BrotherWarth wrote...
One person even said to me that she routinely "took down" 300 pound men with her tiny 110 pound frame.
Seriously people, no one with a build that slight can rock a ****huge alien with a punch like femShep does. It's nonsense. "Wiry" doesn't mean the strength of someone twice your size. Wiry means strong for your size. And guess what? Weight classes exist for a reason. A light weight can't get in the ring/octagon with a heavy weight.
1. Don't discount other people. If they say they did it, first assume they did before assuming they didn't. "Taking down" could have implied just that, her using a judo throw to put him on the ground and they yielded. That is totally within the realm of possibility, since with martial arts you learn to use your opponent's weight against them. You don't pick them up and throw them bodily to the ground, you use their mass and momentum against them. Your balking at the notion implies something: not that you don't know how to fight (scrap), but that you haven't been trained to fight. It also suggests you have no experience in martial arts.
2. If you don't believe FemShep, at 140#, could take on a 300# alien, why do you think a 180# MaleShep could? If it's only about size and mass, you're going to lose as a man or a woman with your logic. I find that assertion ridiculous. Remember, sports-fighting doesn't allow for things you'd do to a person in a real fight. And nothing that Shepard has done is sports-fighting.
And all of that doesn't address the trade offs. Strength vs speed, et al. What good is being 300# if you can't catch your opponent? What about skill and experience? That tangent adds a whole different complexity that we haven't addressed (and won't for brevity).
Here's a question for you: Do you think skinny Bruce Lee could have taken a 300# opponent? If you said no, you'd be wrong. If you said yes, he was lighter and skinnier than FemShep. If you're curious, he was 135#. He did try some weight training that bulked him up to 160# for a short time, but it limited his flexibility and he hated it. He also had back problems with the extra weight. He said, after losing the weight, that he regretted bulking up and that he had suffered an injury doing it.
The rest, well, I agree with you. She needs to have broader shoulders and thicker arms when she's naked, but again I suspect that's an engine issue with the way clothes and armour layer together and adding bulk. The end result is that if she looked as fit naked as she did clothed then we'd have sumo wrestlers in armour. It's probably the reason for the odd pear-like appearance when she's naked like that, because not as many layers are added to the model's legs. Granted, this is an assumption, but it seems to fit the facts. (Look at Liara, she looks outrageously busty when wearing armour, too much so imo.)
Nonetheless, you should maintain some of your opinion. Developers will not change unless we tell them we want more realistic models. In that, I admire your stance. I may disagree with you about what's possible when it comes to fighting, but we both want more realistic models.
Oh, for an ideal game world.
Modifié par N7 Lisbeth, 30 août 2012 - 04:40 .
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