Can you really consider someone in a powersuit badass?

[Direwolf750]

is a man (or woman, or alien, or orangutan) not judges by his actions, and not his clothes?

and realistically, your average rpg character get slapped around, beaten, stabbed, shot, mauled by, eaten, and blasted off again so much that the fact that they aren't a mass of bleeding flesh is simply based off the subjectivity of damage in a game. If your power armor doesn't really make you that overpowered, then it isn't really all that different.

 

[internetzealot1]

Saying someone in a powersuit can't be a badass is like saying someone with a gun can't be a badass.

Oh I ever knew a gun made you nearly invulnerable and granted yo super human strength, speed, reflexes, etc.. Damn I should get me one of those!
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They're both tools. And just as a gun is a better tool than a knife, a power suit is a better tool than a gun.

A power suit isn't anywhere near a gun.

Im talking about this...

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and you are talking about something like this....


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The first pic shows a soldier in a powersuit that grants him enhanced abilities across the boards whereas the second pic shows a soldier using an armor addon that is equpped with heavy guns and gives the soldier the ability to get to high places. It, like a gun doesn't augment the soldiers abilities in any way where as a Halo powersuit does.[/quote]
Look, its just a matter of context. If a man armed with a gun kills a man armed with a knife, its not very impressive, is it? Likewise, if a man with a powersuit can kill a man without a powersuit, no one is going to be surprised. But, say, if a man with a power suit kills a bunch of enemies that also have power suits (like killing elites in Halo. Most of them have equivalent or superior tech), then he is a badass