Comment 93122

A lot of sci-fi games and other media do that too. I'm thinking magitech shielding similar in function to the personal energy shields in the Halo series of first person shooter video games (it's a very male-dominated game series, I know, but I went through a phase where I really enjoyed it; especially shattering dudes' fragile masculinity when I wiped the floor with them while using voice chat. They'd get all quiet and grumpy, like they weren't gonna say it bothered them that a girl beat them, but you could totally tell it did...well, when they didn't yell misogynistic slurs at me, but I digress)

Anyway the point is that series had shields that would stand up to a number of hits from firearms, but could be punched through with consistent fire, and melee weapons would break shields almost immediately, so it was a balancing act between rushing someone with a sword and getting your shields depleted and shot down before you got there vs playing it safer from a distance with guns. I tended to favor the slice 'n' dice approach whenever I could get my mitts on an energy sword or gravity hammer. Esp when I would drop down from a high alcove right behind some hapless dudebro.