Only Six Helmets: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Role Playing Games]] ==

** Especially glaring because your armor bonus depends on wearing armor over all parts of your body, so skipping the helmet because you want to show show your character's face means you're going to take a hit on your entire defense.

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls Four Oblivion|Oblivion]]'': Pretty much the same, although there are more helmets that leave at least parts of the head visible.

** ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' included a feature that allowed the player to hide his/her helmet while keeping it's stats.

* In the little-known ''[[Siege of Avalon]] Anthology'', you don't get much to customize--just hair color, hairstyle, and whether you have a beard, but every one of the three dozen or so hats, hoods, and helmets covers at least the hair, and usually the face (and beard) as well. However, the non-magical ones are practically useless anyway (giving only 1-2% damage reduction), so going without is perfectly plausible.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', you can procure several different types of headgear for [[Player Character|Shepard]] to wear, all of which provide some sort of stat bonus, and almost all of which cover most (if not all) of the face you spent ages getting ''just right''. <ref>(This is in contrast to [[Mass Effect 1|the first game]], where Shepard gets ''one'' helmet which provides no stat bonuses and, except in certain hazardous conditions, can be toggled on and off at any time.)</ref> Luckily, the stat bonuses, while useful, aren't ''that'' big, and going helmet-less isn't a huge risk. However, during certain missions (unless Shepard is already wearing a full armor set), the game will force Shepard to wear the N7 Breather Helmet, which covers everything except his/her eyes.

** Speaking of the full armor sets: the number one complaint about them is that they all have non-removable helmets which cover Shepard's face entirely. Since most of the game's [[Cutscene|cutscenes]] occur while (s)he's in his/her armor, this can cause some...strange situations, such as Shepard being able to drink liquor through his/her faceplate, or people recognizing Shepard by sight despite the fact that (s)he's dressed head-to-toe as a Collector.