(08-12-2015, 04:10 PM)Telluride Wrote: It's not just Eorzea, not just "Fantasy", but ALL fictional/cinematic combat.Even the supposedly realistic MMA hugfest (ugh.) ill advised on a concrete surface. What matters in fiction is more selling the scene than realism. When most people demand the latter, they really just don't want their subjective suspension of disbelief abused. It's like how it's hard to find real "hard sci-fi.": most people just aren't anal enough about the details to care.
Anytime you see a close fight between someone using a penetrating weapon (sword, knife, pistol), that person will get very few hits in, if any, compared to the person using blunt weapns (sticks, staves, clubs, fists) if a good, dramatic fight is supposed to be going on. Put a good knife in the hand of the latter person - the one getting the hits in - and fight's done. Boo! Hiss! Boring Murder!
So, basically, what Melkire said. Â Real combat isn't really dramatic. Boxing can be only because it is constrained by very specific rules of engagement. Â MMA fighting often devolves into rolling on the floor and, as Penny Arcade once put it, sweaty, grunting groin-punching. Painful... effective... but kind of, well, not what most people expect a fight to be - at least, most people who don't fight.
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