Pole-arm weapons replaced spears on front lines for a lot of armies but wasn't replaced till firearms came about. So, pole-arms are in many ways an improvement on spear design. Trebuchets is a spear, harpooning is a spear, and spearfishing still around. 
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Right and there's lots of pokey polearms, and any of them would be great for additional spear designs in game. The problem is when you start getting into polarms they are often very specialized in how the head is built and it's function. You'd practically need a whole new style for each one.
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Right and there's lots of pokey polearms, and any of them would be great for additional spear designs in game. The problem is when you start getting into polarms they are often very specialized in how the head is built and it's function. You'd practically need a whole new style for each one.
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Not really, at least not in the sense that any of the present classes of weapons differ in function between various items represented (e.g. falchion vs. arming sword). Most weapons by medieval times had a point and a functional edge of some sort -- hook (e.g. guisarme), axe head (bardiche), blade (glaive), hammer (Lucerne hammer), or a combination (pollaxe, bec de corbin, halberd, etc). By recognizing these two elements, you can represent a wide variety of polearm styles ingame with one animation set. It may not be perfect, but it ain't half bad.
Possibly, but I still prefer actual spears over heavy headed polearms.
And I prefer all the polearms. I even want a goddamn trident in DAI.
I'd love to see spears in the game. Proper classical-era style one handed spears held overarm to strike down over the shield you're using to protect yourself. None of the silly spinny two handed stuff that seems to crop up when spears do appear in video games...
Spears, Polearms, two handed maces and flails. Those weapons are forgotten in most games. =/
And I prefer all the polearms. I even want a goddamn trident in DAI.
Trident is sufficiently stabby, see no reason not to have a trident version of a spear in game.
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It'd be cool to have the option but I'm not holding out for one.
I'd love to see spears in the game. Proper classical-era style one handed spears held overarm to strike down over the shield you're using to protect yourself. None of the silly spinny two handed stuff that seems to crop up when spears do appear in video games...
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