yet another GW pop culture reference.

As i was idly watching TV while having lunch something caught my eye.

here is a screenshot of the silver eagle armour.



and here is a screencap of a scene in Xena (Se 5 :Chakram)



The costumes were probably the best things about that show...case in point
the prop director at the time was Roger Murray who...well his CV speaks for itself.


someone in the Anet art dep is a fan...own up!


=p

all those little pop-culture things really add to the game imo, i like them

I don't see the Xena screencap so I dont' know what's going on.

Having Jaguar/Eagle or other helmets and stuff seems to be more likely to hint after aztec influences. The inital plan for the scrapped chapter IV had many more aztec influences

The Hercules/Xena gear is pretty generic fantasy stuff from all kinds of sources, and if you look long and hard enough, you can even find Jora's armor in "Conan the Destroyer" or in Xena or in Highlander.

I am not entirely convinced that this armor was the template, sorry.

Same here, no screencap.

I think the OP is blind. The Silver Eagle set is completely different.

They dont look at all alike.

Same ... i see no likeness between the two. I mean they both have a silver scaly texture on the helmets, but it's not even in the same place or design, and the rest of the armor's just entirely different.

Yeah the breastplate isn't even the same...

Sorry, but I don't see how those two "armors" are even related (except the colors, but that doesn't count).

Sorry OP not seeing any resemblance at all other than color sorta....and they're both metal? No design similarities really. I do love the references but don't think this is one...

Maybe I'm stupid but, uh, they're not even similiar

<3 Xena Warrior Princess :P

AGEs since i saw that.

Btw @ OP, the similarity is minimal. :/

Even if it were similar, that isn't a "pop culture reference." That's copyright infringement.

There's a little bit of resemblance if you don't look to closely (like if your squinting from 30 feet away), but I don't really see any similarity other than that the helmets are sort of in the shape of an animal head.

Hahaha victory again.

Yeah, armor doesn't look much like the pic...

The only resemblance I can see is the texture of the helm, and other than that they're completely different

QFT

i see no resemblance at all, besides maybe that they're gray and they are both armor. thats about it though.

I fail to see how they look similar.

nupe i dont see it