dtgreene: Actually, you need to be careful with this, particularly if you are developing a competitive multiplayer game. If some characters are larger than others, it can give players of smaller characters an unfair advantage, unless that fact is taken into account when balancing characters.

dtgreene: (About TF2)

dtgreene: Actually, you need to be careful with this, particularly if you are developing a competitive multiplayer game. If some characters are larger than others, it can give players of smaller characters an unfair advantage, unless that fact is taken into account when balancing characters.

I could use SaGa 2 DS as an example again, even though it is a very different type of game. In SaGa 2 DS, a battle starts when an enemy (which moves in real time outside of battle) collides with the lead character (who is the only one displayed outside of combat). It turns out that female characters (both human and esper) are smaller than male characters and robots, and as a result, by putting a female character in the lead, you can avoid encounters more easily. While it doesn't ruin this particular game (actual combat is turn-based and doesn't have collision checks), it would be an issue in a competitive multiplayer action game.

(Of note, when playing SaGa 2 DS, I like to put a robot in the lead; robots can get their AGI so high that enemies can't hit them, and enemies strongly prefer to attack the lead character. Also, it's worth noting that the original SaGa 2 handles encounters differently (you get into an encounter after walking a pseudo-random number of steps) so the above discussion doesn't apply at all.)

bevinator: I remember (fondly?) Goldeneye on the N64, where Most Glorious Oddjob the Magnificent was shorter than the default aim height, in the days before dual-stick controllers. Dude was practically godmode.

ScotchMonkey: 1.6 or Source?