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[Enla]

I'm pretty sure we already had this thread a few weeks ago. And it's still the same stupid argument:


You haven't played many FF-games, have you? Because this is proper ff-fighting-armor:



Also, there is Serah Farron in FF XIII, fighting in a school girl uniform. And don't get me started on her alternate beach-outfit.

I think in the newer FFs the only guy wearing real plate armor was Steiner in FF9

And he was pretty much one of the biggest comical relief characters in that game along with his Knights of Pluto. The rest of the Alexandrian military - the actual competent ones - wore leotards.



Even in the older games though odd armor choices were the norm due to Yoshitaka Amano's art style. The man has three loves - belts, capes, and impractical pieces of armor. And even if a character was the odd man out and was given a proper piece of armor in the old games it was often highly impractical, with I think FF4's designs being one of the lone exceptions? (Except the girls had leotards for daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays in that too.)

Edit: Oh, Cyan too from FF6. I'd say out of all the older FF's his design is the most classically 'tank' looking without too many extras.

[Gemina]

And he was pretty much one of the biggest comical relief characters in that game along with his Knights of Pluto. The rest of the Alexandrian military - the actual competent ones - wore leotards.


Even in the older games though odd armor choices were the norm due to Yoshitaka Amano's art style. The man has three loves - belts, capes, and impractical pieces of armor. And even if a character was the odd man out and was given a proper piece of armor in the old games it was often highly impractical, with I think FF4's designs being one of the lone exceptions? (Except the girls had leotards for daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays in that too.)

Edit: Oh, Cyan too from FF6. I'd say out of all the older FF's his design is the most classically 'tank' looking without too many extras.

It doesn't change that Steiner still looked the part. When I think about the series in general, anytime the game featured a more D&D traditional job system, the characters would be less frilly, and take on styles more suited to the role they were given. FFIX incorporated the job system, and Steiner looked very much like a knight. A Rune Knight iirc. And many of those outfits, like the one in my sig, pay homages to the original FF.

Artwork from FFIV, which heavily used the job system:





Then we have our two MMOs FFXI and FFXIV. Both use the job system, and the former really looked the part too especially back in '04 when I started playing it. Now we have XIV. In short, characters like Squall, Tidus, Cloud, Yuna, Tifa among a whole host of others are more anime fan service. And like all those cute waifus tanking our instances, they don't do much to adapt to traditionalism.