Historically, the primary reason for armor turned into defending your guts from incoming weapons or appearing bright and stunning for ceremonial functions. In video games, it’s frequently hard to inform what the blacksmith became questioning. Whether it’s over-engineered spiky nonsense or skimpy BDSM tools, its most common job appears to be making our hero’s appearance ridiculous. But that is the craziest? We attempted to pick out the best of the worst from across PC gaming records, assembling an eclectic mix of armor that’s hideous, hilarious, and nonsensical.
To positioned a cherry on the pinnacle, we shared those designs with armor maker Craig Johnson, who’s been analyzing and crafting his own duration-accurate armor and guns with Arms & Armor for greater than 25 years. He also helps run a non-profit referred to as The Oakeshott Institute committed to the history of armor. Its contemporary undertaking is the use of photogrammetry to create 3-d fashions of actual historical armor and weaponry. Craig had some things to mention about the worst of the worst.
Enclave – Lady Von Buckethead
Evil fashion disasters don’t get a good deal worse than this. Where can we even start? Not most effective does it suffer from the same old horny-armor trouble of drawing interest to some of the worst places to be shot with an arrow; it’s virtually a length too small. And what’s with that Knightmare helmet? Not most effective, can’t she see? Those horns are going to get caught in actually everything. Just… no. Craig’s take: “Other than the fact that you can’t see… If you have a helmet, you are seeking out safety, obviously. Having the decrease face open is not a big deal. You have sallets from the Medieval period with that function as nicely. But protrusions like the side horns are massive levers on the facet of your head which you’re supplying your opponent to grab or hit with their weapon and basically come up with whiplash, if now not breaking your neck.
It’s an attempted-and-truism with myth stuff, put giant horns on there, but the first-rate thing that could happen to you in a sword fight is seeing a man coming at you with massive horns on his helmet.”
Lands of Lore – Medieval Krang
Why combat when you could intimidate human beings into surrendering with a scary set of armor and a deep booming voice? Of route, it commonly enables enhancing it with something a bit more difficult than this dollar-toothed stomach-friend who looks like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reject and seems to need to be in opposition to the nearest table constantly. Points for the attempt, none for the style.
Craig’s take: “Some of the current delusion stuff would not without a doubt do justice to the period craftsmen who created things that had been top-notch. Some ‘fable’ armor from the middle ages is a lot greater wonderful than lots of the armor it really is depicted in those video games. Negroli is a well-known armorer in Italy who created just fantastic stuff. He did this breastplate. This is all kind of a batwing motif with eyes on it, and that they literally used a replica of it in one of the Riddick films. The lead necromancer guy has that breastplate on. It’s a steal from the Renaissance. Right there, you have got incredible fantasy armor. However, it is the real stuff.”