's justification for this? No. No. A thousand times no.
Keep it to Life of Second Fetishes, people. As much as I liked Krypto, he was still just a poor attempt to appeal to a younger generation. And I really don't want more four-legged PCs in Pocket D >_> |
The ability to play as an animal in combat wouldn't give fetishists anything they don't already have for the purpose of roleplaying. You can already turn into a coyote, and soon, a panther, you just can't fight as an animal.
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Fair enough. Still, though; would it be popular enough to warrant all that frame work? Definitely not.
That quote was in response to Bad_Influence's ramblings about rainbow booby dog girls.
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I'm actually starting to get kind of sold on the idea. And what I want is clearly what everyone else wants, right?
Fair enough. Still, though; would it be popular enough to warrant all that frame work? Definitely not.
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right?
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Based on the recent Beta leak fiasco, the development evidently disagrees with this part.
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A single AT is not a whole new wire frame for every single power set in the game. You know that.
Oh come on, give it up. Humans craft swords, animals don't - it's fine if they want to take this idea and do it but don't make such silly arguments to make a point. Come on.
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Well no, it's not. I think animals with swords in their mouths would look daft. Just because there's already an option to look like something else which I also think looks silly ingame already doesn't make sword wielding wolves less silly to me.
It's not about whether it's possible or not possible in real life. It's how ludicrous it looks. It's just not something most people would take even remotely seriously.
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Your point is also completely fallacious and pure wrong. For a start, you clearly haven't seen some of the costume abominations we can ALREADY HAVE that pretty closely fit what you just described. I mean, heaven forbid that people want 'normal' anthropomorphic characters who don't act like complete sparkledogs/weabos/whatever.
Wrong, my lil' argumentative fur-person. I most certainly do care. What I *don't* care to see is the thematic equivalent of people trottting over to the LotRO forums and starting the following thread: "Middle Earth needs Transformer Robots! Let's make it happen!"
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This is not 'Transformers in Middle Earth', and that is a frankly bloody stupid analogy. 'Anthropomorphic characters in the CoXUniverse, which already has crazy alien things, magic, giant robots and pretty much everything under the sun already anyway' is far more accurate.
I really hate it when people use straw men arguments...
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But I wouldn't actually mind that Diaper Man option. Would look a whole heck of a lot better than Baby Newyear (and I guess with the right look, a Super Gerbil character)
As far as Okami, that was one of the last good games I bought for my DS. Certainly another fine option for an animal attack mode expressed by the OP I'd be behind.