He already said he was,


multiple times

No he's being sarcastic, but i personally think the game should just have

Weapon

Then you can just pick up anything spear, mace, ect and they may all look different but they all do the same damage at the same speed while doing the same affect.

And i think you should also just have an armor wardrobe were you have access to all armor then you equip what you see fit.

/sarcam OR the next fable

The Elder Scrolls series:

Removing stuff since Daggerfall '97

Some things they remove are fine but things like spears crossbows throwing weapons ect is just removing gameplay elements that player can choose to use if they so wished.

Less choice = my brain no think much me want simple to many choices me dont know wut do.

yea i edited my post like 10 seconds after

My brain no think much me want simple weapon me use spear... said the cave man. Yeah spears are primitive... but still awesome and effective. :thumbsup:

EDIT: Stupidity redacted.

Variety is the thing that has always made TES what it is. Different weapons, armors, skills, choices on how to play the game, etc. If you take too much of that away, it kills a bit of the fun for some of us. If the list gets down to.. well.. that, then it'll be a sad day for people who do detailed roleplaying. I dearly hope the Armor and Sword generics are just demo things and not in the final product. Either that, or make it so you can customize swords' appearances with the forges. At least. Please.

How many times does the poor guy have to say he was being sarcastic? lay off, read the whole thread at least.

Apologies. I've seen at least ten guys in the last hour on the Halo 4 forums that're doing the same thing and they're serious.

Dead serious.

I've never seen people so angrily passionate about how an assault rifle 'should look.'

Again, sorry, mate. Your sarcasm caught me at a bad moment.

Meh. I could care less. Oh no, I can't have a sword that's 3 inches shorter and .3 seconds faster. Oh wait, I can dual wield, blocking is a lot better now, 2h weapons actually feel like they have wieght...Seriously you guys, you overreact to the littlest things when you forget to look at the grand scheme of things and see how much they've added.

Seems like half of the threads forget the grand scheme of things. It's sad

We havn't seen any Argonians yet. I guess they are out aswell :facepalm:

Woah, buddy, I wouldn't use sarcasm. You might get shot.

argonians are already confirmed in, so the lack of them in the demo proves nothing . it isnt the lack of shortswords that is the worry, but the indication of a possible substitution of short swords.

OT : Shortswords should definitely be in. Why? By what logic? None. But the Elven shortsword was the coolest looking generic weapon in OB, they really ought to do it justice in this game. Oh, and rogueish duel wielding, no shortsword and dagger? That would be a shocking omission.

BTW, are we really calling people idiots now, because they don't get sarcasm, IN PRINT?

So we lose short swords and long swords, but gain long bows and short bows?

The reasoning may be that axes and maces do not have short and long versions, then again they don't have dagger versions either... I still reckon they are in, perhaps long swords are now just called swords and short versions are called... short swords lol (short version of the sword, if you get me).

well wakizasaskis or what ever were actually quite useless without dual wielding since it's actully the secondary mini katana

which was supposed to be kind of a shield and a short blade at the same time...completye [censored]

The reason I was referring too was that the devs couldn't do the various combat tactics that were unique ti that weapon justice, if it is just a shorter longsword then what is the point?

I shed several tears reading through this thread...

I understand that sarcasm can't really be detected in writing, but... come on...

Ok so he was sarcastic. Now, can we please move on? Thanks.

After a while, all those "littlest things" start to add up.

Ah, now I'm scared that they removed shortswords.

We did see a http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8972/imperialsword.jpg already, however it is called "Imperial Sword". So there's a shortsword, and it's called a sword just like any other sword we've seen... that's worrying.

By the way, if they remove shortswords while adding dual-wielding, that's actually hilarious. It's the only sword type where dual wielding makes any sense.

There's nothing I've seen to even hint that they're removing the different length classifications for swords in the game.
The fact that we haven't seen them yet is simply that, we haven't seen them yet.

It may just be they don't have their own classification any more, so there are still short swords in a sense (so there will be shorter swords that swing faster) but they'll just fall under swords and you have to see for yourself if it's shorter and faster than other swords.

Well now I just feel like an ass.

Also, +1 for using sarcasm on sarcasm.
..I think that was sarcasm. Was that sarcasm?

Anyway, thought of something. If we have no 'greaves' slot, but can customize the living crap out of our armor at a forge, then.. Losing shortswords might not be that bad. We might only find 'basic' Sword.. er.. swords, then we can make a shorter, faster sword or a longer, stronger sword at a forge?

In other words (I keep typing 'worse.' Damn you, 3AM!), I heard you liked shortswords, so I took out shortswords so you could make shortswords with regular swords.
Which would be epically unnecessary, therefor making it win.

EDIT: I really shouldn't post this late.. >_<

I see no reason why they should take them out, I assume they're still in. I hope so anyway.