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same, there's that essence of aspirations in design and thats like a DNA of how far has technology has become

That's largely why I stopped watching Shadiversity's sci fi weapon videos. Too often he would reject an alien weapon simply because it failed to match his preconceived notions of what a weapon should be or couldn't step out of his personal biases to comprehend how it could be used in combat. Primarily, when he looked at Star Trek and Star Wars weapons like the Klingon bat'leth and the Jedi lightsaber - he said the crescent design and four pointed design of the bat'leth was impractical and wouldn't stand up to a traditional straight edged sword, despite many scenes in TNG proving the exact opposite when Worf wielded it against straight edges with lethal proficiency. He also said that the lack of weight of the lightsaber would be a hindrance in a fight as the wielder would overcompensate and hit themselves with the blade, which completely disregarded the fact that Jedi (and Sith) would have trained with the lightsaber exclusively and never had the need to compensate for the weight of a metal blade, to say nothing of using the Force to augment their handling of the weapon; in fact, I'd go so far as to say that a Jedi/Sith would have a hard time wielding a metal blade as they wouldn't be trained to compensate for the weight and momentum of the metal blade. This guy, though, he points out why certain things wouldn't work _for us,_ but is also able to conceptualize and articulate why those things would work within the settings they were designed for.

@@Dargonhuman I agree fully. I would ad with the bat'leth that it has also massive importance in the Culture of Klingons which is important because something with enough importance in culture or religion doesn't need to be practical. Which is similar to the Wrist-Blades of the Predator maybe they are simple able to use them practically but maybe there are other reasons why they use them. Which is an important point for me when it comes to stuff that is in fiction not supposed to be desgined by Humans, it doesn't in lack of better words needs to make fully sense to Humans, despite being made by Humans out of fiction. Naturally there is a tipping point from where it becomes to much of a strech.

​@@Dargonhumanthat's the difference between a UKpostsr and a scholar

AGREED!

And that everything you thought you knew about his subject matter Is paltry next to their sub of knowledge?

*HE

​@@yutro213Are you simple? This person is talking about experts in general. Some of which are female.

I haven't heard him say anything that isn't fairly basic

exactly. Even from the first one with fallout he brought up the context of the setting and to how/why people would have come to that design. Afterall it was a very intentional thing to emulate romans for a whole list of reasons

No Crysis, TimeShift, or Doom, so failed video

Where's Doom and Boba Fett?

Exactly. So many of these “experts” rag on things without any understanding or consideration of the context. It’s like they just want to flex their cred. But not this guy, he really pays attention to all the aspects. He has real credibility.

@@RosefMudson1414they’ve done sequels for lots of video concepts so I’m assuming they will do another if people like this one

Yes, exactly. He engaged with the material based on the philosophy of design both from a historical, armor based perspective AND from a piece of fictional media.

Oh that’s wild. Love to see everyone succeed at their job here

In the last 15 years game designers for most of these games realize that ancient armors can be transitioned to a more futuristic design. Halo, destiny and anthem are prime examples(ugh I would love more content for anthem and armors). Then you have some that overdo the bulky armor overwatch and Warhammer. But hey, they're games.

​@@christophersharp2212shoot. With how good halo did on master chief armor, I'm still not convinced someone couldn't make semi reasonable real life halo armor yet. Not while composite body armor is becoming a thing.

​@@christophersharp2212Would you still consider Primaris armor to be too bulky?

In a way helmets made for sports will follow the same principles as medieval armor, same anatomy, just biased towards impact from different directions.

halo 1s concept art is heavily Japanese inspired. proof that halo works really well with the anime style. (halo legends already showed this too)

in-universe terms, does the cap help by blocking out the sunlight? does it have HUD projectors pointed at the visor mounted on it?

@@blueshit199 It might, but in likelihood it helps protect the visor, gives a better chance of preventing it from getting shattered when falling face down and could likely redirect a shot from specific angles from going straight through. I don't know the lore specific reasons.

@@blueshit199 as far as I know it's just a sun blocker

yeah, the original creators have mentioned that they wanted to make everything 'ribbed', as much as possible, down to the safety railings.

@@Theycallmeyoshi1 you could say it’s ribbed for our pleasure

@@HannahFortalezza ah yes you mean crips right...right?? RIGHT?

It was supposed to look like a whale carcass in space.

