Lefties

[DAWUSS]

Will we have lefties in this? From what I've witnessed, the only genre where lefties have any sort of visibility happens to be in sports games. It'd be nice to see that group receive a little more attention in games.

[Shardbearer]

I agree, that seems like it should be a pretty simple option implement in character creation I'd imagine.

 

Disclaimer: I have 0 knowledge of programming, and thus apologize for my ignorance if this actually would be difficult to implement.

[Zed]

I disagree. Complete waste of animators' time. Not exactly the most defining trait either.

[Tychoxi]

I disagree. Complete waste of animators' time. Not exactly the most defining trait either.

 

if they are going for sprites (which I'm not sure they will), couldn't they just invert them?

if they are 3D models, then it surely won't be a problem.

[Jaesun]

I disagree. Complete waste of animators' time. Not exactly the most defining trait either.

[Tigranes]

Unfortunately, it is often quite annoying to implement - you'd need to create new animations (AFAIK, not simply mirror them), especially in instances where animations match up with each other (say, if you had a left-hander in a game like The Witcher, pretty much all the combinations of sword-fighting animations would need double the work).

 

Not to mention it would be hardly noticeable.

[Tychoxi]

Unfortunately, it is often quite annoying to implement - you'd need to create new animations (AFAIK, not simply mirror them), especially in instances where animations match up with each other (say, if you had a left-hander in a game like The Witcher, pretty much all the combinations of sword-fighting animations would need double the work).

 

 

 

I don't think it will play like that, it'll be most probably like the Infinitengine games.

[Shardbearer]

Unfortunately, it is often quite annoying to implement - you'd need to create new animations (AFAIK, not simply mirror them), especially in instances where animations match up with each other (say, if you had a left-hander in a game like The Witcher, pretty much all the combinations of sword-fighting animations would need double the work).

 

Not to mention it would be hardly noticeable.

 

Ah, consider me slightly more aware now, thank you.

[Stun]

Dumb tech-less question: if they encorporate dualwielding, won't the left handed animations already be there, thus giving ppl the choice to use just the left hand?

[Delterius]

Dumb tech-less question: if they encorporate dualwielding, won't the left handed animations already be there, thus giving ppl the choice to use just the left hand?

 

I'm pretty sure that they'd have to make a third animation where the right hand doesn't try to stab/slash/smash with nothing.

[Tigranes]

I don't think it will play like that, it'll be most probably like the Infinitengine games.

 

It was an exaggerated example, yes. As far as I know (which is not much in this case), though, 2D sprites actually need animations to be uniquely produced - whereas 3D sprites, for instance, can simulate moveable 'joint' points in the models.

[LokiHades]

While I'd like to see this myself, it is extra work for something not considered important. Would be neat feature though, us lefties always get left out, or even screwed over (Wii Zelda games had to rewrite Link as right handed because the majority of people are right handed, when he has always been historically left handed).

[Humanoid]

Clearly the best solution is to make *everyone* left-handed. I've had enough of the dextrous hegemony. We're in a fantasy world where everything is, er, fantastical, and yet we continue to perpetuate the notion of right-handed dominance? Sinister forever!

[Shardbearer]

While I'd like to see this myself, it is extra work for something not considered important. Would be neat feature though, us lefties always get left out, or even screwed over (Wii Zelda games had to rewrite Link as right handed because the majority of people are right handed, when he has always been historically left handed).

 

Link actually used to bug me out a bit, but I got used to it quickly

[Luckmann]

I think this is more important than representing various forms of sexual deviancy, and would no doubt require far less resources. So in the "I don't care" department of development, this has my vote for "most important feature I care the least about".

Edited September 22, 2012 by Luckmann

[Humodour]

Will we have lefties in this? From what I've witnessed, the only genre where lefties have any sort of visibility happens to be in sports games. It'd be nice to see that group receive a little more attention in games.

