• crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    one of the best things about chainmail was that it was cheap and easy to mass produce by comparison to other options

    not that that meant some rando serf could "afford" one, but it being a cheap easy to manufacture and extremely effect option definitely makes it the top tier

      • Amorphous [any]
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        4 years ago

        I’d love a fantasy role playing game that incorporates a robust armor system that allows you to mix together different pieces of accurate medieval armor, like gambeson under chainmail or chainmail under a tunic.

        There's a weird experimental game called Exanima, which currently just has a dungeon crawler mode and an arena fighter mode, but it does this extremely well. Many many layers of armor and they all affect how you are damaged based on the physics of the weapon and how it is swung.

        Downside is that no one moves like a trained fighter, they look like random peasants who are very drunk have been given weapons and armor.

        But it's still interesting.

      • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        coughs in kingdom come deliverance

        some people would probably pillory me for it cause chuds love that game, but its got a good combat and armour system, and the female love interest literally saves the main characters life in the intro section of the game, so it at least tried

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            hell yeah, an rpg tolkien universe game that wasnt rpg-lite is sorely missing

            edit: honestly the specs required for kcd arnt too bad. its a few years old now, and i was able to run it on my comp that was a couple years old back when it first came out

              • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                fallout 4 def is more requirement intensive than kcd on my system. obviously thats subject to your rigs parts, but...

                ill look into those! i like me some meaty roguelikes/lites

                playing Hades which just came out at the moment and loving it for all the greek pantheon shenanigans so far

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            lol.

            stanning a game thats about getting revenge for the murder of a loving family with an adoptive father, where the main character bumbles around and wouldve been dead in the first five days if not for a woman being a badass... to own the libs?

            shits wild.