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[terdferguson123]

*Late to the Party*

This idea is pretty much what I wanted from the beginning. If you can find a way to implement this I think it would do wonders for immersion.

[InfinitePaths]

I would love to have a warden and a baddass female seeker(prefferably cassandra) in my party,the concept art for equipment looks epic,i rly want them in my party !

[AuroraFlash]

I always thought it should be like this. Actually, I totally preferred the appearance of DA2 characters because they all looked awesome and individual. In fact, I had a hard time equipping all these characters in DA:O. Without adding items, anyone might have had a hard time. You tended to have only one per class that was well equipped.

With DA2 that changed a lot. And the companions looked a lot better. In fact, I had the same idea. Why not change parts of the armor? That is just perfect. So you have the feeling that your comrades do upgrade, but they do not look like they gathered their gear somewhere near dustbins in a dirty backyard.

[TheRaj]

Think this is a nice compromise. You get individuality in characters with the ability to have a decent amount of customisation. It would be great if you could also tweak individual pieces of armour (some kind of dying mechanic perhaps) - that lets you customise the look of your character while using the armour you want without gimping him/her too much.

I'm not so worried about the fact that pieces of armor magically 'morph' when you switch between characters. However, if you really wanted to, you could embed it into the gameplay as a smithing skill type mechanic, that lets you not only upgrade equipment (like Skyrim) but also customise it to fit different body shapes. In reality a dwarf wouldn't just use the same breastplate as a human anyway so that would retain a sense of realism/immersion.

From a gameplay perspective, I'd really like to see no armor type or combination ever becoming redundant. In DAO there wasn't a whole lot of reason to use leather if you could wear heavy armor (if you had the stats) - the fatigue thing wasn't enough of a restriction to justify choosing leather in my view.

The choice should be not only aesthetic, but functional, and different for various parts of the body. So its not only a choice between the agility of leather or the defense of heavy plate.  I'd like to have a viable gameplay choice in wearing a leather breastplate with steel pauldrons or a steel breastplate with bare arms and legs. The former might give better effectiveness of 'shoulder barge' type abilities, whereas the latter would give a good compromise between defense and attack speed (for example).

Anyway, thats my two cents.

[TanithT]

I sincerely appreciate that the female fighter is wearing actual armor and normal, functional adventuring clothes, not an itsy bitsy teeny weeny chainmail polka dot bikini. I'm all for adult themes where adult themes are sensible for the plot, so it's fine if the characters take off their armor (and everything else) for sex scenes. What isn't fine is depicting female fighters as stupid, ineffective and suicidal, which is exactly what they would be if they were trying to fight in lingerie.

A lot of video games and pretty much all comic books do this, and it is seriously not cool. Thank you for being the exception.

[UnderlAlDyingSun]

Erm please don't fill the game world with as many junk items so as to make the invent system overbearing! I spent 1/3 of my dang playtime in origins sifting through garbage, atleast in DA2 it was evident that all discovered items were garbage compared to what could be purchased lol and honestly the hassle of equipping my companions just stopped being worth it in the end. Like the custom look idea.

[Sen4lifE]

Well, I'm pretty late to comment on this (haven't been on the DA forums in a while).  The purposed system is awesome, though I think a more strict color/emblem theme needs to be worked out for characters (i.e.: the seeker character retaining some detail to identify her as a seeker as well, be it the brown/black seeker color scheme or the emblem applying to chestplates.  Same for the warden, retaining the Grey Warden color scheme that seems to be blue/white.)

TanithT wrote...

I sincerely appreciate that the female fighter is wearing actual armor and normal, functional adventuring clothes, not an itsy bitsy teeny weeny chainmail polka dot bikini. I'm all for adult themes where adult themes are sensible for the plot, so it's fine if the characters take off their armor (and everything else) for sex scenes. What isn't fine is depicting female fighters as stupid, ineffective and suicidal, which is exactly what they would be if they were trying to fight in lingerie. 

A lot of video games and pretty much all comic books do this, and it is seriously not cool. Thank you for being the exception.

Dragon Age has managed to do this for it's games and novels, but in Dawn of the Seeker, Cassandra wore some sort of armor skirt which didn't make a lot of sense. I feel like it was sort of an inside joke that she gets cut on the thigh, just where it's exposed, which is only exposed for sex appeal.. which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because any fighter in their right mind wouldn't base even their training armor off sex appeal over protection. At least her main armor suit didn't have this foolish design.

I honestly don't play games that have women extremely exposed in armor suits. I just can't take the games creators seriously enough to be intrigued. 

[Thandal N'Lyman]

Sen4lifE wrote...

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Dragon Age has managed to do this for it's games and novels, but in Dawn of the Seeker, Cassandra wore some sort of armor skirt which didn't make a lot of sense...

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You obviously haven't see any of the historically accurate images of Legionaries.

 

Here's a good example:



 

[goliathead]

The concept is great but there is something I suggest to substantially make this idea more feasible and more entertaining. Have (atleast) companion armor level up with the characters. This way, a multitude of outfits don't have to be individually modelled and textured, and a companion can have a certain look for the whole game if you prefer it that way. 

Some people may ask, "what would the point of multiple armors be then?" Well certain armors can be leveled up with only certain stats (i.e. fire resist, or more defense.) Also the different armor can have different material grades, making it so the base armor/stats of one will be better than the others, it's just not required that you equip that armor to be able to play later game.

Just something I thought of to help the developers, as well as make the armors have a more solid place in the game.

[Iakus]

You obviously haven't see any of the historically accurate images of Legionaries.

 

Here's a good example:



 

 

Those Legionaries also tended to carry big, heavy shields as seen in the pictures. 

 

Plus greaves to protect the shins

[Thandal N'Lyman]

Shields, yes.  Greaves, maybe...  But the original objection was to the idea of an armour "skirt".

 

Just sayin' that not only was it done, it was done on a institutional scale! 

[Iakus]

Shields, yes.  Greaves, maybe...  But the original objection was to the idea of an armour "skirt".

 

Just sayin' that not only was it done, it was done on a institutional scale! 

 

 

Just saying steps were taken to provide protection, and armor isn't just to show off shapely legs 

[Devtek]

Shields, yes.  Greaves, maybe...  But the original objection was to the idea of an armour "skirt".

 

Just sayin' that not only was it done, it was done on a institutional scale! 

 

It was also done in plad