 

Unfortunately, it is often quite annoying to implement - you'd need to create new animations (AFAIK, not simply mirror them), especially in instances where animations match up with each other (say, if you had a left-hander in a game like The Witcher, pretty much all the combinations of sword-fighting animations would need double the work).

 

Not to mention it would be hardly noticeable.

 

Why couldn't you just mirror them? Probably a naive question, but...

 

Even if the backgrounds are isometric, I can all but guarentee that the characters will be 3D (on the 2D isometric background). This is just based on the huge amount of complaining the artists (Brian?) did on IWD2, because ANY time you want a change to a character (e.g. a new type of weapon) you have to physically change the art, whereas 3D char art is all vector based and easy to change (along the same lines as Flash, SVG, or PDF).

 

For an example of a 2D isometric game with 3D chars take a look at Beyond Divinity. Bad game (crappy Divine Divinity spin-off), but good example (modern 3D chars would have a lot more polygons of course).

 

So I can't see any immediate reason why it would be overly difficult. But it's also not the most important thing in the world.

 

Still, Valve are studying sign language for Half-Life 2 Episode 3/HL3 because there is a deaf character and they want to get it perfect. If that much attention to detail is good enough for Valve, then it should be good enough for Obsidian.

[alphyna]

It would be really nice if a companion was left-handed. They would always have this trait, so no need for additional animation; it wouldn't be very noticeable, true, probably only when equipping weapons, but that's actually a good thing. It's the small details that create personality, and it's personality that we love in companions.

[molarBear]

overkill i say

[Luckmann]

It would be really nice if a companion was left-handed. They would always have this trait, so no need for additional animation; it wouldn't be very noticeable, true, probably only when equipping weapons, but that's actually a good thing. It's the small details that create personality, and it's personality that we love in companions.

I'd love this, but only if I can discriminate him somehow for being lefthanded.

[alphyna]

It would be really nice if a companion was left-handed. They would always have this trait, so no need for additional animation; it wouldn't be very noticeable, true, probably only when equipping weapons, but that's actually a good thing. It's the small details that create personality, and it's personality that we love in companions.

I'd love this, but only if I can discriminate him somehow for being lefthanded.

Obvoiusly.

Imagine the puns and not allowing him to the right of your formation!

 

(Just to be clear: the latter shouldn't be an in-game restriction, but you can always, you know, roleplay.)

[Tuco Benedicto]

I'm left-handed and yet I agree that it would be quite pointless.

That said, I also doubt it would require any relevant effort, especially inf they are actually going to use 3D models for characters and monsters.

[Luckmann]

It would be really nice if a companion was left-handed. They would always have this trait, so no need for additional animation; it wouldn't be very noticeable, true, probably only when equipping weapons, but that's actually a good thing. It's the small details that create personality, and it's personality that we love in companions.

I'd love this, but only if I can discriminate him somehow for being lefthanded.

Obvoiusly.

Imagine the puns and not allowing him to the right of your formation!

 

(Just to be clear: the latter shouldn't be an in-game restriction, but you can always, you know, roleplay.)

Hey, that might actually be good. By positioning lefties to the left of me, I've reduced the chance of friendly maulings by at least 20%!

 

I also suggest that since lefties are rare, they should have a +1 bonus against parrying. :D

 

Seriously though, I can't imagine that this would require a relevant amount of effort to include in the game. Mirrored sprites or models, some tweaking, tadaa. It wouldn't even really be something I'd be likely to use, but I'd really like to see it in the game.

 

Especially if I can complain about some recruitable companion being a leftie.

 

"Lefties have no soul!"

"Lefties are an evolutionary dead-end."

"Lefties are mutants. You're a mutant!"

 

:D

[Monte Carlo]

LOL the OP was trolling, right?

[Reddie]

I consider this thread a great sarcasm targeted towards LGBT inclusion requests. Brilliant!

[WDeranged]

Assuming the OP is serious I'd still think this was a waste of resources, sorry.