Games with modular armor and left/right armor slots

[DagothGeas5]

Saw this post and discussion on the Oblivion remaster topic

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Stuff removed from Morrowind like Crossbows, polearms, throwable weapons, spears, levitation, mark/recall spells back

"Not as many armor slots "

This is a good critique imo. I don't consider "no medium armor " to be a good critique if the same number(or more) armors still exist and there's no functional difference.

Similarly, spears add nothing that Oblivion doesn't already have other than spear visuals. Oblivion does have the concept of weapon reach — and unlike in Morrowind, claymores have significantly more reach than a shortsword(nearly double). All long blades in Morrowind have a reach of 1.0, from the lowly saber to the Daedric Claymore. All shortblades also have a reach of 1.0, yet another inferiority to Oblivion which does a much better job of modeling various weapon ranges.
In reality, nothing was lost. Oblivion gained true two-handed swords which functionally perform the same task. Oblivion also models various weapons having different ranges, rather than spears just having higher range and near everything else having the same.

Just mentioning that Oblivion has one less skill is pointless, Daggerfall had plenty of useless skills that were removed in Morrowind, I guess Morrowind is ultra bad by this logic.

And it made me wonder what other games out there allow for layered armor (clothes below armor, left and right combinations, etc)?

To my memory, aside from Oblivion in some small way, I immediately think of Kenshi, that has different slots also for different limbs if they are lost.
Morrowind, that also has left/right distinctions with pauldrons, grieves, etc.
And two other game I do not recall that had a grid-based inventory and had distinctions like Morrowind has, plus the ability to wear long robes beneath the armor much like also the early Elder Scrolls like Arena has that I recall. I want to say it was Fallout 1 or 2, but it has been too long since I played to really recall if that was so.

[gerey]

And it made me wonder what other games out there allow for layered armor (clothes below armor, left and right combinations, etc)?

There's Exanima, where you can put on a shirt, then a vest, then a gambeson, then some leather armor, then chainmail, and finally plate on top of all that, and all the various pieces grant different bonuses against different types of weapons.

[Kalarion]

Battle Brothers has a mod called Legends that allows for layered armor.

[Norfleet]

Can you imagine the hilarity of the player having to make sure that his left and right boots have matching move speed boosts or else the asymmetric thrust causes him to only be able to walk in circles?

[Acrux]

Siege of Avalon

[Havitner]

Rimworld doesn't have gloves or boots, but it does have layered equipment.

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Apparel#Comparison_tables

[asf]

rimworld apparel is ****

go to dorf fortress for endless layers

[HaylingZar]

Rimworld doesn't have gloves or boots, but it does have layered equipment.

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Apparel#Comparison_tables

If you want gloves and boots in Rimworld there is a mod for that, I believe it is Vanilla Apparel Extended.

[Norfleet]

Rimworld doesn't have gloves or boots, but it does have layered equipment.

Rimworld is weird about it because it doesn't have gloves or boots, but it still has hands and feet, so pawns get their hands and feet chewed off by wolves because there's no protection for them.