Come On Man! - Page 5

Dreamcast · 2012-06-07, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Vancha

You seem to be missing the fact that their ridiculous appearance affects other peoples' experience of the game.

UNLESS there's an option to turn off seeing other people's skins, and you just see everyone with the default models. Then they could buy pink and green giraffe camo for all I care.

You mean the immersion of the game?...........Well is a game.

and I bet 99% of the people aren't going to buy the zebra skins.

I hope their isn't a pointless option to not see skins....unless is easy to do.

I don't like them either, they look kind of stupid....I don't like the gold gun either since it looks stupid(I think I saw a gold gun)..........but this a free 2 play game, they have to make money....is a game live with it.

Im sure theirs gonna be cool skins eventually.

Raymac · 2012-06-07, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Vancha

You seem to be missing the fact that their ridiculous appearance affects other peoples' experience of the game.

UNLESS there's an option to turn off seeing other people's skins, and you just see everyone with the default models. Then they could buy pink and green giraffe camo for all I care.

But that's the point. YOU may think something looks ridiculous, but to somebody else, they may love it. And vice versa. You may think something looks great, but another person may consider it cheesy. Taste is very very subjective.

For example, I'm not a huge fan when the NFL starts wearing a bunch of pink during October, but breast cancer awareness is an extremely noble cause.

Obviously, that may be a rare and overly specific example, but who's to say a player shouldn't be allowed to wear pink for just such a reason. Hell my name is an homage to my grandfather. People do things for all kinds of reasons.

Xyntech · 2012-06-07, 01:48 PM

The weird colors and patterns don't really bother me because the lighting in the game makes them look like legitimate paint jobs, even if occasionally somewhat odd choices.

If there were neon green and pink armor, that would make my eyes bleed.

Serotriptomine · 2012-06-07, 02:04 PM

Iirc black / white stripes hides you against a white background.
Did they not say they would be introducing an ice planet?

*hint hint*

Vancha · 2012-06-07, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Dreamcast

..........but this a free 2 play game, they have to make money....is a game live with it.

I don't know why people keep saying this. We know what the art team behind this game are capable of. If you think something looks sub-par, there's no reason not to tell them.

Originally Posted by Raymac

But that's the point. YOU may think something looks ridiculous, but to somebody else, they may love it. And vice versa. You may think something looks great, but another person may consider it cheesy. Taste is very very subjective.

Firstly, that's why I'm putting forth my opinion. People putting forth their opinion on something is how consensus is formed, which then goes on to influencing decisions about the same in some small way. Are you suggesting we don't put forth our opinions on anything that other people won't agree with?

Secondly, you could use that argument to turn the game into wonderland. If anything goes because someone, somewhere will love it, then give me my skewed top hat and modified straight jacket while I fire my slow-shooting underslung jackhammer with a cannon skin. Bring on the hundreds of Neo clones, bow-and-arrow skins, My Little Pony decals and cupcake camouflage.

Snipefrag · 2012-06-07, 02:08 PM

Jesus christ.. You guys are moaning about immersion in a futuristic MMOFPS?! If you can't get your head around zebra skins how the hell do you get them round hover tanks, cloaking, lazer based weapons and nano reconstruction of the human body !

This isn't CoD, every faction isn't wearing camo to blend in. Your point is moot about breaking immersion. You are just whining because it's something YOU don't want in the game and are coming up with terrible arguments to back yourselves up. In four pages I have yet to see a convincing argument against it, try harder guys.

Shogun · 2012-06-07, 02:24 PM

as long as the more stupid looking customisations are only sold for real money it will be fine.

on the demo it looks stupid because everybody is using stupid camos for free. this hopefully will not happen on release. if camos are sold, a lot of freeplayers will run around in standard armor, reducing the amount of stupidity. and even those who enjoy and buy stupid stuff will spread out and buy diffrent things, so i don´t think it will be a problem.

and the zebra camo will be insanely useful on the wintercontinent, as it breaks the outline of the soldier/vehicle and reduces color contrast.

Bazilx · 2012-06-07, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by Shogun

and the zebra camo will be insanely useful on the wintercontinent, as it breaks the outline of the soldier/vehicle and reduces color contrast.

Also on the African Savannah continent.

Vancha · 2012-06-07, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by Snipefrag

Jesus christ.. You guys are moaning about immersion in a futuristic MMOFPS?! If you can't get your head around zebra skins how the hell do you get them round hover tanks, cloaking, lazer based weapons and nano reconstruction of the human body !

This isn't CoD, every faction isn't wearing camo to blend in. Your point is moot about breaking immersion. You are just whining because it's something YOU don't want in the game and are coming up with terrible arguments to back yourselves up. In four pages I have yet to see a convincing argument against it, try harder guys.

Immersion isn't the same as realism. You've never been immersed into a Star Wars movie or Battlestar Galactica, for example? Now imagine if Barnie the dinosaur suddenly popped up in BSG, staring at the camera and yelling "HEY KIDS!", it'd probably break the immersion, right? That's because immersion is dependent upon the coherence of the setting, not the realism.

SixShooter · 2012-06-07, 02:44 PM

Like it or not, this type of camo and customization will probably out sell the more conventional stuff. I would be way more irritated by a game that was not funded well and lacked development than by seeing guys in stupid looking camo. I'm all for SOE having this type of stuff available for the people who want it so they can keep the game going for as long as possible.

JHendy · 2012-06-07, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Ale

Wot?

What?

Dreamcast · 2012-06-07, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Vancha

I don't know why people keep saying this. We know what the art team behind this game are capable of. If you think something looks sub-par, there's no reason not to tell them.

I know they will make better skins....but if somebody wants to look like zebra which I doubt 99% of people will want to....then give them that skin.

Vancha · 2012-06-07, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Dreamcast

but if somebody wants to look like zebra which I doubt 99% of people will want to....then give them that skin.

Again, you don't seem to consider the impact on others. How far does that go? "if somebody wants to look like a pink giraffe"? "If somebody wants to look like Rainbow Dash"?

Purple · 2012-06-07, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Top Sgt

NC Elite Zebra Squads? really

Space Pimps really?

Come on Son!

your right, that looks awesome. i definitively am buying zebra stripes!

Elude · 2012-06-07, 04:46 PM

These wouldn't look so bad if they weren't so sloppily done, I swear it's as if they just took a tileable texture and plopped it onto masked parts of the UV map.