How do you make unarmed builds and combat in games fun while also explaining a logical reason anyone would pick it over using guns, swords and magic?
>>738981309Give the player access to combos like in God Hand.
>>738981309You don’t, you just allow that motherfucker to be so crazy that he brings nothing to a gunfight and wins anyway.
>>738981309>>738981359No amount of kung-fu can save you from a bullet to the cranium
>>738981309>while also explaining a logical reason anyone would pick it over using guns, swords and magic?not needed nor wanted.
>>738981309Why does there need to be a logical reason for it? If someone an damage someone in full plate by slashing at them with a shortsword then why can't you also damage them by punching them?
>>738981552You so sure about that?
>>738981552You shouldn't have posted Wesker while saying that
>>738981627>If someone an damage someone in full plate by slashing at them with a shortswordShortswords target unarmored areas like the armpits, groin, visor, or back of the knees. But good luck trying to fist a guy in full plate to death.
>>738981801That's never how it's represented visually or mechanically.
>>738981801You can protect those areas with chainmail, and in how many games featuring sword combat do you need to specifically aim at those areas in order to do damage? >But good luck trying to fist a guy in full plate to death.You mean you're impervious to damage just because you're wearing a helmet if a 8 foot tall orc weighing 400lbs smashing his plated fist into your head?
>>738981309If someone has super strength, not a whole lot of justification is needed. Sure, a sword will still be more deadly per hit and give better reach, but punching and kicking can be faster, trickier, and more versatile. Plus grappling is a lot easier with both hands free and that can be REALLY deadly (and cool, imagine german suplexing a guy in armor)
Crimson Desert does this really well. Your primary weapon is a sword/spear/whatever, but you also have a separate unarmed button that you can weave into your attacks too, it flows really well and looks cool.
>>738981309Uppercutting deathclaws is fun
>>738981309It depends on the game, no? You could use kung-fu magic,tai chi bullshit where you strike the armor and vibrations crush the organs inside or some bullshit. It doesn't have to be real just "believable". Bonus points if the character actually looks built for that and isn't skinny.Also just look at characters in myths and legends. Hercules, Samson. Occasionally they used blunt weapons or whatever they found around, (and Herc shot the bow sometimes) but most of the time they just used their hands. Weapons were specifically invented to compensate for lack of strength. If you can crush boulders with your hands there's not much difference between your arm and a hammer, other than some extra reach.
>>738981967>That's never how it's represented visually or mechanically.Use your imagination>>738981990>how many games featuring sword combat do you need to specifically aim at those areas in order to do damage?ExanimaM&BHalf SwordKCDBlade & Sorcery (VR)probably more
>>738982327Out of that list I've played M&B:W and KCD and no, you don't need to aim at the armpits or groin to do damage against full plate in those games so I'll just assume that your whole list is bogus.
>>738982327Not a single one of those does that. But considering you put Exanima first, you probably know that and are just shitposting.
>>738981990>if a 8 foot tall orc weighing 400lbs smashing his plated fist into your headDavid and Goliath. Agility >>>>>> Strength.
>>738982686more like fth + crit vs str
>>738981309is there a name for these kind of dinosaur paintings? where they are not "scienfically accurate" but look cooler and more aggressive?
>>738981309The practitioners of rigorous, strenuous, disciplined or dangerous bouts of unarmed combat are superhuman. Thats it thats all you need.
>>738983108Really ungas my bungas
>>738983090Pulp artwork that is apart of an anachronistic setting e.g. dinosaurs coexisting with mammoths, smilodons, cavemen or other fictitious monsters.
>>738982686Slings are underrated.
>>738981309Animate more than shitty jabs and uppercuts.
>>738981309>while also explaining a logical reasonWhy would you ever do this
allow channeling energy between fists for some sort of Hawaiian sounding beam attack
>>738981309Because it looks cool, nigga, and punching people is funThat's all the explanation you need
>>738981309In Daggerfall, monsters will be resistant to weaponry under a certain quantity of material. Liches for example need to be taken out by mithril or higher gear, else they take no damage.Hand-to-hand negates all this, and you can punch whatever creature you want from the very start. Honestly it’s broken af.
