Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

I really wish there was some RPG like Pillars of Eternity and Pathfinder Kingmaker that wasn't so '' generic '' for a lack of a better term.
I am so exhausted by '' realistic '' medieval art direction <_<, it's the same with DnD I feel like if I've seen a Wizard or a Rogue I've seen them all.
It feels so restrictive and bland.
It also goes for non-RPG's too set in these medieval settings, they're so brown and grey, desaturated and everything is so bland or even straight up ugly.
And anything that's '' cool '' is just edgy skull helmets or black hoods with some extra belts and leather.

Only one I can think of is Divinity but I never really liked the style of that game either, just something about it didn't work for me.
I'd love a game like that but with a more JRPG, Korean or Chinese art direction.
I feel like they make way more appealing designs where I actually want to get it and it looks distinct, while in most of these other RPG's it's just '' here you go, a brown stitched together leather vest and a google copy pasted dirty and extremely basic breastplate ''.
Wow... Thanks.
Or heck even Guild Wars 2 art direction in a RPG like that.

There's some exceptions ofc, I still rly like the Ordinator Dunmer design from Morrowind.
But for the most part it feels so basic and bland and like there's no personality behind it, as if you look like a generic NPC guard or enemy not like the protagonist.
Maybe at the start it can make sense but when you're super wealthy and strong, is it really that much to ask to get gear that looks like your character actually custom-made it and likes to express themselves?

But yeah, I have a love hate relationship with these games.
It feels like the gear is designed to be '' neutral '' to a fault, it's okay if some of it doesn't suit some peoples tastes...
I'd rather take ten gear sets where I love one of them, hate three of them and am just indifferent to six of them.
Rather than just being meh about all of them.

To a large degree I think it's laziness and wanting to save time and costs.
Creating your own shit is costly and time-consuming so it's easier to just copy paste that generic '' pseudo-historical '' DnD and Tolkien look, only usually it ends up being an inferior copy.
Easier to just slap a chainmail or gambison on someone than to actually get creative.
Maybe I am just getting old and have played games for way too long but holy hell I can't sympathize at all with peoples enthusiasm for it I am so bored out of my mind with it.

It's especially sad when the writing and the world they've built is really great, but then the actual gear design is so extremely boring.