Hey, that could be cool matey, you elite ninja you.
I can definitely tape myself with head butting, eye gouging, kneeing to the groin, nipples twisting, spitting, taunting and good old strangulation, but any home movies of more advanced martial arts would require someone with training.
Lemme eleborate. In this game the player can fight with guns, bombs, and other weapons both shooting and smacking people with them, plus melee with single and double handed blunt and sharp weapons with one or two of them at once and throw them, plus hand 2 hand in various styles and hopefully also using the environment (pushing off walls etc). Hence the slogan in my sig, you can basically kill your enemy in more ways using more moves than are laid out in the kamasutra. It's not a martial arts game though, so the enemy won't be pulling off any martial arts moves and therefore I don't really need blocks, unless they're combined with a good looking throw. The enemies will generally be humanoids with very basic attacks (lunging, swinging arms) or they'll be shooting back, or they'll have hand 2 hand weapons, or just big f*** off teeth.
Imagine the sort of moves you might use on a drunk in the street who has just killed your whole family and that's probably what I'm after.
Weapons is definitely something I'm missing. While I could happily film myself destroying the garden bench with a forest axe, I would most likely end up in police custody, minus a foot. The footage would also look like a crazed lunatic without the flair of someone with training. The bench would be completely destroyed, but at what cost? The cost would indeed be too dear.
If you could get me some footage of some crazy moves, especially with weapons, that would be awesome. I'm looking for powerful moves that would stop someone or something in their tracks. Pressure points wouldn't be too effective as a lot of my enemies will already be dead and therefore not have much use for their nervous system and their tendons will already be shafted. Any move that you think could result in a decapitation, open fracture, two broken legs or dislocated pelvis is definitely in. Anything that includes a degree of restraint to incapacitate the enemy rather than send them to their maker is definitely out.
I think basically I could adapt any good footage to the task in question. While I wasn't planning on having nunchaku, for example (you don't tend to find them just lying around in a car park), I could obviously apply a good move with a broadsword to a metal pole my dude might find. But similarly, it could be cool for my main character to find two metal bars and a chain and manufacter his own nunchaku in the field.
So matey, I suppose a selection of key moves from each weapon could be superb. Then I can spend the next 3-4 years painstakingly animating them
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Ok, that's my morning post of waffle done. Yesterday it was a poem, today it's martial arts. Lemme know what you think you could offer matey and would be able to do. Cheers bud.
