I genuinely prefer this to modern games that change your model each and every time you equip a new item because in those games you sometimes need to make the choice between having good stats and not looking like a clown.
I love old-school CRPGs that have very detailed equipment mechanics, but the main character’s design doesn’t even slightly reflect the types of armour they can equip. Like, according to your status screen you’re wearing chainmail, iron gauntlets and a helmet shaped like a dragon’s head, and your on-screen sprite is just like
You see Max, violence is a concept fabricated by mankind who rely on another concept called moral, and people who consider the existence of both concepts, and use things like moral, are truly unfit to survive this insipid and treacherous wasteland we call Earth. Do you see where I’m getting with this, Max? Putting a negative connotation around the prime attitude needed for survival by calling it “violence”, is a weak-handed attempt to curb-stomp instinct and replace it with pussy democracy. It may work for others, it may work for you, but it will not work for me, which is why I’m going to have to kill you Max