Was having the same sort of thought! The impracticality ties in very well with the background established for the predators: they are essentially sport hunters. In a war within their own species, the predators would surely have more practical weaponry and more traditional looking armor, but when they go off to hunt the pink monkeys for fun, they are doing a much more ancient style of fighting and survival

That's so interesting how they made Predator wear that net to help bring about that gladiatorial feel, even though nets were used to entrap enemies lol!

@@user-ow1bc4sx2r after he described the gauntlet claw, how the arm movement would be so awful and how often it's used as the main weapon against humans does make it seem like predators are literally trying their best to handicap themselves so they can fight humans it's kinda nuts.

@@BaeBunni they could have slightly different muscle proportions, so the slash of the blades is stronger than with a human, though they often use them to stab and impale more than slash. But it does seem they're using weapons for style not practicality

Yeah, I guess you could think about it like we hunt deer. There's usually a bow season (major handicap) for the whole duration and about half the season you can use a muzzleloader, and at the very end you can use certain rifles and you can only hunt a certain number of deer, etc.

Same.

Same, but also with the Covenant as well.

Same, also the Eldar

The Chozo armor is anatomically impossible.

Or the H.E.V suit from the half-life games.

​@@saschahofmann2421i always figured that originated as a HazMat suit but it had a secondary function as physical armor.

@@Thornbloom Which is like he said, what makes it obviously alien, because no human would've come up with that design. Also, the Super Metroid manual shows that Samus's shoulders aren't actually in the suit's shoulders, the super bulky torso is designed that way for her arms to go through the sides into the arms.

@@isaacmayer-splain8974 It was a hazmat suit that could deal with all the extra stuff on Xen like the animals, a lot of stuff throws acid there.

And they make it even better in Halo Infinite, it's so beautiful.

@@ALX_6.11yeah, we just have to ignore that 10 year gap where it looked kinda like nerf armor.

I can see that. I also think they tried to make it resemble a human skull, especially with the ridges around the eyes.

There's definitely a samurai influence, as well. Such an amazing design.

@@Chvse4U The helmet resembles a typical Kabuto Samurai Helmet

@@crimcrusader8459 Kind of. It's missing the front visor, the neck articulated plates, the articulated plates on the back flair, and it looks like some of them came to a small point at the top of the head. Maybe George used it as inspiration, but we're talking about the 60s and 70s when there was no internet. It's very possible he never saw nor knew about the helmet. Whereas the German stahlhelm would still be in world public consciousness from the last roughly 20 years at the point he wrote the novels. I'd say there's a lot more Eastern influences in modern Star Wars aesthetics than back then, especially with all the Force monks walking around.

@@jeremiahkivi4256 I believe George Lucas has gone on record mentioning that of all things old Samurai movies were a big inspiration for Star Wars (more than likely the legendary Akira Kurosawa), hence the insistence on having future-tech sword fights, which led to arguably the single most coveted item in all of science fiction. I do believe Darth Vader's helmet is actually meant to evoke "here comes the big bad boss samurai" with its general shape. that said, it's almost certainly a mixed influence design, as much about the Galactic Empire was meant to subtly flag them as expies of the nazis.

Even just the Iron Banner armors would be great too, especially since the Iron Lords really tried to go big on the knightly aesthetic as well.

Mining or engineering work yes. I think this is the best part about Isaac Clarke's entire deal. He isn't a soldier or a warrior or anything else. He's just some engineer desperately using his tools and his equipment to survive a hellish situation. Its what really makes Clarke probably one of the best examples of a non military character still being able to deal with deadly threats. He's up there with Ellen and Amanda Ripley. I feel like it was a missed opportunity not to engage with his gear from the perspective of simple utilitarian practicality. We've seen military gear in the Dead Space setting and it isn't anything like Clarke's gear.

The Tyger Claws also sometimes wear the Kabuto

​​@@blackvialIndeed they do! The unique thing about the Arasaka helmet is that it has roughly the shame of a kabuto but it's made of kevlar (or something).

The Arasaka helmet also closely resembles Briareos from Appleseed, which bears the kabuto helmet with split horn style as well.

If you mean the Centurion's right arm, it's scavenged from a suit of T-45 power armor. The pauldron does have a similar shape to a transmission case, and probably would be just as heavy if not even more so.

@@aviatorengineer3491 Oh awesome! Thank you for that tidbit, I love New Vegas and never put that together before.

Views the world as an artist.

Mjolnir is actually much much tougher than an Abrams you can wear 😂