Left or right handed please

Besides a few handful of the old school fps (Doom, quake etc) the ability to choose which hand is your main hand is rare. In the FPS case its merely a preference of where you want your gun barrel showing on the screen (there was a center option for this too). A few MMO had a slight option to be able to equip shields on either hands but that's about it.

So I don't know where you got the idea that this option is common practice. Almost 98% of the time every game character is right handed by default, you may see a few variations in sport games (boxing) but that is to follow the likeness of an existing athlete.

In a game like this, I don't quite understand your prejudice. Clearly, being right or left handed is just cosmetic so why does it bug you so?

As a left dominant ambi (yes such things exist) and on the behalf of other lefties... we all have been playing right handed games (left handed options were rare back in the day) and characters since the beginning and you don't see us complain so much. So quit cribbing about 1 character in the game that uses his off hand... its not even really an issue but a preference.

Yea honestly, I have a HUGE gripe when playing left handed characters in game. It ruins my personal immersion and connection with the character. I'm right handed in real life and so are the vast majority of humans on this planet we all live on. Why not just make it so we can select left or right handed? Forcing players into things like this is never a good thing.

I can't believe this is a real thread...

I am a lefty, personally I could not care less which hand the templar, or ranger, or shadow or whatever uses.

Living in the U.S.A. I will use a baseball reference. I don't complain that a pitcher or batter is a lefty just because they aren't the majority, it's part of the game... here too it is part of the game.

My only complaint about this (and this is just me having fun) is that off all people the Templar would never be a lefty, the nuns would have never allowed that.

Any time your perspective is shifted, or you get discombobulated, try to remember...

"The enemy gate is down"

and deal with it.

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Milk81 wrote:

Any time your perspective is shifted, or you get discombobulated, try to remember...

"The enemy gate is down"

and deal with it.

I love you for this (no homo). Movie is coming out in the Us @ November 1st, 2013.

Anyways, I like that there's some variety to the characters, plus, it's not the most important thing in the game anyways.

Can't you just apply a different scaling matrix to the model?



Apply before the world matrix, but after skinning matrices, then render with reverse windings. I remember doing something like this before in a personal project.

One little thing. In the character selection screen the templar holds his weapon in his right and the book in his left hand. As soon as you enter the game it is the other way around.

Being able to chose would be nice but nothing I would ever miss.

It's bugged me enough that I searched through the UI and then Googled to find out if it was possible to select Right- or Left-handed. So, yeah, it's an issue.

And, yes, it's very interesting from a psychological perspective. I have no problem playing Asian or Black characters, even though I'm white. In fact, I will often choose the darkest skin color I can because... what the heck. But being left-handed in the game throws me (and, yeah, so does playing a woman when I'm a guy).

At some level, it's easier to see myself as a person of a different race than a person of a different gender or one who is left-handed. (Odd... I know.)

The real issue is Templar's inventory screen, namely weapon/shield slots. WTH they are not reversed for him?

These terrible right handed ppl who spill hatred on left handed ppl... Lefties unite! o/

P.S. Guess its just a psychological trauma, he wants to be a lefty but just can't, that's why he is full of intolerance and hatred towards lefties. We forgive you :)