RWBY General Discussion

Random thought.

I want to a RWBY AMV...of Game of Thrones opening.

I'll see if I can figure it out. (Note: I may have gotten some heights wrong. >_> Ruby, Weiss & Nora are short, Yang, Jaune & Pyrrha are tall, the rest were in the middle somewhere.)

Here we go.

http://imgur.com/a/DENjD

Finally got off my lazy rear and binged all the episodes so far which is rather sad for me, as I had already been excited about this web series way back when it was just the trailers. Seems I missed quite a bit of shipping discussion in here, too.

And while we're on the subject of recreating the characters in video games with custom character systems, I made RWBY in Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires, if anyone's interested in seeing them.

Sure, may as well.

Fanworks are always interesting, especially if they're not fics or something that takes a long time to read.

edited 20th Oct '14 11:42:18 PM by AnotherDuck

Alrighty then.

I actually made these four a while after the 'Yellow' trailer came out, so they all had different 'personalities' via Voice sets that I assumed from their respective trailers: Ruby had 'Calm' Ha! =P, Weiss had 'Old-fashioned' think a mature, serious voice - ha! again, Blake had 'Alluring' I... have no idea anymore why I chose that originally ^_^; and Yang had 'Active' which sounds fairly younger than the voice set I changed it to.

Ruby: Full,◊ Closeup,◊ With Weapon◊

• Female characters in this game sadly have no hood headpiece. The dagger-axe is also the closest thing to a scythe - and in-game, its special feature is catching and dragging along enemies that get hit (they incidentally count as grapple moves, which in this game means they're unblockable ) so it sort-of fits some of the moves Ruby's done in the series.

Weiss: Full,◊ Closeup,◊ With Weapon◊

• Pretty standard rapier moveset: fast and fluid. Alas, since you can't change the weapon skin for custom characters' musou attacks, she randomly changes to a bigger sword when she uses her ice-based musou. Also, no facial scar options for females, either (shame), and no white color scheme for costume parts (which disappointed me for several of my other custom characters that needed it).

Blake: Full,◊ Closeup,◊ With Weapon◊

• I saw Blake's trailer, and this weapon immediately sprang to mind when I decided to make them in DW. Both musous even match Blake's semblance (Phantom Fire has the character create two copies, then all three throw their fire-coated sickles in a rapid spin) and speed (for Shadow Strike the character strikes one enemy with an unblockable hit, then dashes through them in multiple directions, fictional-ninja-style), respectively. There's no ribbon headpiece that fully covers the cat ears, so I had to make do with that headband and pretending that she's pretending the ears are part of that headband.

Yang: Full,◊ Closeup,◊ With Weapon◊

• The glove moveset is more grapple-based than brawler based (and they're also crazy large ), but the EX attack and both musous match Yang's ranged option of punching bullets at the enemy.

I'm going to make JNPR next time. One of the new weapons I intend to use (javelin for Pyrrha) isn't available in 7, though; the upcoming DW8 Empires has it. Thankfully, 8 Empires lets you carry over your custom characters from 7, so I won't lose any of the work I've done.

edited 21st Oct '14 12:28:39 AM by Demovere

Kind of neat, although I don't know how restrictive the character editor is. Does seem like the overall theme isn't quite appropriate, so in that case it's good work.

Also, I like the outfits more than I like how they resemble the characters.

edited 21st Oct '14 12:58:46 AM by AnotherDuck

DW's art style skews a bit more towards 'realistic' than 'anime', so I tried to adapt the notable aspects of their face designs (eye shape, overall face shape, etc) without resorting to just giving everyone oversized eyes that would look creepy. Theme-wise, it sort-of fits if you take into account the RWBY fights where it was one person against a horde of mooks.

Made these two last night:

Jaune: Full,◊ Closeup,◊ With Weapon◊

• There's an option where you set the character's stat growth; for example, higher running speed at the cost of attack power, or being a walking tank but running like a turtle. I gave Jaune here 'Common' - lower-than-average stats by default. I was debating giving him 'Defensive' instead, though, since it seems to be his Aura's focus.

Pyrrha: Full,◊ Closeup,◊ With Weapon◊

• Probably the least-effective outfit emulation, since this game is set in ancient China, and Grecian-style armor isn't a priority. The spear moveset is the closest 7 has to a javelin for now.

edited 21st Oct '14 1:24:41 PM by Demovere

Technically, tanks drive and do so decently fast for being tens of tons.

Fun fact: M1 Abrams, the most powerful tank on earth and certainly one of the heaviest, can go up to 45 MPH. Not bad for being over 60 metric tons. Of fuck you

You saw nothing.

edited 21st Oct '14 1:25:06 PM by Demovere

Technically they're still slow compared to other vehicles.

But not us, so a person running like a tank would logically still be pretty cool.

Like I mentioned above, even the heaviest tanks can go over 40 MPH, although not for too long.

In the meanwhile, the fastest speed ever achieved on foot is 27 MPH.

So yeah, if someone says that you run like a tank, it means you can run nearly twice as fast as fastest people on earth.

And if we want to technicalize (Not sure if this is actually a word, Google gives me a bit claiming it does but not a lot) discuss this pedantry further, OG WW1 tanks did tend to have speeds bringing molasses to mind.

Are we talking about tanks? We are talking about tanks, aren't we? Because tanks are awesome.

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YER DAMN RIGHT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TANKS

...if members of RWBY/JNPR were tanks, which tank would they be?

They would all be M1-Abrams, the greatest of all Tanks!

I don't know about tanks. Let's draw comparisons to something I do know about, like RPG classes.

Oh please, the Abrams' armour is nothing compared to the Challenger 2's, and the T-90AM has it beat on several other fronts.

I was going to label Yang as a Challenger 2 since I'm hearing that thing's a certain contender for toughest modern tank, but I'd hardly be able to prove such a statement since its details on such as classified.

You know what, let's just call all of them Bolos.