You can create something not possible in real life, that's why there are pirouettes and signs.
But you can create the impossible only within the extablished rules of that fantasy world.
You can create something not possible in real life, that's why there are pirouettes and signs.
But you can create the impossible only within the extablished rules of that fantasy world.
I can understand that. Really.
But people here are constantly telling that something is unpractical or impossible in real life to normal people. Ciri and Geralt aren't normal people. Not even in that Fantasy world. I bet that someone in real life, who has been practicing combat skills several years, can beat 20 of us using only fists and t-shirt. Even in high heels. Average people can't do that, but there are always specialists.
Geralt and Ciri are both trained well. Geralt has super humanly senses and powers, because trials of grasses. Ciri hasn't go through that, but she has been well trained by witchers and Yen. So even when following game world rules, why should those high heels be even a minor problem to Ciri? Or unpractical fancy armor to Geralt? They are both professionals with exceptional skills. If I was Ciri, I think that those heels would even slower me. And I bet that even those weird DLC costumes are explained with reason. If a 300 year old woman can make herself look like a 20-30 year old, she can make open necked dress to stay in place. This really makes sense to me.
Yes, I remember that CDPR told us somewhere that those armors are supposed to look real. So real, that you can actually make one and wear it yourself. It's all there, belts and buttons, all wearable. They didn't say that those armors are supposed to be replicas from reality.
Am I still missing something here? Am I just a simple idiot who can explain these "problems" with Geralt and Ciri being exceptional professionals?
Or do you guys think that this game should be absolutely 100% true to books? No surprises? No nice twists and turns? No options to choose?
Yes, but it is established that Geralt doesn't wear them because it would make him slower.
You want to make real plate armors? Then you should justify that within the rules of the world. How? Well, by changing the rules of the game. Making Geralt slower, make him impossible to roll, creating new animations without the pirouettes, but giving to the player a tons of damage resistance as trade off.
You can't do that because of resources limit or because you have found the perfect pacing for the combat? Than just don't create those armors.
The point is not "you can't do that in real life". The point is that "it is established that Geralt cannot fight like a witcher with an armor".
There are in game armors light enough to be in line with the lore. Using heavier armor is player choice.
I don't see those heavier armors like a bigger departure form the lore than Geralt wearing both swords at the same time. Both cases comes to as examples of favor the game-play over the lore.
I don't know how would affect the game (and its development) do all the changes you suggest for heavy armors. I don't know if I want any of those changes. This is one of the cases where I prefer gamey-logic rules allowing me to have heavy armor that changes Geralts statistics but not the way he moves.