Enough with eye patches

[Underhook]

Why are so many games featuring heroes with eye patches? Having no vision on one side is such a huge disadvantage that it makes meele combat hilarious as our hero magically sees strikes comming from his right side. In the trailer he even sights his gun through his eye patch. PLEASE ..... enough with the eye patches

[swardy27]

Team Mate původně napsal:

Maybe they should make him even more badass with 2 eyepatches

http://imgur.com/r/all/V20CQ
best response ever :)

[Jush1]

Team Mate původně napsal:

Maybe they should make him even more badass with 2 eyepatches

rofl.that was funny as hell.

[Tanggol]

Team Mate původně napsal:

Why are so many games featuring heroes with eye patches? Having no vision on one side is such a huge disadvantage that it makes meele combat hilarious as our hero magically sees strikes comming from his right side. In the trailer he even sights his gun through his eye patch. PLEASE ..... enough with the eye patches

Remember Boy EYEPATCHES = LEGEND!

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1006271-punished-snake

[ZX119A]

Snake Plissken had an eyepatch, so it makes sense for Big Boss to have one.

[SnowBlack&D7BBC]

Sorry to burst your Bubble... but in the real world heroes doesnt look like your POP Boyband or Bradd Pitt, or Channing Tatum or Robert Downey JR. You're so out of touch

[平和ThePhantomPainウォーカ]

More eyepatches and more lens flares.

[i suck willy]

Team Mate původně napsal:

eye patch. PLEASE

Here you go

https://youtu.be/o0JtaALqxqE

[Underhook]

Real heroes are just a mangled head. All the unimportant bits like arms, legs, torso, ears, eyes etc got blown off. Totally badass. Watch out..... he's still got some teeth!

[i suck willy]

Punished Snake původně napsal:

EYEPATCHES = LEGEND!

Leg end?

https://youtu.be/__MecyJvfwM

https://youtu.be/owQNWutrzbQ

[57e_Caiden]

Team Mate původně napsal:

Why are so many games featuring heroes with eye patches? Having no vision on one side is such a huge disadvantage that it makes meele combat hilarious as our hero magically sees strikes comming from his right side. In the trailer he even sights his gun through his eye patch. PLEASE ..... enough with the eye patches

Big Boss and Solid Snake are both based on Snake Plisken from Escape from New York whom of which had an eyepatch. Boss isn't given an eyepatch to make him a super badass. It's just the way his character has always been ever since MG1 which came out in the 80's.

If it makes you feel better, him having an eyepatch is done pretty tastefully. In MGS3 after you get the eyepatch, your field of view is more limited in first person.

[Democracy Officer 0311]

in this case it's nothing new for metal gear. games these days may be coming out with eye patch heroes but big boss had an eye patch in 1984 (realworld 1984) original metal gear game. which storywise takes place before phantom pain..So konami isn't sticking with a cliche here.

[Jig McGalliger]

Of course if you played MGS3 you would know that Ocelot (ADAM) shot his eye out for Volgin. This is one of the rare instances where an eyepatch makes sense.

[Maizel]

The eye patches dont annoy me as much as that giant chunk of scrapnel sticking out of your forehead

[White]

Jig McGalliger původně napsal:

Of course if you played MGS3 you would know that Ocelot (ADAM) shot his eye out for Volgin. This is one of the rare instances where an eyepatch makes sense.

[METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER SPOILERS]
Actually, he suspected EVA was a spy (and she was, for the chinese) and did the juggle russian roulette thing to show off, what took Big Boss' eye was actually the muzzle burn from the shot (his eye was inches from the revolver), a bullet would cause a lot more damage.

[Whoops]

Team Mate původně napsal:

Why are so many games featuring heroes with eye patches? Having no vision on one side is such a huge disadvantage that it makes meele combat hilarious as our hero magically sees strikes comming from his right side. In the trailer he even sights his gun through his eye patch. PLEASE ..... enough with the eye patches

Two ways to look at it:
1- Anime is heavy on the whole "eye patch == great experience/skill/ex-badass". I'm not an expert so I can't say if it comes from pop culture or if it just in anime itself. From the little anime I know of, the concept seems to stay true for years. This game happens to be influenced a lot by anime.
2- Users Coot and MGFlaccid have shared the story and creative reasons justifiying his eye patch. (aka, muscle memory and movie influence) Not much to add. (though I don't recall him being exposed to nuke testing. PO story?)

I am unawere of "many games" that feature eye patch characters in a bad-ass way. Either those games are developed in Japan or just have anime fans in their dev teams. As someone with Amblyopia on one eye, Depth perception and visual awereness of sorrounding is a luxury for me. (not completely blind, just 20/400) While most of the time I have an issue just catching a ball that is thrown at me per say. There was once a time when I was physically active and praticed basketball as my main sport. With enough practice, it is possible for the brain to somehow adapt. Part of it I pressume is trial and error to create muscle memory adapted to the new vision. Which in my case, it worked. I was a great shooter. Other things that would usual be taken in by my eyes, my brain would have to make up by "guessing" where things would be or that would happen. (not 100% reliable for me)

What I'm trying to say is that to some degree of success, actions that would require both eyes, can still be done with only one granted there is enough practice to have muscle memory and for the brain to the familiar with the action itself. (aka, aiming a rifle on the shoulder without a working eye)