Games With Awesome Armor Design

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Pretty much what the title says, just post your favourite armor designs from video games.

The Saber armor from the Fate series. Cool looking, comes with a nice sword. Great hues of regal blue and gold, because video game armors don't need to look bland. It protects the critical areas of the body, minus the head, but that's a game and they have to show the face after all, plus the character is a king and a crown is more fitting for the head anyway. It allows good movement and functionality, while it also keeps the otherworldly element. The armor on the arms or the sides helps on deflecting enemies' swords.

An example of a bad armor from the same series:

Tons of metal and spikes, that look absurdly edgy and dumb. While a full-plate armor offers wholesome protection, it's questionable that there's armor above armor, like that idiotic portion above the character's legs. The armor on the arms probably doesn't allow any arm movement, which is ridiculous for someone that fights with a sword (the sword is very dumb too, but that's not the point of the thread). There's a helmet on this one, but its design and functionality are so bad that it may as well not exist. Finally, it's a really terrible color scheme that makes you question if your eyes are bleeding or not.

Elite Knight Armor - Dark Souls

Warlock set in WoW.

Pyro

God help us the mods are making weekend threads

Any Judge from FFXII.

i still kinda like Terra armor from Kingdom Hearts

Any outfit in Bloodborne.

i still kinda like Terra armor from Kingdom Hearts

Oh how I loathe we didn't get the capes in BBS.

Ryu Hayabusas leather ninja outfit. It just screams badass.

Artorias of The Abyss armour: Not only is it detailed and beautiful, but it also tells a story.

I haven't even played a Souls game before and it's Artorias. Such a fantastic design. I love capes, and tattered capes even more.

I really like Titania's armor from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. It's really simple, but effective in making her look like a human tank/shield.

I love its flowing red piece and how it compliments her hair. That gold/red aesthetic is so good. Very sunburst-y character.

I was going to post Saber myself, but Quru had it covered. I'll go with her Lancer form then, I love the design.

Armor of Eraqus - BBS

Irwin Armor - DQ XI

(Dead Space 2)

Silver Rathalos Armor from Monster Hunter.

I haven't even played a Souls game before and it's Artorias. Such a fantastic design. I love capes, and tattered capes even more.
I really like Titania's armor from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. It's really simple, but effective in making her look like a human tank/shield.

I love its flowing red piece and how it compliments her hair. That gold/red aesthetic is so good. Very sunburst-y character.

My man.

Radiant Dawn has some of my favorite female character design in the whole series.

So basic, yet has proper protection that covers several vital, vulnerable points. The choice of red armor goes surprisingly well with her red hair and eyes, creating a fiery, stern look, but the overall design is not busy or exposing unnecessary skin just because she is a woman. The only flaw is the lack of helmet, which Nephenee gets points for using one, but what can you do. Jill is awesome in design, good character development and amazing unit gameplay wise in both games in Tellius. What a great character.

Dark souls 3 ringed knight armor set

this is just perfect to me (Dark Souls II & III - Drakeblood Set)

Blizzard's armor design already peaked in vanilla WoW with the Paladin Judgement armor. Pretty sure it's the most consistent fan favorite across the board too.

Can't find an image but Siegfried's black armor was dope in the first Soul Calibur.

Pretty much what the title says, just post your favourite armor designs from video games.

An example of a bad armor from the same series:

Bruh...

I do like this saber tho

I like the mix and match armors from the Mass Effect series. I love me some futuristic high tech armor with lights. Example here :

Also back in the day I loved the bulky AF armors from the first Fable :

I was going to post Saber myself, but Quru had it covered. I'll go with her Lancer form then, I love the design.

Too bad the helmet looks bad. :blobpats:

Ninja Gaiden Black - Doppelganger Hayabusa

Elder Scrolls Oblivion - Daedric Armor

I have a feeling all my other favorites will be posted or have been posted already.

Always loved the Ornstein armor

Koenig Armor set from Final Fantasy XI:

I've enjoyed a great deal of armor designs from Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV, actually... Across all the various jobs/classes in both games. Great art design in both games, IMO -- arguably my favorite art design in the entire FF franchise.

I tend to lean toward Paladin since that's what I played the most in both games.

So as long as it has one piece of armor it counts? I don't think a dress with a with one armor piece counts as "armor."

Same with Ryu Hayabusa and his forehead metal thingy.

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It's great.

Monster Hunter has a lot of fun armor sets, but I think my favorite is still the high rank Ceadeus armor.

Women's armor has the same problems with just about every armor set for women in Monster Hunter, but the Men's armor is really good. Fits the monster too (Ceadeus is an underwater monster with massive horns and bio-luminescence, so the armor looks like it's made out of ivory, has big horns of its own, and has glowy bits).

And yes, I'm specifically using the high rank armor here. G-rank is mostly the same, but the Anubis helmet doesn't appeal to me as much as the big horns on the high rank version.

The gravity suit was cool as heck. My favorite in the series.

All the Dead Space 2 suits were also cool as heck.

There are so many good examples from the Dark Souls games, but I'll just post my favorite three.

Creighton's Set

Elite Knight Set

Drakeblood Set

Ah, fuck it, three is too few.

Cathedral Knight Set

Dancer's Set

Faraam Set

Last edited: Jan 13, 2019

Halo: Reach, so many good choices and combinations. Stinkles this is what Infinite needs!

There are so many good examples from the Dark Souls games, but I'll just post my favorite three.
Creighton's Set

Oh yeah, the Creighton set is great, wore is a lot!

It's great.

This made me think of Isaac's suit in Dead Space. I kind of like it when the design goes into the direct opposite of sleek and is deliberately not meant to look pretty.

That is not to say that plain cool looking armor also doesn't have its appeal

(Dark Souls 2 Faraam set)

In games where you can wear different armors and it change the looks the character I tend to stay with the basic leather armors for the longest time. I don't really like those fancy high-end bling bling armors that tend to be the best ones.

Chris in Suikoden III have a nice armor though.

Dark Souls is just in a league of its own when it comes to armor design

The Black Knight from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, aka the GOAT.

Superheavy armour is just the best. Especially when it's worn by an e v i l character and paired with a magic sword. That Darth Vader aesthetic is my greatest weakness.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn had really great designs in general. Nice to see so many others giving the games their due, too.

OG, GOAT, FATHER OF THE THREAD.

Ghosts N Goblins, Capcom, coin-op, 19-oatcake.