Rainbow Pimp Gear: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Shoot Many Robots]]'' falls into this. As there aren't very many full sets of equippable gear, you'll wind up wearing all sorts of random crap just to get the stat bonuses you want.

 

 

* ''[[Quest for Glory V]]'' was an early example. It was the first game in the series to show your armour and weapon as you walked around around town. It was a nice idea - except that magic items were primary colours and glowed, pulsing weirdly.

 

 

* ''[[Soul Calibur|Soul Calibur 4]]'': The Character Creation mode suffers heavily from this. While you can always play "Standard" mode, where clothing and weapon effects don't count, if you want to do well in other modes, you're pretty much forced to play with either [[Rummage Sale Reject|the bastard child of Lady Gaga and a Silver Age superhero]] or a generic heavily-armored knight. The Random Character Generator in ''[[Soul Calibur]] 3'' also produced pretty much exclusively this kind of character.

** Your character's good/evil and cheerful/gloomy stats in ''Soul Calibur III'' were assigned via clothing options, meaning you'd often need to hide extra garments underneath your chosen costume to get the alignment you wanted or just shrug and settle for looking stupid.

 

 

* Basically everything in ''[[Diablo (series)|Diablo]]'' looks great... Until you start socketing in gems, at which point all of your equipment turns ridiculous colors. In ''Diablo 2'', the best helm was usually a certain astroturf green hood. Some fighter characters preferred the neon purple skull mask, though.

 

 

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/02 particularly guilty of this] due its pseudo-cartoony style and initial poor itemization of gear, meaning it was very easy to build an efficient but stupid ''clownsuit''. This was particularly prevalent in the first expansion, leading to [http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll305/chaoswolf1982/WoWstuff/outlandclownsuit.jpg "Outland Clown Syndrome"]. This is usually only avoided in druids (whose shapeshifted forms mostly hide gear) and arguably trolls (who are stylistically gaudy).

** The page picture is [[Penny Arcade]]'s [[Invoked Trope|invocation]] of this trope. Tycho gives Gabe a coupon for a free 3D-model printing of his [[WoW]] character, which Gabe treats as a chore rather than a gift because he doesn't want to use it while his character looks like...

 

 

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' tends to avert it, encouraging you to wear full sets of armour of the a specific type as that would give [[Full Set Bonus|stat bonuses]], and armour of the same class tends to be more or less similarly coloured. However, in the Feastday Gifts and Pranks DLC, there is the [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Sword Butterfly Sword] and [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Ugly_Boots Ugly Boots] (Both are more or less [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]), which ''will'' massively clash with pretty much everything else in the game, but are decent items on their own. (Sten and Leliana will also take a big -50 approval. Because they clearly pretty much agree those items fall under this trope)

* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' and its expansions contain a lot of gear that can be just plain goofy looking all by itself, like the tribal power armor with its green color and attached skulls and such, powdered wigs, Abraham Lincoln's tophat, samurai armor, cowboy hats, civil war caps, motorcycle helmets, tinted sunglasses and assorted raider bondage gear. Late game you tend to move toward a handful of proper looking unique armor sets but low level lone wanderers are very likely to look like total jackasses.

 

 

* A cause of [[Memetic Mutation]] amongst Japanese fans of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'', who enjoy combining Big Boss's shirtless uniform (or occasionally his Ga-Ko uniform, which is printed with [[Kawaii]]-style ducks) with his Monkey Mask and Torch. This gives him a lot of protection against dogs (they ignore him in the Monkey Mask and [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|the smoke from the Torch irritates their sensitive noses]]) but looks absolutely stupid.

 

 

* ''[[Saints Row]]'' has a variant - you can pick colors on just about anything, but really, the most bang from your buck will come from purple gear - which happens to be the Saints' flag.

* ''[[Spore]]'' can get quite silly in the tribal stage, with a wide variety of items available in different categories. Getting the best stats for a creature requires some unusual combinations of clothing, but the game's built-in colour-coordination and ability to move and size the items generally averts total ugliness. Still, it's tricky when you find that your [[Badass]] warlike tribespeople absolutely ''need'' cowboy hats. One method for dealing with that is to make it as small as possible, and try to hide under something else.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]'': You can make some pretty outlandish things to CJ with the various clothing accessories. A chainsaw-wielding loony with a hockey mask, wearing what could only be considered a "diaper", and cowboy boots. Where's my respect, man?

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==